Joe Gould and Anthony Adragna    Colleagues spent months getting the Alabama senator to drop his abortion protest.

Nick Reisman    This week’s congressional hearing illustrated the increasingly perilous road higher education institutions have been on and a willingness by members of Congress to step in.

Alexander Burns    Susanna Gibson’s campaign was rocked when an opponent exposed her private digital life to the public. She won’t be the last.

Steven Shepard    A POLITICO analysis shows the former South Carolina governor is winning swaths of moderate voters who’d pick Joe Biden if Donald Trump wins the GOP nomination.

Elena Schneider and Holly Otterbein    The campaign is comfortable with its approach, which leans on the DNC and looks at online organizing as a major component too.

Nicholas Vinocur, Elisa Braun, Eddy Wax and Gian Volpicelli    The love story behind the biggest scandal to ever hit the European Parliament and the cozy, transactional world in which it took place.

Alice Miranda Ollstein and Adam Cancryn    A Texas case underscores the legal and ethical gray areas physicians have faced since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Karl Mathiesen    At the COP climate talks, Saudi Arabia is among the countries arguing carbon scrubbing technology can replace the need to eliminate fossil fuel use.

Zachary Warmbrodt    The Financial Services chair outlined a series of major legislative and oversight targets that he’ll be driving as he faces a critical window to cement his legacy.

Alex Isenstadt    The organization steps aside as television networks plan more early state debates.

Joe Anuta    Eric Adams has not been charged in an FBI probe, but a majority of voters think he should step down if that changes.

Associated Press    The new mayor will have to deal with new laws from the GOP led state government over control of local elections and the ability to impose local regulations.

Varg Folkman    Union bosses tackling Tesla want EU to get tough on the world’s richest man.

Associated Press    The government and volunteers have yet to locate children who were separated under the Trump era policy.

Nicolas Camut    Macron had been invited to receive an award for fighting antisemitism and safeguarding religious freedoms.

Associated Press    The network argued that Jason Donner had not shown he faced illegal discrimination.

Andrew Zhang    The California Republican also said he would consider serving in a Trump cabinet.

Jeremy B. White    McNerney’s last minute entry could block a husband and wife duo from winning both area legislative seats.

Eric Bazail-Eimil    The resolution was a top priority for U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who urged members to demand an immediate cease fire in Gaza.

Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney    Trump’s attacks on witnesses in his criminal case pose imminent threats, a three judge panel of the D.C. Circuit ruled.

Jack Shafer    A successful walkout at the Washington Post can’t mask the industry’s dark future.

Jonathan Martin    A vast array of GOP power brokers detest and disdain the former president. So why are they keeping so quiet

Catherine Kim and Calder McHugh    Stocking stuffers for ’s most high profile political figures.

Myah Ward    Biden has a new war room to tackle gun violence. Can it stop the bloodshed

Eric Bazail-Eimil    For four decades, Victor Manuel Rocha, a one time U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, allegedly spied for Cuba. His case demonstrates that Cuba remains a power player in the world of espionage.

Kierra Frazier    A psychologist who studies bullying explains his primitive debate strategy.

Bruce Ackerman and Rep. Ro Khanna    Conservatives’ commitment to originalism is about to be tested.

Bianca Quilantan    A First Amendment scholar is very worried about the future of speech on college campuses.

Frank Phillips    His belief that older modes of campaigning could be combined with st century tools changed American politics.

Rolf Dobelli    In one of the final interviews before he died, the famous statesman said the two state solution was no longer viable and that the U.S. must reconcile with China.

Tim Mak    The conflict in Syria continues unabated, a sign of Moscow’s determination to outlast its enemies.

Aziz Huq    Her embrace of the rule of law and empathetic jurisprudence are sorely missed.

Steven Shepard and Zach Montellaro    Consider us your guide to the biggest event of the primary so far, with the power to make or break a GOP hopeful.

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Bianca Quilantan    They also want the boards to provide a plan to ensure the safety of Jewish and Israeli students on campus.

Olivia Beavers    Rep. Brandon Williams, who represents a battleground seat, says his altercation stemmed from a threat to expose his daughter.

Myah Ward, Burgess Everett and Jennifer Haberkorn    Among other ideas, the plan would revive a form of Title .

Connor O’Brien and Joe Gould    Dropping abortion limits and extending surveillance authorities will make the bill a tough sell among conservatives.

Blanca Begert    International partners are concerned about attacks on California’s nation leading vehicle emissions rules.

Adam Wren    The Republican presidential candidate is back in the conversation in Iowa.

Jessica Piper    The volume of attacks directed at other GOP rivals underscores how the debates have largely been a fight for second place.

POLITICO Staff    Chris Christie prodded his rivals once again to take a shot at Donald Trump. They passed.

Lara Seligman    Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie said Iran has taken the lack of a strong U.S. military response as an invitation to continue its aggressive behavior.

Nahal Toosi    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may not like the ideas, but he also may not get a say.

Alexander Ward and Erin Banco    Humanitarian groups, which also push for Kerem Shalom to open, say that still won’t be enough to ease Palestinian suffering in Gaza.

Paul McLeary    Uncertainty over aid is looming as the country seeks to rebuild its defense industry.

Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney    The former president’s lawyers said all proceedings should be paused while Trump appeals a ruling on his immunity claims.

Erica Orden, Kyle Cheney and Zach Montellaro    A Wednesday argument brings the question of Trump’s eligibility under the th Amendment one step closer to the Supreme Court.

Brian Faler and Josh Gerstein    Justices on both sides of the ideological spectrum pressed a lawyer representing taxpayers who are seeking to throw out a repatriation tax on certain overseas earnings.

Kyle Cheney    The special counsel is seeking a judge’s permission to introduce evidence that may help jurors assess Trump’s intent in the weeks leading to Jan. .