News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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Trump, attorneys ordered to pay over $937,000 in sanctions for allegedly abusing court https://t.co/kBlQdlS3li
— Axios (@axios) January 20, 2023
Germany has failed to reach agreement with its key Western allies on sending Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, despite growing pressure from NATO and Kyiv to step up its military aid ahead of a potential Russian spring offensive. https://t.co/DrgZRBXezP
— CNN (@CNN) January 20, 2023
President Zelenskyy calls the Russian attacks on the Ukrainian power grid “energy terrorism.”
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 20, 2023
The fate of the country's power grid has now become a top priority at the White House, U.S. officials say. https://t.co/d31QbigYqk
Zelensky secretly met with CIA director Burns in Kyiv https://t.co/r9xgTY0CNT pic.twitter.com/p6ZRKIO50d
— The Hill (@thehill) January 20, 2023
Trump’s lawyers withdrew a lawsuit against New York AG Tish James that sought to block her access to a Florida-based trust holding many of his business assets. https://t.co/LbwjUYFfee
— POLITICO (@politico) January 20, 2023
A Marine who said he was waiting for "Civil war 2" and two other active-duty members of the military have been charged with participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol, authorities said in newly filed court papers. https://t.co/cthu2lrlrK
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 20, 2023
Pres. Biden says he has "no regrets" as the investigation continues into the classified documents found at his home and office. https://t.co/0YMYWbPNex
— ABC News (@ABC) January 20, 2023
GOP Congressman Patrick McHenry tells the @TakeoutPodcast the U.S. will not default on its debt obligations this year, as he attempts to broker a deal between the White House and hardline conservatives to increase the government's borrowing limit. https://t.co/SkAKcGT1vt
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 20, 2023
Federal investigators are looking into whether 50 children, who were allegedly illegally employed cleaning Midwestern slaughterhouses, were victims of labor trafficking, officials tell @NBCNews. https://t.co/3LDv2bgrjl
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 20, 2023
The FAA says that last week's computer system outage, which caused thousands of flight delays across the U.S. and a temporary grounding of the nation's airspace, appears to have been the result of "unintentionally deleted files." https://t.co/auPZmJqX83
— ABC News (@ABC) January 20, 2023
A federal judge ruled Friday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the First Amendment and the Florida Constitution by removing an elected state prosecutor, but that the federal courts lack the power to reinstate him. https://t.co/c5Z8UcvlRy
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 20, 2023
Friday marks three years since the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in the United States https://t.co/6IvM6vRj0z
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 20, 2023
