Following in the steps of Washington, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced plans to send tanks to Ukraine. Also in the news: A batch of classified documents were located at former Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana home. Mourners gathered in Monterey Park, California, to remember the 11 people killed in a mass shooting. |
Now, here we go with Wednesday's news. |
Germany's Scholz confirms Ukraine tank plan |
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that Germany was "acting in close coordination" with its allies in supplying battle tanks to Ukraine. In a statement, the German government confirmed it will initially provide Ukraine with one company of Leopard 2 A6 tanks, which comprises 14 vehicles, from its own stocks. The long-awaited decision by Germany comes after U.S. officials said Tuesday that a preliminary agreement had been struck for the United States to send M1 Abrams tanks to help Kyiv push back Russian forces entrenched in the east almost a year since the start of the war. Read more | Ukrainian activists rally outside the German embassy to demand Germany to send Ukraine Leopard battle tanks in Tbilisi on January 25, 2023.
VANO SHLAMOV, AFP via Getty Images |
Classified documents found at former VP Mike Pence's Indiana home |
In the latest in a series of discoveries involving classified documents, a handful of materials were found at former Vice President Mike Pence's home in Indiana and the FBI retrieved them last week, a representative for Pence wrote to the National Archives in letters this month. The revelation came as the Department of Justice was already investigating the discovery of classified documents in President Joe Biden's home in Delaware and his former Washington office, as well as former President Donald Trump's Florida estate. |
What security analysts say: The U.S. system of safeguarding classified presidential documents is in urgent need of improvement, especially during the critical period when one administration hands over the White House keys to another. |
| • | A Jan. 18 letter from Pence's lawyer said the former vice president "understands the high importance of protecting sensitive and classified information and stands ready and willing to cooperate fully with the National Archives and any appropriate inquiry." | | • | Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed two special prosecutors to oversee the Biden and Trump document cases in order to shield his Department of Justice from politics, since he reports to the president. | | • | The difference with Trump: The Department of Justice executed a search warrant on Trump's home last year after a long back-and-forth over what documents the former president had at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Trump refused to cooperate with the DOJ in that case, a marked difference from Pence and Biden. | |
👉 Want more politics? Here's our look at the Republican National Convention's contentious fight for new leadership. | Pence's lawyer the documents said they were found Jan. 16 and placed in a secure safe until they could be returned to proper authorities.
Josh Morgan, USA TODAY |
Hundreds gather in California to remember mass shooting victims |
Roughly a thousand people gathered Tuesday evening for a vigil honoring the 11 people killed on the eve of Lunar New Year, a time traditionally of family gathering and festivity. Many wept as they talked about the victims in Monterey Park. Many also expressed bewilderment at the nation's mass shooting problem, after two separate California attacks killed 18 people and left communities in shock. Vice President Kamala Harris is set to visit her home state Wednesday in the wake of the shootings as the Biden administration advances its plans for legislation to ban assault weapons. Read more |
| • | Police have drawn scrutiny taking five hours to alert public of threat in Monterey Park. | | • | ''Only in America'': Gov. Newsom decries gun violence in visit to Half Moon Bay after 7 killed. | | • | Opinion: California mass shootings show America is too focused on motive instead of solutions. | | Three women grieve during a candlelight vigil January 24, 2023 in Monterey Park, California.
Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY |
Winter storm could bring more than a foot of snow in Northeast |
The winter storm that brought snow and ice to a large swath of the country as it barreled across the U.S. this week is forecast to reach the Northeast on Wednesday. The heaviest snowfall is expected to land in northern New York through Maine, where some residents can expect a foot of snow or more. Parts of the central Appalachians are also expecting snow by early morning on Wednesday, Accuweather said. Conditions will extend South, where a winter weather advisory also remains in effect from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday in the northern Virginia Blue Ridge and central Virginia Blue Ridge. Read more | A bicyclist peddles down Noyes Street in the South End of Concord, New Hampshire, during a heavy burst of snow on Monday morning, Jan. 23, 2023.
Geoff Forester, AP |
'Everything Everywhere' leads with 11 Oscar nominations |
We don't know how it plays elsewhere in the multiverse, but in this reality, the Oscars really love "Everything Everywhere All at Once." The genre-smashing sci-fi hit ruled Tuesday morning when nominations for the 95th Academy Awards were announced. The film scored 11 honors including best picture and screenplay, star Michelle Yeoh was nominated for best actress, Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu earned their first Oscar nominations and Cinderella story Ke Huy Quan garnered a nod for supporting actor. Read our recap of the nominations. | The 2023 Oscar nominations are here.
Universal Pictures / Allyson Riggs / Warner Brothers |
📷 Photo of the day: Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week 2023 📷 | US actress Yara Shahidi poses during the Christian Dior photocall as part of the Haute-Couture Spring-Summer 2023 Fashion Week in Paris on January 23, 2023.
JULIEN DE ROSA, AFP via Getty Images | Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates on the podium after winning an alpine ski, women's World Cup giant slalom, in Kronplatz, Italy.
Alessandro Trovati, AP |
Associated Press contributed reporting. | | | |
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