2/5

• The death toll of the Chile wildfires increased to 23 (see 2/3).
• Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei offered pardons to those detained in the country’s protests, excluding dual nationals, prisoners with death sentences, and individuals who do not regret their crimes.
• A 7.8-magnitude earthquake Kahramanmaras killed more than 2,700 people in Turkey and Syria.

2/6

• Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro stated that crews successfully completed a controlled burn of toxic chemicals at the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio (see 2/3).
• China claimed ownership of a second surveillance balloon over Latin America (see 2/4).
• The death toll from the Kahramanmaras earthquake increased to over 4,300 (see 2/5).

2/7

• President Biden delivered his State of the Union address while receiving vocal backlash from Republican Congress members.

2/8

• The gunman responsible for the El Paso Walmart mass shooting in 2019, Patrick Crusius, pleaded guilty to 90 federal hate crime charges.
• The death toll from the Kahramanmaras earthquake increased to more than 11,000 people (see 2/6).

2/9

• The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held its first meeting.
• The death toll from the Kahramanmaras earthquake passed 21,000 (see 2/8).
• Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the Biden administration organized the release of 222 political prisoners in Nicaragua, including at least 1 American citizen, and flew them to the U.S.
• The Church of England National Assembly voted in favor of blessing same-sex marriages.
• The House Oversight and Accountability Committee requests documents from Hunter Biden and James Biden.
• Former President Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were reactivated (see 1/25).
• Former Vice President Pence was subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating former President Trump.

2/10

• The death toll from the Kahramanmaras earthquake increased to 24,000 (see 2/9).
• Hunter Biden’s lawyer rejected the request from House Republicans for business-related records (see 2/9).
• President Biden’s communications director Kate Bedingfield will step down at the end of this month.
• The FBI removed a classified document from former Vice President Pence’s Indiana home (see 1/24).
• Former President Trump’s legal team turned over classified documents found last month at his Mar-a-Lago resort to federal agents.

2/11

• The U.S. military shot down 2 “high-altitude objects,” one over Alaskan airspace and Arctic waters and the other over Canada’s Yukon territory.