😴 "Sleepy Joe" strikes again? It seems like President Biden took a nap while saluting at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Delaware nuclear submarine

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❗️ Lithuania has announced that it is no longer importing Russian gas, underlining that the country has become the first EU client of Gazprom to "achieve independence from Russian gas supplies"

⚡️Russian forces kill over 100 nationalists, mercenaries in high precision Iskander strike against defence HQ in Kharkov

The Russian MoD's latest statements on the military operation in Ukraine:

▪ The Mirgorod military airfield in the Poltava region was hit with high-precision weapons, resulting in the destruction of Ukrainian combat helicopters;

▪ Armoured vehicles and ammunition sent to Ukrainian troops in Donbass was destroyed with high-precision missiles in the areas of Lozova and Pavlograd;

▪ During the day, 28 military Ukrainian military facilities were hit by aircraft;

▪ Since the beginning of the special operation, 125 Ukrainian planes and 88 helicopters have been destroyed

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During the Russian Defence Ministry’s briefing, a video of an Iskander strike on the Ukrainian defence headquarters in Kharkov was shown: more than 100 Ukrainian nationalists and mercenaries were eliminated

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⚡ Russia would like to continue talks with Ukraine in Belarus, but Kiev doesn't want it - Peskov

Ukraine isn't a friendly country to either Russia or Belarus - Peskov

Ukraine's military potential almost completely destroyed during Russian special op - Peskov

Peskov says negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are not easy, but main thing is that they continue

Network of laboratories for developing new bioweapons against certain ethnic groups created around Russia and Belarus under US program - Peskov

One of the main goals of the special operation in Ukraine is to save the LPR and the DPR and the restoration of their statehood within the 2014 borders, Peskov says

Peskov confirms Russia's absolute military support for Belarus, attack on Minsk would be equal to attack on Russia

🏙 NY bail law fight emblematic of Democrats’ debate on crime

It’s hard to find anyone on board with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to toughen the state’s bail laws, two years after they were retooled to keep people from being jailed because they are poor.

New York changed its bail laws in response to public outcry over prisoners accused of minor crimes being held in jail for extended periods while awaiting trial because they couldn’t afford to pay bail.

The state’s answer was to eliminate cash bail for many nonviolent offenses, a reform that frustrated some law enforcement officials who warned that people released back to the streets would commit new crimes. But with violent crime up across America, crime rates have been an easy target and longstanding bogeyman for Republicans, who have wasted no opportunity to make it a campaign issue in races around the US.

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📕 Cuomo files suit against NY ethics board over book profits

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday filed a lawsuit against the state’s ethics commission, the latest move in an ongoing dispute over his earnings from a book about his efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cuomo accused the Joint Commission on Public Ethics of violating his constitutional rights and showing “extraordinary bias against him.”

In December, JCOPE ordered Cuomo to turn over money from his book “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Cuomo’s camp decried the order and promised a legal fight.

However, shortly thereafter, the state attorney general’s office issued a letter saying the commission had more steps to take before the office could get involved in trying to claim the money.

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🚫 Border asylum limits ending, but not Biden’s migrant woes

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that it would lift the asylum ban, known as Title 42, next month. The ban had become increasingly hard to justify as pandemic restrictions ended around the country.

By delaying the end of Title 42 for nearly two months, Biden appeared to be seeking a political balance between liberals who want the policy scrapped and moderates who have joined Republicans in supporting continued restrictions. He may end up satisfying neither. The expected influx of migrants could create a damaging political crisis for Biden with the November midterm elections approaching.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that a long-term solution “can only come from comprehensive legislation that brings lasting reform to a fundamentally broken system.”

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