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US Treasury denies Republicans’ request for Hunter Biden records

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department refused Wednesday to provide House Republicans any suspicious activity reports it may have on foreign banking and other business transactions by Hunter Biden and other members of President Joe Biden’s family.

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Eric Burlison led effort to expand gun rights in Missouri. Now, as congressman, he wants to repeal key federal gun law

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison, who led the effort to expand gun rights in Missouri when he was a member of the state Senate, is now going after a cornerstone federal gun law used by the Department of Justice to reduce gun violence.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Marjorie Taylor Greene says running with Trump not on her radar

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shrugged off rumors that she is angling to serve as former President Donald Trump’s running mate as he campaigns for a return to the White House in 2024.

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George Santos says he’ll answer all the questions — but he won’t say when

WASHINGTON — Scandal-plagued New York Republican George Santos said Wednesday he’d hold a news conference to answer “all the questions” about his fabricated resume and the money that fueled his successful election to the US House in November.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar calls out Republicans ahead of potential vote to take away committee post

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar scorned Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Wednesday as the GOP attempt to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee approaches a critical point.

Tribune News Service

DHS sees huge drop in Haitian, Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan arrivals at southern border

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security recorded a precipitous drop in encounters with migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally this month, the department said on Wednesday, putting January on track to see the lowest level of monthly border encounters since the beginning of the Biden administration.

Miami Herald

Former Washington defensive lineman Chris Baker recovering from stroke

Baker's mother said he suffered a "serious" stroke last week.

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‘Not fly-over country’: Dingell and other Midwestern Democrats start Heartland Caucus

WASHINGTON — Debbie Dingell’s quest for a leadership position within the House Democratic Caucus came with a map.

Tribune News Service

Woman pleads guilty to sending ricin in 2020 letter to Trump

A Canadian woman has pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington to mailing a threatening letter containing the poison ricin to then-President Donald Trump at the White House

The Independent UK

US will send dozens of Abrams tanks to Ukraine, Biden announces

US president says the new military aid underscores Washington’s ‘enduring commitment’ to Kyiv against Moscow’s invasion.

Al Jazeera

Western unity is critical, but Ukraine needs more than tanks to win this war

Washington joins Berlin in agreeing to send tanks – but offer will only go so far to keep Russians at bay

The Guardian - UK

House GOP aims to tie oil reserve sales to public land drilling

WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday may begin consideration of a bill that would alter the president’s authority to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. President Joe Biden has said he would veto it.

Tribune News Service

Watch live: Lockerbie plane bombing suspect to appear in federal court

Watch as a man suspected of making a bomb that blew up Pan Am flight 103, killing 270 people above Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, is to appear in a Washington federal court today, 25 January.

The Independent UK

LaVar Arrington on Dan Snyder: ‘I told y’all’

LaVar Arrington looks back on his situation with Dan Snyder and says, "I told y'all."

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Leaders are meant to keep state secrets. Just not at home.

The discovery of classified documents at the home of former Vice President Mike Pence is scrambling the blame game in Washington

Los Angeles Times

New Hampshire has led the presidential primaries for 100 years. Democrats say that's enough

WASHINGTON — Phil Hatcher and his wife moved to New Hampshire from the Midwest in 1986, and soon got a taste of what makes the state's first-in-the-nation primary so special to the people who live there.

Al Jazeera

‘Cope with your own debt’, China tells US over Zambia debt relief

Washington and Beijing are vying for influence in Africa, where Chinese banks are major lenders.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Libyan Lockerbie Bombing Suspect to be Arraigned in US Federal Court

A Libyan intelligence operative suspected of making the bomb that blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 and killed 270 people will be arraigned in a US court on Wednesday, where prosecutors are also expected to ask for him to be detained through trial. Abu Agila…

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Kremlin Says US-Supplied Tanks Will 'Burn' in Ukraine

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that any Abrams battle tanks supplied to Ukraine by the United States would "burn", dismissing the expected delivery as an expensive folly. US officials told Reuters on Tuesday that Washington was poised to send dozens of its M1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine, reversing its…

Tribune News Service

GOP bill to protect speech on social media may gag officials

WASHINGTON — The bill that senior House Republicans introduced this month to prohibit federal officials from pressuring social media companies to censor speech has some experts worried it could hamstring government efforts to combat online content that’s widely perceived as harmful, including threats to public safety.

Reason

Brickbat: No Need for Any Testing

Jane Carhuff crashed her car three times on the drive from her home to her doctor's office. When Puyallup, Washington, police officers and firefighters arrived, they found her incoherent. They tried to question her, and she mumbled something about being diabetic. Firefighters told the officers she wasn't having a medical…

Evening Standard

Vladimir Putin on ‘back foot’ with US, Germany and other allies sending tanks to Ukraine, says Rishi Sunak

US has joined Germany in promising battle tanks which Kyiv hailed as ‘an important step on the path to victory’ against Russia

Asharq Al-Awsat

Microsoft Quarterly Results Saved by Cloud Computing

Microsoft on Tuesday said sales slowed and profits slumped in the last quarter of 2022 as a darkening economic outlook pushed it to lay off 10,000 workers. The Washington state-based tech giant -- owner of LinkedIn, Xbox and Windows -- said overall sales rose just two percent in the October-to-December…

France 24

Ukraine's Zelensky wants long-range missiles and jets from the West

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday he wanted the West to send long-range missiles and jets to his war-torn country to help repel Russian troops, after the US announced it will send Abrams tanks to Ukraine in a major reversal. Read our live blog to see how all the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Washington Urges Accountability for Beirut Port Blast

The United States has reiterated that the Lebanese authorities should complete a “swift and transparent” probe into the explosion that rocked Beirut port in August 2020. “We in the international community have made it clear since the explosion that ... we support and urge Lebanese authorities to complete a swift…

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