Today in One Sentence. Progressive candidates won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary and two closely watched House primaries, while establishment-backed Democrats won key races in Missouri and Virginia; the Senate confirmed Erica Schwartz as CDC director; the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into allegations that Rep. Max Miller abused his ex-wife and toddler daughter, and used illegal drugs; Trump still hasn’t “made a determination” on whether to fire U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro; Iran and Oman are finalizing a temporary deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz; the White House declassified memos showing that the FBI investigated whether Trump fired James Comey in 2017 while acting as a Russian asset; and a federal judge “reluctantly” granted the Justice Department’s request to dismiss the final Jan. 6 indictments, including the seditious conspiracy conviction against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and seven others.

1/ 🟦🟥 Primaries: Progressive candidates won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary and two closely watched House primaries, while establishment-backed Democrats won key races in Missouri and Virginia. Progressive Abdul El-Sayed defeated Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens and will face former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers for the seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters. Progressive William Lawrence won the Democratic nomination in Michigan’s 7th District, democratic socialist Donavan McKinney beat Democratic Rep. Shri Thanedar in the Detroit-based 13th. In Missouri, incumbent Democratic Rep. Wesley Bell defeated former Democratic Rep. and democratic socialist Cori Bush, while in Virginia, former Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria and prosecutor Shannon Taylor won the Democratic nominations. Trump-backed Republicans John James and Ty Masterson won gubernatorial nominations in Michigan and Kansas. Voters in Kansas and Missouri rejected Republican-backed ballot measures affecting judicial elections and citizen-led constitutional amendments. And in Michigan’s 8th District, Thomas Smith, who had suspended his campaign and endorsed another candidate, defeated Trump-backed Amir Hassan for the Republican nomination. (Associated Press / NPR / New York Times / Washington Post / CNN / Wall Street Journal / Axios / Bloomberg / Reuters / Politico / Washington Post / ABC News / NBC News)

2/ The Senate confirmed Erica Schwartz as CDC director – the agency’s first permanent leader in nearly a year. During her confirmation hearing, Schwartz pledged to “never compromise on the science,” but declined to say whether she’d oppose Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or alert Congress if ordered to adopt “unscientific” or harmful policies. Instead, she said she didn’t believe Kennedy or Trump would issue such directives. Republican health committee chair Bill Cassidy, meanwhile, said her testimony was “not quite the direct answer” he wanted, but backed her after private assurances that she “will stand against those who do not” follow the science. Cassidy voted to confirm Kennedy after also receiving private assurances from Kennedy, who later broke those promises when he fired all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel. Schwartz inherits an agency that has lost more than a quarter of its workforce and is dealing with a major measles resurgence and the country’s largest documented cyclosporiasis outbreak. (Associated Press / Axios / The Hill / CBS News / Washington Post)

3/ The House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into allegations that Rep. Max Miller abused his ex-wife and toddler daughter, and used illegal drugs. After Miller asked the committee to investigate him, Speaker Mike Johnson said the claims “don’t look good” and are “serious.” He refused to call on Miller to quit, saying “we have to allow this process to play out.” (Washington Post / The Hill / Politico)

4/ Trump still hasn’t “made a determination” on whether to fire U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro after she dropped a felony “vandalism” case over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Pirro’s filing said the liner failed because of “flawed installation by the contractor,” citing damage throughout the pool and internal warnings predating the defendant’s arrest. Trump, nevertheless, called Pirro “totally wrong,” said she “choked” and “folded like an umbrella,” and insisted the liner had been cut with “a knife or a box cutter.” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, meanwhile, said Pirro was “doing a great job,” while acknowledging that Trump can fire her “or anybody else” whenever he chooses. (Politico / New York Times / ABC News)

5/ Iran and Oman are finalizing a temporary deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, sending inbound ships near Iran and outbound traffic through Omani waters. Iran said the waterway won’t fully reopen until the U.S. lifts its blockade on Iranian ports. Trump, meanwhile, continued to claim that a deal could be announced within 48 hours. (Bloomberg / Associated Press / New York Times / Wall Street Journal)

6/ The White House declassified memos showing that the FBI investigated whether Trump fired James Comey in 2017 while acting as a Russian asset. The “sensitive investigative matter” looked at whether Trump was “wittingly or unwittingly” acting for or on behalf of Russia, and whether he posed a national security threat. The case was later folded into Robert Mueller’s investigation, which was closed in April 2019 without charges against Trump. Mueller found no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, but never cleared Trump of obstructing justice. (Axios / CBS News)

7/ A federal judge “reluctantly” granted the Justice Department’s request to dismiss the final Jan. 6 indictments, including the seditious conspiracy conviction against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and seven others. “Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy — the peaceful transfer of presidential power — to buckle,” U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta wrote. “The court cannot write a different ending.” The Justice Department, meanwhile, claimed that dismissing the charges were in the “interest of justice” and would protect the defendants from future “harassment.”Mehta called the argument “strange,” and said the government was bestowing “unearned grace” by “wiping their records clean” and surrendering convictions for “crimes against the United States itself.” (ABC News / NPR / New York Times / Associated Press / Washington Post / Bloomberg / Politico)

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