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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has cancelled foreign trips as a Russian offensive in north-east Ukraine intensifies.Russian forces have recaptured the symbolically important village of Rabotino in Zaporozhye Region, the Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.The territorial gain was achieved through military action against the Ukrainian forces in the region, in which the adversary lost up to 25 troops and a US-made M777 howitzer, the ministry’s update on the Ukraine conflict said.Ukraine has pulled back troops from some areas in the border region.But the Ukrainian military insists it is "not allowing the Russian occupiers to gain a foothold."Meanwhile in Kyiv, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces an extra $2bn of US funding for Ukraine."We're rushing ammunition, armored vehicles, missiles, air defences to get them to the front lines," Blinken says
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“There are only two rational outcomes in this war, a Russian victory or a nuclear war. You can get to one of these outco…”
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Slovakia's pro-Putin prime minister Robert Fico has been shot in the stomach in an assassination attempt.The politician, 59, is now in a life-threatening condition in hospital after he was attacked leaving a government meeting.Four shots were fired - with one hitting populist leader Fico in the abdomen in the town of Handlova, some 100 miles northeast of Bratislava.After receiving treatment in Handlova, the PM has now been airlifted to a hospital in the capital as transport to the city would take "too long", a government spokesperson said.The incident took place in front of the local House of Culture, where the PM had come to meet with supporters.The suspected assassin was filmed being overpowered and detained by security forces and bystanders.
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“This comes only days after Fico formally & publicly rejected The WHO Global Pandemic Accord”
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November’s election may be decided by whose definition of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voters find most persuasive.No one really knows which of his rivals Mr. Kennedy’s candidacy will hurt more. Mr. Biden sees Mr. Kennedy as possibly reprising the role played by the Green Party’s Jill Stein in 2016. Her vote totals were slim—in Pennsylvania she received 0.82%, in Michigan 1.07%, in Wisconsin 1.04%—but had her votes gone instead to Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump wouldn’t have been president.With Mr. Kennedy polling today in the low double digits, Mr. Biden is taking no chances. He has gathered endorsements from almost the entire Kennedy family and even set up a war room to track the RFK campaign and make it harder for him to get on state ballots. Team Biden is trying to portray Mr. Kennedy as a creature of MAGA, citing his antivax stands and his financial support from Trump donor Timothy Mellon.Mr. Trump is smart to hammer Mr. Kennedy on the issues and cast him as further to the left than Mr. Biden. For one thing, it clarifies things for Republican and independent voters who might buy the nonsense that Mr. Kennedy is conservative. For another, the more vehement Mr. Trump’s attacks on Mr. Kennedy are, the more the former president increases RFK Jr.’s attractiveness to Democrats already disenchanted with the president..
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I disagree. This is not 1992 when Perot definitely took votes from Bush. RFK Jr. is very, very liberal and his position…
President Biden is willing to debate former President Donald J. Trump at least twice before the election, and as early as June.Mr. Biden and his top aides want the debates to start much sooner than the dates proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates, so voters can see the two candidates side by side well before early voting begins in September. They want the debate to occur inside a TV studio, with microphones that automatically cut off when a speaker’s time limit elapses. And they want it to be just the two candidates and the moderator — without the raucous in-person audiences that Mr. Trump feeds on and without the participation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or other independent or third-party candidates.Strict rules incl microphones that automatically cut off when candidates violate time limits.It is the first formal offer by the Biden campaign for debates with Mr. Trump, who has declared repeatedly that he will debate his successor “anytime and anywhere,” and has demanded as many debates as possible.
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The Federal Transit Administration last week announced a $500 million down payment for the project and is expected to finalize a $6 billion award later this year. This new underground line will extend the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) through San Jose and Santa Clara, which are already served by the region’s Caltrain and public buses.A decade ago, the duplicative subway was estimated to cost $4.4 billion and open in 2026. Local transportation planners wanted BART to “ring” the San Francisco Bay. Estimated costs have since ballooned to $12.75 billion—$2.1 billion a mile—owing to inflation and engineering changes. Now service isn’t expected to start until 2037.A local project manager blamed soaring costs and delays on “a shortage of skilled labor in the Bay Area and the country.” Perhaps more construction workers would be available if the Administration weren’t splashing around hundreds of billions of dollars on green energy and public works like the Silicon Valley subway.
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Always remember. If they say the Las Vegas bullet train will cost $3b today, it will end up costing at least $10b. And J…
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