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Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that if Russian President Vladimir Putin were allowed to invade Ukraine, he would not stop there. Menendez told CNN anchor Dana Bash, “Listen, this is beyond Ukraine, although certainly we dramatically support Ukraine. We cannot have a Munich moment again. Putin will not stop with Ukraine if he believes that the West will not respond. We saw what he did in 2008 in Georgia. We saw what he did in 2014 and pursued Crimea. He will not stop. So at the end of the day, this is about...

Dr Jane Ruby has her own show now on Stew Peters’ Rumble channel and on Wednesday, she was joined by board-certified embalmer and funeral director, Richard Hirschman. As part of the embalming process, the veins of the deceased are first drained of all blood. In the middle of 2021, Hirschman says he began to discover these “unnatural blood clot combinations with strange fibrous materials” completely filling the vascular system, having totally clogged all of the arteries and veins of the deceased. “I don’t know how someone could live with something like this inside of them,” he says. The cause of...

Governor Chris Sununu (R-NH) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” said he did not need former President Donald Trump’s help in his reelection campaign. Anchor Dana Bash said, “I want you to listen to what former President Donald Trump said about the people who stormed the Capitol on January 6.”

JTA — Among the most challenging decisions Lili Rosen had to make while translating a children’s book about sexuality into Yiddish was what name to put on the cover. When Rosen began work on “You Be You” in March 2020, she wasn’t yet Lili. She had a long resume of translation and cultural consulting work, including on the Netflix hit show “Unorthodox” and Seth Rogen’s “An American Pickle,” all under the name she had been given by her Hasidic Orthodox parents in Brooklyn when she was identified as male at birth. But as she translated the book aimed at explaining...

“Israel's daily COVID-19 cases reach record 83,653,” says Wednesday’s news wire.“COVID-19 in Israel: Serious cases increase tenfold in span of a month, continue to rise,” announces a recent headline from the Jerusalem Post.Elsewhere we learn that Israel’s positive test rate is a staggering 29.63 percent. This means that nearly 1/3 of all Covid tests taken by Israelis are coming back positive.Israel is obviously a country in deep Covid trouble with the SARS-CoV-2 virus running out of control in that nation.Revealingly, Israel happens to be one of the most heavily vaccinated countries in the world. Some 80% of its adult population...

They spent four years working together in the White House, but former Vice President Mike Pence tells Fox News it’s been months since he and former President Donald Trump have chatted. Pence has been in a precarious position among many in the GOP base since the storming of the U.S. Capitol last January by right wing extremists aiming to disrupt congressional certification of now President Biden’s Electoral College victory over Trump. Some members of the violent mob that breached the Capitol were chanting "hang Mike Pence."

550,000 unboosted people are at risk of having their vaccine passes revoked as Austria prepares to change the rules surrounding eligibility. From February 1, over half-a-million people in Austria are at risk of losing their vaccine passes, a valuable document needed to access a wide variety of services in the country. In a country of just nine million people, the number of individuals involved in the change is a considerable one. The change of policy means the grace period for fully jabbed individuals to get boosted is being lowered from nine to six months for all over-18s. As a result,...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said on Sunday that it is "very unlikely" she would support former President Trump should he run for reelection in 2024. "Certainly, it's not likely, given the many other qualified candidates that we have that have expressed interest in running, so it's very unlikely," Collins said on ABC's "This Week."

The U.S. Supreme Court’s divergent rulings regarding COVID vaccine mandates offer a stark enough contrast between the constitutional limits of the government’s power. But there’s another takeaway from the High Court with far greater consequences to civil liberties, regardless of your position on vaccines. In a much-ballyhooed win for the rule of law and the Constitution, the High Court soundly rejected the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for large private employers. The 6-3 decision reaffirmed that the power to make law lies with Congress, not federal agencies, not even during a pandemic. That is, no matter how much the President desires...

Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton said on Sunday that he would keep an "open mind" when it came to President Biden's nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, adding, however, that he doubted the nominee would be someone whom the GOP could support. "Fox News Sunday" host Dana Perino asked Cotton how he intended to approach Biden's upcoming Supreme Court nomination, noting Vice President Harris's intense line of questioning against Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing when she was a senator.

Edmonton and St. Albert's mayors released a joint statement calling on an area Member of Parliament to apologize for attending the "freedom convoy" rally protest opposed to COVID-19 mandates. Thousands of truckers and others opposing cross-border vaccine mandates and other public health restrictions rolled into Ottawa on Saturday for a rally on Parliament Hill. While police said there were no reported incidents of violence or injuries, some protesters carried signs and flags containing symbols of hate.

The Kingdom of Heaven. As Christians, God has translated us from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of the light of His dear Son. Jesus had a source of love so powerful that He went on His journey seeking out those who were most oppressed by the devil and injured and freed and healed them all. Once, He went to a man who was so tormented by devils that he went mad and lived naked in the tombs. Upon encountering him, Jesus commanded the demons to come out. In response they said they were a legion and begged not...

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 4:21-30 Friends, today’s Gospel develops a theme that is uncomfortable. It tells how the people of Nazareth rejected Jesus. Authentically religious people, authentically spiritual people, will almost always be opposed. The logic behind this is simple and unanswerable: we live in a world gone wrong, a world turned upside down; therefore, when someone comes speaking the truth to us, we will think that they are crazy and dangerous. Think for just a moment what would happen to you if you consistently and publicly spoke the word of God to our culture. If you spoke...

Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that former President Donald Trump should not have said he would pardon those charged for the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Saturday during a ‘Save America Rally’ in Texas, Trump said, “If I run and I win, we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”

Like Christine, I want to preserve my anonymity, which is why I am shopping this story only to the most discrete members of my own party on the Senate Judiciary Committee. And working with the most trustworthy opposition researchers on my side of the aisle. I have retained as my lead attorney an activist who serves with various nonprofit NGOs funded by international philanthropist Vladimir Putin. Let’s call my attorney “Grigori,” for the moment. All fact inquiries should be directed to Grigori. I may or may not choose to tell my story publicly, depending on the advice of my personal...

In a recent statement published on the annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), not only misrepresented and defamed Dr. King’s legacy, but he did so using some of the most vile antisemitic tropes singling out the Jewish people and Israel. In his statement, Dr. Nelson wrote of Dr. King’s legacy and overcoming societal inequities in the US and all over the world. Listing a broad range of social problems, Dr. Nelson then seamlessly pivoted into antisemitic lies, mentioning only Israel...

In California, the leftists who see “racism” everywhere are now claiming that their own rooftop solar program creates “racist” “inequities.” Their contradictory “solution” is to create a new tax on the very same solar power that they are subsidizing.By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)January 30, 2022For more than 20 years, California has been giving homeowners financial incentives to install rooftop solar panels on their homes. The goal here is to encourage the use of solar power.Because whatever you subsidize you get more of, the program has more than achieved its goal of one million solar rooftop installations. That...

A specialist ship on its way to restore a vital communications cable linking Tonga to the rest of the world is expected to reach the archipelago on Sunday, two weeks after a volcanic eruption and tsunami damaged homes, resorts and infrastructure. The ship left Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, almost 5,000 km (3,000 miles) away on Jan. 20, according to Refinitiv Eikon data, and is expected to need a few weeks to carry out complicated repairs to the undersea cable. ... Faults in the world’s 436 active undersea cables are common and typically most traffic would be rerouted to another...

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Jan. 29. The urgent necessity which required the immediate purchase of arms, clothing and other military supplies from foreign countries having ceased, the Secretary of War has ordered: 1. That no further contracts be made by this Department, or any bureau thereof, for any article of foreign manufacture that can be produced or manufactured in the United States. 2. All outstanding orders, agencies, authorities, licenses for the purchase of arms, clothing, or anything else in foreign countries, or of foreign manufacture for this Department, are revoked and annulled. 3. All persons claiming to have any contract, bargain, or...

"Climate change is one of the most significant challenges of this century," warns the grant notice. "As a result of human activities, we are witnessing warming of the atmosphere, melting sea ice and glaciers, rising sea levels, and changes in the frequency and intensity of weather patterns, among other phenomena." The grant opportunity, posted by the public affairs section of the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan on Grants.gov, postulates that climate change is having a "profound effect" globally and could potentially "cause irreversible alterations to the earth's habitat, biodiversity and ecosystems." Based on funding availability, the grant is expected to help...