➡️ NOW: Trump and Biden Shake Hands in the Oval Office

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💸 US debt ‘set to explode’ under Trump - IIF

Trump’s plan to slash taxes without equal cuts to spending would push US national debt up from around 100% of GDP today to more than 135% in a decade’s time, the Institute of International Finance has warned.

Inflation is also likely to rise as Trump stokes spending and makes imports more expensive by slapping tariffs on foreign-made goods, the Washington-based org stated.

The US national debt already stands at close to $36 trillion.

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🤔Ukraine’s MoD Suggests Kiev Could Drop 'Rudimentary Nuclear Bomb’ on Russia if US Funding Cut – The Times

Using plutonium extracted from spent nuclear reactor fuel, Ukraine could potentially construct a weapon “withing months” similar in design to the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, a briefing reportedly prepared by Kiev’s MoD said.

Kiev has enough reactor plutonium to make hundreds of low-yield warheads, Ukraine’s National Institute for Strategic Studies alleged.

The lunatics are in charge of the asylum.

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⚡ BREAKING: French prosecutors request lawmaker Marine Le Pen be found guilty of embezzlement and sentenced to five years in prison - Politico

The judgment threatens to torpedo Le Pen’s expected presidential bid.

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🤡 US State Dept Continues Gaza Gaslighting to the Press

Matt Lee: Why did you bother to put in 350 trucks a day if it doesn’t matter?

Patel: I’m not gonna speak to…

Lee: We didn’t give the Israelis 30 days, you guys did, and now those 30 days are up and all the metrics you put out don’t matter?

Patel: I never said they don’t matter.

Humeyra Pamuk: You said “rabbit hole.”

Patel: I don’t want to take up time getting into truck numbers…

Lee: Then why did you put them in the letter?

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❌ Trump’s Transition Team Draws Up Pentagon Military Hitlist - Eyeing Up Senior Officers for Dismissal (Reuters)

Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, has expressed a willingness to implement significant leadership changes within the Pentagon.

The focus appears to be on officers associated with former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley - whom Trump's allies view as disloyal after he called the president-elect a fascist in his book.

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⚠️ Russian Drone Destroys British Challenger 2 Tank in Kursk

Russian marines from the 155th Guards Naval Infantry brigade destroyed the vehicle in Kursk.

Footage shows a drone about to strike the tank underneath its turret.

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⚫️ Costa Del Storm: Tornados Rip Through Spain’s Marbella

Three waterspouts were seen twisting across the surface of the sea, with one making landfall in the coastal city and destroying property, footage posted on social media showed.

Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in the Malaga province - as the area braced for an extreme storm known as Dana.

The city of Malaga also flooded on Wednesday as the Guadalmedina River was overwhelmed by heavy rainfall.

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😳 JUST IN: Israeli Airstrike Falls Just Shy of Beirut Airport Earlier Thursday

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😂 ICYMI: Canada Remembrance Ceremony Goes Full Monty Python Sketch

Trudeau’s Canada summed up in one clip.

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🤔 Israeli Police Demolish Mosque in ‘Unrecognized' Bedouin Village of Umm al-Hiran in Negev - to Make Way for Orthodox Jewish Community

The Bedouins in the village had been "illegally squatting" on land that belongs to Israel, according to a 2015 Israeli High Court of Justice ruling.

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❗️NZ Suspends Parliament after MP Leads Haka to Protest Bill to Debate Māori Rights

New Zealand’s parliament has erupted into fiery debate, personal attacks and a haka over a controversial bill that proposes to radically alter the way New Zealand’s treaty between Māori and the crown is interpreted.

The treaty principles bill was tabled by the libertarian Act party – a minor partner in NZ’s coalition govt – and passed its first reading on Thursday, amid scathing speeches and disruptions.

The bill seeks to remove a set of well-established principles that has flowed from New Zealand’s founding document – the treaty of Waitangi - which is instrumental in upholding Māori rights.

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