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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – The Ukrainian military said Wednesday that it struck a fuel storage depot deep inside Russia, causing a huge blaze at the facility that supplies an important Russian air base. Russian officials acknowledged a major drone attack in the area, and said that authorities had set up an emergency command center to fight the fire. Ukraine´s General Staff said that the assault hit the storage facility near Engels, in Russia´s Saratov region, about 600 kilometers (370 miles) east of the Ukrainian border. The depot supplied a nearby airfield used by aircraft that launch missiles across the border…

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News on Wednesday hailed former Senator and current nominee to head the Small Business Administration Kelly Loeffler as a “proven business leader.” “I had a great meeting with former Senator Kelly Loeffler. She is a proven business leader and friend to the American people. I have no doubt she will open opportunities for small businesses throughout the Cowboy State and advocate for the digital asset industry,” the Wyoming conservative said in a statement to Breitbart News after she and Loeffler met at Lummis’s Senate office. Loeffler and Lummis discussed pro-business policies…

CNN host John King said Tuesday on “Inside Politics” that it was “remarkable” President-elect Donald Trump was “so whiny and so full of grievances” at his press conference. Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins said, “I would treat everything he said there quite seriously. I mean, moments after he said he wanted to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying that she’s going to advocate for that. But I do want to say one of the biggest things that stood out to me from that press conference, from moments when Trump got out…

Lebanese footballer Celine Haidar has woken from a coma nearly two months after the 19-year-old suffered a serious head injury during an Israeli airstrike on Beirut.On November 16, Haidar was fleeing her home in Al-Chiyyah in Beirut’s southern suburbs after an evacuation order from Israel. She was struck on the right side of her head, leaving her in critical condition.Speaking to at the end of December, Haidar’s father Abbas said: “Celine was beginning her life, building step by step with football. This injury cut off her journey.”Earlier this week, Haidar awoke from the coma. According to family, she is able…

Republicans appear close to settling on a strategy for passing President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping border security, energy and tax agenda. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in a brief interview Wednesday evening that House and Senate GOP leaders are likely to make a final decision by Thursday about how they’ll pursue the budget reconciliation process to enact their policy priorities and extend expiring tax cuts. “We’re coordinating both chambers to align them and we’ll make those final decisions, I think, probably by tomorrow,” said Johnson. Privately, House GOP leaders are optimistic key senators are getting behind Johnson’s push for one…

As multiple wildfires rage across Southern California, forcing tens of thousands in the surrounding area to evacuate and threatening thousands of homes, the USA TODAY Network is dedicated to keeping you informed.Our team will be running a text messaging service to bring you the latest updates on the fires, including the Eaton, Palisades and Hurst blazes. To sign up, submit your number below.Signing up for the service will give you a direct line to our reporters and editors, who can help you find information about the latest weather forecasts, evacuations, road closures, local services and more.We will do our best…

The self-ruled island boasts rich natural resources and a key position in the Arctic King Frederick of Denmark has introduced a redesigned royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The change came after US President-elect Donald Trump expressed an interest in gaining control over Greenland.In the old design, Greenland and the Faroe Islands in the Northeast Atlantic, the two self-governed parts of the Kingdom of Denmark, shared the same field out of four in the royal coat of arms. The updated version, released last week, shows a polar bear and ram – animals that…

Jobs, jobs, jobs…ADP’s employment report showed a disappointing addition of just 122k jobs in December (worse than the +140k exp) – its lowest since August…Source: BloombergOnly 3 of the 23 forecasters were lower…Source: BloombergManufacturing saw the biggest drop in jobs (the 7th monthly decline in manufacturing jobs in the last 8 months)……as small- and mid-sized firms cut employees (which is odd since NFIB Small Business sentiment literally exploded higher after Trump’s election).The West was the biggest driver of job gains by region.It seems the labor market ”downshifted” right after Trump was elected?”The labor market downshifted to a more modest pace…

Los Angeles County Fire Department’s decision to donate surplus firefighting equipment to Ukraine in 2022 is being met with heavy criticism as California faces a barrage of wildfires in 2024. With thousands of acres scorched, homes lost, and first responders stretched to their limits, the timing of this earlier “humanitarian” gesture has now come back to haunt the state. In March 2022, the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD) joined a national effort to collect and donate surplus equipment and gear to support first responders in Ukraine. This initiative involved gathering items such as hoses, nozzles, turnouts, helmets, body armor,…

Washington needs to make sure that bank regulations remain strong.Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Thanks to more than a decade of Dodd-Frank and Basel III regulations, the Trump administration inherits a well-capitalized and liquid banking system. Squandering this gift would be very dangerous to the financial and mental health of Americans. Healthy banks are critical to the U.S. economy — more so than any other sector. Bank supervisors globally have a framework to assess banks’ capital, asset quality, management, earnings, liquidity and sensitivity to market risk. A few highlights below show that presently, the American banking system…