News from the note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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Investigators cited classified material on national defense found among boxes retrieved by the National Archives as evidence of "probable cause" of crimes, the unsealed Trump affidavit says.https://t.co/gV8oMyygOx
— NPR (@NPR) August 26, 2022
Moderna is taking Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech to court, claiming the rival drugmakers copied its technology in developing their COVID-19 vaccine. https://t.co/gX1sPAUPMI
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 26, 2022
The updated travel guidance is part of a sweeping overhaul to the CDC's pandemic recommendations. https://t.co/eoWt67boQR
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 26, 2022
U.K. residents will see an 80% increase in their annual household energy bills, the country’s energy regulator announces. https://t.co/pKIxTDcCQQ
— ABC News (@ABC) August 26, 2022
The move comes at a time of increased militarization in the far north, with NATO members squaring off against Russia, and at a time of rapid climate change that is making the Arctic more accessible.https://t.co/6xB0gSBjFL
— Axios (@axios) August 26, 2022
Soviet-era monument commemorating the Red Army's victory over Nazi Germany is toppled in the Latvian capital. https://t.co/EAhrTX6S2u pic.twitter.com/X7vflOPBqa
— ABC News (@ABC) August 26, 2022
Biden student debt plan could cost as much as $1 trillion over a decade https://t.co/DFuM07A81X pic.twitter.com/kKzEHfgJ0M
— The Hill (@thehill) August 26, 2022
NEW: The Secret Service says it has recovered $286 million in Covid relief funds that were meant for small businesses but were siphoned off by fraudsters using stolen or fake identities. https://t.co/LC9eQ1VHcK
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 26, 2022
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark message Friday: The Fed will likely impose more large interest rate hikes in coming months and is resolutely focused on taming the highest inflation in four decades. https://t.co/QLxeD1sVXh
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 26, 2022
The hunt to track and kill each and every spotted lanternfly fugitive is so intense Pennsylvania officials set up a hotline to report sightings https://t.co/aG1H3Ltd7D
— CNN (@CNN) August 26, 2022
A Donald Trump fan was sentenced to 46 months in prison for assaulting law enforcement officers with a Trump flag and joining a mob to use a giant Trump billboard as a battering ram when rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. https://t.co/LSZYXRO1m6
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 26, 2022
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, a planet outside our solar system. https://t.co/eU78xp6Xu7
— CNN (@CNN) August 26, 2022
