❗️ US to provide Ukraine with additional $387mln in humanitarian aid - State Dept.

❗️Biden announces Karine Jean-Pierre to replace Psaki as White House press secretary on May 13

📉Stocks are falling on Wall Street, erasing a rally from a day earlier, as markets assess the looming fallout from the Federal Reserve’s stepped-up fight against inflation.

On Wednesday, the Fed raised its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point as part of an effort to slow consumer borrowing and tamp down inflation, which is at a four-decade high. The market rallied when Fed Chair Jerome Powell dismissed the possibility the Fed could resort to a more aggressive three-quarters point hike in the future.

Now, traders are starting to fret more about the impact of the Fed’s moves to dampen demand and slow the economy.

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❗️🇨🇳 NATO's repeated eastward expansion has failed to make Europe any safer, but also sowed the seeds of conflict - Chinese Envoy to UN

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇸Russian ambassador Antonov says unilateral freeze by the US of the strategic stability dialogue is "regrettable", Moscow is ready to resume consultations

❗️🇷🇺The accusations against Russia of an "aggressive nuclear rhetoric" are baseless, Kiev initiated unhealthy speculations about unleashing a nuclear war - ambassador

"The current generation of NATO politicians clearly does not take the nuclear threat seriously," Antonov told Newsweek.

👉President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Labor Secretary Martin J. Walsh met Thursday at the White House with several union organizers involved in successful campaigns at companies including Amazon and Starbucks.

According to the White House, the meeting was intended to discuss how the recent organizing successes can inspire other workers to join or form a union.

“President Biden stopped by the discussion and thanked the worker organizers for their leadership in organizing unions, the inspiration they offer to workers across the country who may want to organize, and their contributions to the worker organizing momentum that is growing across the country,” according to the White House.

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“There is barely a contact,” Sullivan said on Thursday. “It’s not business as usual. I have contact occasionally with the Foreign Ministry, most particularly about our American citizens who are detained here.”

🔎“Former President Donald Trump asked Mark Esper, his defense secretary, about the possibility of launching missiles into Mexico to ‘destroy the drug labs’ and wipe out the cartels, maintaining that the United States’ involvement in a strike against its southern neighbor could be kept secret, Mr. Esper recounts in his upcoming memoir,” the New York Times reports.

“Those remarkable discussions in 2020 were among several moments that Mr. Esper described in the book, A Sacred Oath, as leaving him all but speechless when he served the 45th president.”

The book, to be published on Tuesday, offers a stunningly candid perspective from a former defense secretary, and it illuminates key episodes from the Trump presidency, including some that were unknown or underexplored.

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🔻The U.S. abortion fight has galvanized the abortion debate in Canada. “It’s very fortuitous timing for us,” said youth coordinator Josie Luetke, as she listed off the political races in which CLC is now directing its considerable resources: the federal Conservative leadership contest, a June election in Ontario, and even city elections in the same province this fall.

Canada’s Campaign Life Coalition has fired up its fundraising machine to activate thousands of its members who will open their wallets at a moment’s notice.

The CLC fundraising powerhouse is doing everything it can to support Leslyn Lewis in the Conservative leadership race, for example. The Ontario MP is the only candidate who meets the group’s rigid test of moral purity.

“If candidates want our support, they have to be 100 percent pro-life,” said Luetke.

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🔎A cryptocurrency super PAC is poised to make a dent in Pennsylvania’s Senate Democratic primary by supporting Democrat John Fetterman.

Joe Calvello, a spokesperson for Fetterman, said that “even though this PAC is supporting John, it doesn’t change his view that super PACs are an example of how deeply broken and dysfunctional our campaign finance system is.”

While the super PAC declined to share how much it expects to spend on the Pennsylvania Senate race, the group has booked more than $200,000 in the next two weeks running up to the May 17 primary, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact.

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🇺🇸WATCH: Gen Z For Choice activists rallied in front of the Supreme Court on Thursday in protest of the impending reversal of Roe v. Wade

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇸The Russian embassy in Washington on Friday urged the United States to destroy its stockpiles of chemical weapons

The mission urged the American society to wonder why Washington is delaying the elimination of its stockpiles of chemical weapons, unlike other countries.

🚨🚨Chicago Police are investigating the suspicious death of a 43-year-old Geneva woman who was found with a fatal gunshot wound outside her home Wednesday. At about 8:02 p.m., a relative living in the Chicago area called the police and reported the Geneva woman as possibly missing since 5 a.m. Tuesday.

Geneva and St. Charles police conducted a well-being check at a home in the 700 block of McKinley Avenue. When officers arrived, they met with a male family member who was unable to answer questions or provide information on the missing woman.

Officers then checked the home's property and found the woman, who was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. No charges have been filed in this case.

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🖼The Princeton University Art Museum has purchased a unique 1861 artwork called “A Young Teacher” by prominent English-Jewish artist Rebecca Solomon, the Art Newspaper reports.

The painting, sold by Sotheby’s for £302,400, shows a child reading with a maid and an older sister, who is the teacher from the artwork’s noscript, as she is teaching the servant how to read.

Photo credit: Sotheby’s
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😬 In his latest gaffe, United States President Joe Biden accidentally confused Mexico's first lady with the nation's president.

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⚡️ 📹 A shocked resident of Donbass tells how a local woman went out to buy bread and was killed by Ukrainian military shelling.

The woman had only a few metres to walk to her doorstep when shrapnel from a Ukrainian shell that landed close by hit her in her courtyard.

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⚡️ 📹 A resident of the village of Novotroitskoye in Donetsk region describes how paramilitary thugs from the Aidar battalion behaved toward civilians, evicting them from their homes and stealing their property.

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⚡️ 📹 Another batch of humanitarian aid from the international volunteer group "Moscow-Donbass" was delivered to Kirovsk.

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⚡️ MoD: Russian high-precision missiles eliminate Ukrainian ammunition depot in city of Kramatorsk