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According to Dmitry Medvedev, the situation around Ukraine is used by the West in their "geopolitical game against Russia ."

"I would say the committee is of a mind to raise the federal funds rate at the March meeting assuming that conditions are appropriate for doing so," Fed Chair Jerome Powell said, adding inflation risks are "still to the upside" in the views of most Fed officials.

"This election is crucial. Nothing less is at stake than our democracy," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an announcement.

The Russian Foreign Ministry provided article-by-article refutation on the U.S. fact sheet "Fact vs. Fiction: Russian Disinformation on Ukraine."

The West's withdrawal from Afghanistan and subsequent decisions of the U.S. government have plunged the Afghan population into a humanitarian crisis, according to historian and author Paul Nuttall.

"We have individuals who don't have access to care. We have a higher degree of hospitalisation and death in our minority populations as we do in the general population."

The test-and-mask moves show that the Biden administration "is trying to step up its coronavirus response as the highly infectious Omicron variant drives a spike in cases across the nation," says The New York Times.

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A total of 9,452,491 child COVID-19 cases had been reported across the country as of Jan. 13, and children represented 17.8 percent of all confirmed cases, according to a report.

The United States is bracing for "tough weeks" ahead in many parts of the country as the Omicron surge has not yet peaked, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has warned.

Residents are warned to remain cautious near the coastline "as lingering strong currents likely exist."

The U.S. military and its civilian leaders are wrong to wage the "New Cold War" by overemphasizing militarized responses to economic and diplomatic challenges, The Diplomat magazine has reported.