❗️BREAKING: Senate Republicans filibuster bill on creating commission to investigate 6 January Capitol riot

US Senators have blocked consideration of a bill designed to create a bipartisan 10-member commission to investigate the events that took place in Washington on 6 January.

Only 54 Senators supported the motion, with 35 objecting to it. However, it needs to gather the support of at least 60 members of the upper chamber of Congress to be passed.

❗️US State Department seeks $1.9bln in 2022 budget to counter Iranian, Chinese clout in Middle East

The US Department of State is seeking to obtain some $1.9 billion for fiscal year 2022 to combat both Iranian and Chinese influence across the Middle East.

"Funding will support programs focused on defending democracy, rule of law, advancing human rights and gender equality, fighting corruption, and countering authoritarianism," the document adds.

▶️ John Feehery, US columnist and political consultant, weighs in on the “Defund the Police” movement and explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected African Americans' fight for equality.

🇺🇸❗️⚡️The US State Department 2022 congressional budget request includes billions of dollars aimed at countering Russia, China and Iran, among other priorities. Key line items include:

🔻$255 million to boost Ukraine anticorruption reforms, trade capacity, and energy security.

🔻$1.9 billion for strengthening allies to counter Iranian and Chinese influence in the Middle East.

🔻$665 million toward Euro-Atlantic integration programs to enhance democracy and fight authoritarianism.

🔻$750 million to support US government agencies impacted by the SolarWinds attack.

🔻$1.4 billion to combat infectious diseases.

🏃 The governors of several Republican states have noticed a surge in political migration, but there are concerns that they may bring their liberal policies with them.

🗣 "So, it's interesting with Florida. Like the media at the beginning of the pandemic said Florida's bad. And I think it's because they want to damage former President Donald Trump in Florida. They want to damage me. So, they just kept saying it was bad. And even though the facts didn't say it, like literally last April, they're saying Florida is doing worse than New York. New York was like 10 times worse." said @RonDeSantisChannel

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 It seems not even cartoons can be spared... Betty DeVille, the mother of twins Phil and Lil in the 1990s kids hit animated show “Rugrats”, is now deprived of a husband and father for her kids, as she has been rewritten as an open and nonbinary lesbian in the upcoming Paramount + revamp.

Betty had a husband in the original show - even if he was a weakling who would let her wear the pants in the relationship. But Howard Deville appears to have been written off, and Betty will now be dating other women instead

✍️ Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill banning educators from teaching critical race theory in state schools.

🗣 “We need to make sure that our kids recognize that this country is moving toward a more perfect union, that we should teach the exceptionalism of our nation and how people can live together and work together to make a greater nation, and to not teach things that inherently divide or pit either Americans against Americans or people groups against people groups,” the Republican governor said.

Trump's former lawyer's apartment was raided at the end of April by federal investigators, which seized his electronic devices and a cell phone. According to media reports, the investigators were interested in his ties to influential Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash.

👨‍⚖️ US District Judge Paul Oetken has ruled that a "special master" must be appointed to review the evidence seized from the home and office of @RGiuliani former attorney to Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇳US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Washington where they discussed COVID-19 relief and strengthening cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, the State Department said.

#URGENT | US working with allies to introduce sanctions against key Belarusian officials, Psaki says

😁 Two peas in a pod. It turns out that neither the president nor his vice president are very skilled at telling jokes.

Vice President Kamala Harris joked about green electricity during her commencement speech at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis on Friday.

🗣 "Just ask any Marine today, would she rather carry 20 pounds of batteries or a rolled-up solar panel, and I am positive she will tell you a solar panel, and so would he," she said, before laughing.

Watch the video to see people's reactions

The Department of Justice and Homeland Security announced on Friday that it will create a so-called special registration program, which is designed to shorten the time that families of illegal immigrants have to wait for their cases to be reviewed by an immigration judge.

🤔Will it be helpful?

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

▪️The UK intelligence services are reportedly helping the US to investigate whether the coronavirus leaked from a laboratory in China’s Wuhan.

▪️The San Jose rail yard shooter stored 12 firearms and about 22,000 rounds of ammunition at his home.

▪️NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter experienced a “stressful flight” during its sixth attempt at going airborne in the Martian atmosphere.

▪️Guards at a California prison didn’t notice that an inmate had allegedly tortured and decapitated his cellmate in 2019, a report says.

▪️Joe Biden told military service members on Friday that Chinese President Xi Jinping is convinced that China will “own America” in the next 10-15 years.

Hillary Clinton has found herself in hot water after tweeting that the rioters killed a Capitol police officer on 6 January.

People were quick to remind her that, among the five people who died that day, only one was actually killed: a protester was shot in the neck by one of the police officers defending lawmakers.

Clinton, apparently, was referring to Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died of a “devastating form of stroke”.

Or maybe she confused the January riot with another attack on the Capitol on 2 April? 🤔

Andy Ngo, a journalist for The Post Millennial who has been published by the WSJ and The Spectator, was chased, tackled and beaten several times by a group of black-clad protesters in Portland on 28 May, OregonLive.com reported, citing publications on social media.

The man, who was presumed to be Ngo, reportedly managed to flee from his attackers and made it to a downtown hotel, The Nines, where he was eventually assisted by the police and taken to a hospital.

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Seven people sustained injuries in a shooting in Miami. According to the NBC 6 broadcaster, citing police, the shooting occurred at around midnight into Saturday. All the victims found by the security forces upon arrival at the crime scene were hospitalized.

Will somebody tell Joe Biden to not go off noscript ever again?

During his speech at a military base in Virginia, the president for some reason started to talk about the daughter of a veteran in the audience.

“I love those barrettes in your hair", he says. “Man I’ll tell you what, look at her, she looks like she's 19 years old sitting there like a little lady with her legs crossed”.

💵 Is a "Plandemic" coming?

Joe Biden unveiled his $6 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2022, with $1.52 trillion for the military and domestic programmes and $4.5 trillion for infrastructure and social initiatives.

The plan reflects Biden’s "shifting priorities toward confronting China and Russia" and reducing emphasis on the wars in Afghanistan and in the Middle East, according to US observers.

🧐 However, with such a large increase in spending, what will the cost be in terms of its impact on the public debt?