The US does not see any indications that Russia is getting ready to use its nuclear arsenal in the conflict in Ukraine, White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Wednesday. However, he added that Washington considers such a possibility "deeply concerning" and takes it "seriously."

Earlier on Wednesday, the New York Times published a piece citing "multiple senior American officials," who claimed some Russian generals had been discussing "when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine." Russian President Vladimir Putin was not involved in these discussions, the paper said. The conversations took place at some point in mid-October, it added.

This is not the first time the White House has made such a statement. Last month, Kirby said that Washington saw no indications that Russia was preparing to deploy a nuclear weapon.

What was judicious a few years ago is foolhardy today because the left has learned there are no consequences when they abuse the system to attack conservatives.

Special Counsel John Durham continues to ignore the FBI's malfeasance in the Crossfire Hurricane targeting of Donald Trump, a Friday court filing by prosecutors in the criminal case against Igor Danchenko confirms. While that approach may have been prudent and in the country's best interests three and a half years ago, when then-Attorney General Bill Barr tasked Durham to investigate the origins of the Russia collusion hoax, it is no longer judicious.

The special counsel's failure to appreciate this reality threatens the government's case against Danchenko, but more significantly has spurred the Biden administration, the D.C. deep state, and partisan state officials to further weaponize the criminal justice system against their political enemies.

The French parliament was brought to a halt after a far-right MP shouted "They should go back to Africa" as a black colleague talked about immigration.

Grégoire de Fournas, a member of National Rally (RN), said later his remark had not been aimed at Carlos Martens Bilongo himself but at migrants trying to reach Europe by sea.

Mr Bilongo said he had been born in France and the remark was "shameful".

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said there was "no room for racism".

Few have noticed that Russia appears to have a wide diversity of opinions on the Ukraine situation. At least this would be the case for an authoritarian state ruled with an iron fist. In the western stream of thought, there's a lot of fanfare concerning criticisms of Vladimir Putin's handling of the crisis. It's as if the liberal world order can't make up its mind. Is Putin an outdoorsy Stalin? Or, is Russia more of a democracy than the union next door run by an appointee Ursula von der Leyen?

Let's just say it. The irony these days is so thick you couldn't blast through it with a 50-megaton Sarmat II. England appointed a the self-professed Super Duper Zionist Liz Truss, who stomped around like she's a zombie prime minister of Disneyland. But that nation now has a revolving door at 10 Downing Street. Over in my country, the nuclear suitcase is attached to the arm of a department store mannequin of a president held together with drug cocktails. And in Brussels, Germany's former defense minister is doing her best impersonation of Helga, the tricky little Gestapo masseuse trying to scare Italians and other European customers. All jokes aside, the world of geopolitics is nuttier than my grandma's spiciest fruitcake these days. I am sure most of you agree.

Vladimir Putin's decision to institute a partial mobilization spurred 10,000 western propagandists to speak of open rebellion, an exodus of Russians to Kazakhstan, and a refocusing on blogger/criminal Alex Navalny. But for those who remember the Vietnam draft dodgers, the news of cowardly Ruskies headed for the border only makes Russia seem more American to most. Isn't conscientious or cowardly objecting a democratic trait? More typical than any of the G7, if we are honest. Imagine it. Russians are leaving home freely, without being shot in the back at the border! Have I rubbed it in enough? No.

Isn't it amazing how 20 billion tons of sanctions on Russia have failed to do what Liz Truss' shadowy colleagues in Britain did overnight? The UK economy sank to record depths because of one idiot's ill conceived tax ideas. When Kwasi Kwarteng, Britain's finance minister and a key ally of Prime Minister Liz Truss, shattered that country's tax code recently to favor the ultra-rich, the British currency landed in the loo. This New York Times piece frames that disaster.

Russia has issued new warnings and threats against Norway, a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, for its role in expanding NATO operations in the Arctic region.

"Oslo is now among the most active supporters of NATO's involvement in the Arctic," Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Wednesday. "We consider such developments near Russian borders as Oslo's deliberate pursuit of a destructive course toward escalation of tensions in the Euro-Arctic region and the final destruction of Russian-Norwegian relations."

Zakharova warned additionally that any future "unfriendly actions will be followed by a timely and adequate response." The warning comes as Norwegian media and politicians are caught up in denouncing alleged Russian spy plots.

Republicans privately expect Attorney General Merrick Garland to indict former President Donald Trump between 60 and 90 days after the midterm elections, according to a report on Monday.

GOP aides on Capitol Hill and former strategists said they do not have insider knowledge about an indictment on Trump, but they claim that a deadline to indict the former president is quickly approaching and Garland is facing heat from Democrats to act fast. However, indicting Trump could have negative consequences for Democrats, some aides suggested.

"[An indictment] could actually end up helping the [former] president politically," an anonymous Republican aide told the Hill. "People have been talking about splintering support and dampening enthusiasm among Republican voters for him. An indictment could actually galvanize and reunify Republicans around him."

According to today's Sun and the i newspaper, the Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan will shortly bring back the Online Safety Bill, but without the hated 'legal but harmful' clause. Here's how the i reports it:

i understands Ms Donelan is seeking to balance the protection of children with freedom of speech concerns.

As a result, she is scrapping sweeping "legal but harmful" rules which required social media companies to address content that is not illegal but is dangerous - such as that promoting suicide or self-harm.

The rules would have meant social media sites, such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, were responsible for dealing with this content for both adults and children.

But, amid criticism that it would have led to a widespread attack on freedom of speech by companies hoping to avoid hefty fines, i understands the new laws will only apply to material targeted at children.

Ahead of COP27, the ecologist Dr. Susan Crockford has launched a hard-hitting attack on the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the World Economic Forum (WEF), King Charles and Sir David Attenborough. The two men are said to "parrot WWF activist nonsense" that they naïvely accept as science. Dr. Crockford is an acknowledged zoology expert on polar bears, whose work on their recently growing Arctic populations has effectively removed them as a green poster story. She says it is clear that many of the goals of the WWF are shared by the WEF, and these complement the vision the King and Attenborough share for the future. "They all want a return to a world with fewer people that live meagre, circumscribed lives, while the rich carry on their jet-setting ways."

Dr. Crockford writes that when the WWF began promoting itself as a scientific authority a dozen or so years ago, these "naïve elite boosters" accepted it without question, parroting unsubstantiated WWF climate doomsday talking points at every opportunity. In her view, these men don't speak with an authority of their own on this topic, "they use their exalted positions to assist the WWF and others achieve their utopian dream: destroy for others the capitalism that created their own wealth and power".

Russia has handed a demarche to Britain's ambassador to Moscow, Deborah Bronnet, over what Moscow said was the involvement of U.K. specialists in a Ukrainian drone strike on its Black Sea Fleet in Crimea last week.

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on November 3 that it expressed its "resolute protest over the active participation of British specialists in preparation and providing logistics to units of Ukraine's special operation forces, including those with an aim to conduct sabotage operations in the sea."

Russia has not provided any evidence to back up its claims over the October 29 attack. Britain denies carrying out the attack but has not hidden the fact that it has been helping to train Ukrainian armed forces and arming them.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has said the severity of the coronavirus pandemic is exaggerated, urging his compatriots to stop being "sissies" in the face of Covid-19 and pointing out that "all of us are going to die one day."

Speaking on Tuesday at a ceremony to mark the resumption of tourism, Bolsonaro described the Covid-19 pandemic as having been blown out of proportion. The nation's death toll from the virus has hit 162,000.

He continued by saying that "everything is now a pandemic," and that Brazil was part of a worldwide wave of "closing things down."

"Everyone is going to die. There is no point in escaping from that, in escaping from reality. We have to stop being a country of sissies."