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News brief: Scholz-Putin talks, Trump accountant quits, hate crimes trial

7:29am February 15, 2022

Germany's chancellor will meet with Russia's president about Ukraine. Trump's accountant says a decade of financial statements are unreliable. The federal trial of Ahmaud Arbery's killers has started.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 15, 2020: Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, hold up signed agreements of phase 1 of a trade deal between the U.S. and China, in the East Room at the White House.

China promised Trump a better deal for America; it didn't actually deliver

6:58am February 15, 2022

by Greg Rosalsky

In 2020, President Trump signed a deal with the Chinese government to improve trade relations. China, for the most part, has not followed through.

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Trump accountant says a decade of financial statements are unreliable

5:24am February 15, 2022

by Andrea Bernstein

Donald Trump's longtime accounting firm cut off its relationship with him, saying it could no longer stand behind the annual financial documents it had prepared for him.

A taxi passes by Trump Tower, the headquarters of the Trump Organization, in New York City in 2021.

Trump's longtime accountant says a decade of his financial statements are unreliable

8:44pm February 14, 2022

The accounting firm Mazars USA says it has severed its relationship with former President Donald Trump and his family business.

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Longtime Trump accountant says a decade of financial statements are unreliable

7:22pm February 14, 2022

by Ilya Marritz

Mazars USA, the longtime accountants to Donald Trump and the Trump Organization, says financial statements dating from 2009 to 2020 "should not be replied upon."

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Rep. Michael McCaul on the latest in Ukraine

4:26pm February 14, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, about the situation in Ukraine.

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Judge to dismiss Sarah Palin lawsuit against 'New York Times'

4:26pm February 14, 2022

by David Folkenflik

A federal judge will dismiss Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times even as the jury continues to deliberate.

President Biden is facing calls to spell out the federal government response to the next stage of the pandemic.

Republicans call on Biden to end COVID's public health emergency designation

5:00am February 14, 2022

by Alana Wise

"Today we call on your administration to do what so many states and other countries already have: accept that COVID-19 is endemic," the dozens of Republicans write in a letter.

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To try to free up frozen Afghan assets for aid, Biden signs executive order

3:49am February 14, 2022

President Biden has signed an executive order detailing how the U.S will deal with about $7 billion in assets that Afghanistan's central bank stored in New York before the Taliban takeover.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes a selfie at the first congress of his party called Servant of the People in the city Botanical Garden, Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, June 9, 2019.

Ukraine president's ratings fall as crisis with Russia brews

3:02am February 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

After 2½ years in office, the former comedian Volodymur Zelenskyy is watching his once enormous support dissolve as Ukraine faces the threat of a possible invasion by Russia.