David Granger is “being pushed out” as editor of Esquire after 19 years. He’ll be replaced by Jay Fielden, current editor of Town & Country.

Today, Chris Christie got on television at 6:45 a.m. local time in Iowa to do an interview with Morning Joe, in which he talked about “pounding the meat.”

San Francisco residents refuse to stop tearing the city apart with their highly corrosive, free-flowing urine, and the city has apparently decided to beat them at their own game, sort of: San Francisco just installed its first “open-air urinal,” a microcosm of the much larger open-air urinal that is the Fog City itself.

Ronald Reagan action figure collector Peggy Noonan has, shall we say, a checkered record of political predictions. Today, she tars one Bernard Sanders with her dastardly Wand of Bad Luck.

A 48-year-old U.S. Navy commander named Michael Misiewicz has plead guilty to an array of corruption charges stemming from several expensive kickbacks he received from Glenn Defense Marine Asia, a Singaporean defense contractor. According to The Washington Post, Glenn Defense repeatedly rewarded Misiewicz for rerouting certain naval aircraft carriers to overseas ports under their control (allowing them to bill the Department of Defense for millions of dollars) and for divulging information about the carriers’ whereabouts, which are considered classified military secrets:

Late Thursday, after a report in Politico New York, the New York City Council announced that it will vote on a proposal to give all elected city officials significant raises for the first time in a decade. Council members will get a 32 percent raise ($36,000), to $148,500.

At the end of tonight’s Trump-less GOP debate, the candidates played the customary “wander around the stage and pretend you actually like each other” game. But apparently, even when they’re just pretending, the candidates still can’t bring themselves to stomach Ted Cruz.

On Thursday, a former New York City police officer, Arthur Lomando, pleaded not guilty in the stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend, Suzanne Bardzell. Authorities say that just a few hours after the murder, Lomando threw himself in front of a train.

Right now, Fox News is airing the last GOP debate before the Iowa caucuses on February 1. And for the first time in our roughly 78 GOP primary debates, Donald Trump is nowhere to be seen, meaning that tonight’s theme is tear apart Ted Cruz. And we’re liveblogging every last gory detail.

Tonight’s Fox News Republican debate is co-sponsored by Google, and the moderators have repeatedly instructed viewers to “go to Google and search Fox News Debate,” in order to vote for the candidate you thought won. If you do that, you see this sponsored result.

Donald Trump’s last-minute, “wounded warrior”-benefiting rally is finally (?) here, featuring special guests Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, and of course—Donald Trump’s beloved veterans. It’s going to be a beautiful mess.

On Thursday, the FBI released aerial footage of LaVoy Finicum’s shooting death on Tuesday. An airplane was following the joint FBI-Oregon State Police operation, during which Ammon Bundy and others were peacefully taken into custody.

In an essay for the POLITICO Magazine, Tucker Carlson recalls one of his first interactions with Donald Trump, who called and left him a voice-mail bragging about his sexual conquests:

Earlier this month, the Guardian reports, a 300-foot yacht, owned by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, tore up about 14,000 square feet of coral reef in the Cayman Islands—about 80 percent of a protected area in the West Bay replenishment zone.

Ethan Couch—a.k.a. Ya Boy, a.k.a. the Affluenza Teen—was deported from Mexico on Thursday and booked into a Fort Worth, Texas, juvenile detention center, the Associated Press reports. “We’ve reached a great milestone,” Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said outside the facility.

The Huffington Post has a triple-bylined report—from Michael Calderone, Ryan Grim, and Sam Stein—about “a major shake-up” coming to Politico’s masthead:

Three hundred and sixty-nine days ago, Kristin Cavallari began the intense work of committing her entire lived experience to scroll. The resulting memoir, Balancing in Heels, will be released sometime in the future. Will Kristin’s fans be able to purchase hardcover versions of it to cherish for all time?

I only want to get married once, and when I do, I hope it’s to one of the three Donald Trump supporters featured in this essential new video from CNN titled, “Going to College, Voting for Trump.” Please watch it below.

Nevada’s tasty Culinary Union says it just busted multiple Bernie Sanders aides who were posing as union members in an attempt to talk to hotel workers about the February caucus.