pope francis presides over palm sunday mass at the vatican, just a day after leaving hospital in rome for treatment for bronchitis. we start with the breaking news that russia says a leading pro kremlin military blogger has been killed in a blast in a cafe in st petersburg. police say 16 others have been injured in the incident. the city is the second largest in russia after the capital, moscow. vladlen tatarsky was one of a handful of reporters writing blogs on the telegram platform from the front line and was a vocal supporters of russia s war in ukraine. it is not clear at this time who s responsible for the blast. as you d expect, details of the explosion are still coming in and of course as we get more on this, we ll bring it to you. to the united states now, though. authorities there have been assessing the damage caused by severe storms and tornadoes. at least 26 people are now known to have died as the storms ripped through the south and the midwest, leaving a trail o
ginnie thomas, conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice played a much bigger role than we previously knew in pushing the election results. virginia ginnie thomas pressed arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside joe biden s popular vote victory and choose, quote, a clean slate of electors, that s according to emails obtained by the washington post. that email sent by thomas to lawmakers in 2020 argued that legislators needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud. though she did not mention either candidate by name, the context was clear. thomas urged lawmakers to stand strong in the face of political and media pressure. she told lawmakers the chance to have lawmakers was yours and yours alone and had the power to fight back against fraud. that push by thomas in battle ground states ultimately culminated of alternate slate of trump electors being sent. the states are now under investigation by the justice department and they form
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presumably, they are held in kabul, but we know the taliban about different secret service departments. we don t know which the partner and has taken them. and also these are high value people. we know these are high value people. we know the taliban are under enormous international pressure because of the nonrecognition of the regime, so when they find cases like this, they use it as a very good organ in chip. i think it will be very difficult for the taliban to come up and to say, yeah, we are holding these people and these are our conditions. what might the taliban want in return for the safe passage or return for the safe passage or return of these three men? tt is return of these three men? it is very difficult return of these three men? tit 3 very difficult because as return of these three men? tit 1 very difficult because as i say, the taliban, they are hungerfor international recognition, and i m sure when they find any excuses, they want privileges, they want
the president, former president, crossed red line after red line and acts like the january 6th insurrection were a direct line from the clearing of the peaceful protesters, generally peaceful protesters in lafayette park and nonrecollection or nonrecognition of the election itself. yevgeny, the ig report names names. so, i want to name them here. this is the washington post reporting on the ig report. it says this. the inspector general s findings are remarkable declaration that the trump administration s treatment of whistle-blowers was inappropriate. a separate army investigation cited in the watchdog s report found that nsc attorneys johnizenberg and michael ellis, who issued yevgeny vindman a harsh appraisal lacked objectivity and that it would be, quote, difficult to justify their negative assessment.