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Female Ukrainian soldiers are taking to the video-sharing app TikTok to post glam pictures and videos of themselves in their bid to win the soft power propaganda war with Russia. Clips of glamorous women in Ukrainian military uniforms dancing, fooling around in barracks, and even holding bullets have gone viral on social media. As tensions between Russia and Ukraine remain strained, sharing candid videos and pictures of troops behind the scenes have become another front for a quasi-war. Typically, the videos feature soldiers performing dances, but some also show female troops taking apart and reassembling weapons, or having fun in...

A panel advising U.S. drug regulators said Eli Lilly and Co. and its Chinese partner should conduct more studies of a proposed new lung-cancer drug before approval, citing concerns about the medicine’s testing in China. ... Harpreet Singh, an FDA division director, said FDA inspectors found that researchers conducting the study at two sites in China underreported adverse events in patients. The study “only offers uncertainty,” she said.

Comedian Dave Chappelle found himself in hot water once again Monday night after he was seen opposing an affordable housing project in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Chappelle, 48, addressed the town council and threatened to pull his money from the community if they approved plans to develop 53 acres of residential housing. The town voted on the plan Wednesday after the council meeting, where the public was invited to comment on the proposal. Now, Chappelle is clearing things up. His reps didn’t respond to The Post’s request for comment, but in a statement to Fox News, his spokeswoman Carla Sims said...

Amid a statewide campaign to halt voter fraud, a 2020 South Texas school board election has been overturned due to “repeated mistakes” by local elections officials that allowed illegal votes to be counted. *** Marisa Leal, who was originally declared the winner by one vote, contested the results after a recount found her opponent, incumbent Minerva Peña, won by eight votes. *** Following a hearing last month, visiting District Judge Joel Johnson found at least 24 illegal votes were cast in the election—more than enough to invalidate the election results. Among the illegal votes were 16 mail-in ballots cast in...

<p>A federal appeals court has declined, for now, to allow the Biden administration to require COVID-19 vaccinations for federal employees.</p><p>The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled 2-1 Wednesday to maintain a block on the mandate that a Texas-based federal judge had issued on Jan. 21. The administration had asked the New Orleans court for an injunction allowing the federal worker mandate to move forward pending appeal.</p>

There’s yet another twist in the pandemic: The omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, now has a “subvariant” that seems to spread even more quickly than any other version of the coronavirus to date. The good news for now is that vaccines still appear to protect against it. But because it’s so transmissible, scientists are racing to figure out what harm it could cause. The original omicron variant, which scientists call BA.1 or B.1.1.529, was until recently the most transmissible known version of the virus. In many countries, it caused some of the steepest and tallest peaks...

The UN General Assembly on Thursday agreed on a definition of denial of the Holocaust and urged social media companies "to take active measures" to combat antisemitism. "The General Assembly is sending a strong and unambiguous message against the denial or the distortion of these historical facts," said Germany's UN Ambassador Antje Leendertse. "Ignoring historical facts increases the risk that they will be repeated." While the 193-member General Assembly adopted the resolution - drafted by Israel and Germany - without a vote, Iran disassociated itself from the text over Israel's "occupation of Palestine and parts of Syria and Lebanon." Israel's...

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Former star of Netflix's "Cheer" Jerry Harris pleaded guilty in his federal child pornography case. A judge in Chicago's federal court told Harris that he could face up to 50 years in prison, but his sentencing will take place in a June 28 hearing, according to TMZ. The 21-year-old TV personality was arrested in September 2020 and charged in federal court in Chicago with producing child pornography. He was featured in the first season of the hit cheerleading documentary series on Netflix, which debuted in early 2020. The aftermath of his arrest was featured prominently in the series' recently released...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Democratic Wisconsin state lawmaker tweeted Thursday that if parents want to have a say in their child’s education they should pay for private school or home school, a message she later deleted and apologized for. Republicans jumped over the tweet from state Rep. Lee Snodgrass, of Appleton, who is also a vice chair of the state Democratic Party. Republican gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch tweeted a video message recorded in her car denouncing Snodgrass’s tweet, saying “we the parents demand a say in our kids’ education and we demand it now.” Snodgrass, in a follow up...

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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — When day care owner Heidi Fink checked her email Thursday morning, she was shocked to find a message from South Dakota’s Department of Social Services informing her that the facility was receiving a $217,000 grant. The award for Blue Dragons Academy childcare in Garretson was part of Gov. Kristi Noem’s $100 million plan to send federal money received under the American Rescue Plan Act to child care centers. The money — which was more than triple what she was expecting — would be used for bonuses and raises for her employees, as well as supplies. Fink...

SAN FRANCISCO - In one clip, a Tesla tries to drive down some light-rail tracks. In another, a Tesla fails to stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk. And at one point, the most advanced driver-assistance product available to consumers appears to slam into a bike lane bollard at 11 mph. Each of these moments - captured on video by a Tesla owner and posted online - reveals a fundamental weakness in Tesla's Full Self-Driving technology, according to a panel of experts assembled by The Washington Post and asked to examine the videos. These are problems with no easy fix,...

The right-wing firebrand laughed off comments made during an interview with One American Network (OAN) complaining House Speaker Pelosi was secretly investigating members of Congress and constituents. “Not only do we have the D.C. jail, which is the D.C. gulag,” said Rep. Greene in a now-viral video. “Now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staff and spying on American citizens that want to come to talk with their representatives.” After being roundly mocked for confusing the Gestapo, the official secret police of Nazi Germany...

A new mom who broke out in agonizing blisters during her pregnancy says she was left stunned to learn she was “allergic” to her own baby. Fiona Hooker — who hails from Hampshire, England — got pregnant with her second child in late 2020. The first two trimesters of the pregnancy went smoothly, but the now 32-year-old began to notice red spots on her stomach two months before she was due to give birth. “I went to the doctor after a few days because they were getting more and more itchy and unbearable,” Hooker told South West News Service in...

Of course this comes from MSN/AP. Why couldn't they run a positive article on Hershel? We all know why. They're doing opposition research for the left. Rush called it drive by journalism. And it is. Here's the first paragraph. "One warm fall evening in 2001, police in Irving, Texas, received an alarming call from Herschel Walker’s therapist. The football legend and current Republican Senate candidate in Georgia was “volatile,” armed and scaring his estranged wife at the suburban Dallas home they no longer shared. Blah, blah, blah. "

Costing more than $160 million, it is surely the most awkward film release in recent memory as several of the stars have either been canceled or the subjects of mockery and derision. “This film has become every publicist’s worst nightmare,” said an industry source. “It’s a project where everything which can go wrong has gone wrong — and there’s nothing to be done or said to make it better. SNIP First, there is Armie Hammer, who stars as playboy Simon Doyle in the adaptation of the 1937 Agatha Christie novel. He was accused of rape and cannibalistic desires back in...

A self-proclaimed' old-school junkie' who moved from Texas to San Francisco because 'it's f*****g easy' to be homeless there claims he's being paid by the city government to live on the streets, getting $620 in cash per month and hundreds of food stamps while he sells Narcan and enjoys Amazon Prime and Netflix on his phone. "Why wouldn’t I do it? You know, it’s f*****g free money dude,' he explained. 'Why would I want to pay rent?' '[Mayor London] Breed's policies and the policies in San Francisco give him everything that he needs to stay addicted,' she told Carlson. 'They...

SOMERTON, Ariz. (AP) — Seated on a metal folding chair in the front row among dozens of asylum-seekers awaiting COVID tests in Arizona, Gloria Estela Vallora reaped the benefits of her Colombian passport. She and eight family members, ranging in age from 4 to 63, flew to Cancun for two nights in the Mexican beach resort town, caught another flight to Mexico’s border with the U.S., walked 20 minutes to U.S. agents and spent a night in custody. Within hours, they would be with a friend in Utah. For Colombians and other nationalities that don’t need a visa, flying to...