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Biden to make clear to Xi that China will bear consequences for supporting Russia's operation in Ukraine - Blinken
⚡⚡ Blinken confirms US citizen killed in Ukraine
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⚡️🇺🇸The US House has voted to suspend normal trade relations with Russia
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⚡️Four rockets fell in open areas at Balad air base, which hosts US troops, leaving no damage or casualties, local media report
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🌊 A 22-year-old New Hampshire woman was killed when she was thrown off a boat by a wave while vacationing in Florida.
Lindsay Partridge, of Nashua, was on a romantic getaway in Boca Raton with her boyfriend Jacob Smith, 24, when she was knocked off the 23-foot vessel on Sunday, her dad, Donald Partridge of Groton, Massachusetts, told Boston 25.
Smith, of Manchester, New Hampshire, jumped into the water in a futile attempt to save his girlfriend, who was pronounced dead at a local hospital, Boca News Now reported.
“The victim was brought to shore by the lifeguards at Boca Beach Club and was transported to the hospital where she was pronounced deceased. The weather advisory indicated a small craft advisory for the area,” it added.
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Lindsay Partridge, of Nashua, was on a romantic getaway in Boca Raton with her boyfriend Jacob Smith, 24, when she was knocked off the 23-foot vessel on Sunday, her dad, Donald Partridge of Groton, Massachusetts, told Boston 25.
Smith, of Manchester, New Hampshire, jumped into the water in a futile attempt to save his girlfriend, who was pronounced dead at a local hospital, Boca News Now reported.
“The victim was brought to shore by the lifeguards at Boca Beach Club and was transported to the hospital where she was pronounced deceased. The weather advisory indicated a small craft advisory for the area,” it added.
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⚡️🇺🇸Several people have been shot on board a public transit bus in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, local media reports say
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🇷🇸⚽️ Red Star Belgrade fans rolled out banners during a Europa League match on Thursday listing US interventions worldwide
One of the banners read, "All we are saying is give peace a chance."
One of the banners read, "All we are saying is give peace a chance."
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⚡️🇷🇺Russia is requesting an emergency UNSC meeting Friday on suspected US biolabs in Ukraine 🦠
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🗺In Ohio, a bipartisan majority of Ohio Supreme Court justices has ratcheted up an extraordinary legal standoff over the state’s political boundaries, rejecting — for the third time in barely two months — new maps of state legislative districts that heavily favor the Republican Party.
The decision appears likely to force the state to postpone its primary elections, scheduled to take place on May 3, until new maps of both state legislative seats and districts for the United States House of Representatives pass constitutional muster.
The court’s ruling late Wednesday was a blunt rebuff of the Ohio Redistricting Commission, a Republican-dominated body that voters established in 2015 explicitly to make political maps fairer, but that now stands accused of trying to fatten already lopsided GOP majorities in the state’s legislature and the US House.
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The decision appears likely to force the state to postpone its primary elections, scheduled to take place on May 3, until new maps of both state legislative seats and districts for the United States House of Representatives pass constitutional muster.
The court’s ruling late Wednesday was a blunt rebuff of the Ohio Redistricting Commission, a Republican-dominated body that voters established in 2015 explicitly to make political maps fairer, but that now stands accused of trying to fatten already lopsided GOP majorities in the state’s legislature and the US House.
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⚡️🇷🇺Russia is requesting an emergency UNSC meeting Friday on suspected US biolabs in Ukraine 🦠
"We will ask for an emergency meeting to discuss again the issue of US biolaboratories in Ukraine using the new documents we obtained in the course of the special military operation," Nebenzia said during a Security Council meeting.
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🇸🇾🇷🇺 Discrimination that the West is now perpetuating against Russia is unprecedented in world history and infringes on the principles of international law, turning the world into "a jungle," Syrian President Bashar Assad said, as quoted by Syrian news agency SANA.
"The West is experiencing a historic reversal of its global role after the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine... The conflict in Ukraine has exposed the true face of Western powers to their people," Assad said.
"The West is experiencing a historic reversal of its global role after the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine... The conflict in Ukraine has exposed the true face of Western powers to their people," Assad said.
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🦁Amazon on Thursday said that it closed its acquisition of MGM, in an $8.45 billion deal that will allow the e-commerce giant to expand its TV and movie offerings.
The deal underscores the limits of the mounting antitrust scrutiny of tech giants in Washington, with the closure happening after anti-monopoly groups and their allies pressed Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan to block the deal to slow Amazon’s growth. The FTC signaled it would take a tougher line on tech acquisitions under Khan’s leadership, but it is mired in a 2-2 partisan deadlock that has prevented key agenda items from moving forward.
“MGM has a nearly century-long legacy of producing exceptional entertainment, and we share their commitment to delivering a broad slate of original films and television shows to a global audience,” said Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Prime Video and Amazon Studios.
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The deal underscores the limits of the mounting antitrust scrutiny of tech giants in Washington, with the closure happening after anti-monopoly groups and their allies pressed Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan to block the deal to slow Amazon’s growth. The FTC signaled it would take a tougher line on tech acquisitions under Khan’s leadership, but it is mired in a 2-2 partisan deadlock that has prevented key agenda items from moving forward.
“MGM has a nearly century-long legacy of producing exceptional entertainment, and we share their commitment to delivering a broad slate of original films and television shows to a global audience,” said Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Prime Video and Amazon Studios.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺 A group of GOP senators led by John Barrasso have introduced legislation to immediately ban the import of Russian uranium ☢️
“The time is now to permanently remove all Russian energy from the American marketplace,” said Barrasso. “While banning imports of Russian oil, gas and coal is an important step, it cannot be the last.”
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“The time is now to permanently remove all Russian energy from the American marketplace,” said Barrasso. “While banning imports of Russian oil, gas and coal is an important step, it cannot be the last.”
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🕵️♂️ A Honduran judge has ruled that the country’s former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, can be extradited to the United States, removing the last major roadblock to Hernández’s prosecution in a U.S. courtroom.
Hernández was president of Honduras from 2014 until January 2022. He was considered a U.S. ally during much of that time, even as U.S. prosecutors alleged, he was working to traffic drugs throughout his presidency. He has denied wrongdoing.
That action stunned Hondurans who had opposed Hernández for years — decrying him as a “narcopresidente” — but believed that the impunity he had enjoyed while in office would continue into his retirement.
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Hernández was president of Honduras from 2014 until January 2022. He was considered a U.S. ally during much of that time, even as U.S. prosecutors alleged, he was working to traffic drugs throughout his presidency. He has denied wrongdoing.
That action stunned Hondurans who had opposed Hernández for years — decrying him as a “narcopresidente” — but believed that the impunity he had enjoyed while in office would continue into his retirement.
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🇺🇸💰The US sanctioned a Belgian businessman and a complex of companies that allegedly illegally extract and move hundreds of millions of dollars of gold each year from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Treasury Department said in a press release
"The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), sanctioned Alain Goetz, the African Gold Refinery in Uganda, and a network of companies involved in the illicit movement of gold valued at hundreds of millions of dollars per year from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)," the release said Thursday. "The illicit movement of gold provides revenue to armed groups that threaten the peace, security, and stability of the DRC."
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"The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), sanctioned Alain Goetz, the African Gold Refinery in Uganda, and a network of companies involved in the illicit movement of gold valued at hundreds of millions of dollars per year from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)," the release said Thursday. "The illicit movement of gold provides revenue to armed groups that threaten the peace, security, and stability of the DRC."
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🚀 With enormous pageantry and fanfare, the Special Launch System (SLS) mega-Moon Rocket for the Artemis 1 unmanned test lunar mission began its 11-hour rollout process to be tested at its eventual launch pad
Rollout started at 6:00 p.m. EDT when the crawler carrier vehicle crossed the threshold of the Vehicle Assembly Building. The four-mile trip to the launch pad was scheduled to take 11 hours and to be completed by just after 5:00 a.m. on Friday morning EDT, NASA officials said in a podcast.
Close to 10,000 people have gathered to watch the rollout, NASA officials said. The gigantic crawler is now 57 years old and it previously carried many Saturn V boosters for the 1968-72 Apollo manned missions around and to the Moon as well many of the Space Shuttle missiles.
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Rollout started at 6:00 p.m. EDT when the crawler carrier vehicle crossed the threshold of the Vehicle Assembly Building. The four-mile trip to the launch pad was scheduled to take 11 hours and to be completed by just after 5:00 a.m. on Friday morning EDT, NASA officials said in a podcast.
Close to 10,000 people have gathered to watch the rollout, NASA officials said. The gigantic crawler is now 57 years old and it previously carried many Saturn V boosters for the 1968-72 Apollo manned missions around and to the Moon as well many of the Space Shuttle missiles.
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💢Six student golfers from a New Mexico college were killed along with their coach in a fiery collision between the school’s van and a pickup truck in Texas, officials said on Wednesday. Two other people also died and two more students at the University of…
⚡️🇺🇸 A 13-year-old boy drove the truck involved in the crash in US state of Texas in which nine people died, National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chair Bruce Landsberg said.
"A 13-year-old child was behind the wheel of the pickup truck," Landsberg said during a press conference on Thursday. "It appears at this point in the investigation that the left front tire [of the truck], which was a spare tire, had failed which resulted in the vehicle pulling hard to the left and crossing into the opposing lane."
Landsberg said the coach and six of the team members were killed in the accident and two other team members were taken to a hospital in critical condition. The driver and passenger of the pickup truck were also killed, he added.
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"A 13-year-old child was behind the wheel of the pickup truck," Landsberg said during a press conference on Thursday. "It appears at this point in the investigation that the left front tire [of the truck], which was a spare tire, had failed which resulted in the vehicle pulling hard to the left and crossing into the opposing lane."
Landsberg said the coach and six of the team members were killed in the accident and two other team members were taken to a hospital in critical condition. The driver and passenger of the pickup truck were also killed, he added.
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😳🎓 The University of Florida has reportedly changed the name of a study room dedicated to Karl Marx amid a wave of Russophobia in the United States
"Given current events in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world, we determined it was appropriate to remove the name of Karl Marx that was placed on a group study room at the University of Florida in 2014," Hessy Fernandez, director strategic communications said.
Last summer, Pennsylvania State University also took down a displayed quotation from ex-Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Have their preferences really changed so rapidly or are they just being opportunistic given the climate?
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"Given current events in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world, we determined it was appropriate to remove the name of Karl Marx that was placed on a group study room at the University of Florida in 2014," Hessy Fernandez, director strategic communications said.
Last summer, Pennsylvania State University also took down a displayed quotation from ex-Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Have their preferences really changed so rapidly or are they just being opportunistic given the climate?
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❗️🇺🇸 Alabama House, on a 65-32 vote passed #HB312 banning Critical Race Theory on Thursday
The bill now goes to the Alabama Senate
The bill now goes to the Alabama Senate
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