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BREAKING: David Durenberger, who served 16 years in the U.S. Senate as a moderate Republican and championed affordable health care, the Boundary Waters and the Americans With Disabilities Act, died Tuesday. He was 88. https://www.startribune.com/longtime-republican-minnesotsa-st-paul-u-s-sen-david-durenberger-dies-at-88/600247994/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/StarTribune/status/1620449788830285824
Boris Johnson, the ex UK prime minister, is at Capitol now. He stopped by @[email protected]’s office, per @[email protected] https://twitter.com/borisjohnson/status/1620460232479748096
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1620467151524995072
President Joe Biden is making a trip to New York City to highlight a $292 million mega grant that will be used to help build a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River. https://apnews.com/article/biden-new-york-city-business-94a9e170a3348c74a3545ece08f15687?taid=63d946f6056e600001afb305&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday showcased a $292 million mega grant that will be used to help build a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, part of a broader effort to draw a contrast between his economic vision and that of Republicans.
#CASen: For tea-leaf readers: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) just filed her year-end report and, well, she raised $558.31, has $505k in debt and $9,968.56 cash on hand. https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00539890/1683488//
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mattholt33/status/1620444630474199040
House to vote on 'Pandemic Is Over' bill one day after Biden announces end to COVID-19 emergency https://trib.al/TqaEgQU
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1620461222721208320
The House is set to vote on a bill that would effectively end COVID-19 restrictions just one day after the White House announced it would lift the nationwide public health emergency that was first enacted nearly three years ago.
Exxon Mobil posted a record annual profit of $55.7 billion, riding high oil prices to resurrect its status as one of America’s most profitable companies https://on.wsj.com/3JsmRBy
NEW: sources tells me Rep. Santos informed conference that he is stepping off his committees
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1620432386306748418
Note: both these governments have been rather “Putin-friendly” over the past decade…
Austria, Hungary agree on not sending weapons to Ukraine
Austrian Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner and her Hungarian counterpart Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said at a meeting in Budapest on Jan 30.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/austria-hungary-agree-on-not-sending-weapons-to-ukraine/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1620407928304947201
An Iranian court has handed jail sentences of over 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran's main landmarks in a video seen as a symbol of defiance against the regime, activists said on Tuesday.
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An Iranian court has handed jail sentences of over 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran's main landmarks in a video seen as a symbol of defiance against the regime, activists said on Tuesday. A revolutionary court in Tehran sentenced them each to 10 years and six months in prison, as well as bans on using the Internet and leaving Iran, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said.
