Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, said it was 'not the job' of the Republican National Committee to censure Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, and called the attack on Jan. 6 a 'violent insurrection.'

Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, said that the United States was seeking to fight Russia's disinformation campaign by exposing the country's plot to create a fake video depicting a Ukrainian attack.

The first lady said at a summit of community college leaders that a proposal to waive two years of tuition was no longer part of a social spending bill that Democrats were trying to salvage.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that fully vaccinated international travelers can enter Australia starting Feb. 21, nearly two years after the country closed its borders to almost all noncitizens.

The Pentagon said its investigation found that a single Islamic State suicide bomber carried out the attack that killed 13 U.S. troops and as many as 170 civilians, contradicting initial assessments.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia met with President Xi Jinping of China in Beijing in a move to strengthen ties between the two countries.

Damaged homes and snapped trees were seen in Sawyerville, Ala., south of Tuscaloosa, after a tornado described by the National Weather Service as 'large and extremely dangerous' touched down in the area.

President Biden met with New York's mayor, Eric Adams, and other elected officials to discuss plans to combat the city's surging violence.

During a visit with the president of Ukraine, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey offered to play a mediating role between Russia and Ukraine to help de-escalate the crisis.

The Pentagon addresses a U.S. raid in northwest Syria which in the leader of the Islamic State died.