Joe Biden receives his second COVID-19 booster shot

Highlights from the Russian Defence Ministry's briefing:

▪️ Russia has already delivered more than 6.5 thousand tons of humanitarian aid to Ukraine;

▪️ Kiev announced 4 more humanitarian corridors in the Zaporozhye direction, recieved Russia's approval;

▪️ Ukrainian nationalists are holding over 4.5 million people hostage;

▪️ Kharkov is in the most critical humanitarian situation today;

▪️ Kharkov residents are being blocked by neo-Nazis, they cannot leave through humanitarian corridors, while those who try to flee are being fired at;

▪️ Russia has evacuated more than 20,000 people from dangerous regions of Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR over the past day without Kiev's assistance;

▪️ 3,063 people were evacuated from Mariupol over the past 24 hours;

▪️ Militants in Kharkov are installing firing points in the apartments of the city's residents, they threaten to shoot the owners if they disagree;

▪️ Terrorists from nationalist battalions have created so-called "flying death squads", which drive around the streets on and randomly fire large-caliber machine guns at apartment buildings in order to intimidate civilians;

▪️ Russia's MoD appealed to the UN, the OSCE and the Red Cross with a request to force Kiev to fulfill its humanitarian obligations

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❗ Berlin ready to provide Ukraine with security guarantees, German foreign minister says

⚡️🇺🇸Arizona governor Doug Ducey signed bills on Wednesday banning abortion after 15 weeks & protecting children from "irreversible surgeries"

MORE DETAILS: https://sputniknews.com/20220330/arizona-gov-signs-bill-banning-abortion-after-15-weeks-1094338412.html

⚡️⚡️The Pentagon says it moved its ships out of the Black Sea ahead of Russia's spec op because it was prudent to make clear the US is not interested in a conflict with Russia

❗️🇺🇸The US is not yet ready to talk about the possibility of becoming a security guarantor for Ukraine, the White House says

🏳️‍🌈🎥Disney has promised to help repeal Florida’s new parental rights law that it claims is anti-LGBTQ, despite doing business in multiple countries where homosexuality and gay marriage are illegal.

Disney has faced LGBTQ backlash and employee walkouts in protest of the company's delayed response in condemning the Republican-backed Parental Rights in Education law, which bans teachers from giving classroom instruction on "sexual orientation" or "gender identity" in kindergarten through third grade.

The company announced Monday after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law that it is "committed to supporting the national and state organizations" that are working to have it repealed or struck down in court.

"The 'Don't Say Gay' bill should never have been passed and should never have been signed into law," the Walt Disney Company said in a statement, using a term for the bill that has been coined by progressives.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Sanctions which Washington has recently introduced against the Iranian ballistic missile program are unrelated to the 2015 nuclear deal, White House says

Earlier in the day, the US sanctioned one individual and four entities in Iran for allegedly being a part of a covert military procurement operation. The Treasury Department noted the announcement follows an Iranian missile strike on Erbil, which the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says targeted two Mossad training centers for Israeli forces, and attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saudi targets.

"These sanctions [on Iranians that were introduced today] are not connected to the Iranian nuclear deal," the White House said on Wednesday.

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⚡️🇺🇸 The US may face a lack of monoclonal antibody supplies, essential for COVID-19 treatment, by the end of May unless Congress approves additional funding, President Joe Biden said on Wednesday

🇺🇸🛬🚫🇷🇺 The US has blacklisted an additional 73 Boeing planes that recently flew to Russia in violation of newly-imposed export controls, Reuters reports.

Among them are planes operated by airlines Aeroflot, Pobeda, Rossiya, S7 Airlines, Utair and others.

Twelve of the 100 initially blacklisted aircraft were removed from the list to allow them to return to owners in other countries.

🇺🇸 Trump calls for Putin to release dirt on Hunter Biden right now since now "he's not exactly a fan of our country" during new interview with Real America's Voice

⚡️😱Apple and Meta* provided user data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials and submitted forged legal requests, Bloomberg reports

*Meta, Facebook, and Instagram are banned in Russia over extremist activities.

⚡️🇺🇸🔺 Biden administration officials are split on whether to impose sanctions on the Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab as part of the US response to the spec op, Wall Street Journal reports

🔴An American family says the negligent security of a Bahamas hotel led to their 15-year-old daughter’s rape by an alleged drug dealer, new court papers say.

Henry Richard Nixon was criminally charged for allegedly raping a teenage guest of the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar in Nassau on April 4, 2021. He faces a criminal trial May 22, according to a newly filed lawsuit.

Now the girl’s father has brought a $10 million case against the hotel for allegedly failing to protect his daughter, for lack of security, and for allowing Nixon onto the property — despite his reputation as a local drug dealer, the papers say.

The victim left her hotel room barefoot early that morning to talk with a friend on the phone, the court papers say.

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🇷🇺⚡️Rep. Matt Gaetz sent a hard drive containing the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler

🎞❗️JUST IN: Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has issued a new statement:

“Things unfolded in a way we could not have anticipated. While we would like to clarify that Mr. [Will] Smith was asked to leave the ceremony and refused, we also recognize we could have handled the situation differently.”

🙈🚓A police officer in Georgia has resigned from the force after he was caught on video engaging in a sexual act near a cemetery while on the job, authorities said.

The lawman, identified as Millen Police Officer Larry “Ben” Thompson, was seen engaged in sexual activity with a woman as his police car was parked in an open field near a cemetery, news station WRDW reported.

The footage, which was posted by TikTok user Dillon Cole, was captured from a nearby tower in Millen, a small town of about 2,800 people about an hour south of Augusta.

“Police caught on cam!!!” the user wrote along with the hashtags #towerclimbers #dirtydeeds and #police.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇪🇺US & EU in the first high-level dialogue on Russia discussed additional steps to isolate Moscow further

"The European Union and the United States held today in Washington, DC, the first US-EU High-Level Dialogue on Russia.... They also discussed additional steps to isolate Russia further from the US and EU economies and the international financial system [and] to impose severe costs on Russia for its actions," the statement said on Wednesday.

The US delegation was led by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland and the EU was led by European External Action Service Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs Enrique Mora, the statement said. Both sides agreed to hold another high-level dialogue on Russia in late 2022, the statement said.

😱🦫 Is this Daggett from the "Angry Beavers" coming to take revenge on the government?

This brown creature was spotted in Saint Paul, Minnesota and appeared to "be walking toward the Capitol."

What do you think it has in mind?

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⚡️Biden on Thursday will present his administration's plan to lower gasoline prices for the American public and mitigate the impact of the energy crisis