❗Blinken says western sanctions on Russia not causing global food insecurity

Russian MoD video: Surrendered Azov militants comment on the conditions of their detention

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❗️Biden announces another package of security aid for Ukraine that includes artillery, radars and other equipment

❗️Russian Foreign Ministry calls statements alleging Moscow blocks exports of Ukrainian grain in Black Sea ports 'speculation'

⚡An armed man in Appleton, Wisconsin pointed a weapon at someone at a church and then went up on the roof and has been there for the past two hours, police say. Negotiators are currently working at the scene

The first part of a prank on George W. Bush by Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus has emerged online: the former president, who was sure he was talking to the president of Ukraine, commented on the US promise not to expand NATO.

#VovanLexusBush

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The new $100 million aid package for the Kiev regime includes 18 155mm howitzers, 18 tactical vehicles and three AN/TPQ-36 anti-artillery radars, according to the Pentagon

🇺🇸🇹🇷No plans for Biden to engage directly with Erdogan over concerns about Sweden & Finland joining NATO

🌎📲🌍Buffalo Mass Shooting Livestream Reached Millions Even After Twitch Removed Footage. The attack was streamed on the account “jimboboiii” and spread online in real-time to 22 other users, according to the Washington Post.

At least one viewer who’d watched the Livestream saved a copy on their computer and shared it, opening the door for it to be downloaded and reshared to platforms including YouTube and Facebook as well as sites devoted to violent and uncensored videos and message boards.

A video that was uploaded to Streamable accumulated over 3 million views and could still be viewed an entire day after the shooting took place, according to a screenshot from the Internet Archive obtained by video game news site Kotaku.

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💍💥Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York confirmed Thursday that she's engaged to her longtime partner, Riley Roberts, Insider news reports.

"We got engaged last month in my family's hometown in Puerto Rico," she tweeted. "No future details yet, we're taking some space to savor this time before diving into planning."

Ocasio-Cortez, 32, met Roberts, a marketing professional when the two were undergraduate students at Boston University. They've dated for several years.
Rumors started circulating earlier in the day when Ocasio-Cortez was photographed by The Hill sporting an engagement ring.

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🇺🇸💬 Senate Republicans sent a letter to the Appropriations Committee in which they pledged to defund the DHS' "Ministry of Truth", The Washington Times reports

The gov't should not be engaged in regulating speech or being an arbiter of truth, the letter said, according to the report.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 The FBI found no evidence of a covert communications channel between Trump and Russia's Alfa Bank, according to a Fox News report

🍟💸 McDonald’s strikes a deal to sell all of its Russian restaurants. The Chicago burger giant said Alexander Govor, an existing licensee who operates 25 restaurants in Siberia, has agreed to buy McDonald’s 850 Russian restaurants and use them under a new name. McDonald’s did not disclose the terms of the sale.

The fast-food restaurant chain, which had nearly 850 restaurants in the country, most of them directly owned by the company, said it expected the deal, subject to regulatory approval, to close in the coming weeks.

McDonald's has operated in Russia for more than 30 years. The opening of its first restaurant in Moscow in 1990 symbolized a thaw in Cold War tensions. In March of 2022, MacDonald's shut down its operations in Russia over Western sanctions.

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✈️🇰🇷US President Joe Biden is scheduled to arrive in Seoul on Friday for talks with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, although administration officials admit they are concerned North Korea will attempt to overshadow the visit with the test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile or even an underground nuclear test.

Biden is expected to discuss the security situation in Northeast Asia during his three-day visit, as well as ways to potentially engage with North Korea, the growing challenges posed by an increasingly expansionist China, and a new regional economic agreement.

The US leader is due to travel to Tokyo on Sunday for bilateral discussions with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and a summit of the leaders of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, which brings together Japan, the US, Australia, and India.

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🧐🗳Some inconsistencies were found in thousands of ballots for primaries held in the US state of Oregon. The ballots contained unclear barcodes that vote-counting machines couldn't read and would delay results by weeks in a critical U.S. House race in Oregon’s primary election.

Voters from both political parties milled about in a narrow room with windows that allowed views of workers opening ballots, transferring votes, reviewing flagged ballots, and using the vote-counting machines.

The failure could affect up to 60,000 ballots, or two-thirds of the roughly 90,000 returned in Oregon’s third-largest county. Hundreds of votes were still coming in under a new law that allows ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.

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⚡️🇺🇸Pentagon press secretary John Kirby is moving into a White House role, according to CNN

😍😍 According to multiple reports, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky have welcomed a baby boy.

The couple, who first revealed her pregnancy with a belly-baring Harlem photoshoot in January, became parents May 13 in Los Angeles, according to TMZ on Thursday based on unnamed sources.

People magazine, citing an unnamed source, said A$AP and Rihanna, 34, are home in Los Angeles with the baby.

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