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Mum gives birth to baby boy at 30,000ft on board 11-hour transatlantic flight

Cabin crew and passengers helped to deliver the baby boy after the mum went into labour weeks before her due date onboard a United Airlines flight between Accra, Ghana, and Washington, DC

Daily Mirror

Pelosi's reelection bid keeps Democrats in suspense on leadership

WASHINGTON — When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her reelection bid last week, it was a sign that Democrats may be in limbo for another nine months before knowing who their next leader will be.

Los Angeles Times

Examining Potential Trade Destinations For Spencer Dinwiddie

Bryan Fonseca takes a look at three logical landing spots for Wizards point guard Spencer Dinwiddie.

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Kremlin Urges US to ‘Stop Escalating Tensions’ over Ukraine

The Kremlin on Thursday urged the United States to stop inflaming tensions after Washington sent several thousand troops to bolster NATO forces in eastern Europe amid the Ukraine crisis. “We are constantly urging our American partners to stop escalating tensions on the European continent,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Poland to lobby for permanent rotational U.S. troop increase

Poland's Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau will lobby the United States for a proposed U.S. troop increase to remain in the country permanently on a rotational basis, a Polish official said on Thursday ahead of Rau's visit to Washington this week.

Reuters

Kremlin accuses U.S. of stoking tension with troop deployments

Russia accused the United States on Thursday of ramping up tensions and ignoring Moscow's calls to ease a standoff over Ukraine, a day after Washington announced it would deploy nearly 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania.

Reuters

‘We have to adapt’: US Pacific north-west weighs plans to cope with extreme weather

After a cataclysmic year of heat and floods, Washington state considers bills to help adapt to climate change challenges

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U.S. warns Russia may stage video as pretext to invade Ukraine

Russia has formulated several options as an excuse to invade Ukraine, including the potential use of a propaganda video showing a staged attack, the United States said on Thursday, as the Kremlin condemned American troop deployments in the region.

Reuters

NFL audit: Washington team has cleaned up its act

Congress is investigating sexual harassment and other workplace misconduct at the NFL's Washington franchise.

Axios

Ukraine latest updates: US says Russia plotting false flag attack

Ukraine news from February 3: The US claims Moscow is planning to fabricate an attack by Ukrainian forces.

Al Jazeera

Brickbat: If at First You Don't Succeed

A Redmond, Washington, police officer who fatally shot Andrea Churna in 2020 while she was unarmed and lying on the floor of a hallway outside her apartment had been fired from the Whatcom County sheriff's office just a month before being hired in Redmond and about a year before shooting…

Reason

Taliban Closer to International Recognition, Says Foreign Minister

The Taliban are inching closer towards international recognition but any concessions Afghanistan's new rulers make will be on their terms, the regime's foreign minister said in an interview with AFP. In his first interview since returning from talks with Western powers in Oslo, Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi also urged…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tesla, who? Biden can’t bring himself to say it, irking Musk

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden calls himself a union guy and a car guy, and he’s embraced electric vehicles as vital to his economic and climate ambitions.

The Times of India

Cruz tries to preempt ‘Cancun Ted’ jokes a year after Mexican getaway during Texas’ deep freeze

WASHINGTON – If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

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Republican senator wants to pick a better battle than black Supreme Court nominee

WASHINGTON — Some Republicans say they are worried that overheated rhetoric about President Joe Biden’s promise to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court could backfire, detracting from arguments about the pandemic and the economy in this year’s midterm elections.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Feds pledge they’ll do more to help rebuild Puerto Rico’s electric grid

WASHINGTON — Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi and a coterie of top White House officials signed an agreement Wednesday directing the federal government to do more to help the territory rebuild its ailing electric grid and meet its renewable energy goals, the latest attempt from the Biden administration to provide…

Los Angeles Times

Appeals court skeptical of judge’s ruling blocking access to Sen. Burr warrant

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court indicated Wednesday it may overturn a judge’s ruling that blocked the public’s access to a search warrant for Sen. Richard Burr’s cellphone, which was part of an investigation into his stock trades.

ABC News

Washington's NFL team announces 'Commanders' as its new mascot

After two years without a name, Washington's NFL team has finally adopted a new mascot.

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Foreign Affairs

North Korea Is Becoming an Asset for China

Pyongyang’s Missiles Could Fracture America’s Alliances

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Intelligence panel finds pulsed energy is only plausible cause of ‘Havana syndrome’

WASHINGTON — A panel of experts established by the intelligence community last spring to identify the cause of unexplained health incidents among U.S. personnel found that a pulsed energy device is the most probable cause of the most perplexing cases.

Sports Illustrated

Al Michaels Jokes About What the Washington Commanders' Nickname Might Be

The NBC broadcaster might have been joking, but social media wasn't.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel Non-committal amid US Pressure over Palestinian’s Death

An Israeli general said on Wednesday it would be foolish to speculate on whether troops might be prosecuted over the death of an elderly Palestinian-American they detained, a case in which Washington has called for "full accountability." After reprimanding a battalion commander and dismissing two officers involved in the Jan.

Tribune News Service

House poised for party-line vote on China package

WASHINGTON — The House appears headed to a mostly party-line vote this week on a sprawling Democratic-crafted bill aimed at boosting U.S. investment in a range of sectors to better compete against China’s aggressive efforts to dominate the technology realm.

The Guardian - UK

Don’t panic: why Ukraine doesn’t like western talk of imminent attack

Analysis: While Putin’s intentions remain unclear, Kyiv would rather it didn’t get classed as the next Kabul

Reuters

"We're not done" with sanctions on Myanmar junta and its supporters, says U.S. envoy

Washington will continue to impose sanctions on Myanmar's military and those who have helped the junta that seized power a year ago, U.S. State Department Counselor Derek Chollet said on Wednesday.

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