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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has requested an all-member briefing on the evolving situation in Ukraine, her office confirmed to The Hill, amid growing concerns of a Russian military incursion. Pelosi’s office didn’t immediately provide further details of the request, which was first reported by Punchbowl News.

L2 Final Insertion Burn will start at 2:00 PM ET - No live coverage I can find - Also - Scientists and engineers operating NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will answer questions about the mission's latest milestones in a NASA Science Live broadcast at 3 p.m. EST Monday, January 24, followed by a media teleconference at 4 p.m.

Liz Cheney, one of two GOP lawmakers on the House select committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot, slammed former House Speaker Newt Gingrich after he suggested that members of the panel could face legal consequences if Republicans take control of Congress in November’s midterm elections. “I think when you have a Republican Congress, this is all going to come crashing down,” Gingrich​, a Georgia Republican who served as speaker from 1995 to 1999, said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” University stands behind course on ‘how to overthrow the state’ Newt Gingrich trapped with wife in Italy during coronavirus lockdown...

Earlier today I ran into some pro-vaccine protesters and I asked how many boosters they would be willing to take “As many as it takes, because I’m not a selfish bastard — if it takes 10, I’ll take 10”(See 1 minute video below) https://twitter.com/RapidFire_Pod/status/1485416078750666756

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) blamed an “illegal gun” in the fatal shooting of NYPD officer Jason Rivera on Friday night. Rivera, 22, was shot and killed and a second officer, Wilbert More, 27, was shot and wounded, Breitbart News reported. The shooting suspect, Lashawn McNeil, 47, opened fire on Rivera and More as they approached him in a long hallway, CBS New York noted. McNeill was then shot twice by a third officer. On Saturday, Hochul tweeted, “Last night, a shot from an illegal gun took the life of a NYPD officer.”

A man in traditional Jewish garb was randomly slugged in Brooklyn over the weekend, authorities said. The 21-year-old victim — who was wearing Hasidic garments — was walking at Troy Avenue and Carroll Street in Crown Heights around 1:20 a.m. Saturday when the suspect approached him from across the street and socked him in the nose, cops said. The assailant didn’t say a word during the assault, police said. The victim was treated at the scene for his injury. The suspect — shown on video walking on the sidewalk past a yellow school bus for Beis Chaya Mushka, a girls’...

UK PM Boris Johnson reportedly had a birthday party during the lockdown. Wife helped organize the "surprise get-together," ITV reports. https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1485678992388730880

Artist's concept of the Radian One spaceplaneRadian Aerospace VIEW 7 IMAGES A new company has entered the commercial space race. Startup Radian Aerospace has emerged from stealth to announce it has secured US$27.5 million in seed funding to develop a single-stage to orbit (SSTO) spaceplane called Radian One, which is designed to lift and land horizontally. The commercial space field has been growing steadily in recent years, with contractors taking over ferrying crews to the International Space Station, launching huge constellations of satellites into orbit, and even sending private missions and tourists into space. In addition, there are plans to...

The stock market has never started a year falling as quickly as it is now. The S&P 500 has dropped 11% — heading into correction territory — in the first 16 trading days of 2022 in its worst-ever start to a year, according to Bloomberg data that goes back over nine decades. The downturn comes as traders brace for the Federal Reserve to tighten monetary policy and a surge in U.S. Treasury yields weighs on the outlook for stocks. A host of technical signals also suggest that more volatility may be coming up ahead. S&P 500's 11% drop in first...

Americans in the Midwest and South – which include some of the poorest states in the nation – are suffering a greater degree of inflation than the rest of the country.Abandoned switching locomotives sit parked on the grounds of the former U.S. Steel McDonald Works steel mill near Youngstown in Campbell, Ohio, U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2016.According to Bloomberg, small towns in the Midwest and South have seen consumer prices rising 9% or more – exceeding the ‘red-hot’ national average of 7%. Wisconsin has had the most small cities registering inflation, at an average of 8% last quarter. In...

Before there were #couplegoals, there was local actor Pierre Png who famously donated a part of his liver to his then-girlfriend Andrea De Cruz. In 2002, Andrea — a TV actress and host at the time — suffered liver failure after taking Slim 10 slimming pills and Pierre saved her with the donation. It was also the first liver transplant where the Ministry of Health allowed non-related living donors to donate. Cut to December 2021 when Pierre made an Instagram post saying that Andrea's health had taken "a turn for the worst" earlier in the year, but the couple later...

The Trump administration’s sanctions on Iran were working so well that the mullahs were unable to put together the money to pay Iran’s United Nations dues. Then Joe Biden stepped in and paid the debt. The decision of the Biden administration to arrange for the payment of Iran’s dues at the United Nations is being described to us as “a staggering act of appeasement.” That is the phrase used by our sometimes legwoman at the United Nations, Claudia Rosett. We had called her to see what she made of the news. Her tirade is probably still echoing down the telephone...

A decaying, 122-year-old Victorian marketed as "the worst house on the best block" of San Francisco has sold for nearly $2 million — an eye-catching price that the realtor said was the outcome of overbidding in an auction. A developer's $1.97 million cash offer for the 2,158-square-foot (200-square-meter) property in the Noe Valley neighborhood was finalized last week. On the social media page Zillow Gone Wild, some commenters marveled at the price while others questioned the value of a house with boarded-up windows, peeling paint and an unstable foundation. One commenter joked: "It actually has a parking space. No wonder...

"As state school officials and parents see a number of Ohio schools contracting with more diversity-related organizations that provide critical race theory and transgender courses for teachers—and pay for them with taxpayer funds—those who disagree with it want others to know they are fighting back. Some see it as so bad that they have pulled their kids out of the public school system. They prefer to home school them away from what they see as “unfathomable” and “terrifying” content being presented to their children. Among the groups in Ohio that have organized to monitor and protest what is being taught...

Appearing on ABC’s This Week Sunday, Anthony Fauci declared that it is “entirely conceivable” that a fourth booster vaccine will soon be needed by all Americans who wish to be considered ‘fully vaccinated’. “We may need to boost again. That’s entirely conceivable,” Faiuci said, adding “Before we make that decision about yet again another boost, we want to determine clearly what the durability of protection is of that regular boost.” Watch: It is “entirely conceivable” that we may need boosters again, Dr. Anthony Fauci tells @MarthaRaddatz. “Before we make that decision about yet again another boost, we want to determine...

MEMORIAL OF SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH MARK 3:22-30 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus is accused of being in league with Satan. Some of the witnesses said, "By the prince of demons he drives out demons." Jesus’ response is wonderful in its logic and laconicism: "If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand." The demonic power is always one of scattering. It...

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While the idea that governments should order people to take the covid shot and implement so-called vaccine passports as a means of breaking down resistance to injecting these experimental drugs into the bodies of those who don't want them still holds sway in a lot of places, a few nations are backing away from this coercion. Just this week, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, and Israel announced changes in their covid strategy. Inspired by a Tory Party member's suggestion that he "in the name of God please go," UK's Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that "the measures we have taken...

OUAGADOUGOU, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's ruling party said on Monday President Roch Kabore had survived an assassination attempt, adding that what began as a mutiny by some soldiers on Sunday was rapidly evolving into a coup. Kabore has not appeared in public since heavy gunfire erupted at military camps on Sunday, when soldiers demanded more support for their fight against Islamist militants. The government initially denied that the army had seized power...