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Microsoft is readying to cut more positions from its global workforce as tech giants continue paring headcount to ride out rough economic conditions, according to media reports on Tuesday. The computer industry stalwart could announce layoffs in its engineering divisions as early as Wednesday, Bloomberg News reported. A Microsoft spokesperson…

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America and Britain vow to maintain support for Ukraine ‘for as long as it takes’

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has held talks in Washington urging the Americans to go ‘further and faster’ in their backing for Kyiv

Evening Standard

Threats against lawmakers decreased in 2022, Capitol police say

WASHINGTON — Direct threats or “concerning statements” made against members of Congress decreased in 2022, reversing an upward trend over “the last couple of decades,” the U.S. Capitol Police said Tuesday.

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Wild's physical second-period takeover stops Capitals, 4-2

WASHINGTON — Pucks weren't all the Wild sent to the crease.

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Iran rejected chance to revive nuclear accord, Blinken says

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Iran had rejected the chance to return to a nuclear deal with the U.S. months ago and he reiterated that a new agreement was no longer a Biden administration priority.

Tribune News Service

100 best images of Raiders RB Josh Jacobs during 2022 season

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Kohberger told neighbor of prior DNA test, raising questions about how police found him

PULLMAN, Wash. — Bryan Kohberger told a fellow Washington State University graduate student living in the same on-campus housing complex that he submitted his DNA for consumer genetic testing to explore his ancestry, the neighbor told the Idaho Statesman.

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White House says no debt bargaining as McCarthy urges talks

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called on Democrats to engage in talks with Republicans over a fiscal plan including an increase in the federal debt limit, while the White House reiterated its rejection of such negotiations, highlighting the risk of a market-rattling battle over the ceiling later this year.

Tribune News Service

Blinken welcomes Northern Ireland talks progress after meeting UK's Cleverly

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after meeting his British counterpart on Tuesday that Washington welcomed apparent progress in talks between Britain and the European Union aimed at resolving a post-Brexit trade row over Northern Ireland.

Reuters

US and UK vow to maintain support for Ukraine ‘for as long as it takes’

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has held talks in Washington urging the Americans to go ‘further and faster’ in their backing for Kyiv.

The Independent UK

McCarthy calls for immediate negotiations on budget, debt limit

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US-China trade is close to a record, defying talk of decoupling

Trade between the U.S. and China is on track to break records, a signal of resilient links between the world’s top economies amid the heated national security rhetoric in Washington and fears of “decoupling.”

Tribune News Service

Netherlands to send Patriot missile system to Ukraine; six children among dead in Dnipro strike – as it happened

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte in Washington; death toll from Saturday’s Russian missile attack on a residential building rises to 45

The Guardian - AU

Republican Rep. Jim Banks of announces run for Indiana Senate seat

WASHINGTON — Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks kicked off his Senate campaign Tuesday morning by highlighting his conservative credentials and lashing out against “radical Democrats and spineless Republicans.”

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Republican Rep. Jim Banks announces run for Indiana Senate seat

The Conversation

Kosovo: ethnic tensions have created a political 'volcano' that could erupt anytime

After US state department counsellor Derek Chollet recently visited Kosovo in a bid to calm tensions flaring in the north of the country, he said Washington’s priority was to prevent “violence metastasising” (spreading) between Serbs and Albanians.

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court rejects appeal on use of COVID aid for tax cuts

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a Missouri appeal that sought to ensure states can cut taxes even as they receive $195 billion in federal pandemic relief money.

The Independent UK

UK woman marries rapist serving 20 years in US prison after meeting through Spanish lessons

Vasquez, from Washington, was handed a 20-year sentence in December 2011 after being convicted of rape

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The Independent UK

Driver arrested as video shows ‘attempted kidnap’ of bikini-clad barista with zip-ties via drive-through window

The suspect was seen trying to pull the victim through the drive-through window using using zip-ties, police say

Reuters

Germany will not fall into recession, Scholz tells Bloomberg TV

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday he was convinced Europe's largest economy would not fall into a recession despite soaring energy and food prices in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Tribune News Service

White House, House GOP take aim at Big Tech, but see different targets

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Republican lawmakers last week launched yet another effort to confront thorny issues relating to Big Tech and social media platforms that have bedeviled previous administrations and Congress, but the path to progress this time around is just as murky.

Tribune News Service

WA jobless workers living 'surrealistic nightmare' as recession looms

Even as economists are forecasting an economic slowdown and rising unemployment in Washington later this year, the state system that provides benefits to jobless workers hasn't even recovered from the last slump.

Daily Record

Scots woman gets married to rapist serving 20 years in US prison

Gemma Vasquez tied the knot with Leonel Vasquez from Washington on a visit to his prison in Virginia on December 29 after meeting through his mum.

WEKU

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is having a moment. What does it mean?

The Georgia congresswoman is positioning herself as a bridge between mainstream Republicans and the party's right flank in Washington.

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Türkiye’s Top Diplomat Travels to US amid Troubled Ties

Türkiye and the United States will aim to smooth out a series of disagreements between the NATO allies when the Turkish foreign minister visits Washington this week. But expectations that outstanding issues can be resolved are low. Mevlut Cavusoglu departs on Tuesday for a meeting with US counterpart Antony Blinken…

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