House COVID Panel to Focus on Origin, Pandemic Funding

The House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Response, now with a Republican majority, will be charged with examining the origins of the pandemic, including federal funding of gain-of-function research following the passing of the rules package, The Hill reported.

Egypt continues to battle inflation as its currency loses value

Egypt continues to battle surging inflation amid a dramatic slide of its currency as many Egyptians struggle with price hikes, the country’s statistics bureau said Tuesday. The state-run Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics released figures showing that the annual inflation was at 21.9% last month, up from 19.2% in November. That’s compared to 6.5% […]

Ukrainian troops headed to Oklahoma for missile defense training

About 100 Ukrainian troops will head to Oklahoma’s Fort Sill as soon as next week to begin training on the Patriot missile defense system, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. Ukraine has long sought the Patriot surface-to-air guided missile defense system because it can target aircraft, cruise missiles and shorter-range ballistic missiles. During his late December visit […]