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Firefighters are struggling to extinguish a fire that broke out last week on a cargo ship that is carrying thousands of luxury cars and is adrift off the coast of Portugal's Azores islands. A port official said it was unclear when crews would succeed. The vessel, Felicity Ace, which is carrying about 4,000 vehicles including Porsches, Audis and Bentleys, some electric with lithium-ion batteries, caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday. The 22 crew members on board were evacuated on the same day. "The intervention [to put out the blaze] has to be done very slowly,"...

New Zealand defender Meikayla Moore scored three goals - for the US women’s national team – as the Americans won 5-0 on Sunday in the second round of matches in the SheBelieves Cup. The US, who drew with the Czech Republic 0-0 in their tournament opener on Thursday, got all the help they needed thanks to Moore’s own goals in the fifth, sixth and 36th minutes. The US took over from there. Ashley Hatch made it 4-0 in the 51st with a header that was set-up by Sofia Huerta, and Mallory Pugh scored in the third minute of second-half stoppage...

Donetsk region The prayer marathon in Donetsk turned into severe trials for many of its participants. Exclusive The prayer marathon in Donetsk turned out to be a difficult ordeal for many of its participants Recently in Ukraine, the book of public figure, volunteer and clergyman Sergey Kosyak "Donbass, which you didn't know" was republished in Ukrainian. In his interview with the Tribune, he told us about an unusual public action that formed the basis of this book. It was based on a Prayer marathon. The prayer marathon, which started in Donetsk on February 25, 2014 and lasted 158 days in...

The New York Times made an eye-popping admission on Sunday regarding data collected by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Covid-19 vaccines.In an article titled, "The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects," reporter Apoorva Mandavilli writes: "For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the United States and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status. But it has not made most of the information public."Mandavilli, who covers science and global health for the Times, reported that the agency has published...

Despite grappling with a new COVID outbreak in remote Western Australia, where authorities recorded a record 257 new COVID cases on Saturday and another 200+ on Sunday, the Australian government is finally raising its "drawbridge" on Monday as it allows the first tourists to enter the county after two years of stringent travel restrictions.As Reuters quips early in its report on the occasion, Australia's notoriously strict policy earned it the nickname "Fortress Australia." And while the "drawbridge" approach helped its eradicate COVID for a time, case numbers finally surged to record highs during the global omicron wave, which hasn't quite...

After a barrage of pro-war headlines earlier on Sunday...U.S. WARNS THAT RUSSIA MAY TARGET MULTIPLE CITIES IN UKRAINE... and this...ALL INDICATIONS RUSSIA 'ON BRINK' OF INVADING UKRAINE: BLINKEN... and a tweet just before 8pm ET from NBC's Howard Fineman, quoting CBS "superb reporter" David Martin that "Putin has just ordered Russian forces to invade Ukraine in its entirety, with reserve units following to run an occupation"...David Martin of @CBSNews, a superb reporter I’ve known for decades and worked with at the original Newsweek for many years—and whom I trust totally—says #Putin has just ordered #Russian forces to invade #Ukraine in...

President Joe Biden has agreed in principle to meet with Vladimir Putin to discuss the Ukraine crisis – as long as Russia doesn’t attack its neighboring country. The potential summit would follow a planned Thursday meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Sergei Lavrov – which will also only occur without a Russian invasion of Ukraine, officials said. “President Biden accepted in principle a meeting with President Putin following that engagement, again, if an invasion hasn’t happened,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a Sunday night statement. “We are always ready for diplomacy. We are...

A peer-reviewed study in which researchers concluded that ivermectin treatment during early COVID-19 “did not prevent” severe disease in high-risk patients has been criticized by an alliance of doctors for being “misleading.”In the open-label randomized clinical trial, also referred to as the “The I-TECH Randomized Clinical Trial,” published in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal on Feb. 18, researchers said their findings “do not support the use of ivermectin for patients with COVID-19.”The study involved results from 490 patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 in Malaysia. Participants were aged 50 and over, with at least one documented comorbidity. People who did...

An explosive report conducted by the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Inspector General reveals that President Joe Biden’s administration brought dozens of Afghans to the United States without properly vetting them and many of whom deemed “significant security concerns” have since gone missing. The report, released late last week, exposes massive holes in Biden’s unlimited resettlement of Afghans to American communities — the largest in U.S. history — such as a lack of vetting through the National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC) database. Specifically, the report details how Biden’s “agencies did not use all available data when vetting Afghan evacuees” and therefore, the...

President Joe Biden’s unlimited resettlement of Afghans has brought “dozens of suspected bomb-makers and terrorists” to the United States, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says. As Breitbart News reported, a Department of Defense Inspector General report reveals that Biden’s agencies failed to properly vet Afghans arriving in the U.S. As of November 2021, the report states 50 Afghans already in the U.S. have been flagged for “significant security concerns.” Most of the unvetted Afghans flagged for possible terrorism ties, the report states, have since disappeared into the nation’s interior. In one instance, the report noted that only three of 31 Afghans...

Critics slammed a New York Times ad that appeared to celebrate the erasure of JK Rowling from the Harry Potter franchise amid her 'transphobia' controversy 'Lianna is imagining Harry Potter without its creator,' read electronic billboards in a Washington D.C. Metro station 'Lianna is trying to erase a creative woman,' wrote @BronwenGray. 'Go men. Go oppression. Go originality' 'Shocking condescension,' wrote another critic. '[W]e are trying to imagine the N Y Times without its marketing dept., without its editors, without its owners...' Rowling has received backlash since she began voicing her opinions on biological sex and trans issues on Twitter...

The city of Caborca in Mexico’s Sonora state was held hostage for 24 hours by dozens of hitmen loyal to the sons of drug lord “El Chapo,” sowing terror on its streets and killing two people. It all began with the warning from truck drivers. Urgent messages sent out the alert last Tuesday afternoon that a tragedy was unfolding, as dozens of pickup trucks covered in homemade armor and mounted with assault rifles were seen moving fast northwards to Caborca, the final city in the Sonora desert before reaching the United States. The guns were of a caliber capable of...

The former University of Alabama vice president for student life, Myron Pope, resigned after being arrested on charges of soliciting prostitution by the West Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force. Pope’s arrest was one of 15 in a sting in which men arranged to pay for sex through an online app and were arrested after speaking to an undercover officer at the agreed-upon location, the Crimson White reported. “I have difficult news to share today. Vice President of Student Life Myron Pope has resigned from the University following his recent arrest,” University of Alabama President Stuart R. Bell told the campus...

Around the world, more than 17 million sleeves have rolled up for the first COVID-19 vaccinations, and Australia will start its program next month. Like most adult jabs, this slew of vaccines — including those developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca and Pfizer and BioNTech — are injected into the deltoid: the thick, fleshy muscle of your upper arm. ... By why inject into muscle? Why not in fat just under the skin, straight in a vein, or even up the nose, given that's where we're most likely to encounter the virus? ... First up: unlike the layer of fat...

How can we figure out exactly what is going on in Ukraine when literally everybody is lying? Anyone that willingly embraces the propaganda that is being put out by either side without questioning it is simply not being rational. At a time like this, we must think for ourselves and we must come to our own conclusions. And we should be doing whatever we can to stop a global war from starting. For years, I have been warning that the United States and Russia were heading toward war, and now we are almost there. If we can’t stop it from...

Join together with Fellow FREEPERS to Pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.'I Urge, then, First of All, that Requests, Prayers, Intercession and Thanksgiving be Made for Everyone: for Kings and All those in Authority that we May Live Peaceful and Quiet Lives in All Godliness and Holiness.' 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum Threads Labeled [Prayer] are Closed to Debate of Any Kind.2Samuel 7:22Thou art Great, O Lord God:For their is None like Thee,Neither is their any god beside Thee.

While the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution lays out a clear path by which a president can be forcibly removed from office, our Canuck friends in the quickly-turning authoritarian, no-longer-Great White North have no such path in place should they want to remove their rogue prime minister, Justin Trudeau.Then again, as reported by Canada’s National Post, if a prime minister can’t or won’t resign for whatever reason, the governor general has the authority to appoint a new one — also for any reason that he or she chooses — automatically kicking the prior prime minister to the curb. Additionally,...

The last of the 76,000 Afghan evacuees pulled out of the country last summer have finally been released into the U.S., the government announced over the weekend — just as a report said not all were fully vetted. The Pentagon’s inspector general said some secretive Defense Department databases weren’t initially available to screeners. As a result, dozens of people with “significant security concerns” reached the U.S. Officials had no idea where most of them were, the inspector general said in an audit late last week. “Not being able to locate Afghan evacuees with derogatory information quickly and accurately could pose...

As all eyes were trained on the aggressive police sweep of the Ottawa trucker convoy this week, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s administration was quietly moving to implement a sweeping expansion of surveillance power at the federal level. The Trudeau government’s financial war against the truckers has been covered at length. But one underreported aspect of this broader assault on Canadian civil liberties is the effort to bring crowdfunding and payment service providers — two of the most prominent routes for financial transactions on the Internet — under the permanent control of a centralized government authority. In a February 14...

The Washington Post just put out a “clarification” about a report within its own pages that referred to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as someone “whose rulings often resemble the thinking of White conservatives.” As opposed to — what? This is so illuminating, in so many ways, about the oh, so inherent racist and elitist tendencies of those on the left. The paper didn’t apologize for the blatant stereotype but rather issued a “clarification” that went like this: “A previous version of this story [about SCOTUS nominations] imprecisely referred to Justice Clarence Thomas’s opinions as often reflecting the thinking of...