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Pretty incredible how @IlhanMN and @CoriBush, who both claim to support climate action, voted in the interest of Big Russian Oil here https://t.co/EVoBaQBMTd— Brent Peabody 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 (@brent_peabody) March 10, 2022

The U.S. Senate passed a $1.5 trillion, 2,741-page omnibus spending bill on Thursday evening that will fund the federal government through Sept. 30 and send $13.6 billion in aid to Ukraine. The bill passed 68-31 and now goes to President Biden's desk. Nearly $14 billion in U.S. aid will go to Ukraine and European allies in the fight against Russia, including funds to provide humanitarian aid to the millions of Ukrainians who have fled, as well as funds for weapons. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to lawmakers in a Zoom call on Saturday for more help in his country's fight...

Election integrity has skyrocketed to one of the top concerns in the congressional midterm elections, with huge majorities of Democrats, independents, and Republicans citing it as a driving issue. While Democrats and Republicans have different views of what “election integrity” means, together, 83% of likely voters believe it will be a factor in the elections for House and Senate — and the 2024 presidential election. For Republicans, Rasmussen Reports found that 89% said the issue is “important,” with 62% calling it “very important.” Among Democrats, 78% called it "important," including 52% who said “very important.” And 84% of independent voters...

For patients with low-risk thyroid cancer undergoing thyroidectomy, follow-up without use of radioiodine is noninferior to ablation with radioiodine, according to a study published in the March 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Sophie Leboulleux, M.D., Ph.D., from the Gustave Roussy and Université Paris-Saclay in Villejuif, France, and colleagues conducted a prospective, phase 3 trial involving patients with low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer who were undergoing thyroidectomy. A total of 730 participants were randomly assigned to receive ablation with postoperative administration of radioiodine (1.1 GBq) after injections of recombinant human thyrotropin (radioiodine group) or to receive no postoperative...

The World Health Organization advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country's public health laboratories to prevent "any potential spills" that would spread disease among the population, the agency told Reuters on Thursday. Biosecurity experts say Russia's movement of troops into Ukraine and bombardment of its cities have raised the risk of an escape of disease-causing pathogens, should any of those facilities be damaged. Like many other countries, Ukraine has public health laboratories researching how to mitigate the threats of dangerous diseases affecting both animals and humans including, most recently, COVID-19. Its labs have received support from the...

In the annals of manufactured scandals by TV networks, one of the lamest examples was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ telling high school students at an event of his: “You do not have to wear those masks. I mean, please take them off. Honestly, it’s not doing anything, and we’ve got to stop this COVID theater.” “NBC Nightly News” tried to make this a story for not just one night, but two. It’s lame because it came after everyone took off their masks for the State of the Union address, after the “nonpartisan” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ruled against...

The fabled power of anti-incumbency was expected to pose a challenge to Narendra Modi's governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the world's largest local election - 150 million voters spread over more than 400 seats - in India's northern Uttar Pradesh or UP state. After all, no party had managed to retain its majority in the state's legislative assembly since 1985. The average tenure of a chief minister during a five-year-term in this politically volatile state has been two years and 19 days. No incumbent chief minister has ruled UP for two successive terms since 1947. Mr Modi's party and...

A plurality of likely voters believe that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if former President Donald Trump were still president, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday found. The survey found 57 percent expressing the belief that President Joe Biden “could have done more to prevent the Russian invasion of Ukraine.” While most Democrats, 63 percent, believe Biden “did everything possible to prevent that,” 80 percent of Republicans and 67 percent of independents disagree. The survey then asked, “Would Russia have invaded Ukraine if Donald Trump were still president?” A plurality, 46 percent, said “no,” Vladimir Putin would not have...

Christopher Steele, who was a member of the British secret service for over two decades and led MI6 operations in Russia from 2006-2009, said Putin will never be accepted back into the international community and his regime will ultimately collapse as a result. 'I don't see him surviving this in the long term. I think we've gone over a watershed here,' Steele declared in an interview with Sky News Thursday evening. 'An operation on this scale is really beyond Russia... I think there are several gross miscalculations here by Putin.' It comes as a Russian assault on Kyiv was repelled...

Eating a balanced diet including protein from a greater variety of sources may help adults lower the risk of developing high blood pressure, according to new research. "Nutrition may be an easily accessible and effective measure to fight against hypertension," said study author Xianhui Qin, M.D. Participants were given a protein "variety score" based on the number of different sources of protein eaten out of 8 reported: whole grains, refined grains, processed red meat, unprocessed red meat, poultry, fish, egg and legumes. One point was given for each source of protein, with a maximum variety score of 8. The researchers...

A Colombian migrant's family is seeking answers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection after the married father-of-three died last month after crossing the United States-Mexico border and suffering a fatal fall. Juan Rivera, 37, was found dead February 24 next to a steel border fence he had reportedly climbed after paying a smuggler $800 to ferry him into the U.S. before he abandoned him in along the border line outside Arizona. Border agents assigned to U.S. Border Patrol's Yuma Sector encountered 19 migrants in San Luis and the group notified them of the possibility that another migrant may have died...

Hunter Biden’s firm Rosemont Seneca provided capital for the firms behind the creation of Biolabs in Ukraine. We heard on Tuesday from the US State Department that there were US Biolabs in Ukraine. Then on Wednesday the Biden regime backtracked and insisted there were no US-funded Biolabs in Ukraine. Why the sudden confusing messaging from the Biden gang? Especially when there are documents that prove the US was funding several of the Biolabs they set up in Ukraine to study potentially dangerous pathogens. It may be because Hunter Biden’s firm Rosemont Seneca was funding the firms involved in the building...

Astronaut Mark Vande Hei, who holds the ongoing record for longest space flight, is set to end his 355 days in space in just three weeks. The plan is for him to land in Kazakhstan with two Russian cosmonauts on a Russian spacecraft. But unprecedented sanctions against Russia could put Vande Hei's return on hold.

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.By a Biomedical Scientist“The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought that is, a...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee woman is accused of firing her gun into the air during an argument outside a Nashville bar, striking a person sleeping on the couch in her apartment, authorities said. Jonerica Johnson, 28, was charged with reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, public intoxication and possession of a handgun while under the influence, according to WKRN-TV. The dispute inside the bar spilled outside, and police said Johnson pulled out a pistol and fired a single shot into the air, the television station reported. She then crossed the street and fired two more shots into the air....

An invasive species of spider the size of a child's hand is expected to “colonize” the entire East Coast this spring by parachuting down from the sky, researchers at the University of Georgia announced last week. Why it matters: Large Joro spiders — millions of them — are expected to begin “ballooning” up and down the East Coast as early as May. Researchers have determined that the spiders can tolerate cold weather, but are harmless to humans as their fangs are too small to break human skin. The Joro spider is native to Japan but began infiltrating the U.S. in...

"You're just a charlatan, pretending to be the victim of a hate crime. You are now a permanently convicted felon."Jussie Smollett being sentenced now | LIVE: https://t.co/ohq91zZDhS pic.twitter.com/UCjdIAJxee— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 11, 2022

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Purim, March 16-17, 2022 Overview: Esther He will not let your foot slip— He who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, He who watches over Israel...

ABC News’ Jon Karl said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Fox News host Tucker Carlson was “echoing” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “classic propaganda.” Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “During Tucker Carlson’s show, Tucker Carlson led with and amplified, he chose to start his very, very highly rated program by amplifying Russia’s false claims that Jennifer Griffin, Fox News national security correspondent, knocks down.”

The National Science Center, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (KIPT), which was a hotbed of early nuclear research in the former Soviet Union and currently hosts a newly installed neutron source, has suffered significant damage from Russia’s relentless attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Rockets and bombs have damaged buildings and left civilians wounded, says Oleksandr Bakai, who heads the department of condensed matter and nuclear theory at KIPT and lives near the institute. The damaged facilities include the constructed but not fully operational Ukraine Neutron Source, according to the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine. After saying in...