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Donald Trump has doubled down on his plan to bring in over 600,000 Chinese college students to the United States, in a polarizing move that has divided the MAGA base. However, the president has batted away criticism, declaring, “I know what MAGA wants better than anybody else.” His plan will see the annual number of visas offered to Chinese students increase to the new figure over the next two years, up from the current 300,000. (snip) Laura Ingraham grilled the president, telling Trump that “a lot of MAGA folks are not thrilled” about his plan. “Yeah, but you would have,...

Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau said on Monday that it was conducting a large-scale operation to uncover corruption in the country's energy sector. "The activities of a high-level criminal organization have been documented," the bureau said about the investigation which involves 1,000 hours of audio recordings and took 15 months of work. "Its members have built a large-scale corruption scheme to influence strategic enterprises in the public sector, in particular JSC 'Energoatom'," according to the post on the Telegram messaging app.