According to the New York Post, Hunter Biden’s former business partners referred to Joe Biden as “the Big Guy” in a message the same day The Post broke news of the infamous laptop from hell left behind by the president’s son

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⚡️ Biden's video call with Xi ends after nearly 2 hour 30 minutes, White House says

Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus are continuing their crusade on American celebrities and, after duping Stephen King, decided to spoof “Twin Peaks” director David Lynch.

In a conversation with one of the pranksters, who was posing as Volodymyr Zelensky, Lynch called on "the Ukrainian president" to initiate peace efforts and do everything in his power to end the conflict peacefully.

The director then suggested that Zelensky should talk to Vladimir Putin directly by arranging a "virtual dinner" and "grabbing a couple of beers"

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⚡️ Xi Jinping, speaking about Taiwan issue in conversation with Biden, said that 'one who plays with fire' will certainly burn himself, state tv reported

Watch: Footage of Grad multiple launch rocket systems in action has been released by the Russian Defense Ministry

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⚡️ US Senate asks Biden to impose secondary sanctions on Russia, limit dual export items, waive sovereign immunity for suing Russia

⚡️ Biden told Xi that US policy on Taiwan has 'not changed', White House says

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has responded to a recent tweet by Leonardo DiCaprio in which the actor raised the issue of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, telling him: "give up your yacht before lecturing the world."

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BIDEN: "Chairman Powell and many of the significant banking personnel and economists say we're not in a recession."

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🏎 Sebastian Vettel, one of the most successful drivers in the history of Formula 1, four-time world champion, and the driver for Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team, on Thursday announced his decision to retire at the end of 2022 season.

The racer added that the decision to retire has been difficult for him, adding that his "goals have shifted from winning races and Championships to seeing my children grow, passing on my values and being able to learn from them."

During his career, Vettel won four Formula One Drivers' World Championships, 53 races, and podiumed 122 times. He is the third in the number of Grand Prix victories, behind only British racer Lewis Hamilton (103 victories) and German driver Michael Schumacher (91 victories).

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Russian Foreign Ministers Sergei Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi held talks in Tashkent at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Ministerial Summit. The ministers confirmed their readiness to increase cooperation and coordination within the framework of multilateral formats with the participation of the two countries, which once again refutes statements by the US State Department about the global isolation of Russia.

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🦠 The country’s monkeypox outbreak can still be stopped, US health officials said Thursday, despite rising case numbers and so-far limited vaccine supplies.

The pushback from federal leaders came as they announced distribution plans for 780,000 shots of the two-dose Jynneos vaccine. The doses will be allocated to states, cities and other localities based on their case numbers and the size of their populations that are considered high-risk for the disease.

There were more than 4,600 reported monkeypox cases in the US as of late Wednesday, according to the CDC. More than 99% of reported cases are in men and the vast majority of those are among men who reported sexual contact with other men.

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🗣 Employees at a Trader Joe’s supermarket in Massachusetts on Thursday became the latest workers at a major company to approve a labor union. The union vote, counted by National Labor Relations Board agents in front of witnesses from management and employees, passed 45-31 with one void. Eighty-one store workers were eligible to vote. The company has seven days to file an objection.

During the first nine months of the 2022 fiscal year, from Oct. 1 until June 30, union representation petitions filed at the National Labor Relations Board have increased 58% compared to the first three quarters of the previous fiscal year.

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🌱 An unexpected deal reached by Senate Democrats would be the most ambitious action ever taken by the US to address global warming and could help President Joe Biden come close to meeting his pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, experts said Thursday, as they sifted through a massive bill that revives action on climate change weeks after the legislation appeared dead.

The deal would spend nearly $370 billion over 10 years to boost electric vehicles, jump-start renewable energy such as solar and wind power and develop alternative energy sources like hydrogen.

The deal stunned lawmakers and activists who had given up hope that legislation could be enacted after West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said he could not support the measure because of inflation concerns. In the narrowly divided House, Democrats can lose no more than four votes and prevail on a possible party-line vote.

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