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Over a year after narrowly losing re-election to the U.S. Senate from Georgia, David Perdue finds himself trailing Gov. Brian Kemp by 11 points in the Republican gubernatorial primary contest. That’s according to a new Fox News Poll of Georgia Republican primary voters, released Tuesday. Kemp receives 50%, while Perdue, whom former President Donald Trump endorsed, garners 39% among GOP primary voters. Ten percent are unsure or would vote for someone else.

#ICYMI: Friday Sermon by Houthi Mufti of Yemen Shams Al-Din Sharaf Al-Din on Ukraine War: We Ask Allah to Make the Violence between Them Fierce; We Need Weapons, UAVs, Ballistic Missiles to Be taken Seriously by the West #houthis #Yemen #Russia #Ukraine #UkraineRussianWar pic.twitter.com/gCtZpHpfwU— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) March 12, 2022

Western planes worth $13bn stranded in Russia, analysts say 10th March 2022 - Author: Matt Sheehan Analysts at data and analytics company Russell Group have reported that 589 Western-built aircraft with a market value of approximately $13 billion are currently on the ground in Russian airports. Flights to and from Russia have been banned by nearly all Western nations in response to the country’s widely-condemned invasion of Ukraine. The result is that hundreds of leased planes in Russia that are owned by European companies stuck on the ground in the country. And Russell Group warns that the aviation war market...

EXCLUSIVE: The head of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) has called on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to launch an investigation into whether Russia secretly funded U.S. green groups that advocate against domestic oil and gas production. Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., led a letter to Yellen Friday that cites a 2015 Washington Free Beacon report that suggested the California-based Sea Change Foundation may allegedly be a conduit for Russian oil interests in funneling money to groups like the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Sierra Club and the Center for American Progress.

This is the beginning of a series on Why Speak God's Word. God's word is not just for reading it's also for speaking. God's word says in Hebrews 10:23 to let us hold fast to the profession of our faith. That word profession is the same word as confession which means to say the same thing. One reason to speak God's word is his word is medicine to all your flesh in Proverbs 4:20-23 it says, 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in...

Explanation: Northern winter constellations and a long arc of the Milky Way are setting in this night skyscape looking toward the Pacific Ocean from Point Reyes on planet Earth's California coast. Sirius, alpha star of Canis Major, is prominent below the starry arc toward the left. Orion's yellowish Betelgeuse, Aldebaran in Taurus, and the blue tinted Pleiades star cluster also find themselves between Milky Way and northwestern horizon near the center of the scene. The nebulae visible in the series of exposures used to construct this panoramic view were captured in early March, but are just too faint to be...

Tore Holsether says the world is careening toward a food crisis that could affect millions of people. Record high natural gas prices have forced the company he runs, fertilizer producer Yara International, to curtail its production of ammonia and urea in Europe to 45% of capacity. With less of those two essential agricultural ingredients, he expects knock-on effects for global food supplies. "It's not whether we are going to have a food crisis. It's how large that crisis will be," Holsether told CNN Business. Two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, the prices of key agricultural products produced in the region...

Police arrested Nika Nikoubin, 21, after she allegedly lured a man she met on the dating site Plenty of Fish in bed only to attack him with a knife Police said Nikoubin and her date rented out a room at the Sunset Station Hotel where she blindfolded the victim as they began engaging in sexual activity A few minutes later the victim said he 'felt a pain on the side of his neck' after Nikoubin allegedly pulled a knife out of her purse and stabbed him in the neck The stabbing was allegedly done 'in revenge against US troops for...

MERCED, Calif. - Merced police on Saturday announced they arrested a Hayward mother on a murder charge in connection with the death of her 8-year-old daughter, who has been missing since December

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, in light of the recent release of the $1.5 trillion spending package, U.S. Senator Rand Paul renewed his calls for the Senate to pass his Read the Bills resolution (S. Res. 20), which would provide sufficient time for legislation to be thoroughly reviewed. Dr. Paul’s resolution would require bills, amendments, and conference reports to be filed for 1 day for every 20 pages before they can be considered, while leaving legislators room to act in emergencies. “Do you think there is a single person in the U.S. who believes that Congress is filled with speed readers...

ROME – Closing itself off even more from the international community, the government of Daniel Ortega declared the papal representative to Nicaragua “persona non grata” and expelled him. Polish Archbishop Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, the apostolic nuncio to Nicaragua, was forced to leave the country following his “de-facto expulsion” and is currently in Rome, Crux has been able to confirm. The nunciature published a short note on March 7 simply saying that the Polish prelate had “absented” from the country the previous day. The Vatican is expected to release a statement before the end of the week to clarify the circumstances...

Some 12 missiles were fired from Iranian territory and fell near the US consulate in Erbil in northwestern Iraq on Saturday night. The Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism Service announced that 12 ballistic missiles were fired from "outside the borders of Iraq and the Kurdistan region, specifically from the east," according to the Iraqi News Agency (INA). Independent open-source intelligence (OSINT) accounts shared videos reportedly shared by Iranian civilians showing missiles being fired from Iran at the time of the attack, with at least one of the videos being geolocated to a site in Khasabad in the East Azerbaijan province of Iran.

The announcement came from Indonesia’s Religious Affairs Minister Quomas. Last week, Vatican sources confirmed a papal visit to Timor-Leste. For the Bishops’ Conference, “interreligious dialogue is fundamental”.Jakarta (AsiaNews) – Indonesia’s Religious Affairs Minister Yaqut Cholil Qoumas plans to invite Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb to Indonesia. He made the announcement during the national conference of the Interfaith Commission of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia, held in Bali from 6 to 9 March. The Commission’s president, Archbishop Yohanes Harun Yuwono of Palembang, and its secretary, Father Agustinus Heri Wibowo, were present at the meeting. Minister...

The bad news is the propaganda from the global media and intelligence apparatus is astronomical surrounding the Ukraine narrative. The good news is that most Americans can sense the background manipulation,

THE VISIT A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the president's outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge. She frowned. "We want to see the president", the man said softly. "He'll be busy all day," the secretary snapped. "We'll wait," the lady replied. For hours, the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become...

On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” MSNBC Economic Analyst Steve Rattner, who served as counselor to the Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration, said that we’re dealing with a potential stagflation problem where “address both an inflation problem and potentially a growth problem at the same time” for the first time since the early 80s, and that while he isn’t predicting a recession, he “wouldn’t be shocked if we had one somewhere down the line” because stagflation oftentimes causes recessions.

During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of ABC’s “Start Here” podcast, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky defended the extension of the transit mask mandate by stating that transportation corridors have “a lot of international travel that it’s hard to disentangle.” And people “may not have their own independence to be able to make a choice as to whether and how they use these transportation corridors.” Host Brad Mielke asked, [relevant exchange begins around 5:00] “If someone is safe to go maskless, right now, in a small, crowded theater. Because it’s a green county, why isn’t that person safe to go...

Neighbors dispute 🤣 pic.twitter.com/3AF2hWB8wf— shimon abramovitz (@ultrarainman) March 9, 2022

Eager fashionistas got physical outside a Manhattan store as they vied for a spot in line to buy a hotly anticipated clothing collaboration between Burberry and Supreme, according to videos and witnesses. One video posted early Thursday outside the Dover Street Market at 30th Street and Lexington Avenue shows tensions flaring among those in line waiting to snag the latest pricy wares from the British fashion brand and popular New York street wear label. “I’m still standing right here,” one man yelled at another in line, the footage shows. A second clip showed several men scrapping violently against a door...

Chernobyl still running on backup generators, Ukrainian staff held captive by Russian troop Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine was still powered by backup generators Saturday, three days after external power was cut. Ukrainian workers at the site have been held captive around the clock for two weeks, Ukraine’s nuclear energy regulator Energoatom told the UN’s nuclear watchdog. “The plant’s staff of 211 technical personnel and guards have still not been able to rotate, in effect living there since the day before Russian forces took control,” the International Atomic Energy Agency said Saturday in a press release. The Russian military...