Joe Biden was aware that his brother Jim and his son Hunter were using his name to move forward acquisition deals in the interests of the Chinese company CEFC even though he was still US vice president, an upcoming book by New York Post columnist Miranda Devine claims.

In the book, Devine describes one episode that allegedly shows that Joe Biden was aware of his son's business dealings abroad, despite repeatedly claiming otherwise.

😀 So much curiosity. When will the book finally be published?

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⚡️ Pentagon confirms Austin ordered new probe into 2019 US airstrike in Syria that killed civilians

🎄 First lady Jill Biden’s holiday decorations drew some jeers, with one user wondering, “Where’s the color?,” another slamming the White House Christmas tree as “ugly” and a third pining for the more glitzy touch of Biden’s predecessor, Melania Trump.

One user unfavorably compared the tree to the one that adorned the White House during the presidency of John F. Kennedy.

💭 “I kind of miss normal Christmas decorations though,” the person tweeted, sharing a photo of Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy standing in front of a tree decorated with candy canes, ornaments and candles

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Endorsement of Wendy Rogers

Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers is doing everything in her power to find out the truth of the 2020 Election, and to hold people accountable for Election Fraud in Arizona. Wendy is a MAGA warrior who loves our Country and listens to her constituents. She has a truly great fighting spirit, is strong on Law and Order, securing our Border, and gun rights. Wendy Rogers has my Complete and Total Endorsement for reelection to the Arizona State Senate because she FIGHTS!

Kayleigh McEnany, the "Outnumbered" co-host, blasts President Biden for politicizing COVID as fears mount about the new omicron variant:

🗣 "At the end of the day, no one has politicized this virus more than President Joe Biden. You have the mask-wearing incident there. You have Kamala saying on the campaign trail, 'If Donald Trump tells me to take the vaccine, I won't take it.' You had Biden mimicking that rhetoric. Then they get into office. Yay, take the vaccine. That should have been the message back on the campaign trail as well. On travel restrictions, Trump's xenophobic for this, and now all of a sudden travel restrictions work. Are you sensing a pattern here? Because you should. It is a politicization of this virus on the campaign trail. They dismiss the policies, they eschewed the policies they are now putting in place. They were always effective... Where's the consistency rather than outright politicization of COVID 19?"

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@Greg_Abbott gave his view on Biden's open border policies. He has a clear view that they must end

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What we know about Twitter's new CEO Parag Agrawal:

▪️ After graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay and prior to joining Twitter in 2011, Parag Agrawal worked for several years in the research departments of Microsoft, Yahoo !, and AT&T;

▪️ He has a Ph.D. from Stanford University;

▪️ He started working for the company when it had no more than 1000 employees, and soon became its first outstanding engineer;

▪️ Twitter noted that Agrawal was instrumental in accelerating audience growth in 2016 and 2017

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🇷🇺🇺🇸Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said Washington is distorting facts regarding the departure of Russian diplomats, which, he said, is actually expulsion.

⚡ Putin weighs in on Biden's statement about his willingness to run for a second term – "I think he did it absolutely right," the Russian president said.

💵 Putin: Russia will continue to leave the dollar if the US doesn't change policy

The dollar has not lost its importance as a reserve currency but Washington's policies are undermining the dollar - Putin

A man from Lancaster, California was arrested after the fatal shooting of his four children and mother-in-law. Germarcus David, who is 29 years old, turned himself in to the local sheriff’s station moments before the children were discovered by their mother.

"Just know that God loves you when you feel unloved for," David wrote on his Facebook page two weeks ago.

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Epstein competed with Trump to seduce young women, ex-POTUS' accuser claims

❗US Treasury Secretary: Anti-Russia sanctions over 'troop build-up near Ukraine' would be appropriate

❗Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows reaches cooperation deal with Congress' January 6 Committee

⚡ Biden and his aides reportedly prepare for virtual summit with Putin in December

If Democrats don't immediately stop smash-and-grab robberies, which are taking place in their cities, the National Guard must be called out. There has never been such a thing that has happened in our Country. Large numbers of stores are leaving San Francisco and other cities. Some chains are closing most of their stores, it is all not even believable. 

‼️🇺🇸 Police are responding to an active shooting with multiple victims at a high school in Oxford Township, Michigan. The suspected shooter is in custody, and between four and six victims have been shot, though there are no confirmed fatalities at this time, police said.

🇧🇾 Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko gave an interview to Sputnik, touching upon some of the most pressing issues on the European political agenda.

Answering a question about the recent statement from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg regarding the possibility of deploying nuclear weapons in Eastern Europe, specifically in Poland, Lukashenko said that he would propose to President Putin the return of Russian nuclear weapons to Belarus in response.

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⚡️ At least three people, all believed to be students, were killed in a school shooting in Michigan, according to police

👩‍🔬US scientists have revealed that the world’s first living robots - xenobots - can reproduce, according to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Xenobots - synthetic lifeforms less than a millimeter wide - were created in 2020 using the heart and skin stem cells from the African clawed frog embryos. Back then, the experiments showed that they could move and self-heal.

The xenobots’ creators at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering say that the robots are capable of self-reproduction in a small dish, shifting free cells and creating new xenobots in 5 days.