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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Durant recently met with former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., his campaign confirmed with Yellowhammer News on Wednesday. While noting that the two met on Monday, the Durant campaign would not comment further on the specifics of the meeting. The meeting confirmation comes on the heels of Trump releasing a statement announcing that he had rescinded his endorsement of U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) Wednesday morning. The former president pointed to polling which showed that Brooks’ support among Republican voters had taken a significant downturn. A series of recently-conducted...

Earlier this week, Twitter locked the Babylon Bee out of their account for mentioning Richard Levine, AKA “Rachel” Levine. And now our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters in Silicon Valley are stamping out any dissent by any Babylon Bee employees or supporters who dare to say anything about it:Silence, peasants!Two things here:It’s Twitter’s platform. They can make any rules they want and enforce them any way they want. I am under no obligation to pretend their rules make sense, and I’ll continue to point out that their enforcement of those rules is corrupt.

Andrii Yermak, head of the Office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Thursday that Ukraine “wants Israel to be one of the countries that will provide a guarantee for any future agreement between Ukraine and Russia.” In an interview with Kan 11 News, Yermak said that, at the moment, there is no progress in the contacts between his country's representatives and Russia. “I am always skeptical when progress in negotiations is not reported by us or by the Russians but by someone else. We can say there is dialogue, but it continues to be very complicated. The two leaders...

Biden says he’d be ‘very fortunate’ to face Trump in 2024 — and Euro allies think he’s ‘up to the job’ President Biden said Thursday he would welcome a 2024 rematch against former President Donald Trump while insisting that European leaders have confidence in his leadership. Biden gave the rare commentary on his re-election chances during a press conference that lasted less than 20 minutes in Brussels after a foreign journalist asked about concern among US allies that Trump could return to office. “The next election, I’d be very fortunate if I had that same man running against me,” Biden...

MOSUL, Iraq — The Civil Defense Directorate of Iraq announced that 143 bodies had been exhumed from a mass grave in Mosul, Nineveh Governorate. The bodies are presumed to be victims of the Islamic State (ISIS). The Directorate stated that their teams in Nineveh Governorate have exhumed the bodies of 143 unidentified skeletons from a mass grave in the Al-Rifai neighborhood behind Baha al-Din Mosque dating back to the liberation of Mosul. “The Ratl Emergency Center, under the command of Mahmoud Abdel Mohsen, began the search,” said the Directorate. “In the presence of a representative of the Nineveh Operations Command,...

'Cardinal Pell is fully justified in reminding the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of its responsibility to safeguard the truth of the faith and the unity of the Church of Christ in the authority of the Successor of Peter against the open heresy of German Synodalism.'VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Gerhard Müller has endorsed Cardinal George Pell’s recent call upon the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) to “reprimand” the German bishops for their “rejection of the Catholic Church’s teaching on sexual ethics.” “Cardinal Pell,” the German cardinal wrote, “is fully justified in reminding the Congregation...

GOP establishment consultant Karl Rove had prior knowledge of contents of a now-public filing that Sheena Greitens, the ex-wife of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, filed in a dispute over the parenting structure for their two boys, a top confidante of GOP mega-donors told Breitbart News exclusively. Rove, in response, issued a statement to Breitbart News denying the donor confidante’s account of events.

Anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theorist and U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has become the subject of a lawsuit accusing her of being an insurrectionist in connection with the January 6th attack on the Capitol. The 14th amendment of the Constitution bans insurrectionists from holding public office, so if Greene loses, she would not be able to run for office again. Related: Marjorie Taylor Greene is “threatened” by trans women who are “aggressively replacing women” The lawsuit has been brought by a nonprofit called Free Speech For People and argues that due to her role in inciting the Capitol insurrection, Greene “is...

Former President Clinton on Thursday said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been "amazing" in leading his country through four weeks of Russian attacks. "He's been resolute. He's been energetic, and he's been sort of upbeat in this but brutally, brutally honest about what they are facing," Clinton added on CBS. "It's a very difficult time for people who are pulling for Ukraine because you read about all this suffering and all these people that have been killed by the indiscriminate bombing to which the Russians have resorted when [Russian President Vladimir] Putin didn't get them to roll over and just...

Francis flip-flops, Parolin approves Italy sending weapons to UkrainePope Francis is making a sudden U-turn on the morality of war after declaring all wars to be unjust and upending the Church's doctrine on "just war". "There is no such thing as a just war; they do not exist!" the pontiff told participants at the International Congress of the Pontifical Foundation Gravissimum Educationis on Friday. On Tuesday, however, immediately after speaking to the pontiff on the telephone, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Italian parliamentarians that Francis had given him the green light to fight a just war. Pope Backs Ukraine President"Today...

- The Pentagon said Thursday efforts to set up calls with top Russian military officials had been ignored. - It comes as Russian jets operate close to NATO borders with Ukraine increasing chances of a miscalculation. -'We've made multiple attempts here but they have not answered up,' said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby. - It means the world's two largest nuclear powers are in the dark about each other's moves. - Kirby also said Ukrainian armed forces had pushed Russian ground forces further back from Kyiv. Multiple attempts by Washington's top military leaders to speak with their Russian counterparts have...

The brawl happened around 7 p.m. on St. Patrick’s Day, and “investigators have worked tirelessly since the incident to identify the man involved in the fight,” the Sheriff’s Department said. Officials have not determined what led up to the fight or whether the two men had any previous relationship. By the time law enforcement arrived at the restaurant, Terry had suffered a serious injury, the news release explains. He was rushed to the hospital but died the next day. There was no sign of the other man involved in the struggle. The sheriff’s department is still investigating the incident...

The Biden administration is considering allowing Russia to buy Iran's excess enriched uranium under the terms of a new nuclear deal, U.S. officials said this week. Under the original Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPO) in 2015, Russia agreed to buy Iran's excess uranium so that the regime could not build a nuclear weapon, a role that may be revived in the new deal. "Would it be a practical role for Russia to play the same role that it did in the JCPOA prior to the decision to withdraw from it, essentially to accept and to pay for the highly...

Hundreds of experts have signed a declaration denouncing religious ideology that is driving the Russian President's invasion of Ukraine. Eastern Orthodox Christian scholars from around the world have supported a statement to express their sheer shock and horror at the suffering in Ukraine and the weaponization of Christianity in Russia. The declaration, which has been organised by Dr Brandon Gallaher from the University of Exeter and Dr Pantelis Kalaitzidis, from Volos Academy, and is now available in over 10 languages. It has been signed by over a 1,000 people so far. Dr Brandon Gallaher tells Premier: "The religious ideology is...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) stated that Republicans on the Judiciary Committee attacked Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for being “a black woman representing poor people” and that these statements, along with criticism of her record on sex crimes could be called “dog whistles.” Hirono said that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has voted to confirm judges with similar sentencing records to Jackson’s and “that’s why I brought it up, and that’s why I asked Judge Jackson, do you think that these judges who have been sentencing along the...

In a brand new documentary for The Daily Wire, host of “The Matt Walsh Show” and bestselling author Matt Walsh stumps dozens of gender “experts” on camera with one simple question: What is a woman? The documentary, titled “What Is a Woman?,” challenges radical gender identity theory. It will be available to stream exclusively for Daily Wire members in May 2022. You can become a member here. “Over the last year, Walsh has traveled the world, asking a litany of ‘experts,’ laymen, and even African tribesmen to define the word ‘woman,’” a press release from The Daily Wire details. Walsh,...

A New York City education official was forced to resign from her position hours after being appointed following reports she had previously labeled homosexuality as a sinful behavior alongside adultery, pedophilia, and fornication. New York City Mayor Eric Adams requested the resignation of the Rev. Kathlyn Barrett-Layne from the city's Panel for Education Policy Tuesday afternoon after reporting from the New York Daily News highlighted writings by Barrett-Layne saying homosexuality was sinful. In an interview with the New York Times, Barrett-Layne claimed her comments were taken out of context. "I feel bullied. I believe that the city is being bullied,”...

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NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James this week released police body-worn camera footage from the New York State Police (NYSP) that her office obtained as part of its ongoing investigation into the death of James Huber. Huber died on February 12, 2022, following an encounter with a member of NYSP in Buffalo. Huber was being chased by the Trooper for ‘driving erratically.’

According to the officials involved the main crater, located in a mountainous area of the Teng region, has an approximate extension of 2500 square meters and has a depth of about twenty meters. Remains of engine blades, part of the left and right horizontal stabilizers, actuators, and other aircraft components have been found there, along with crew certificates. In addition, Zheng Xi, head of the rescue corps, said that human remains were found at the site. The piece found afar from the main crash site is approximately 1.3 meters long and about 10 cm wide and appears to be part...