HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS, SHORTEST TENURE IN UNIVERSITY HISTORY  —  Harvard President Claudine Gay will resign Tuesday afternoon, bringing an end to the shortest presidency in the University's history, according to a person with knowledge of the decision.

Trump, king of drama, sucks all of it out of the GOP nomination fight  —  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.

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.

Playbook: The House GOP's big border play  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Tell It Like It Is, the pro-CHRIS CHRISTIE super PAC, is launching new TV and radio spots in New Hampshire today.

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 …

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.

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 …

Abortion wins at the ballot box.  But it doesn't provide an automatic win for Democrats.  —  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 …

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.

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.

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 …

MAGA Crowd Has A Breakdown After Green Day Swipes Them on Live TV  —  The pop-punk band changed the lyrics of their song “American Idiot” to fire at the “MAGA agenda,” causing an instantaneous social media meltdown.  —  The dawn of a new year might be a cause for hope and a time for new beginnings …