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Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) on Sunday questioned why the U.S. rejected Poland’s proposal to transfer MiG-29 fighter jets to a U.S. air base in Germany, saying “I don’t understand why we’re not doing it.” Asked by co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” if he is worried that Poland giving planes to Ukraine could trigger World War III, Portman said “I don't know why that would be true.”

LVIV, Ukraine — At least 35 people were killed and 134 people injured when a Russian airstrike hit a military base in western Ukraine about 20 miles from the Polish border, Ukrainian officials said Sunday. “The airstrike was carried out from the Black and Azov seas,” Lviv regional administration head Maksym Kozytskiy, said in a Telegram post, which confirmed the number of dead an injured. He added that around 30 missiles had hit the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security in Yavoriv.

Hope in the Healer. Recently during a warming spell, I was glad when I heard the peepers started to sing and it was a first sign that spring was on its way here. In side our home, I took down cozy plaid winter curtains and put up soft pastel floral curtains to see the hazy play of light in a soft glow. Recently, while we were having our morning worship time, we heard a thump against the window. My husband went out and he found an injured young male Cardinal. I watched as he picked it up with such tenderness,...

Former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that today’s soaring inflation was former President Donald Trump’s fault. Heitkamp said, “You always blame the party in power. And, you know, the administration wasn’t aggressive enough, in my opinion, in pushing back on the red herrings. The red herrings like it’s because you didn’t build the Keystone XL pipeline and remind them one of the first things Donald Trump did was give the permit, and in four years, the pipeline didn’t get built? Why not? It wasn’t economical to build that pipeline in those price points. They argue...

Ukrainian police said Sunday that a U.S. video journalist was killed in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin, which has been devastated by Russian attacks as Moscow’s invasion enters its third week. Although the police statement described the filmmaker, Brent Renaud, as a New York Times staffer, he is a former contributor who was not on assignment in Ukraine at the time, according to the Times. .....

Americans feel economic impact of crisis in Ukraine Consumer prices continue to soar on everyday necessities such as gas and food. Americans overwhelmingly support the White House's proposed ban on Russian oil, though they remain very critical of President Joe Biden's handling of the economy, in general, and inflation, in particular, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll. Over the past several months, Americans' wallets have been hit by skyrocketing inflation, and now, Biden is feeling that crunch in his approval numbers. Seventy percent of Americans disapprove of his handling of inflation.

Joe Biden has shown – time and time again – that he has no compunction against lying if it means shifting the blame away from himself. We mentioned some of his lying about inflation earlier. We’ve seen him blame everyone and everything else, rather than take the blame and take the right steps to address it. His latest excuse is Vladimir Putin, despite the fact that inflation has been raging for several months, long before Putin invaded Ukraine at the end of February. He was speaking at the House Democrats Conference in Philadelphia, and he repeated the lie, saying inflation...

The average price for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. put the brakes on a record streak over the weekend. The price slipped by about a half-cent to $4.325 Sunday. Gas hit a record high Friday at $4.33 per gallon, according to AAA.

The Doomsday Clock was developed in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit founded by Manhattan Project scientists following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The group’s members included Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic bomb - serious scientists – who wanted a metaphorical way to remind the public of the high stakes involved with nuclear weapons. All of which makes it difficult to take their current day counterparts seriously. The Doomsday Clock remains set at 100 seconds to midnight in 2022, unchanged since 2020. The current Bulletin of Atomic...

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 (King James Version) The same people who turned a simple flu bug into a killing field are now attempting to manage the largest energy industry on the planet with the same prairie fire. Their disregard of the basic need for energy in every aspect of the economy and people’s lives is going to cause mass starvation and deaths. The same way they blamed their barbaric treatment of Covid with the killer drug Remdesivir...

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday condemned Russia for what he called the "shocking and horrifying" killing of an American journalist in Ukraine by Russian forces and vowed the U.S. would respond with "appropriate consequences" once the Biden administration obtains more information about the death. "This is obviously shocking and horrifying, and I've just learned about it as I came onto air here, so I will be consulting with my colleagues, we'll be consulting with the Ukrainians to determine how this happened and then to measure and execute appropriate consequences as a result of it," Sullivan told...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Sunday made made it known that she agreed with a fellow GOP congress member who called former President Trump a "would-be tyrant." Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.) on Saturday condemned Trump following a rally in South Carolina, calling him a "disaster" and a "would-be tyrant." Rice accused Trump of being "consumed by spite."

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Wintry weather made travel difficult in parts of the Northeast on Saturday, including in central Pennsylvania, where more than 70 vehicles were involved in a crash along State Route 581. The crash forced troopers in Cumberland County to shut down the roadway for hours to allow crews to clean up the wreck. Buses were also brought in to transport people involved in crashes to the local fire department.

Hu Wei is the vice-chairman of the Public Policy Research Center of the Counselor’s Office of the State Council, the chairman of Shanghai Public Policy Research Association, the chairman of the Academic Committee of the Chahar Institute, a professor, and a doctoral supervisor. To read more by Hu, click here to read his article on “How did Deng Xiaoping coordinate domestic and international affairs?” Written on March 5, 2022. Translated by Jiaqi Liu on March 12, 2022. The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most severe geopolitical conflict since World War II and will result in far greater global consequences than...

The shifting sands of Democrat gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke’s gun control plans have solidified, for now, into a pledge to buy back AR-15s and AK-47s from Texans if the state legislature will support doing it. O’Rourke spoke with Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith on Saturday and KVUE reported O’Rourke’s comments.

The foreign policy chief of the European Union announced on Friday that a pause was needed in the negotiations in Vienna over Iran’s nuclear program, with “external factors” being cited, the Associated Press reported. A final agreement for the United States to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) it had withdrawn from in 2018 had been said to be close to completion, with Tehran agreeing in principle to limit its expanding nuclear program. But no new timetable for resuming the talks has been announced. “A pause in [the Vienna talks] is needed, due to external factors,” EU foreign affairs representative...

The Iranian news agency Tasnim reported Saturday night that the security directorate in the west of the country arrested a "spy cell that worked for Israel." The network acted to "recruit rioters, with the aim of sending sabotage operations inside Iran." The report from Iran comes as 12 missiles were launched at the American consulate in Erbil in northern Iraq on Saturday night. There were no casualties or damage to U.S.-owned facilities in the area. A State Department spokesman called it a "scandalous provocation." A report on official Iranian TV alleged that the attempted strike was intended to target "secret...

Much was made of the fact that the wing of the B-36 Peacemaker was deep enough to allow engineers to enter it and maintain the engines in flight. Conceived during 1941 in case Germany occupied Britain, when US bombers would then have insufficient range to retaliate, the B-36 Peacemaker was to be primarily a ‘10,000-mile bomber’ with heavy defensive armament, six engines and a performance that would prevent interception by fighters. It was one of the first aircraft to use substantial amounts of magnesium in its structure, leading to the bomber’s ‘Magnesium Overcast’ nickname. It earned many superlatives due to...

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, March 12. A courier from the Union troops in the direction of Brentsville, Va., brings reports to 5 P.M. yesterday. Up to that time they had sustained Their difficult march with much fortitude, and but few lagged behind. All are much disappointed at the flight of the rebels. The smoke of burning property near Manassas can be plainly seen from camp. The roads in many places are very bad. Contrabands coming into our lines report that officers commanding the twelve months "Confederate" troops advised their men to disband and repair to their homes. Great columns of smoke seen...

Mainers are no strangers to winter road hazards. Bad weather brings dangerous driving conditions. Rock salt eats up undercarriages and metal infrastructure. Springtime thaws bring frost heaves and potholes. For generations, those headaches were at least fairly predictable. But as global climate change warms the state’s winters, erratic, severe weather will likely mean more damaging potholes and water pollution from excessive salting to keep up with more frequent ice storms. The extent to which warming trends are damaging Maine roadways is unclear. There’s been limited research, but early results from of recent study by Minnesota’s Department of Transportation found no...