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Ivan Pentchoukov
National Editor

Ivan Pentchoukov
National Editor

Good morning. It’s Thursday. Here are today’s top stories.

  • Election integrity, birth tourism, and tackling transnational repression and government weaponization are among the priorities of the Department of Justice, Attorney General Todd Blanche told The Epoch Times in an exclusive interview.
  • Nine of the largest U.S. banks maintained policies that disadvantaged some customers because of their political or religious views or their affiliation with lawful but “disfavored” industries, according to a sweeping review by a federal banking regulator.
  • Health officials poring over death records and other data have recently found that 189,000 people were improperly enrolled in subsidized Affordable Care Act coverage despite also being enrolled in a government insurance coverage program or being dead.
  • At least 600,000 people in Ukraine are without power following a Russian overnight aerial attack on energy infrastructure in Kyiv, the Kyiv region, and Kharkiv, according to the Ukrainian president. Russian forces fired 39 ballistic missiles and 120 attack drones against energy and critical infrastructure, with there being “significant damage” to facilities, including 26 power facilities and four in the oil and gas sector, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.