New York Magazine looks at why a Michigan prosecutor is taking the extremely unusual move of charging the parents of an accused school shooter. The Washington Post reports that the January 6 committee’s last planned public hearing is expected to include outtakes from a Trump message recorded that day in which he seems hesitant to condemn the violence. The Post also looks at the primary challenge facing Liz Cheney, one of the former president’s most outspoken GOP critics. The New Yorker explores the pandemic is driving the a boom in sales of luxury boats to the ultra-rich. She just got accepted to medical school. She’s 13. Read her remarkable story in the Washington Post.

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