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Maryland State Senator William Smith (D-Takoma Park) has introduced "the Pregnant Person's Freedom Act of 2022" (Bill 669). The bill would allow "abortions" to be carried out up to 28 days after birth. Smith described his bill as "a counterweight to other states' laws—like the Texas heartbeat law—that shorten the period in which abortions can be performed. My bill would extended the opportunity for a mother to decide whether her child should live or be left to die of starvation or neglect." Smith contested accusations that abandoning infants to die is barbaric by pointing out that "abandoning unwanted infants was...

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he was “surprised” and the close results of the 2020 presidential election. Barr said, “I think he actually, at the time of the election, thought he won the election. If there was a plan to stay in office, it’s something that materialized after the election. I saw no sign of a plan before the election to stay in office regardless of the outcome.”

A video recognition guide to all known models of tanks seen in the Ukraine conflict, for use in evaluating those vast numbers of photos and videos pouring out of Ukraine, as seen on social media and news coverage. This is for tanks only, unfortunately, as there are also large numbers of other armored vehicles involved. This is a very confusing subject, and this guide may be of assistance in resolving questions such as which side a captured or destroyed tank was on, whether it was a new or old model, whether it was well equipped or not, etc.

Heckled by a spectator during her BNP Paribas Open match Saturday, Naomi Osaka tearfully took the unusual step of addressing fans from the court, telling them that the experience reminded her of the harassment faced by Serena and Venus Williams years ago in the Indian Wells event. Osaka had lost the first game of her second-round match against Veronika Kudermetova when an unidentified fan yelled, “Naomi, you suck” in an uncommon breach of decorum for tennis spectators. She fought for composure on the court and asked the chair umpire, “can I borrow your microphone,” to address the crowd mid-match. Asked...

A top Biden administration diplomat admitted Sunday that it is “hard to understand” why the U.S. and other world powers are negotiating a new nuclear deal with Iran, as Tehran claimed responsibility for a Sunday rocket attack that struck near the American consulate in Irbil, Iraq. Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman was pressed on the administration’s continued push to secure a new nuclear deal with Tehran. Officials have said the ongoing nuclear talks in Vienna are nearing completion, despite Iran’s aggression toward Americans in Iraq and even amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

On Sunday’s This Week, the mostly-liberal “Powerhouse Roundtable” couldn’t handle the fact that the results of an ABC/IPSOS poll showed over sixty percent of Americans disapprove of President Biden’s handling of gas prices. “Our new poll, interesting numbers. First of all, it showed overwhelming support for the ban on Russian oil, 77 percent support it, even if it means the poll question even if it means higher gas prices here at home,” fill-in host Jon Karl reported while breaking down the poll’s findings. “But take a look at this other question we asked, which is, Biden's handling of gas prices,...

The brother of Jussie Smollett says the Empire actor has been placed in a psych ward at the Cook County Jail after he was sentenced to 150 days on Thursday for lying to the police about an alleged hate crime in 2019. 'So Jussie is currently in a psych ward at the Cook County Jail. What's very concerning is that there was a note attached to his paperwork today and put in front of his jail cell saying that he's at risk of self-harm,' said Jocqui Smollett in a video posted to his brother's Instagram account Sunday morning Jocqui urged...

Kari Lake, former television news anchor and Arizona Gubernatorial candidate endorsed by President Trump, gives us The Real Story on her interview with Australia’s 60 Minutes, as they air the edited version.

A Florida mom faces a number of charges after police say she brought a gun to a parent-teacher conference an elementary school. Brenzina Jones attended a meeting at Brentwood Elementary School meeting in Miami Gardens Thursday night. Prior to exiting the campus, the 35-year-old mother reportedly warned the security at the front desk of her willingness to protect her child, WSVN reports. "I don’t play about somebody playing with my kid," said Jones according to court documents by WSVN. "I’ll shoot this [expletive] up. The documents later noted that Jones "proceeded to open her purse and recklessly display the butt...

1991. link Mohsen Rabbani, who in 1991 stood before a group of Shi'ite Muslims and radical right-wing Argentine activists and stated openly, “Israel must disappear from the face of the Earth,” to universal applause.2001.Iran's Rafsanjani Suggests Nuclear Attack on Israel. link2005. Israel should be wiped off map, says Iran's president. link2014. Iran’s Khamenei: 'We Will Arm Palestinians Until Israel is Wiped Off Map.'link2019.Iran Guards chief: Destroying Israel now not a dream but an ‘achievable goal’ link In claim prominently reported in Iran, Major General Hossein Salami declares Tehran able to annihilate 'the impostor Zionist regime' 2021, at Guardian of Walls...

Mr. Elon Musk, it looks like America and one of her astronauts aboard the International Space Station might need you. You know, the place where your space capsules have gone to a number of times, and have allowed the United States to not depend on the Russians for a lift up and back home. Thankfully, the private sector, led by Elon Musk and his company Space X in conjunction with NASA, recently allowed the United States to forgo depending in Russia for rides, and now can send manned rockets from the United States’ soil again. In all honesty, I have...

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...