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President Biden will give remarks on Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday afternoon, the White House said.

President Joe Biden reminisced about his time spent serving on the New Castle County Council during an address at the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference on Tuesday. Biden told the crowd gathered at the Washington Hilton that, 'I know from personal experience how hard the job you have is.' He recalled how he represented a middle class to working class district, with 'one very wealthy neighborhood' within its confines. And I got a call one night, a woman said to me - obviously not of the same persuasion as I was politically - call me and say, "there's a...

Titanic may be one of the most romantic films of all time, but a hilarious parody released online for Valentine's Day this year has conquered hearts across the web - especially cat lovers. In this spoof of the James Cameron movie, actress Kate Winslet, who played Rose, has been replaced - with a cat. Lizzy, also known as famous YouTube cat OwlKitty, steps in to play Rose for all of her famous scenes with Leonardo DiCaprio. The long-haired, black cat is hoisted high in the air by DiCaprio for the famous scene at the bow of the doomed boat, which...

The results were mixed.One morning last summer, I woke up and announced, to no one in particular: “I choose to be happy today!” Next I journaled about the things I was grateful for and tried to think more positively about my enemies and myself. When someone later criticized me on Twitter, I suppressed my rage and tried to sympathize with my hater. Then, to loosen up and expand my social skills, I headed to an improv class. I was midway through an experiment—sample size: 1—to see whether I could change my personality. Because these activities were supposed to make me...

A Black Lives Matter activist and black nationalist named Quintez Brown, who was championed by both former President Barack Obama and MSNBC leftist anchor Joy Reid, allegedly attempted to assassinate Craig Greenberg, who is a Democratic mayoral candidate in Louisville, Kentucky on Monday. Greenberg was holding a brief meeting with four members of his campaign team on Monday morning when Brown allegedly appeared in the doorway to his office, aimed a gun at him, and opened fire. No one was injured “despite one bullet coming so close that it grazed my sweater and my shirt,” the candidate recounted. One of...

For the first time ever, a woman has been cured of HIV. A woman dubbed the 'New York patient' by scientists at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City has defeated the virus after receiving a rare, but dangerous, stem-cell treatment. She is the fourth person to ever be cured of HIV - the previous three are all men - and experts have found two cases of women somehow beating the virus naturally. The woman was also a cancer patient, and received a treatment meant to combat both diseases at once - but is also so risky...

The Senate confirmed President Biden's nominee for FDA commissioner, Dr. Robert Califf, on Tuesday with a vote of 50 to 46, with one senator voting present, despite several Democrats opposing the selection and Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., absent as he recovers from a stroke. While Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., all went against the administration by voting against Califf, Republican Sens. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., and Richard Burr, R-N.C., all voted for him. Sen. Mike Rounds,...

People living with HIV had a 60% greater risk for myocardial infarction, or heart attack, compared with their HIV-negative peers, and the disparity widened over time, according to research presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2022). These findings underscore the need for ongoing monitoring and interventions to manage cardiovascular disease in this population, said Michael Silverberg, MD, of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland.

After leading Team USA to a silver medal in the team figure skating competition and winning his first Olympic gold in the men’s individual event, Nathan Chen has been slammed on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. The 22-year-old Chinese American was labeled a “traitor” on the social media platform for choosing to represent the United States, and was even told to “get out of China.” After his victory Thursday, some on Weibo complained that Chen was “too white” and Americanized, citing a long list of examples where they thought Chen was “insulting China” with his actions. Chen has previously...

Animal rights advocate and author Carol Adams has been savaged for throwing "every woke buzzword" into a fiery speech at the Oxford Union 'Beyond Meat' Debate on Wednesday. Ms Adams claimed eating meat is linked to a "white supremacist patriarchal worldview" and that white supremacists "weaponised" eating meat, eggs and dairy to reclaim their wounded masculinity. But social media users were quick to hit back at the viral speech, arguing the use of "woke logic threads" has "no overarching connection" to meat. 'The Sexual Politics of Meat' author argues the act of eating animal "corpses" are "massaged by euphemistic language"...

AMID a surge of Covid-19 cases in India and other parts of the world, the United States remains noncommittal on an October 2020 proposal by India and South Africa to waive certain provisions of the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The proposal would loosen patent restrictions so that countries can manufacture generic versions of the coronavirus vaccines. “We are working with our global partners to explore pragmatic and effective steps to surge production and equitable distribution of vaccines,” a United States Trade Representative (USTR) official told VOA. The administration is still weighing arguments...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - As rural health care facilities begin to lose staff due to the federal CMS COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the Attorney General has urged the Governor to seek a waiver so these facilities can continue to help Kansans. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has warned the federal government’s mandate for health care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 could be devastating for many rural facilities, and some may have to close due to lack of staff.Schmidt said Kansas should fight for those facilities and their residents by formally seeking a waiver from the federal requirements. In November 2021,...

And just last week ol' Randy Andy was demanding a jury trial in the USA. Hmmmm....

<p>In a video posted to Facebook late on Feb. 14, organizers said they had received information from sources they consider to be “reliable” that the weapons may be planted.</p><p>The information, they said, correlates with the more than 2,000 firearms that were stolen in the city of Peterborough on the morning of Feb. 13.</p>

As crude oil prices in the US hold above $90 a barrel (driven there in some part ironically by the Biden admin's war rhetoric), with energy analysts at many of the investment banks foresee oil surpassing $100/barrel - or even $120/barrel - in the not-too-distant future, the White House and top Democratic lawmakers are reportedly considering a federal gas tax holiday, in a desperate attempt to alleviate some of the pain consumers are feeling at the pump (and potentially help boost President Biden's rock-bottom approval ratings).The plan has coalesced just days after a group of vulnerable Senate Democrats introduced a...

A federal judge has announced that he will dismiss Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, saying the former Alaska governor failed to meet the high standard of proof in a libel case. NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos explains why the judge made the decision to throw out the case and what could be next for Sarah Palin.

Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly has resigned after weeks of criticism for his handling of anti-vaccine mandate protests that have paralysed the city. Protesters have occupied the downtown core of Canada's capital for 19 days, halting traffic and enraging residents. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday invoked the Emergencies Act as a "last resort" in response to the protests. Mr Sloly, 55, is expected to confirm his resignation after the Ottawa Police Services Board meeting later today. A former Canadian men's soccer player, Mr Sloly took over at the Ottawa Police Service in 2019, more than three decades after joining the...

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that Republicans were involved in a “slow-moving coup in this country.” Co-host Ana Navarro said, “I have such strong belief in the American democracy and the American people. It’s been around for almost 300 years. It survived civil wars. I think January 6 has traumatized us all and left us all with the knowledge that democracy is a lot more frail, even in America, than we thought it was.”

The family of slain Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has officially filed a wrongful-death lawsuit over the on-set shooting by Alec Baldwin that took the filmmaker’s life last October in New Mexico. “Halyna Hutchins deserved to live, and the Defendants had the power to prevent her death if they had only held sacrosanct their duty to protect the safety of every individual on a set where firearms were present instead of cutting corners on safety procedures where human lives were at stake, rushing to stay on schedule and ignoring numerous complaints of safety violations,” declares the complaint against star/producer Baldwin, a...

Has it really come to this? We all knew that shoplifting was getting really bad all over the nation, but does Walmart really need to start locking up the steaks? I was stunned when I first learned that pharmacies in our core urban areas were locking up toothpaste and deodorant, but I didn’t think that we were already at a point where supermarkets would start locking up the food. I don’t know about you, but to me this is an extremely chilling omen…Walmart has started securing high-priced steaks inside locked metal cages amid rising crime rates across the U.S., a...