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Saudi Arabia's energy minister on Tuesday blasted the release of emergency oil stocks as an attempt to "manipulate markets", the latest apparent salvo in a spat with Washington over oil production.

"People are depleting their emergency stocks, had depleted it, used it as a mechanism to manipulate markets while its profound purpose was to mitigate shortage of supply," Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman told an investor conference in the Saudi capital.

US President Joe Biden warned Russia on Tuesday against using a nuclear weapon in the war with Ukraine, saying such an escalation would be a grave error.

Asked by reporters whether he thinks Russia is preparing a "dirty bomb" attack that it would then blame on Ukraine, Biden said: "Russia would be making an incredibly serious mistake were it to use a tactical nuclear weapon."

Several Republican candidates have done interviews with an Arizona man who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6 and is an active member of a Telegram channel filled with neo-Nazi and antisemitic rhetoric.

Micajah Jackson, known online by the handle “The JFK Report,” was one of the first people sentenced earlier this year for entering the Capitol alongside members of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys.

Turn on the TV and scan the headlines, and you’re sure to see Republican candidates, from Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania to Ron Johnson in Wisconsin, blaming progressive prosecutors and liberal pols for skyrocketing crime nationwide.

On Monday, a Republican-led House committee that’s building the case for impeachment against progressive Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner issued an interim report concluding, among other things, that his office is effectively a revolving door that puts violent criminals back on the street.

A 19-year-old gunman who shot dead two people on Monday at a St Louis high school had 600 rounds of ammunition and the rapid response by police prevented an even more "horrific scene," the city police chief said.

Orlando Harris, who graduated last year from Central Visual & Performing Arts High School, was killed by police officers who responded swiftly to the attack at the school.

The U.S. Secret Service is continuing to come under fire for its behavior around the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol and the overall efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

In new documents obtained by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) it was revealed that the Secret Service failed to notify the Capitol Police for over an hour of an assassination plot against Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who serves as the Senate Majority Leader.

A group of 30 House progressives sent a letter to President Joe Biden this Monday calling for his administration to shift their Ukraine policy and pursue direct negotiations with Russia, The Washington Post reported yesterday.

The letter was headed by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and called on Biden to move forward with a “proactive diplomatic push, redoubling efforts to seek a realistic framework for a cease fire.”

Since the Taliban takeover last year, Afghan women and girls have been demonstrating for their right to education and employment. So, when women in Iran began anti-regime protests after the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody, their Afghan sisters have been monitoring the situation across the border, hoping for a spillover effect.

Raihana M* was in her living room in the Afghan capital, Kabul, when she first heard of protests erupting across the border in neighbouring Iran following the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for allegedly breaching Iran’s strict dress code.

Ashton Carter, who served as US secretary of defense during Barack Obama's administration, has died at age 68, his family said.

"It is with deep and profound sadness that the family of former Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter shares that Secretary Carter passed away Monday evening in Boston after a sudden cardiac event," his family said in a statement.

Republicans are poised to attain their longtime goal of a permanent majority if they retake Congress next month and the U.S. Supreme Court rules in their favor in a major election case.

A GOP-led House would end the Jan. 6 investigation and possibly impeach President Joe Biden, and the Supreme Court could essentially hand the presidency to Republicans if they rule in favor of the so-called “independent state legislature theory” that helped fuel the insurrection, wrote The Bulwark columnist Kimberly Wehle.

The House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots has handed over what the Atlanta Journal Constitution describes as "key evidence" to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

In particular, the AJC reports that Willis and her team are interested in testimony from former Trump advisers that he privately acknowledged legitimately losing the election to Biden at times, which could help establish mens rea with regards to his infamous phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which he implored the Georgia Republican to "find" the nearly 12,000 votes he needed to overtake President Joe Biden.