- Obama likely to pick his Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough for White House chief of staff.
- Meet the new chief of staff.
- Nebraska Jews refute Hagel anti-Semitism charge.
- Elliott Abrams owes Hagel an apology.
- Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) confident of Hagel confirmation.
- Iran Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says he’s not running for president.
- Iran playing growing role in supplying small arms to Africa civil wars.
- A killing in Paris..
- Who wants to thwart Turkey-PKK peace talks?
- Mark Hibbs asks what’s new about the Syria uranium story.
(Photo: the Information Center of Kurdistan in Paris, where three Kurdish women were found shot dead, Jan. 11, 2013. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann.)