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On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said that the decline in President Joe Biden’s numbers among African American voters is due to “a lot of the misinformation that’s out there.”

Subhead: Collaboration aims to solve the worldwide problem of traffic congestion with the world's first viable drive & fly eVTOLTech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services, announced that it has collaborated with ASKA™, a drive and fly company that offers consumers a new generation commuter vehicle by combining the convenience of an automobile, with the safety, ease and efficiency of VTOL (Vertical Take-off And Landing) and STOL (Short Take Off and Landing) flight, to create the best drive-and-fly experience. The collaboration aims to solve the worldwide problem of traffic congestion and improve people's quality...

Update from March 1� If there is hell on earth it is in the suburbs of Kiev nowadays. I live in a forest 10 kms from the city and this forest is full of Russian paratroopers who are searching for food while the Ukrainian army is searching for them. Sporadic fire in all directions is the new normal. No one cares about it if it is far. A ballistic missile much worse than paratroopers, the ground shakes even if it exploded some 20 kms away. Cruise missiles, very powerful too, can be heard from 30-40 kms. They are not nuclear,...

He allegedly shot and killed Jordan Morgan, a 32-year-old lawyer, in her bed, according to Kentucky State Police. Then, according to investigators, he confronted her father, a single-term state House member who unsuccessfully challenged Sen. Mitch McConnell in the GOP primary in 2020. Wesley Morgan returned fire and suffered "non-life-threatening injuries" in the shootout, according to authorities. The assailant fled in a white car. Jail records show Gilday faces charges of murder, attempted murder, burglary, criminal mischief, and assault. He was being held on a $2 million bond. Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday said his country would not send military planes to Ukraine since it would be seen as "military interference". Duda was speaking alongside NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg during a visit to Poland's Lask airbase. "We are not sending our planes because that would mean military interference in the conflict," Duda said when asked if Poland would send planes as well as the arms and ammunition it has already dispatched. "NATO is not a party to this conflict," he said. The Western military alliance has for the first time deployed part of its response force to...

The White House on Tuesday confirmed the news, noting that the release will be done in coordination with International Energy Agency member states. Half the total amount, or 30 million barrels, will come from the U.S. Special Petroleum Reserve, the White House said, while allies in Europe and Asia will supply the rest. Last fall, Biden authorized the release of 50 million barrels from the reserve, seeking to tamp down high gas prices. News of the release comes as prices for oil soared again on Tuesday, with futures for Brent crude climbing to more than $100 a barrel. In a...

Some hospitals in Belgorod have stopped accepting civilian patients - they will be repurposed to receive Russian military personnel who were injured during the hostilities in Ukraine, Novaya Gazeta has learned. In particular, city hospital No. 2, one of the best in the city and the region, with excellent repairs, located on Kharkovskaya Gora (this is how the locals call the modern part of the city), now works only to receive wounded soldiers. In the emergency room of the city hospital No. 2, a Novaya Gazeta correspondent saw slightly wounded servicemen and witnessed how the staff of the emergency room...

Eric Coomer is the former Director of Security and Product Strategy for Dominion Voting Systems. After the 2020 election debacle, where votes in at least five states had very suspicious results while running Dominion computer systems, center-right journalists made common-sense observations that the results appeared rigged. One journalist, who had infiltrated a conference call filled with Antifa-sympathizing callers, remembered that on the call “Eric from Dominion” was going to ensure that Trump did not win re-election. The mainstream media has spent a year bullying and suppressing the thousands of eyewitnesses, filed affidavits, investigations and proceedings meant to uncover the big...

The European arm of Sberbank (SBER.MM), Russia's biggest lender, has been closed by order of the European Central Bank, which had warned it faced failure due to a run on deposits after Russia invaded Ukraine, Austria's Financial Market Authority said. The European Central Bank's Single Resolution Board (SRB) determined earlier this week that Sberbank Europe, which is based in Vienna, was failing or likely to fail. That prompted Austria's FMA on Monday to impose a moratorium on the bank's activities. The FMA's announcement late on Tuesday that it was ordering the bank to close came just over an hour before...

A small group of Latino U.S. House members recently expressed "extreme concern" about a plan to potentially dispatch robot dogs along the U.S.-Mexico border. Driving the news: A letter obtained by Axios Latino shows that U.S. Reps. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) and Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA) are seeking a meeting with U.S. Customs and Border Protection about the robots. Details: In the letter, the House members write that the term "robot dogs" is a "disingenuous moniker that attempts to soft-pitch the use of this technology." "It downplays the threat the robots pose to migrants arriving at our southern...

I’m not much of a baker, and these ‘Easy King Cake’ recipes using refrigerated cinnamon or crescent roll dough have intrigued me. This one is from ‘The Painted Apron’, and uses refrigerated cinnamon rolls: https://thepaintedapron.com/2017/02/21/take-out-tuesday-cinnamon-roll-king-cake/************************************************ We mentioned Spoon Bread on some thread last month, and I was craving it. While looking for a recipe, I found some interesting twists on it. My grandmother used to make it from scratch, and I think she also sometimes used a Washington Flour mix for it. (That isn’t available anymore, but I believe the Weisenberger Mill still has one.) Granny didn’t put canned corn...

The latest action from the Mexican president stands in contrast to the international sanctions imposed on Russia for President Vladimir Putin’s actions. Mexico will not impose any economic sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Tuesday. He also criticized what he called censorship of Russian state-sponsored media by social media companies. “We are not going to take any sort of economic reprisal because we want to have good relations with all the governments in the world,” López Obrador told a news conference. López Obrador’s position stands in contrast to the international sanctions imposed...

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Thirteen Catholic lawmakers in the U.S. Senate voted Monday in favor of a failed attempt to pass a sweeping new abortion law that threatened to override states’ pro-life laws and remove restrictions on abortion up to the point of birth, in some cases. Their support of the defeated bill, called the Women’s Health Protection Act, placed them sharply at odds with the clear teaching of their Catholic faith, which strictly prohibits abortion and condemns efforts to promote it. Church leaders and Catholic pro-life advocates were quick to criticize the senators’ votes after the measure was defeated on Feb. 28. “Catholics...

In 2015-2016, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights connected Azov with war crimes, including mass looting, unlawful detention and torture. Since Yanukovych’s ouster, the US and its allies have ensured that the Ukrainian regime, particularly its far-right paramilitaries, remain a significant and threatening force. Billions of dollars have been spent supporting the government and supplying and training its armed forces. In April 2015, nearly 300 members of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade were sent to Ukraine to train Ukrainian soldiers, including members of the Azov Battalion. They were joined by British, Canadian and Polish soldiers...

LARGO, Fla. (WFLA) — A Clearwater woman was allegedly caught stealing from a Largo Walmart Saturday, according to the Largo Police Department. An affidavit said loss prevention officers at the Walmart on Roosevelt Boulevard confronted Amanda Spree Mears, 35, as she tried to leave the store. Police said Mears tried to hide a “Plus One” massager in her purse and walk out with it. When confronted, Mears ran away into some trees nearby but was caught by the officers, according to the affidavit.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Pacific Northwest was in the throes of a record-shattering heat wave last summer when a woman in her 70s was wheeled into an emergency room with symptoms of a life-threatening heat stroke. Desperate to cool her, Dr. Alexander St. John grabbed a body bag, filled it with ice from the hospital kitchen and zipped the woman inside. Within minutes, her body temperature dropped and her symptoms improved. The sweltering stretch across the normally cool region offers a glimpse of the types of extreme weather events that will accelerate in North America within 30 years...

The Rev. James S. Dunlop jdunlop@lss-elca.org Bishop March 1, 2022 George Herbert, hymnwriter, died 1633 Dear Siblings in Christ, As we begin the season of Lent, I give thanks to God for the rapidly declining number of new daily COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths and for the ways in which we have been church together. In many ways, the past few years have felt like an extended season in the desert journey. We have voluntarily, and even involuntarily at times, done without many things that are important to us. I would like to personally thank you for undertaking the variety...

The United States imports nearly 600,000 barrels of oil a day from Russia—an amount that could have been made up for by the more than 800,000 barrels of oil the Keystone XL pipeline is capable of delivering each day if the Biden administration hadn’t stood in the way. As Vladimir Putin conducts his evil and unprovoked attack on Ukraine, now more than ever, we must cut off our energy dependence on Russia while turning up our energy production here at home. Over the last decade and half, hard work and strategic policies set the United States on the course to...

Even unvaccinated Californians got the green light to shed masks as the state further loosened its stringent COVID-19 rules this week.CALIFORNIA — Unvaccinated Californians will no longer be required to mask up in indoor public settings, state officials announced Monday. The move marked one of the first attempts to shed sweeping restrictions for unvaccinated residents.California lifted its indoor mask mandate on Feb. 16 but did not include unvaccinated people. The state had some of the strictest pandemic rules in the nation, but Monday's announcement revoked one of the last mask requirements left in the state.Ultimately, officials maintained on Monday that...