What's hot in real world news? - Thread 12.0

thehill.com/homenews/campaign/DeSantis says he’ll consider pardoning Jan. 6 defendants, including Trump:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...cluding-trump/

nypost.com/2023/05/22/Second Hunter Biden IRS whistleblower emerges after dismissal despite five years on case:

https://nypost.com/2023/05/22/second...years-on-case/

torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/LILLEY: Trudeau and Johnston bragged about being friends for years [The story the two men are telling now is vastly different from happier times.]:

https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...ends-for-years

nationalpost.com/news/politics/Tory attempts to demand more from David Johnston at committee blocked by NDP-Liberal tag team [The NDP supported Liberal attempts to pressure Conservative and Bloc MPs to get the security clearance needed to read Johnston's secret intel]:

https://nationalpost.com/news/politi...n-report-intel

nationalpost.com/opinion/Ivison: Fiscal reality bites for free-spending federal government ['We're almost spending as much on interest on the debt in terms of servicing costs, as we are sending to the provinces for healthcare,' notes Conservative MP Adam Chambers]:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rea...ing-government

cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/Nurses warn of 'breaking point' at Prince George hospital, the largest in northern B.C. [Union says patients are overflowing into hallways with lineups for ER going out the door]:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...ally-1.6854975

thepostmillennial.com/Google manipulates search results to boost liberal views, targets children: report [“That’s how aggressive they are with our kids. Because they think they’re gods."]:

https://thepostmillennial.com/google...hildren-report

nationalpost.com/opinion/Randall Denley: Unions want to turn Ontario schools into the priciest restaurants in town [Giving every student in the province two meals a day is more fantasy than fiscal reality]:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/uni...urants-in-town

youtube.com/Watch: Ukraine ‘begins counteroffensive’ - Channel 4 News [UK]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EigRm71A3s

youtube.com/Watch: Ukraine launches counter-offensive as troops pincer fallen Bakhmut - The Sun [UK]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qoPsR8GY1E

independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/Ukraine-Russia war – live: Putin to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus as Wagner troops evacuate Bakhmut:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2345407.html

youtube.com/Ukraine Matters/Watch:Russian TROUBLES GROW: Borders are Completely Hollow - Ukraine War Map Update 25/May/2023, and more...:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7MQfLZehwI

aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/25/japan-says-scrambled-fighter-jets-after-russian-planes-spotted:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/...planes-spotted

reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/taiwan-says-software-problems-delaying-new-f-16-deliveries-from-u-s-2023-05-25:

https://www.reuters.com/business/aer...es-2023-05-25/

cbc.ca/news/politics/Canada, Saudi Arabia agree to restore relations 5 years after diplomatic feud [Saudi Arabia expelled Canada's ambassador in 2018 over Ottawa's criticism of the kingdom's human rights record; one snake, Trudeau, now sees eye to eye again with another]:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/can...ions-1.6853285

news.usni.org/2023/05/25/u-k-royal-navy-distressed-and-concerned-by-illegal-chinese-salvage-of-wwii-wrecks:

https://news.usni.org/2023/05/25/u-k...of-wwii-wrecks

worldometers.info/26may2023/coronavirus/global-data:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/