⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇸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."

🇺🇸 🇻🇦 Biden to have audience with Pope Francis at Vatican on Oct 29

🇺🇸🇬🇷 The United States and Greece have signed an amendment to the existing Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement. It allows the deal to remain in force indefinitely and enables American forces to train and operate from additional locations in the country.

😳 Prominent South Carolina lawyer Murdaugh charged with stealing insurance settlements from family of his dead housekeeper

🛰 Elon Musk said on Thursday he was in talks with airlines about installing Starlink, a satellite-based broadband service.

⚡️ Marine, who slammed botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan, pleads guilty to six charges.

💥 Lockheed Martin: US Army has conducted long-range precision missile test that exceeded maximum threshold

⚡️ Yellen says institutions must consider ways to protect whistleblowers amid World Bank data scandal

MORE | The range reportedly exceeds what was agreed to by the US and Russia in the now-suspended INF Treaty

⚡️ US returns to UN Human Rights Council

😷 Biden says U.S. Covid-19 case rates are declining in 39 states and we're down to 66 million unvaccinated people

U.S. congressional committee probing Capitol riot convening meeting on Tuesday Oct. 19 to vote on adopting contempt report against Trump associate Steve Bannon

UPDATE | Reports of US plans to restart evacuation flights from Afghanistan 'not accurate', State Dept. says

🇺🇸🇷🇺Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk while leaving the State Department tells reporters his meeting with US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman was "excellent."