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Ron DeSantis of Florida is first choice among Republicans for whom Donald Trump should pick as his running mate if he seeks the 2024 presidency, with Mike Pence coming in second place, according to a survey. A new Morning Consult/Politico poll revealed 27 percent of Republican voters believed Trump should pick DeSantis as his potential vice president, compared to 15 percent who wanted Pence. Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, came third with 12 percent. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz placed fourth with 9 percent when respondents were asked whom they would like to see as Trump's...

Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says By Paresh Dave March 25, 2022 12:32 AM GMT+9 Last Updated 10 hours ago OAKLAND, Calif., March 23 (Reuters) - Ukraine is using facial recognition software to identify the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in combat and to trace their families to inform them of their deaths, Ukraine's vice prime minister told Reuters. Reuters exclusively reported that Ukraine's Ministry of Defense this month began using technology from Clearview AI, a New York-based facial recognition provider that finds images on the web that match faces from uploaded photos. It was...

Hacking group Anonymous has claimed an attack on Russia’s Central Bank. In a post on Twitter, an account representing the group said that it would release 35,000 files in 48 hours that apparently contains “secret agreements”. The account has not yet given proof that it had successfully undertaken the hack, or that it had access to the promised documents.

What is a woman? Nobody knows—not even Supreme Court nominees. But we've come up with a few key indicators to look for. Run through this list and keep track of how many "yes" answers you come up with. The more affirmatives, the more likely you're a chick!1. Are you always cold? 2. Has a human ever popped out of you? 3. Have you ever decorated a bed with six or more pillows? 4. Can you tell the difference between cream white and rustic farmhouse white? 5. Have you run into a curb in the past 24 hours? Be honest, CAROL....

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has switched his endorsement in the Alabama U.S. Senate race to Michael Durant, dealing a blow to the reeling Mo Brooks campaign. Flynn, who received a presidential pardon to avoid jail time and advocated for a military coup to overturn the 2020 presidential election, had originally endorsed Brooks last June. At the time, Flynn was in Birmingham for a speaking engagement paid for by the Jefferson County Republican Club. Now, though, Flynn has rethought his endorsement and determined that “Alabama doesn’t need another career politician.” Instead, Flynn said in a written statement that Durant is...

Hours after the U.S. Senate voted to repeal the federal transportation mask mandate—which the White House quickly threatened to veto—a group of commercial pilots filed the first legal challenge by airline workers to overturn the requirement to wear masks on all public transport. On March 15, 10 commercial airline pilots from six states filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), asking the court to strike down the federal transportation mask mandate, arguing that...

Wishful thinking that Biden will be removed by the 25th Amendment is just that. The arrogance of the Democrat Party will never let that happen. They would have to admit that a mistake was made in selecting him as the party candidate if they did this because they would have to vote to do so. The handlers of Biden will make sure that this doesn't take place. Instead there will be a medical issue necessitating a resignation by Biden. This medical issue will never be allowed to become public even though everyone will know what it is. The media will...

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...