1/12: Grilled on Capitol Hill, health officials defend their COVID response. Battle over voting rights intensifies.

In just 24 hours on Monday, the U.S. saw more than 1.4 million new COVID cases. That number has never been higher. A hearing with top health officials on Capitol Hill yesterday included intense criticism over the scarcity of COVID tests and the mixed messaging on how to react to a positive result. China is dealing with multiple covid outbreaks -- despite some of the toughest pandemic measures in the world. President Biden comes out swinging on voting rights -- telling a crowd in Atlanta "the battle for the soul of America is not over." An off-duty sheriff's deputy in Fayetteville, North Carolina shot and killed an unarmed black man, and police want to know why.

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