The crisis in child care has become a rare source of bipartisan agreement. Democrats are trying to revive their plan to subsidize child care for most families, and now Senate Republicans have introduced their own bill on the issue.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about the two proposals is the amount of overlap — a joint recognition that child care needs to be more accessible and affordable and that its quality, along with workers’ pay, needs to increase.

The Republican plan, according to a bill submitted by Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina and Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, would use an existing program — the Child Care and Development Block Grant, known as CCDBG — to increase the money sent to states to help low-income families pay for child care.

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🌊☀️🌊As spring break revelers flocked to beaches in South Florida and South Carolina recently, so did the dangerous Portuguese man o’ war. Purple flags flew across Treasure Coast, South Florida, and South Carolina beaches indicating dangerous marine life in the water. Lifeguards flew the purple flag at beaches earlier this year to warn Portuguese men o’ war.

The Portuguese man o’ war, related to a jellyfish, fires barbs loaded with toxin when something brushes against their tentacles. The cells still fire even if the animal is dead and washed up onshore.

“These animals are some of the most toxic animals in the world,” said Tony McEwan, Curator and Marine Biologist at the University of Hawaii’s Waikiki Aquarium. “They’re not very maneuverable animals, so their prey has to be immobilized very quickly.”

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🤯💔An OnlyFans model fatally stabbed her estranged boyfriend during a domestic incident in Miami Beach Sunday, and a video taken after the incident appears to show her dazed and drenched in blood while sitting on the floor in her bra.

Influencer Courtney Clenney, 25, called 911 Sunday evening after plunging a blade into Christian Obumseli, 27, her lawyer, Frank Prieto, told The Post.

He died after being transported to a local hospital.

The video, obtained by TMZ, was apparently taken moments after the incident and shows Clenney handcuffed in a black bra and white pants sitting on the floor and being interviewed by police as two dogs mill around the chaotic scene.

Prieto said Friday that Clenney stabbed Obumseli in self-defense after he attacked her and grabbed her by the throat. She has not been named or charged in the incident as officials investigate if the stabbing was justified.

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⚡️💥Discovery, the medium-size media company that began as a small cable network in 1985, is on the brink of something once unthinkable: assuming ownership of a fabled Hollywood company that controls Batman, Harry Potter, “Sex and the City,” “Game of Thrones,” CNN and March Madness.

Discovery Inc. and WarnerMedia are expected to complete their megamerger as soon as Friday afternoon, adding a new behemoth to the entertainment industry. The two companies will combine television, movie, and news operations that draw revenue of nearly $50 billion, forming one of the biggest media companies in the country.

The decision by AT&T, WarnerMedia’s parent company, to spin off its entertainment division and merge it with Discovery — in a deal announced in May — will be felt throughout the media world in the months to come.

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❗️ Russia's Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov has spoken out on the reasons behind the Russian special op in Ukraine:

▪️ "The special operation in Ukraine is the result of the unwillingness of the Kiev regime to stop the genocide of Russians by fulfilling its obligations under the international commitments"

▪️ "The NATO member countries have commenced a military exploration of Ukraine. It was flooded with Western weaponry while President Vladimir Zelensky announced Kiev's plans to acquire nuclear weapons which would threaten not only neighboring countries, but also the entire world"

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⚡️ Anatoly Antonov said that the goal of the Russian special operation "is to put an end to the genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime and ensure a nuclear-free and neutral status of Ukraine"

⚡️ Actions of the West in Ukraine could lead to 'military confrontation' between US & Russia, Antonov says

⚡️ Ukrainian forces fire 20 rockets from Grad launchers at Donetsk - DPR

⚡️ 📹 The Russian MoD has published footage of Su-30CM and Su-35 sorties that destroyed a Ukrainian radar and Buk-M1 anti-aircraft complex

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⚡️ Kiev preparing provocation to accuse Russia of mass killing of civilians in Ukraine's Irpen - MoD

⚡️ Ukraine to present bodies of Russian soldiers killed by nationalists under torture as part of provocation in Irpen - MoD

⚡️ 📹 The Russian MoD has published drone footage showing the destruction of a Ukrainian tank, the crew of which was operating from behind a shelter in an industrial building

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❗️ Provocation in Irpen organised to distribute video material through western media - MoD

⚡️ 📹 Captured Ukrainian soldiers Dmitry Burlakov and Ivan Gavrilenko, who tried to evacuate Azov neo-Nazis from Mariupol with a helicopter that was shot down by Russian forces on 5 April, thanked the Russian military and doctors for rescuing them

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⚡️ What else did the Russian MoD say about the Ukrainian provocation in Irpen?

▪️ Units of the Russian Armed Forces left the town more than a week ago.

▪️ The Security Service of Ukraine plans to bring the bodies of local residents killed by Ukrainian artillery shelling from the morgue of the town hospital on Polevaya Street to the basement of a building on the eastern outskirts of Irpen.

▪️ Then an incident with shooting and the "destruction" of an alleged "Russian reconnaissance group" that arrived in Irpen "to kill witnesses of Russian war crimes" will be staged by the Security Service of Ukraine.

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Russian Defence Ministry briefing on Ukraine:

▪The Russian Aerospace Forces and Rocket Forces have hit 85 Ukrainian military facilities;

▪A large Ukrainian military ammunition depot in the Dniepropetrovsk region has been destroyed by high-precision missiles;

▪A Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter and Mi-8 helicopter as well as a warehouse with aviation weapons have been destroyed at a military airfield in the Poltava region;

▪Russian air defence systems have shot down four Ukrainian drones

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📹 Russian MoD video: A camouflaged Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition depot has been detected by a UAV and destroyed with high-precision missiles

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WATCH LIVE | SpaceX & Axiom’s first private mission to arrive at ISS

❗Paying for Russian gas in rubles will not violate EU sanctions as Budapest and Moscow have bilateral contract - Hungarian Cabinet of ministers

How can multi-tonne tanks and trucks drive through a river barrier? Watch a Russian Defence Ministry video of a pontoon crossing of the Seversky Donets River in Ukraine

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🍦The US President has lost his “friendly ice cream Joe” image among the American public, former Hillary Clinton adviser and pollster Mark Penn says