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President Joe Biden will deliver his annual State of the Union speech before Congress on February 7, the White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters during a briefing. The new Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy, sent a "kind invitation and the president has accepted it and looks forward to delivering the State of the Union," Jean-Pierre says. SOUNDBITE
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says that President Joe Biden's administration would not politicize the Justice Department, after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a special prosecutor to investigate former president Donald Trump. "This is not an administration, the president has been very clear, that will politicize the Department of Justice," she said. SOUNDBITE
The Biden administration will distribute more than 25 million masks across the United States to curb the spread of Covid-19, White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients says during a news briefing. SOUNDBITE
The White House is reportedly planning to send 400 to 500 additional military trainers to Iraq and establish a new U.S. military base in the Iraq’s Anbar Province, according to reports by Reuters the New York Times.
Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh makes several bombshell assertions in a 10,000-word story about the 2011 Navy Seal raid that killed al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.Among the key assertions: a former Pakistani intelligence officer offered information on bin Laden’s whereabouts to the CIA station chief in Islamabad in exchange for a US$25 million reward posted by the US.According to the official version of events, US intelligence learned of Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts by tracking his courier to his Abbottabad compound.Hersh also writes that the ISI, Pakistan’s version of the CIA, had captured bin Laden in Hindu Kush mountains in 2006 and kept him prisoner at the Abbottabad compound.The report also says Pakistani and US intelligence had agreed to concoct a cover story to explain bin Laden’s death. They would tell the world one week after the raid that bin Laden was killed in a drone strike on the Afghanistan side of the border, to be confirmed by DNA evidence.Hersh also claims Navy Seals threw parts of bin Laden’s body from a helicopter as it flew over the Hindu Kush mountains.
The owner of a radio-controlled drone which crashed the White House grounds on Monday sparking a security lockdown has claimed responsibility—saying it was an accident—and may face prosecution.
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