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President Vladimir Putin said Russia would be ready to hand over cyber criminals to the United States if Washington did the same for Moscow, Reuters reported. Putin made the comments in an interview ahead of a June 16 summit with U.S. President Joe Biden in Geneva. Ties between the powers are badly strained over an array of issues. The Russian leader said he expected the Geneva meeting to help establish bilateral dialogue and revive personal contacts, adding that important issues for the two men included strategic stability, Libya and Syria, and the environment. Putin also praised Biden for having shown...

Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) said the quiet part out loud on Sunday while she was discussing the House’s sweeping elections reform bill, H.R.1. The Democrat-controlled House in March passed H.R. 1, a massive elections reform bill making it easier for Democrats to steal elections. The House Democrats previously introduced the “For the People Act of 2021” which will ensure Democrats can count ballots for days and days after an election until they have enough votes to win. The Democrats used Covid as a vehicle to successfully steal the White House and the Senate (and possibly the House) with ballot...

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” described former President Donald Trump as at the “mercy” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. She called Putin a “thug.” Pelosi said, “In terms of his meeting with Putin, I think that he should meet with him. They should have a line of communication. And issues like cybersecurity and energy, of course, are not necessarily on the table in that meeting but are the reality that we have to deal with. And energy and cybersecurity are probably two items that may come up at that meeting, but that we...

Chinese forces tested their ability to deploy ballistic missiles designed to strike U.S. aircraft carriers, as Beijing raises the specter of an invasion of neighboring Taiwan in response to a recent visit to the island by three U.S. senators.“We have been holding night exercises on a regular basis recently, which usually continues until early the next day,” People’s Liberation Army Col. Jiang Feng said of the Tuesday drills, according to regional media. "We often change training grounds, striking targets, and launch bases without prior notice to test the troops’ skills and pave the way for the brigade to fight and...

A brave 11-year-old girl claims she was suspended from school after refusing to wear a mask in her overheated classroom, claiming the requirement was child cruelty. Jenna Miller is a BMX racer and a student at Cahill Elementary School in New York. Miller took to Instagram on Wednesday to criticize her school for forcing students to “muzzle” themselves in classrooms that sometimes reach temperatures of 90 degrees. “Today was a hard emotional day for me. Today I stood my ground and I was very adamant to standing up for what’s right and making it known it’s not a safe environment...

Midtown favorite combines cheap-eat prices with quality ingredientsCharlie Hong Kong is a Midtown mainstay that features a variety of Asian dishes centered around local organic produce and nutrient-dense foods. Open seven days a week from 11am-10pm, the popular local spot has been owned by Carolyn Rudolph for 23 years. Her passion is using food as medicine and making sure the entire community has access to affordable and healthy food. She spoke to GT recently about the cuisine they serve and the philosophy behind it. What is Charlie Hong Kong all about? CAROLYN RUDOLPH: It’s a quick service restaurant, but...

Exactly five years ago, Omar Mateen entered the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, where he killed 49 people and wounded 53 others. AP now reports that Biden plans to name the nightclub as a national memorial standing for all targeted gay victims of gun violence – which outraged reporter Glenn Greenwald, who believes in facts. We’ve known for years now why Mateen shot up the Pulse nightclub: He was committing a religious jihad. His goal was to shoot up a nightclub – any nightclub – as revenge for American airstrikes in Syria and Iraq. Facts make it clear that he...

"At least Trump was attentive" is the general consensus among Labour Party right now. Note cards have proven completely useless. You don't even want to know what Tory leadership is saying.

Instruments part of $2 million Southern California burglaryLocal police investigators played a role this week in recovering several stolen vintage guitars, part of a nearly year-old $2 million Southern California heist. Police are continuing to investigate a Santa Cruz connection to a Marina Del Rey heist nabbing some $2 million in stolen guitars. (Santa Cruz Police Department — Contributed) After receiving a tip from the Los Angeles Police Department, Santa Cruz Police Department detectives, with help from members of the Santa Cruz Police Neighborhood Policing Team and Santa Cruz County Anti-Crime Team, served search warrants Tuesday at three different city...

Buddy Brown became a country music star on his own terms, but it wasn’t by choice. The singer behind “Rowdy Side” and the viral smash “We Gotta Be Less White” went to Nashville to pursue his music dreams. That’s what the rule book says, and he eagerly followed the blueprint … until the industry held up a “stop” sign. He was too political, the right-leaning Brown tells The Babylon Bee podcast. So he went rogue, building his career without the traditional support structures. Country Music Television doesn’t mind getting political. The long-running channel recently teamed with the “Wear Orange” campaign...

Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that it was “really important” there is an “in-depth investigation” into the Department of Justice’s action under former President Donald Trump. Collins’ declaration comes as Apple reportedly supplied the phone data for several Democratic lawmakers, their aides and some family members. Anchor John Dickerson said, “Let me move on to the question of a New York Times report this week that said that during the Trump administration, the Department of Justice subpoenaed some information from Apple that uncovered the accounts of two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee. You’re...

Some 20 armed agents in tactical gear raided LA-area home of Siaka Massaquoi Address also lists another man, Brian Burks, 42, who was briefly detained Raid took place before 6am in North Hollywood on Friday, LA Times reported Massaquoi was photographed near US Capitol during MAGA riot on January 6 Actor who appeared in NCIS: Los Angeles and S.W.A.T. denies any wrongdoing He was also photographed at an anti-vaccine protest near Dodger Stadium that forced authorities to temporarily shut down the site as a precaution. Massaquoi is an ardent supporter of Donald Trump and Republican politics. His social media account...

How far will you go to meet someone you know online? An Indonesian teenager went as far as selling her dad’s motorcycle in order to purchase flight tickets to Jakarta and meet her online crush. Indri, who was from Jambi, had met the boy via an online game Free Fire, and wanted to meet him in Jakarta, Tribun News reported. She then sold her father’s motorcycle for 20 million rupiah (S$1,870) in exchange for flight tickets to the capital. However, the teen’s plan went awry when the boy said that he did not want to meet up with her in...

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The “Fuller House” and Hallmark actress told Us Weekly that she has asked her three adult children to make sure their significant other loves Jesus. “When it comes down to it, I just want [their significant others] to love Jesus the way I love Jesus,” Bure said in a video interview with the celebrity news outlet. “That’s all I really want,” she went on. “Is that too much to ask for? Yeah. It’s not too much.”

Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest serving Israeli leader, was ousted as prime minister on Sunday after the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, voted to form a new government made up of a coalition of opposition groups pledging to heal caustic divisions caused by Netanyahu’s 12-year rule. Netanyahu had failed to form a government after a March 23 election — the fourth in two years — and could not block the power-sharing agreement between the groups, headed by his former defense minister Naftali Bennett and opposition leader Yair Lapid. Bennett and Lapid will each serve two years as prime minister on a rotating basis.

The Cardinal Marx CharadeIt speaks to the hollowness of “reform” in the Church. Pope Francis recently rejected a preening offer of resignation by German Cardinal Reinhard Marx.It is hard to say which gesture was phonier: the offer or the refusal.Intended as proof of the Church’s commitment to “reform,” this exchange between Pope Francis and Cardinal Marx only exposes its hollowness. The faithful have grown weary of these exercises in manipulative public relations. They hear windy talk about “accountability,” even as those responsible for the abuse scandal remain in power.Marx is a beneficiary of a papal double standard: strictness for conservatives,...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (New Cases and Deaths seem to be levelling off at a new lower plateau - Hospitalizations still dropping slowly) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 374,398,105 (21,396,900 J&J) Administered: 309,322,545 (11,517,956 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 173,840,483 Fully Vaccinated: 143,921,222

Last week Mike Sandvick, head of the Milwaukee Police Department's five-man Special Investigative Unit, was told by superiors not to send anyone to polling places on Election Day. He was also told his unit -- which wrote the book on how fraud could subvert the vote in his hometown -- would be disbanded. "We know what to look for," he told me, "and that scares some people." In disgust, Mr. Sandvick plans to retire. (A police spokeswoman claims the unit isn't being disbanded and that any changes to the unit "aren't significant.") In February, Mr. Sandvick's unit released a 67-page...