Plus: Whale of a comeback 🐳 | Thursday, January 12, 2023
| | | | | | | Presented By Instagram | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen · Jan 12, 2023 | | Happy Thursday afternoon. Today's PM — edited by Kate Nocera — is 530 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for the copy edit. | | | | | | 1 big thing: Dueling special counsels | | Attorney General Merrick Garland's news conference today at the Justice Department. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Robert Hur today was named the second Justice Department special counsel investigating a president's handling of classified documents. - Hur — a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher — was nominated by former President Trump to serve as U.S. attorney in Maryland in 2017.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Hur's appointment after the White House confirmed a second set of classified documents in Biden's possession. - This set was "in storage space in the President's Wilmington residence garage," a White House statement said.
🏎️ When asked why materials were in his garage next to his Corvette, Biden said the car "is in a locked garage. OK? So, it's not like they're sitting out in the street." Screenshot: CNN Trump faces a separate special counsel inquiry over the hundreds of classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. - The two cases have key differences, including the volume of documents and methods of discovery. But Biden's documents present a new political headache for the president.
"I strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity. But under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter," Garland said at a press conference. - White House lawyer Richard Sauber said the administration is confident "these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the President and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery of this mistake."
Timeline of what we know about Biden documents ... Robert Hur's bio. |     | | | | | | 2. Critical race theory's next fights | | Great Oak High School students in Temecula, Calif., leave campus in protest of their district's ban on critical race theory. Photo: Watchara Phomicinda/The (Riverside) Press-Enterprise via Getty Images The battle against critical race theory, often conflated with teachings on systemic racism, isn't letting up in public schools across the country. Democrats in states like New Mexico, which has the highest percentage of Hispanics in the nation, are vowing to block any anti-CRT proposal. - Hundreds of students in California last month protested Temecula Valley Unified School District's ban on teaching critical race theory.
The graduate and college-level framework was a lightning rod issue in the '22 midterms. - Ballotpedia identified 1,530 school districts in 49 states as of this month where school board candidates took a stance on race in education or critical race theory.
- Candidates opposing race in education won nearly 28% of those seats, data shows. Nearly 40% of those supporting it won.
Anti-CRT measures are up in North Carolina, South Carolina, Indiana and Missouri. | | | | | | | | A message from Instagram | | Explore 30+ Instagram tools helping teens have positive experiences | | |  | | | | Teens' experiences on Instagram should be positive and supportive. That's why we have tools to help teens see less sensitive content and help them spend less time on our platform. Learn more about our tools and set them up with your teen today. | | | | | | 3. Catch up quick |  Data: National Weather Service. Map: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals - This graphic shows the staggering rainfall California has experienced since Dec. 24. The atmospheric river onslaught isn't over yet. Go deeper.
- Inflation is notably slowing, December's Consumer Price Index confirmed. Go deeper with Axios Macro authors Neil Irwin and Courtenay Brown.
| | | | | | | | 4. Whale of a comeback | | Bigg's killer whale dorsal fins. Photo: Courtesy of Mollie Naccarato/Sooke Coastal Explorations It was a banner year for several whale species near Seattle, Axios' Christine Clarridge reports. By the numbers: Bigg's killer whales were spotted 1,221 times and were seen on 278 out of 365 days last year. - Sightings of humpback whales were reported on 274 days.
- Gray whales and minke whales were spotted on 200 and 158 days of the year.
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