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President Biden on Tuesday declared that Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia in a speech from Warsaw in which he marked one year since the start of the war. “Autocrats only understand one word: no, no. no. No you will not take my country, no you will not take my freedom, no you will not take my future,” Biden said in his remarks. “Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, never.” Biden’s speech came a day after he made a surprise visit to Ukraine in which he made a historic stop into the war-torn capital city of...

Cameo of Trump, funny ironic line in view of recent history.

James Avery, the actor best known for playing Uncle Phil on the '90s sitcom "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," has died at the age of 68, his publicist confirmed to TODAY. Avery passed away Tuesday night in Glendale, Calif., due to complications from open heart surgery. Avery had dozens of TV and film roles over the years, according to E! Online. He had appearances on "The Closer," "That '70s Show" and "Grey's Anatomy." As Philip Banks on "Fresh Prince," he was a married father of three who does his sister-in-law a favor by letting her son Will come and stay with...

According to radical activist and Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers, American leftists were duped by prevailing conservative narratives into believing that President Obama himself was a tried-and-true leftist, and not the “middle-of-the-road” politician he declares himself to be. Speaking at a Washington, D.C., book store last Friday, Ayers explained that despite living near Obama in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood and crossing paths many times during their activism, he never viewed the future president as a dedicated “leftist” like himself. The remarks came in response to a question about whether Ayers ever doubted Obama’s credentials as a true “progressive” or “man...

Barack Obama: The Drone RangerBAD TO THE DRONE DEPT. President Obama is scaling back the use of drones to kill terrorists and foreign enemies. Which is really a shame. Drones are destructive, extremely violent, and one of the laziest ways to destroy something. They’re just so American! Besides, the way Obama was mysteriously meting out a swift brand justice — it reminded us of someone else…

(Newser) – A Pennsylvania school district went into crisis mode yesterday over a shooting "threat" that turned out to be misheard lyrics from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song. High school student Travis Clawson, 19, unwittingly found himself the subject of a manhunt when the receptionist at his eye doctor's office called to confirm an upcoming appointment and got his voicemail. The greeting, to her ears, said he couldn't come to the phone because he was "shooting people outside of the school," the Beaver County Times reports. You've guessed the punchline: The message was actually Clawson's rendition of Will...

Smith has staked his claim to play the role, even before Barack Obama has been inaugurated as president.Speaking at the premiere of his new film Seven Pounds at the Empire, Leicester Square, in London, Smith laughed about reports that the US President-elect had indicated that he would like the actor to play him if his life story were ever to be made into a movie.“If I am ordered by my commander in chief to star in a film about him, I will do my duty as an American," he said, beaming.(snip)Smith said the “world had changed forever” with the election...