US Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves before boarding his plane at Ciampino Airport in Rome to travel to Bari, Italy, on June 28, 2021, as part of Blinken’s week long trip in Europe. (Photo by Andrew Harnik / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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UPDATED 5:59 PM PT – Monday, November 21, 2022

Secretary of State Antony Blinken watched the United States’ Men’s National Soccer Team’s first game in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

Blinken was one of the estimated 43,000 fans in attendance at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium in Al-Rayyan, where the U.S. played against Wales. The game resulted in a one-to-one draw.

“One of the things that we do is we engage in what we call sports diplomacy,” Blinken said. “We use sports as a way of connecting people, connecting people to our country.”

Others in attendance were Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, Canadian Development Minister Harjit Sajjan, and Hasan Al Thawadi, head of the committee that organized the World Cup in Qatar.

While in Qatar, the Secretary of State is also slated to hold talks with Qatari officials. That includes the nation’s foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani.

Before attending the game, Blinken stopped by an event involving local students. There, he spoke about soccer’s unifying power.

“I’m a lifelong lover of football, a great mediocre player, but a lover of the sport,” Blinken said. “And the thing that’s so powerful about it is everywhere that I go in the world, I find other people who love the game, and they love to play it. They love to watch it enough to argue about it. They love to support a team with all the joy and heartbreak that that brings. But it’s an incredibly powerful way of bringing people together.”

Qatar is under heavy criticism for a wide range of human rights abuses in the lead-up to the World Cup. The U.S. team is next scheduled to play England on Friday.

Hunter Biden walks along the South Lawn before the pardoning ceremony for the national Thanksgiving turkeys at the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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UPDATED 5:37 PM PT – Monday, November 21, 2022

CBS News has confirmed that data on laptop reportedly belonging to Hunter Biden is real.

On Monday, after commissioning an independent forensic review, CBS reported that the contents of the laptop are Hunter’s. They briefly indicated that there was no proof that the data on the computers had been altered or falsified in any manner.

One of the digital forensic investigators claimed that there was just one thing that caught his eye in particular. It was a voicemail that appeared to have been left by Joe Biden during the height of his son’s drug addiction.

This revelation comes after The New York Post published a story on the hard drive’s contents just one month before the 2020 presidential election. At the time, news outlets criticized and disregarded the claim as false.

Several sites have confirmed that the commercial arrangement with a Chinese energy company, which Hunter Biden was associated with, has no evidence to suggest that the president had either profited from or committed any misconduct.

House Republicans are pursuing a probe into Hunter Biden and the Biden family’s foreign business dealings.