New Delhi, June 30: There is a lot of fake news circulating on social media and spreading false information to the masses. Recently, a post went viral on several social media platforms, including Twitter, claiming that the Bhagavad Gita had become compulsory for students in the Netherlands from the 5th year. The statement in the message is incorrect.

During a reverse image search in Google, the viral image, which is circulating with the false claim, was uploaded to the Iskon Desire Tree website in September 2013. In particular, the International Society for the Conscience of Krishna (ISKCON), also known as the Hare Krishna movement, preaches the teachings of Lord Krishna. Did the United States use the image of Mahatma Basavishwar on the $ 100 bill? The converted image spreads very quickly with a false statement; Here is the truth.

Here is the viral post with the fake claim:

This is not the first time this image has appeared on various social media platforms with a similar claim. Almost five years ago, the photo was posted on Facebook and Twitter. Meanwhile, the official website of the Dutch government does not mention the chapters of the Bhagavad Gita which have become compulsory from the 5th grade. The list of compulsory subjects on the website includes Dutch, English, Social and Environmental Sciences, Arithmetic and Mathematics.

The same message was posted in 2016:

A few days ago, an old photo of a river in Manila, Philippines also went viral, claiming the Methi River in Mumbai was being choked with plastic waste. Several social media users in India shared the photo with the false claim and likened it to the frontage of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad.

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The most difficult thing to do is to live in peace and harmony with people. It is, perhaps, easier to live with birds and animals. Why is living with people a problem?

We know that fire is hot and we accept that fact. If we are burnt by touching fire, we do not blame it. Again, if we are admiring a beautiful full moon and someone else comes and starts appreciating it, we dont say, Why are you looking at my moon? You have no right to see it! There is no sense of ownership, no possessiveness; there is acceptance without any projection of likes and dislikes.

The Bhagavad Gita says that a wise person moves everywhere with love and affection. Like the wind blowing freely, he does not get attached to anything. He accepts all. . Sometimes people behave nicely, sometimes they dont. This neither elates nor depresses the wise person. Such a man of wisdom lives with his senses under control, free from personal likes and dislikes, and therefore, enjoys every object, place, situation and person.

What we need to have is love and affection. Along with that there should be freedom and space, too. Two hands joined together leave a gap and can be easily separated. Similarly, we should give space to people. It is not possible to love someone and also confine them in that love.

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One thing is not in doubt. Jairam Ramesh is the quintessential, scholarly researcher. He can pick up relatively off-stream subjects, like his tomes on P.N. Haksar and Krishna Menon, and delve deep into the subject like an academic beaver who will not rest content until all the dimensions of the subject are fully retrieved.

But one still wonders whether Sir Edwin Arnolds The Light of Asia is deserving of 457 pages in print. Arnolds book is an important one, but is not considered by most critics to be a classic and his own place in literature is uncertain. It is true that Arnold was a genuine Indophile, and wrote several seminal works on Indian philosophy and literature, including The Song Celestial on the Bhagavad Gita. But, it is important to remember that he was a colonialist by conviction and, as Ramesh himself says, a firm believer in the civilising mission of the British for the good of the natives.

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This being said, Ramesh had done a masterly work in piecing together and analysing the many facets of The Light of Asia, the life of Arnold, and the impact the book had significantly or tangentially on many pivotal figures in our own history, from Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, B.R. Ambedkar, Rabindranath Tagore, and the physics Nobel Laureate, C.V. Raman. For the rest, we are presented meticulously researched details on the translations of the book, the films that it inspired, the art exhibitions it prompted, and the most obscure details of the life of Arnold, including how his birth centenary was celebrated and what his children and grandchildren did and did not do.

There was one important matter in which Arnold played an important role. It related to who would run the Bodh Gaya temple: a Hindu sect that had been in control of the temple since the seventeenth century, or the Buddhists. Arnold visited Bodh Gaya in 1886, and lent his full support to the control over this site passing on to the Buddhists, whose claim was spearheaded by the Sri Lanka monk, Anagarika Dharmapala, the founder of the Mahabodhi Society. It was a long and bitter battle, but was fortunately peacefully settled in 1953 when Buddhist control over the temple was established.

While Arnolds interest in Indias philosophical, spiritual and literary heritage was undoubted, and his translations of several Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit classics is testimony to this, it is interesting that his actual sojourn in India was quite limited. He lived continuously here only between late 1857 and mid 1860, as the first Principal of what would be known later as the Deccan College in Poona. He again returned to India in 1885 but only for some three months. By contrast, perhaps, his involvement in Africa, where he had a key role in the first Congo expedition and had a mountain and a river named after him, and in Japan, which occupied his attention almost continuously from 1890 (his third wife was Japanese), was more.

Ramesh admits that Arnold has attracted only one serious biographer, and that too as far back as 1957. In that sense, certainly, our intrepid researcher has fulfilled a gap which, obviously, was not very evident to the country to which Arnold belonged Britain.

As a biography, Rameshs book rates very highly. As an account of the times in which Arnold lived, and of his interactions with eminent people who were his contemporaries, it also scores very highly. Ramesh has left no stone unturned to dig deep into archival material and in particular letters and reports to construct a highly readable kaleidoscope of the man, his book, and the times. While one may cavil about whether so much time and effort ought to have been spent on a subject of limited scope, there can be little doubt that at the end of it all, the final product is a very readable one, and veritably, a labour of love.

Pavan K. Varma is a former diplomat and was a member of the Rajya Sabha between 2014 and 2016.

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Below, in a conversation edited for clarity, Newski chats about the project and puts anxiety in perspective:

Brett Newski: I've been schlepping American highways as a full-time touring musician the past nine years. That's how I make a living. We fit into that '90s alternative sound, even though we were just little kids in the '90s when Nirvana and all that was happening. Some of those bands have taken us under their wing and brought us on tour, which really helped get going. Some bands we've played with include the Pixies, Violent Femmes, Manchester Orchestra, New Pornographers, Courtney Barnett and Better than Ezra.

I've had anxiety and depression as long as I can remember. I just never knew what that fuzzy brain haze was until recent years. When I felt down, it was like I would stop seeing in color for a few hours or days on end. It's good to have a definition for anxiety. Even if it's just made-up words by humans. It made me realize those moments of existential dread are only temporary, and most other people experience them, too.

When I was but a wee man, I would draw my own sports trading cards in my parents' basement for hours on end. I would create my own sports leagues and play out simulation games by myself all day. I would literally dunk on myself on a Fisher-Price plastic basketball hoop in my parents' basement.

One afternoon I was trapped in my brain, and I started drawing to make fun of my own "disloyal," anxious brain. My brain was attacking me, and I saw drawing as a way out. I posted a few of them online and the response was really friendly warm. So, I kept making them for three years. Eventually I had over 200 drawings and my editor Anna and I whittled them down to the best 140 for the book.

The idea of the book was to share the tips and hacks that help me get out of my own head. It entails everything from specific stretches to going to the driving range to how to escape social media. It uses ham-fisted humor to boost mental health, even if just a little.

Anxiety is fuel. Anxiety is not all bad. In fact, it's the catalyst for my ability to write. Anxiety is that fight or flight in our DNA. There's examples from history. When certain species don't have a fight or flight, they just get clubbed by a caveman and cooked for dinner. Anxiety keeps me alive. When you're in an anxiety "toilet bowl," it's hard to have the awareness to realize you're just bullying yourself. When the clouds part and you get out of that anxiety spiral, you finally realize how 99 percent of your worries were irrational and silly. I find many of my anxiety spirals to be hilarious in retrospect.

It's medicine. Maybe part of it is self-avoidance, but for the most part it's free therapy. You can vent out a lot of your brain toxins through creation. Even if it's just drawing something on a napkin.

It's OK to be sad. I think Instagram culture pummels you with other people's "greatest hits," which is unrealistic. It creates a flawed barometer for how it actually is to be a person. It is hard to be a person, no matter who you arerich or poor or successful or not, or whatever. The brain is a marvel and a beauty but it's also a complicated apparatus that often doesn't work in our favor. It's OK to down sometimes. It's just part of the cycle.

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Welcome to YouTube Millionaires, where we profile channels that have recently crossed the one million subscriber mark. There are channels crossing this threshold every week, and each creator has a story to tell about YouTube success. Read previous installments here.

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In the vast crowded wilds of the internet, creators who have built an audience can (understandably!) be nervous about moving away from the kind of content that drew in those viewers. But over the past year, 2HYPEmemberJiedel has proven that not only can he switch content niches and retain his viewershiphe can switch and grow it.

The 25-year-old, Los Angeles-based YouTuber has been making videos since 2014. Healong with his brotherJesser and the rest of sports/gaming collective 2HYPEgot his start as a video game-focused creator whose uploads revolved around gameplay in titles like NBA 2KandMadden. That niche made up the bulk of his channel until 2019, when he got into sneaker customization. And then, in 2020, he shifted again.

Over the past year, Jiedel zeroed in on a combo of culinary and challenge content. Hes tested popularTikTok recipes, tried the best pizza L.A. has to offer, held 2HYPE trivia parties, taken Gordon Ramsays masterclass, bounced his way through a trampoline basketball tournament, and much, much more. He uploads at least once a week, swapping from topic to topic with each video posted.

This subject-switching is exactly the kind of thing creators can be leery ofbut for Jiedel, mixing it up has paid off, pushing his channel up past one million subscribers.

Check out our chat with him below.

Jiedel:With the pandemic keeping us all inside for over a calendar year, not a ton has changed for me personally. But on the channel side of things, Ive definitely focused more on food, cooking, and self-improvement videos through my masterclass series.

Jiedel:It is a very cool feeling and Id like to thank everybody who helped me hit that goal. Having said that, its just a number, and I feel like Im the same guy I was at 900k, 800k, etcetera.

Jiedel:Before YouTube, I was a journalism student at Rutgers University. I was an intern for the NFL the summer before graduation working on their YouTube channels, so becoming a full-time YouTuber was what I was preparing for, in a sense.

Jiedel:When I first started with YouTube, I was doing NBA 2K MyTEAM videos, I took inspiration from my brother Jesser and KSI with their respective series. Even though the videos were love commentaries, I always liked the narrative arcs that would form across episodes.

I knew I wanted to do gaming videos (at first), but didnt always know what to do. I loved doing rebuilds on Madden and NBA 2K, but didnt know people were going to be interested in watching that until years into doing YT. I also want to give a shout-out to Jon Graham, who used to go by Digitalph33r, for being a gigantic inspiration for me wanting to make YouTube videos. His Halo videos are what ultimately made me fall in love with the platform.

Id also note that I change my zone every single year, Ive never consistently done the same thing. In 2017 it was NBA 2K MyTEAM, 2019 NBA rebuilds, 2020 sneaker customizing, 2021 cooking and assorted challenges.

Jiedel:YouTube has been my full-time job since February 2017. We film for 2HYPE on average once a week, and for my personal channel on average two to three times a week. I also film for 100 Thieves from time to time.

I film a lot, but I would say when I was on the come-up and I was younger, I certainly did morein the sense that I now have a great team to help me film and edit that I didnt have before. Ive also gotten older during my five or so years doing this, so other life responsibilities can eat into my time.

Jiedel:Spending time with my brother and the other guys in 2HYPE. Id say the guys are all my best friends and a lot of the content creators I know are some of the nicest and most genuine people Ive ever met.

Jiedel:Kris, Jesse, and I launched TruCreator, a company making sports-like cards of content creators. People have really liked the two products weve put out so far, and we have even bigger things on the horizon for that.

In regards to other platforms, Im happy existing as a YouTuber, and if the other things come, they come.

Jiedel:Im not sure what Im filming tomorrow, let alone 2022 and beyond, so well see.

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Kaiyah Jones spent her senior year excelling academically, at work, at track and at motherhood.

Despite working past midnight on a regular basis, the recent W.T. White graduate finished her school year with strong grades and as an acclaimed track-star who earned an athletic scholarship.

One of my biggest track accomplishments was running a lap (400 meters) in under a minute, she said. I was able to finish school, work, go to practice early in the mornings, and still make good grades and do everything right. I had a baby last year and still participated in Cross Country, came to practices, went to every meet and graduated.

Jones ran with the team that qualified for regionals in the 4 200 and was part of the Longhorn squad that won District Champions in the 4 400 (two track competitions in which teams of four athletes run a relay race where each runner completes 200 meters or 400 meters, depending on the event). Individually, she placed as a district finalist in the 800 meter-race and is a two-time regional qualifier in the 400-meter dash.

Coach Michael Martin has taught physical education at W.T. White for 17 years and has led the Longhorn Girls Track team for the last 13 years. When he met Jones during her sophomore year, he was amazed by her attitude of relentless self-improvement. He noticed that she had a great work ethic and a natural gift of leadership.

Shes a nice kid. We never gave up on her and she never gave up on us, Martin said. She practices hard and is one of the athletes who gets her teammates to practice. And as a student, she did what she was supposed to do, took charge of a tough situation and did the best she could. Her efforts paid through, because she ended up getting an athletic scholarship.

Jones relentlessly kept her grades up, worked long hours into the night and continued to support her team, even throughout her pregnancy and after giving birth to her daughter Legacy in July 2020.

I was working at a movie theater, and I was always the night person, she said. My shift would start almost immediately after leaving school, and sometimes I wouldnt get out until 2 a.m., depending on when the last movie ended. Id go to practice for Track and Cross Country the next day at 7 a.m., every day, and do it all over again.

Three months into her pregnancy, Jones realized that she wasnt able to run as well she normally could. She had not told anyone at school that she was an expecting mother, and she knew that having a baby meant giving up athletics for a couple of months.

It was really hard to stop running, she said. I loved working out, I loved practicing with my friends and being part of the team, so much. I didnt want to miss out on anything.

She gave up the sport until after Legacy was born. And while she wasnt able to continue breaking her personal records and pushing her endurance in the 400-meter track, her coach found another area where she could continue supporting her team and excelling.

Jones became the team manager, and helped her teammates anywhere she could, from getting water for the runners to helping the freshmen improve their times. After Legacy was born, Jones was back on her feet, with her running shoes on and one goal in mind: graduating and going to college.

When she told us she was pregnant, we embraced it. Her family, her teachers and I did what we had to do to get her through, and she did the same. I told her: Were going to get you through this, but were not going to let you quit, Martin said. There was a lot happening at once, especially for her at 18 years old. There were ups and downs, and a lot of emotions. But we worked it out, and we all agreed to get this young lady to the next level, because she had the talent and she persevered.

Jones wants to become a police officer and is set to start college with a partial athletic scholarship at the University of Southwest in New Mexico in the Fall of 2021. She will major in Criminal Justice and run for the Mustangs women track and field team.

Something that Ive learned at W.T. White and being part of the Longhorns is that giving up is a mental thing, she said. If you give up mentally, then youre going to give up in every other aspect of your life. And the only person who can make you quit mentally is yourself.

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Effective Learning Systems, the company that pioneered the practice of Productive Meditation more than 45 years ago, recently announced the launch of their first mobile app, WiseGuide, putting the companys entire library of powerful, time-tested self-improvement techniques at everyones fingertips.

WiseGuide goes beyond the benefits of traditional mindfulness and meditation teachings to deliver a vast library of targeted, impactful programs that can help users achieve specific, life-changing personal and professional goals, including boosting athletic performance, building healthier relationships, cultivating better concentration and managing addictions.

Most people experience positive results immediately and remarkable life-transformation with regular, consistent use, said Effective Learning Systems founder Bob Griswold.

Features of the WiseGuide App include:

Over 120 prescriptive titles that address specific goals, including smoking cessation, weight control, stress management, better sleep and much more

A childrens collection for self-image and self-esteem

Effective studying and test taking for children from grade school through college

Programs to listen to while driving, exercising, working or even sleeping

Works on any iOS or Android mobile device

It is never too late to break bad habits, overcome fears, manage stress or improve virtually any other aspect of life, and its never been easier. The WiseGuide App can help people use the power of their own minds to take control and make lasting improvements. And all they have to do is listen.

The WiseGuide App was developed by Effective Learning Systems, whose founder Bob Griswold has been helping people harness the power of their own minds to make transformative changes for more than 45 years. His unique approach to meditation, guided imagery, positive affirmations, relaxation, self-hypnosis and more make his programs uniquely effective.

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Once you start having a crush on someone, there is always a possibility of being friendzoned by that person which, if it happens, hurts more than a breakup, to be honest. You dont only lose a possible romantic relationship but also the friendship youve built with that person.

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Moreover, while in a breakup you mostly start keeping your distance, this is not always the case in the friendzone.

You always nurture this hope that maybe one day youll get out of it and thats why you stick around, only to see them going out with other people and hurting yourself more in the process.

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Its definitely not an easy task to move on from a relationship that you never had or a girl you love who doesnt reciprocate your feelings, but the sooner you realise that it is important for you to get over her, the better.

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It has happened to almost everyone and some who managed to fall out of love and move on (not out) from a friendzone situation shared some pearls of wisdom.

Here are some tips on how to get over someone who friendzoned you and move on, for real:

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I feel like your priority is to improve your self-esteem and your mental health first before her.

Focus on improving yourself through exercise, videos about self-improvement (how to be caring, more confident, more social, etc.), your clothing style, your looks and more." --Reddit User.

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Is there a solid friendship there independent of your romantic interest in her? Im in a similar situation myself. Theres a girl I love very much that I could see myself being either friends or in a relationship with. Weve been friends for a while. I told her she should consider dating me. She said no. Were still good friends because theres a solid friendship there and I wasnt just waiting in the wings to try and get in her pants. --Quora User

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Just disconnect yourself slowly and surely. Get away for a bit. Keep reminding yourself you're just friends with her. If you could set her up with someone you know so you can turn on that she's a girl with a boyfriend mode unless that hurts too bad. Then go with disconnect. --Reddit User.

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Distract yourself with video games with online friends (my preferred method lol) You don't necessarily have to reach out every time to help her. Just let her know that you're there and available to listen. --Reddit User.

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If you are getting dates or hanging out with other friends, the friend who friendzoned you becomes second priority. The point is to not let a friendzone keep you from enjoying your life and dating and possibly starting a life with someone else. --Quora User.

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The Tomorrow War, opening on Amazon Prime this week, is a big, dumb, beautiful blockbuster starring Chris Pratt as a time-traveling ex-soldier science teacher battling aliens who look like giant killer lice. I appreciate a film that takes big swings, and The Tomorrow War is the Babe Ruth of narrative conceits.

Pratt plays Dan Forester, an Iraq War veteran and current high school science teacher who learns, during a Bane-style interruption of a climactic moment of the soccer World Cup, that scientist/soldiers from 30 years into the future are locked in a losing battle with a species of pestilential, man-eating aliens known as white spikes (I prefer their older stuff).

In 2051, humanity is down to its last 500,000 people, but theyve figured out how to open a rudimentary wormhole into the relatively recent past. Theyre using this bridge, like two rafts on a running river (because time only moves in one direction) to draft the manpower future humanity needs to fight off the aliens from the most abundant source of it: the pre-alien invasion past. In other words, the future folk need present people to fight The Tomorrow War. Get it? You get it.

One day, while trying to convince a classroom full of defeatist high school kids that science is the key to their future (theyre rightly a little lukewarm on the idea of dutiful self-improvement knowing theyre all probably just going to get eaten by aliens in 30 years) Forester gets an amber alert on his phone demanding that he report to the draft board. A group of fresh-faced, curiously attractive doctors and soldiers from the future order Chris Pratt to take off his shirt for unclear reasons and affix him with a metal wrist cuff that will both facilitate his time jump and alert the authorities if he tries to desert.

So it is Forester is forced to leave behind his modest life and adorable family (which includes precocious daughter and beautiful wife played by a mostly-wasted-on-this-minor-role Betty Gilpin) to join a rag-tag crew of regular Joes about to be sacrificed to the future bugs. This crew includes characters played by Sam Richardson (Veep, Detroiters) and Mary Lynn Rajskub (Its Always Sunny, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) part of a larger, weirdly-effective Tomorrow War strategy of casting comedic actors in not overtly-comedic roles.

Presumably, these are just actors director Chris McKay knows from his past comedic work, directing The Lego Batman Movie, Robot Chicken, and working in the animation department under Lord and Miller. While there isnt anything overtly parodic about The Tomorrow War, which is mostly a straightforwardly earnest alien drama, you can tell McKay is having a blast making it, which helps make a lot of the silliness work. McKay and screenwriter Zach Dean are constantly finding the distinction between corny dialogue that makes you groan and corny dialogue thats so perfectly on-the-nose that its kind of brilliant. Im just trying to save my daughter, Forester explains to a fellow grunt, And if I have to save the entire world to do it, so be it.

Thats a corny line that couldve been the tagline to dozens of movies, from most of the Seagal/Neeson/Willis ouvre to Ben Stillers Scorcher franchise from Tropic Thunder. Yet the Russian nesting doll of spoiler-y plot conceits that The Tomorrow War constructs to justify it are almost avant-garde. The Tomorrow War manages to combine the best bits of Edge Of Tomorrow, Arrival, Armageddon, Alien, Independence Day, and God knows what else in the kind of movie that Michael Bay or Roland Emmerich wouldve directed in their primes if theyd had more talent.

People whove speculated about Chris Pratts transformation from chubby comedy guy to ripped action hero, and his apparent religious awakening along with it (Pratt is or was a member of Hillsong, the same celebrity megachurch that baptized Justin Bieber) will find endless fodder in The Tomorrow War. Pratt plays a scientist-soldier-teacher who is essentially defined by his faith in a brighter future and his willingness to stick his neck out for others. Hes also a crack shot with a submachine gun, a supportive father, and an expert troop motivator. Did I mention the strong jaw and washboard abs? Image conscious Will Smith was known to only play heroes for a big chunk of his career, but Pratts babyface act in The Tomorrow War is so relentlessly ingratiating that it puts Will Smith to shame. His character is so thoroughly heroic that there are times when The Tomorrow War feels like a pro-Chris Pratt propaganda film produced by the Church of Scientology.

Clocking in at 140 minutes, a less-bold version of The Tomorrow War would feel overlong or padded, but The Tomorrow War doesnt, partly owing to at least three distinct phases. Theres Forester the reluctant soldier, Forester the single-minded scientist, and Forester the unlikely leader of a band of Arctic explorers, which includes his estranged, doomsday prepping, Vietnam veteran father, played by JK Simmons (who Im not sure is even old enough to be a Vietnam veteran?). Each phase individually wouldve had enough content to fill the entirety of lesser movie. But every time it seems to paint itself into a narrative corner, The Tomorrow World blows through a wall with high explosives or invents a just-plausible-enough interdimensional portal.

Most of the movie is so ridiculous that you figure no finale could possibly do it justice. Yet even after time travel, alien invasion, biological weaponry, and an arctic expedition, The Tomorrow Wars finale manages to be plausibly grand, even compared to what came before it. Never before has a streaming release so capably evoked Summer blockbuster.

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House to probe Capitol riot, over GOP opposition

WASHINGTON (AP) Sharply split along party lines, the House launched a new investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection on Wednesday, approving a special committee to probe the violent attack as police officers who were injured fighting Donald Trumps supporters watched from the gallery above.

The vote to form the panel was 222-190, with all but two Republicans objecting that majority Democrats would be in charge. The action came after Senate Republicans blocked creation of an independent commission that would have been evenly split between the two parties.

Ahead of the vote, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told lawmakers in the chamber: We will be judged by future generations as to how we value our democracy. She said she preferred that an independent panel lead the inquiry but Congress could wait no longer to begin a deeper look at the insurrection that was the worst attack on the Capitol in more than 200 years.

As the vote was called, Pelosi stood in the House gallery with several police officers who fought the rioters and with the family of an officer who died, hugging several of them. One of the officers, Michael Fanone of Washingtons Metropolitan Police, said he was angry at Republicans for voting against an investigation after he almost lost his life to protect them.

I try not to take these things personally, but its very personal for me, Fanone said.

PHARR, Texas (AP) Republican lawmakers traveled to Texas to cheer former President Donald Trump as he paid a visit to the southern border Wednesday and hammered the Biden administration for its immigration policies amid a decades-high spike in border crossings.

Trump, who was joined by more than two dozen House members, also continued to spread lies about the 2020 election as he participated in a border briefing and visited the wall he championed in a trip that was strikingly similar to the many hed taken here while president.

Biden is destroying our country. And it all started with a fake election, Trump railed as he stood at the border, an American flag hoisted by a crane waving above him. Trump has persisted in falsely claiming he won in November, even though state and federal election officials, his own attorney general and numerous judges have said there is no evidence of the mass voter fraud he alleges.

Coming fresh off his first rally since leaving the White House, the visit underscored the extent to which Republicans, both nationally and in the states, continue to embrace Trump as the leader of their party. And it demonstrated anew how much the GOP has taken up Trumps signature issue of immigration as the party looks to recapture control of Congress in next years midterm elections.

Trump was invited to South Texas by the states governor, Greg Abbott, who is up for reelection next year and is considered a potential 2024 presidential candidate. After facing criticism for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, Abbott has taken up Trumps immigration mantle, vowing to continue building the southern border wall that the Biden administration has suspended.

SURFSIDE, Florida (AP) Crews searching for survivors in the ruins of a collapsed Florida condo tower have built a ramp that should allow the use of heavier equipment, potentially accelerating the removal of concrete that could lead to incredibly good news events, the state fire marshal said Wednesday.

Since the sudden collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South last week in Surfside, rescuers have been working to peel back layers of concrete on the pancaked building without disturbing the unstable pile of debris.

Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah told family members of those missing Wednesday that a ramp built onto the pile overnight allowed rescuers to use a crane on sections that were not previously accessible. He said that improves the chances of finding new pockets of space in the urgent search for survivors.

We hope to start seeing some significant improvement in regards to the possibility of (finding) any voids that we cannot see, Jadallah said.

In an interview with Miami television station WSVN, State Fire Marshal Jimmy Petronis described the ramp as a Herculean effort that would allow crews to leverage massive equipment to remove mass pieces of concrete, which could lead to good results.

NEW YORK (AP) TV actor Allison Mack, who played a key role in the scandal-ridden, cult-like group NXIVM, was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday on charges she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for the groups spiritual leader.

Mack best known for her role as a young Supermans close friend on the series Smallville had previously pleaded guilty to the charges and began cooperating against NXIVM leader Keith Raniere. Prosecutors credited her with helping them mount evidence showing how Raniere created a secret society of brainwashed women who were branded with his initials.

At her sentencing in Brooklyn federal court, Mack renounced the self-improvement guru.

I made choices I will forever regret, she said, also telling the judge she was filled with remorse and guilt.

I am sorry to those of you that I brought into NXIVM, she wrote in a letter filed with the court last week. I am sorry I ever exposed you to the nefarious and emotionally abusive schemes of a twisted man.

NEW YORK (AP) Revised vote counts in New York Citys Democratic mayoral primary show Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams maintaining a thin lead, a day after a first attempt to report results went disastrously wrong.

The mayors race, the first city election to use ranked choice voting, was thrown into disarray Tuesday after the citys Board of Elections posted incorrect preliminary vote counts and then withdrew them hours later.

Corrected numbers released Wednesday showed Adams, a former police captain and state senator, leading former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by 14,755 votes. Civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley was practically tied with Garcia, falling just 347 votes behind in the ranked choice analysis.

The corrected results still dont paint a complete picture of the race. Nearly 125,000 absentee ballots have yet to be counted.

Adams thin lead means it is possible for Garcia or Wiley to catch up when absentee ballots are added to the mix starting on July 6.

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