Delaware: “How Hall-Long’s Refusal to Release Audit Findings Sparked Elections Reform Talks” by Amanda Fries (Delaware News Journal) for Yahoo News

National: “Ex-Fundraiser for George Santos Pleads Guilty to Posing as Congressional Aide to Raise Campaign Cash” by Dave Collins for Associated Press News

Elections

Georgia: “Ex-Trump Allies Detail Efforts to Overturn Election in Georgia Plea Videos” by Amy Gardner and Holly Bailey (Washington Post) for MSN

National: “Democrats Plan to Spend Millions to Weaken Republican Supermajorities” by Nick Corasaniti (New York Times) for DNyuz

Ethics

Florida: “Mayor Suarez’s Secret Side Gigs Included Advising Associates of Kremlin-Linked Oligarch” by Shirsho Dasgupta (Miami Herald) for Yahoo News

National: “Trump Compares Political Opponents to ‘Vermin’ Who He Will ‘Root Out,’ Alarming Historians” by Soo Rin Kim and Lalee Ibssa for ABC News

Lobbying

National: “‘Curveball Like No Other:’ Johnson’s rise has K Street trying to keep up” by Caitlin Reilly (Roll Call) for MSN

Procurement

Illinois: “Clout-Heavy Contractor Linked to Federal Investigations at City Hall and in the Suburbs” by Jason Meisner, A.D. Quig, Sarah Freishtat, and Gregory Pratt (Chicago Tribune) for MSN