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Lady Gaga’s speech on the internet makes a 2nd round for the 2024 election by bashing Donald Trump for his threat to this country. Gaga warns what could happen if Trump gets elected as President. Gaga encourages all her fans to make sure to vote and make a difference to make sure Trump does not get elected.

The Pentagon is downplaying the arrival of four Russian Navy ships in Cuba on Wednesday. U.S. officials acknowledged that U.S. Navy ships “actively monitored” the Russian ships as they approached Havana. At the Pentagon press briefing, spokesperson Sabrina Singh downplayed the naval flotilla’s arrival, noting it has occurred multiple times over the years but confirmed that U.S. military assets had tracked the ships on their way to Cuba. — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that Hungary will not block NATO’s support for Ukraine in exchange for opting out of the support. Stoltenberg made the announcement at a press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “I am glad that we have found a way to allow NATO Allies to agree while also accepting that Hungary will not participate,” Stoltenberg said. — The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, with only one rate cut expected in 2024 as policymakers await more signs of cooling inflation. The central bank maintained the federal funds rate, or what banks charge each other for short-term loans, in a range of 5.25% to 5.5%. It has stayed at that level, the highest in 23 years, since July 2023. However, the Fed’s quarterly projections for future rate cuts are not set in stone. — The Port of Baltimore’s federal channel was safely reopened to its original dimensions of 700 feet wide by 500 feet deep without any major injuries, according to The White House. Work continues to remove debris outside the McHenry Federal Channel, and a safety zone will be maintained to protect workers. Deep draft vessels will require a single escort tug until the work is complete. The preliminary cost to rebuild the bridge is estimated at $1.7 billion to $1.9 billion, officials said. — Last year, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared a national epidemic of loneliness and social isolation across the country. He warned that about half of U.S. adults are experiencing significant levels of loneliness, affecting physical, mental, and societal health. To mark Loneliness Awareness Week from June 10 to June 16, Murthy spoke to ABC News stations nationwide about the causes and solutions for combating feelings of isolation. — Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, started hiding users’ “likes” from public view on Wednesday to protect privacy and reduce fears of retaliation for liking “edgy” content. “Now you’re able to like without worrying who might see it,” Haofei Wang, director of engineering at X, wrote last month in a post. “Public Likes are incentivizing the wrong behavior,” he added. X owner Elon Musk confirmed the change Tuesday, saying it is “important to allow people to like posts without getting attacked for doing so!” — The State Department has launched a beta program for passport renewal applications that will be open to the public, according to senior officials at the department. Officials stated that the program will begin by accepting a small number of online applications each day, gradually increasing to ensure the State Department “can track any issues that arise and address them quickly and continuously improve the experience for the American people.” — Orville Allen lived a lifetime of service, and at age 98, he had one last thing to give: his liver. Allen, a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War and a longtime educator in rural southeastern Missouri, is the oldest American to ever donate an organ, transplant organizations said. He died on May 29, and his liver was successfully transplanted to a 72-year-old woman, according to Mid-America Transplant.

Hamas communicated Tuesday that it had provided intermediaries with its response to the U.S.-backed proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, seeking certain “amendments” to the agreement. The reply seemed to fall short of an outright acceptance that the United States has been advocating for, but kept alive negotiations over an elusive halt to the eight-month conflict. The foreign ministries of Qatar and Egypt — who have been key mediators alongside the United States — acknowledged receiving Hamas’ response and stated that mediators were evaluating it. — Officials from the United States revealed that the country will send Ukraine an additional Patriot missile defense system. The officials confirmed that President Joe Biden has authorized the move. It would be the second Patriot system that the U.S. has provided to Ukraine, although the Pentagon has routinely supplied an undisclosed quantity of missiles for the system. Other allies, including Germany, have also furnished air defense systems as well as munitions for them. — Cautioning about the far-right Project 2025 agenda for a potential Donald Trump White House, a group of House Democrats has launched a task force to begin countering the proposal and prevent it from taking root if the Republican former president regains power. Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman of California is unveiling The Stop Project 2025 Task Force on Tuesday, the latest sign that congressional Democrats and outside groups are treating Trump’s campaign seriously in the expected rematch against Democratic President Joe Biden this fall. “The stakes just couldn’t be higher,” Huffman asserted. — President Joe Biden joined gun control advocates in advancing more initiatives to address gun violence and highlighted his administration’s stricter gun laws. Biden’s prescheduled remarks at the advocacy group Everytown’s Gun Safety University conference in Washington DC, came hours after his son Hunter was convicted on three felony counts in his federal gun trial in Delaware. The president did not mention his son or the case during his remarks Tuesday afternoon. — A federal judge struck down a 2023 Florida law that prohibited gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted such treatment for adults, ruling the statute unconstitutional. Senior Judge Robert Hinkle said the state overreached when it barred transgender minors from being prescribed puberty blockers and hormonal treatments with their parents’ consent. He also stopped the state from requiring that transgender adults only receive treatment from a doctor and not from a registered nurse or other qualified medical practitioner. — One person was fatally shot in connection with a bus hijacking that prompted a police chase through two Georgia counties on Tuesday, authorities said. Police responded to a report of gunfire on a Gwinnett County Transit bus and a “possible hostage situation,” the Atlanta Police Department said. There were 17 people on the bus at the time, including the bus driver, according to Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum. The suspect, a 39-year-old man from Stone Mountain — was taken into custody without further incident, police said. — A 24-year-old Texas man was charged with brazenly selling illegal guns and firearm parts while incarcerated in a Louisiana prison. The suspect, Hayden Espinosa of Corpus Christi, Texas, allegedly sold weapons and gun components to an undercover New York City police officer in a case Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg described on Tuesday as the “confluence of guns and extremism.” — Banana giant Chiquita Brands must pay $38.3 million to 16 family members of people killed during Colombia’s long civil war by a violent right-wing paramilitary group funded by the company, a federal jury in Florida decided. The verdict by a jury in West Palm Beach marks the first time the company has been found liable in any of multiple similar lawsuits pending elsewhere in U.S. courts, lawyers for the plaintiffs said. It also marks a rare finding that blames a private U.S. company for human rights abuses in other countries.

There’s some behind the scenes rumbling, worrying, fingernail biting and second thoughts in the democratic party. In public, the dems are all for one with Biden. They stand behind him. But in private, that’s a different story. they’re worried. VERY worried. Forbes publicly stated that Biden WILL NOT be the Democratic candidate.

Last week’s interview resurfaces Trump’s party with Epstein. Christians continue to support Donald Trump no matter what he does. A past 1992 video of Trump’s party with Jeffrey Epstein resurfaces after an interview on Fox News. Throughout the years, Trump claimed that he hardly knew Epstein and that he didn’t like him. This video shows otherwise. It also reveals they hypocrisy of Christians claiming Trump is the 2nd coming, a true Christian and a man of God. Yet they have no issue with his past and present conduct.

Israeli elite forces, disguised as Palestinians seeking housing, infiltrated the structures where hostages were being detained during the rescue operation, according to two Israeli security sources. The special forces had already taken positions near the buildings before receiving the green light from Israeli authorities, the sources added, with their covert entry preceding the actual operation. — Data from the FBI indicates a persistent decline in violent crime and homicides nationwide during the initial three months of 2024. Compared to the same period last year, reported incidents of violent crime decreased by 15% between January and March, as per the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Data. Murders saw an even steeper drop of over 26% during this timeframe, the data reveal. — After four days of voting involving over 400 million eligible voters across 27 nations, European electorates have shifted the 720-seat parliament further to the right than ever before. The European Parliament will now host a record number of far-right legislators for the next five-year term, with far-right parties making gains in Europe’s three largest economies – Germany, France, and Italy – backed by politicians campaigning against immigration, support for Ukraine, and climate policies. — U.S. Senator John Fetterman and his spouse Gisele were involved in a two-vehicle collision in Maryland on Sunday morning. Maryland State Police troopers from the Hagerstown Barrack responded to a report of a two-vehicle crash on westbound Interstate 70 at Interstate 68 just before 8 a.m. Fetterman, aged 54, was driving a Chevrolet Traverse westbound on Interstate 70 when the vehicle rear-ended a Chevrolet Impala. — A deadly fire at a horse barn in Logan County, Ohio, on Saturday resulted in the loss of 44 horses and serious injury to one person. The blaze engulfed the approximately 60,000-square-foot Brant Performance Horses facility near Belle Center, which housed around 85 horses and featured a performance area and living quarters for employees. — Firefighters battled a massive blaze at a Miami residential complex while a man working there was found shot inside, according to authorities. The fire was reported around 8:15 a.m. Monday at Temple Court Apartments, said Miami Mayor Francis Suarez. Firefighters rescued over 40 people, some from balconies, in what Suarez called “heroic” actions, though an “explosion” occurred after the evacuation. — Chrysler, owned by Stellantis, is recalling over 211,000 SUVs and pickup trucks in the U.S. due to a software glitch that could disable their electronic stability control systems. The recall affects certain 2022 Dodge Durango, Ram 2500, and Ram 3500 models which may experience an anti-lock braking control module malfunction, potentially causing stability control failure and increasing crash risk, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. — Apple unveiled artificial intelligence-powered features across multiple key products on Monday, marking the tech giant’s long-awaited foray into the high-stakes AI race. The latest version of Apple’s operating system will deliver customizable AI tools for iPhones, Macs, and iPads, including language capabilities to enhance or summarize text and image generators to embellish photos, the company said at its Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, California.