ISN’T IT IRONIC?
One of the Russian prez’s daughters is believed to have a child with former ballet dancer who has a familiar last name while the other daughter has started publicly defending him.
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UNSPEAKABLE ACTS
Horrific allegations from Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner include a 9-month-old baby being penetrated with a candlestick and triplets, 9, being raped in front of their mother.
WHO IS HE?
Stephen Reid, 67, and Djeswende Reid, 66, were shot dead near their home in Concord, New Hampshire, in April.
BLOOD MONEY
Italy’s primary energy group says it found a loophole that allows it to continue to pay Putin for his precious fuel without breaching sanctions.
SLITHERY
Harel Hershtik met his snake trader victim when he was just 14 years old. Six years later, he murdered him and buried his body. Now, he is set to become a multimillionaire.
OUT THERE
Outside the Tops Friendly Market, a man engaged the lurking Payton Gendron, and said the teen vented for some time about critical race theory and wanting to time travel.
VICTORY LAP
One of Ukraine’s military contingents posted a picture of soldiers sitting at the Russian border, celebrating the total wipeout of Russian gains in the area.
ANGRY AND GRIEVING
Payton Gendron, 18, was charged with first-degree murder on Saturday after he opened fire at a Buffalo supermarket.
GREAT ESCAPE
Survivors who escaped in vans and cars to nearby towns told of harrowing scenes inside the beleaguered city now mostly under Russian control.
TROUBLED WATERS
Satellite images appear to show the remnants of tanks and other Russian military hardware around a destroyed pontoon bridge over a river in the Luhansk region.
