Focus on POTUS or how to win with ‘selectively leaked’ information.

Republican Senator Tom Cotton believes that someone in the government who did not like then-President Donald Trump "selectively leaked" to the media a secret report on the so-called "Taliban bounties" in 2020 to help Joe Biden prevail in the election.

That's one way of winning!

💸 The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Roger Stone and his wife, alleging the Republican politician along with his spouse used a commercial body to "shield their personal income from enforced collection and fund a lavish lifestyle despite owing nearly $2 million in unpaid taxes, interest, and penalties."

According to the lawsuit, the couple underpaid their income taxes by $1,590,361 from 2007 to 2011 and by $407,036 in 2018.

A lavish lifestyle isn't for everybody

Ex-US President George W. Bush believes that it is necessary to gradually legalize millions of illegal immigrants who “have played by the rules”. Bush also said that trying to bring them all back home would be a "political pipe dream."

Free apartments for those who “have played by the rules”!

💰 Members of Congress of both parties who voted against Donald Trump have been gripped by fear. Since January, they have increased their spending on private security. For example, House Democratic member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was not trapped in the congressional building with rioters on January 6, but broadcast events from the office and shared her fears for her life, has since spent a whopping $ 45,000 on private security.

Some Republicans have also become obsessive about protection: Senators Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey, who voted to convict Trump during the trial, increased their private security spending to $ 43,633 and $ 70,000, respectively.

How much taxpayer money are you willing to spend to protect yourself?

🛬 A World War II-era plane participating in the Florida Air Show made an emergency landing in the ocean near the Patrick Space Force Base beaches, local media reported.

Stuck the landing

Check out our brief summary of some of the latest news:

▪️ Three people have been killed and two sustained injuries in a shooting at The Somers House Tavern in Kenosha County, Wisconsin

▪️ The former FedEx worker, who murdered eight people in Indianapolis, legally bought the two weapons he used

▪️ The US and China have agreed to cooperate to curb climate change

▪️ The Minnesota State Patrol will stop monitoring journalists covering protests after free press outcry

▪️ The Indianapolis Sikh community has called for gun reforms as they mourn the deaths of four Sikhs who were among the eight people killed in a mass shooting at a FedEx warehouse

▪️ Hester Ford, the oldest person in the US, died on Saturday at the age of 116

China has warned the US and Japan against meddling in the country’s domestic affairs, accusing the two of “actually ganging up to form cliques and fanning bloc confrontation”.

A few days earlier, US President Biden and Japanese PM Suga discussed an array of pressing issues, including those related to China's growing “assertiveness” on the global arena.

Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters visited Brooklyn Center last night, where BLM protests against police violence have been going on for a week.

During her brief visit, Waters managed to make a number of head-scratching statements.

▪️She said that she does not know what “curfew” means.

▪️The congresswoman urged BLM demonstrators to “stay on the streets” and “get more confrontational” if Derek Chauvin, who is on trial over the death of George Floyd, is found not guilty of “murder”.

▪️She also called on other BLM protesters in Brooklyn Center to ignore the curfew, saying she does not “agree” with it.

After saying all that, less than 30 minutes before the curfew went into effect, the Democrat House member finally stated that she was not going to stay and protest with the rest of the BLM activists.

Wow.

Iraqi base hosting US contractors hit by at least five Katyusha rockets

❗️ Five rockets have hit Iraq's Balad Air Base, the country's security officials said on Sunday, adding that they landed in an area hosting US contractors.

However, there were no reports of any casualties in the attack and no group has claimed responsibility for it.

❗️Shooting in Austin, Texas, leaves at least three people dead

At least three people were killed on Sunday, in an "active" shooter incident in Austin, Texas, according to local authorities.

The incident is taking place in the 9600 block of Great Hills Trail in the Arboretum area in northwest Austin, at an apartment complex in the area, according to Austin Police Department.

Residents are recommended to avoid the area, while those in the vicinity are being asked to shelter.

Video from near the scene of the shooting

UPDATE | Shooting situation remains active, but there is no threat to general public, Austin police say