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House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., explained on Sunday the two reasons he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he described as "reckless, evil and dangerous," has raised the alert status for his nuclear forces to "special regime of combat duty" as Russia continues to invade Ukraine

A leadership school funded and built by the Chinese Communist Party to train political party officials in southern Africa has opened in Tanzania, as part of Beijing’s efforts to export its model of governance. The Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School, for which China’s ruling party provided US$40 million in funding, was opened on Wednesday by Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan and several neighbouring countries’ leaders. Located in Kibaha, near the port city of Dar es Salaam, it will serve political parties in the region and be a platform for China to enhance exchanges with them as a form of “party-to-party...

Russia’s central bank has urged calm amid concerns that Western economic sanctions could trigger a run on its banks this week. The Bank of Russia insisted it had the “necessary resources and tools to maintain financial stability and ensure the operational continuity of the financial sector”. On Saturday, the EU, US, UK and Canada announced that the central bank’s assets will be frozen in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This would restrict its ability to use its $630bn international dollar reserves to support Russia’s commercial banks, affecting the ability of businesses and individuals to obtain foreign currency. At the...

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In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait in a naked war of territorial aggression. The next year, the US and an allied coalition intervened under the auspices of the United Nations Security Council, repulsing the Iraqi invasion. Today, as Russia is engaged in a similar aggressive war against Ukraine, there is no similar American effort in the offing — even as Ukrainian leaders have pleaded for Western assistance. There are many dissimilarities between the situations in 1991 and 2022, but the biggest one is this: Saddam Hussein, rather famously, did not have nuclear weapons. Vladimir Putin has approximately 6,000 of them. And...

Message to Russian troops from Kyiv's Defenders. Video at Link (Language Warning)

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – A 19-year-old accused of multiple road-rage shootings in Florida has been arrested again. Officials with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said Emanuel Bullard was arrested for a fifth incident after a victim recognized him on the news. According to the sheriff’s office, the incident with the latest victim happened in December 2021. Bullard, who was out on bond for the previous reports, was placed under arrest. Sheriff John Mina took to Twitter, posting in part, “I’m confident he will remain in jail this time.” He is currently being held on a $10,000 bond.

The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office and South Metro Fire Rescue responded to a partial home collapse late Saturday night. Officials say a house party of between 100 and 150 juveniles broke the home’s floor. There were no deaths, and no victims were trapped in the wreckage. Three victims were transported to the hospital, two with minor injuries and one with serious injuries.

Ukraine claimed a major victory Sunday against invading Russian forces, saying its military had fought back and retaken full control of the nation’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, amid heavy warfare. “Control over Kharkiv is completely ours!” regional Gov. Oleh Synyehubov crowed in a triumphant Facebook post.

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming called out two members of her party who spoke at an event organized by White nationalist Nick Fuentes. "As Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rep Paul Gosar speak at this white supremacist, anti-Semitic, pro-Putin event, silence by Republican Party leaders is deafening and enabling," Cheney tweeted Saturday. "All Americans should renounce this garbage and reject the Putin wing of the GOP now," she added. Greene, a Georgia Republican, spoke at the America First Political Action Committee's conference in Orlando, Florida, on Friday -- an event founded by the far-right activist Fuentes as an alternative...

Hey there, Some important changes are coming to Discord: we’re updating our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Community Guidelines. These changes will take effect on March 28, 2022. We’re letting you know ahead of time so you can learn what’s changing. Here are the main things to know: How we use your information We’ve updated our Privacy Policy to provide better clarity on what information we collect and how we use and share it. How we describe our services As Discord has evolved, it has become clear that not all communities on Discord are the same. We want users...

MOSCOW — The Russian central bank has ordered market players to reject foreign clients’ bids to sell Russian securities from 0400 GMT on Monday, according to a central bank document seen by Reuters.

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday for "playing footsie" with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who hosted a conference she attended on Friday. "Associating with anti-Semitic neo-Nazis is not consistent with the conservative values I've defended for decades. Representative Taylor-Greene playing footsie with Nick Fuentes and his splinter movement is shameful," Pompeo tweeted. On Friday, Greene attended a white nationalist conference in Orlando, Fla. organized by Fuentes, a far-right podcaster who has made multiple antisemitic remarks. Greene later claimed to not know Fuentes's views and said she only attended to "talk to the...

Prayers needed for FReeper frank ballenger...My precious wife Joy, my love since 1973, passed away suddenly yesterday at home. She lost consciousness and couldn’t be revived by medics after 911. I have no friends or relatives around but my sisters in law and others will arrive from other states for the funeral. I loved Joy for so long I don’t know how I can face life without her. Please pray for her to be in Heaven and please pray for me to cope.Thank you.—F BRest in Peace Joy. Abide With MeAbide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens;...

A brazen but goofy Florida shoplifter was caught on video awkwardly stealing a crossbow by stuffing it down his pants. Darren Durrant could be seen on security footage in the aisle of a True Value store in Mims on Feb. 6 trying to stuff the large Ravin Rio bow in the front of his sweatpants, which barely hold around his hips and do little to hide the bulge. The handle of the crossbow is visible poking out of the waistband as the shoplifter makes his getaway, the video shows. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey called the alleged thief “one of...

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December 5, 1994 The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Welcoming the accession of Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as non-nuclear-weapon State, Taking into account the commitment of Ukraine to eliminate all nuclear weapons from its territory within a specified period of time, Noting the changes in the world-wide security situation, including the end of the Cold War, which have brought about conditions for deep reductions in nuclear forces. Confirm the following: 1. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern...

The Curiosity rover took a picture of something pretty enticing this week on the surface of Mars. While the object in question looks like a tiny little flower or maybe even some type of organic feature, the rover team confirmed this object is a mineral formation, with delicate structures that formed by minerals precipitating from water. Curiosity has actually seen these types of features before, which are called diagenetic crystal clusters. Diagenetic means the recombination or rearrangement of minerals, and these features consist of three-dimensional crystal clusters, likely made of a combination of minerals. Curiosity deputy project scientist Abigail Fraeman...

President Joe Biden's approval rating hit a new low of 37 percent in a poll released Sunday that also showed 10 percent more American adults would prefer Republicans control Congress than Democrats. More than half – 55 percent – of adults disapprove of Biden's job so far just days before the president is set to deliver his first State of the Union address. Seven percent say they have no opinion. Of the 37 percent who approve, only 20 percent say they 'strongly approve' while of the 55 percent disapproval, 44 percent strongly disapprove, according to the new ABC News/Washington Post...