🔫 A group of bipartisan US senators were finally able to reach a decision late Tuesday on a new gun safety bill, which comes on the heels of the Robb Elementary School shooting. The Texas massacre is considered the deadliest shooting ever at a public school in the Lone Star State, and the third deadliest school shooting in the US ever.

The bill will include money for school safety, mental health, state crisis intervention programs and incentives for states to report juvenile records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), as well as potentially close the so-called ‘boyfriend loophole.’

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 President Joe Biden said Tuesday he plans to talk with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as he considers lifting some tariffs imposed on Beijing in a bid to ease US inflation.

🗯 “I plan on having a conversation with President Xi. We haven’t set a time yet,” Biden told reporters. Over the weekend, Biden said a call could come “soon.”

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😬 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's husband, Perry Greene, just bought up to $295,000 worth of stock in companies that have predominantly — and openly — supported social efforts that the Republican congressman vehemently opposes, such as the Black Lives Matter movement and LGBTQ+ rights.

▪️ MTG's husband purchased stock in companies that support BLM and LGBTQ rights.
▪️ Greene, a Republican from Georgia, has called BLM 'terrorists'.
▪️ Congress is actively debating whether to ban lawmakers and their spouses from trading stocks.

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⚡️ UK refuses to issue visas to Russia's OSCE Parliamentary Assembly delegation

📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing the work of the Tor-M2 air defense missile system.

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👏 Katie Britt has won the Alabama GOP Senate runoff election, leaving Rep. Mo Brooks behind in a race to replace Sen. Richard Shelby.

1️⃣ Among the first people to congratulate Britt on her victory was former US President Donald Trump, whose support was one of the key factors that helped the former Alabama Business Council leader win.

💬 "Congratulations to Katie Britt on her INCREDIBLE & DECISIVE Republican Primary WIN for the U.S. Senate from the Great State of Alabama," Trump wrote in a Telegram statement. "She will go on to be an extraordinary Senator and make both Alabama, and our Country, very proud!!!"

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📹 “Thirty shells a day...”

These are the conditions under which people live in the recently liberated Krasny Liman. Yesterday, a team of the Social Movement “Donetsk Republic” was able to evacuate another family from the shelling at the request of the people.

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❗️ Death toll in Afghanistan earthquake surpasses 1,000, over 1,500 injured, authorities say

❗️ A 6.1 magnitude earthquake has struck south-east Afghanistan killing at least 1000 people, according to the country’s official news agency.

▪️ The quake struck early on Wednesday morning local time with its epicentre near the town of Khost south of the capital, Kabul, the US Geological Survey reported.

👌 Twitter's board of directors, in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, has unanimously approved Elon Musk’s acquisition of the micro-blogging site.

▪️ In the filing on Tuesday, Twitter said: "The Twitter Board, after considering various factors described in the section of this proxy statement captioned 'The Merger— Recommendation of the Twitter Board and Reasons for the Merger," has unanimously: (1) determined that the merger agreement is advisable and the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the merger agreement are fair to, advisable and in the best interests of Twitter and its stockholders; and (2) adopted and approved the merger'."

▪️ After the board's approval, the deal is likely to close this year; with this, Twitter will become a privately-held company at $54.20 per share.

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📹 A resident of Severodonetsk, Nikolai Pogorelov, left for a shift in Novy Urengoy in early February, and hasn't since seen his wife and three-year-old son, who remained under Ukrainian shelling; for the last month and a half did not even know if they were alive. The man was not afraid to return to the war zone for his family.

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⚡️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ On June 21, a high-precision attack launched by the Russian Aerospace Forces resulted in the elimination of up to 500 servicemen from the 59th Mechanised Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), as well as their arms and military equipment, deployed in the workshops of the Okean shipyard, located in Nikolayev.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have eliminated 5 AFU munitions depots and one Buk-M1 air defence missile system in the DPR.

▪️ Missile troops and artillery have neutralised 253 areas where AFU combatants and military equipment were concentrated, as well as six munitions depots in the LPR.

▪️ Attacks launched by aviation, missile troops and artillery have resulted in the elimination of more than 620 combatants, 24 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, as well as 27 special vehicles.

▪️ Russian air defence units have show down a Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 in the Nikolayev region and 1 MiG-29 in Dnepropetrovsk region.

▪️ Some 211 airplanes and 132 helicopters, 1,308 unmanned aerial vehicles, 349 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,733 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 594 combat vehicles equipped with multiple rocket-launching systems, 2,081 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 3,801 units of special military equipment have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.

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📹 A doctor from the LPR says that while providing medical assistance to the soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces, they said that they'd had an order to destroy the city of Kremennaya during the retreat.

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▪️ The Tuesday hearing with the January 6 Committee marked the fourth session of the panel's investigation into the causes of the Capitol breach that took place in January 2021.

🧐 With two more hearings to come, here is a quick round-up of the takeaways from both the Tuesday hearing and the previous assemblies by the panel.

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📹 A Deputy Prosecutor who defected to Donbass speaks up about Nazis abducting people: "They could walk into any house at any time, take a person in an unclear direction, tie him up with duct tape, and take him away, and no one would knew his fate."

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📹 A clergyman tells how Ukrainian nationalists tortured people using stun guns and firing at prisoners who were unable to move.

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🚭 The US Food and Drug Administration is preparing to order Juul Labs Inc to take its e-cigarettes off the market in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

▪️ The health agency could announce the decision as early as today, the report said.

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📹 Well-known military correspondent Andrei Rudenko comments on the fake news put out by Ukrainian provocateurs about the DPR bombarding itself.

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❗️ US did not allow arrival of special flight of Russian state aviation to take out employees of Russian foreign institutions, family members - Moscow

🧐 The unyielding inflation growth in the United States suggests that the Federal Reserve needs to accelerate rate hikes, probably even make them restrictive, to curb price pressures already at 40-year highs, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday.

🗯 "I think that the most recent inflation indicators, [the] various kinds, suggest to us that we need to accelerate the pace at which we can get up to a level that is neutral," the Fed chief said in his biannual testimony to the US Senate Banking Committee. "And we know we need to have restrictive policy, and that's where we're headed."

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📹 Children from the city of Gorlovka play only in front of their entrances in order to have time to run and hide in their basements if the shelling starts.

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