⚔️Hong Kong gets slapped with Trump’s new tariffs JUST LIKE THE REST OF CHINA

Hong Kong officials are crying foul after the region was slapped with a 10% tariff under Trump’s trade policies. They argue that imposing the tariff on China’s Special Administrative Region, despite its "ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS" framework, is "absolutely inconsistent" with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.

Officials are now preparing to challenge the move on the global stage, Reuters reported.

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🟠 Egypt shuts down Trump’s plan to expel Palestinians

🟠 VIDEO: Ukraine 'may be Russian someday' – Trump

🟠 VIDEO: Ukraine sells American weapons to drug cartels – Carlson

🟠 FBI uncovers 2,400 new JFK assassination documents – reports

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🚫Trump pulls the plug on Ukraine’s US-funded propaganda machine

The US president has frozen millions of taxpayer dollars-worth of US funding to alleged war crimes investigations in Ukraine, Reuters reported.

Churning out fake “atrocity propaganda” for Kiev, the six projects including the Ukraine Serious Crime Advisory Group (ACA) were worth a combined $89 MILLION, according to a Ukrainian document cited by the outlet.

Of these projects, two were reportedly funded by USAID, three by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, and one by the Department of State.

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📹THROWBACK: US debt is like maxing out a credit card – Musk

“The Defense Department budget is a very big budget, okay? It's a trillion dollars a year — DoD, Intel, a TRILLION DOLLARS. And interest payments on the national debt have just exceeded the Defense Department budget. They're over a trillion dollars a year, just in interest, and rising,” Musk said earlier.

These staggering figures highlight the critical need for DOGE’s plans to rein in government spending.

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👽ANYBODY OUT THERE? SpaceX to launch NASA mission to hunt alien atmospheres

The Pandora mission will study 20+ exoplanets and their stars. Equipped with a 45 cm telescope, it will complement James Webb data and support the search for habitable worlds.

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👋Another one bites the dust! PBS SHUTS DOWN its DEI office

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) President and CEO Paula Kerger sent out a memo to colleagues that the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) office was being closed down in compliance with US President Donald Trump’s executive orders, Fox News reported.

Despite this, the broadcaster pledged to continue to “reflect all of America” in its ranks.

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🗣The EU will take retaliatory measures in response to the US decision to impose a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum imports, the European Commission announced.

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⚡️Russian forces carried out a coordinated strike overnight targeting gas and energy infrastructure supporting Ukraine's defense industry, military airfield facilities, drone storage and launch sites.

The targets were successfully hit, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

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🤡LA Mayor hired a FRAUD-implicated firm to handle wildfire relief

In a deal made behind closed doors, LA Mayor Karen Bass selected Hagerty Consulting to lead the city’s wildfire recovery efforts, Breitbart reported.

Two former disaster recovery experts at the firm, Walter Melnick and Mark O’Mara, pleaded guilty to STEALING OVER $600,000 from Hurricane Sandy relief funds.

There were apparently two other bidders. The amount of the Hagerty contract with LA has not yet been disclosed.

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❗️'Any phenomenon happens with 50/50 probability' - Kremlin on Trump's words that Ukraine could become part of Russia

"The fact that a significant part of Ukraine wants to become part of Russia—and some areas already have—is a reality that has occurred," the Kremlin stated.

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⚡️The Kremlin has no information about the alleged arrival in Moscow of US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, who is described as an informal adviser to Trump.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin notes contacts between Moscow and Washington have intensified through certain channels.

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