The Daily Populous

The Russian rouble has fallen against the dollar for the first time since April last year, to 80 roubles against the USD during trading on the Moscow Currency Exchange.

At 09:50 (Kyiv time), the dollar exchange rate was 80.2 roubles to the US dollar.

On 1 March, the Russian rouble fell to its lowest level in 10 months, losing about 20% of its value since the beginning of December. »

“You’re not going to like my answer, and look, I’m going to say that straight up,” Lamberth said to the students.

Confronted by students protesting at the Tennessee Capitol following a mass shooting at a school in Nashville, a state lawmaker posed a question that has drawn intense criticism.

“If there is a firearm out there that you’re comfortable being shot with, please show me which one it is,” he asked rhetorically. »

The pipelines, known as Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, are majority-owned by Russia’s state-run energy giant Gazprom.

HELSINKI (AP) — Swedish prosecutors said Thursday a state actor was the most likely culprit for the explosions that incapacitated the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea last year, an act deemed as sabotage.

Authorities and investigators in Denmark, Sweden and other countries early on suspected the explosions were deliberate attacks and consider them sabotage. »

Clarence Thomas accepted luxury gifts from GOP megadonor for decades without disclosing them: report.

Show Caption Hide Caption Clarence Thomas secretly vacationed with GOP megadonor, reports say Justice Clarence Thomas reportedly accepted gifts from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, including trips on a superyacht and to a private resort in New York.

Thomas accepted luxury gifts without disclosing them, according to report. »