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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States and its Western allies are increasingly concerned about growing cooperation between Russia and China in areas of common interest, NATO's top general said on Wednesday. The Pentagon has put countering China and Russia at the centre of its strategy since 2018, even though U.S. defence spending outstrips that of Moscow and Beijing. In 2018, China and Russia held their largest-ever joint military exercises, featuring 300,000 Russian troops.

After a group of 10 Senate Republicans duly trudged to the White House on Monday to show their “bipartisanship” on yet another COVID-19 stimulus bill, President Joe Biden did the predictable: He looked at their outreached hand of political comity and spat on it. Just as well, since the only thing the Democrats’ plan will “stimulate” will be more debt. Biden and his party were never really interested in bipartisanship at all, despite their claims to the contrary. The whole point of this choreographed Kabuki political theater was to humiliate the Republicans, who foolishly took Biden and the Democrats at...

<p>Face masks have been a part of our lives for nearly a year already since the pandemic began. Health officials say they're the simplest way to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.</p><p>But now, Claros Technologies — a spinoff from the University of Minnesota — has developed a mask it says is capable of killing the virus.</p>

Just asking for prayers for my little ones, she's having a stomach ache the last couple days, we've been doctoring and she is just having a hard time. Prayers are appreciated.

In a scene reminiscent of the 1984 movie “Footloose,” a Granite School District student petitioned her local school board Tuesday to reinstate school dances. Unlike the fictional Ren McCormack, who fought his small town’s ban on dancing, Taylorsville High School junior Caitlin Bone pushed back against public health restrictions imposed to stem the spread of COVID-19 in schools.

Cheney had been criticized for crossing party lines and voting in favor of Trump's second impeachment House Republicans voted on Wednesday night that Rep. Liz Cheney should keep her post in House GOP leadership after she recently supported the impeachment of former US President Donald Trump...

“House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Wednesday gave a clear-cut condemnation of embattled Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) past comments but accused House Democrats of dismissing his leadership in pursuit of unproductive action against the freshman congresswoman. McCarthy said in a statement that he met with Greene and expressed to her “unequivocally” that he condemns views she espoused prior to joining Congress, including about school shootings, political violence, and antisemitic conspiracy theories. The GOP leader said Greene was receptive and that he intends to hold her accountable now that she is under his purview in the House.“

President Trump’s polarizing plan to pull thousands of U.S. troops from Germany has been put on indefinite hold so President Biden and his aides can review the decision, the commander of U.S. forces in Europe said Wednesday.

As conservatives continue to push for free speech for all, members of the left are hopeful the federal government will step in. On Tuesday, a columnist for the New York Times suggested that Joe Biden construct a cross-agency taskforce to regulate the spread of ideas online.The article went through a list of experts who supported the idea. Some of them even called for a so-called “Truth Commission,” which is a name many online compared to George Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth” in the novel “1984.”Mainstream media outlets claimed the move would limit the spread of alleged misinformation and its connection to...

Please join Freepers throughout the world as we pray for PRESIDENT TRUMP and VICE-PRESIDENT PENCE and for AMERICA: All Levels of Government, Family, Military, Business, Farming, Education, Churches, Health Care Systems, the News, Media and Social Media, Citizen Keyboard Warriors, Right to Life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

The San Francisco Unified School District's recent vote to rename schools over the reckoning of historical figures and their flawed legacies has been widely seen as an incompetent, embarrassing mess. The near-unanimous vote on Monday to rename 44 schools by the San Francisco Board of Education came after years of debate. The canceled names include campuses named after former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. And as if spending valuable time (and a lot of money) renaming a third of the schools in the district when every student is still stuck at home...

Poland is bringing a divisive anti-abortion law into force, amid escalating EU doubt on the legality of its court system. The law, banning all terminations except for cases of rape and incest or if the mother’s life was at risk, was to come into effect after Poland’s Constitutional Court confirmed its earlier verdict by publishing a statement of justification on Wednesday (27 January). The original ruling, last October, prompted anti-government protests led by women’s rights activists up and down the Roman Catholic country. Wednesday’s move saw a few thousand people hold a peaceful demonstration in Warsaw city center. […] “It’s...

EXCLUSIVE: Bishop Naumann – US bishops must address scandal of ‘Catholic’ Biden championing abortionBiden’s actions are 'confusing Catholics and non-Catholics regarding the Church’s teaching on the evil of abortion'<KANSAS CITY, Kansas, February 3, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Kansas City Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann told LifeSiteNews in an exclusive interview (read full interview below) that the bishops of the United States have an “obligation” to act when it comes to the country’s president identifying himself as a devout Catholic while working to expand abortion.“The fact that President Biden identifies himself as a devout Catholic, while working to preserve and expand legalized abortion,...

The choice of Joseph Tobin as a mediator in the case is suggestive of what kind of resolution the Vatican may be looking for.February 3, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The Vatican has tasked pro-LGBT Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey to intervene in the case of an archbishop revoking the Catholic identity of a Jesuit-run high school over its refusal to not renew the contract of a teacher in a same-sex “marriage” only to have the Vatican suspend the archbishop’s decision. Senior Vatican officials close to both the Congregation for Catholic Education and in the Secretariat of State confirmed to...

Pro-lifers urge Argentine governors to defend innocentsBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (ChurchMilitant.com) - A pro-abortion group calling itself Catholic is demanding that a judge be charged with malfeasance after she ruled to suspend Argentina's new federal abortion law. Catholic Women for Choice (Católicas por el Derechos a Decidir, or CDD) claimed that Judge Marta Aucar de Trotti illegally suspended in Chaco province Argentina's new law whose sweeping provisions grant "voluntary interruption of pregnancy." According to the statement by CDD, led by activist Teresa Bosio, a complaint was filed with the prosecutor in the provincial capital of Chaco, which lies near neighboring Paraguay....

Not content simply to restore and rebuild village churches, the Common Cause project of the Russian Orthodox Church is also working to restore prayer in them. Common Cause was founded in 2006 as a project dedicated to restoring and rebuilding wooden churches of the Russian north that were neglected, repurposed, and destroyed during the long years of soviet rule. Work has been carried out on more than 150 churches in 370 trips over the years. And thanks to its “Pascha in Every Church” and “Nativity of Christ in Every Church” initiatives, the Orthodox faithful of remote villages with dilapidated...

The video has been removed, but Michelle Ami Reyes, vice president for the Asian American Christian Collaborative, on Twitter described the video as using Asian culture 'as a prop for slapstick humor.'(RNS) — Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren has apologized for a children’s Sunday school curriculum video that used Asian culture stereotypes to teach kids about the Bible. The video has been removed, but Michelle Ami Reyes, vice president for the Asian American Christian Collaborative, on Twitter described it as using Asian culture “as a prop for slapstick humor.” The video, she said, blurs and dishonors “distinctions and categories of...

Remember how socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has been telling anyone who will listen about her terrifying, near-death experience during the Capitol riots? And how Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) almost had her "murdered?" It turns out, according Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and others, that Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t even in the Capitol building during the events of January 6. Ocasio-Cortez was at the Cannon Building, where her office is. “My office is 2 doors down,” Mace wrote in a Tuesday Twitter post. “Insurrectionists never stormed our hallway. Egregious doesn’t even begin to cover it. Is there nothing the MSM won’t politicize?”

As a team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) is in Wuhan to investigate the origins of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, city residents expressed concerns that the team would not be able to conduct a full probe given local authorities’ earlier coverup. They also lamented that the team visited a museum exhibit that was a propaganda effort to glorify the Chinese regime’s response to the outbreak. Zhang Hai, whose father died from COVID-19 last year, questioned why foreign journalists were not allowed to cover the WHO team’s itinerary or interview the experts. “Investigating the origins of...