Republican House Speaker indicated that he will support efforts to expunge the two impeachments of former President Donald Trump

McCarthy said that he supports the expungements because one impeachment “was not based on true facts” while the other was pushed forward “on the basis of no due process.”

Earlier in the week, McCarthy indicated that he would not support any fast-tracked impeachment calls for President Joe Biden unless they go through the committee process and Biden is given an opportunity to defend himself. He noted that Republicans opposed the Trump impeachment that did not give him that opportunity.

The first impeachment of Trump passed the House of Representatives without a single Republican vote. The second impeachment, which was related to the January 6, 2021 riots and his alleged role in encouraging them, gained the support of ten House Republicans.

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Air raid warnings were issued in several regions of Ukraine

Air raid sirens went off in the Ukrainian regions of Sumy, Poltava, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, as well as the Kiev-controlled parts of Zaporozhye region, at around 19:50 GMT on Saturday, the ministry’s online map showed.

On the night from Friday to Saturday, air raid warnings were in effect across the entire territory of Ukraine. Ukrainian media reported that explosions were heard in several regions of Ukraine in the early hours of Saturday.

Ukrainian media reported after midnight that explosions were heard in the Ukraine-controlled city of Zaporozhye during the night.
Precision strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure have been carried out by Russia since October 10 (two days after the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge).

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At least ten people were injured in the village of Umm Safa, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, during clashes with settlers

The settlers attacked peaceful residents of the village on Saturday and set ten homes and seven cars on fire, the Palestinian Shehab News Agency said.

At least ten people were injured as a result, Shehab said. The settlers also set the local farmers’ harvest on fire.

Settlers set up an outpost in Umm Safa earlier this week, but were forced to remove it on Saturday due to clashes with local residents.

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Russian forces have repelled enemy attacks in the south Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, destroying tanks, armored vehicles and manpower

"In the south Donetsk direction, the advanced units of the Vostok group of forces repelled an enemy attack in the Makarovka area. A tank, armored combat vehicles and manpower were destroyed. Having suffered losses, the enemy retreated,"  Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson said.

In the Zaporozhye direction, another Ukrainian attack was repelled and the enemy retreated having suffered losses in manpower and equipment, the spokesperson added.

In the South Donetsk direction, Russian forces have also destroyed over 50 Ukrainian militants and seven armored vehicles, the defense ministry spokesperson told Sputnik.

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🇺🇸 Biden allies ignore voters' desire for primary debates

Top Democrats have made it clear that Joe Biden won't cross swords with his Democratic opponents, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson, let alone third-party candidate Cornel West.

In addition, Democratic operatives claim that Kennedy and Williamson are "gadflies" who don't deserve to debate a sitting president. According to them, Biden's "marginal" opponents could score political points by sharing a stage with the incumbent, while the latter is unlikely to gain anything. They also cite Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s controversial vaccine remarks and an unorthodox position on the conflict in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, a number of surveys indicate that the American people want to see a series of Democratic debates during the 2024 campaign. Per the Suffolk University poll, eight in 10 Democratic primary voters share this stance. A Redfield & Wilton Strategies survey shows that 68% of eligible voters believe that the Dems should hold primary debates. The figure is even higher among those who voted for Joe in 2020: 79% of them have agreed that there must be a televised event.

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🇨🇺 Cuban president expresses solidarity to Putin amid Wagner mutiny attempt

💬 "I express the solidarity of the people and government of Cuba to the respected President Putin and the brotherly people of the Russian Federation, in the face of attempts to provoke an armed rebellion in the country. We are fully convinced that unity and constitutional order will prevail," Miguel Diaz-Canel said.

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📹 The situation near the Southern Military District headquarters in Rostov-on-Don is calm, and traffic along Budennovsky Prospekt has resumed, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

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Two dead, over a dozen injured in Michigan shooting

At least five different caliber weapons were used in the shooting at the street party in Saginaw, local police said. The party had been promoted on social media.

💬 "As of this release, fifteen people were injured by gunshot or being struck by a vehicle. Two victims, a 19- year-old man and a 51-year-old woman, have died. All fifteen victims were transported to local hospitals for medical treatment," the Michigan police said.

Law enforcement in Saginaw County had dispersed the party goers multiple times at different locations prior to the shooting, according to police. An investigation is underway.


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📹 Russian forces eliminate Ukrainian stronghold in Kupyansk direction

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❗️Wagner Group forces are leaving Voronezh region in southwestern Russia very calmly and without incident, local authorities say

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🇨🇦 Canadian police probe ‘circumstances’ behind death of five on board Titan sub

Superintendent Kent Osmond of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told reporters that a team of investigators had been formed with the "sole purpose" of defining whether a criminal investigation would be warranted.

Asked whether the police had any suspicion of criminal activity, Osmond said that "There is no suspicion of criminal activity per se, but the RCMP is taking initial steps to assess whether or not we will go down that road."

Apart from the police probe, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board announced its own investigation, as Titan's support vessel was the Canadian-flagged Polar Prince. This followed the USCG asking the country’s National Transportation Safety Board to assist in its investigation into the implosion of the Titan submersible, which has been called a major marine casualty.

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🇺🇸 US intelligence two weeks ago received data indicating that Prigozhin was preparing a mutiny, and warned the White House about this, but they decided not to make the information public, US media report, citing officials

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❗️Wagner Group forces are leaving Lipetsk region, about 400 kilometers south of Moscow, local authorities say

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🇷🇺📹 'No need to pay attention': Sergey Lavrov comments on statements by Biden and Zelensky about Russian nuclear threat

The foreign minister said that he cannot provide commentary on “stream of consciousness” statements by these politicians, adding that he doesn’t have a medical education to do that – quipping that Ursula von der Leyen does.

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🇷🇸 Serbia will never support a coup in any country, President Aleksandar Vucic said

‘We did not support one in Turkiye or in Russia, and we would not support one in America either,’ he said, adding that power is won through elections.

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🇨🇳 China completes construction of its longest undersea oil and gas pipeline

The Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation has recently finished construction a new pipeline which now links an offshore extraction platform operating at an undersea natural gas field in the South China Sea with an "onshore receiving station" on the Hainan Island.

According to Chinese media, the 115.5-kilometer pipeline became a "key transmission project" that now links the offshore extraction platform with the "onshore receiving station."

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💬 "They need, in many ways a Ukrainian defeat"

In latest episode of our New Rules show, we were joined by Scott Ritter, an ex-US Marine intelligence officer, who explains why NATO knew the Ukrainian counteroffensive would fail from the start.

🔊If you missed the episode, watch it on Rumble or listen to it via the website or app!

❗️Russia's MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces continued to attempt offensive operations in the DPR, near Krasny Liman and in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled two attacks in the south of the DPR and in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️ Russia also repelled ten attacks in the Artemovsk area;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled four attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Avdeevka, Maryinka, Pervomaisky;

▪️ Russian troops stopped the activities of two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Serebryansky forest area;

▪️ The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the south of the DPR and in the Zaporozhye region amounted to over 170 soldiers;

▪️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 430 soldiers in the DPR;

▪️ Russian troops destroyed up to 130 Ukrainian servicemen near Krasny Liman;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 25 military units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Kupyansk;

▪️ Russian air defense systems intercepted a Tochka-U missile and a MLRS HIMARS projectile of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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