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❗️France to expel a number of Russian diplomats, Russian FM says
Moscow will respond to France's decision to expel Russian diplomats - Foreign Ministry
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❗️ Moscow on Riga, Vilnius lowering level of diplomatic relations: Response to follow
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Russian FM Lavrov on Ukrainian provocation in Bucha:
▪️ Russia will debunk fake news disseminated over the Russian special op in Ukraine
▪️ Russia’s repeated requests for a UNSC meeting on Bucha have failed
▪️ The West will try to conceal the truth about events in Bucha with empty rhetoric about the nature of the Ukrainian crisis
▪️ Russia will insist that crimes perpetrated by the Ukrainian military do not go unpunished.
▪️ Russia will debunk fake news disseminated over the Russian special op in Ukraine
▪️ Russia’s repeated requests for a UNSC meeting on Bucha have failed
▪️ The West will try to conceal the truth about events in Bucha with empty rhetoric about the nature of the Ukrainian crisis
▪️ Russia will insist that crimes perpetrated by the Ukrainian military do not go unpunished.
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⚡️ Canada to introduce sanctions against 9 Russians, 9 Belarusians - Foreign Ministry
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❗️ Russian Foreign Ministry vows to respond to Germany's decision to expel Russian diplomats
Russian embassy in Germany сonfirms 40 diplomats were declared personae non gratae
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❗️ US to impose additional sanctions on Russia jointly with allies and partners - State Department
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🏛 Senate panel moves toward vote on Jackson court nomination
The Senate Judiciary Committee debated Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination for Supreme Court justice on Monday with Democrats aiming to confirm her by the end of the week as the first Black woman on the high court.
The panel recessed at midday after one of the Democrats, California Sen. Alex Padilla, was delayed on a flight. The committee was expected to vote later in the day and deadlock on the nomination, 11-11. All of the Republicans on the panel are opposing Jackson, and the full Senate is evenly split 50-50.
After more than 30 hours of hearings and interrogation from Republicans over her record, Jackson is on the brink of making history as the third Black justice and only the sixth woman in the court’s more than 200-year history. Democrats cite her deep experience in nine years on the federal bench and the chance for her to become the first former public defender on the court.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee debated Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination for Supreme Court justice on Monday with Democrats aiming to confirm her by the end of the week as the first Black woman on the high court.
The panel recessed at midday after one of the Democrats, California Sen. Alex Padilla, was delayed on a flight. The committee was expected to vote later in the day and deadlock on the nomination, 11-11. All of the Republicans on the panel are opposing Jackson, and the full Senate is evenly split 50-50.
After more than 30 hours of hearings and interrogation from Republicans over her record, Jackson is on the brink of making history as the third Black justice and only the sixth woman in the court’s more than 200-year history. Democrats cite her deep experience in nine years on the federal bench and the chance for her to become the first former public defender on the court.
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🏛 Senate panel moves toward vote on Jackson court nomination The Senate Judiciary Committee debated Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination for Supreme Court justice on Monday with Democrats aiming to confirm her by the end of the week as the first Black woman…
‼️ SCOTUS nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has officially moved forward to a full vote despite an 11-11 tie in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. Congressional lawmakers will now be allowed four hours' worth of debate before voting on whether to throw out the candidate's nomination.
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👮♂️ Ex-police officer faces jury trial on Capitol riot charges
Over a year ago, two off-duty police officers from a small town in Virginia were charged with storming the US Capitol together. The federal trial of former Rocky Mount police officer Thomas Robertson will be the third among hundreds of people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Jury selection in Robertson’s trial started on Monday in Washington, DC One of his former colleagues, Jacob Fracker, was scheduled to join him on trial. Instead, Fracker reached a plea deal and agreed to cooperate with federal authorities. He is listed as a potential trial witness.
The town fired both of them after their arrests. Other former police officers are among the hundreds of people charged with joining the mob that stormed the Capitol.
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Over a year ago, two off-duty police officers from a small town in Virginia were charged with storming the US Capitol together. The federal trial of former Rocky Mount police officer Thomas Robertson will be the third among hundreds of people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Jury selection in Robertson’s trial started on Monday in Washington, DC One of his former colleagues, Jacob Fracker, was scheduled to join him on trial. Instead, Fracker reached a plea deal and agreed to cooperate with federal authorities. He is listed as a potential trial witness.
The town fired both of them after their arrests. Other former police officers are among the hundreds of people charged with joining the mob that stormed the Capitol.
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💰 Billions, and more, for lawmakers’ projects in spending bill
Home-district projects for members of Congress are back, sprinkled across the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill President Joe Biden signed recently.
The official tally shows amounts modest by past standards yet spread widely around the country and that understate what lawmakers are claiming credit for. The bipartisan measure, financing federal agencies this year, contains 4,975 such projects worth $9.7 billion.
Leaders resuscitated the practice for this year with restrictions forbidding financial interest in the projects by lawmakers, requiring public disclosure of requests and curbing spending amounts. In a rebranding, they’re now called community project funding by the House, congressionally directed spending by the Senate.
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Home-district projects for members of Congress are back, sprinkled across the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill President Joe Biden signed recently.
The official tally shows amounts modest by past standards yet spread widely around the country and that understate what lawmakers are claiming credit for. The bipartisan measure, financing federal agencies this year, contains 4,975 such projects worth $9.7 billion.
Leaders resuscitated the practice for this year with restrictions forbidding financial interest in the projects by lawmakers, requiring public disclosure of requests and curbing spending amounts. In a rebranding, they’re now called community project funding by the House, congressionally directed spending by the Senate.
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🏭 UN warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world’
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed “a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations, accusing them of stoking global warming by clinging to harmful fossil fuels.
Emissions in 2019 were about 12% higher than they were in 2010 and 54% higher than in 1990. The rate of growth has slowed from 2.1% per year in the early part of this century to 1.3% per year the last decade. The UN said about 40% of emissions since then came from Europe and North America. Just over 12% can be attributed to East Asia, including China.
Scientists’ warnings that the planet is moving “perilously close to tipping points that could lead to cascading and irreversible climate impacts.”
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed “a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations, accusing them of stoking global warming by clinging to harmful fossil fuels.
Emissions in 2019 were about 12% higher than they were in 2010 and 54% higher than in 1990. The rate of growth has slowed from 2.1% per year in the early part of this century to 1.3% per year the last decade. The UN said about 40% of emissions since then came from Europe and North America. Just over 12% can be attributed to East Asia, including China.
Scientists’ warnings that the planet is moving “perilously close to tipping points that could lead to cascading and irreversible climate impacts.”
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‼️ South Ossetia President: Two referendums may be held on joining Russia, reunification with north
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🔫 Study finds higher homicide risk in homes with handguns
Most US gun owners say they own firearms to protect themselves and their loved ones. But a study published Monday suggests people who live with handgun owners are shot to death at a higher rate than those who don’t have such weapons at home.
“We found zero evidence of any kind of protective effects” from living in a home with a handgun, said David Studdert, a Stanford University researcher who was the lead author of the Annals of Internal Medicine study.
Previous research estimated that nearly 3% of US adults became new gun owners between January 2019 and April 2021, which translates to about 7.5 million Americans. Of those, about 5.4 million previously lived in a home with no guns.
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Most US gun owners say they own firearms to protect themselves and their loved ones. But a study published Monday suggests people who live with handgun owners are shot to death at a higher rate than those who don’t have such weapons at home.
“We found zero evidence of any kind of protective effects” from living in a home with a handgun, said David Studdert, a Stanford University researcher who was the lead author of the Annals of Internal Medicine study.
Previous research estimated that nearly 3% of US adults became new gun owners between January 2019 and April 2021, which translates to about 7.5 million Americans. Of those, about 5.4 million previously lived in a home with no guns.
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⚖️ Trial begins in West Virginia lawsuit against opioid makers
Drug manufacturers misrepresented the risks and benefits of opioids in West Virginia and contributed to the state’s opioid crisis, During opening arguments at a trial that began Monday. State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey asked a judge to hold Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc., along with Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc. and AbbVie Inc. accountable.
The state has the nation’s highest rate of drug overdose deaths. Morrisey announced last week that the state had reached a $26 million settlement with another defendant, Endo Health Solutions Inc.
West Virginia previously reached settlements in separate lawsuits, including $37 million with distributor McKesson in 2019, and $20 million with Cardinal Health and $16 million with AmerisourceBergen in 2017.
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Drug manufacturers misrepresented the risks and benefits of opioids in West Virginia and contributed to the state’s opioid crisis, During opening arguments at a trial that began Monday. State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey asked a judge to hold Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc., along with Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc. and AbbVie Inc. accountable.
The state has the nation’s highest rate of drug overdose deaths. Morrisey announced last week that the state had reached a $26 million settlement with another defendant, Endo Health Solutions Inc.
West Virginia previously reached settlements in separate lawsuits, including $37 million with distributor McKesson in 2019, and $20 million with Cardinal Health and $16 million with AmerisourceBergen in 2017.
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⚡️ AUKUS Provokes new round of arms race, Russia's deputy envoy to UN Polyanskiy says
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‼️ Russia urges US to abandon plans to deploy ground-based missiles in APR, Polyanskiy says
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⚡️Russia's Polyanskiy rejects possibility of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine
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📝 After buying $3 billion worth of stock in Twitter, Elon Musk signaled how he may use his new sway over the social media platform by asking his followers in a tweet if they wanted an edit button.
Despite his recent acquisition, it's unlikely Musk actually has the power to add new features to Twitter, much less an edit button. But recently Parag Agrawal CEO of Twitter quote-tweeted Musk's message, saying that “the consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.”
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Despite his recent acquisition, it's unlikely Musk actually has the power to add new features to Twitter, much less an edit button. But recently Parag Agrawal CEO of Twitter quote-tweeted Musk's message, saying that “the consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.”
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