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Ukraine in mind, US frantic to avert Mideast showdown at UN

The Biden administration is scrambling to avert a diplomatic crisis this week at the United Nations over Israeli settlement activity

The Independent UK

Ohio chemical train disaster spotlights vacancy at US regulator

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has yet to nominate someone to lead the federal agency that regulates the transport of hazardous materials, including the toxic chemicals that spilled following the fiery derailment of a Norfolk Southern Corp. train in Ohio this month.

Tribune News Service

‘Insane, lying, complete nut’: How Fox News stars rejected Trump’s election conspiracies while network pushed them

Messages and testimony revealed in a voting machine company’s $1.6bn defamation lawsuit find top personalities and executives clashing over bogus claims while seething over brand ‘vandalism’ when reporters corrected them, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK

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A Chinese spy balloon, missiles and ‘UFOs’: What we’ve learned about string of objects shot down by the US

Not since a balloon crashed in Roswell, New Mexico have inflatable unmanned craft so dominated the American discourse. Alex Woodward and Andrew Feinberg sum up what we learned this week

The Independent UK

Trump says he will visit East Palestine after two weeks of silence on disastrous train derailment

Mr Trump confirmed on his platform Truth Social that he will travel on Wednesday to the community with a population of 4,700

The Independent UK

Chief of staff exerts quiet power at center of White House

The White House chief of staff is at the fulcrum of the federal government as gatekeeper to the most powerful leader on Earth

The Independent UK

Trump gets caught up in the cover-up

A Special Counsel in Washington D.C. is also comparing the testimony of Trump witnesses for conflicts

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US calls off search for shot down UFOs as devices may be lost in murky depths FOREVER

US search teams have ended the hunt for the unidentified balloons shot down over North America. Tensions have been heightened since the high profile 'Chinese spy ballon' met a similar fate off the coast of South Carolina

Daily Mirror

FBI lab to assess what ‘Chinese balloon was capable of,’ says White House

Four objects have now been shot down over North America

Evening Standard

An activist group is spreading misinformation to stop solar projects in rural America

An NPR/Floodlight investigation found that a longtime Republican insider is stoking solar opposition by spreading bad information about health and environmental risks. Her influence is growing.

WEKU

White House to hold talks with Taiwan officials in Washington - FT

The White House will meet senior Taiwan officials next week in Washington for talks meant to be private to avoid an angry reaction from China, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, at a time of heightened tensions between Taipei and Beijing.

Reuters

Russia’s Wagner fighters suffer 30,000 casualties in Ukraine: US

The White House says 90 percent of Wagner Group fighters killed in Ukraine since December were convicts.

Al Jazeera

Democrats make new push for Biden to add Asian American secretary to Cabinet

Biden has faced criticism for the lack of Asian American heritage among his cabinet secretaries.

Axios

Balloons, missiles and planes: What we know about the objects shot down by the US this month

Not since a balloon crashed in Roswell, New Mexico have inflatable unmanned craft so dominated the American discourse. Alex Woodward and Andrew Feinberg sum up what we learned this week

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Decision to shoot down balloons puts spotlight on hobbyists

Decisions to shoot down multiple unidentified objects in American and Canadian airspace has put a spotlight on amateur balloonists who say their creations pose no threat

Reuters

White House: Wagner Group has suffered over 30,000 casualties in Ukraine

The Russian mercenary company Wagner Group has suffered more than 30,000 casualties since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, with about 9,000 of those fighters killed in action, the White House said on Friday.

The Independent UK

Sen. Rick Scott alters policy plan causing heartburn for GOP

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida has amended a plan to overhaul how the federal government works after Democrats repeatedly seized on it to accuse Republicans of looking to cut Medicare and Social Security

The Independent UK

Biden won’t visit Ukraine during Poland trip to mark war anniversary

Mr Biden will visit Poland to commemorate one year of war next week

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Salon

Scott quietly edits plan to end Medicare

The Florida Republican changed his plan to exclude the programs after backlash from Democrats and his own party

The Guardian - US

Kamala Harris: Biden is not too old for presidency and I intend to run with him

Vice-president dismisses ‘Washington chatter’ about whether president should run for a second term in the White House

Liverpool Echo

MP Dan Carden heads to White House as he continues addiction recovery campaign

Walton MP was the first Member of Parliament to openly talk about being in recovery from alcoholism in the House of Commons

The Independent UK

White House holds a briefing after doctors declare Biden ‘fit for duty’

Karine Jean-Pierre held a White House briefing after doctors declared Joe Biden ‘fit for duty’.

The Independent UK

White House defends response to toxic train derailment

The Biden administration is defending its response to a freight train derailment in Ohio that left toxic chemicals spilled or burned off, even as local leaders and members of Congress demanded that more be done

The Independent UK

‘Insane, lying, complete nut’: How Fox News stars rejected Trump’s election conspiracies while network pushed them

The Independent UK

Fox News, the Murdochs and a web of secret Trump messaging: How the revelations of the Dominion lawsuit go much further than vote counting

Court documents present damning messages from network’s star anchors and executives surrounding coverage of Donald Trump’s false 2020 election fraud narrative, Joe Sommerlad and Alex Woodward explain

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