GOP senator plans to subpoena consulting firm linked to Hunter Biden, Burisma

Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson plans to subpoena a consulting firm linked to Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian energy company he worked with for records to review potential conflicts of interest – and whether individuals at the firm improperly used the relationship with the former vice president’s son to “influence” U.S. government agencies.

Johnson had initially notified the committee’s Democratic Ranking Member Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan last month that he planned to subpoena a former consultant with the firm Blue Star Strategies. But he decided, after bipartisan meetings and briefings, to instead subpoena the firm directly for documents and records, and request interviews with the firm’s founders to discuss their work on behalf of one of their clients—Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, where Hunter Biden sat on the board.

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Coronavirus becomes a pandemic: What to know about the classification

What's the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic? A pandemic spreads across multiple countries or continents, for one.

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus that’s now sickened more 100,000 people across the world has officially been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) — weeks after WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in February that the outbreak of the virus, and the disease it causes –COVID-19– “absolutely” had the potential to become a pandemic.

"WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction," Tedros said during a Wednesday press conference. "We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic."

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Congress asks govt. to pass on benefit of fall in crude oil prices to consumers

The Congress on Saturday demanded that the benefit of a sharp fall in international crude oil prices should be passed on to consumers immediately and attacked the Narendra Modi government for increasing excise duty on petrol and diesel to ensure that retail prices did not come down.

Senior Congress leader Ajay Maken told reporters at a press conference that the government should reduce the rates of petrol, diesel, and LPG by at least 35-40%.

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