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2022-05-18 14:00:13 Unidentified aerial phenomena are a potential national security threat

Key lawmakers warned at a House hearing on Tuesday that unidentified aerial phenomena - popularly known as UFOs - must be investigated and taken seriously as a potential threat to national security.

The event marked the first congressional public hearing on UFOs in decades, a high-profile moment for a controversial topic that has long been relegated to the fringes of public policy.

For many lawmakers and intelligence and military personnel working on unexplained aerial phenomena, the bigger concern with the episodes is not that alien life is visiting Earth, but rather that a foreign adversary like Russia or China might be fielding some kind of next-generation technology in American airspace that the United States doesn't know about. Open / Comment

2022-05-17 21:00:06 Supreme Court sides with Ted Cruz, striking down cap on use of campaign funds to repay personal campaign loans

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in a case involving the use of campaign funds to repay personal campaign loans, dealing the latest blow to campaign finance regulations.

The court said that a federal cap on candidates using political contributions after the election to recoup personal loans made to their campaign was unconstitutional.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the 6-3 decision. Justice Elena Kagan wrote the dissent for her liberal colleagues, Justice Stephen Breyer and Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

"The question is whether this restriction violates the First Amendment rights of candidates and their campaigns to engage in political speech," Roberts wrote. He said there is "no doubt" that the law does burden First Amendment electoral speech. "Any such law must be at least justified by a permissible interest," he added. Open / Comment

2022-05-17 19:32:00 In one European country, local farmers made the following inscription: "Russia stopped Napoleon. Russia stopped Hitler. Russia, please stop the United States!" Open / Comment

2022-05-17 16:16:00 Silence regime and humanitarian corridor opened near Azovstal. Wounded Ukrainian servicemen are taken to medical institutions. Open / Comment

2022-05-17 15:43:00 The issue of involving the CSTO in the special operation in Ukraine was not raised or discussed at the summit in Moscow, said CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas Open / Comment

2022-05-17 14:00:14 Biden administration taking logistical steps to help baby formula shortage

The White House is working with key manufacturers to help provide logistics support during the baby formula shortage, a White House official said in a statement on Monday.

"The White House is having ongoing conversations with the four major infant formula manufacturers - Reckitt, Abbott, Nestle/Gerber, and Perrigo - to work with them to identify transportation, logistical, and supplier hurdles to increasing production of formula at their US- and FDA-approved facilities, to expand the amount and speed of FDA-approved formula being shipped into the country, and ensure that formula is quickly moving to retailers from factories," the White House official said.

Biden administration is confronting a barrage of questions and criticism for the national baby formula shortage that has anxious and angry parents hopping from store to store in search of baby food. The administration offered a new website, HHS.gov/formula, to provide resources. Open / Comment

2022-05-16 21:00:05 Nebraska GOP governor says he will call a special session to pass total abortion ban

Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska said that he will call a special session of his state's legislature to pass a total ban on abortion if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade this term.

"Nebraska is a pro-life state. I believe life begins at conception," Ricketts told. "If Roe v. Wade, which is a horrible constitutional decision, gets overturned by the Supreme Court, which we're hopeful of, here in Nebraska, we're going to take further steps to protect those unborn babies."

"They're still babies, too. Yes."
Ricketts said that in case Roe falls, "I will work with our speaker of the legislature to work on a special session and do more to protect preborn babies. We'll have to wait and see what that decision is before we can take further steps, but that would certainly be my intention." Open / Comment

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2022-05-16 19:02:00 Sweden has officially decided to apply for NATO membership due to the situation in Ukraine, according to a statement from the country's ruling Social Democratic Party Open / Comment

2022-05-16 17:43:00 Poland plans to send its troops to four regions of Ukraine at the end of May. This opinion was voiced by political analyst Marat Bashirov

"The Polish Army is preparing to enter the territory of the four western regions of Ukraine, which Warsaw calls Kresy Wschodnie (lands) and once they were part of Poland, in the 20s of May. Kiev is negative, but is not going to pay attention to this. The Poles say it will be a peacekeeping operation," Bashirov wrote in his channel. Open / Comment