In a new CBS News/Battleground tracker poll, Senator Bernie Sanders holds a slight lead over former Vice President Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg. CBS News political correspondent Ed O’Keefe has the latest from Des Moines, Iowa. Source

Rapper Yo Gotti, in an exclusive statement to CBS News, said the governor’s announcement doesn’t go far enough and called for the Department of Justice to intervene. Source

No distress call before helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant; Auschwitz survivor returns to the concentration camp 75 years later Source

The State Department Correspondents’ Association said the decision to deny Kelemen a seat on the plane led it to conclude that “the State Department is retaliating” against NPR. Source

The Minnesota senator argues she’s the better pick than Joe Biden in the Iowa caucuses. Source

The death of Ben James Owen on Saturday evening is also the third apparent self-inflicted strangulation of an ICE detainee since October. Source

The president’s attorneys largely sidestepped new revelations reportedly contained in a manuscript of a book by John Bolton. Source

“Instead of protecting and supporting a reporter in the face of abuse, The Post placed her on administrative leave while newsroom leaders review whether she violated the social media policy,” the Guild wrote. Source

“That doesn’t stop me from writing someday about things I learned from Kobe and how much of a larger than life person he was,” Coelho said. “But the children’s book did not make sense anymore.” Source

“I have asked the department to begin the preparations to make it happen safely, justly and quickly,” he said. Source