⚡️️U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska to resign after being convicted of lying to the authorities
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🚨A suspected robber in Philadelphia was shot dead when a customer in a smoke shop managed to get ahold of the suspect’s gun and shoot him, according to reports.
"At this point, we believe there was a robbery inside the smoke shop. Possibly the tables were turned on the robber, and that's when the robber got shot and he was able to get in this Toyota in the passenger seat who was driven two-and-a-half blocks," Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said, according to Fox 29.
The suspect allegedly went into the smoke shop in Philadelphia’s Olney neighborhood early Tuesday morning armed with a gun while a pair of men were getting cash out of an ATM inside the shop.
Police said they responded to calls of two shooting victims at the smoke shop at about 1 a.m. Tuesday. Officers did not find any victims inside the smoke shop but determined it was the scene of the shooting due to blood and shell casings found at the location.
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"At this point, we believe there was a robbery inside the smoke shop. Possibly the tables were turned on the robber, and that's when the robber got shot and he was able to get in this Toyota in the passenger seat who was driven two-and-a-half blocks," Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said, according to Fox 29.
The suspect allegedly went into the smoke shop in Philadelphia’s Olney neighborhood early Tuesday morning armed with a gun while a pair of men were getting cash out of an ATM inside the shop.
Police said they responded to calls of two shooting victims at the smoke shop at about 1 a.m. Tuesday. Officers did not find any victims inside the smoke shop but determined it was the scene of the shooting due to blood and shell casings found at the location.
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🏆 The son of former F1 champion racer Michael Schumacher cheered up his fans on Twitter, following an estimated 240 kph (150 mph) crash.
The 23-year-old German's Haas team, however, was ruled out of Sunday's Saudi Formula One Grand Prix.
The Haas driver suffered a horrific incident during during qualifying in Jeddah, crashing into the wall at 170mph on the exit of Turn 12 on the Jeddah circuit. His car was torn to pieces in the accident.
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The 23-year-old German's Haas team, however, was ruled out of Sunday's Saudi Formula One Grand Prix.
The Haas driver suffered a horrific incident during during qualifying in Jeddah, crashing into the wall at 170mph on the exit of Turn 12 on the Jeddah circuit. His car was torn to pieces in the accident.
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📝Children scoring worse in math and reading compared to before lockdowns.
Students fared worse academically during the second year of the pandemic compared to the first year, when students earned lower scores than they did prior to the pandemic.
The trend suggests the impact of COVID-19 closures on student success continues to be felt, according to a study released Wednesday by education software company Renaissance Learning.
"We can reset instruction back to where it was pre-pandemic, but that isn’t going to instantly move students up to where they would have been had the pandemic not occurred," Gene Kerns, vice president, and chief academic officer at Renaissance, said in a statement.
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Students fared worse academically during the second year of the pandemic compared to the first year, when students earned lower scores than they did prior to the pandemic.
The trend suggests the impact of COVID-19 closures on student success continues to be felt, according to a study released Wednesday by education software company Renaissance Learning.
"We can reset instruction back to where it was pre-pandemic, but that isn’t going to instantly move students up to where they would have been had the pandemic not occurred," Gene Kerns, vice president, and chief academic officer at Renaissance, said in a statement.
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📢📣Youth activists marched through the nation's capital Friday afternoon demanding President Biden declare a climate emergency.
"Our politicians, including Democrats, do not seem to care about climate change," one protester, Alex, told Fox News. "They only pretend to care about it when it's useful for them winning votes."
The crowd of climate activists gathered outside the White House before marching to the Capitol building. The protest was part of a global climate strike demanding Biden "end all fossil fuel projects," "ensure a just and immediate transition to renewable energies," "hold polluters accountable," and "declare a climate emergency," according to the Action Network's event page.
Another activist said Biden needs to do "everything in his power to secure the Green New Deal."
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"Our politicians, including Democrats, do not seem to care about climate change," one protester, Alex, told Fox News. "They only pretend to care about it when it's useful for them winning votes."
The crowd of climate activists gathered outside the White House before marching to the Capitol building. The protest was part of a global climate strike demanding Biden "end all fossil fuel projects," "ensure a just and immediate transition to renewable energies," "hold polluters accountable," and "declare a climate emergency," according to the Action Network's event page.
Another activist said Biden needs to do "everything in his power to secure the Green New Deal."
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🏢The Trump Organization came one step closer to officially unloading their famed hotel in the nation’s capital.
The federal government officially gave the green light to sell the Trump Hotel to CGI Merchant Group, a Miami-based investment firm. The hotel is in Washington D.C.’s historic Old Post Office building.
The Trump Organization does not own the building and is instead selling the rights to a long-term lease it has secured for the property from the federal government.
The sale price is expected to be $375 million. The new owners plan to keep the building as a hotel — sans the Trump name — and rebrand the property as a Waldorf Astoria, which is owned by Hilton.
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The federal government officially gave the green light to sell the Trump Hotel to CGI Merchant Group, a Miami-based investment firm. The hotel is in Washington D.C.’s historic Old Post Office building.
The Trump Organization does not own the building and is instead selling the rights to a long-term lease it has secured for the property from the federal government.
The sale price is expected to be $375 million. The new owners plan to keep the building as a hotel — sans the Trump name — and rebrand the property as a Waldorf Astoria, which is owned by Hilton.
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🇺🇸🤓 The Russian embassy in Canada reminded Joe Biden how the world looked in the 19th century
The US president claimed in Warsaw that President Putin "is taking Russia back to the 19th century"
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The US president claimed in Warsaw that President Putin "is taking Russia back to the 19th century"
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🇺🇸🚗 "Energy is so expensive today": Trump speaks at the 'Save America' rally in Georgia on Saturday
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🇺🇸 Trump also touched upon a hot topic in the US today, apparently referring to the backlash against a Florida bill noscriptd “Parental Rights in Education”
Democrats call it the 'Don't Say Gay' bill.
"A party that's unwilling to admit that men and women are biologically different - in defiance of all scientific and human history - is a party that should not be anywhere near the levers of power in the United States of America," Trump said on Saturday.
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Democrats call it the 'Don't Say Gay' bill.
"A party that's unwilling to admit that men and women are biologically different - in defiance of all scientific and human history - is a party that should not be anywhere near the levers of power in the United States of America," Trump said on Saturday.
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🔹Biden says 'thousands of people a day' crossing US border as officials brace for the new migrant surge. There were more than 164,000 encounters at the US southern border in February.
President Biden on Saturday told the president of Poland the U.S. has "thousands of people a day" trying to cross the U.S. southern border just as officials are bracing for a massive migrant surge in the months ahead and are already seeing signs of increased numbers.
He then said the U.S. should "do our part" by "opening our borders" to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, a move that was announced by the White House on Thursday.
Biden’s statement that border officials are facing thousands of migrants a day is a rare recognition of the massive numbers that the Border Patrol has been dealing with over the last year.
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President Biden on Saturday told the president of Poland the U.S. has "thousands of people a day" trying to cross the U.S. southern border just as officials are bracing for a massive migrant surge in the months ahead and are already seeing signs of increased numbers.
He then said the U.S. should "do our part" by "opening our borders" to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, a move that was announced by the White House on Thursday.
Biden’s statement that border officials are facing thousands of migrants a day is a rare recognition of the massive numbers that the Border Patrol has been dealing with over the last year.
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😱 Did Elon Musk hint at launching a brand new platform to take on Twitter?
According to the Tesla CEO, Twitter “fundamentally undermines democracy” by failing to ensure free speech.
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According to the Tesla CEO, Twitter “fundamentally undermines democracy” by failing to ensure free speech.
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😱 Did Elon Musk hint at launching a brand new platform to take on Twitter? According to the Tesla CEO, Twitter “fundamentally undermines democracy” by failing to ensure free speech. Subscribe to @sputniknewsus
Musk says he is "giving serious thoughts" to the idea of building a new social media platform
What do you think he would name it?
What do you think he would name it?
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⚫️ Teenagers planned an ISIS*-inspired attack on a Shia mosque in Chicago area, court docs showed
Xavier Pelkey and an unnamed 17-year-old and 15-year-old were plotting an attack through Instagram and other social media apps that was supposed to be carried out during "spring break".
According to the plot, Pelkey was supposed to get firearms and ammunition and he allegedly told one of his accomplices that he had made an explosive device to "get more people."
The FBI seized multiple firearms, including a Remington pump shotgun, swords, knives, a bow and arrows, multiple homemade ISIS flags, and multiple electronic devices from the 15-year-old's home.
*This material does not promote, support, or represent the interests of ISIS (a terrorist organization banned in Russia and other countries around the world)
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Xavier Pelkey and an unnamed 17-year-old and 15-year-old were plotting an attack through Instagram and other social media apps that was supposed to be carried out during "spring break".
According to the plot, Pelkey was supposed to get firearms and ammunition and he allegedly told one of his accomplices that he had made an explosive device to "get more people."
The FBI seized multiple firearms, including a Remington pump shotgun, swords, knives, a bow and arrows, multiple homemade ISIS flags, and multiple electronic devices from the 15-year-old's home.
*This material does not promote, support, or represent the interests of ISIS (a terrorist organization banned in Russia and other countries around the world)
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🏛After Senate Republicans dug into sentencing records for President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during confirmation hearings this week, the Washington Post decided to combat their claims that she was soft on pedophiles by writing a puff piece on one of the child pornographers to whom she had given a light sentence.
Hawkins' bandmates announced his death on Friday night.
The Washington Post tracked down Wesley Hawkins, the man who received a three-month sentence in Jackson's court, and spoke to him about his crimes, the sentence, and his life since those three months in prison.
They were sympathetic to him and his struggles by way of defending Jackson's sentencing, which was under intense critique by Senate Republicans, specifically Josh Hawley (R-MO).
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Hawkins' bandmates announced his death on Friday night.
The Washington Post tracked down Wesley Hawkins, the man who received a three-month sentence in Jackson's court, and spoke to him about his crimes, the sentence, and his life since those three months in prison.
They were sympathetic to him and his struggles by way of defending Jackson's sentencing, which was under intense critique by Senate Republicans, specifically Josh Hawley (R-MO).
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🇺🇸💰US President Joe Biden is expected to propose a new “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax” on Monday that would assess a 20% minimum tax rate on US households worth over $100 million, CNBC reports. 📉 This could reduce the deficit by about $360 billion in the next decade. Over half of the revenue would come from those worth more than $1 billion.
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⚡️ Twenty civilians injured during shelling of DPR territory by Ukrainian troops over past 24 hours - DPR mission to JCCC
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📹 Footage from the Mariupol airport, liberated from Ukrainian troops and nationalists by the Russian armed forces
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⚡️📹 The Russian MoD has shown a video of the destruction of warehouses containing Ukrainian ammunition and weapons by Su-25 attack aircraft
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❗️ The Russian MoD's latest statements:
▪️ Russian high-precision long-range air-launched weapons destroyed a large fuel base in the Lvov region.
▪️ A sea-based high-precision long-range weapon destroyed a missile depot for the S-300 and Buk air defence systems in the village of Plesetsky, 30 km from Kiev.
▪️ 67 military facilities of Ukraine were hit over the past 24 hours.
▪️ Russian air defence systems destroyed 18 UAVs over Novaya Basanya, Pesky, Boryspol, Shchors, Vyshnevoe, Koryukovka, and Petrovsky;
▪️ 289 UAVs, 1,656 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, as well as 169 MLRS installations have been destroyed since the beginning of the special operation.
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▪️ Russian high-precision long-range air-launched weapons destroyed a large fuel base in the Lvov region.
▪️ A sea-based high-precision long-range weapon destroyed a missile depot for the S-300 and Buk air defence systems in the village of Plesetsky, 30 km from Kiev.
▪️ 67 military facilities of Ukraine were hit over the past 24 hours.
▪️ Russian air defence systems destroyed 18 UAVs over Novaya Basanya, Pesky, Boryspol, Shchors, Vyshnevoe, Koryukovka, and Petrovsky;
▪️ 289 UAVs, 1,656 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, as well as 169 MLRS installations have been destroyed since the beginning of the special operation.
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⚡️📹 More than 70 tonnes of humanitarian aid for Ukraine were delivered to Gomel, Belarus, by Il-76 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces
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⚡️ LPR head says republic may hold referendum on joining Russia soon
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