🐤 Azovstal Steel Plant Evacuated

The Dallas Cowboys are worth how much?!: While owner Jerry Jones says he will never sell the Dallas Cowboys, he feels the team would go for a whopping $10 billion. The Denver Broncos are currently for sale and are expected to go for a record $5 billion. The current record sell for a team happened in 2018 when David Tepper bought the Carolina Panthers for $2.275 billion.

Tom Blyth confirmed for Hunger Games Prequel: Actor Tom Blyth was confirmed as a cast member of the upcoming The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes. The title is a Hunger Games prequel film. He will take on the role of Snow before becoming the totalitarian seen in the original series. Not much detail is available regarding the film but is slated to release on November 23, 2023.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard back to court: Amber Heard and Johnny Depp went back to court on Monday, with Heard taking the stand and defending her claims that Depp was an abusive, alcohol and drug-fueled tyrant. No matter whose side you're on, this case highlights the importance of conversations around abuse and why these matters are best handled in court even with the often disappointing outcomes in the civil and justice system.

According to multiple reports, 264 Ukrainian fighters trapped for two months inside the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol have evacuated the facility. Many are now in areas held by Russian forces inside Ukraine. Putin's regime announced a prisoner exchange. The soldiers inside the plant will be part of an exchange for captured Russian soldiers. 211 soldiers went to Olenivka, a town held by Russian-backed rebels, while 53 with severe injuries went to Novoazovsk, a city Russian-backed rebels also control.

Ukrainian officials claim the stand made by soldiers at Azovstal allowed the countries' defensive measures to regroup and prepare a counterattack, which has seen positive results across the country. The Ukrainian military is working to evacuate the remaining 600 troops remaining within the Azovstal steel plant. Some of which are said to require intensive care to treat wounds.

Regarding the situation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, "Ukraine needs Ukrainian heroes to be alive. It’s our principle."

While this is a moment of good news for the people of Ukraine, there could be more concern over the lives of soldiers as Putin seems determined to continue his war, despite the Russian military suffering catastrophic losses. This unfortunate war could drag on into the winter.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan enjoys diving headfirst into authoritarianism, ironic since relations between him and the non democratically elected Vladimir Putin of Russia are pretty good despite some complications.

Erdogan, whose Turkey is a huge trading partner with Russia, is now using the unanimous consent rule of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to possibly block Finland and Sweden from joining the alliance, which would appease Putin greatly. At a Monday news conference, Erdogan said the following regarding the Scandinavian countries' applications to join NATO. "We [Turkey] will not say ‘yes’ to those [countries] who apply sanctions to Turkey to join security organisation NATO."

Erdogan is a bit mad that Sweden decided to suspend arms sales to Turkey in 2019 because he was busy leading forces into Syria and making that entire situation worse and more complicated. Erodgan also claims Finland and Sweden harbor the terrorist group Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Ironic enough, Erdogan has faced the condemnation of the global leaders due to his brutal treatment of the Kurdish. Yeah, it's quite bad.

It's going to be a messy situation. If Turkey follows through and blocks Finland and Sweden from joining NATO, which would grant them protection in the event Putin attempts to invade the nations.

The aftermath bigoted mass shooting in Buffalo we spoke about yesterday has further revelations. Buffalo, New York police commissioner Joseph Gramaglia spoke about the shooter on Monday.

"We found some things that show that he was here in early March, and then again, we know he was here on Friday, basically doing reconnaissance on the area," the commissioner said to CNN. "He was in the store, both on Friday and Saturday."

While the commissioner could not comment on whether the shooter, who drove 200 miles to carry out the heinous act of violence, went inside the store in March, social media posts detail the shooter was planning the attack for months.

In chilling posts that found their way to the pool of filth that is 4Chan the shooter described his previous encounter with Tops Friendly Markets (location of the shooting) security guard (and retired police officer) Aaron Salter. "I'm going to have to kill that security guard at Tops I hope he doesn't kill me or even hurt me instantly."

Salter did strike the shooter with a bullet; however, body armor prevented the bullet from doing damage, allowing the shooter to return fire and mortally wound Salter.

Officer Salter died attempting to serve and protect.