The United States said Thursday it and other G7 members will provide Kyiv with a loan of up to $50 billion that will be paid back to Western allies using interest income from Russian assets frozen in Western financial institutions. The announcement came as President Joe Biden meets with leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies Thursday at the luxury resort of Borgo Egnazia in Puglia, Italy, on the first day of their summit. Biden has been pushing G7 leaders to agree to his plan...

President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement at an international summit that included a deal on a multibillion dollar loan designed to help Kyiv defend against Russia's invasion. “We’re not backing down. In fact, we’re standing together against this illegal aggression,” Biden said at a joint news conference Thursday night with Zelenskyy. Biden and his counterparts from the wealthiest...

The US and Ukraine signed off Thursday on a 10-year security agreement, with the leaders of the Group of Seven nations pledging to arrange a $50 billion loan to the war-torn nation. The security deal, signed by President Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of a joint news conference on the sidelines of the annual G7 summit in southern Italy, will boost weapons-production cooperation, provide other military assistance and increase intelligence sharing...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate, is on the brink of meeting the requirements to qualify for the June 27 CNN presidential debate. His participation in the debate could significantly change the state of the presidential race, as RFK already appears to be pulling large amounts of voters from both major candidates, despite his limited mainstream coverage. Joining the debate could legitimize his candidacy and increase support by sharing his agenda with new audiences.  To earn a spot in the debate, RFK must have ballot access in enough state ballots to allow him to hypothetically reach 270 electoral votes if he were to win every state. Since he is a third-party candidate, to appear on the ballot, he must petition and apply for access in each state separately. According to his website, he currently has ballot access in 18 states that have a total value of 272 electoral college votes. However, at least 10 of the 18 states where Kennedy claims to be on the ballot have not officially confirmed that he has made their ballot. It’s worth noting that the ballot access requirement is being criticized because the debate occurs before Joe Biden and Donald Trump will be officially selected as their parties’ nominees. As presumptive nominees, both candidates cannot officially secure ballot access for 270 electoral votes by the June 20 deadline.   RFK’s campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that this technicality violated federal campaign laws. The complaint asks the FEC to suspend the CNN debate until the alleged violations are addressed. Traditionally, presidential debates occur in the fall after the nominating conventions. The CNN debate will be the earliest televised presidential debate in a U.S. election cycle. It will also be the first presidential debate not proctored by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates since its inception in 1988.  A lawsuit jeopardizing RFK’s ability to qualify for the debate emerged last Thursday. Two New Yorkers supported by the Democratic National Committee sued RFK’s campaign for allegedly invalid petition signatures. The lawsuit claims that the vast majority of his signatures are missing required information such as dates or addresses. Without ballot access in New York, which the campaign claims to have, RFK will lose 28 electoral votes and fall well below the required threshold. Another requirement is that candidates receive at least 15 percent of the vote in four different national surveys that meet CNN’s standards. The polls approved must be conducted by CNN, ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, Marquette University Law School, Monmouth University, NBC News, the New York Times/Siena College, NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist College, Quinnipiac University, the Wall Street Journal, or the Washington Post. Currently, RFK has only fulfilled this requirement in three approved polls: one conducted by the Marquette Law School, another by CNN, and a third by Quinnipiac University. The deadline to qualify for the debate is June 20. READ MORE: RFK Jr.’s Philandering, Late Wife’s Suicide Stay Out of Campaign The post Could RFK Jr. Qualify for the June Presidential Debate? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

by John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute: “Take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.” — James Madison James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights would become mere “parchment barrier,” words on paper ignored by successive generations of Americans. How right he was. Although […]

by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog: The health of the economy has been one of the primary determining factors in many presidential elections, and it will be the same this time around too.  Of course that is really bad news for Joe Biden, because the American people absolutely hate what is happening to the […]

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