Sputnik goes live from Washington, DC where US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan are holding a press conference after a trilateral meeting.

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⚡️ Here are the most important statements US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made during the meeting in Washington, DC:

▪️ "Time is running short" regarding Iran returning to compliance with the nuclear deal

▪️ The US is watching Iran's comments and posture carefully and is prepared to turn to "other options" if Iran doesn't change course

▪️ Iran's responses to the US' willingness to return to the nuclear talks have not been "encouraging"

▪️ Washington has not seen willingness from Iran to engage in diplomacy for its return to the JCPOA

⚡️ URGENT | Blinken: US to press ahead with its plan to reopen Palestinian mission in Jerusalem

"We'll be moving forward with the process of opening a consulate as part of deepening of those ties with the Palestinians," Blinken said at the State Department.

⚡️ U.S. Assistant Attorney General For Civil Rights Kristen Clarke says the Justice Department is probing a Texas juvenile detention centre to find out if there's a "pattern or practice" of physical or sexual abuse.

The first letters have been installed as part of a project in Washington DC to make Black Lives Matter Plaza a permanent fixture in front of the White House

❗️January 6th committee issues fresh subpoena for former Trump DoJ official Jeffrey Clark

🗣 "The Select Committee’s investigation has revealed credible evidence that you attempted to involve the Department of Justice in efforts to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power," the subpoena read.

❗️🇺🇸 🇺🇿 🇦🇫 Pentagon officials will visit Uzbekistan later this month to explore the possibility of housing American counterterrorism forces in the country that will monitor terrorism threats in Afghanistan, Politico reports, citing US defense and congressional sources

🎁Christmas without gifts?

Store shelves across the US are becoming increasingly barren thanks to a global supply chain crisis that has the bad luck of happening just ahead of the holiday season.

Many goods that are made in China - toys, clothes, home appliances and much more - are stuck either in factories or in containers onboard cargo ships off the US coast waiting their turn to unload.
The situation will not improve anytime soon.

Major companies like Walmart, FedEx and UPS must now go all in to "significantly increase" the overnight transportation of goods from US ports, US President Joe Biden announced.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇸Russian President Vladimir Putin about the US dollar:

🔹the US dollar is undermining its position as the world's reserve currency;

🔹the US is harming itself when using its currency as a sanctions tool;

🔹Russia is not interested in completely stopping payments in US dollars.

'Good first step': New York state Governor Kathy Hochul has apologized to the relatives of nursing homes victims

The families Hochul met with gave the governor a list of demands to right the wrongs of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo;
🔸enact elder-care reforms;
🔸admit fault in the controversial directive;
🔸support an investigation into the nursing home crisis;
🔸release all remaining nursing home data;
🔸conduct a “re-audit” of all COVID-19-related nursing home deaths;
🔸introduce a nursing home victims compensation fund;
🔸create a nursing home victims memorial.

🚢 The US Navy's Criminal Investigation Service celebrated the 246th anniversary of the formation of the US Navy, with a beautiful image revealed on twitter.

But wait, isn't that a Soviet Kirov-class nuclear-powered heavy missile cruiser pictured on it?

Well, we will never know what it was intended to be as, after a flurry of mocking and outraged comments, the tweet was deleted.

😳 When adult supervision goes wrong: Shannon Bruga, a woman from South Bay, California, has been charged for allegedely pushing binge drinking and facilitating sexual assaults at secret teenage parties.

The parties spanned from June 2020 to May 2021, and were primarily attended by teens between the age of 14 and 15 where she was the lone adult. She allegedly helped teens sneak out of their homes, and was adamant that the teens keep the parties secret.

She is currently being held in Ada County Jail on a $900,000 bond.

⚡️Twitter down for users worldwide

⚡️ URGENT | US reportedly planning to resume evacuation flights from Afghanistan by end of year

😦 No man is an island?

The fight between NYPD officers and a black man caught on camera.

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Thursday that her talks with China's Vice Premier Liu He got off to a "good start" last week and that she planned to raise Beijing's non-compliance with Phase 1 trade deal in future discussions.

"It was a good start," she told journalists. Asked what the U.S. President Joe Biden's administration would do about China failing to live up to its trade commitments, she said: "These are exactly the issues we need to take up in our conversations with China."