🤔 Lawyers for NY Governor Andrew Cuomo have said there was a plot to drive him from office.

One of them, Rita Glavin, argued on Friday that the investigators are acting like “prosecutors, judge and jury” instead of being independent.

“This investigation was conducted in a manner to support a predetermined narrative”, she told journalists.

If such a plot really were to exist, would it succeed?

Cuomo, accused of sexually harassing at least 11 female colleagues, denies any wrongdoing and has refused to resign.

Meanwhile, investigators have also found that the governor, along with a senior aide, attempted to retaliate against the victims.

📹 Sitting in US-made Humvee vehicles, Taliban militants were seen parading through the streets of Zaranj, the captured capital of Afghanistan's Nimroz province.

📃 Senators have voted to start wrapping up the debate on a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan.

The key vote was 67-27; 18 GOP members joined all the Democrats to help the bill pass the 60-vote threshold.

👀 Another day, another American politician is accused of sexual abuse.

The Arizona House and Senate Democratic caucuses have called on Tony Navarrete, a Democratic senator from Arizona, to resign.

The “rising star in the Democratic Party” – as ABC News described Navarette – was taken to jail on Thursday on charges of sexually abusing a boy and attempting to abuse another.

If convicted of all the charges against him, the 35-year-old may face up to 49 years behind bars.

🙊 An interesting controversy took place in Washington, DC, when transgender Tiesa Meskis decided to ask the shopkeeper to remove a sign from the doors reading “If you are born with a d***, you are NOT a chick” because it offended Tiesa. Afterwards, he added that his intention was to say that "a trans woman is also a woman".

✍️ First, Meskis should remember the simple truth that “trans-women” are not, in fact, women. They’re men who believe they’re women - that’s why they’re called “trans”.

✅ Secondly, the store owner, as a US citizen, is ennoscriptd to First Amendment rights protecting his freedom of speech.

❓ What do you think? Who won the free speech fight?

🌎 The number of wealthy Americans renouncing their citizenship in favour of a foreign country reached 6,707 in 2020, which is an all-time high, a report by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has revealed.

😄 Not everyone lining up at the border wants to enter the US; some want to leave

🥳 The recently-released footage allegedly shot from a drone flying over ex-US President Barack Obama's residence cast a shadow over a previous statement by his spokesperson that the former POTUS' 60th birthday party would be "scaled back".

🎪 They said that they have reduced the number of guests, but it seems that the size of this tent speaks for itself.

Big Tent Party

😳 Colorado State Police received information that a woman, later identified as 33-year-old Chelsea Trujillo, forcibly put her 5-year-old son in her truck.

How do you bring up your children?

💉 A number of Americans, concerned about the rapid spread of the new delta strain of Covid-19, are said to be lying about their first vaccination doses in order to get revaccinated.

🤤 hmm - I'll have a third shot, please

Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill is a disgrace. If Mitch McConnell was smart, which we’ve seen no evidence of, he would use the debt ceiling card to negotiate a good infrastructure package. 
 
This is a 2,700 page bill that no one could have possibly read—they would have needed to take speed reading courses. It is a gift to the Democrat Party, compliments of Mitch McConnell and some RINOs, who have no idea what they are doing. There is very little on infrastructure in all of those pages. Instead, they track your driving so they can tax you. It is Joe Biden’s form of a gas tax but far bigger, far higher and, mark my words, far worse. They want to track you everywhere you go and watch everything you do!
 
Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill will be used against the Republican Party in the upcoming elections in 2022 and 2024. It will be very hard for me to endorse anyone foolish enough to vote in favor of this deal. 
 
The good news is that the progressive wing in the Democrat Party will lose all credibility with this approval. Additionally, Kevin McCarthy and Republican House members seem to be against the bill. If it can’t be killed in the Senate, maybe it dies in the House!
 
Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats understand that this is the way to get the horrendous $3.5 trillion, actually $5 trillion, Green New Deal bill done in the House. Mitch is playing right into Nancy’s hands, not to mention the fact Chuck Schumer is already going around saying this is a big victory for the Democrats. Whether it’s the House or the Senate, think twice before you approve this terrible deal. Republicans should wait until after the Midterms when they will gain all the strength they’ll need to make a good deal, but remember, you already have the card, it’s called the debt ceiling, which the Democrats threatened us with constantly.

🇺🇸A Mooney M20 single-engine plane has crashed into an unoccupied house in the city of Victoria, Minnesota, leaving several people dead, CBS Minnesota reports.

Check out some news you may have missed:

▪️ The Olympic closing ceremony has ended in Tokyo, marking the victory of the US Olympic team in the overall medal count.

▪️ The US hit 100,000 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday – the highest number since before the vaccine rollout.

▪️ Virginia Roberts may file a multi-million-pound civil action against Prince Andrew in New York before the end of this week, according to her lawyer.

▪️ One Chicago police officer died and another was critically wounded Saturday night during a confrontation on the city's South Side.

▪️ New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been laying low ever since releasing a video response denying the allegations of sexual harassment from 11 women illustrated in a report by the state attorney general as both public and political figures, including President Biden, call for his resignation.

😦 Home security video shows the moments a plane in Victoria, Minnesota crashed on Saturday, killing everyone on board!

👋 Sayonara, Tokyo Olympics!

This year's Olympic Games are now officially closed. The next Summer Games are set to take place in Paris in 2024.

😡 Social media users have harshly criticised US climate envoy John Kerry after the Daily Mail reported that the official used his private jet to attend the birthday party of former President Barack Obama.

Kerry was among a plethora of guests that included director Steven Spielberg, actor George Clooney, talk show host Oprah Winfrey, and other celebrities that attended Obama's 60th birthday bash, which was held on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.

😜 Former President Barack Obama was caught on video dancing maskless at his 60th birthday party on Saturday night in Martha's Vineyard

Republican Senator Bill Hagerty has refused to sign off on the passage of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, calling for a full-blown and "robust" debate on it.

Senators earlier voted 67-27 to limit debate on the legislation. Hagerty currently remains the lone Republican declining to speed up the voting process.

📹 Chicago police gathered to honour their comrade who was killed in a shooting, as an ambulance carried her body past lines of saluting officers.

The fatal incident occurred in the West Englewood neighbourhood. The officers confronted three suspects and managed to shoot one of them.

One suspect was hospitalised, another was later arrested, and the third (a female) remains at large.

RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has suggested in an interview that former President Trump continues to lead the GOP even now after his electoral defeat.

Do you agree?

It’s getting harder and harder to find anything in America that hasn’t been dubbed racist at some point.

The University of Wisconsin has removed a 70-ton “racist” rock from its campus after a minority student organisation complained that back in 1920, a word used for describing big and dark rocks contained the N-word.

🐻 It looks like our furry California burglar of cars has a brother in Colorado, otherwise it's tough to explain this dangerous addiction to car-opening.

Officials in Colorado reminded citizens on Twitter to lock their cars and homes after a bear apparently walked door-to-door and opened multiple car doors in one night