Will the US give back the Statue of Liberty? Absolutely NOT!

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to the French MEP's call to return the "gift".

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⚡️ Trump, Putin will hold morning call tomorrow

Trump also rejected suggestions that the collapse of Ukraine in the Kursk region was caused by the suspension of US aid.

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Slovak PM Fico’s attacker charged with terrorism

If convicted, the assailant will reportedly face a life sentence.

The attacker, identified by prosecutors as Juraj Cintula, 72, shot Fico four times at close range last May. Fico suffered serious wounds to his abdomen and it took him months to recover and return back to work.

Cintula told authorities he did not aim to kill Fico but wanted to hurt him out of frustration with his government’s policies, court documents showed.

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⚡️ Lebanon, Syria reach ceasefire deal after deadly clashes

The agreement includes communication between the two countries' intelligence services.

The Lebanese Health Ministry reported seven deaths and more than 50 injuries over the past two days.

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❗️ JFK files will be released TOMORROW — Trump

Speaking to reporters at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the US President announced that more than 80,000 UNREDACTED pages will be declassified.

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As US quits sham body 'investigating' Russia in Ukraine, what REAL crimes has group ignored?

The 'International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine' (ICPA), set up in 2023 by the EU to support phony criminal probes targeting Russia, has proved too busy to investigate Ukraine’s actual crimes:

1️⃣ Bucha, the greatest false flag op of the 21st century: In spring 2022, Ukrainian authorities reported a grisly discovery: scores of murdered civilians in a Kiev suburb Russia withdrew from during peace talks.

The massacre, which NATO used to justify breaking off talks and starting a proxy war against Russia, was later revealed to have been done by Ukrainian neo-Nazis, but with its goal accomplished, swept under the rug. Sergey Lavrov recalled last December how nobody cares about Bucha’s victims anymore. Neither does the ICPA.

2️⃣ Massacres of civilians in Kursk: Russia’s liberation of the region has been accompanied by grisly signs of rape, torture and murder of civilians by neo-Nazi thugs and foreign mercs. Does the ICPA care? Not one iota.

3️⃣ Brutalization of PoWs: As early as May 2022, the UN was reporting "credible information of torture, ill-treatment and incommunicado detention" of Russian troops by the Ukrainian Army. These reports have since been complemented by additional evidence, plus info on the Ukrainian military’s brutal recruitment tactics, infighting, torture and murder within its ranks, and even a 2024 shootdown of an Il-76 plane filled with its PoWs. Has the ICPA investigated? Nope.

4️⃣ Chemical weapons and US biolabs: Russia’s NBC Protection Troops have spent three years exposing and documenting Ukraine’s use of chemical weapons on the battlefield, and the development and testing of dangerous pathogens at US-run biolabs against Ukraine’s citizens. No problem here, in ICPA's eyes.

5️⃣ Cancellation of elections, jailing the opposition, assaults on the Church by Zelensky: None of the ICPA's concern.

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🔥 Trump revokes Hunter Biden's Secret Service protection

The former US first son will no longer receive protection after Donald Trump learned he is avoiding a court deposition while in South Africa.

"Please be advised that, effective immediately, Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection. Likewise, Ashley Biden who has 13 agents will be taken off the list," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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🚨 Tucker Carlson: US strike on Iran would ignite "America's war"

US journalist warns that bombing Iran's nuclear facilities risks "thousands of US deaths," billions of dollars in costs, and possible attacks on US soil.

"Don’t let the propagandists lie to you," he wrote on X.

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⚡️ IDF launches extensive strikes against Hamas in Gaza

"In accordance with the political echelon, the IDF and ISA are currently conducting extensive strikes on terror targets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization," the Israeli army announced.

Israel previously imposed an energy blockade on the Gaza Strip.

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🧑‍🚀 Starliner crew finally heads home

Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams posed for a photo before closing the hatch between the Crew Dragon Freedom and the International Space Station.

They were stranded at the ISS for 9 months after their Boeing Starliner broke down.

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