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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signaled Friday she will veto Republican-sponsored legislation that would freeze Michigan's 27-cents-per-gallon gasoline and diesel taxes for six months amid high prices at the pump.

According to the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is "preparing a terrorist attack on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant," the government agency claimed Friday. According to a social media post on Twitter, the department said that a "man-made catastrophe" is planned at the plant and will be manipulated to appear as if Ukraine was responsible for it. "Putin is preparing a terrorist attack on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A man-made catastrophe is planed [sic] at the CNPP controlled by Russian forces, for which the occupiers will try to shift responsibility to Ukraine," the department wrote.

Gov. Kristi Noem's office ordered state agencies to provide a border-to-border escort and supportive billboard messages for a convoy of truckers opposing COVID-19 restrictions. "SD LOVES TRUCKERS" and "DRIVE SAFE," truckers read as they traveled east on Interstate 90 with an escort from the Highway Patrol. "The Noem Administration wanted to ensure that the trucker convoy felt welcome and respected in South Dakota, and that they could traverse the state safely without disrupting traffic," said Ian Fury, Gov. Noem's spokesman, in an email. Fury said the governor's office asked the Highway Patrol to provide three troopers for the escort, and...

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On a deeply informative episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, Charlie gives a thoughtful, comprehensive, and well-sourced rationale for why you should be skeptical when it comes to selling out America to help Ukraine. This all comes in light of the Senate’s Bipartisan decision to pass a $1.5 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill—part of which will send $14 Billion to Ukraine, including $6 Billion in Defense & Lethal Aid. All of this was made possible by the Uni-Party Cooperation of 18 Republicans whose global interests outweigh the interests of their constituents at home. In questioning their judgement (or lack thereof,) Charlie...

South Korea's military said on Friday it had detected activity at North Korea's nuclear test site to restore at least some tunnels that were demolished in 2018 when the site was closed. North Korea has not tested a nuclear bomb or its longest range intercontinental ballistic missiles since 2017 but has said it could resume such testing with denuclearisation talks with the United States stalled. read more Amid a flurry of now-moribund diplomacy in 2018, North Korea used explosives to demolish the entrances to some underground tunnels at Punggye-ri, its only known nuclear test site. mages captured by commercial satellite...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Walt Disney Co is pausing all political donations in Florida after an employee outcry over legislation that would limit discussion of LGBTQ issues in schools, Chief Executive Bob Chapek said in a memo to staff on Friday. The latest announcement comes a day after the Hollywood Reporter published a letter by LGBTQ+ employees and their allies within Disney TV Animation criticizing Chapek as "tone-deaf" for his initial messaging on the bill. Disney has been under fire for failing to take a public stand against the measure, which opponents of the legislation say will harm the lesbian, gay,...

Anyone seeking to gauge the imminent outcome of the international talks over Iran’s nuclear program being held in Vienna should take a look at reports from late January that three top U.S. diplomats had quit—largely in protest over the direction set by U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley, who serves as the U.S. government’s chief negotiator. Having served for two years in former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s Iran Action Group, I knew that this development was tantamount to a public cry for an intervention. Such resignations—not of conservative dissenters, but of career staff and President Joe Biden’s own...

On Wednesday, CNN's Chris Cillizza was hoping, desperately hoping that this could "finally," after all this time of utter ineptitude and awkwardness, be a "Kamala Harris moment" when she jetted off to Europe to address the crises caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. You could almost see Cillizza rubbing his worry beads of concern in "Is this, finally, Kamala Harris' moment?"

BlackRock has taken a $17 billion loss as a result of its Russian exposure since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine began in late February—and it’s not the only Western bank set to take a sizable hit. International banks are owed roughly $121 billion by Russia-linked entities, according to data from the Bank for International Settlements—and because of the recent decoupling of the West and Russia, they are unlikely to get most of that money back. BlackRock’s clients held around $18.2 billion in exposure to Russia-linked assets as of the end of January, the firm revealed. The world’s largest asset manager declined...

The American Civil Liberties Union was once considered a bulwark against government intrusion and overreach. Its mission was simple: to defend the constitutional rights of individuals, regardless of those individuals’ political affiliations. But that law firm is long gone. The ACLU of today cares little about bureaucratic overreach so long as the officials doing the overreaching are on its political team, and it gladly sacrifices the civil liberties of individuals if doing so advances its left-leaning agenda. Just a few weeks ago, the ACLU of Virginia filed a lawsuit against Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin over his executive order mandating that...

Parthenon, a Greek restaurant and lounge in the Chevy Chase neighborhood near the Maryland state line. A D.C. police spokesman said two women died of their injuries on Friday afternoon. Their identities were not immediately released. At least 11 people were injured when the crash occurred around 12:18 p.m., fire officials confirmed, eight of whom were transported to various hospitals. Five were initially listed in critical condition with life-threatening injuries, including the two women who later died. Three others were treated and released on scene. Cmdr. Duncan Bedlion with the Metropolitan Police Department’s Second District said investigators believe an elderly...

Towns and villages in the Kherson region, under occupation by Russian troops since the first days of the war, have been completely isolated. The behavior of the Russian soldiers has left many citizens puzzled. Despite the occupation, people across the Kherson region have been coming out to protest the presence of Russian troops "We are not giving up, we are part of Ukraine!" This defiant phrase rings out daily in the streets of towns and villages of the Kherson region. The area in southern Ukraine has effectively been under Russian occupation since the first days of the war against Ukraine....

Following the financial crisis of 2008/2009, The Federal Reserve began their dramatic purchase of assets such as Treasuries and Agency mortgage-backed securities (AgencyMBS). And then Covid struck and The Fed went berserk with asset purchases. So, who benefited the most? The top 1% or the bottom 50%? Answer? The top 1%. The share of total net worth spiked dramatically after the Fed infusion. Even the bottom 50% benefited with The Fed’s Covid stimylpto, but no where near how the top 1% benefited. World Economic Forum’s Klaus Schwab approves of this message!

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Despite rumblings about Beijing potentially dropping its controversial zero-COVID policy, authorities in Shanghai, China’s financial capital and a city home to nearly 25 million, have decided to shutter schools and rapidly construct hospitals as the omicron variant appears to be spreading rapidly within the country’s financial capital, according to Bloomberg. The latest outbreak has been labeled “the most significant” since Wuhan, with some 1,000 domestic cases having been confirmed as of Friday, up from just 300 a week ago. That’s the highest number of new cases recorded in 2 years, since the days of the original Wuhan outbreak. But in...

Biden revokes Russia’s most-favored nation trade status Biden called for an end of normal trade relations for Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and acknowledged the economic hardship the world will endure as it aims to isolate Russia by revoking its most-favored nation trade status, which the president says will make it even harder for Moscow to do business. Biden said that Western nations were showing restraint in an attempt to avoid starting World War III.

Talk about damning with faint praise. . . On Friday's New Day, CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt interviewed Luliia Mendel, Ukrainian President Zelensky's former spokeswoman, and asked about her tweet [since deleted after blowback] in which she said it would be a "tragedy" if Kamala Harris became president.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail on Thursday STARING TODAY. Smollett was also sentenced to 30 months probation, ordered to pay $120,126 restitution and a $25,000 fine. This was after he faked a hate crime accusing Trump supporters in MAGA hats of beating him in the street and putting a noose around his neck as he walked to a Subway at 2 AM in -2 degrees. in reality, he hired two Nigerian brothers in white makeup and staged the entire beating. The fake news media believed every word of it. Jussie screamed after he was sentenced,...

The European Parliament voted on Thursday morning in favor of imposing sanctions on Hungary and Poland, its two member states that have received the largest number of Ukrainian refugees following the invasion by Russia on Feb. 24. (snip) In January 2021, the EU introduced the Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism which provided a tool whereby the Commission could refuse to release EU funds to national governments who they considered to be in breach of the common rule of law.In essence, it means that if conservative countries dissent against the liberal European mainstream on how to govern — for example, Hungary’s...