❗️According to the FBI, the U.S. homicide rate increased 29% in 2020 compared to 2019, the first such increase in four years

⚡️ US Senate Republicans are set to block government funding, debt limit bill just days ahead of the shutdown deadline

❗️ An appeals court has ruled that New York City can order all teachers and staff to get the COVID vaccine, lifting previous stay

🇰🇵🇺🇸🇰🇷North Korea urges the US administration to abandon its "hostile policy" towards Pyongyang, although there are currently no such prospects, North Korea's Ambassador to the UN Kim Song said. The ambassador also said the United States should stop deploying strategic weapons in South Korea, and added that Pyongyang does not intend to use nuclear weapons or threaten the United States, South Korea or other countries.

The University of Washington has created separate housing specifically for black students.

🗣 "The program will explore and celebrate the diversity of Black and African American people and culture, with historical and contemporary context," the program website reads, also saying that all "Western students residing in the program help foster a warm and vibrant community supporting social , personal and academic success."

🧐 How could separation create togetherness?

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⚡️ The US military says there is no immediate threat from North Korean missile launch.

🗣 "We are aware of the missile launch and are consulting closely with our allies and partners. While we have assessed that this event does not pose an immediate threat to U.S. personnel or territory, or to our allies, the missile launch highlights the destabilizing impact of the DPRK’s illicit weapons program," the United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) said in a statement to Sputnik

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@real_DonaldJTrump recalled the recent remarks made by the head of DHS, stating in a statement that the United States is “a Nation humiliated like never before.”

🗣 "They are not masked or mandated, but just let free to roam all over our Country and affect what was just a year ago, a great Nation. Now we are a Nation humiliated like never before, both with the historically embarrassing ’withdrawal’ from Afghanistan, and our Border where millions of people are pouring in. Our Country is being destroyed!”

🛍 It appears that looting in broad daylight has become a routine activity not only in chain stores, but also in high-end boutique shops.

On September 13, six masked men entered a Moncler store and fled with expensive goods. At least one of these criminals had a weapon.

👛 Bottega Veneta lost about 35 bags, each of which costs thousands of dollars, while three men reportedly conducted a similar raid for purses at Intermix at 40 East Delaware and got away in a gold BMW.

😳 Just check the video of this insanity

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🇺🇸🇷🇺Russian programmer and hacker Alexey Burkov, who was convicted in the United States and whom Russia accuses of theft and malware creation, has been extradited from the United States to Russia, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs' spokeswoman says.

#URGENT | Moscow calls on NATO, EU to urge Pristina to withdraw forces from Kosovo and prevent escalation

⏰ Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie will testify today in front of the House Armed Services Committee to discuss the U.S. military's exit from Afghanistan

⚡️ Billowing plumes of smoke apparently filmed at Camp Victory base near Baghdad, where U.S. troops are located - reports

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U.S. Defense Secretary Austin calls 'over-the-horizon' counterterrorism 'difficult but absolutely possible'

Afghan Army's collapse 'took us all by surprise' - U.S. Defense Secretary Austin

U.S. did not fully comprehend depth of corruption, poor leadership in senior Afghan military ranks - U.S. Defense Secretary Austin

'We helped build a state, but we could not forge a nation' in Afghanistan - U.S. Defense Secretary Austin tells Senate committee

Austin says Doha Agreement with Taliban 'had a demoralizing effect' on Afghan soldiers

Top U.S. general warns that reconstituted Al Qaeda with aspirations to attack United States is a very real possibility, perhaps in as little as 12 months

Milley defends call to Chinese counterpart at end of Trump presidency, says: 'My task at that time was to de-escalate'