➤ Senate GOP leaders plan to vote this week on their budget resolution, despite President Trump endorsing the House’s single-bill approach. (More)

➤ President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy engaged in a back-and-forth this week, with Trump questioning Zelensky’s commitment to peace and Zelensky calling Trump a victim of Russian disinformation. (More)  

➤ The State Department on Wednesday designated eight foreign drug cartels and criminal gangs, including Tren de Aragua and MS-13, as terrorist organizations, equating them with groups like the Taliban and Hamas. (See List)

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➤ Police have charged a gang of Chilean nationals in connection with a recent string of burglaries targeting top NFL athletes, including Kansas City Chiefs players Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, as well as Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. (More)

➤ Major League Baseball will test an automatic ball-strike challenge system during Spring Training this season in approximately 60% of the games played. (See Details)

➤ NBA MVP favorite Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has parted ways with his agent and will represent himself in future contract negotiations. He's expected to command one of the largest contracts in NBA history when he becomes eligible for an extension this summer. (More)

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➤ The Trump administration has pulled its approval of New York City’s congestion pricing plan, with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy calling the $9 surcharge for drivers entering Manhattan “backwards and unfair.” (More)

➤ The Senate confirmed Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary in a 51-45 vote Tuesday, approving another official in the Trump administration’s cabinet and supporter of the president’s tariff policies. (More)

➤ In other confirmations, Kelly Loeffler, a Georgia businesswoman and former senator, was confirmed Wednesday to lead the Small Business Administration. (More)

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➤ Big Stock Move: New York brokerage Compass Inc., known for tech-driven real estate, saw its stock surge 28% Wednesday after it reported a 26% revenue increase. (More)

➤ President Trump blamed inflation, which rose 3% in January, on the spending policies of former President Biden’s administration. (More)

➤ KFC is relocating its U.S. corporate office from Louisville, Kentucky, to Plano, Texas, as part of parent company Yum Brands' restructuring plan. (See Details)

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➤ Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled Majorana 1, its first quantum computing chip, designed to tackle complex problems that traditional computers find taxing or impossible to solve. (More)

➤ NASA officials have raised the likelihood that the "city-killer" asteroid discovered last December could strike Earth to 3%, the highest probability ever assigned to an asteroid—before additional analysis lowered the chances to about 1.5%. (More)

➤ NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a continuous stream of flares from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, offering new insights into the fundamental nature of black holes. (See Images)

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➤ Two small planes collided midair near Marana Regional Airport in Arizona, resulting in two fatalities, according to local authorities. (More)

➤ Skiers dodged glowing lava on Mount Etna, which erupted near Catania, Italy, earlier this month, prompting a hiking ban as flows stretched for two miles. (Watch Video)

➤ Police are investigating over 1,000 QR-code stickers found on gravestones at three cemeteries in Munich, Germany. When scanned, the codes reveal the names and burial locations of the deceased but offer no additional information. (See Details)

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