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South Korea scrambled fighters on Friday as Russian and Chinese warplanes on a joint exercise briefly entered its air defence identification zone, military chiefs in Seoul said. However, "there was no invasion of airspace", the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. "Our military received a reply from the Chinese side that it was... normal training through the South Korea-China direct communication network."

Sky has released the first images from its upcoming hotly anticipated period drama The Gilded Age. The HBO series, written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, is set to arrive on Sky Atlantic in January. An all star cast - including Cynthia Nixon, 55, Carrie Coon, 40, Taissa Farmiga, 27, and Christine Baranski, 69 and Meryl Streep's daughter Louisa Jacobson, 30,- will feature in the series set in 1882 during the American Gilded Age, a period of huge economic change.

The Cook Political Report is shifting three hotly contested 2022 Senate races toward the GOP and into the toss-up column, a move that suggests a more favorable environment for Republicans. The Senate contests in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada once leaned toward Democrats. That changed on Friday when the nonpartisan election handicapper reclassified them as toss-up races, meaning that they could go in either direction. All three seats are currently held by Democratic incumbents, Sens. Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Raphael Warnock (Ga.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.). Republicans see those seats as their best pickup opportunities in 2022.

Former President Donald Trump today shocked the publishing world that has tried to cancel his administration by revealing that he is releasing his first post-White House book in December, titled Our Journey Together . The huge book, printed in America, is a coffee table style collection of photographs that the former president selected himself. He even wrote the captions, offering praise and scorn where he felt it was needed.

Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) was arrested for shoplifting hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise at a TJ Maxx. Cornell Law School professor Saule Omarova, who Biden picked to head the OCC in September, was arrested in 1995 for an alleged retail theft of $314 in TJ Maxx merchandise, according to police records. Her arrest had previously been reported by Fox News, but the police report offers new details on the incident. According to the background check, Omarova was arrested by Madison, Wisconsin, police officers on June 2, 1995 and charged...

WAR IN HEAVEN: MICHAEL AND THE DRAGON. REVELATION 12 New International Version Resources to CLICK: To read REVELATION 12 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To read J-F-B's COMMENTARY on it BIBLE TIMELINE 95 A.D. REVELATIONChapter 12, Verses 7-17 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole...

Reading Time: 5 minutes Charlotte, NC — “I can tell you right now, I do not know whether we’re going to win or lose. The only thing that I can control is a little piece of real estate inside my own shoes, and I can tell you whatever happens that I will go down fighting and that I will die with my boots on,” said Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Kennedy’s remarks came at the end of a nearly 50-minute speech given last month. He described how America is currently in the midst of the second American Revolution, and indeed it...

PHOENIX — Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy needs allies. Within 10 months, D.C. Democrats have obstructed logging activity in the Alaska’s southeast Tongasss National Forest, stalled progress on a life-saving road for remote residents to reach an all-weather airport in Cold Bay, cancelled oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and suspended new drilling activity in a state home to 60 percent of federal land. “The phone line’s untouched,” Dunleavy told The Federalist of President Joe Biden’s outreach 10 months into an administration obstructing nearly every major development project sought in the nation’s largest landmass. Interior...

The Ukrainian soldier warns me to speak no louder than a whisper. The enemy lines are less than 50 meters away, he tells me, and my voice — if too loud — can easily carry across no man’s land and invite gunfire from the other side. “We see each other, and we shoot at each other every day,” says the soldier, whose name is Mykhailo. “Everyone is afraid … we are afraid, and the Russians are afraid of us.” We’re standing at one end of a ruined factory on the outskirts of the city of Avdiivka in Ukraine’s eastern war...

The British Home Office said Friday the Palestinian terror group Hamas had been banned for being a terrorist organization, something the US and EU had done long ago. In a statement, Home Secretary Priti Patel said, “Hamas has signfiicant terrorist capability, including access to extensive and sophisticated weaponry as well as terrorist training facilities,” adding, “That is why today I have acted to proscribe Hamas in its entirety.” Patel will urge parliament to make the change next week, saying the move was “based upon a wide range of intelligence, information and also links to terrorism.” Hamas, she said, was “fundamentally...

While attending Penn State University, Ross joined the libertarian club, worked on Ron Paul’s presidential campaign and brought him to campus. In his early 20s, Ross spent significant time thinking and writing about the ideas of limited government and individual freedom, and grew passionate about the ideas of liberty, privacy and free markets. Ross was an idealist. He cared about bettering the world. He was never motivated by money or power, and rather lived a simple life with modest possessions, dedicating himself to causes he believes in. “Ross is a pacifist, and someone generous with his time and knowledge. He...

An FBI SWAT team raided the home of an activist mother of three in Colorado on Tuesday, Nov. 16, knocking down her door, bursting into the house and handcuffing her while she was homeschooling her children. ----- She was at home with her three children Tuesday morning when she heard someone pounding on the front door. She said the officers "manhandled" her 18-year-old daughter, pulling her up the stairs by her hoodie, while another officer put her in handcuffs. They proceeded to search the entire house. Besides being a frequent attendee at her local school board meetings, Bishop has also...

Direct from the Comirnaty package insert... https://www.fda.gov/media/151707/download 5.2 Myocarditis and Pericarditis Postmarketing data demonstrate increased risks of myocarditis and pericarditis, particularly within 7 days following the second dose. The observed risk is higher among males under 40 years of age than among females and older males. The observed risk is highest in males 12 through 17 years of age. Although some cases required intensive care support, available data from short-term follow-up suggest that most individuals have had resolution of symptoms with conservative management. Information is not yet available about potential longterm sequelae. The CDC has published considerations related to myocarditis...

Cooler weather and the upcoming holiday season means that people will be spending more time indoors and in spaces that are more crowded. The issue of indoor masking immediately jumps to the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic debate. Wearing masks indoor is a layer of protection against transmitting the virus. With over 70 percent of the adult population now fully vaccinated, and booster shots now widely available, some communities are rethinking their indoor mask mandate. Washington, D.C. announced that effective Nov. 22 masks will no longer be required in a number of indoor venues. The basis for this decision is...

Nellie Bowles, the former New York Times reporter who is married to Bari Weiss, the former Times op-ed editor whose newsletter Common Sense is a Substack sensation and publishes top-shelf op-eds practically every day, says in the latest edition of Common Sense that she found the liberal narrative about rioting in Kenosha last summer wasn’t true, but the Paper of Record buried her report until after the election last November. Bowles writes: Until quite recently, the mainstream liberal argument was that burning down businesses for racial justice was both good and healthy. Burnings allowed for the expression of righteous rage,...

A New Orleans woman who stole more than $2 million in inheritance money from an autistic man after she posed as an attorney has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Kristina Galjour, 45, pleaded guilty on Monday to theft valued at more than $25,000 and three counts of practicing law without a license after she defrauded an adult autistic man whose parents had just died, according to Nola.com. The 59-year-old autistic man lost both his parents in 2015, leaving him millions of dollars and a home in New Orleans. The trust was being administered by Legacy Law Center, a...

It’s amazing how many people can view the same reality, watch the same train barreling towards the same open section of track, and still believe with all their heart that it will still reach its original destination rather than land in a pile of destruction. I don’t know if people with such flawed vision were born with an extra Pollyanna gene or simply lack a critical thinking gene. They seem to believe that all slippery slope arguments are fallacious, not just the emotionally loaded ones that ignore both reason and plausibility. So they end up believing in the most unreasonable,...

Coup de Vax: Even before COVID, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent years exposing Big Pharma corruption. Now he joins Tucker to detail the unholy alliance between Fauci and Bill Gates and how the vaccine is being used to launch a coup d'état against our Bill of Rights.https://rumble.com/vpgnhr-robert-f.-kennedy-jr.-on-tucker-carlson-today-november-15-2021.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — Part political performance, part stall tactic, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy unleashed a long, rambling and vitriolic speech overnight, seizing control of the House floor and preempting passage of President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill. Sneering with disdain one minute, spilling sarcasm the next, McCarthy carried on for more than eight hours as Thursday night became Friday morning. He spewed a tirade of grievances that reached far beyond Biden’s legislative package, morphing into a monologue of complaints over what’s wrong with the country and the Democrats who control Washington. Far from the “happy conservative” he claimed to...

The legislation will have a negative impact on the labor supply and send high prices soaring even higher.President Joe Biden has united the American people—in disapproving of his performance, with 70 percent of Americans disliking the direction the economy is going and over 6 in 10 blaming him for it. The impact of inflation on people's pocketbooks and concerns over the expanding role of government are important in explaining those low approval numbers. A good time to change course is now. A recent Washington Post-ABC poll asked, "How concerned are you, if at all, that Biden will do too much...