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LUNCHTIME POLITICS: Trust to Handle Issues – Virginia Governor – Biden and the Pandemic

August 27, 2021 John Ganjei

Your Daily Polling Update for Friday, August 27, 2021 BIDEN JOB APPROVAL: AVERAGE 47%Up 2 from Wednesday RON’S COMMENT: After a week of falling numbers, Biden gets a small uptick. Does this mean he’s bottomed […]

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UN Security Council Deems Kabul Airport Terrorist Attack Abhorrent

August 27, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

I light of the two explosions outside Kabul airport that killed at least 110 people, including 13 US soldiers, the UN Security Council condemned on Friday the attack calling it especially abhorrent for deliberately targeting […]

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UK Stopped Taking Evacuees, Starts Final Phase of Afghan Pullout

August 27, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Facing increased risk of further attacks at the Kabul airport after the suicide bombing killed 13 US soldiers, among others, on Thursday, UK Defence Minister informed Friday that Britain will not accept any more people […]

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Mexican University Creates Face Covering that Neutralizes Covid-19

August 27, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Using silver and copper nano layers, researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have created a face covering that allegedly neutralizes Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, , The Straits Times reports. According […]

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Israeli’s Bennett to Push President Biden Away from Iran Nuclear Deal during Postponed Meeting

August 27, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Newly appointed Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who traveled to the United States in an effort to rekindle recently strained relationship with his country’s key ally, aims to persuade President Joe Biden not to return […]

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Notorious Restrictive Voting Bill Passed in Texas House after Months of Bitter Fight

August 27, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Texas Election bill SB1 has finally made step forward toward the governor’s desk after the GOP members of Texas House passed 79-37 new voting restrictions on Thursday, putting an end to the months long partisan […]

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Resignation Calls Resurface after Biden Doesn’t Deny Giving Names of Americans to Taliban

August 27, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Responding to a Politico report during Thursday’s press conference in the wake of terrorist attacks on Kabul airports, President Biden has prompted outrage from military officials and renewed calls for his resignation admitting that officials […]

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Number of Victims from Kabul Airport Terrorist Attacks Reaches 110

August 27, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

A source in the Afghan Health Ministry informed on Friday that the number of victims after the Kabul Airport terrorist attacks reached 110 while the number of injured went over 1,330 people with Pentagon confirming […]

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Millions Americans at Risk of Homelessness after US Supreme Court Blocks Federal Eviction Moratorium

August 27, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Ruling that if a federally imposed eviction moratorium is to continue, the Congress must specifically authorize it, the US Supreme Court blocked on Thursday the moratorium President Biden imposed to protect renters affected by the […]

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Delta Variant Pushes Number of Hospitalizations in US to Over 100.000

August 27, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

As the highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 rampages among unvaccinated Americans, putting the health care system under serious strain, the number of hospitalizations for the coronavirus has crossed the 100.000 threshold for the second […]

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Walter Shaub, Obama’s Ethics Chief Says Art Scheme of Hunter Biden is Appalling

August 27, 2021 Dime

The ethics chief of former President Barack Obama blasted the Biden administration for reaching a deal last month for indefinitely concealing the identities of Hunter Biden’s painting buyers from him and the general US public, […]

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German Publishing Giant Axel Springer Signs $1Billion to Buy Politico, Protocol and Politico Europe

August 26, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Robert Allbritton, the current owner of Politico, has allegedly sold the 15-year-old digital media company covering politics and policy for, according to media speculations, more than$1 billion to German publishing giant Axel Springer, Business Wire […]

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Palestinian Authority Security Forces Harassed, Assaulted WaPo Journalists

August 26, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Palestinian Authority’s security forces have allegedly attacked Washington Post’s West Bank correspondent Sufian Taha and photojournalist Salwan Georges, the Foreign Press Association’s statement says as quoted by Fox News. According to the statement, Taha and […]

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Taliban Place Ex-Afghan President Karzai under House Arrest, Remove His Security Cover

August 26, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has found himself effectively under house arrest in Kabul after the Taliban have reportedly removed his security cover taking away his security and confiscating his car, ANI News reports. […]

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Russian Pipe Imports Targeted by Whopping Duties by US Department of Commerce

August 26, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

According to the statement published in the US government’s Federal Register, import duties of more than 200% has been introduced by the US Department of Commerce on several types of steel pipes from Russia. In […]

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Biden to Try to Polish US-Israel Relations with the New Israeli PM Bennett

August 26, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Although they’re starting off by having vastly different views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the efforts to restore the Iran nuclear deal, President Biden will try to burnish the relations between the US and Israel […]

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NATO’s Stoltenberg Claims NATO went into Afghan War to Protect America

August 26, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

NATO’s two decade-long involvement in Afghanistan was not a mission to protect Afghanistan by preventing the country to become a sanctuary for terrorists but to protect the US by purging the country of al-Qaeda in […]

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FDA Approval Doesn’t Stop Texas Gov. Abbott from Banning COVID Vaccine Mandates

August 26, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

Though he acknowledged vaccine’s role in his brief & mild Covid-19 infection and despite FDA’s full approval of Pfizer’s jab, still recovering Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, reissued on Wednesday his ban on COVID vaccine mandates […]

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Russian Foreign Minister Blasts the West’s Blind Support for Ukraine

August 26, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

In light of the Crimean Platform forum that took place in Kiev on August 23, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed the NATO and EU of false understanding of solidarity with regards to Crimea by […]

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20 Years after 9/11, Taliban Spokesman Says No Evidence Exists Bin Laden was Behind It

August 26, 2021 Elizabeta Bozinovska

The US has no evidence whatsoever to prove Usama bin Laden was behind 9/11 attacks, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed in an interview with NBC News’s Richard Engel from Afghanistan, responding when asked if Afghanistan […]

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Psaki Says US Not Collaborating with Terrorist, Although it Depends on Taliban for Safe Evacuation

August 26, 2021 Dime

Jen Psaki, the White House Press Secretary on Wednesday said that the US policy of not negotiating with terrorist organizations is still in place, regardless of the fact that the Biden administration relies on the […]

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LUNCHTIME POLITICS: Attitudes on Afghanistan – Biden on the Issues

August 25, 2021 John Ganjei

Your Daily Polling Update for Wednesday, August 25, 2021 BIDEN JOB APPROVAL: AVERAGE 45%Down 2 from Monday RON’S COMMENT: Two weeks ago, Biden’s average job rating was 50% approve/47% disapprove. Now it’s 45% approve/51% disapprove…. […]

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Saudi Arabia Reports 123 Percent Rise in June Oil Exports

August 25, 2021 Bojan Stojkovski

The value of Saudi Arabia’s oil exports increased by 123.2 percent in June 2021 compared to the same month in 2020, the Oil Price information portal said on Tuesday. According to the Saudi Arabia General […]

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Saudi Arabia Attracts Industry Investments Worth $18.6bn

August 25, 2021 Bojan Stojkovski

Investment in Saudi Arabia’s industrial sector equaled $18.6 billion in the first seven months of 2021, Saudi Industry and Natural Resources Minister Bandar Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Abdullah Al-Khorayef said in a tweet. The Saudi Minister […]

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Israeli PM Announces Intention to Create Arab Coalition against Iran

August 25, 2021 Bojan Stojkovski

In an interview with The New York Times ahead of his visit to Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced his intention to create a coalition of Arab countries seeking to limit Iran’s influence in […]

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Russia Calls on Iran, US to Agree on Nuclear Deal

August 25, 2021 Bojan Stojkovski

The Russian Foreign Ministry called on Iran to do everything so that the so-called nuclear deal does not cease to exist, in an official statement made by Russian Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova. Commenting on […]

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Joes Biden's infrastructure bill includes reparation of bridges

White House to Host Cybersecurity Conference

August 25, 2021 Maja Popovska

On Wednesday, the Biden administration will host a cybersecurity conference at the White House, with more than two dozen executives from major organizations from a range of sectors. The event is meant to serve as […]

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Harris Criticizes China for ‘Bullying’ Neighbors

August 25, 2021 Maja Popovska

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is accusing China of bullying its Southeast Asian neighbors for the second day in a row, while paying a regional visit aimed at combating Beijing’s rising influence, Reuters reports. Harris […]

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Pelosi Calls on Lawmakers Not to Travel to Kabul

August 25, 2021 Dime

Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker called on lawmakers on Tuesday to be careful not to divert the much-needed resources away from the people that are trying to flee Afghanistan, Fox News informed. Pelosi issued the […]

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Kamala Harris Visits Vietnam after Flight Delay due to Reports of Havana Syndrome

August 25, 2021 Dime

Kamala Harris, the US Vice President has arrived in Vietnam from Singapore early on Wednesday after a report that another potential case of the Havana Syndrome was recorded, which caused a delay that lasted 3 […]

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