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For all intents and purposes, the pandemic is over, even in our bluest states and cities. So what happened? Wasn’t the mainstream media panicking about the Omicron variant just last month? The New York Times warned us about a “persistent threat,” claiming “the pandemic has not ended.” Hospitalizations and deaths were front-page news, just like they were for the last two years. Now, COVID-19 is relegated to a media afterthought. Ukraine dominates the headlines (and for good reason), with the coronavirus being treated like flu-like symptoms or car accidents—sort of important, but not important enough for the front page. Democrats...

Former Vatican bishop sentenced for sexual abuse in ArgentinaROME – Argentinian Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta was found guilty by an Argentinian court and sentenced to 4 years and six months of effective imprisonment for aggravated continuous sexual abuse of two former seminarians.His immediate detention was ordered by the court in Oran, Salta, on Friday morning local time.“We cannot determine the extent of the damage suffered by the victims, but we do have the obligation to give them an answer from the Justice and give an answer to society,” said prosecutor Pablo Rivero on Thursday, before requesting the conviction and immediate detention....

MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) Tweeted: 1/2 Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei: Ukraine Is a Victim of America’s Greedy Policies; The U.S. Regime Is a Mafia that Creates Crises in Order to Increase the Profits from Weapons Industry https://t.co/KdIhbLJ5ui

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Friday on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich decried how the Biden administration was handling the escalation of hostilities between Ukraine and Russia. Gingrich told host Laura Ingraham the unfolding situation in Eastern Europe was now “worse than Afghanistan.”

Down goes the vaccine mandate in Chicago. Off with the required masks in Los Angeles. In COVID-19 America, Hawaii is now the only state with an indoor mask mandate, with Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island all lifting theirs in recent weeks. Leading from behind, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also loosened its mask-wearing guidelines for most Americans, tying those guidelines to hospitalizations rather than infections—a policy that made sense two years ago, let alone now. Democrats are toeing the same line as their media allies, rolling back restrictions en masse for the first time in...

Fears that Vladimir Putin could soon impose martial law in Russia are pushing thousands to try to flee their country ahead of this weekend, Axios is reporting. The exodus comes amid rumors Russia will also close its borders and order a tougher crackdown on domestic protests. The news outlet said widespread suffering is arriving at Russia's own doorstep. The Associated Press reported that dozens of foreign and international companies have pulled their business out of Russia. Major car brands have stopped exports; Boeing and Airbus suspended supply of aircraft parts and service to Russian airlines; and top Hollywood studios halted...

Despite crude oil, natural gas and gasoline price skyrocketing, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proclaimed that “The president has already talked about releasing oil from the — the st– as he already has done from the (slurred, inarticulate). And (slurred, inarticulate) I’m not for drilling on public lands.” Well, if President Biden rescinded his executive order on drilling, pipelines, etc., we would see a reduction in energy prices AND inflation. But between Biden’s anti-fossil fuel orders and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, we can see that the WTI Cushing crude oil spot price has risen from $47 per barrel in early January 2021...

Friends, in today’s Gospel, people ask Jesus why he and his disciples do not fast when John and his disciples do. Jesus’ answer is wonderful: “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?” Could you imagine people fasting at a wedding banquet? It would be ridiculous! Jesus later says, “People do not put new wine into old wineskins.” The new wine is the Gospel. The receptacle for this wine must be conformed to it, not the other way around. To take in the Good News, we can’t be living in the cramped space of our...

According to a Gallup poll, the percentage of the American population that now “identifies” as LGBTQ+ has doubled by comparison with ten years ago, and now stands at 7.1 percent. Among the youngest cohort polled, it was over 20 percent. There is no more weaselly expression in the modern lexicon than “identifies as,” which inherently emphasizes feelings over facts. I can identify as a nice person, but that does not mean that I am a nice person. Indeed, if most people who meet me abominate me, my self-identification as a nice person means nothing except (if I truly believe it)...

Russia on March 4 described a U.S. senator’s call to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin as irresponsible. Anatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador to the United States, said the remarks were “irresponsible and dangerous.” “The degree of Russophobia and hatred in the USA towards Russia is off the charts. It’s unbelievable that a country’s senator preaching his moral values as a ‘guiding star’ to all mankind could afford a call on terrorism as a way to achieve Washington’s goals on the international arena,” Antonov said in a statement released by the Russian embassy. He also said that “It’s getting scary for...

Gov. Ron DeSantis made the announcement Thursday. Casey DeSantis' diagnosis was made public in October. Florida first lady Casey DeSantis is considered cancer-free following treatment and surgery for breast cancer. Gov. Ron DeSantis made the announcement Thursday. "After going through both treatment and surgery for breast cancer, she is now considered cancer-free," Ron DeSantis said in a statement. "All of you who have given thoughts and prayers to my family and my wife, thank you. It’s lifted her spirits and made a tremendous difference. The first lady’s diagnosis was made public in October. The governor in late January said she...

The arrogance of some politicians never ceases to amaze. Take Stacey Abrams, for example. She lost the governor’s race in Georgia in 2018, yet she refused to concede. She has also continued to milk the grievance of her loss to score political points, claiming the mantle of speaking for “election reform,” which we all know is code for allowing Democrats to cheat and entrench their power for the foreseeable future. Abrams has also used her pet cause to fundraise and garner attention in her rematch with Gov. Brian Kemp, but polling continues to show that she has an uphill battle...

MINEOLA, N.Y. -- Help for Ukraine is coming in all forms, including refugee and medical supplies.But on Thursday, an unusual collection was launched on Long Island. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is asking legal gun owners to donate firearms, CBS2's Carolyn Gusoff reported."We could get a million guns to the people of the Ukraine," Blakeman said.Citing French resistance during World War II, Blakeman is asking Americans to arm Ukrainians with donated long guns.

After years of zooming through deep space, a presumed leftover piece of a Chinese rocket slammed into the Moon today, just as space tracking experts expected it would. At least, it should have hit the Moon around 7:30AM ET this morning, as long as the law of gravity has not changed. The collision brings an end to the rocket’s life in space and likely leaves a fresh new crater on the Moon that may be up to 65 feet wide. The now-expired rocket has caused quite a buzz this past month. First of all, the vehicle was never intended to...

During Thursday night’s episode of Timcast IRL, Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec condemned Senator Lindsey Graham's calls for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be assassinated. As the episode was streaming live, Posobiec announced that Graham had called for this action unambiguously on Twitter. It was noted on air that this is likely a "Hague crime," in reference to the International Criminal Court, which prosecutes crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression. After reading out the tweet, which questions whether there is someone like Brutus, who was one of those who assassinated Julius Caesar, or...

The People’s Convoy Sets Out to WashingtonInspired by Canada’s example, the U.S. trucker caravan carries with it a concrete version of class struggle that the American left has abandonedIt was bitterly cold in the high Mojave Desert as the American version of Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” mobilized at a staging ground in Adelanto, California. By 8 in the morning, the parking lot where the convoy started from was full of cars, with hundreds of supporters milling about, chatting and waving flags. A pink food truck sold coffee to the bleary-eyed, while another vendor sold patches, hats, and T-shirts with patriotic slogans....

Update on the situations below: *Russian stalemate in Ukraine *Breakdown in "Peace Talks" with Ukraine*Two Recruitment efforts for Soldiers in Syria *Russian Recruitment Wagner for Syrians to fight the Ukrainians in Ukraine *Ukranian Recruitment effort for Syrian Rebels to fight against Russians *Russian nukes being moved to Belarus *30 Nations have been listed as "No fly" for Russian Airspace *Israel voting against Russia in UN Gen. Assembly *IDF operation at Busher

Credit: skeleton by Maurício Silva Garcia; photo and composition by Rodrigo Temp MüllerPaleontologists from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) published a study in the scientific periodic Gondwana Research describing the new fossilized specimen.The oldest dinosaurs have been excavated from fossiliferous layers with approximately 233 million years from Brazil and Argentina. Furthermore, some older Argentinean deposits revealed remains of dinosaur precursors, which provide crucial data on the origin of "true" dinosaurs. These creatures lived approximately 236 million years ago and were small, with no more than 1 meter in length.Whereas the fossil record of dinosaur precursors is relatively...

This morning we listed some of the countries that are dangerously (and almost exclusively) reliant on Russia and Ukraine for their wheat imports, highlighting Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia and others…… which are facing an “Arab Spring” style food crisis (and potential uprising) in the coming weeks unless the Ukraine conflict is resolved. And unfortunately, we can now confidently predict that the coming food crisis will strike every country that is using food fertilizer – which is all – because moments ago, Russian Interfax reported that as part of Moscow’s countersanctions, Russia has recommended fertilizer makers to halt exports, a move which...