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2022-05-12 19:19:00 Czech President Milos Zeman allowed 103 citizens of the republic to join the AFU, the ČTK news agency reported Open / Comment

2022-05-12 17:54:00 The German Defense Ministry said that the German Federal Republic started training Ukrainian soldiers to use PzH 2000 howitzers Open / Comment

2022-05-12 15:21:00 Biden once again blamed Putin for rising fuel and food prices

"We noticed that fuel prices went up in March, it's because of Putin. It's also because of him that our food prices went up," Biden said. Open / Comment

2022-05-12 14:00:11 Overturning Roe could have major repercussions for IVF treatments, fertility experts warn

News that the Supreme Court is on the cusp of overturning Roe v. Wade is sounding alarms for an unexpected part of the population: people looking to get pregnant and the doctors who are helping them.

The conservative justices, according to a draft majority opinion disclosed last week, are preparing to give states the full power to determine abortion policies within their borders. Experts say that could open up the legal terrain for states to interfere with the fertility process known as in vitro fertilization, in which a sperm fertilizes an egg outside the body.

Doctors and academics, say there is grave uncertainty - both about how abortion laws already on the books will be interpreted and about how lawmakers and local prosecutors may seek to push the envelope, freed from the precedents. Open / Comment

2022-05-11 21:00:05 Kevin McCarthy and Donald Trump praise each other at GOP fundraiser

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy heaped praised on former President Donald Trump at a Dallas fundraiser on Monday evening, calling him Republicans' "secret weapon" and suggesting he could become president again, according to sources in the room.

When Trump took the stage at the event raising money for the House GOP's campaign arm, he spoke highly of McCarthy as well throughout his speech, sources said.

"Kevin's been with me from the beginning," Trump said, according to attendees. Trump noted they've done a lot together to "fight back" and ticked off a list of some of their accomplishments, including a trade deal.

It was their first appearance on stage together, though it came behind closed doors, since the release of tapes featuring McCarthy privately bashing Trump in the immediate aftermath of the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Open / Comment

2022-05-11 19:32:00 British TV channel Sky News interrupted a live broadcast of an interview with Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, after he pointed out the SS logo on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskуy's social network.

"My interview with Sky News hardly pleased the British journalists. They heard a lot of unflattering and extremely uncomfortable things. And the ending turned out to be scandalous at all," said Polansky. Open / Comment

2022-05-11 17:21:00 Zelenskуy on Twitter thanked Biden for signing the Lend-Lease Act for Ukraine

"Thank you to the President of the United States and the people of the United States for supporting Ukraine in the fight for our freedom and future. The signing of the Lend-Lease Act today is a historic step. I am convinced that we will win together again. And protect democracy in Ukraine and Europe. As we did 77 years ago." Open / Comment

2022-05-11 15:21:00 Joe Biden signed the "lend-lease" legislation for Ukraine, making it easier to provide military aid Open / Comment

2022-05-11 14:00:08 Jail is the new threat facing election workers

Election officials in Arizona could face criminal charges if a noncitizen registers to vote on their watch. In Iowa, a law enacted last year makes it a felony for election clerks to willfully buck state election laws. And in Florida, election supervisors face fines of up to $25,000 for leaving a ballot drop box unattended.

Across the country, election administrators face a growing number of punishing new laws as Republican lawmakers move to restrict ballot access after record turnout in the 2020 election and relentless false allegations by former President Donald Trump and his allies that widespread voter fraud cost him a second term.

This year alone, lawmakers have introduced 16 different bills in eight states that create new criminal or civil penalties for functions associated with running elections, said Will Wilder, who works on voting rights at the left-leaning Brennan Center for Justice. Open / Comment

2022-05-10 21:00:05 Trump says he has no Trump Organization cell phones and asks judge to end contempt fines

Former President Donald Trump said he no longer has four cell phones identified by the New York attorney general's investigation into the Trump Organization's finances but has turned over his personal phone to be searched as he tries to convince a state judge to lift a civil contempt ruling that so far has cost him $140,000.

In an affidavit filed with the court Friday, Trump said he doesn't currently have any phones, computers or electronic devices issued to him by the Trump Organization and that he has authorized his attorneys to search his homes in Bedminster, New Jersey, his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, and his personal residence in Trump Tower for any documents sought by New York Attorney General Letitia James' subpoena. Open / Comment