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  • Focus is now returning to the debt limit standoff following President Joe Biden’s well received State of the Union speech.
  • Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has deflected an attack from former President Donald Trump as the later begins a campaign to discredit DeSantis ahead of an expected 2024 presidential campaign launch.
  • Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) was admitted to hospital yesterday after feeling lightheaded.
  • Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen still hopes to visit China after the “spy balloon” incident indefinitely postponed her upcoming trip to Beijing.
  • Yellen said that the US and Europe have the same goal despite tensions over the implementation on the US Inflation Reduction Act.
  • Security analysts warn that the response to the spy balloon has worrying implications for how Beijing and Washington may react to a more serious incident.
  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has hinted that US military aid to Ukraine may eventually evolve to include fighter planes following a UK decision to train Ukrainian pilots.
  • Poll of the Day: A multi-candidate Republican presidential primary will favour DeSantis over Trump.

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