📣📣 President Biden's new initiative has sparked controversy throughout the government.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday vowed to resist the Biden administration’s new “Orwellian” disinformation bureau, insisting a “Ministry of Truth” cannot exist in the United States.

“They want to be able to put out false narratives without people being able to speak out and fight back,” DeSantis said. “But we’re not going to let Biden get away with this one, so we will be fighting back.”

The hashtag “Ministry of Truth” was trending on Twitter Thursday as critics compared the new board to George Orwell’s “1984” novel. Subscribe to @sputniknewsus

⁉️Biden was seen smirking as his staff (again) gently asked the reporters to leave, preventing him from taking questions

🥺💔A heartbreaking funeral was held this Friday in New York City. Family, friends, and thousands of fellow firefighters gathered Friday to bid a final farewell to fallen FDNY Firefighter Timothy Klein.

“The amazing thing about Timmy is that he accomplished so much in such a short time,” the Rev. William Sweeny said. “In fact, he was supposed to be in a wedding party tomorrow at a wedding of his dear friends that’s gonna be right here in this church. And they’re gonna set up a memorial in a very special way to thank Timmy for all the things that he did.”

As many as 20,000 people were in attendance, with a massive gathering of firefighters lining the streets outside the church.

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🇺🇸🔈Meet the head of Biden's new "Ministry of Truth," Nina Jankowicz, who is in charge of defining the "truth" and "fakes" in the US

On TikTok, she calls herself the "disinformation Mary Poppins"

🚀Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship – completing this booster’s second flight in 21 days, SpaceX says

Watch the liftoff

💰Oops! Jeff Bezos has fallen to No. 3 world's richest man after losing $20 billion on Friday, according to Forbes

Amazon shares sank 14% on Friday in the worst day since 2006 after the company shared weaker-than-expected guidance

⚡️US, NATO should stop delivering weapons to Ukraine if they seek to end the crisis - Lavrov

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦Talks between Russia and Ukraine are ongoing on a daily basis and negotiations discussed the draft agreement, which may cover sanctions relief in addition to Kiev’s neutral status and security guarantees, according to Lavrov

⚡️🇺🇸URGENT: Police are responding to an active shooter at a Baymont hotel in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

The gunman has reportedly barricaded himself in a hotel room and was heard shooting multiple rounds.

The shooting scene in Waukesha

No injuries have been reported yet.

😁Elon Musk trolls AOC over an overly-dramatic tweet

❗️Authorities reportedly say snipers have been positioned as the suspect continues firing shots out of the windows of his hotel room

🔎Donald Trump’s lawyers, requesting to reverse their client’s $10,000-per-day contempt fine, provided a New York judge Friday with an affidavit in which the former president claims he didn’t turn over subpoenaed documents to the state attorney general’s office because he doesn’t have them.

Judge Arthur Engoron criticized the lack of detail in Trump's affidavit, which amounted to two paragraphs, saying that he should have explained the methods he uses to store his records and the efforts he made to locate the subpoenaed files.

Trump, who is appealing the contempt ruling, said he believed any documents would be in the possession of his company, the Trump Organization.

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⚡️The suspected gunman has been reportedly arrested

➡️Black Lives Matter's non-profit foundation has received criticism over a lack of transparency. In its 2020 impact report, the BLM Foundation said it raised $90 million; spent $8.4 million on operating expenses, and donated $21.7 million to local groups, spurring questions about where the rest of the money went.

Attorney General Todd Rokita from Indiana has sued the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation as part of his investigation into whether donations from state residents were used for legitimate purposes and not for the group leader’s “personal benefit.”

“Protecting Indiana consumers from this house of cards is critical,” said Mr. Rokita in a Thursday statement. “There are concerning patterns of behavior from this organization, and we will do what it takes—including this lawsuit—to get to the bottom of it.”

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🇺🇸🇷🇺The Biden administration is studying an opportunity to ease visa requirements for high-tech specialists from Russia to weaken the latter's technological potential, Politico reports

🚀🌎 Light launch vehicle Angara-1.2 with a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian MoD was launched on Friday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome

🌱🛢Petrochemical companies violated the law with what he called their “historic and ongoing efforts to deceive the public,” California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta said. Last Thursday, Bonta subpoenaed ExxonMobil as part of what he called a first-of-its-kind broader investigation into the petroleum industry for its alleged role in causing a global plastic pollution crisis, allegations that the company called meritlessly.

Attorney General Rob Bonta said the industry for decades has encouraged the development and use of petroleum-based plastic products while seeking to minimize public understanding that their widespread use harms the environment and public health.

“Every week, we consume the equivalent of a credit card's worth of plastic through the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breathe,” he said, citing a 2019 study for the World-Wide Fund for Nature environmental group.

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😟 In an amended lawsuit, the parents of Gabby Petito, a young woman who went missing in August 2021 during a cross-country trip with her fiance Brian Laundrie and was found dead a month later, allege that during the search for Gabby, Laundrie's parents were aware that their son had killed her. They also assert that the Laundries knew "the whereabouts of her body."

Joseph and Nichole Petito are amending their lawsuit against the Laundrie family to say that they went to Fort De Soto Park in the Tampa Bay area just days before Gabby was reported missing.

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