If Mitch McConnell steps down, Kentucky Republicans made sure years ago it won't be a Democrat who replaces him

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Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) reaches out to help Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after McConnell froze and stopped talking.
GOP Sen. John Barrasso (left) reaches out to help Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after McConnell froze and stopped talking on Wednesday.

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A Ukrainian MP is being investigated for calling in sick during the war, and then showing up in the Maldives with his wife and kids

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An overhead shot of the beach resorts in the Maldives.
Aristov was found to be staying in the Maldives after leaving the country in June for a supposed mission in Poland.

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Fox News' Greg Gutfeld is facing new backlash — this time over his comment about Holocaust victims' work skills

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Fox News host Greg Gutfeld.

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China's foreign minister has been removed from his post one month after disappearing from the public eye. Experts say we may never know why.

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Qin Gang (above) was removed from his position as China's foreign minister on Tuesday.
Qin Gang (above) was removed from his position as China's foreign minister on Tuesday.

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Brandon Charnas, the husband of Something Navy's Arielle Charnas, isn't cooperating with an investigation into 'possible insider trading': SEC

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Arielle Charnas and Brandon Charnas attend the Hot Pink Party hosted by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation at Park Avenue Armory on May 15, 2019 in New York City.
Arielle Charnas and Brandon Charnas attend the Hot Pink Party hosted by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation at Park Avenue Armory on May 15, 2019, in New York City.

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Photo captures Ukrainian troops using grunt robots to plant deadly anti-personnel mines

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unexploded munitions and other explosive devices as members of a demining team of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine clear mines off a field not far from the town of Brovary, northeast of Kyiv, on April 21, 2022, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Unexploded munitions and other explosive devices collected by members of a Ukrainian demining team.

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Long after Oppenheimer, the US is still paying benefits to people who were exposed to radiation from nuclear tests

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A billowing white mushroom cloud, mottled with orange, pushes through a layer of clouds during Operation Ivy, the first test of a hydrogen bomb, at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
A mushroom cloud produced by the first test of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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Putin 'just hid' during Wagner's mutiny, proving he can't guarantee 'security' for Russia, a former Russian colonel says

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Putin's critics have said his lack of leadership and comprise with Prigozhin have left him vulnerable.

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Russia wants school kids trained to operate combat drones, which have become an inescapable part of the Ukraine war

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Russian military troops take part in a military drill on Sernovodsky polygon close to the Chechnya border, some 260 km from south Russian city of Stavropol, on March 19, 2015.
Drones are at the front of Russia's invasion in Ukraine, and now Russia seems to think it's the future of warfare.

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Check out a ghost town of deserted Chinese mega-villas built for multimillionaires that's now overrun by farmers and left to rot

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Cattle wandering between deserted villas in a suburb of Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province.
Cattle wandering between deserted villas in a suburb of Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province.

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