💭US Congresswoman Victoria Spartz urges Biden, Zelensky to ‘stop playing politics’ in Ukraine

❗US imposes new Iran-related sanctions targeting oil, shipping companies - Treasury

📹Banned ‘butterfly’ anti-personnel land mines, torture rooms, and shell craters: what Ukrainian forces left after retreating from Lisichansk (the last city of the LPR cleared of Ukrainian troops before the full liberation of the republic)

Before retreating, Ukrainian troops scattered banned “butterfly” anti-personnel land mines in central districts of Lisichansk. Locals had to start defusing them themselves. This video shows what else Ukrainian soldiers left behind in their wake

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⚡When God is angry: lightning strike on car caught on video

A Florida resident has recorded a lightning strike on video. According to the woman, her husband and children were there. Luckily, none of them were injured.

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Priti Patel has sided with the group of Cabinet ministers calling for the PM to resign - Times journalist

❗Jury finds Eric Holder guilty of rapper Nipsey Hussle's murder

🎥"Everyone feels the same": French journalists who stayed in Lisichansk after the fighting ended witnessed the joy of locals after the Russian Army liberated the city.

Residents told foreign correspondents that their future is only with Russia – and that they happily call themselves Russian.

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🏛White House Press Secretary rejects to answer Questions about leaked voicemail from Hunter Biden’s Laptop. During a press briefing on Tuesday, Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer a reporter’s question about the audio, while simply claiming it has yet to be verified.

The voicemail in question came from Joe Biden in 2018 who discussed a New York Times article about his son’s foreign business affairs and suggested: “he is in the clear.” This is in spite of the elder Biden claiming he was unaware of Hunter’s foreign affairs while running for president in 2020.

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‼️UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told members of his cabinet that he will not resign as this may result in political instability, The Times reported on Wednesday.

‼️Almost 30 UK government officials, including key figures like UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, have already submitted their resignations over the recent scandal involving former deputy chief whip Christopher Pincher.

✊✳️The Women’s March is planning to rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday in protest of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating the federal right to abortion.

As part of what they’re calling the “Summer of Rage,” the organization is calling for executive action to protect abortion.

We can't go back. We won't go back. And we're putting our bodies on the line to prove it. Join us in Washington, DC on July 9th - because if our leaders won't take action, we will," the group said Wednesday in a tweet.

The rally is set to start at 10 a.m. at Franklin Square Park with a march to the White House and a sit-in to follow around 11 a.m., a press release said.

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🎥💥 “Make Rifles Great Again” In a viral campaign ad, Arizona GOP congressional candidate Jerone Davison says an AR-15 "is the only thing standing between your family and a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods..."

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‼️British Welsh Secretary Simon Hart Announces His Resignation

➡️US authorities confirmed the eighth death stemming from the Highland Park, Illinois July 4, mass shooting this Wednesday.

According to reports, the eighth victim of the attack was Eduardo Uvaldo, 69 years old, who died in the Evanston Hospital from injuries received from gunshots.

On Monday, the primary suspect in the massacre, Robert E. Crimo III, 22, was captured. He later confessed to having fired several shots with a rifle while perched on the roof of a building overlooking the Fourth of July parade route.

Before the horrific events, Crimo had posted videos on his social networks that can be interpreted as a preview of the massacre he supposedly carried out.

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🇺🇸💬President Biden speaks to union workers and retirees about the American Rescue Plan’s pension protections at Max S. Hayes High School in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 6.

"We've got a long way to go because of inflation, because of—I call it, 'The Putin Tax Increase.' Putin because of gasoline and all that grain he's keeping from being able to get to the market."

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🔎📚Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump is joining a lawsuit against Baltimore City Schools, which accuses the school system of wasting tax dollars and failing to provide an adequate education to generations of students.

Crump told Project Baltimore. “It's just as horrific when you think about our children being killed softly, slowly, every day in an unsympathetic, uncaring school system that believes in just passing them along to get along.” Crump is nationally known for representing the families of Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor.

In joining the lawsuit, Crump will help represent plaintiffs Jovani and Shawnda Patterson, two Baltimore City parents who filed the lawsuit in January against the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners, Baltimore City Council, and Mayor Brandon Scott.

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🔎🏀President Joe Biden has called the wife of WNBA player Brittney Griner, who is detained in Russia, and has pledged that he is working to win her release as soon as possible, the White House said Wednesday.

Biden's conversation with Griner's wife, Cherelle Griner, comes after Brittney Griner wrote Biden a letter on Monday. In the letter, Brittney Griner told the president she feared she would spend forever in a Russian jail. She has been detained for four months.

The WNBA star is currently on trial in Russia, accused of possessing vape cartridges containing cannabis oil.

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🚨🚓Washington D.C. Police arrested a man who had two Molotov cocktails near Union Station yesterday afternoon.

Authorities said around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, two USCP patrol officers received a report that someone had Molotov cocktails along Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest near Union Station. According to the officers, the suspect threw one of the Molotov cocktails at the officers while trying to light it.

He dropped another Molotov cocktail that was made out of a tequila bottle stuffed with a sock and a liquid that the USCP Hazardous Material Response team later determined to be a petroleum-based accelerant. Police recovered a backpack that had two more bottles of liquid at the scene. Two officers were treated for minor injuries after the incident.

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