DePape was convicted of two charges: attempting to kidnap a federal official and assaulting an immediate family member of a federal official with intent to retaliate against the official for performance of their duties.

Indications that concerns regarding potential high-flying Chinese surveillance efforts expanded well beyond U.Pentagon officials briefed lawmakers today on Capitol Hill on the instances of unidentified flying objects being shot down over U.

It was ultimately shot down on February 4.The Japanese Defense Ministry said Tuesday that it strongly suspects it encountered such Chinese balloons within Japanese airspace on at least three occasions from 2019 through 2021.every country has different capabilities in terms of monitoring.

The only thing thats new is that we shot three of them down.Defense officials have not said whether subsequent objects that have been shot down were balloons.

and that NATO is and should be concerned as well.

While we cant definitively say.when Democrats sought to remove him from Congress after he was first charged with fraud.

The full ethics panel unanimously voted to refer the evidence of Santos alleged violations to the Justice Department.denounced the committees report in a statement to CBS News.

Much of the conduct underlying the federal charges against the freshman congressman was examined by the ethics subcommittee.The most recent expulsion came in 2002.