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The US military said on Monday it had recovered critical electronics from the suspected Chinese spy balloon downed by a US fighter jet off South Carolina's coast on February 4, including key sensors presumably used for intelligence gathering.

"Crews have been able to recover significant debris from the site, including all of the priority sensor and electronics pieces identified as well as large sections of the structure," the US military's Northern Command said in a statement.

Former Vice President Mike Pence will reportedly fight a subpoena issued for his testimony by special prosecutor Jack Smith.

Politico reports that Pence is planning to argue against the subpoena on the grounds that it would violate separation of powers.

The White House responded Monday to growing and at times fevered speculation over the shooting down of unidentified aerial objects by saying the targets could be anything from commercial craft to espionage devices, while denying that US balloons spy on China.

After mounting pressure on President Joe Biden's administration to explain the unprecedented situation that has seen an alleged Chinese spy balloon and three mystery objects shot down in North America in just over a week, officials appeared sure of only one thing: It's not aliens.

Austin Majors, a child star who appeared in "NYPD Blue" and the Disney cult classic "Treasure Planet," was found dead over the weekend of a suspected fentanyl overdose, reported The Daily Beast on Monday.

"His death was first reported Monday by TMZ, which said the actor died in 'a homeless housing facility' in Los Angeles," reported A.J. McDougall. "A source close to the matter told the outlet that Majors is believed to have ingested a lethal amount of fentanyl, though an official cause of death has not been determined."

Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking heat after standing on the floor of the U.S. Senate and attacking President Joe Biden over the four objects the Pentagon has now shot down, including three just this weekend.

“The administration has still not been able to divulge any meaningful information about what was shot down,” McConnell claimed Monday afternoon. “What in the world is going on? Has the Biden administration just dialed the sensitivity of our radars all the way up? If so, what are these objects that we are just now noticing for the very first time?”

Conservative podcaster Steve Bannon took a shot at House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) because they have not flown back to Washington, D.C. to address aerial objects that President Joe Biden's administration shot down.

During his Monday afternoon War Room broadcast, Bannon demanded answers about whether the objects were of extraterrestrial origin.

President Donald Trump is facing a new legal threat in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, wrote MSNBC's Jordan Rubin on Monday: grand jury testimony from his own lawyers.

"We learned recently that Trump lawyers Christina Bobb and Evan Corcoran reportedly testified in special counsel Jack Smith’s grand jury probe into the former president’s handling of classified material at Mar-a-Lago," wrote Rubin. "It’s one of the two probes Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to handle, the other being the Jan. 6 investigation, which is also progressing against the former president along with state probes in Georgia and New York."

Former Vice President Mike Pence was subpoenaed last week by the Justice Department's special counsel, Jack Smith. According to legal experts, this is an indication that the special counsel is moving a lot faster than initially believed and that they're getting closer to Donald Trump.

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok warned last week that the Pence subpoena was the "last step" before they approached Donald Trump. A former federal prosecutor and Michigan Law School professor Barbara McQuade confirmed that idea to Newsweek.

President Joe Biden fired the Trump-appointed Architect of the Capitol on Monday, the Daily Mail reported on Monday.

The official had recently come under fire for allegedly misusing federal resources and telling Congress that he avoided Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021.