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Don’t write off Kyiv, but if Vladimir Putin attacks "any day" under cover of wargames in Belarus starting this week, President Biden will have an instant decision to make. Ukraine does not want U.S. or NATO ground forces. They’ve already lost 14,000 in the eastern region conflict with Russia and want to fight Russia themselves. However, Ukraine will need help, fast. U.S. commanders would receive word of a Russian attack in less than five minutes. NATO’s ready. Is Biden? Biden’s chaotic response to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan still casts doubt on his skills as commander in chief, and the...

A handful of Democrat-led states over the past 24 hours have announced plans to drop their mask mandates in the coming weeks, and Republicans are claiming politics are at play. New Jersey, New York, California, Oregon, Connecticut and Delaware have all announced plans to roll back their mask requirements, just within the last day. 'I'd love to see whatever internal polling went around the Democrat Party last week - it's certainly no coincidence that Democrat-run states are dropping mandates as fast as they can!,' Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., told DailyMail.com. The Biden administration, however, still recommends indoor masking for schools...

A homeless man with a 16-year violent criminal history has been charged with first-degree assault after taking 'full body swing' with a baseball bat at a woman in the back of the head, leaving her bleeding with a fractured skull, before going for a slice of pizza. Wantez Tulloss, 31, has been arrested 11 times going back to 2006 and was wanted by police in Washington for third degree theft. On Monday January 31, he was filmed taking a swing at Emma Shengnan Wang, who was named by prosecutors in court documents. He knocked Wang to the ground, hitting her...

The federal agency that oversees the legal immigration system on Wednesday replaced a controversial Trump-era mission statement that had removed the "nation of immigrants" label, calling the U.S. "a nation of welcome and possibility" in its new creed. In an internal message to agency employees, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur Jaddou said the new mission statement better reflects the Biden administration's "commitment to an immigration system that is accessible and humane." Wednesday's change, while symbolic, is part of a broader Biden administration effort to erase remnants of the immigration agenda employed by the Trump administration, which focused...

The Biden administration and Democrats have waged war on the American oil and gas industry, all while Russia expands its oil and gas footprint around the world. Off the bat, resident Biden canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline, stopped leasing on federal lands, and unleashed regulations that have destroyed at least 10,000 good-paying oil and gas jobs. As a member of Congress, it is my duty to inform the public and stand up against flawed regulations that will impede or damage the lives of the American people. With many crises facing the nation like record high gas prices, inflation, and the...

Monterey and Santa Cruz counties will follow San Benito County and the state in lifting their local mask orders. Last week, Gov. Newsom announced the state would be lifting its mandate on Feb. 16 after two months of having it in place. The announcement came as cases continue to drop from the winter peak. On Wednesday, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties joined 10 Bay Area counties announcing they would lift their indoor mask mandates on Feb. 16. Under state orders, masks are still required in indoor settings for: Unvaccinated persons K-12 schools/child care Public transportation Health care settings Congregate settings...

More than 1 in 4 LGBTQ youth have experienced homelessness or housing instability at some point in their lives, a new report from The Trevor Project shows, including nearly half of Native/Indigenous LGBTQ youth and nearly 40 percent of transgender and nonbinary youth. Thirty-five percent of LGBTQ youth who are homeless and 28 percent who have experienced housing instability also reported a suicide attempt in the last year, compared to 10 percent of LGBTQ youth who are not housing insecure. Homeless LGBTQ youth are also two to four times more likely to report depression, anxiety, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and suicide...

The New York native is the host on three programs across the Fox Network: Your World with Neil Cavuto, Cavuto Live - both on Fox News - and Cavuto: Coast to Coast on the sister channel Fox Business Network.For almost a month, all of Cavuto's programs have been guest-hosted by Fox correspondents Charles Payne, Ashley Webster, Edward Lawrence, David Asman, Sandra Smith or Jackie DeAngelis.Cavuto is one of the network's most popular hosts with over 50,000 followers on Twitter.

As the world enters year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) held a roundtable discussion on Jan. 24 to take a closer look at the reality of where we are in the ongoing crisis. The critical conversation, titled “COVID-19: A Second Opinion,” included distinguished doctors and medical experts from around the globe who shared their views on the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 “vaccines” as well as the general response to the pandemic. Attorney Thomas Renz also testified at the 5-hour exchange. Renz represents three Department of Defense (DoD) whistleblowers who report a dramatic increase in medical...

It’s All Good Bakery on Oakland's Martin Luther King Jr. Way looks like many bakeries in the area, offering up sweet potato pie and coconut pineapple cake. But recently, the small neighborhood storefront has become the center of controversy — namely because the building, which was the first headquarters of the Black Panther Party (BPP), might get demolished and rebuilt as a five-story, 20-unit mixed-use housing complex. On Monday evening, dozens of members of the public joined the Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board meeting to discuss the historical significance of the building. After the firm Gunkel Architects presented a mock-up of...

top retired Russian general has warned Vladimir Putin not to go to war with Ukraine, accusing the leader of whipping up an 'artificial' conflict to distract from his domestic problems. Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, 78, penned an open letter titled 'The Eve of War' in which he blasted Putin's 'criminal policy of provoking a war' despite Russia not facing any 'critical threats'. ....“We acknowledge that preparations for a war with Ukraine have been well under way including diplomatic negotiations, with groupings of troops massed on the border. In such conditions, one gun shot might provoke a conflict with ensuing dire consequences....

The most widely used methods for transdermal administration of the drugs are hypodermic needles, topical creams, and transdermal patches. The effect of most of the therapeutic agents is limited due to the stratum corneum layer of the skin, which serves as a barrier for the molecules and thus only a few molecules are able to reach the site of action. A new form of delivery system called the microneedles helps to enhance the delivery of the drug through this route and overcoming the various problems associated with the conventional formulations. The primary principle involves disruption of the skin layer, thus...

With mask mandates for students and teachers increasingly under fire, one of the major children’s hospitals in the country is recommending that facial coverings no longer be required. Dr. David Rubin, director of the PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said masks should not be considered necessary, WCAU-TV reported Monday. “We are in a very different moment in this pandemic,” Rubin told the station. Rubin suggested that it is finally time to start getting back to normal in the school setting, particularly since cases of COVID-19 omicron variant among children are more on the level of other seasonal viruses. ---SNIP---...

The White House announced Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris would travel to Europe as the crisis in Ukraine continues to escalate. Harris will travel to Germany to attend the Munich Security Conference, as European leaders weigh increased tensions with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin continues weighing a decision whether or not to further invade Ukraine as he continues building up troops along at the border.

The S&P 500 extended gains from the regular trading session on Tuesday. The Nasdaq outperformed, with technology shares climbing as Treasury yields paused after a recent run-up. The benchmark 10-year yield eased back from its highest level since November 2019. .... But an otherwise strong set of earnings results has helped underpin stocks in recent weeks, with the S&P 500 pacing toward a third straight weekly gain. Aggregate S&P 500 earnings per share (EPS) are currently exceeding consensus expectations by 6% so far for the latest quarter, according to Bank of America's update Tuesday. S&P 500 earnings are tracking toward...

day after a brazen shoplifter was seen walking out with a buffet-ful of stolen meat from a Manhattan Trader Joe’s, another thief has been recorded striking the location. The unnamed man can be seen on video, exclusively taken by The Post, in an aisle at the grocery store’s East 14th Street location shoving two cans of soda into his pants and casually strolling out of the store. “I don’t have to,” Wednesday’s alleged thief told a Post photographer outside the store. “I used to have a job working all the time, ya know, not stealing, not having to really,” he...

Tesla’s Model Y compact crossover SUV is seeing sales surge in its home state of California, reports CNBC’s Squawk Box.Based on data from the California New Car Dealers Association, the Model Y dominated in 2021 car sales, surging to the number two spot, beating the Honda Civic and just trailing slightly behind leader the Toyota Camry.Sales figures show the Camry at 61,599 car sales in 2021, with the Model Y at 60,394, and the Civic in third at 59,818 sales, while Toyota’s RAV4 at 59,153. Tesla’s Model 3 sedan is in the fifth spot at 53,572.The Camry, Civic and RAV4...

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Heather McDonald boasts about being vaccinated, and then does a joke about Jesus loving her the most, and then collapses live on stage.VIDEO

Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Mark 7:14-23 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus explains that sinful behavior flows from within our hearts. How often the Bible speaks of the “heart.” By that it means the core of the self, the deepest center of who we are, that place from which our thoughts and actions arise. God wants to penetrate that heart so that he is the center of our souls. But there is something terribly black in the human heart. We are made in the image and likeness of God, but that image can be so distorted by sin as to...