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U.S. News

Biden says beating inflation is his “top domestic priority”

President Joe Biden stated on Tuesday that he and the Federal Reserve are working to solve the issue of high inflation that has been rapidly growing across the country. He called it his administration’s top domestic policy.

Biden also stated that some of the issues causing the inflation are “outside of our control,” such as the war in Ukraine and the supply-chain interruptions caused by COVID-19.

House passes $40 billion aid package for Ukraine

The House of Representatives has passed a $40 billion bill to deliver aid to Ukraine as the war with Russia continues to intensify.

The 57 opposition votes were from Republican lawmakers.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the Senate “will move swiftly” to pass the measure.

Gun-related deaths spiked to highest level in 25 years during the pandemic, according to CDC

Gun deaths reached the highest number recorded in the United States in 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. Gun-related homicides surged by 35%, according to a report by the CDC.

More than 45,000 Americans died in gun-related incidents, the highest since 1994.

More than half of the gun deaths were suicides, with a rise of 15% in 2020.

Republican Tom Reed has resigned from Congress

New York Republican Congressman Tom Reed has announced on Tuesday that he is resigning his seat, ending his term a few months early. He announced his retirement back in 2021 after being accused of sexual misconduct.

“It has been an honor to serve with you all from both parties. I love this institution as it still exemplifies what is best about our government, we are the People’s house. While I am proud that we put people before politics, there is much more to do,” Reed said. He will be joining Prime Policy Group, a bipartisan lobbying group.

“My most profound appreciation is for the people of Western New York. Thank you for giving a country lawyer, the youngest of 12, raised by a single mother whose father passed away when he was only two, the honor of representing you at the highest level. Only in America can such a dream come true.”

DeSantis to require public schools to teach “evils of communism”; Nov. 7 to be “Victims of Communism Day”

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill into law establishing November 7 as “Victims of Communism Day.” Public schools will be required to teach students about the “evils of communism” and communist regimes.

DeSantis said that the day is meant to “honor the more than 100 million people who have fallen victim to communist regimes across the world.”

“We want to make sure that every year, folks in Florida — but particularly our students — will learn about the evils of communism, the dictators who have led communist regimes, and the hundreds of millions of individuals who have suffered and continued to suffer under the weight of this discredited ideology.”

World News

US Spy chief says war in Ukraine will likely become “more unpredictable and escalatory”

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Putin shows no sign of ending the war in Ukraine anytime soon.

According to Haines, it is not likely that “the fight in Donbas will effectively end the war.” The intelligence community assess that Putin “is preparing for a prolonged conflict in Ukraine, during which he still intends to achieve goals beyond the Donbas.”

“At the very least, we believe the dichotomy will usher in a period of more ad hoc decision-making in Russia, both with respect to the domestic adjustments required to sustain this push, as well as the military conflict with Ukraine and the west.”

“And the current trend increases the likelihood that President Putin will turn to more drastic means, including imposing martial law, reorienting industrial production, or potentially escalatory military actions to free up the resources needed to achieve his objectives as the conflict drags on, or if he perceives Russia is losing in Ukraine.”

El Salvador woman accused of homicide following obstetric emergency; will face 30 years in jail

A woman in El Salvador has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the death of her unborn child following an obstetric emergency, according to The Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion.

The rights group reported that the 28-year-old woman suffered a health emergency while pregnant in 2019 and sought assistance at a local hospital. She was later convicted of homicide.

Abortion in El Salvador is illegal, even in cases of rape and when the woman’s life is in danger. Rights groups say that the law has been used to punish women who have had miscarriages, still-births, or other emergencies.

US will provide more than $800 million in humanitarian assistance to Syria

The US is providing more than $800 million in humanitarian assistance to Syria to help those impacted by the war, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced while speaking at a conference to support Syria in Brussels.

“The war has been going on for 10 years and ordinary Syrians are suffering. People are starving. Medical supplies are not getting through. The US is the largest humanitarian donor across the board. And this is a core value for the United States to support people in need, wherever they are.”

Thomas-Greenfield said that the assistance to Syria “will not in any way be affected by what we’re doing in Ukraine.”

9 arrested after plan crash photos were AirDropped to passengers aboard flight

Nine Israeli citizens were arrested Tuesday at Tel Aviv’s Ben Guiron airport on suspicion of making terrorist threats after passengers aboard the flight to Turkey were AirDropped photos of plan crashes on their phones just before takeoff.

Israel’s Airports Authority said in a statement that the individuals “are suspected of broadcasting images of an air disaster on the plan, causing panic and delaying the plane’s departure by several hours.” They stated that the photos could be seen as a “terrorist threat.”

Nobody was injured and the flight resumed following a security search. A passenger aboard the flight told Israel’s Channel 12 that “one woman fainted, another had a panic attack.”