🏛 US House passes election bill spurred by Jan. 6

The US House of Representatives passed a bill to overhaul Congress' certification process for presidential elections on Wednesday, a crucial step as Democrats hope to prevent the kind of chaos from Jan. 6, 2021, when rioters tried to subvert Joe Biden's victory. The Senate is considering its own legislation to reform the Electoral Count Act, with a panel set to debate and possibly modify its version on Tuesday.

The Presidential Election Reform Act would clearly reaffirm that the vice president has no role in validating a presidential election beyond acting as a figurehead who oversees the counting process, barring that person from changing the results. It also would expand the threshold necessary for members of both chambers to object to a state’s results, as well as clarify the role governors play in the process. Finally, it would make clear that state legislatures can’t change election rules retroactively to alter the results.

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Additional sanctions to be imposed on Russia over Donbass referenda - EU Statement

The European Union will impose new sanctions on Russia's leadership and people involved in organizing referenda in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, according to a declaration by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on behalf of the EU.

📺 Trump claims presidents can declassify documents telepathically

Former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he had declassified the documents he took with him to his Mar-a-Lago estate that have since become the subject of an extensive Justice Department investigation.

Speaking on Fox News’ “Hannity,” Trump declined to point to specific evidence of that declassification. In the interview, Trump said he did not pack any boxes when he left the White House, instead leaving the task to the General Services Administration, which helps facilitate presidential transitions.

“There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it,” Trump said. “If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, ‘It’s declassified.’ Even by thinking about it.”

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📹 Russian forces captured a Ukrainian-made armored personnel carrier which had been fitted with foreign weapons, and a mechanized infantry combat vehicle after defeating Ukrainian units during the special op

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📹 Russia's "Smerch" multiple launch rocket systems are capable of hitting identified objects at a range of between 70km and 90km during the special military operation in Ukraine

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⚡️⚡️ Russia's Federal Security Service says thwarted attempted terrorist attack by Ukrainian special services at oil and gas facility supplying energy to Turkey and Europe

It's been reported that two improvised explosive devices have been seized and a man who had been recruited by the Ukrainian Security Service has been detained

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NYPD officers found several suitcases containing human body parts in a Brooklyn apartment after they received a call that a tenant was missing and there was a nasty smell coming from the apartment.

Entering the sixth-floor apartment in the 10-story building, they immediately found blood and human remains. At present a number of authorities are investigating the case

⚡️ First referendum results in Zaporozhye region will be announced on September 28 - Election Commission

Joe Biden gave his audience a display of his lack of sure-footedness once again. This time the problems arose after he addressed the conference of the Global Fund to Fight HIV. After his speech, the US president spent a few seconds trying to work out how to leave his platform while offering to shake hands with someone who wasn't there

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NYPD have released a video of suspects who scrawled “f**k the Queen” on the Bull of Wall Street earlier this month.

According to the police, the obscene message was carved into the financial district's bronze sculpture by Italian artist Arturo di Modica at around 2.30am on 9 September - a day after Queen Elizabeth II died. The Bull of Wall Street has been vandalized several times in the past

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⚡️⚡️ Over 50 Russian, Donbass POWs returned from Ukraine after exchange - Russia's defense ministry

👉 "As a result of a complex negotiation process on the exchange, 55 military personnel of the Russian armed forces, the Donetsk and Luhansk republics, who were in fatal danger in captivity, were returned from the territory of Ukraine controlled by the Kiev regime tonight," the ministry said, adding that returned soldiers are now in Russian hospitals.

⚡️Turkish President Erdogan is planning to hold a high-level meeting that will discuss Russia’s MIR payment system on Friday, Reuters reported, citing sources

Russia's Ministry of Defense has published footage of prisoners exchange between Russia and Ukraine

⚡️Six killed, six wounded as a result of Ukrainian shelling of a covered market in Donetsk - Mayor

Being one of the biggest international events of the year, the UN General Assembly gets a lot of media attention. But not everything that's been said reaches the airwaves. Christopher C. Black, an expert on international criminal, whom I interviewed on Wednesday, pointed at the fact that some speakers, such as the Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi get much less attention than Joe Biden: “The only thing they mentioned today on CNN, I noticed, was Iran's statement that they want to get justice for the murder by the United States of General Soleimani in Iraq a couple of years ago. And that's a murder that Biden didn't apologize for.”

Aftermath of Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk