The Pentagon will send Ukraine at least $275 million in new weapons, US officials said Tuesday, as the Biden administration races to do as much as possible to help Kiev fight back against Russia in the remaining two months before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. .

The latest round of weapons comes as concerns grow about an escalation of the conflict, with both sides pushing for every advantage they can take if Trump demands a quick end to the war – as he has promised to do.

This week, President Joe Biden in quick succession gave Ukraine the authority to fire longer-range missiles deeper into Russia, after which Russian President Vladimir Putin formally lowered the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons.

Pete Evans incorrectly labeled the COVID-19 pandemic as a hoax in 2020.

The Texas Board of Education on Tuesday advanced a new Bible-infused curriculum that would be optional for schools to include in kindergarten through fifth grade, one of the latest Republican-led efforts in the U.S. to include more religious education in classrooms.

The vote brings the Texas State Board of Education one step closer to signing off on what’s known as the “Bluebonnet” textbook, which drew hours of often emotional testimony from educators and parents earlier this week.

The board is expected to take a final vote on the measure on Friday.

The former CEO of WWE served as head of the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019.

Harvard’s CAPS/Harris poll found that 54 percent approve of Trump, while 40 percent disapprove. Ninety-one percent of Republicans approved of Trump’s performance, while 49 percent of independents and 22 percent of Democrats said the same.

Kennedy once suggested that COVID was part of a “biosecurity agenda that will enslave the entire human race and plunge us into a dystopian nightmare.”

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Howard Lutnick, head of brokerage and investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald and cryptocurrency enthusiast, as his nominee for commerce secretary.

The nomination would put Lutnick in charge of a sprawling Cabinet agency involved in financing new computer chip factories, imposing trade restrictions, releasing economic data and monitoring the weather. It is also a position where connections with CEOs and the wider business community are crucial.

Lutnick, co-chair of Trump’s transition team, once appeared on Trump’s NBC reality show “The Apprentice” alongside Linda McMahon, the former wrestling executive who previously headed Trump’s Small Business Administration. He has become part of the president-elect’s inner circle.

Here are things to know about the billionaire who, if confirmed by the Senate, will lead the Commerce Department:

On Monday, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the soon-to-retire Democrat-turned-independent from Arizona, responded to comments from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer urging Republicans “not to misinterpret the will of the people” and ” to abandon the need for bipartisanship.” .”

“What is the one tool that requires the Senate to work in a bipartisan manner?” she said on X/Twitter. “Oh look, the filibuster.”

“I’m not going to say I told you,” he said The independent on Monday, but as he got into the Senate elevator he added that people should have paid attention. He was more or less right, as the 2024 election turned out to be largely a referendum on the high cost of living.

Representative Greene of Georgia defended Gaetz, Trump’s pick for attorney general, on Tuesday morning. She warned that “if we start releasing ethics reports and picking apart ours that Trump appointed,” she “will put everything out there.”

“Yes…all ethics reports and claims, including the ones I filed,” Greene wrote on

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The pair have defended their decision to visit the president-elect for the first time in seven years as an opportunity to “rekindle communications” after being fierce critics of Trump in the run-up to the 2024 election. In their reporting, Scarborough and Brzezinski described Trump as “erratic,” decrying his attempts at election fraud and warning of “how dark” the US would be if Trump won. In September, Scarborough said it was “not feasible” to compare the president-elect to Hitler.

Beyond the bitterness of the 2024 election cycle, however, a meeting between Scarborough and Trump is even more surprising given their previous interactions, centered around the death of a young congressional staffer Lori Klausutis more than two decades ago.