'...So far this year, 169 individuals with positive terrorism watchlist matches tried to cross the southern border into the United States. ...a “tenfold increase” from the fiscal year 2021 numbers. ...the Republican lawmakers are demanding answers from Biden on a number of border-related questions, including: • What proactive moves are underway to bolster the security'
'...The National Archives has informed House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer that it'll provide unredacted access to 1,799 Joe Biden emails 62,610 pages from his time as vice president. This is in response to Comer's letters on Aug. 30 and Sept. 6 requesting the information as part of the House probe of Biden and his role in son Hunter's foreign business dealings. ...Biden has reportedly used Robert Peters, Robin Ware and JRB Ware, pseudonyms that Republicans say he used to discuss dealings with energy giant Burisma when Hunter Biden was a board member of the Ukrainian firm. Also among the trove of emails: communications with Eric Schwerin and/or Devon Archer, former business associates of Hunter Biden. The House Ways and Means Committee released documents showing Biden communicated with Schwerin using the “Robin Ware” alias, including 50 emails around Biden’s trip to Ukraine in June 2014. ...'
'Tuesday’s report from the Labor Department said the consumer price index rose just 0.1% from October to November. ...core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs, rose 0.3% from October to November, slightly faster than the 0.2% increase the previous month. Measured from a year ago, core prices rose 4%, the same as in October. The Federal Reserve considers core prices to be a better guide to the future path of inflation. ...'
'...Attacks by Iranian-backed terrorists against U.S. forces in the Middle East increased late this week as U.S. officials have grown frustrated by President Joe Biden’s lack of a forceful response to deter future attacks. Approximately a dozen attacks have been launched against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria over a roughly 48-hour span...'
'Any national security package has to begin with the security of our own borders,' the speaker insisted in a news conference on Capitol Hill...Ukraine funding is dependent upon enactment of transformative change to our nation's border security laws,' Johnson wrote in a letter to the White House...'
