Local N.Y. GOP leaders to call on George Santos to resign  —  Nassau County Republican leaders will call on Rep. George Santos to resign Wednesday for fabricating his biography to win his congressional seat, three people with knowledge of the plans told POLITICO.

U.S. airports rumble back to life after FAA computer outage  —  U.S. flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that had forced a halt to all U.S. departing flights.

In the case of the classified documents, it's more serious for Trump than Biden  —  The former president's retention of papers at Mar-a-Lago appears to satisfy more criteria for prosecution than the find at Biden's institute  —  Donald Trump's retention of documents marked classified …

Why the January 6th Mob Wasn't Stopped in Time  —  Transcripts reveal where the bottlenecks were.  —  The House January 6th Committee did an excellent job in its final report of proving that former President Donald Trump incited the insurrectionist mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol.

GOP-led Oversight Committee issues flurry of letters to begin probe of Biden, Twitter  —  The letters lead off the GOP's long-promised investigation of the president.  —  The chairman of the new Republican-led House Oversight Committee has issued a flurry of letters as part of the panel's …

Iran Says Face Recognition Will ID Women Breaking Hijab Laws  —  Iranian women are baring their heads to protest government controls.  A top official said algorithms can identify anyone flouting dress codes.  —  Last month, a young woman went to work at Sarzamineh Shadi, or Land of Happiness …

George Santos Took Donation From Migrant-Smuggler  —  Serial liar and border-hardliner George Santos accepted support from an Italian caught piloting a yacht full of Chinese migrants and from his prominent restaurant-owning family. … Embattled Rep. George Santos took an almost certainly illegal donation …

Xi Jinping's plan to reset China's economy and win back friends … The costs of China's chaotic exit from its zero-Covid strategy are surging.  In spite of a virtually static official death toll, a slew of obituaries for elderly public figures from academics to opera singers demonstrate …

The boring journey of Matt Yglesias  —  The Washington ur-blogger's slightly contrarian, mildly annoying, somewhat influential, very lucrative path toward the political center  —  Matt Yglesias can talk about supervolcanoes and about Habsburg federalism and about the semiconductor industry in Taiwan vs. China.

The Party's Over for Us.  Where Do We Go Now?  —  For decades, conservative values have been central to Bret Stephens's and David Brooks's political beliefs, and the Republican Party was the vehicle to extend those beliefs into policy.  But in recent years, both the party …

JUST IN: Republicans to Vote on a Bill that Would Abolish the IRS, Eliminate Income Tax  —  The House Republicans have essentially declared war on the IRS.  They are now not just stripping it of its funding but are also considering legislation that would abolish both it and its reason for existence.

Exclusive: Uvalde school police chief told investigators why he didn't try to stop gunman: 'There's probably going to be some deceased in there, but we don't need any more from out here'  —  Uvalde school police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo told investigators he was more concerned …

Andrew Bridgen suspended as Tory MP over Covid vaccine comments  —  Andrew Bridgen has been suspended as a Conservative MP for spreading misinformation about Covid vaccination.  —  It comes after the North West Leicestershire MP posted a tweet that compared vaccines to the Holocaust.

To defeat Trumpism, stop letting MAGA stunts drive the debate  —  When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent planeloads of migrants to Massachusetts in the fall, it received an extraordinary amount of coverage.  Though that stunt said nothing about how to fix our immigration system …

House Republicans form committee to investigate the government  —  Democrats describe the panel as an unprecedented breach of protocol  —  The House on Tuesday approved a GOP resolution to create a select subcommittee that Republicans say will launch a far-reaching examination of the agencies …

Academy mourns tragic loss in cadet wing  —  The Academy mourns the loss of Cadet 3rd Class Hunter Brown, 21, of Lake Charles, Louisiana.  Brown experienced a medical emergency while leaving his dormitory for class on Monday morning.  Academy first responders were immediately called …

Poland to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, if others do, too  —  Poland has decided to send a company of Leopard tanks to help neighboring Ukraine in the war with invading Russia, President Andrzej Duda said Wednesday.  But Duda, on a visit to Lviv, said that the move would be possible …

Judge will allow prosecutors to use Trump's ‘stand back and stand by’ comment in Proud Boys trial  —  A federal judge ruled Wednesday that prosecutors can use video of then-President Donald Trump telling the far-right group the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” in the trial against several …

Parler's parent company has laid off a majority of its staff … Parlement Technologies, the parent company of “censorship-free” social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff and most of its chief executives over the last few weeks.  The sudden purge of staff has thrown …

Republican House will vote on bills to curtail abortion and immigration  —  Two abortion bills have caused some consternation in the GOP conference.  The conservative measures face long odds in the Democratic Senate but set up a political contrast for 2024.

In Remembrance of a Beloved and Very Online Journalist  —  Blake Hounshell, a witty and astute political observer who possessed a special knack for understanding the dynamics of internet journalism and became one of the driving forces behind POLITICO's success over nearly a decade, died Tuesday morning at age 44.