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Russian President Vladimir Putin could be the richest man in the world, even after the collapse of the ruble. A CNN report explained that there are so many shell companies that funnel his money into the west, it could be impossible to track it all down.

The Panama Papers revealed the wealth of the world is being hidden in off-shore accounts, in LLCs and real estate holdings. While the papers did track some of Putin's holdings, there is still so much that hasn't been tracked down, the CNN report revealed. Thus far, about $2 billion is known. But as CNN reported, he's worth about $100 billion.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted Republican lawmakers for trying to push President Joe Biden into World War III to score partisan points.

GOP lawmakers are complaining that Biden has not done enough to help Ukraine, or isn't moving fast enough, but the "Morning Joe" host said the president's options are constrained because he's trying to avoid direct conflict with Russia, which could set off a major war with possible nuclear consequences.

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Republicans who are pressing President Joe Biden to do more to help Ukraine still have no regrets about letting Donald Trump off the hook for an extortion scheme against that same nation.

Trump held up congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine in 2019 in a scheme to get president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to announce investigations into Biden and his family, but GOP lawmakers insist their acquittal has no bearing on their current support for helping the nation fight back against Russian aggression, reported Politico.

It looks like Stacey Abrams beat Pete Davidson to space. The politician, romance novelist, voting rights activist and yes, Trekkie, makes an unexpected cameo in the season 4 finale of "Star Trek: Discovery" now streaming on Paramount+.

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On Thursday, The Daily Beast reported that a "foreign correspondent" for the extreme-right One America News Network (OAN) suggested that President Joe Biden staged the Russian bombing of the maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine — to distract from domestic policy controversies.

"Offering absolutely no evidence or logic, Pearson Sharp said the bombing of the Mariupol hospital last week had 'the makings of another false flag operation,'" reported Rachel Olding. "Biden and his 'cronies are desperately trying to cook up more conflict to distract from their monumental failures here in America,' he said. Never mind the fact Russia claimed responsibility for the bombing, falsely justifying it by saying the building housed Ukrainian snipers."

The ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee was accused of "slander" on Fox News on Thursday evening by host Tucker Carlson.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) has been a harsh critic of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and has called the Russian strongman a "war criminal."

One of the defendants charged for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 filed a new motion argued that he and his fellow co-defendants have it "worse" than Black Americans in the South in the 1950s.

Representing himself, Brandon Fellows filed a new motion invoking Black History Month.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki blasted attacks from U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) Thursday afternoon, calling into question his credibility over the fist-pumping insurrectionist poster boy’s unfair and inaccurate attacks on President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

After a reporter noted that Senator Hawley has “consistently voted against the President’s nominees,” Psaki was asked if the White House is worried the “explosiveness” of Hawley’s “line of attack” against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will “affect your ability to win over other Republican votes.”

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday outlined exactly why President Joe Biden decided to call Russian President Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" this week.

When asked by a reporter if she thought that Biden was "getting ahead" of the international investigation into Putin's potential war criminality, Psaki said it was hard to look at the evidence that the world has already seen and conclude otherwise.

One of Donald Trump's most prominent backers in Wisconsin considered violence against his own GOP leader for not going along with the widely-panned scheme to decertify the 2020 election in the state, which was won by Joe Biden.

"A Republican state lawmaker and candidate for governor said he wanted to punch Assembly Speaker Robin Vos 'right in the nose' after he kicked him out of a meeting about decertifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 win in Wisconsin," the Associated Press reported Wednesday. "Rep. Timothy Ramthun said in an online interview posted on YouTube on Wednesday that he was angry with Vos after the speaker did not allow him in the closed-door meeting that day."

A top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is praising President Joe Biden just one day after the American President committed to hundreds of millions of dollars more in military aid. And he’s throwing Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, under the bus.

Andriy Yermak, officially the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, also known as Zelenskyy’s Chief of Staff, took to Twitter today to say he’s “grateful” to America. He also called the U.S. Ukraine’s “reliable partner.”

Marie Yovanovitch was in the news a lot in 2019, when the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine became a key witness for the Democratic prosecution in then-President Donald Trump’s first impeachment. And Yovanovitch, now 63, has been in the spotlight a lot in March 2022 — not only because of her new book “Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir,” but also, because of Russia’s horrific invasion of Ukraine. Yovanovitch had a lot to say about the Ukraine/Russia war during an interview with Politico’s Katelyn Fossett, published as a Q&A article on March 16. And she warned that if Russian President Vladimir Putin prevails in Ukraine, he will become even more dangerous.

“We can’t let Putin set the conditions for this war,” Yovanovitch, a native of Montreal, Canada, told Fossett. “Russia is the aggressor. They have invaded a peaceful nation, and that is simply wrong. And what history has shown us is that if we don’t push back, Russia will keep on going. The bottom line is if this fight is our fight.”