Evening Edition: GOP Congress maps plans for sweeping conservative agenda

The Fix: Winners and losers of the biggest state political battles of 2016; Trump's doubts about cybersecurity alarm experts; Trump's chief of staff faces daunting task of bringing order to White House; How China's $9 billion effort to beat the U.S. in genetic testing is helping this American family; Kirk Cousins could have eliminated all the questions, but he didn't; lslamic State says it carried out deadly New Year's Eve attack at nightclub in Istanbul; Israeli police question Netanyahu over corruption allegation; Prosecutors to try to persuade jurors to sentence Dylann Roof to death; Joe Scarborough’s latest Twitter feud is just what the media doesn’t need; At least 60 inmates killed in prison riot in northern Brazil; Lawsuit: Dude ranch owner asked chef for 'black people food'; SpaceX, saying it found cause of rocket explosion, plans to fly again Sunday; One couple concludes that buying a home is riskier than renting; Why so many people regain weight after going on a diet;   The day's most important stories   GOP Congress maps plans for sweeping conservative agenda When the 115th Congress begins this week with Republicans firmly in charge of the House and Senate, GOP lawmakers will be poised to move quickly on an ambitious package of conservative legislation, confident that their long-delayed legislative goals are set to become reality with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. By David Weigel  •  Read more » The Fix: Winners and losers of the biggest state political battles of 2016 Republican candidates won, but liberal initiatives such as marijuana and gun control had a good year, too. By Amber Phillips  •  Read more »   Trump's doubts about cybersecurity alarm experts The president-elect's comments and his handling of the Russian hacking allegations could embolden foreign hackers and undermine the U.S. government's ability to respond to them, analysts said. By Mike DeBonis  •  Read more »   Trump's chief of staff faces daunting task of bringing order to White House The power-sharing dynamic between Reince Priebus and his soon-to-be colleagues in a Trump White House looks worrisome to those who held his title in prior administrations. Some predict flatly that it will not work. By Karen Tumulty  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   How China's $9 billion effort to beat the U.S. in genetic testing is helping this American family The United States has long been the the industry's undisputed leader, performing much of the research that first decoded our DNA about 15 years ago. But now China is emerging as America's fiercest competitor, and it is sinking billions of dollars into research. By Ylan Q. Mui  •  Read more »   Barry Svrluga | Columnist Kirk Cousins could have eliminated all the questions, but he didn't This was his chance to say to both a franchise and its fans: "You want me to be your quarterback." But Sunday's utterly avoidable loss to the New York Giants raises the kind of questions that get to the very marrow of how a franchise is run. By Barry Svrluga  •  Read more »   lslamic State says it carried out deadly New Year's Eve attack at nightclub in Istanbul The mass shooting that killed 39 people was designed to target Christians as an act of vengeance for Turkish military actions, the militant group said. By Erin Cunningham and Heba Habib  •  Read more »   Israeli police question Netanyahu over corruption allegation The Israeli prime minister was grilled by police investigators for over three hours at his office Monday night, opening what could be a politically damaging criminal investigation into suspicions that he improperly accepted gifts. Netanyahu has repeatedly denied wrongdoing. By Ian Deitch | AP  •  Read more »   Prosecutors to try to persuade jurors to sentence Dylann Roof to death The penalty phase of any trial in which a person's life is on the line is difficult to forecast, but in the Charleston church shooter's case, it is especially hard to predict. By Matt Zapotosky and Mark Berman  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Joe Scarborough’s latest Twitter feud is just what the media doesn’t need While Donald Trump's attacks threaten to erode public confidence in news outlets, it doesn't help to have similar bomb-throwing within the media. By Callum Borchers  •  Read more »   At least 60 inmates killed in prison riot in northern Brazil Authorities said the 17-hour riot in the Amazonian city of Manaus was sparked by a fight between rival gangs. By Marina Lopes  •  Read more »   Lawsuit: Dude ranch owner asked chef for 'black people food' Madeleine Pickens wanted the African American chef she recruited from the country club she owns in Southern California to cook "black people food" — not "white people food" — at her rural Nevada dude ranch and wild horse sanctuary, according to a federal lawsuit accusing her of racial discrimination. The Associated Press  •  Read more »   SpaceX, saying it found cause of rocket explosion, plans to fly again Sunday The conclusions of the company's investigation have yet to be approved by the Federal Aviation Administration, but the statement points to confidence that it will receive the green light to schedule a launch. By Christian Davenport  •  Read more »   One couple concludes that buying a home is riskier than renting Everyone pushes the idea that homeownership is a natural step. A reliable investment. The American dream. Could all these people have the equation wrong? By Adina Solomon  •  Read more »   Why so many people regain weight after going on a diet Anyone who has tried to lose weight and keep it off knows how difficult the task can be. It seems as though it should be simple: Just exercise to burn more calories and reduce your calorie intake. But many studies have shown that this simple strategy doesn't work very well for the vast majority of people. 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