🇺🇸🇹🇷Reuters, according to an informed source:
The Biden administration sent to Congress urging it to approve a $50 billion deal for F-16 fighters to Turkey.
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🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on X:
🔶️ "I stand with Governor Abbott. The House will do everything in its power to back him up."
🔶️ "The next step: holding Secretary Mayorkas accountable."
🌴 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Press Secretary Jeremy Redfern for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on X:
🔶️ "Florida Highway Patrol is patrolling the southern border with Texas officials at this very moment."
💉 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 Missouri Governor Mike Parson on X:
🔶️ "The fentanyl crisis is here and is tearing families and communities apart. Children dying from fentanyl is 100 percent preventable. While President Biden and the federal government fail to do their job by securing our southern border, Missouri will act."
🇺🇸 US judge upholds block against New Mexico governor's attempt to enact gun restrictions in public parks
A U.S. District Court judge is standing by her decision to block portions of a public health order from New Mexico's governor that would suspend the right to carry firearms in many public parks in the Albuquerque area, with appeals pending before a higher court.
The Monday order from Albuquerque-based Judge Kea Riggs denied a request from the governor to leave in place a temporary ban on firearms in some public places in greater Albuquerque, including most public parks.
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🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem on X:
🔶️ "Greg Abbott is exactly right to invoke Texas’ constitutional authority to defend itself."
🔶️ "The Biden Administration has created a national security crisis and put Americans in danger. Their failure is an unconstitutional dereliction of duty."
🔶️ "South Dakota has been proud to help Gov. Abbott’s efforts to secure our border."
🌴 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on X:
🔶️ "Florida will keep assisting Texas with personnel and assets."
🇺🇸 ❌️ 🇺🇸 Texas Democrat calls on Biden to seize control of Texas National Guard
🔶️ Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) is calling on President Biden to take control of the Texas National Guard if the state defies a Supreme Court ruling that allows U.S. Border Patrol officers to take down the border barriers.
🔶️ “Governor Greg Abbott is using the Texas National Guard to obstruct and create chaos at the border. If Abbott is defying yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling, POTUS needs to establish sole federal control of the Texas National Guard now,” Castro wrote in a Tuesday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4427211-texas-democrat-biden-seize-control-texas-national-guard/
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North Korea says tested new type of cruise missile with nuclear capability
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A journalist interviewed this #Palestinian man, minutes before #israeli forces shot him dead
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How Henry Kissinger got caught up in the Tunisian president’s crackdown
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Thousands protest in Tanzania as opposition seeks amended electoral reforms
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Argentines take to the streets to protest against new austerity measures
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ICJ to decide on emergency measures in Israel-Gaza genocide case this week
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UAE denies sending weapons to Sudan’s RSF paramilitary: Report
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🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox. on X:
🔶️ "The border is a disaster that continues to spiral out of control, both in terms of people and deadly fentanyl traffic. This is not a partisan issue. This is a national security issue. This is a common sense issue. This is an American issue."
🔶️ "Utah thanks Texas and Gov. Abbott for stepping up where the Biden Administration has failed over and over again."
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on X:
🔶️ "Enough is enough. Our southern border is in crisis thanks to the Biden administration’s refusal to do their job."
🔶️ "Greg Abbott and the state of Texas have our full support."
🚷 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 'Immigration tops inflation as the most important issue in America, according to Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll.'
🔶️ "GOP, independents, men, suburban and rural voters all rank immigration No. 1."
🔶️ "Why would Senate Republicans settle for anything less than H.R. 2 to secure the border?"
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🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin on X:
🔶️ "Virginia stands with Texas."
🔶️ "Greg Abbott is doing the job Joe Biden and his border czar refuse to do to secure our border."
🔶️ "The Biden administration has turned every state into a border state. We must stop the flow of fentanyl, save lives, and secure our southern border."
🇺🇸 ❌ 🇺🇸 NEW: FOX obtains letter DHS sent TX AG Paxton demanding access to Shelby Park/Eagle Pass by Friday (1/26)
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🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 Montana Governor Greg Gianforte on X:
🔶️ "Governor Greg Abbott is doing what POTUS won’t."
🔶️ "By refusing to act, President Biden is inviting cartels, illegal drugs, and human trafficking into the United States."
🔶️ "We must secure the southern border."
🇺🇸 ❌️ 🇺🇸 Democrats in Congress are calling on Biden to seize control of the TX National Guard.
📝 “We are now in the midst of a Constitutional Crisis; the biggest one since 1860.”
📎 Carolina Lion
📝 🇺🇸 "Oklahoma stands with Texas, and it looks like Arkansas is sending its National Guard to the border."
🔶️ "TX, OK, AR and FL, this is starting to look like quite the party."
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In India, an algorithm declares them dead; they have to prove they’re alive
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Sri Lanka Parliament passes bill to regulate online content
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‘Traitor’: Thousands strike against Argentina’s President Javier Milei
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Sudan’s Hemedti embraced abroad as he terrorises civilians at home
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The world’s first IVF rhino pregnancy could save a species
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