US intelligence resumes national security review of Mar-a-Lago documents – as it happened

Joe Biden says attacks Republicans' midterms agenda, saying real goal is to ban abortion nationwide

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The Trump-appointed World Bank president David Malpass is under fire for deflecting on the question of humans causing climate change, and Axios reports the Biden administration is mulling an effort to remove him.

Appointed in 2019, Malpass, a Republican, worked in the Treasury under Trump and also at global financial crisis-casualty Bear Stearns. While Axios reports Biden officials have long been suspicious of him, the uproar began when Malpass replied, I don't even know -- I'm not a scientist and that is not a question," when asked at an event on Tuesday if he believed climate change is manmade.