🇺🇸🇷🇺The new US sanctions over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline are unacceptable, Moscow regards all attempts against Russian oil and gas exports to Europe as unfair competition that undermines the principles of a free market, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said on Facebook.

⚡️ Daughter of Malcolm X Malikah Shabazz found dead in Brooklyn home - report

🇦🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧The Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Treaties will hold an inquiry into the AUKUS alliance between Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, SBS World News reports.

❗️ Moscow slams US sanctions on Nord Stream 2 as 'illegal and wrong'

New information emerges about the prime suspect in the Waukesha tragedy: According to reports, Darrell Brooks Jr wrote songs with explicit lyrics, including such phrases as ‘f*ck the pigs’ and ‘f*ck Donald Trump’. He is also reportedly a convicted sex offender.

On 11 November, Brooks was released on $1,000 bail in a criminal case where he was charged with five counts, including domestic abuse, battery, and endangering safety, court documents show.

⚡️Biden has announced release of 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in concert with other major energy consuming nations, including China, India, Japan, South Korea and the UK, to stem surging prices

❗ U.S. Senate's Schumer says SPR release will provide 'temporary relief" for high gas prices, but nation needs to 'create a robust green energy economy'

⚡ Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu said that ten US strategic bombers have trained to use nuclear weapons against Russia this month

Trump on Biden's decision to release oil from US Strategic Reserves: "Now I understand that Joe Biden will be announcing an 'attack' on the newly brimming Strategic Oil Reserves so that he could get the close to record-setting high oil prices artificially lowered. We were energy independent one year ago, now we are at the mercy of OPEC, gasoline is selling for $7 in parts of California, going up all over the country, and they are taking oil from our Strategic Reserves. Is this any way to run a Country?"

🇺🇸Families of the students killed and wounded in the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida, in 2018, have reached a multi-million dollar settlement with the US government.

❗️The settlement was reached after it was proved that the FBI could have stopped the gunman, but failed to investigate a tip it had received a month before the massacre.

Vaun Mayes, A Black Lives Matter activist, has suggested that the tragic events in Waukesha, Wisconsin may be related to the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse last week: "It sounds like the revolution has started." At the same time, Mayes noted that the claims “have not been proven to be true,” according to the Daily Caller.

Mark D’Amico and his ex-girlfriend Katelyn McClure invented a heart-warming story about homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt Jr., who spent his last $20 to help McClure fill up her gas tank while she was in Philadelphia. They started a GoFundMe campaign to raise $10,000 to help the veteran.

As a result, 14,000 people donated a total of $400,000. However, the couple spent most of the money over the next three months on vacations, a BMW, clothes, bags, and other items.

❗ Matthew McConaughey to reveal 'shortly' if he'll run for Texas governor

🇺🇸 A statue of Thomas Jefferson has been removed from New York City Hall after 187 years.

Attempts to remove the sculpture of the third American president, a slave owner, gained new momentum with racial justice protests brought on by the death of George Floyd in police custody.

Former President Donald Trump criticized the decision, saying that “the Radical Left has gone crazy, and it's hurting our Country badly.”

Photo credit: New York Post

📊 Majority of adults in US believe in afterlife, Republicans much more than Democrats, poll shows

❗️🇺🇸🇮🇱 Apple has filed a lawsuit seeking damages against Israeli spyware company NSO Group after it infected iPhones with its Pegasus surveillance software. The lawsuit also seeks an injunction to block the group from using any of Apple's software, services or devices.

⚡️ Brian Laundrie died of gunshot wound to the head, family lawyer reveals

⚡️ Biden: Gas prices would be 25 cents less at pumps but companies are ‘pocketing’ gains

⚡️ Jury finds 'Unite the Right' rally organizers liable on four counts of violence

⚡️ House panel on January 6 riot subpoenas leaders of Proud Boys, Oath Keeper militia

The House committee investigating the January 6 riot issued five new subpoenas targeting the Proud Boys and its leader, Enrique Tarrio, as well as the Oath Keepers and its leader, Stewart Rhodes.

"We believe the individuals and organizations we subpoenaed today have relevant information about how violence erupted at the Capitol and the preparation leading up to this violent attack," Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who chairs the committee, said in a statement.

🎼 Jay-Z makes history becoming the most nominated artist in history.

The rapper who was nominated for three Grammys on Tuesday, now has 83 Grammy nominations. The 23-time Grammy-winning rapper moved past legendary producer/composer Quincy Jones, who has been nominated 80 times.