News from the note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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New evidence is prompting the Jan. 6 panel to change its hearing schedule, which could include adding more hearings.
— POLITICO (@politico) June 22, 2022
Rep. Thompson said the panel had to consider new footage of the Trump family, National Archives docs and tips from previous hearings. https://t.co/2ZKxhHpvfC
House GOP leaders said they will formally whip against the bipartisan legislative package to combat gun violence, and request that their members vote no if it passes the Senate. https://t.co/kkYRhdrQkL
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 22, 2022
Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez sued the Texas Department of Public Safety in a bid to access public records related to the Uvalde school shooting. https://t.co/gKFVMlSV5u
— Axios (@axios) June 22, 2022
Ukrainian photojournalist and soldier accompanying him appear to have been “coldly executed” during first weeks of war in Ukraine as they searched in Russian-occupied woods for the photographer’s missing camera drone, Reporters Without Borders says. https://t.co/DjjYYn5641
— ABC News (@ABC) June 22, 2022
Nikolai Patrushev, the Secretary-General of Russia's Security Council and one of the most powerful figures in President Vladimir Putin's inner circle, called Lithuania's actions "hostile" and "in violation of the international law." https://t.co/AQ85RIGvts
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 22, 2022
European countries are seeing a significant increase in Covid-19 cases spurred by highly infectious subvariants of Omicron, raising fears of a new global wave of the disease as immunity declines and the summer travel season gets underway.https://t.co/9H5rB0qMeN
— CNN (@CNN) June 22, 2022
Chairman Jerome Powell says the Federal Reserve plans to continue increasing interest rates, which he warns could lead to a recession. https://t.co/oU4LIjMGkk
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 22, 2022
More than 920 people were killed and 600 others injured after a powerful 5.9 magnitude earthquake shook eastern Afghanistan overnight, causing cinder block homes to collapse over sleeping families.https://t.co/xx1IUFI8wc
— NPR (@NPR) June 22, 2022
Amid high gas prices, Pres. Biden is calling on Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months and is also urging states to suspend their own gas taxes. https://t.co/JNTwMCk5Xl pic.twitter.com/22Cwnfq9e3
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 22, 2022
The IRS has made little progress in taming a backlog of millions of unprocessed tax returns despite a concerted effort by the agency, a government watchdog said https://t.co/blaFm9lXqH
— POLITICO (@politico) June 22, 2022
The South Dakota state Senate voted to convict and remove state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg from office on two articles of impeachmenthttps://t.co/eVjPwLXEmD
— CNN (@CNN) June 22, 2022
BREAKING: A civil trial jury finds that Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 and awards her $500,000. https://t.co/13k6htnqne
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 21, 2022
