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Here’s the latest for Monday, June 6: New York imposes new gun restrictions; Nigeria searches for gunmen in church massacre; Mexican president won’t attend Summit of the Americas; Postage stamp honors Nancy Reagan.
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INSIDERMitch McConnell says the labor shortage will be solved when people run out of stimulus money because Americans are 'flush for the moment'
Lack of childcare and well-paid jobs might be driving the labor shortage. Mitch McConnell thinks March 2021 stimulus checks are to blame.
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Donald Trump wants to sue former FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, but can't find them after a half-dozen tries since March
Trump lawyers say they've tried, failed 6 times to serve Page and Strzok with papers for his March lawsuit alleging a plot to 'rig' the 2016 election.
- The New York Times
In Putin's Russia, the Arrests Are Spreading Quickly and Widely
They came for Dmitry Kolker, an ailing physicist, in the intensive care ward. They came for Ivan Fedotov, a hockey star, as he was leaving practice with a film crew in tow. They came for Vladimir Mau, a state university rector, the week he was reelected to the board of Gazprom. The message sent by these high-profile detentions: Nearly anyone is now punishable in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The flurry of arrests across the country in recent days has signaled that the Kremlin is intent on tightening
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Adam Kinzinger and his family are getting so many death threats over his Trump criticism that his office put together a 3-minute audio clip
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger and his family are receiving threats over his involvement on the House committee investigating the Capitol riot.
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Joe Rogan says he refuses to host Trump on his podcast soon after saying Gov. Ron DeSantis would make a good president
"I've had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once. I've said no every time," Rogan said.
- Reuters
Russia's stated war aims begin catching up with reality
The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament said on Tuesday that Ukraine had become a "terrorist state" and was doing everything to ensure that Russia did not stop its invasion at the borders of the eastern Donbas region as advertised. The remark by Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin marked an escalation of Russian war rhetoric but ignored the fact that Moscow's forces already occupy large parts of southern Ukraine as well. It suggested that Moscow, fresh from seizing the last parts of Ukraine's Luhansk region on Sunday, might be preparing once more to expand its stated war objectives, which it reined back a month into the invasion after an assault on the capital Kyiv and an advance on the second largest city Kharkiv were beaten back.
- HuffPost
Fox News Potentially Facing Major Financial Damage In Dogged Suit Over Election Lies
Discovery in the case could reveal bombshell messages among the Trump White House, Fox personalities, and even Rupert Murdoch.
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The White House official that reports say is disputing account of Trump's actions on January 6 has a history of lying for him, former aides say
Tony Ornato is said to have disputed Cassidy Hutchinson's claim that Trump grabbed the wheel and tried to go to the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Philippines’ Marcos Open to Military Exchanges With China
(Bloomberg) -- Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said he’s open to military exchanges with China, as he sought ways to expand ties between the two nations beyond the South China Sea territorial dispute.Most Read from BloombergNatural Gas Soars 700%, Becoming Driving Force in the New Cold WarCiti Says Oil May Collapse to $65 by the Year-End on RecessionUkraine Latest: Kyiv’s Immediate Funding Needs Hit $65 BillionOil Plummets Below $100 as Recession Risks Come to ForefrontBezos Slams Bide
- People
New Docuseries Will Shed Light on Final Days of Trump Administration and Take Closer Look at Trump Family
The three-part docuseries Unprecedented will show how the Trump family handled the days and weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection
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‘QAnon Shaman’ Drops Appeal of His Plea and Sentence for Jan. 6 Capitol Riot
(Bloomberg) -- The self-proclaimed “QAnon Shaman,” who became infamous for appearing in the US Senate chamber shirtless with a horned headdress during the Capitol riot, dropped the appeal of his guilty plea and 41-month sentence.Most Read from BloombergNatural Gas Soars 700%, Becoming Driving Force in the New Cold WarCiti Says Oil May Collapse to $65 by the Year-End on RecessionUkraine Latest: Kyiv’s Immediate Funding Needs Hit $65 BillionOil Plummets Below $100 as Recession Risks Come to Forefr
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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney says he'll be 'happy' to leave office after July 4 shooting: 'I'm waiting for something bad to happen all the time'
"I'll be happy when I'm not mayor and I can enjoy some stuff," Kinney said after two police officers were shot on Monday night.
- The Daily Beast
Judge Jeanine Flips at Gutfeld’s ‘Replacement Theory’ on Fox
Fox NewsDuring a roundtable discussion Tuesday on the Fox News show The Five, co-host Greg Gutfeld suggested that immigrants could replace “worthless white wokesters’—and Judge Jeanine Pirro was seriously triggered.On the topic of immigration, primarily through the southern border, Gutfeld said the U.S. should not “be dissuading good, decent people from coming here.”“True, it may just be for a paycheck, but that’s often just to start. We are talking about largely God-fearing, family-centric peop
- HuffPost
Trump: Jan. 6 Panel 'Thugs' Should 'Go After' Americans 'Burning Down Cities'
It's not at all clear what the former president was referring to in a furious series of Fourth of July messages.
- Associated Press
Jan. 6 panel: More turning up with evidence against Trump
More witnesses are coming forward with new details on the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot following former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's devastating testimony last week against former President Donald Trump, says a member of a House committee investigating the insurrection. The panel already has subpoenaed former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who investigators remain hopeful will appear Wednesday for a deposition, and said it would also welcome follow-up details from Secret Service members with Trump that day. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., cited Hutchinson's testimony that Trump wanted to join an angry mob of his supporters who marched on Jan. 6, 2021, to the Capitol, where they rioted, as particularly valuable in “inspiring” more people to step forward as the committee gets set for at least two public hearings this month.
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Social Security: Can I Still Collect Benefits if I Live Outside the US?
If you're eligible to receive Social Security benefits, you may receive your payments outside of the U.S. However, the Social Security Administration has noted that there are countries to which they...
- HuffPost
Michael Moore Writes Own Declaration Of Independence And It's Peak Patriotism
The activist filmmaker sparkled on the Fourth of July with a manifesto backing women and Black people while opposing "every single Republican" in office.
- Reuters
Russia's speaker asks parliament to look at scrapping Norway sea treaty
The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament asked a senior lawmaker on Tuesday to look into scrapping a treaty that establishes the country's maritime border with NATO member Norway. The treaty, which was signed in 2010, aimed to put an end to disputes between Russia and Norway in the Barents Sea, the part of the Arctic Ocean adjoining the northern coasts of Norway and Russia. Responding to comments in parliament accusing Norway of blocking food deliveries destined for Russian-populated settlements on the Svalbard archipelago, State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin asked the head of the chamber's international affairs committee to look into "denouncing" the treaty.
- The New Voice of Ukraine
Ukraine targets Russian ammo dumps with new weapons, says military expert
Having received HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and other long-range weapons, Ukraine has changed its tactics of warfare, military expert Petro Chernyk said on the air of Radio NV on July 5.
- Reuters
Swiss give cool reply to Ukraine call for seizing Russian assets
Switzerland has given a cool response to calls from Ukraine's prime minister to use frozen assets of ultra-wealthy Russians to help fund his country's $750 billion reconstruction project. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal told a conference in Lugano that $300-500 billion of Russian assets had been frozen by the United States, European Union and Britain, money he said could help rebuild wrecked schools, hospitals and homes. "We propose to find (a) formula to create national and international legislation for (creating the) possibility of confiscation of frozen assets in case of unprovoked aggression," Shmygal said, referring to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.