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POLTAVA REGION snip When Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, this small city in central Ukraine — the name of which is being withheld for security reasons — immediately mobilized to resist the Russian invaders. Territorial Defense and police forces fortified road arteries in and out of the city and implemented a strict curfew. snip Armed with assault rifles and sniper rifles, the local resistance unit is an ad hoc group of volunteers who immediately sprang to action when the war began. The outfit is not funded, armed, or commanded by the regular military or city...

Now that Russia has invaded Ukraine, there is full-scale war in Europe. Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and possibly also Moldova are fully engaged, with other nearby countries on alert, involving themselves in a way that sometimes appears to push the envelope of neutrality. We all know what this means in terms of the human cost to people and geography. Shelling, bombing, firing on individuals, businesses, population centers, industrial centers, and other targets, both military and civilian. Thousands of people have already been killed, and many thousands more, most likely, will die in the weeks and months ahead. That is of course...

Kay Smythe from The Daily Caller reports, Republican congressional candidate Shukri Abdirahman went after her opponent, “Squad” member and Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, in her latest campaign ad.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Joe Biden is in hot water following his annual State of the Union address because of his mysterious sign-off in which he exclaimed, "Go get him!" Now progressives are in an uproar after he appeared to assume the gender of the person we're all supposed to "go get." "I'm sorry, but him? HIM??" said Director Christopher Wray of the FBI. "Whoever this person is that we're supposed to get could be any number of genders! The President should know better. Also, who are we getting and what are we supposed to do when we get him? D'oh!" Director...

Breaking911 @Breaking911BREAKING: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., calls for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be assassinated

A 40,000-year-old archaeological site in northern China has unearthed the earliest evidence of ochre processing in east Asia, researchers say. The site was discovered at Xiamabei in the Nihewan Basin, in the northern Chinese province of Hebei. Ochre pieces and tools found in the area suggest that the clay earth pigment was processed there, via grinding and pounding, to produce powders of different colours and grain sizes. Near lumps of ochre, archaeologists unearthed a hammer stone as well as a flat limestone slab that showed signs of battering. In a study published in the journal Nature, the team has dated...

PATERSON — A city resident seen on video cursing about the public call to prayer at a local mosque is facing charges for an incident being investigated as a possible bias crime. Edward Wright, 57, was arrested Feb. 22, stemming from the encounter at the Islamic Congregation of North Jersey two months earlier, according to the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office as first reported by NorthJersey.com. Video posted to YouTube by the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, shows surveillance footage of the man entering the mosque on Preakness Avenue in Paterson on Dec. 23. The full video...

Looks like two daycare women telling a little kid how precious and good he is. God help me....

A group of three statues honoring the Holy Family was vandalized Feb. 23 at Holy Family Catholic Church in Jacksonville, Florida, the latest in a worrisome surge of attacks on Catholic churches across the country. "It's disheartening and very upsetting,” Holy Family Catholic Church Administrator Patti Lombardo told CNA on Thursday. The incident report shows the marble statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Child Jesus, and St. Joseph all had either vulgar or satanic images written on them in black marker. “Hail satan” was written on the Child Jesus. Surveillance footage shows three people at the scene, two of...

The World Health Organization will meet with member states and reps from vaccine certification credentials groups to discuss a global vaccine certification system. Over the last two years, vaccine passports have become compulsory for international travel in some countries. Related: How vaccine passports are crushing freedom, privacy, and civil liberties However, different regions and countries have different standards when it comes to proof of vaccination, meaning a passport that is verifiable in one country might not be verifiable in the other. The World Health Organization wants to get involved in pulling it all together under a global system. The WHO...

Zelensky’s Career As An Entertainer and Politician If you’re wondering why the president would have time for “Dancing With the Stars,” well, it’s because he was an entertainer long before he was the head of Ukraine. Zelensky was part of a KVN team, which is a comedy competition in eastern Europe. After his time on “Dancing With the Stars,” he went on to star in a film called “Love in the Big City” and its two sequels, plus the films “Office Romance” and “Our Time.” In a funny twist, Zelensky later played the role of the president of Ukraine on...

How are your finances doing? Do you feel better off today than a couple of years ago? If you’re an executive for a Big Pharma company, chances are you are doing very much better than you were in the past. So why does Joe Biden want to give even MORE of our hard-earned money to Pfizer and Moderna? More billionaires in the pharmaceutical industry have been made over the past two years than in the rest of history combined. Pfizer and Moderna have turned Pandemic Panic Theater into a money-printing scheme beyond all others, and even as their stocks drop,...

Heritage Foundation's John Cooper wrote, 'Should be noted that Ukraine also requires voter ID'

China Ministry of Foreign Affairs issues warning to the US regarding Strait of Taiwan. "US will pay dearly for it's risky actions". dcfpress Twitter video

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that the "sole goal" of the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot is to prevent him from running for office again. Trump claimed in a statement released by his political action committee, Save America, that "The Unselect Committee's sole goal is to try to prevent President Trump, who is leading by large margins in every poll, from running again for president, if I so choose. By so doing they are destroying democracy as we know it. "Their lies and Marxist tactics against political opponents will not stop the truth, or the biggest...

President Joe Biden’s pro-migration chief of homeland security is offering temporary residence and work permits to roughly 75,000 Ukrainian tourists, visa workers, and illegal migrants — including many young men — who are already in the United States. The award of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months was announced by Alejandro Mayorkas, the Cuban-born immigrant who runs the Department of Homeland Security:

There's a lot more we still don't know, and probably a lot more she's hiding.

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot believed there was a “good faith basis to conclude” that former President Donald Trump violated the law. Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “Last night, we learned the 1/6 select committee has evidence now that Donald Trump and his allies engaged in potential crimes when they tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including conspiring to defraud the United States and obstructing an official Congressional proceeding. These alleged acts were revealed through a court filing that challenges conservative lawyer John Eastman’s...

The vehicle, which appeared to be a Suzuki sport utility vehicle, plowed through the wall of Great Adventures Christian Preschool and ended up completely inside the building, according to video aired by KRCR-TV. Police Chief Jon Poletski said 19 children and at least two staff members were inside at the time. Fourteen children were taken to the hospital by ambulance, and five others were taken by parents, Poletski said.

Western film icon Sam Elliott is being spit-roasted online after railing on Jane Campion’s 12-time Oscar-nominated drama “The Power of the Dog” for including “allusions to homosexuality” and other LGBTQ themes. The “1883” actor dropped the shocking bombshell during a recent appearance on Marc Maron’s “WTF Podcast,” Entertainment Weekly reported. “You want to talk about that piece of s – – t?” the 77-year-old “Tombstone” star sputtered when asked for his thoughts about the provocative Netflix movie, which is a contender for the Best Picture and Best Director Academy Awards. For the uninitiated, the much-praised “The Power of the Dog”...