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Today’s Top Stories from NBC News TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2022 Good morning, NBC News readers.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, we have a special report on how U.S. democracy is still at risk. A guilty verdict in Elizabeth Holmes Theranos' trial caps a case that transfixed Silicon Valley and the investment world. Plus, an epic snowball fight on the National Mall.
Here's what we're watching this Tuesday morning. 
America survived the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, but the explosion of political violence exposed the republic’s fragility.
A year later, after an impeachment and amid federal investigations, the risk to America’s system of governance remains high, according to many experts, historians and politicians.
The republic has been pushed to its limit and is still teetering on the brink, said Joseph Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of the original American revolutionaries.
"Focusing on this as a genuine inflection point in American history, comparable to the Civil War and the Revolution is not fanciful — it's absolutely historically correct," he said. "We are facing a historic crisis. The fate of the republic really is at stake."
Read the full special report by NBC News' senior national politics reporter Jonathan Allen here. Tuesday's Top Stories
A jury found the Theranos founder guilty of four counts of fraud and conspiracy after prosecutors argued she duped investors. She was acquitted of other fraud and conspiracy charges, and the jury was not able to reach a verdict on three counts. 
The prince's lawyers are expected to argue in court Tuesday that a $500,000 settlement Virginia Giuffre reached in 2009 with Jeffrey Epstein protects him against further legal action. 
Large school districts in Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio and Wisconsin are among those that have delayed returns, or abruptly switched from in-person learning to remote learning. 
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Sometimes a good old-fashioned snowball fight is just what the doctor ordered after a stressful holiday season.
After Washington, D.C.'s biggest snowstorm since 2019 on Monday, the "Battle of Snowmicron" was fought on the National Mall with the Smithsonian and Washington Monument as backdrops.
Check out video from the epic battle here. 
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