After winning another term, incumbent Governor Phil Murphy issued a victory speech saying that "if you want to know where America is headed, look to New Jersey."

🙃The bloom of a giant ‘corpse plant’ draws crowds in Southern California.

The bloom of the “corpse plant” lasts just 48 hours and during its peak it emits a putrid odor of rotting flesh to attract carrion beetles and flesh flies that help its pollination process.

🇺🇸 🗣 Senator Ted Cruz (Rep. - Texas) gets into a fight with Senator Bob Menendez (Dem. - New Jersey) during a Foreign Relations Committee hearing, over the Biden administration’s announcement that it would withhold $130 million from Egypt.

📹: Tehran has published yet more footage of the IRGC Navy preventing an alleged attempt by the US military to seize an Iranian oil tanker in the Sea of Oman on 3 November.

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📃 The Federal Aviation Administration has sent 37 unruly passenger cases to the Justice Department for criminal case review.

The agency said it sent only the “most egregious cases” of more than 5,000 passenger complaints.

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Check out some news you may have missed:

▪️The White House is set to release its new vaccine policy, which will require Americans who work at big companies to get vaccinated by 4 January – or test every week.

▪️Senator Joe Manchin says Youngkin's "unbelievable" Virginia race win proves his concerns over Democrats moving Biden's reconciliation bill too quickly through Congress.

▪️Bill Gates has called for pouring more money into vaccine research to prepare the world for future pandemics.

▪️The US has authorised the exit of American staff from Ethiopia amid an escalating conflict and civic unrest in the country.

▪️Meghan Markle personally called two female GOP senators to push through the paid leave programme included in the Biden administration's proposed "Build Back Better" bill.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 The upcoming virtual summit between President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will likely result in agreements on reopening consulates and easing visa restrictions, a report by Politico suggests.

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⚡️ Analyst who contributed to discredited Steele dossier reportedly arrested in US

❗️ Russian analyst Igor Danchenko, who worked with ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele and took part in the creation of the so-called Steele Dossier, was taken into custody as part of the Durham investigation into the origins of the Russia probe, The New York Times reported.

Sources cited by the newspaper spoke on condition of anonymity, as Danchenko’s indictment had yet to be unsealed.

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🛩 A small plane made an emergency landing just in the median of a road in Tampa, Florida.

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⚡️ DoJ says Russian national indicted for making false statements to the FBI

⚡️ DoJ says Danchenko allegedly lied about the source of information provided to the FBI during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The agency says US Special Councel Durham charges Danchenko with five counts of false statements.

⚡️ Danchenko will appear in court in Alexandria, Virginia at 2.30 pm on Thursday, according to the DoJ

📹: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday election night: “It was not a good night”.

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👀 Lady Gaga has revealed she wore a bulletproof dress to Joe Biden’s inauguration on 20 January.

"I don't know if people know this about me, but if I weren't who I am today, I would have been a combat journalist. That was one of my dreams".

The singer says that a day before the event, she was “walking around and looking for evidence of the insurrection”.

Was she THAT scared?

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📹: Rand Paul to Dr Fauci at Senate hearing: “The preponderance of evidence now points toward this coming from a lab and what you've done is change the definition on your website to try to cover your a**”.

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⚡️US State Department greenlights $650 million missile deal for Saudi Arabia

⚡️Top three naval commanders of US submarine that struck seamount relieved of duty, service reveals

⚡️The judge ordered the supervised release of Danchenko - who faces up to 5 years on each criminal count and 3 years of supervised release if found guilty, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the court in Alexandria, Virginia.

🔻US prosecutors did not seek to detain Danchenko, who was set to self-surrender, but the FBI arrested him after a press leak.

🔻The prosecutor told the judges the government has concerns over the defendant's Russian citizenship, his alleged contact with an individual in the Russian embassy, as well as an unidentified foreign source of income.

🔻The judge also ordered the Russian analyst to surrender his passport in 24 hours.