Camp Pendleton Marine, Gunnery Sgt. Kyle Wetter, recently stepped into harm's way to rescue a baby from a burning vehicle.

Tucker Carlson Tonight: Congress tells struggling Americans to take their $600 and shut up. After tense negotiations and multiple rounds of televised theatrics, Congress has passed a spending bill. It's 5,593 pages long, and allocates $2.3 trillion, including more than $900 billion in COVID relief. That's a lot of money, but on the other hand, there's a lot of need. Thanks in part to government lockdowns, more than 100 million Americans are out of the workforce. One in six restaurants is closed. Huge parts of the retail sector are in tatters. J. Crew, Pier 1, Neiman Marcus, Brooks Brothers, Century 21 and many others are in bankruptcy. If there was ever a time that Americans need relief, it's right now. It is entirely possible that you could get a $600 check, courtesy of the U.S. Congress. On the other hand, it's also pretty good to be a Jordanian. The same bill passed (but not read) by Congress allocates $500 million for border security in that country.

FRANCE. A gunman has shot dead three police officers who were called to a domestic incident in central France. The officers were trying to help a woman who had fled to the roof of a house in the small village of Saint-Just early on Wednesday. The gunman shot at the officers and set fire to the house. A fourth officer was wounded and the woman rescued. The fate of the suspect, 48, who is said to be known to authorities on child custody issues, is still unclear. The mayor of Saint-Just, François Chautard, told Le Figaro that the house had burned down and officers were trying to determine whether the suspect was still inside or had escaped. Elite tactical police officers and firefighters remain at the scene in the village in the Puy-de-Dôme department, in France's Massif Central mountain region. The Clermont-Ferrand prosecutor's office said one officer was initially shot dead and another wounded shortly after midnight, and then two more police officers were killed as they arrived at the scene.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio police officer shot and killed an unarmed Black man while responding to a non-emergency call early Tuesday in the state's largest city, and hours later a furious Mayor Andrew J. Ginther ordered the police chief to take the officer's badge and gun. The officers involved in the incident did not turn on their body cameras until immediately after the shooting, but it was recorded because the camera captures 60 seconds of footage before it is turned on. It also appears there was a delay in rendering aid to the man, according to the city's office of public safety. The shooting comes less than three weeks after a Franklin County sheriff's deputy shot Casey Goodson Jr., a 23-year-old Black man, in the Northland area of Columbus. That shooting has prompted protests and demands for justice. The investigation into that shooting is being led by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, David DeVillers.

Tucker Carlson Tonight: GA Senate Race. Dem Candidate Warnock's tearful wife: "I've been keeping the way he acts under wraps for a long time."

Who says good cops don't exist?

Harvey, IL. Bystander cell phone video captures a Harvey Police officer arresting a fellow officer after they can be seen assaulting a suspect who was already detained in handcuffs.

Meanwhile, in China...

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Meanwhile, in Russia. A cat was found in a bag on a garbage conveyor belt as it was about to go to a waste separator in Ulyanovsk. The animal is said to be safe and sound, and is believed to have found a new home with one of the workers at the facility.