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Democrats are proposing to offer drivers cash and rebate schemes to counter President Biden’s record-high gas prices. Reps. Mike Thompson (D-CA), John Larson (D-CT), and Lauren Underwood (D-IL) last week proposed the Gas Rebate Act of 2022 where American drivers would receive a $100 energy rebate per month for the remainder of 2022.

Ukraine Military Sources are now Claiming that the Explosions this morning at the Russian Occupied Port of Berdyans'k were caused by Missiles Fired from a Ukrainian Navy Bayraktar TB-2 Drone, these Explosions caused Fires which completely destroyed a Alligator-Class Landing Ship.

Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša said no European country will pay Russia for gas in rubles, Evropeyskaya Pravda reported. The remarks came after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will demand “unfriendly” countries pay for gas with Russian rubles. “I have decided to implement a set of measures to transfer payments for our gas supplies to unfriendly countries into Russian rubles," Putin stated. Speaking ahead of the EU Summit in Brussels, Janša explained, “I don’t think anyone in Europe really knows what the ruble looks like. No one will pay in rubles.”

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

A short video in the live conference about voting issues in Wisconsin today.

Justice Stephen Breyer is reassuring folks, his colleague, Justice Clarence Thomas, is not in any danger after being hospitalized for an infection. We got the retiring Justice Wednesday outside Cafe Milano ... a favorite watering hole for Washington bigwigs.

In addition to the NATO summit, Brussels is also hosting separate summits of the Group of Seven industrialized nations and if the European Union. Biden is attending all three meetings and will hold a news conference afterward.

There is no clear path to a positive outcome for Russia in Ukraine. It could win every future battle, but it has already lost.We are at the one-month mark into Russia's invasion of Ukraine and it looks like things are only set to get bloodier. Short of a sudden ceasefire and a robust peace deal, which some would argue seems less feasible with each passing day, the war will grind on. But regardless of if Russia achieves its military objectives in the country, it has already lost in nearly every conceivable way. What's worse is what awaits them if they...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — China’s foreign minister made a surprise visit Thursday in Afghanistan’s capital, meeting with the country’s new Taliban rulers — even as the international community fumes over the former insurgents’ broken promise to reopen schools to girls beyond the sixth grade. According to the official Bakhtar News Agency, Wang Yi was to meet with Taliban leaders “to discuss various issues, including the extension of political relations, economic, and transit cooperation.” The Taliban, who seized power last August during the chaotic final weeks of the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces after 20 years of war, have been...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Local, state and federal officials must do more to ensure Native Americans facing persistent, longstanding and deep-rooted barriers to voting have equal access to ballots, a White House report released Thursday said. Native Americans and Alaska Natives vote at lower rates than the national average but have been a key constituency in tight races and states with large Native populations. A surge in voter turnout among tribal members in Arizona, for example, helped lead Joe Biden to victory in the state that hadn’t supported a Democrat in a White House contest since 1996. The Biden administration’s...

Twitter mashed its SHUT UP button on Christian satire site The Babylon Bee. Twitter’s latest episode in its ongoing campaign to silence The Bee involved reportedly locking its founder Adam Ford out of his account for simply trolling the platform with benign humor. “Don’t reshare this or you’ll get suspended from Twitter,” Ford said according to a snapshot shared by The Bee CEO Seth Dillon March 23. Ford’s tweet had a snapshot of a censored Bee story naming Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine the website’s “Man of the Year.” Talk about a glaring irony. But it didn’t matter.

Joseph M. Cardinali (25) of Somers 3/23/2022(Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye – cell phone image) Joseph Cardinali was released today on a $1,000 signature bond after being charged with Felony Possession of Fentanyl and OWI.Joe Cardinali was only 18 when he was elected to the Somers Town Board in 2015. The Town of Somers later became a Village after incorporation. Cardinali ran for the Village Board in 2016 and took first place out of four candidates. There was some questionable behavior from Cardinali during his time on the Somers board. In 2018, the death of a County Board...

There’s a reason why Microsoft, Google, IBM, and governments across the globe keep making large investments in quantum computing; they expect it will revolutionize the world by addressing issues that today’s conventional computers can’t solve. Every industry will be affected by quantum computing. They will alter the way business is done and the security systems in place which protect data, how we battle illnesses and create new materials, as well as how we tackle health and climate challenges. As the race to build the first commercially functional quantum computer heats up, here we discuss a handful of the ways quantum...

The US Treasury 10Y-5Y curve (aka, the belly of the Treasury beast) has inverted. It is more about the 10Y Treasury yield rising more slowly than the 5Y yield. Freddie Mac’s 30Y mortgage commitment rate rose to 4.42%. Today’s initial jobless claims came in at 187k, the lowest in modern history!! Overheated much? More fuel on The Fed Fire to raise rates above 0.50%. Fixed-income trading floors:

If trial courts must call on ‘biologists’ every time the subject of sex comes up, it is hard to see how justice can be done.Judicial confirmation hearings are rarely illuminating. Since the introduction of television cameras, they mostly serve as a way for senators to say what they want their constituents to hear and for judicial nominees to say as little as possible. Nothing is learned, at least not on purpose.But occasionally, we learn something by accident. At Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee asked a seemingly innocuous question: “Can you provide a...

Somebody reading this needs a touch from Jesus. When the Lord ministered here on earth, he went about healing and restoring the afflicted by simply touching them. When Jesus touched Peter’s mother-in-law, her fever left her body (see Luke 4:38-40). He touched the casket of a dead child, and the boy came to life. He touched the eyes of blind people, and they could see. He touched the ear of a deaf man who could then hear. Multitudes brought their sick and infirm, and Jesus took the time to reach out and touch them all, healing them “Then little children...

...snip... something now is rotting in Moscow. The latest sign is that one of President Putin’s oldest allies, Anatoly Chubais, today announced his resignation and decamped his country. ...snip... Mr. Chubais has been a far more important member of Mr. Putin’s inner circle than that title suggests. As the man who initially recruited Mr. Putin to the Kremlin, Mr. Chubais was until today’s defection one of the president’s darlings. Mr. Chubais is, moreover, but the latest in a growing list of top players in Moscow who have either expressed skepticism about the war or were forced out by Mr. Putin,...

In the south, the Russians have been waging total war against Mariupol, savagely shelling anything and anyone that moves. They still haven't technically taken the city – read this horrific story – but they're determined to reduce it to a pile of rubble, then take control of a crucial land route between Crimea (which Russia stole in 2014) and the Donbas region, where the current invasion started. In the north, Belarus' government reportedly may be close to joining the fight alongside Russia's beleaguered troops, among whom morale is low, amid shockingly high casualty figures. That's the "good" news for Moscow....

“‘You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and...

I do not write this article to throw stones. I write it to save lives. That’s why I make this heartfelt (and anguished) plea: If you are a pastor or ministry leader and you believe that, according to the Bible, you have the liberty to drink alcohol (without drunkenness), please don’t turn that liberty into a public boast, as in, “Look at how free I am!” You can enjoy that freedom before God, with moderation and discipline. But please don’t bash those who practice total abstinence. And please don’t use your liberty as a club against legalism. Or as a...