Biden mulls options including troop deployments as Ukraine-Russia crisis deepens – live

• Pentagon presents Biden with options as Nato reinforces borders
• Russian invasion will provoke ‘swift, severe US response’ – Blinken
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An update on the Ukraine situation: it appears the Biden administration is moving forward with deploying troops to Eastern Europe, CNN reports.

The supreme court will not hear House minority leader Kevin McCarthy’s case seeking to invalidate proxy voting for the House of Representatives.