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The Iranian military has personnel in Crimea to train Russian troops on how to pilot drones that have been decimating civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, the White House said Thursday. “They can lie to the world, but they certainly can’t hide the facts, and the fact is this — Tehran is now directly engaged on the ground,” National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters. Russia started purchasing Shahed-136, or “kamikaze drones,” from Iran this summer and have used them to strike Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine, according to U.S. and Ukrainian officials.  Iran sent a “relatively small number” of “trainers and…

CNN  —  Three top officials in Texas’ most populous county have asked the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to send federal monitors to Harris County for the midterm elections to oversee what they view as an effort by Republican state officials to “chill voters’ trust in the election process” and “intimidate” election workers. Earlier this week, the director of the Forensic Audit Division of the Texas secretary of state’s office sent a letter to Harris County election officials informing them that it would be sending “a contingent of inspectors” to observe the “central count” next week, when early voting…

United States immigration officials are set to begin accepting applications for a new parole programme for Venezuelan asylum seekers, in a plan that will see most Venezuelans trying to enter the US through its southern border expelled back to Mexico. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday published a Federal Register notice (PDF) announcing the official start of the programme, which was announced last week, that will allow 24,000 Venezuelans to come into the US by air. The plan, which is aimed at addressing the growing number of Venezuelans who have been arriving at the US-Mexico border seeking asylum,…

German chancellor Olaf Scholz dropped his opposition to an EU gas price cap after late-night summit talks aimed at quelling the energy crisis hanging over the union’s economy.Draft conclusions seen by the Financial Times showed that leaders were prepared to endorse further work towards a gas price cap — although with heavy caveats aimed at easing Berlin’s fears that market interventions could endanger security of supply. The compromise is a relief for EU countries including Italy, France, Spain and Belgium, which have long demanded a ceiling on gas prices as the cornerstone of efforts to ease the pain of soaring…

Cristiano Ronaldo will not play for Manchester United this weekend after reportedly being told to train separately from the team.The drama comes after Ronaldo reportedly left the stadium during a match against Tottenham Hotspur after refusing to enter the game as a substitute.His teammates went to the locker room to celebrate to 2-0 win, but he was not present. The team confirmed Ronaldo will not play Saturday.”Ronaldo will not be part of the Manchester United squad for this Saturday’s Premier League game against Chelsea,” it said.”The rest of the squad is fully focused on preparing for that fixture.” Ronaldo was…

Denise Richards and Lisa Rinna Shutterstock; NBCCalling her out! Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Denise Richards is addressing her former costar Lisa Rinna’s behavior on season 12 of the Bravo series. “I watched #RHOBH last night,” the Wild Things star, 51, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, October 20. “While I have empathy for Lisa Rinna losing her mom, what is her excuse all the other years on the show for being so cruel & so vindictive?” Throughout the course of the season, Rinna, 59, has had outbursts and even lashed out against her fellow Housewives — primarily Sutton Stracke…

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CNN  —  Pop into a meeting of the Board of Elections in Spalding County, Georgia, and it may appear like any other eye-glazing gathering of bureaucrats being led by a no-nonsense chair. “We hang our political hats at the door when we come in and do the people’s work,” Board Chairman Ben Johnson said at one meeting earlier this year. “There ain’t no room for politics in elections.” But Johnson’s stated beliefs don’t appear to be so easily left at the door. An election-conspiracy believer, Johnson has authored a social media post to “fellow insurrectionists” and proclaimed that Joe Biden “is an…

Police in Florida arrested a man who was wanted for allegedly threatening to kill his co-workers after officers used a pit maneuver during a chase on Wednesday.Brevard County deputies attempted to pull over Daniel Harris, 33, for a traffic stop on Wednesday because he was wanted in Johnson City, Arkansas, after he allegedly didn’t appear in court for a count of criminal mischief and three counts of terroristic threats, according to FOX 35.Harris allegedly threatened to kill several co-workers after he was fired from his job in March. During the incident in March, he allegedly waved a gun and threatened…

An NYU chemistry professor who claimed he was fired after students complained that his class was too hard said colleges “coddle” students instead of helping them succeed with “tough love.” Maitland Jones Jr. taught at the expensive Manhattan private school for 15 years before he was canned ahead of the fall semester after a student petition alleged that his organic chemistry class was too difficult to pass. “Organic chemistry is a difficult and important course,” he wrote in an op-ed published in the Boston Globe Thursday. “Those of us who teach it aim to produce critical thinkers, future diagnosticians, and…