Today's headlines: The DOJ is in talks with former Vice President Pence’s legal team to schedule a voluntary FBI search of his Indiana home and DC office. Republicans in the House of Representatives garnered enough votes to remove Representative Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Services Committee yesterday. The new republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee is prioritizing pandemic fraud. A Chinese surveillance balloon has been hovering over the United States for several days. Mother Jones has revealed a leaked memo from the Kremlin to Russian state-friendly media outlets. The number of “ghost guns” traced and recovered by the federal government more than doubled in 2021. Finally for this week, almost half of adults in the US are unsure whether medication abortion is legal in their state.
Resources/Articles mentioned this episode:

CNN: FBI is expected to search Mike Pence’s home and office for classified materials soon

AP News: House GOP votes to oust Democrat Omar from major committee

NBC: In new oversight role, House Republicans target billions lost to Covid relief fraud

Washington Post: Chinese spy balloon flying over U.S. ‘right now,’ Pentagon says

Mother Jones: Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media: It Is “Essential” to Feature Tucker Carlson

Axios: Number of traced "ghost guns" doubled between 2020 and 2021, new report says

CNN: Survey finds widespread confusion around medication abortion in post-Roe US

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