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Mexico is rejecting any effort to reinstate the Trump-era 'remain in Mexico' policy for asylum-seekers. ABC
VOA VIEW: The US can cut off any money and assistance to Mexico.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that if the U.S. job market further strengthens in the coming months or inflation readings accelerate, the Fed might have to raise its benchmark interest rate higher than it now projects ABC
VOA VIEW: Time will tell.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo says no Russian team should be allowed to compete at the Paris Olympics next year if Moscow continues its war against Ukraine ABC
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Authorities arrested two suspects in connection with an alleged plot to attack Baltimore's power grid, officials said Monday. CBS
VOA VIEW: They should be indicted to the fullest extent.
George Alan Kelly, 73, is being held on a charge of first-degree murder in last week's fatal shooting of a man tentatively identified as a Mexican citizen. CBS
Officials said Monday that the balloon was also carrying a payload the size of a jet airliner and "probably weighed in excess of a couple thousand pounds." CBS
Dawn Basciano's ancestors arrived five generations ago in the California Gold Rush town of Coloma as enslaved people. Basciano shares their story of gaining freedom and going on to purchase more than 400 acres of land in Coloma, and how the state of California seized all of it under eminent domain to build the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park. CBS
VOA VIEW: There should be no reparations.
But in a head-to-head matchup between Trump and DeSantis, DeSantis has more support, according to a new poll by the conservative group Club for Growth Action. CBS
VOA VIEW: Trump will win if the liberal media and Dems didn't cheat.
Zoom on Tuesday announced plans to cut about 1,300 workers, or 15% of its workforce, according to a blog post shared to the company's website. CNBC
VOA VIEW: This as well as all other companies show a problem with the economy.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested billionaire investor Ron Baron would make "two or three times" his investment in Twitter's take-private deal, Baron said Tuesday. CNBC
CNBC asked media insiders, including Barry Diller, Bela Bajaria and Bill Simmons, for their predictions about the future of TV. CNBC
VOA VIEW: It is everyone's guess.
The Supreme Court, with a majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, ruled there was no federal right to abortion, overturning its Roe v. Wade decision. CNBC
College students who don't earn enough money may not be required to file a tax return, but you could be missing out on a refund if you don't. CNBC
VOA VIEW: Read the tax form.
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Use this loan payoff calculator to estimate how long it could take to pay off your debt, what your monthly payments may be and how much you'll pay in interest. CNBC
Oil major BP's record annual profits follow bumper earnings from energy giants Shell, Exxon Mobil and Chevron. CNBC
VOA VIEW: All BIden'f fault.
• 'Everyone's trying to row in the same direction': Balloon saga tests bipartisan China committee • Exclusive: US intel assessment documents Chinese spy balloon incident under Trump • Video: CNN goes to balloon debris site • Opinion: What would China have done? CNN
VOA VIEW: A Chinese balloon would not reach US borders.
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Congress is once again bickering about raising the debt ceiling, the amount of money the US government can borrow to pay its bills on time. And that means that Corporate America has to be ready for the worst. CNN
VOA VIEW: It may happen if Biden doesn't wake up.
Missouri recreational marijuana is now available at Verts Neighborhood Dispensaries. Those who are 21 and over are able to purchase top-shelf Missouri cannabis strains. FOX News
The U.S. Navy conducted a mission to retrieve debris from the Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down over the weekend, landing off the coast of Myrtle Beach, S.C. UPI
Republicans on the House Committee on Armed Services ramped up anti-China rhetoric and questioned aid to Ukraine in the committee's first hearing of the 118th Congress on Tuesday. UPI
VOA VIEW: China is a threat to the world.
A group of Senate Republicans have filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to declare President Joe Biden's plan to forgive student debt unconstitutional. UPI
VOA VIEW: As they should.
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British oil giant BP has switched tracks on its carbon emissions strategy, announcing plans Thursday that it will now invest $8 billion into new oil and gas production over the next seven years. UPI
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un led a meeting that called the country's military to expand its combat drills and work toward "perfecting the preparedness for war," state media reported on Tuesday. UPI
VOA VIEW: NK would be quashed like the bug they are.
The U.S. Navy has started to collect what remains of a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon after an Air Force fighter jet shot it into the Atlantic Ocean over the weekend. UPI
VOA VIEW: Now, to put it to gether.
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Twitter banned then-President Trump from the platform just hours after site monitors found he had not violated the social media giant’s policy, prompting employees to accuse their colleagues of behaving “like Nazis following orders,” documents show. Trump may outsmart the evil empire - libearals and socialists.
Elon Musk’s then installment of the “Twitter Files,” rolled out by independent journalist Bari Weiss reveals the behind-the-scenes chaos as a group of anti-Trump employees pressured top executives to oust the sitting president. The internal debate was waged just days after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol despite a lack of evidence that Mr. Trump had violated Twitter policy.
Mr. Trump had one “strike” remaining on his account before he would be permanently banned when, on Jan. 8, 2021, he posted an early morning tweet praising his supporters. “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future,” the president tweeted at 6:46 a.m. “They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!” He later posted: “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration [of President Biden] on January 20th.”
