Biden in Mexico: President Biden is in Mexico City for meetings with Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Yesterday, Biden spent just a few hours in El Paso, Texas, visiting the border with Mexico. He met with various officials charged with controlling the flow of legal and illegal immigrants into the U.S. from Mexico but didn’t visit with immigrants.
House to fulfill today: The House of Representatives is scheduled to be in session later today to take up the House Rules package that incorporates concessions made to far-right Republicans by Kevin McCarthy with the intention to get their votes that ultimately got him elected Speaker of the House. McCarthy’s election got here on the fifteenth ballot within the overnight hours Saturday morning. In his speech accepting the gavel, he promised that the primary piece of laws he’ll propose might be one which the far-right wants that may eliminate the IRS hiring 85,000 recent employees. Roughly 35,000 IRS employees are scheduled for retirement and along with replacing them the agency desired to add employees to expand activities similar to audits of tax returns from corporations and the rich.
Bernard Kalb dies: Bernard Kalb, a correspondent for The Latest York Times, CBS News and NBC News, died yesterday in North Bethesda, Maryland, on the age of 100. Kalb was known for covering Southeast Asia in addition to the State Department. He also was teamed along with his younger brother, correspondent Marvin Kalb.
Russia claims 600 killed: Ukraine denies a claim by Russia this morning that Russian missiles killed 600 Ukrainian soldiers in an attack on a vocational school within the eastern a part of the country. Ukraine said the missiles only blew out windows and wrecked some classrooms that weren’t in use.
Pro-Bolsonaro mob: Brazilian authorities say they’ll prosecute supporters of ousted President Bolsonaro who yesterday stormed government buildings. The professional-Bolsonaro mob had hoped the country’s military would join of their riot, however it didn’t.
Bad weather: Northern and Central California and parts of Western Nevada are expected to be hit with heavy rains, high winds, flash floods and mudslides today and tomorrow in accordance with the National Weather Service. Greater than 100,000 customers were without power within the Sacramento area after storms over the weekend.
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