🇺🇸 Former US President Donald Trump has denounced Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell over the infrastructure bill.

🔎 “Very sad that the RINOs in the House and Senate gave Biden and Democrats a victory on the ‘Non-Infrastructure’ Bill, where only 11% of the money being wasted goes to real infrastructure,” Trump said, adding that “Republicans who voted for Democrat longevity should be ashamed of themselves, in particular Mitch McConnell.”

❗ Paul Whelan, a citizen of the US, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom who was arrested in Russia in December 2018, tried to obtain information about students attending the FSB school, according to the prosecutor

🇺🇸US President Joe Biden has thanked Big Bird from Sesame Street for vaccinating against COVID-19.

Virgin Atlantic and British Airways have synchronised departures from Heathrow Airport to celebrate the end of a travel ban that had lasted since March 2020.

Now vaccinated passengers are finally able to enter the United States from the UK (the accepted vaccines are AstraZeneca, BIBP/Sinopharm, Covishield, Janssen, Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and Sinovac)

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⚡️The number of worldwide COVID-19 cases has surpasses a quarter of billion, Johns Hopkins University says.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇦🇫 The United States is preparing for a new round of talks with the Taliban (under UN sanctions for terrorist activities), but no date has been set yet, special envoy for Afghanistan Thomas West says.

The diplomat is also going to visit Russia, Pakistan and India soon.

West will be in Moscow on November 15, the Russian Foreign Ministry confirms.

A "Rise Against Tyranny" demonstration – organised by the "Super Happy Fun America" organisation – was targeted by the groups "Solidarity Against Hate - Boston" and "Green Monster Antifa" who wanted to send a message to the Capitol rioters to get out of Boston." The police eventually intervened to break up the melee.

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Missouri senator Josh Hawley suggests US military should focus on warfighting instead of ‘critical race theory’

🤭 Kendall Jenner found herself in hot water for changing the caption of a post while attending the Astroworld Festival on Friday where eight people died.

📸 The 26-year-old originally uploaded a photo of herself standing behind Travis Scott's massive stage sipping a drink with the caption, "Will you be at the mountain?"

Then, after the tragedy on Friday night, Jenner updated the caption and simply put a mountain top emoji in reference to the rapper's stage, called Utopia Mountain.

😕 The liberal media fawned over a pro-abortion "Saturday Night Live" skit over the weekend...

🤡 Cecily Strong wasn't clowning around when addressing the stigma surrounding abortion on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live.

During the Weekend Update segment, the 37-year-old comedian appeared as Goober the Clown, who had a "clown abortion" the day before her 23rd birthday.

Saturday's sketch comes after the Supreme Court heard arguments this week regarding the Texas abortion law that bans the procedure from being performed after roughly six weeks of pregnancy.

⚡️ House Jan. 6 panel subpoenas Trump associates involved in 'efforts to challenge Biden's victory

🤬 Music lovers are slamming Travis Scott’s response to the chaos in the crowd at his concert by sharing videos of other performers pausing their shows to address concerns.

👍 👏 A TikTok user shared footage from a 1993 Nirvana concert showing lead singer Kurt Cobain pausing his performance after noticing an assault taking place in the crowd.

In the footage, Cobain suddenly stops singing, throws down his guitar and runs toward the front of the stage, apparently having witnessed a man grope another fan.

🙏 McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski apologized for a text sent in April to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, saying his comments were “wrong” while promising to meet with the parents of children whose shooting deaths prompted the text.

“Those comments were wrong and I’m sorry,” Kempczinski said in the six-minute video. “I’m sorry I let you down. And I let myself down.”

In the text, Kempczinski referred to the shooting deaths of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, by Chicago police, and 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams while she was in a McDonald’s drive-thru. He called the shootings “tragic.” He then said, “Both the parents failed those kids, which is something you can’t say. Even harder to fix.”

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Rep. Paul Gosar on Sunday released a video of photoshopped clips of an anime show depicting him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

The tweeted video – which he captioned, "Any anime fans out there?" – opens with Gosar's name under Japanese text that reads "attack of immigrants," an apparent reference to the anime show "Attack on the Titan" from which the Republican pulled various clips.

The video then goes on to show footage of immigrants at the southern border, overlaying the footage with anime-style special effects and crosscutting with interstitials that read "drugs, crime, poverty, money, gangs, violence" and "trafficking."

😏 In what has become his regular ritual of keeping everyone in suspense, former President Donald Trump said he will "probably" wait until after the 2022 midterm elections to announce whether he will run for president in 2024.

In an interview with Fox News, Trump yet again stated that he is "certainly thinking about it and we’ll see."

"I think a lot of people will be very happy, frankly, with the decision, and probably will announce that after the midterms."

💵 💸 Top Republicans on K Street say that big business is warming up to the Republican Party again, less than a year after Jan. 6 but with the 2022 elections in sight.

A host of Republican lobbyists say that Tuesday’s elections in Virginia and New Jersey have ignited interest from their corporate clients on making inroads with GOP officials on the Hill. They suspect that cash will soon start flowing from corporate PACs to their party’s lawmakers too.

“After talking to several clients today, they’ll be a lot more aggressively Republican giving” over the next six months, said Brian Ballard, a top GOP lobbyist with ties to the former Trump administration, in an interview on Wednesday. He added that things were finally looking up for Republican campaigns, in terms of donations from his firm’s corporate clients: “It’s much more bullish for Republicans than it was perhaps six months ago.”