🚫 Jill Biden opposed picking Kamala Harris as her husband's VP

First Lady Jill Biden opposed her husband Joe Biden picking Kamala Harris to be his running mate after she "attacked" him during a Democratic presidential debate, a new book says.

The revelation was made in the upcoming book "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future" by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.

The book notes that Harris attacked Biden more harshly than any other major candidate in the Democratic primaries, and that the Biden family had seen it "as a smear and a betrayal."

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🚨 Sen. Ron Johnson accuses Biden admin of ‘throwing open’ US borders

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) accused President Biden on Sunday of creating a “disaster” by “throwing open” the country’s borders, and claimed the administration’s immigration policies are aiding human traffickers.

Johnson ripped the administration for the upcoming lifting of the Trump-era policy known as Title 42 — which allowed the summary expulsion of nearly 2 million migrants. The CBP commissioner predicted earlier this month that lifting Title 42 will “likely” cause an “increase in encounters” with immigrants along the southern border.

The policy, which went into effect in March 2020, allowed Customs and Border Protection officials to immediately expel people suspected of illegally entering the US without allowing them a chance to claim asylum.

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‼️ Russia switching to national currency payments with Azerbaijan, Armenia as part of measures to minimize risks from west’s actions, Foreign Ministry says

‼️ Russia Took Measures to Protect Itself From West’s 'Unscrupulous' Actions, Foreign Ministry Says

⚡️ Moscow sends note to US demanding an end to Ukrainian arms supplies, Russian Ambassador says

⚡️ Turkish Defence Ministry says no warships from non-regional countries in Black Sea

⚡️ US embassy in Kiev will be open within a couple of weeks, Blinken says

⚡️ Two Ukrainian armed forces' drones destroyed in Russia's Kursk region, no victims and damage, governor says

Russia’s MoD has published a video of an Iskander missile about to strike depots containing Ukrainian ammunition and weapons

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⚡️ DPR Head says some 400 foreign mercenaries remain at Azovstal in Mariupol

⚡️ US provided Ukraine, neighbouring states with aid worth billions of dollars, Blinken says

📌 The Russian Defence Ministry has briefed the press on the Ukraine operation:

▪️ Russian high-precision long-range air-launched weapons destroyed oil refinery facilities and storage facilities for oil products in Kremenchuk, Ukraine;

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 58 Ukrainian military targets and destroyed up to 160 Ukrainian manpower;

▪️ Missile troops and artillery have carried out 19 strikes destroying four command posts, tree ammunition depots and more than 240 manpower;

▪️ "Pantsir" anti-aircraft missiles shot down one Ukrainian Tochka-U missile and 18 rockets of a multiple-launch rocket system over Chernobaeka;

▪️ Russian air defence shot down 13 Ukrainian drones near the Kharkov and Kherson regions;

▪️ Artillery units carried out 967 fire missions during the day;

▪️ In total, 141 warcraft and 110 helicopters, 566 drones, 265 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,526 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 283 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,096 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,362 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation

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⚡️ Ukraine not planning to remove aspiration to join NATO from constitution, Parliament says

⚡️ Meeting between Russia's Lavrov, Ukraine's Kuleba not being prepared, Foreign Ministry says

An official representative of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) militia describes how Ukrainian forces intentionally fire at the settlement of Novotoshkovskoye and local people from their tanks

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❗️Russian MoD: Russia’s and DPR’s Armed Forces unilaterally stop any hostilities near Azovstal since 11:00am GMT on 25 April

❗️Russia officially declares that there are no obstacles to the exit of civilians from Azovstal - Defence Ministry

Russian MoD: The humanitarian corridor near the Azovstal plant for the evacuation of civilians has been operating for 36 days (since 21 March 2022). The alleged presence of civilians in the underground tunnels of the plant is being publicly announced by the Kiev authorities.

❗️Russian MoD: “If civilians are still at the metallurgical plant, we demand that the Kiev authorities immediately give the appropriate order to the commanders of nationalist formations for their release.”

❗️Russia sees no risks of Transnistria conflict escalation, Moscow says