Harvard President Resigns After Mounting Plagiarism Accusations  —  Claudine Gay faced backlash over the university's response to antisemitism on campus, which led to increased scrutiny of her academic record.  —  Harvard's president, Claudine Gay, announced her resignation on Tuesday …

Sen. Bob Menendez facing even more charges in new superseding indictment  —  The Democrat is now accused of making positive comments about Qatar for gifts.  —  Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., departs the Senate floor in the Capitol, Sept. 28, 2023, in Washington.

Trump, who lives for drama, has created the dullest of nomination fights  —  Trump is now polling above 60 percent nationally in the GOP primary.  —  The biggest news in the Republican presidential primary on Tuesday was that an obscure New Hampshire restaurateur was jumping ship from Chris Christie's campaign to Nikki Haley's.

Haley campaign says it hauled in $24M in fourth-quarter fundraising  —  Nikki Haley's presidential campaign announced Wednesday that the former United Nations ambassador and GOP rival to former President Trump hauled in $24 million in the most recent fundraising quarter.

Rep. John Curtis officially running for Romney's Senate seat  —  SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's 3rd District Rep. John Curtis is officially running for U.S. Senate, hoping to fill the upcoming empty seat that Sen. Mitt Romney is leaving.  —  On Tuesday, Curtis told KSL TV that one of the reasons …

Johnson Heads to Border, Turning Up Heat on Biden for an Immigration Deal  —  The visit by the speaker and scores of House Republicans comes as the G.O.P. seeks to increase pressure on President Biden and Democrats to agree to severe new border policies.  —  Speaker Mike Johnson is kicking off …

Bill Johnson to resign Jan. 21 from Congress, start as YSU president the next day  —  YOUNGSTOWN - Bill Johnson submitted his letter of resignation today to the U.S. House of Representatives, effective Jan. 21, and will start the next day as Youngstown State University president.

How death threats get Republicans to fall in line behind Trump  —  The insidious way violence is changing American politics — and shaping the 2024 election.  —  Stephen Richer should have been safe.  —  In early 2021, Richer was an Arizona Republican official who regularly attended local party events.

At least 20 killed in ‘terrorist attacks’ near Iranian Guards commander Soleimani's tomb during ceremony  —  Two explosions caused by ‘terrorist attacks’ killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens near a cemetery in Iran where a ceremony was being held to mark the 2020 death …

Israeli drone strike kills senior Hamas official in Beirut, sources say  —  Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy chairman of Hamas' political bureau and the commander of the group's military wing in the occupied West Bank, was killed in a drone attack in a Beirut suburb on Tuesday, Hamas has confirmed.

Disgraced former Iowa Rep. Steve King endorses Ramaswamy  —  Former Iowa Rep. Steve King endorsed GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday.  —  King lost his House seat in the 2020 primary after he was stripped of his committee assignments after questioning why the terms …

Trouble with tha God  —  The influential radio host of “The Breakfast Club” is a thorn in the side of Democrats — but he's also representative of one of their biggest problems.  —  Charlamagne tha God sits in his throne in the recording studio for “The Breakfast Club” on iHeart Radio in New York on October 2023.

Why Democrats can't rely on abortion ballot initiatives to help them win  —  Voters decisively upheld abortion rights in every single case.  But those margins were largely driven by Republican voters who also voted for GOP candidates.  —  Democrats are scrambling to put state abortion-rights initiatives …

Biden to travel to Mother Emanuel AME in South Carolina  —  The president's visit to the historic Black church, coming two days after Harris' visit to the state, underscores the campaign's effort to bolster support among Black voters.  —  President Joe Biden is headed to Charleston …

Paying workers like it's 2009  —  Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria, and Rebecca Crosby  —  In 2009, Sony was still selling millions of floppy disks, Instagram did not exist, and Barack Obama was sworn in as president for the first time.  A lot has changed in the last 15 years.

WATCH: CNN's Hot Take on Claudine Gay's Harvard Resignation Was Something Else  —  We wrote earlier about how Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) had conveniently been absolved of wrongdoing by Massachusetts' woke Attorney General Andrea Campbell (D), who declared just before the Christmas holiday …