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Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) and several other Democrats have joined forces with their GOP colleagues in thrashing President Biden over his lack of action against the now-infamous Chinese Spy Balloon.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday that all senators would receive a briefing on what comes next as the U.S. deals with the fallout from the Chinese surveillance balloon. A spokesperson for the New York Democrat said the briefing for all senators would take place Feb. 15. A classified...

Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, the chair of the Intelligence Committee, criticized the Biden administration Sunday over its timing in taking down the Chinese surveillance balloon off South Carolina. “The president taking it down over the Atlantic is sort of like tackling the quarterback after the game is over,” Turner said...

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Several China experts predicted what Beijing's next move would be after their spy balloon that flew across America over several days was blown up by the U.S. military on Saturday.

The US Government ordered the Pentagon to destroy the alleged Chinese spy balloon. The US Air Force shot down the balloon with a single missile as it drifted over the Atlantic Ocean. China hit back at the decision, threatening a strong retaliation. YEREVAN (CoinChapter.com) — Over the last few days,...

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The U.S. downed the Chinese surveillance balloon off the Carolina coast on Saturday, a U.S. official said, setting off a tense exchange between the two nations. An F-22 raptor with a single missile shot down the balloon at 2:39 p.m., according to a senior defense official. It was between 60,000 to 65,000 feet in the air when it was downed.

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China claims the balloon was a civilian weather balloon

A Chinese surveillance balloon downed off the coast of the Carolinas set off a wave of political finger-pointing. The back-and-forth between the U.S. and China following the discovery of the balloon is just the latest escalation of tensions between the two powers -- as China tries to rehabilitate its image on the world stage.Feb. 5, 2023.

The Chinese spy balloon might be down, but the diplomatic temperature continued to rise Sunday as officials in Beijing blasted the U.S. decision to shoot it out of the sky. Describing it as “a clear overreaction,” Tan Kefei, a spokesperson for China’s Defense Ministry, said in a statement Sunday that his country reserved “the right to use necessary means to deal with similar situations.” In a similarly strongly worded statement, China’s Foreign Ministry said it was “a serious violation of international customary practice.”

Cornell Belcher, Lanhee Chen, Andrea Mitchell and Amy Walter join the Meet the Press roundtable to discuss mounting tensions between the U.S. and China.Feb. 5, 2023.

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Some politicians are demanding that the Pentagon shoot down the Chinese balloon that has invaded America's skies, but security experts told NBC News on Friday that's easier said than done. The United States has missiles in its arsenal capable of obliterating the balloon even at an altitude of 60,000 feet,...

The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department in Washington has obtained multiple court orders requiring a Tacoma resident to get treatment for her active tuberculosis, officials told NBC News on Friday. The woman has thus far refused to isolate or take the necessary medications, according to Nigel Turner, the department's division director...

The suspected Chinese spy balloon is on the move over the continental U.S., flying near U.S. military assets along the way. NBC News’ Courtney Kube has the latest on the balloon discovery.Feb. 4, 2023.

Dr. Mazen Kewara of the Syrian American Medical Society Foundation talks about the devastation left in the wake of two earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria accompanied by a quickly rising death toll. Kewara the damage he has seen and how that is affecting the healthcare system and infrastructure. Feb. 6, 2023.