❗️The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol formally issued its extraordinary subpoena to Donald Trump on Friday.

The committee demands testimony from the former President who lawmakers say "personally orchestrated'' a multi-part effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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‼️ Nebenzia: UN Secretariat Has No Mandate to Probe Claims of Iran Providing Drones to Russia ➡️ LIVE UPDATES

🇬🇧 New UK leader to face highest government debt in 60 years

British government debt rose to the highest level in almost 60 years last month and retail sales slumped, underscoring the scale of the economic challenges facing whoever replaces Prime Minister Liz Truss after her administration imploded under the weight of its failed financial plan.

Public borrowing rose to 98% of economic output in September as rampant inflation increased interest payments on what the government owed, the Office for National Statistics said Friday. That’s higher than at any point since 1963, when Britain was still paying off debts accumulated during World War II.

Britain has begun the process of picking its third prime minister in less than four months after Truss was forced to resign Thursday following weeks of turmoil sparked by her economic plans.

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⚡️Another Attack on Civilian Crossing in Kherson Region Repelled - Spokesperson

Ukrainian troops have once again attempted to launch a missile strike targeting a civilian crossing near the Antonovsky bridge in the Kherson region; the attack was repelled by air defense, a regional emergencies representative told journalists.

"Armed formations of the Kiev regime have again tried to shell the Antonovsky bridge area in Kherson, the attack was repelled by air defense," a spokesperson of the Kherson regional emergencies services said on Friday.

Late on Thursday night, Ukrainian forces launched an attack against the same civilian crossing on the Dnepr river using the US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS).

According to regional authorities, at least four people were killed and over a dozen were injured in the attack.

📉 Deficit figures set up competing visions from Biden and GOP

The budget figures released Friday by the Treasury Department reveal dueling visions about what it means to be financially responsible: Biden can rightly claim that the budget deficit for fiscal 2022 plunged $1.4 trillion from the prior year; critics can use the same report to say that forgiving education loans pushed up the federal debt by roughly $400 billion as the government booked the full expense.

Republicans counter that Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan that helped fuel those job gains also helped to trigger high inflation, a key concern of voters going into the midterms. They also want to reverse his recent 15% minimum tax on corporations and expanded funding for the IRS, even though both could reduce forecasted deficits.

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🇷🇺 Cuban Pilot Lands Small 1960 Russian-Made Plane at South Florida Airport

Federal agents are investigating how a pilot managed to fly from Cuba to Florida on Friday morning in a single-engine biplane. A witness fishing in the Florida Straits shared a video showing the Soviet-era biplane flying low over the water.

The pilot was a 29-year-old man and he was flying alone, according to Rachel Torres, a spokeswoman for US Customs and Border Protection. He landed the Antonov AN-2 at about 11:30 a.m., at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.

The US Department of Homeland Security is investigating the flight and its passenger. The journey would have taken around 269 miles from the Cuban municipality to Miami.

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🇵🇰 Pakistan taken off watch list for terror funding

The announcement was made by Raja Kumar, the president of the Financial Action Task Force, at a news conference in Paris. The FATF welcomed “Pakistan’s significant progress in improving” its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing policies.

Pakistan had been on FATF’s gray list since 2018. Being on the Paris-based watchdog’s gray list can scare away investors and creditors, hurting exports, output and consumption. It also can make global banks wary of doing business with a country.

Friday’s announcement means Pakistan will no longer be subject to increased monitoring by the FATF. The FATF is made up of 37 member countries, including the United States, and two regional groups, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the European Commission.

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💉 Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine will cost $110-$130 per dose

Pfizer will charge $110 to $130 for a dose of its COVID-19 vaccine once the US government stops buying the shots, but the drugmaker says it expects many people will continue receiving it for free. Pfizer executives said the commercial pricing for adult doses could start early next year, depending on when the government phases out its program of buying and distributing the shots.

More than 375 million doses of the original vaccine, which Pfizer developed with the German drugmaker BioNTech, have been distributed in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vaccine brought in $36.78 billion in revenue last year for Pfizer and was the drugmaker’s top-selling product. Analysts predict that it will rack up another $32 billion this year, according to FactSet.

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✈️ Amazon will use Hawaiian Airlines to operate cargo planes

Hawaiian Airlines will operate 10 cargo planes for Amazon.com starting next fall under a deal that could eventually involve more planes and give Amazon a 15% stake in the airline.

The airline’s parent company, Hawaiian Holdings Inc., said Friday that it will fly and maintain an “initial fleet” of 10 leased Airbus A330-300 jets for the retail giant. 

Hawaiian said it issued warrants that Amazon can exercise over the next nine years and acquire up to 15% of Hawaiian stock. Shares of Hawaiian Holdings jumped 13% in afternoon trading on Friday.

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🇺🇸 Nearly 22M have already requested student loan relief

President Joe Biden said Friday that nearly 22 million people have applied for federal student loan relief in the week since his administration made its online application available — more than half of the number the White House believes are eligible for the program.

Biden’s plan calls for $10,000 in federal student debt cancellation for those with incomes below $125,000 a year, or households that make less than $250,000 a year. Those who received federal Pell Grants to attend college are eligible for an additional $10,000. 

The Biden administration had promised not to clear any debt before Oct. 23 as it battled the legal challenges, but the soonest it was expected to begin erasing debt was mid-November.

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⚡️Air raid sirens activated in several Ukrainian regions, local media report

Air alert sounded in Kiev too, city authorities said.

🤔"Who’s it gonna be next? Rishi Sunak for the country’s sake? Or Boris Johnson… for f**k’s sake?" British talk show host Graham Norton had an expletive-laden response to rumors of Boris Johnson making a political comeback

▪️The comedian's remark at last night's Graham Norton Show prompted laughter from the audience, which like the rest of Britain, braces for a new prime minister, after Liz Truss resigned this week a little over a month into the job.

▪️It is expected that the next British prime minister will be announced by October 28.

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📹WATCH: US President Joe Biden short-circuits when asked if First Lady Jill Biden will allow him to run for a second presidential term in 2024.

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"They have tossed aside The Lettuce, now they're serving up... the AUBERGINE"

▪️Boris "the Aubergine" Johnson is gracing the cover of the Daily Star's latest issue, which is dedicated to the ex-prime minister's possible return to Downing Street.

▪️British bookies are apparently taking bets for BoJo to succeed Liz Truss, who resigned earlier this week.

▪️Last week, they were taking bets on who would last longer – Truss as a prime minister or lettuce, which decomposes in 35 days. Eventually, the vegetable emerged victorious.

▪️In case Johnson tosses his hat into the ring, it takes 14-30 days for eggplant to decay.

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📊More than half of Americans root for the villain, OnePoll study on behalf of Butterfinger (the candy bar) shows.

The study indicates that at least 51% of Americans who enjoy movies root for the villain, another 60% of viewers, watch a series or film just for the villain, while 77% of viewers think that a villain can make or break a show or film.

💬“It’s no secret villains provide much of the entertainment in any story…They’re also often the driving force, most notably by giving the hero a challenge to overcome, without which there wouldn’t be much of a tale to tell,” a spokesperson for Butterfinger said.

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❗️Russian airborne troops completely eliminated the 1st Mechanized Battalion of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Army near Krivoy Rog

📹The footage shows both destroyed MTLB and BRDM's belonging to the Ukrainian Army.

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