😱🔥Person IGNITES themselves in front of Supreme Court in DC

An unidentified person was airlifted to a hospital after setting themselves on fire in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington DC on Friday.

The condition of said individual is unknown. So is their motivation.

The area remains closed for investigation.

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🗣'That's false': Trump tells WSJ he 'never claimed responsibility' for Capitol riot, contradicting McCarthy

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy previously claimed in a call to House GOP members that he had asked Trump personally that day whether he bore responsibility for the 6 January 2021 events.

“He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened,” McCarthy said.

The audio of the 11 January 2021 call was released Thursday night by media. During the call, McCarthy made a reference to impeachment proceedings against Trump, who was accused of "inciting insurrection" and ultimately acquitted in Senate, and said: “We know it’ll pass the House. I think there’s a chance it’ll pass the Senate.…The only discussion I would have with [Mr. Trump] is that I think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign.”

Following the release of the audio, McCarthy and Trump had a conversation on Thursday night, and the ex-POTUS wasn’t angry, according to a person familiar with their conversation.

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😬The world's richest person, Elon Musk, has weirdly dissed Bill Gates' paunch on Twitter, posting a photo of the Microsoft founder alongside a pregnant man emoji.

"In case u need to lose a b*ner fast," Musk tweeted.

The ball is in Bill's court now 👀

WATCH: Russian Ka-52 attack helicopters, which destroyed Ukrainian military equipment and an outpost, in action.

📍Russia's Defence Ministry delivers daily morning briefing on the Ukraine op:

▪️Russian Aerospace Forces hit 11 Ukrainian military objects overnight;

▪️Ukrainian Su-25 jet was shot down by Russian air defences over Kharkov region;

▪️Two Ukrainian Tochka U missiles were intercepted in the air;

▪️Russian missile forces and artillery performed 1,098 fire tasks over the past 24 hours, having destroyed three Mi-8 helicopters;

▪️Three Ukrainian missile and artillery weapons depots were destroyed.

In total, 141 Ukrainian planes, 110 helicopters, 538 drones, 261 anti-aicraft missile systems, 2,471 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 274 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,075 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,311 special military vehicles have been destroyed since the launch of the special operation, the Russian MoD said.

A Mariupol resident says Ukrainian troops deployed weapons in residential areas and shelled residential buildings.

She says even though her apartment has no windows now, her neighbourhood was relatively well preserved, since the DPR militia and the Chechen forces arrived there quickly.

⚡️⚡️ US planning provocations to accuse Russian forces of using WMDs in Ukraine, Russian MoD warns

"The Russian Ministry of Defence has information about the preparation of provocations by the United States to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of using chemical, biological or tactical nuclear weapons. This plan has already been developed and is a reaction to Russia's success in the special military operation," the MoD said.

‼️The high probability of a US-staged chemical attack in Ukraine is confirmed by the fact that Kiev is being supplied with antidotes to poisonous substances, says Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Force.

☠️Western provocation with use of biological or chemical weapons is most likely in Kharkov, Kiev, and possibly Zaporozhye NPP, Russian MoD warns

🛑India issues advisory to satellite TV channels over 'unauthentic, misleading, sensational' coverage of events, including the Russian military operation in Ukraine

When it comes to the Russian military operation, it has been observed:

🔹Channels have been making false claims and frequently misquoting International agencies/actors;
🔹Use of 'scandalous headlines/taglines' that are completely unrelated to the news item;
🔹Many of the journalists and news anchors of these channels made fabricated and hyperbolic statements intending to incite the audiences.

According to the advisory, one of the channels aired fabricated pictures claiming to be proof of an upcoming nuclear attack on Ukraine, while another channel claimed that "Russia had given a 24 hours deadline for the Nuclear attack on Ukraine".

The advisory stresses that such stories seem "to be intending to misguide the viewers and arouse psychological upheavals inside them."

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WATCH LIVE | Holy Fire ceremony in Jerusalem

A refugee from Kiev said that when he was in Warsaw, unknown people encouraged him to lie that he was from Bucha and testify on camera about the "killings of Bucha inhabitants by the Russian military" in exchange for a paid trip to EU countries, but he refused

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The UK has sent about 20 people from the Special Air Service (SAS) to Ukraine: Two groups of eight to 10 agents who are specialists in sabotage, guerrilla warfare and coups have been deployed near Lvov.

They are expected to help the Ukrainian special services to organise acts of sabotage in Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine. An employee of the Russian law enforcement agencies shared this information with Sputnik, citing data received from a source in the Ukrainian armed forces.

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Residents of the town of Kremennaya in western Lugansk region say they had been waiting for LPR and Russian troops to arrive.

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German journalist Thomas Röper says that the inhabitants of Melitopol are asking Russian soldiers not to leave: they are afraid of reprisals from the Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

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🎥The Holy Fire has descended

❗️DPR People's Militia: Ukrainian neo-Nazis have disrupted the evacuation from Mariupol: they opened fire from mortars at the place where the citizens had to gather

🎥Mine clearance in the Kharkov region: After engineering reconnaissance, the Russian Armed Forces' anti-mine team is clearing the area of explosive objects. Safe detonation using TNT is shown at the end of the video

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"Our whole class was asking the teacher to speak Russian": Mariupol residents on how the imposition of the Ukrainian language became absurd in recent years

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