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Day 112. Today we discuss the latest updates from across Ukraine and Europe with Telegraph correspondent Nicola Smith in Ukraine, Assistant comment editor Francis Dearnley here in the studio and Dom Nicholls from Oslo Airport.

‘Gutfeld!’ guests react to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raising the monkeypox alert to level two after its handling of coronavirus.

"It's very important for us that people don't forget. It's not interesting to speak about the war every day.. but for us it's very important," the stocky Ukrainian leader told him. The pair also acknowledged their shared interest as comedy actors. "You quit a great acting career," said Stiller, who is best known for his comedy roles in "Meet the Parents" and the "Night at the Museum" films, in a nod to Zelensky's former career as a comedy actor."Not as great as yours," Zelensky retorted, both laughing.

by Samantha Foster | 24News Joe Biden snapped at a reporter Monday after she asked about fears of an economic recession. The president spoke to reporters on the beach on Monday morning as he spent time with his family for the Juneteenth holiday. One reporter asked about a growing number of economists voicing concerns that a recession was more likely than ever. A large group of economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal said the US is entering a recession in the next year. The market is down and the GDP contracted this year. The Biden economy declined 1.5%...

Chinese officials conducted a successful test of an anti-ballistic missile system that analysts and state media billed as a bulwark against a hypothetical U.S. attack. “The test is defensive in nature and not targeted against any country,” the Chinese Defense Ministry said. The spare statement characterized the test as a “land-based mid-course missile interception test” that “achieved the desired test objective.” Chinese analysts and state media hastened to frame it as a “shield” against a hypothetical U.S. attack on Beijing’s growing nuclear arsenal. “The development of our nuclear force is very limited,” former People’s Liberation Army missile force expert Shao...

Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Jr., on Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” said people who are anti-Critical Race Theory and believed the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump were part of an extremist “racist retrenchment.” Glaude said, “With the holiday, we now have an occasion to think about the second founding. That is to say, the emergence of the U.S. nation-state shorn of slavery, not racism, but it’s the second founding where the U.S. nation-state is born without the institution of slavery. Although the 13th Amendment is passed about 6 months later, ratified 6 months after Juneteenth, Juneteenth still...

Vice President Kamala Harris discusses the historic confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will become the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Harris commended Jackson’s performance during her Senate confirmation hearings, saying Jackson “cut through the political gamesmanship.”

With less than 24 hours until Republican voters go to select their choice for who will represent the GOP in November's U.S. Senate election, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) is calling for his opponent, former Business Council of Alabama head Katie Britt, to be disqualified for what he claimed as supporting Doug Jones in his 2017 U.S. Senate bid against then-Republican candidate Roy Moore. Brooks' overtures about the 2017 election have been a fixture on the campaign trail during this 2022 cycle. However, on Monday's broadcast of Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," Brooks called the Alabama...

President Joe Biden will allow Afghans “who provided insignificant or certain limited material support to a designated terrorist organization” to “qualify for protection and other immigration benefits in the United States,” a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement states. Following the U.S. Armed Forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, Biden opened a refugee and parole pipeline for tens of thousands of Afghans to be flown quickly into American communities without being screened or interviewed in person beforehand.

On Monday afternoon Missouri State Senate Majority Leader Caleb Rowden said he contacted the Missouri Highway Patrol following the release of the ad. This sounds like the Democrats’ Red Flag Laws?

John Oliver on Sunday pointed out that housing is now “the thing a 16-year-old TikTok millionaire can afford and you can’t.” (Watch the video below.) On “Last Week Tonight” the host took aim at skyrocketing rents and some of the greedy attitudes behind them.

Prepare to vote!

NewsNation) — There’s some good news when it comes to the price of gas, but it may take a while for drivers to see it. Gasoline futures hit an all-time high on June 8 and have fallen steadily ever since — the price of crude oil has dropped 10 percent since last Monday. Yet while companies are now paying 28 cents per gallon less, the nationwide average has increased by a penny since actual prices began to fall.

From Ukraine to Rome, the Confusion Is Great. Notes on the Decline of a PontificatePope Francis is furious with those who are lumping him together with Putin. “Slanderers” and “coprophiles” is what he called them in a handwritten letter to an Argentine journalist friend of his. But then, on receiving at Santa Marta on June 8th a trio of Ukrainians presented to him by another Argentine friend of his (see photo), he took flak from one of them too, Myroslav Marynovych, vice-rector of the Catholic University of Lviv, to the effect that yes, “in the Vatican Ukraine has been seen...

President Biden on Monday praised workers at an Apple store near Baltimore that voted to form the first American union at the Silicon Valley tech giant. “I’m proud of them,” Biden told reporters “You know, workers have a right to determine under what conditions they’re gonna work or not,” he continued. “And I think the thing that everybody kind of misunderstands about unions, they tend to be, especially in the trades, the best workers in the world.”

I run the coffee and doughnuts after the 9:00 AM Mass here in Phoenix, AZ. On Monday morning I go to our doughnut supplier, a Kroger-owned supermarket, and submit my order for 12 dozen doughnuts, describing how many and what kind. The ladies in the bakery apologized as they informed me that they would not be able to fill my order as described due to a "doughnut shortage". A doughnut shortage?! Is nothing sacred? Here we are fiddling with baby formula and right under our noses I am told that there will be no chocolate doughnuts, no cake donuts, and...

(looks like a digitized old VHS)Harry Martindale and the Roman Ghosts | Calisto Monserratt

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) said on Monday that he is hopeful the Senate will pass some form of legislation to curb gun violence, adding that not doing so would be a “moment of moral failure.” Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) have led bipartisan negotiations among Senate lawmakers to come up with a framework that could get enough votes to pass the chamber after the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

U.S. President Joe Biden once again assured the public that he was not hurt when he took a spill from his bike on Saturday as he stopped to greet supporters during a weekend trip to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. (gets grabby with young girl at 12 seconds in. The rest is bla, bla, bla.)

Vice President Kamala Harris bungled a history lesson about the Juneteenth holiday Monday, telling kids that black people were enslaved in America for 400 years — overstating the actual time period by more than 150 years. “I think that we all know today is a day to celebrate the principle of freedom,” Harris told a group of about two dozen elementary school-aged children at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington. “And think about it in terms of the context of history, knowing that black people in America were not free for 400 years of slavery.”...