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@ColumbiaBugle Yes, the Biden Regime is weak & pathetic, but his greatest sin is abandoning & betraying the American people. Republicans demanding he do more to combat a “threat” in Eastern Europe that means NOTHING to the American people are just pathetic servants of the America Last Swamp.

MOSCOW (AP) — President Joe Biden announced the U.S. was ordering heavy financial sanctions against Russian banks and oligarchs on Tuesday, declaring that Moscow had flagrantly violated international law in what he called the “beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.” “None of us will be fooled” by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claims about Ukraine, the U.S. President said. And he said more sanctions could be on the way if Putin proceeds further.

A 4-year-old child fired a gun at police officers on instructions from his father during a dispute over a food order at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Utah on Monday, officials said.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, had ties to organizers of a January 6, 2021 rally in support of President Donald Trump as well as to efforts to subvert the 2020 election results, according to a New York Times Magazine report published on Tuesday. The Times revealed details about Thomas' role, which had been previously unreported. Thomas, a longtime conservative activist, played a peacemaking role between rally organizers "so that there wouldn't be any division around January 6," Dustin Stockton, who helped organized the Ellipse rally, told The Times. The Ellipse rally took place shortly before a...

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has asserted that Fox News has “done more damage to this country than all the bad media combined.” The reason for this, Lindell said, is that conservatives expected them to speak out about discrepancies during the 2020 election. “Shame on Fox!” Lindell said during a Lindell Report broadcast. “They’ve done more damage to this country than all the bad media combined because we expected them to speak out! Just at least talk about the, at least be a journalist! Like being a Weather Channel… and you can’t report tornadoes or hurricanes!” Lindell also blasted the network...

Tourists from several destinations are returning to Zanzibar after a prolonged period due to Covid19. Travel disruptions will soon be a thing of the past following the introduction of EDE technology by the local government. This is a new scanning method that can detect Covid 19 virus in the body, the first in Africa. "When it comes to conducting Covid tests, there have always been a lot of problems, and you know all these tests were really invasive, but this is the first non-invasive test but also the first test of its kind in Africa. So for us, it's a...

In Ivory Coast a group of conservationists and veterinarians are moving this increasingly endangered forest elephant to an area where the animal is less likely to be targeted by poachers. Scientists have been using DNA testing to track how ivory traffickers are operating. As few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks out of Africa, according to a new study. They’ve develop a combined genetic and statistical method to determine the origin of poached ivory and they are collaborating with the Interpol Working Group on Wildlife Crime to investigate the origins...

Miami police believe Bethel attempted to take her own life by jumping from a seven-story condo in Miami, Florida on February 10.

WASHINGTON — In a series of top-secret meetings in October, President Joe Biden’s national security team presented grim intelligence that would soon trigger a fierce effort to prevent what could become the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, was preparing to invade Ukraine, top intelligence and military officials told Biden. Over the course of 3 1/2 months, Biden made three critical decisions about how to handle Russia’s provocations, according to interviews with more than a dozen senior administration officials and others who requested anonymity to discuss confidential meetings. Early on, the president...

Russian President Vladimir Putin skewered the leadership of Ukraine and the West in a speech Monday night, in which he gave his most aggressive remarks yet on the brewing conflict between Moscow and Kyiv. Putin delivered nearly an hour-long speech lobbing allegations of foreign meddling in Ukraine against the west and reiterating accusations of oppression of ethnic Russians by the government of Ukraine. He called Ukraine a puppet state of the United States and officially recognized two separatist groups in eastern Ukraine as independent states. The Russian president began the speech with a history lesson, in which he argued that...

Edward Morgan, 60, is charged with capital murder after DNA testing confirmed he matched the swab taken in the 1984 autopsy.After 38 years, an arrest has been made in the murder of a 21-year-old Cheektowaga woman. Mary Jane Thompson graduated from Cleveland Hill High School and moved to Dallas, TX to pursue her dreams. "She wanted to be a model," said Mary Jane's sister Donna Book. On February 13, 1984, her family said Mary Jane was going to a clinic for medical treatment in Dallas. "When she got there they were closed and then she had taken the bus back...

President Joe Biden continues to garner low marks for his tenure in the Oval Office as a new poll shows Americans' faith in his foreign policy has dropped during the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Only 40% of voters approved of Biden's handling of foreign affairs, a new Gallup poll found, while a low 36% gave the president's a thumbs up for his handling of Russia's threat to Ukraine. The numbers track with Biden's low marks for his handling of the economy and the COVID pandemic - all of which have contributed to his a steep decline in his overall approval rating since...

The Massachusetts State Police said that when questioned, the man only said he was very interested in tigers. Matthew Abraham, 24, allegedly climbed over a gate into the zoo at around 9 a.m., scaled several fences and ignored warning signs but was unable to gain access to the tiger enclosure, investigators said.

No crew members were injured in the accident, although both helicopters were damaged. A photo from the area showed one helicopter after it had come down in the middle of what appears to be a ski run. The other helicopter can be seen in the background.

SNIP Investing $1,000: The commercial from Apple aired during the third quarter of the Super Bowl. The ad highlighted an upcoming product, which proved to be a major catalyst for Apple. Anyone watching the commercial who felt like it was well done, might have been convinced that Apple could compete in the computer space, and may have chosen to invest in shares of the company. Apple traded at a split-adjusted price of $0.13 on the Monday after Super Bowl XVII (Jan. 23, 1984). A $1,000 investment could have purchased 7,692.31 shares of AAPL. The $1,000 investment in AAPL shares would...

One of the leaders of the three-week occupation in Ottawa, Pat King, is appearing at a bail hearing Tuesday as a woman has pledged to put up $50,000 to ensure King won't violate his bail conditions. King, an Alberta resident, faces four charges related to his involvement in the occupation including mischief, counselling to commit the offence of mischief, counselling to commit the offence of disobey court order, and counselling to commit the offence of obstruct police. His arrest was captured during a livestream and broadcast to thousands of people. Ottawa police had previously warned protesters they would face charges...

Officials from Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo have refuted claims by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that mercenaries are being sent from the three countries to Ukraine, amid speculation about an imminent Russian invasion. Lavrov said in an interview with RT television, which was published on the ministry’s website on February 18, that Moscow is double checking reports that mercenaries are being sent from the three Western Balkan countries to Donbas. “There’s information that mercenaries are being recruited in Kosovo, Albania and Bosnia & Herzegovina to knock Russia out of balance and send them to places including Donbas,” he...

Potatoes are high in fibre as well as resistant starch and can keep one full for longer periods. They also prevent overeating. =================================================================================== Think of potatoes and delicacies like aloo paratha, french fries, potato chips, aloo tikki and other deep-fried stuff instantly come to your mind. No wonder, we associate potatoes with all things unhealthy. It is probably because of this reason potatoes have gained reputation of being a fattening food over the years and those aiming to lose weight and with diabetes are asked to avoid it at all costs in order to keep health issues at bay. The...

He says he saved almost $1,100 He wanted a brand new car — a Chevrolet Cruze with all the trimmings. As a man in his early 20s, he knew his insurance costs would be high. So he became a woman, though only on paper. "I have taken advantage of a loophole," said the man — we're calling him David — who spoke on the condition that his identity be kept confidential because of the potential repercussions. 'Getting screwed' David, who lives in Alberta, says he identifies as a male. But his government-issued identification tells a different story. It started when...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds will deliver the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1, GOP congressional leaders announced Tuesday as they look outside Washington to appeal to voters in a midterm election year. Reynolds is the 43rd governor of Iowa and has served since May of 2017. She was the first governor in the country to require schools to open for full-time in-person learning. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell praised her for fighting COVID-19 “without forgetting common sense.” “The President and his team should take notes,” McConnell, R-Ky., said in...