🇷🇺🇺🇸Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk wrapped up his day of talks with officials and the business community in the US at a presser where he told reporters:

🔻A key note during his meetings was that US-Russian relations must be improved, neither side is satisfied with the current state of affairs.

🔻US companies are very "sensible and positive" about the possibility of working in Russia.

🔻Russia and the United States can reach a record high in trade turnover by the end of 2021, he also said.

'Not into golden showers': Donald Trump denies 'pee tape' allegations at GOP retreat

According to the Washington Post, the ex-POTUS addressed allegations about him hiring prostitutes to urinate on a bed at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton.

🗣 "I’m not into golden showers," Trump said. "You know the great thing, our great first lady — ‘That one,’ she said, ‘I don’t believe that one.'"

The voyeuristic act was mentioned, but never confirmed, in a so called 'Steele dossier', a document compiled and produced in 2016 for a private investigative firm hired by the Clinton campaign to dig up dirt on Trump.

💰Two men flee after stealing jewelry in Brooklyn, New York City, NY.

The men allegedly grabbed bags of jewels from the trunk of a man's car in Borough Park earlier in the day. The suspects sped off in a vehicle with temporary New Jersey plates.

Needed some gold to have fun in NJ casinos this weekend?

Dozens of protesters March through downtown Washington DC calling for Metro Police to be held accountable for the killing of 27 year old Antwan Gilmore.

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🚔 Eight people were injured after a stolen vehicle pursuit ended in an AC Transit bus crashing into a home in San Francisco.

Nobody on the bus was transported to hospital, however all four people in the stolen vehicle were injured, and one is in critical condition, CHP officials said.

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😳More than 90 snakes were found under a house in northern California

Al Wolf, director of Sonoma County Reptile Rescue, was called by a woman who said she had seen rattlesnakes scurry under her house. Wolf stated that he found over 90 rattlesnakes preparing to hibernate. It took him 3 trips to the woman's house to remove all the snakes.

🪱All the snakes were Northern Pacific rattlesnakes, the only venomous snake found in northern California.

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🇦🇫💵 The US has offered to pay the families of Afghans who died in the August 29 drone strike in Kabul - the last such act before American troops officially withdrew from Afghanistan.

In a Friday statement, the Pentagon pledged an unspecified condolence payment to the relatives of 10 civilians after a drone strike targeted a van being driven by Zemari Ahmadi. It was believed that Ahmadi had ties to the Islamic State; however, the claim has since been debunked.

Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby has since described the drone strike as a “tragic mistake” that ultimately killed “innocent victims who bore no blame.”

⚡Multiple injuries have been reported as shots were fired during a high school football game at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama

⚡️ Texas constable deputy fatally shot, two others injured during 'ambush' outside nightclub

😨 Like something out of a blockbuster action movie!

Check out this video of a train smashing through a truck transporting several cars on a crossing in Oklahoma, US.

🔍 Late US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein tried to lure dozens of women from Russia and other post-Soviet countries into sexual slavery, according to a lawsuit filed by an unnamed Russian woman against Epstein's estate executors and his former assistant Lesley Groff.

📌 The plaintiff, using the pseudonym "Jane Doe" in place of her real name, filed a class action on behalf of herself and a putative class of similarly situated women with a New York district court earlier this week.

🤔 Are nails the biggest problem for the US military?

US Army Major General Jo Clyborne was ridiculed on social media after she protested that the military would not allow her to wear a French manicure to work.
Clyborne tweeted a photo on Thursday evening which showed her removing her manicure.

Aren't there more important issues that need to be addressed?

Former US President Bill Clinton will stay in the hospital for another day - until Sunday, a spokesperson said.

The former president "has continued to make excellent progress over the last 24 hours."

WATCH|🚒 Firefighters responded to a working structure fire in the area of California and Acacia, in Stockton, California, where crews worked quickly to knock down the blaze.

⚡️The Venezuelan government says it is suspending its participation in talks with the opposition over the extradition of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab from Cape Verde to the United States.

⚧ Texas Senate passes athlete bill targeting transgender youth

With the bill, male-born athletes in Texas schools will only be allowed to play on boy's sports teams, whereas female-born athletes will only be allowed to play on female teams, unless there is no all-girls team at the school.

The new bill claims that it protects "girls’ safety and their right to equal access to athletic opportunities,” according to the bill’s author.