❗️🇺🇸🇷🇺The US will continue imposing sanctions on Russia in the weeks ahead in response to its special military operation in Ukraine, Antony Blinken said on Wednesday

🇺🇸The White House has been in contact with government officials from Poland and Bulgaria in the last 24 hours following Russia's decision to suspend natural gas supply for failing to make payments in rubles

😢🔥'Mommy, they lit me on fire' were the words of a 6-year-old who suffered third-degree burns to his face, arms, hands, and chest after gasoline was splashed on the boy.

The bully, identified as an 8-year-old neighbor, lured Krankall to meet him around the corner when he poured gasoline on a tennis ball, lit it, and threw it. The youngster, identified as Dominick Krankall, survived the vicious attack but is suffering from severe second-and-third degree burns to his face and legs.

The awful attack happened Sunday when Dominick was playing in the backyard of his family's home located on Louisiana Avenue in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with a group of children, who are reportedly tenants in the home.

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❗️🇺🇸🇨🇳 The House on Wednesday passed legislation requiring the State Dept to report to Congress on any efforts by the Chinese gov't to provide support for Russia’s spec op in Ukraine

‼️🇺🇦 The center of Kherson has been hit by at least two Tochka-U missiles, several Uragan Missiles - Sputnik correspondent

❗️The shelling came from Ukrainian positions

There were reportedly no people outside due to the curfew, no injuries have been reported yet

⚡️🇺🇸The House has passed a bill allowing the seizure of foreigners' assets, giving the funds to Ukraine

Ukrainian troops fired three Tochka-U missiles at Kherson, two of them were shot down, a Russian military source told Sputnik

😁Biden referred to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona as "Senator Cardona"

⚡️🇷🇺Russia will hold an informal UNSC meeting May 6 to present first-hand information about the situation on the ground in Ukraine

🙌📚President Joe Biden wants to help, a lawmaker who discussed the issue with him said Wednesday. Biden has discussed with lawmakers how to forgive some student loan debt and further extend the federal moratorium on repayments.

The White House was notably more measured about Biden’s stance, but such moves would be a boon to many of the 43 million Americans carrying student loans worth $1.6 trillion, according to federal figures.

Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., was among them. He said in an interview Wednesday that he asked Biden to extend the moratorium on debt payments through this year, instead of letting it expire on Aug. 31.

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⚡️The footage shows the moment of the attack on Kherson on Wednesday night

❗️🇷🇺The flow of fake news won't shield Ukrainian Neo-Nazis, foreign mercenaries & their sponsors from accountability for heinous crimes - statement by Russia's representative at UNSC

"Multiple witness statements and evidence to that effect are being collected right now across Ukraine, including in Mariupol," he said.

❗️🇺🇸🇰🇷🇯🇵 Biden to visit South Korea & Japan on May 20, 24 - White House

📩👀 On Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai demanding answers in answer to a recent study that found the tech giant's email spam filtering algorithms exhibited political bias in 2020.

"New research reveals that your company makes it much harder for Republicans to reach their supporters even while your company makes it very easy for Democrats to reach theirs," Hawley said, adding that the internet plays a crucial role for political campaigns to reach their voters.

"We further observe that Gmail marks a significantly higher percentage (67.6%) of emails from the right as spam compared to the emails from left (just 8.2%)" researchers wrote. "Gmail marked 59.3% more emails from the right candidates as spam compared to the left candidates."

He also demanded to know why Google's filtering algorithm is more pronounced than other email apps.

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❗️❗️Kherson region, which borders Crimea, to start switching to payments in rubles effective May 1.

⚡️🤔A copy of "Mein Kampf," the political manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, has been discovered at an Azov base in Mariupol, a Sputnik correspondent reports

According to the correspondent, a Russian-language copy of the book was found at the barracks where the neo-Nazi battalion was stationed.

In 2010, Russia included "Mein Kampf" on a list of prohibited extremist materials

❗️Biden will deliver remarks on the further support for Ukraine in the morning on Thursday, the White House says

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😳💦As water levels in the state of California approach record lows. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) announced a water emergency this morning and ordered restrictions to reduce nonessential water use in parts of Los Angeles, Ventura, and San Bernardino counties.

The water district attributed the emergency declaration to its “reliance” on “severely limited” water supplies in Northern California, which is also enduring extreme drought. It comes as the state has experienced a lack of precipitation and abnormally high temperatures in recent years.

The move includes the unprecedented measure of restricting outdoor watering to one day a week for about a third of the region.

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