February 3, 2023: Chinese spy balloon, Republicans oust Ilhan Omar, Kyiv, Elon Musk, Gun ownership

February 3, 2023: Chinese spy balloon, Republicans oust Ilhan Omar, Kyiv, Elon Musk, Gun ownership

1. A Chinese spy balloon has been flying over the United States for a couple of days, U.S. officials said, in what would be a brazen act just days ahead of a planned trip to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

2. U.S. House of Representatives Republicans ousted Democrat Ilhan Omar from a high-profile committee over remarks widely condemned as antisemitic, two years after Democrats removed two Republicans from committee assignments.

3. Air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hosted European Union leaders to discuss further sanctions on Russia and Ukraine's prospects of joining the European bloc.

4. A lawyer for Tesla shareholders who claim Elon Musk deceived them when he tweeted that he had secured funding to take his electric car company private is expected to make closing arguments to a San Francisco jury.

5. A U.S. appeals court declared unconstitutional a federal law making it a crime for people under domestic violence restraining orders to own firearms.

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