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Vice President Kamala Harris told Democrats their job is to tell Americans they 'got what they ordered' when they elected herself and President Joe Biden in November 2020 ahead of a potentially perilous midterm election. Harris, 57, spoke at the Democratic National Committee coming back from a trip to Europe to address world leaders about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and offered a hopeful message to fellow Democrats. 'Our task is to show people that, in many ways, they got what they ordered,' the vice president said Saturday.

Hackers have stolen data from Nvidia, the world’s largest GPU maker, and are holding that data ransom. The as-yet unidentified “threat actors” may be helping the company’s competition in China, according to a research group in Washington D.C. Last week, Nvidia lost proprietary information to a group of hackers. A cybercriminal gang called “Lapsus$” has leaked Nvidia passwords, schematics, drivers and firmware and is threatening to release more information unless its demands are met, according to press reports. Those demands include removing cryptocurrency mining limiters on its gaming cards and making its GPU drivers open source, according to ArsTechnica. Nvidia...

What’s happening: Last Tuesday, the painters, who were commissioned to cover a DC Comics mural on the opposite side of the building, accidentally painted over “Bloom,” •Right away, neighbors and other community members reached out to Rain concerned. Why it matters: The incident underscores Charlotte’s growing affinity for locally made wall art that’s cropping up across town. Over time, murals become key pieces of neighborhoods, even if they are corporate-sponsored. •Ally sponsored the DC Comics mural, which local artist Abel Jackson completed at the end of last year. •Bojangles also commissioned artist Dammit Wesley in 2021 to paint its new...

“ Remember Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) which was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur? It was shot down on July 17, 2014, while flying over Eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed. Immediately the US accused Russia and then imposed sanctions on them. It was shot down by the Ukrainian Nazis with an old Russian missile that Russia was no longer using. They did so trying to get the US to enter their revolution against Russians living there in Donestk. Why has Zelensky refused to allow those people to vote? Russia had no...

Putin’s OptionsThere’s no doubt that the financial sanctions put on Russia by the U.S., the U.K., EU members and others are the most severe ever imposed. The U.S. Treasury has announced 15 separate sanctions programs in recent days and no doubt more are on the way. The targets of these sanctions include Russian banks, Russian stocks and bonds and various payment channels. Most significantly, the U.S. froze the accounts of the Central Bank of Russia. That’s the first time a major central bank’s assets have been frozen since the Cold War, and possibly ever. Yet the financial attacks on Russia...

Having the honor of serving six years in the Ronald Reagan White House, as deputy press secretary then senior director of his National Security Council staff, I've had friends — distraught over the plight of Ukrainians under attack by the murderous Vladimir Putin — ask me: “What do you think President Reagan would have done?”

Slavery is not a good thing. God's liberation of the people of Israel from the condition of slavery—an event we call "the Exodus," literally, "the road out"—is one of the most important events and motifs in the whole Bible.Although loosely related, the Readings for this Sunday are linked by the theme of the Exodus. In the First Reading, the Exodus is prophesied; in the Gospel, Jesus begins a New Exodus that culminates in the Last Supper and Calvary.1. Our First Reading is Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18:The Lord God took Abram outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the...

The CEO of pharmaceutical giant Moderna earned a staggering $18 million salary in 2021 alone, according to reports. Moderna is a biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was founded in 2010 and develops medicines based on mRNA technology. Stéphane Bancel was hired as CEO of Moderna in 2011. Bancel was previously a top executive at pharmaceutical behemoth Eli Lilly and Company and CEO of French biotech company bioMérieux before joining Moderna. In 2011, Moderna went public and raised more than $600 million at its initial public offering. The funding made it the biggest biotechnology IPO at the time. Despite...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Brandmüller: Demands of German Synodal Way ‘Clearly Contradict the Catholic Faith’In a March 3 essay entitled ‘Quo Vadis, Germania,’ Cardinal Walter Brandmüller explained what he saw as the historical ‘roots of the crisis’ VATICAN CITY — The Synodal Way of the Church in Germany is on the “wrong track that is lost in nothingness,” rooted in the heresy of modernism that theologians have yet to properly address, and is destined to fail, Cardinal Walter Brandmüller has said.In a commentary published March 3 on the German-speaking website Kath.net and titled “Quo vadis, Germania” (“Where are you going, Germany?”),...

I have some WAV files I'd like to convert to text. Can Dragon Naturally Speaking convert sound files (WAV or MP3) to text? Or must I dictate live for Dragon to create a text file?I found many website that allow me to upload MP3 files and convert them to text in the cloud. But I prefer to have a program on my computer.If Dragon doesn't do this, is there some software that can do it? Something not cloud-based.

Ever since Russian forces invaded Ukraine, Americans have panic hoarded all types of ammunition, according to a top US online gun retailer.“A recent surge in consumer demand for small arms ammunition – the onset of which perfectly coincided with the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022,” AMMO, Inc., a US-based ammunition and components manufacturer, said in a press release Friday. Los Angeles-based Ammo reports between Feb. 24 and Mar. 10 that revenues surged 166%, and transactions are up 110% over the previous two weeks. Website traffic for the period is up 59%. Customers in Texas, Florida, and Washington...

Alec Baldwin didn't comprehend that he fired a live round at "Rust" cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, killing her, until hours later when a member of the Santa Fe's Sheriff's Office showed him the bullet after an interview, according to arbitration paperwork filed by his attorney on Friday. According to the filing, Baldwin found it "unthinkable" that his gun would have a live bullet in it after the person responsible for checking it declared it as "cold." "He was shocked," the filing says. "In his mind, it was outside the realm of all possibility that a live bullet could have been present...

Belarus has no plans to join the Russian invasion of Ukraine but is sending five battalion tactical groups (BTGs) to its border on rotation to replace forces already stationed there, its Chief of General Staff Viktor Gulevich said on Saturday. A top Ukrainian security official on Friday warned Belarus not to send troops to Ukraine, saying Ukraine was showing restraint towards Belarus despite the country being used as a launchpad for Russian planes. “I want to underline that the transfer of troops is in no way connected with (any) preparation, and especially not with the participation of Belarusian soldiers in...

Iowa reported an outbreak of highly lethal bird flu in a commercial flock of egg-laying chickens on Friday, raising the risk for further infections in the top US egg-producing state. Iowa was already facing restrictions on exports of poultry products after a commercial turkey flock tested positive for the disease on Sunday.

The EU has asked Israel to look into the possibility of transferring natural gas to Europe via Egypt. In light of the fact that Israel has a large amount of natural gas and in the wake of its ability to supply it in the immediate term thanks to the activities of some of the reservoirs, the Ministry of Energy has recently begun examining an initial request from the EU to allocate quotas of gas to the continent, Channel 13 News reported on Thursday. According to the report, the EU’s appeal to Israel comes amid a shortage of natural gas that...

WASHINGTON – Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., is leading a congressional charge for an equal rights amendment to enshrine gender equality in the U.S. Constitution as lawmakers in New York push for a broader measure on the same issue in the state Constitution.

Rob O'Neill was the Navy SEAL who shot the 9/11 mastermind in 2011 in Pakistan. He has left the service after 16 years and 400 combat missions for his country . Decorated veteran says Russians are dying for a 'leader who's lost his marbles' . He also criticized the U.S. and their 'nonsense' ploys and showing 'weakness'. The example he uses is the canceled nuclear missile test last weekend. Also said the Pentagon is 'wasting resources' by 'trying to turn warships green'. ... the decorated veteran criticized the Biden administration for cancelling a nuclear missile test last weekend while Russian...

Internal tensions at the New York Times have reportedly flared after reporter Matthew Rosenberg apparently mocked his colleagues who were “traumatized” by the January 6 Capitol riot and dismissed the “woke” faction of the Times’ newsroom in a Project Veritas undercover video sting. Politico reported the fallout from the videos: The videos caused tensions to flare among Times staff, according to more than a half-dozen reporters who were granted anonymity to speak candidly. During the Thursday lunch, multiple reporters said they were upset about Rosenberg dissing their own coverage and badmouthing his coworkers. Baquet, the Times staffers told us, responded...

Merkel's Legacy as Russian Invasion Lays Up to the final hours before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, former chancellor Angela Merkel had been touted as the person favored by Germans to try to talk President Vladimir Putin out of the conflict. But as Russian bombs fell on Ukrainian cities, a shadow has fallen on Merkel's 16 years in office, with some observers now questioning if her detente policies with Putin had in fact left Germany, and Europe, vulnerable. Once hailed as the leader of the free world, the veteran center-right leader has been accused by some of increasing Europe's...

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