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February 26, 2022 6:42am Updated Bear chases music star Alok while snowboarding Authorities in Chester County arrested a woman who fatally stabbed a 21-year-old student at Lincoln University on February 16. Nydira Smith was charged with fatally stabbing Jawine Evans, 21, in the neck at a dormitory hall on campus, according to Fox29. The suspect also stabbed two other students — Eric Dickerson, 22, and Clifton Walker, 22. Smith was the sister of a student at Lincoln University who was involved in the fight with all three students stabbed. Footage of the incident was obtained by detectives. “We believe it...

President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order on Wednesday to study the concept of a “digital dollar” currency to compete with Bitcoin. “We’re placing the highest urgency on the effort to assess the potential benefits and the risks of a digital dollar on payment systems, on financial stability, on national security, on the implications for human rights, and financial inclusion,” a senior administration official told reporters in a briefing call on Tuesday. A digital dollar would be easier for the federal government of the United States to control than cash but make it more susceptible to inflation and...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) expressed his frustration on Wednesday after the Washington, D.C., government dropped charges against a Florida man accused of punching a police officer who was protecting Paul in 2020. "Surprise, surprise. DC government drops charges against the thug who attacked and injured a DC policeman (a policeman who protected Kelley and I from an angry mob)," Paul wrote on Twitter. "And people wonder why violence is consuming our cities." According to D.C. court records, the government gave notice of nolle prosequi on Jan. 27, effectively dropping the charges. Nolle prosequi is a Latin legal term that refers...

For years, Russia has been calling on Western nations to investigate cases of human rights abuse, illegal killings, and war crimes committed by the Ukrainian authorities that came to power after the 2014 coup. Moscow pointed out that many of them were committed by neo-Nazis against Russians or Russian-speaking people. Here is what Vladimir Putin meant by Russia’s Special DeNazification Operation in Ukraine.On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the commencement of a special operation to safeguard the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), describing the objectives as “demilitarizing and denazification” of Ukraine. Subsequently, his spokesperson clarified...

David Bennett died on Tuesday after his condition began to deteriorate several days ago, the medical center said. He was given palliative care and was able to communicate with his family during his final hours, according to the news release. Bennett had terminal heart disease, and had received a transplant on January 7. Bennett was deemed ineligible for a conventional heart transplant or an artificial heart pump after reviews of his medical records, and the pig heart was the only available option, the medical center said at the time. Revivicor, a regenerative medicine company based in Virginia, had provided the...

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

Under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, eligible borrowers were promised that their student loan debt would be canceled after they pay on the debt over the course of 10 years. Since it was established nearly 15 years ago, only a small portion of people who qualified for the program was granted forgiveness prior to 2021, the news outlet noted. Over 90 percent of applicants to the program have been rejected. The Biden administration widened eligibility requirements for the program temporarily last year after borrowers complained that they discovered they were ineligible for the program after they had already repaid...

A maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been decimated in a 'direct hit' by Russian rockets leaving children buried in the rubble, President Zelensky has said, in what he described as an 'atrocity.' Zelensky posted a video showing the badly damaged hospital buildings, filmed inside a destroyed ward room with its windows blown out and ceiling partially collapsed. More footage showed a car park covered in rubble and the smouldering wrecks of vehicles as injured families evacuated into the freezing air while snow fell. 'Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital. People, children are under...

The Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova, told the United States on Wednesday, “We have found your biological weapons!” “There was statement made by the Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, leave no doubt, will not give Washington to be silent this time. Their attempts, while spilling blood, to find biological and chemical weapons throughout the world. We have found your own products. We have found your biological material. As it turns out it was all happening in Ukraine,” RT, Russia state-affiliated media reported. Russia now...

[18%-34% per annum median home price increases] And that market, Longmont, was no slouch either with a 17.9% increase, from $509,000 in February 2021 to $600,000 in 2022. The data, compiled by Information and Real Estate Services LLC based in Loveland, also showed that Longmont had only 47 active listings during the month, compared with 78 in the same month a year ago. Forty-one homes were sold in February 2022 with an average time on the market of 23 days. The Loveland/Berthoud area topped the charts during February with a 33.8% increase in median sales price for single-family residential homes,...

A federal district judge officially dismissed the sex assault lawsuit Tuesday filed by Virginia Giuffre against Prince Andrew. Attorneys for both Andrew and Giuffre requested U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan dismiss the lawsuit earlier in the day, according to The Associated Press. The attorneys for both Andrew and Giuffre reached a settlement Feb. 15. The judge had previously given the parties until March 17 to reach a settlement before the case went to trial. https://i0.wp.com/truthpress.news/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Untitled-1-121.jpg The settlement reached by Andrew and Giuffre requires Andrew to donate to Giuffre’s charity and make a statement about her character. The agreement also bars...

When you sell liquor in Pennsylvania, you have only one true customer: the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. Even if you buy a cocktail at a bar, the establishment had to buy that booze from the state-run liquor store, just like you. So when Governor Tom Wolf urged the PLCB to stop buying and selling Russian-sourced products to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it put Margaret Bayuk in a tight spot. Bayuk is a 74-year-old Slovakian immigrant and longtime resident of Beaver Falls, Pa. She’s also the sole proprietor of Ustianochka Vodka, distilled and bottled in Russia and exclusively sold in...

Nearly half of single women in the U.S.—a larger percentage than single men or married couples—supported or were actively involved in racial justice protests in 2020, according to a gender-based giving study released Tuesday, coinciding with the International Women’s Day. Around 48.2% of single women surveyed supported racial justice causes, such as Black Lives Matter, Say Her Name, and others, compared to 40.9% for single men, and 40.3% for married/partnered couples, according to the report titled Women Give 2022: Racial Justice, Gender and Generosity by the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy of Indiana University–Purdue...

Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that she hopes former President Donald Trump gets charged in connection with the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. When asked about her whereabouts on January 6, Grisham said, “I was at home sitting in my bedroom because of COVID, The East Wing wasn’t — nobody was coming in. I had a really bad feeling that day and as soon as it started. Of course, I sent Mrs. Trump a text and said, you know, I think you should tweet out that protest is the...

Steve Kirsch21 hr ago My Pennsylvania state Senate testimony (Mar 4, 2022)This graphic below from The Vigilant Fox pretty much sums up what happened.The Vigilant Fox posted a 2 minute excerpt of my Pennsylvania state Senate testimony on Twitter and was suspended shortly thereafter. Twitter does this because nobody will debate me on the facts, so censorship is the only option.Please follow the Vigilant Fox on TelegramYou can follow The Vigilant Fox on his telegram channel where he has 30,000 subscribers: https://t.me/VigilantFoxHere is the two minute excerpt from my PA Senate testimony that got VF bannedWatch the two-minute version on...

democrats are loving the war in Ukraine but no one loves it more than Joe Biden. Biden does stand to benefit from the war in Ukraine, something made clear by three liberals. Juan Williams gleefully suggested that Biden "may be Comeback Kid of midterms." Chris Cilliza asked "Is this the beginning of a Joe Biden comeback? The fakest of fake Republicans, Jennifer Rubin, wrote “President Biden just had one of his better weeks.” An evil man once said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." That's especially true if the crisis was your creation and make no...

Consumers may soon see the most aggressive Federal Reserve in decades. Expectations are growing that the U.S. central bank will hike interest rates this year by the most since 2005 as inflation hits a 40-year high. How much depends on who you ask: Goldman Sachs is penciling in seven increases, while traders are betting on at least six, according to CME Group's FedWatch. Travels World Tour Ad Ad travelworldtourism.com Travels World Tour Fed Chair Jerome Powell at a March congressional testimony also opened the door to a massive half-point increase if price pressures don't settle down, which would be the...

An accused Russian spy who worked as a merchant banker in New York City called convicted spy Maria Butina after 30 FBI agents showed up at her apartment with a battering ram. Elena Branson, 61, who holds dual U.S. and Russian citizenship, was accused of running a 'Russian propaganda center' in New York and communicating directly with President Vladimir Putin. She shared details of her encounter with the law during a cozy chat with Butina broadcast on Russian state broadcaster RT, and recalled how Butina had been one of the first people she'd contacted.

Where are the fact checkers when you need them? We'd like to debate them. Nowhere to be found. We'd like them to fact check the NY Times fact check of the Malone Rogan interview. No dice.Steve Kirsch18 hr ago 557153 On February 8, The New York Times fact checked the Malone interview on Joe Rogan.I don’t think it went so well for the Times.I wondered…who is fact checking the Times? I guess it’s up to me.I don’t have time to go through the whole thing which would probably bore you, so I’m just going to address items in the first...

Have you noticed that the anti-war movement in the United States has almost shriveled up to nothing? In the old days, hordes of radical leftists were passionately against our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but these days many on the left seem to want war with Russia more than anyone else. But before we find ourselves pulled into a war that could have catastrophic implications for the entire planet, perhaps we should take a step back from the precipice and reflect on what we are about to do. The Russians have spent an enormous amount of time, money and energy...