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Russia’s Revenge.
Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Kharchenko said on Monday that Russia was trying to cut off the country’s nuclear and thermal power plants and to damage additional energy hubs. “Unfortunately, we are already seeing that they (Russians) are striking at the generating facilities again,” he added. Kharchenko said Ukraine is ready to organise prompt delivery and distribution…
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The World Cup explains how the modern world works.
US Women’s football team captain and former American goalkeeper Briana Scurry said that FIFA brought on the political storm with its choice of venue for the World Cup. Scurry said that FIFA had brought on this political storm with its choice of venue. She also said that the 1994 US-hosted World Cup had struggled to…
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It is an opinion that Trump’s tax returns are important.
A US congressional panel has asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to examine loan agreements President Donald Trump signed with his children over the last 20 years. The Joint Committee on Taxation has argued that an auditor should investigate the loan agreements, including the interest rate. The IRS only audited Trump’s 2016 tax return in…
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The January 6 revelations were the biggest mystery.
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has revealed that ex-President Donald Trump said he “didn’t want people to know we lost the election” in December 2020. Trump had also said he didn’t want people to know he was “pissed”, adding, “I didn’t want people to know we lost.” The Democrats said Trump started lying before…
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Nov. 15, 2022, US election coverage.
Former President of US Donald Trump on Tuesday announced his run for the 2020 presidential election. The 64-year-old businessman will face Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren and Libertarian Party candidate Jill Stein. According to reports, Trump has hired former Vice President Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate. Trump’s announcement comes a week after the…
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A judge is putting Ohio’s six-week abortion ban on hold.
US President Joe Biden has said he is in favour of a national ban on abortions following a study by the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights group. Biden said that the report showed that “there’s a lot of interest in this.” He added that he would also support a nationwide ban on partial-birth abortions.
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The House Ways and Means Committee is expected to meet on Trump’s tax returns.
The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected ex-President Donald Trump’s challenge to the release of his tax returns, allowing a Democratic-led House committee to decide what to do with them. The court dismissed Trump’s claim that it was unconstitutional to make the returns public. Last year, Trump had asked the Supreme Court to prohibit the…
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GeorgeSantos is under scrutiny for his resume discrepancies.
US Congressman-elect Sergio Santos has denied allegations levelled at him in a New York Times report that claimed he used company funds to help pay for his children’s education. The report said Santos didn’t respond to requests to furnish documents that would help to substantiate the claims while campaigning. It also alleged that a resident…
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What will happen to Donald Trump’s tax returns?
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to make public Donald Trump’s tax returns for the 13 years he was President. The Ways and Means Committee had sought the tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for nearly four years. However, the IRS didn’t perform any examination of Trump’s tax returns until 2019…
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Britain is a global laughingstock, and not just the fault of Liz Truss.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced he will step down as UK PM at the end of the year. The decision comes after Johnson suffered a defeat in the European Union (EU) referendum in June, which he called “one of the darkest days” in the country’s democratic history. Liz Truss was chosen by members of…
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China and the US are still on a collision course, despite the cooling of the heat.
The US and China will hold a summit in Beijing in January following the G20 summit, US State Secretary Antony Blinken said. The meeting will take place during Xi Jinping’s stay at the G20 summit in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. This will be the first time a US President has held a summit…
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McCarthy is making compromises in order to win the speakership before he even gets it.
Ahead of a House vote to elect the next Speaker, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he will not leave his post even if the battle goes to many ballots on the floor. “I’ll never leave,” the Republican added. Notably, the House Republican Caucus voted against restoring the’motion to vacate the chair’ during a closed-door…
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The suit was filed against the certification of the Arizona election.
Democrat Adrian Fontes, who previously ran elections for Arizona’s largest county, has been narrowly elected to oversee voting in the entire state as secretary of state, according to a race call by The Associated Press. Fontes had previously served as an election official in Maricopa County, the state’s largest county, where he oversaw the counting…
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The House passed a defense bill that scraps the military Covid vaccine mandate.
The US Senate on Friday passed a stop-gap spending bill, which will keep the government open until December 23. The measure will also provide a boost in spending for disaster aid, college access, child care, mental health and food assistance, more support for the military and veterans and additional funds for the US Capitol Police.
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The House January 6 committee has begun giving materials to the DOJ.
US House Select Committee voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump for testimony, a transcript of which was released on Thursday. The committee also voted to refer Trump to the Department of Justice for his alleged involvement in an insurrection. Earlier, the committee had referred Trump to DOJ on four charges, including conspiracy to defraud…
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The best solution to high energy prices is totax the companies.
US President Joe Biden said that he’d support a tax on excessive profits of American oil and gas companies. The funds from the tax could be used to provide housing efficiency grants and tax credits for families to weatherize their homes in order to protect them from future price increases. They could also provide a…
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Adrian Fontes beat Finchem to become the Arizona secretary of state.
In Arizona, US, a Republican lawmaker has filed a lawsuit against the 2020 presidential election results, alleging that the ballots were counted “in an illegal manner”. The lawsuit is aimed at overturning the 2020 election results in some of the state’s largest counties, including Phoenix where a review of ballots ordered by Republicans concluded that…
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New reality sets in and the White House zeroes in on Republicans to work with.
US President Joe Biden’s oldest son Hunter Biden, who is currently serving in Ukraine, has been subpoenaed to appear before the House Judiciary Committee on January 6. This comes days after President Donald Trump ordered Ukraine to probe Hunter Biden over his alleged involvement in Russia’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election. Hunter has…
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On October 9, 2022, the Russia-Ukraine news.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Russia’s attack on the country’s capital Kyiv was a “planned aggression”, his adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said. He added that Ukrainian intelligence believes that Russian forces planned the attack as a “pretend to escalate the war”. Earlier, Russia said that Ukraine’s shelling had damaged power lines in the Kherson…
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The ideal of democracy is in a Jewish state.
A think tank said that Israel’s new government’s intention to “weaken the Supreme Court” will “diminfy” the country’s democracy. Yohanan Plesner, President of the Israel Democracy Institute, said, “Since (new government’s) intention is to weaken the Supreme Court, we’re not going to have the court as an institution that would help guard the principles of…
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George Santos is posing a serious risk to the GOP.
A Democrat in New York’s Nassau County has apologised for his misinformation about animal rescue organisations. “It’s no surprise that Congressman-elect George Santos has enemies at the New York Times who are attempting to smear his good name with these defamatory allegations,” said Joseph Murray. The New York Attorney general’s office said that it hadn’t…
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border restrictions were set to end by the US Supreme Court.
The White House has said that US President Joe Biden has asked the Congress to approve additional funding for border security. “Today’s order gives Republicans…time to move past political finger-pointing and join their Democratic colleagues in solving the challenge at our border by passing comprehensive reform measures and delivering the additional funds for border security…
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The Sad Tales of GeorgeSantos was an opinion.
US Representative George Santos, who has been accused of lying about his background, has admitted to “fabricating some facts” about his life. “Not here, not abroad, in any jurisdiction in the world, have I ever committed any crimes,” Santos said in an interview with WABC radio host John Catsimatidis. He claims he’s a self-described gay…
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New York GOP leader calls accusation of faking a bio for House member serious.
New York’s incoming Congressman-elect, George Santos has been accused by a black-tie acquaintance of lying to police about being the father of a 16-year-old who was found dead in his hotel room. Santos was accused of renting the room to the black-tie acquaintance for $30,000 (over 20 lakh). The acquaintance’s death was not reported until…
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The most undervalued president of all time.
A White House aide said that President Joe Biden has decided to run for the White House again in 2024 after his son Hunter Biden’s affair with former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden was made public. This comes after President Donald Trump said that he plans to run for the White House again in 2024.