Michelle Obama wishes Barack a happy birthday: 'You always make me proud'

Michelle Obama is sharing a birthday message with her husband, saying life with former President Obama “just keeps getting better.” The ex-commander in chief marked his 61st birthday on Thursday. The former first lady took to Twitter to wish her “honey” a happy birthday. “You always make me proud,” Obama wrote in the tribute to her spouse. Obama, 58, also continued her social media tradition of sorts of including a throwback photo to recognize milestone events.

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Incomes, home prices soared in 'pandemic boomtowns': research

Story at a glance Median homebuyer incomes in Boise, Idaho, for example, rose by 24 percent over two years to $98,000. But housing prices increased 53 percent during the same period.  Nationally, homebuyer wages jumped by nearly 7 percent, yet earnings were outpaced by skyrocketing housing costs that soared by 29 percent.

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Watch Live: FBI Director Chris Wray testifies before Senate panel

FBI Director Christopher Wray will testify Thursday morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The event is scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. ET. Watch the video above. Source: TEST FEED1

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Jeh Johnson on missing Jan. 6 texts: ‘It does smell’

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson on Thursday said missing texts from Trump officials on Jan. 6 are problematic. “At the seniormost levels of those departments I’d have to say, it does smell, it is problematic,” he said during an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Morning Joe host Willie Geist had asked the former Obama administration official whether the missing communications “passed the smell test.” Geist referenced missing texts from the Secret Service, Department of H

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Is Russia high on war crimes?

Remember the bombing of the theater and hospital in Mariupol? Or the destruction of Severodonetsk, Lysychansk and Kharkiv? Or the mass executions in Irpin and Bucha? The daily rapes? The bombing of the shopping mall in Kremenchuk and the city center in Vinnytsia? And, most recently, the destruction of over 50 Ukrainian POWs and the online castration of a soldier? Don’t the Russians ever tire of committing atrocities? Evidently not. Indeed, o

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