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DURHAM, N.C. - Vice resident Kamala Harris will travel to Durham on Wednesday, according to an announcement from the White House. Harris will be joined by U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh to discuss the Biden Administration's investments in union jobs. A White House task force issued a set of recommendations on Monday that could make it easier for federal workers and contractors to unionize. The report submitted to Biden included 70 distinct policy proposals, according to a release by the White House. Biden created the task force chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris, with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh as...

Kyiv has survived another night under Russian attack with Putin's 'demoralised and exhausted' troops suffering 'heavy losses' trying and failing to break through defences in the city's outskirts, Ukraine's commander has said. Colonel General Alexander Syrsky, who is in charge of defending the city, said on Monday morning that 'all attempts' to breach the city failed and that the situation is currently 'under control'. 'We showed that we can protect our home from uninvited guests,' he added.

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Vast queues have been seen outside cash machines is Russia, despite the country's central bank hiking interest rates in a bid to stop a run on the rouble. Pictures show people in Saint Petersburg queuing around the corner to use nearby ATMs. It comes as fears rise of an economic collapse in Russia due to biting Western sanctions imposed following president Vladimir Putin's now floundering invasion of Ukraine. In a bid to stop a potentially disastrous run on the rouble, Russia's central bank - The Bank of Russia - is hiking interest rates from 9.5 per cent to 20 per...

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Throughout history, political leaders have acted in strange fashion, with symptoms of neurosis, trauma, and anxiety. The list is long of those exhibiting some indication of insanity. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon 604-562 B.C., made no secret of his ambition to conquer the world, and saw himself as a deity. Caligula, Emperor of Rome, attempted to appoint his horse to the office of consul. Ivan the Terrible expanded the territory of Russia, created the secret police, and murdered his own son. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin vie for leading personification of hatred, evil, and madness. Russia this week may remember that...

Russia’s central bank on Monday more than doubled the country’s key interest rate from 9.5% to 20% as its currency, the ruble, hit a record low against the dollar on the back of a slew of new sanctions and penalties imposed on Russia by Europe and the U.S. for its invasion of Ukraine. The rate hike, the central bank said, “is designed to offset increased risk of ruble depreciation and inflation.” This follows the central bank’s order to halt foreigners’ bids to sell Russian securities in an effort to contain the market fallout. The ruble fell as far as 119.50...

Many of our impressions of foreign countries are based on how the media portrays them, whether describing them as paradise or dangerous s***holes. Unless we happen to know someone personally who lives in or travels to these countries, our opinions are based on what we read in the newspapers, on the internet, or see on television. Iraq is one of these countries, described as “The world’s most dangerous place” by the HowStuffWorks website. The Australian government is even more emphatic, “Do not travel to Iraq, including the Kurdistan region of Iraq, due to the volatile security situation and very high...

President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order this week that would direct government agencies to develop a strategy to regulate digital assets. It was reported in January that the Biden administration was preparing an executive order to study cryptocurrencies with the aim of developing a government-wide framework to regulate digital assets. The executive order would also mandate government agencies investigate the possibility of launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC) issued by the US Federal Reserve. The move comes as it is unlikely that Congress will put in place any legislation to standardize rules for crypto. The...

At his CPAC speech on Saturday, former President Donald Trump could not have been clearer in his denunciation of Vladimir Putin. "The Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling,” said Trump. “it's an outrage and an atrocity that should never have been allowed to occur.” Yet the fact that Trump called Putin “smart” and “savvy” is, for the New York Times, prima facie evidence of his affection for Mother Russia. Indeed, the Times had the nerve to run a delusional op-ed on Sunday headlined, “How the American Right Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Russia.” Earth to the New York Times:...

The Indiana Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, February 23, 2022, on HB 1077, which is known as the Constitutional Carry bill in Indiana. The hearing will be in Room 130, starting at 1:30 p.m.The Senate Judiciary Committee is where Constitutional Carry in Indiana was killed in 2021, after being passed by the Indiana House on a 65 to 31 vote. In 2022, Constitutional Carry passed the House 63 to 29, virtually the same margin of two to one.Eight members of the Judiciary Committee are Republicans. They are Liz Brown (R), Chairman; Eric Koch (R), Ranking member;...

With the entrance of State Senator Elvi Gray-Jackson into the Alaska U.S. Senate race, there are now effectively two prominent Democrats for voters to consider in the August primary election. Gray-Jackson’s record shows that she is reliably progressive, while incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski is a dependable vote for President Joe Biden and Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Democrats in the Senate. On issue after issue, Gray-Jackson and Murkowski are in alignment, and together they are out of step with most Alaskans. There should be no question that Gray-Jackson would be a rubber stamp for every radical nominee that Biden sends to the...

The impacts of the climate crisis are proving much worse than predicted, and governments must act more urgently to adapt to them or face global disaster, the UK president of the UN climate talks has warned on the eve of a landmark new scientific assessment of the climate. Alok Sharma, who led the Cop26 climate summit last year, said: “The changes in the climate we are seeing today are affecting us much sooner and are greater than we originally thought. The impacts on our daily lives will be increasingly severe and stark. We will be doing ourselves and our populations...

The Great Patriotic War of Ukraine against Russia, which has been going on for the fourth day, demonstrated not only the special power of our Armed Forces. Ordinary citizens also showed courage and true heroism in defending the state. So, one of the Ukrainians with his bare hands moved an enemy mine from the road to the forest belt. The incident occurred in Berdyansk, Zaporozhye, the video fact was distributed by local and not only Telegram channels (to view it, scroll to the end of the news). The network noted that an ordinary resident noticed the mine under the bridge,...

GLENN GREENWALD: I think we ought to remember in the past the times that we have endured war and the propaganda that goes with it. Even if we had more or less apprehended the correct moral framework, say after 9/11, when we all acknowledged that the 9/11 attack was a moral atrocity, or understood that Saddam Hussein was a despotic and barbaric dictator. It necessarily didn't mean we were immune to being deceived and led to believe false things, or affirmed responses we ended up regretting. That is because in these situations propaganda, which every side uses in wars, is...

The Armed Forces of Ukraine defeated a column of Russian military equipment near Makarov. This village is located in the Kiev region, about 30 km from the capital. "Our guys covered a column of enemy equipment. Russian grads and tanchiki stopped for the night. And they will definitely sleep soundly," the report says.

The highly respected journalist, who has been with Fox News since 1996, has recently gained notoriety for busting a number of right-wing narratives about the Ukraine crisis while on Fox airwaves, schooling her network colleagues in the process.

“We are still buying crude oil from Putin. We are wiring him money every day from the United States and payment for crude oil going into Boston Harbor. You know, we are being lied to. We are being conned.”President Biden said Thursday that the U.S. is working with other countries on a coordinated oil release from the global petroleum reserve in the coming days in a bid to reduce rising gasoline prices.

As of 9 a.m. on February 28, Mariupol and Volnovakha remain the hottest spots in the Donetsk region. During the evening of February 27 and the morning of February 28 (as of 09:00), Russians killed 3 people in the region, including one child, and injured 32. As the head of the Donetsk regional state administration, head of the regional military-civil administration Pavel Kirilenko reported with reference to the military, now there are battles for these cities. He noted that he is working on providing a green corridor – for the delivery of humanitarian aid, medicines, food, water to Volnovakha, as...

Despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine continuing to escalate, President Joe Biden remains at his private estate in Delaware. Fox News reported that Biden remains at his private residence in Delaware and that the media is having difficulty making contact with the administration.