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And the bad news for Fox News' Laura Ingraham just keeps rolling in.

A senior member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) alerted Israel Friday that Tehran’s “hands are on the trigger and missiles are ready” to strike all Israeli air bases after a map of air bases in Syria believed to be controlled by Iran was shared with Israeli media earlier this week.

What could these cats possibly be plotting next?!

A correspondent for Russian media company has been killed in Syria, head of Russia's Chechen Republic head Ramsan Kadyrov reported on social media.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon told Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov that Washington seeks to maintain open dialogue with Moscow, a State Department spokesperson told Sputnik on Friday.

Donald Trump's campaign team responded to a DNC lawsuit against the Trump Campaign, WikiLeaks, and the Russian government on Friday afternoon, stating that the legal maneuver is "a last-ditch effort to substantiate baseless Russian collusion allegations by a nearly-bankrupt Democratic Party."

Despite being out of office for three months, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie isn't quite done flipping the state's taxpayers the bird.

Following the Telegram developer’s recent post, a range of Russian Instagram users have taken anew to last year’s flashmob challenge.

From Russian beauties in bikinis to fully covered Somalian girls, from rallies in Brazil to protests in the UK and clashes in France - follow Sputnik’s weekly gallery and see what’s going on around the world.

MOSCOW (Sputnik), Tommy Yang - For North Korea and the United States to agree on a location for the historic first summit between their leaders, both sides have to break away from traditions of travel preference and make concessions, experts told Sputnik.

While more and more people flock to Polish and Czech borders with Germany on Friday, a police chief has reported on police regiments being deployed almost everywhere in the area.

DOUMA (Syria) (Sputnik) - One more Syrian boy, 10-year-old Mustafa, who was portrayed as a victim in a video of the alleged chemical attack’s aftermath in the city of Douma, told Sputnik that the kids had been given cookies and bags of potatoes for their featuring in the staged filming.

The alleged chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma on April 7 served as a pretext for US, French and British airstrikes against the Middle Eastern country on April 14. Sputnik France contributor Irina Dmitrieva decided to look back at a few other incidents which led to wars in the decades, centuries and millennia past.

YALTA (Sputnik) - Russia's deliveries of the S-300 air defense missile systems to Syria will contribute to the political stability of the Syrian government, Samer Shiha, a member of the Syrian People’s Assembly, told Sputnik on Friday.

Video footage uploaded to YouTube Tuesday is catching buzz after showing purple beams of light coming from the skies of Arizona while unidentified flying objects hover in the background.

Just after the likely next head of US Pacific Command told Congress China’s undersea warfare capability is one of the most pressing threats to the US, a new report says Beijing is establishing another base in the South China Sea for deploying manned and unmanned submersible vehicles.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Trump administration’s easier new rules for high tech weapons sales directly to foreign countries is a victory for giant US defense contractors to increase their profits, international peace activist Dr. Helen Caldicott told Sputnik on Friday.

The decision made by the local authorities makes Durham the first US city to halt military exchanges with Israel.

Radio Sputnik discussed Washington’s reported proposal to replace US troops in Syria with Arab fighters with Alpaslan Ozerdem, Professor of Peacebuilding and Co-Director of Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Hamburg Data Protection Authority, which is responsible for overseeing Facebook activities across Germany, has initiated an administrative case against the company in connection with Cambridge Analytica personal data leak scandal, the authority's head, Johannes Caspar, said Friday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) is allegedly involved in a series of crimes, including torture, enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions, the State Department said in its annual human rights report released on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Some 300 high school students gathered in front of the White House in Washington, DC to protest gun violence in US schools, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

The Trump administration is seeking to curb the influx of Chinese investment, particularly in US-based tech companies, as such capital flows are seen as potentially jeopardizing US national security.

Swedish DJ Tim Bergling, wider known under his stage Avicii, who was nominated for Grammy Awards for his song "Levels," has passed away.

On this episode of Fault Lines, guests join hosts Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan are discussing the mainstream media’s (mis)coverage of Syria, the Skripal case, Russia, and other topics.