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MSNBC host Al Sharpton said Friday on “Deadline” that the Republicans were going to use “straight-out racially charged whistles” during the midterm elections. Guest-host Alicia Menendez said, “Let’s just talk about what the Jackson hearings tells us about the upcoming midterm battles, issues, and stereotypes they repeatedly tried to tap into here. Portraying Democrats, portraying Judge Jackson as being soft on crime, bringing up abortion and racist baby books, trying to victimize themselves by invoking previous Supreme Court hearings. Any question what the midterm fight is going to look like after what we watched this week?”

Kim Jong-Un oversaw the test-firing of North Korea's largest ever ballistic missile in a slick Hollywood style video released today. In what could be easily mistaken for a scene out of Top Gun, the North Korean leader strode out in a snazzy leather jacket and sunglasses in front of the colossal weapon...

Cinderella darling Saint Peter’s wrote another chapter in its hard-to-believe tale on Friday night at jammed Wells Fargo Center. The Peacocks closed like seasoned title contenders, not a No. 15 seed with no business being in this position. Saint Peter’s stunned No. 3 Purdue, 67-64, becoming the lowest seed in NCAA Tournament history to reach the Elite Eight after finishing on a 15-8 run. When a 3-point heave by the Boilermakers’ Jaden Ivey was off the mark at the horn, Saint Peter’s coach Shaheen Holloway lifted both arms in the air and his entire team sprinted over to press row...

Bestselling author Peter Schweizer joined The Daily Wire’s “Morning Wire” to explain the federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and its possible links to his father, President Joe Biden. Schweizer, who also serves as president of the Government Accountability Institute, spoke to “Morning Wire” for its Friday episode. The bestselling author known for his investigations into government corruption said that the FBI and IRS’s investigation into Hunter Biden consists of four parts. “One is tax evasion, that he failed to pay millions of dollars in taxes from money that came overseas. There’s also allegations potentially of money laundering; that would...

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The start of Ukrainian electricity exports to Europe will help support the domestic energy system, which has enough capacity and capabilities to implement it, Dmytro Sakharuk, the executive director of DTEK Energy Holding, said. "There is enough capacity in the Ukrainian system to start exporting to Europe. It will be very important to attract such necessary funds to the Ukrainian energy sector, which is now acutely lacking," he said at a briefing at the Media Center in Lviv on Thursday. The executive director of DTEK noted that during the month of the war, electricity consumption fell by 30%, and payments...

Russia’s recent decision to halt fertilizer exports could have a devastating impact on Brazil, an agriculture powerhouse that imports more than 85 percent of its fertilizer demand. According to Bloomberg, Russia is Brazil’s top supplier of fertilizer. And Belarus, one of Russia’s allies, provides 28 percent of Brazil’s fertilizer imports. Before the invasion of Ukraine, fertilizer costs were already high due to inflation. Moscow’s protectionism following the invasion made it that much worse, depriving countries like Brazil of the nutrients they need to grow all kinds of farm goods. “No other nation in the world relies on foreign fertilizer (more)...

In one of the more tone-deaf examples of elitist arrogance we’ve seen in quite some time, the billionaire-owned news outlet Bloomberg has offered Americans some mind-blowing “advice” on how best to cope with Joe Biden’s inflationary economy. Specifically, you who are struggling to make ends meet thanks to steep (and climbing) increases in price for food, gas, energy and housing under the current regime should reduce your lifestyle to eating lentils, while allowing your pets to die as well. The article begins with this headline: “Inflation Stings Most If You Earn Less Than $300K. Here’s How to Deal” – as...

The fertilizer crisis just got a whole lot worse after 3,000 Canadian Pacific Rail Workers walked off the job, leaving fertilizer shipments stranded. Thousands of CP Rail conductors, engineers, train, and yard workers represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference decided to strike after the union and the rail company failed to strike a deal. This could result in a shortage of fertilizer and other needed farm supplies ahead of the spring growing season. “CP Rail is the leading carrier of potash, a potassium-rich salt mined from underground deposits formed from evaporated sea beds millions of years ago, used to...

Flu cases are rising across much of the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday, though overall flu levels remain low. Weekly flu cases had been declining through most of January, but began rising nationally the week ending March 5, the CDC said. That increase has continued, albeit slowly.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine should serve as a warning to the world that China could launch an assault on the autonomous island of Taiwan, according to the top U.S. military commander in the region. Admiral John Aquilino, head of Indo-Pacific Command, said China had displayed a 'boldness' during the past year - from its increasingly assertive stance toward Taiwan to its hypersonic weapon test last July. But it was Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he said, that should put the world on alert. 'I don't think anyone five months ago would have predicted an invasion of the Ukraine. So I think...

Fox News host Jesse Watters asked former Bush deputy chief of staff Karl Rove about the possibility that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., could make a run for the presidency in 2024. On "Jesse Watters Primetime," Watters noted that Ocasio-Cortez portrays herself as a paragon of knowledge, most recently pertaining to the public's understanding of capitalism and socialism. He asked Rove his thoughts on whether the left-wing "Squad" member has a chance. "This is way too wild … Wouldn't it be great if you were right? Because it would be such a fun campaign, and the Republicans would win overwhelmingly —...

While most Americans were focused on partisan polarization in Washington, D.C., the U.S. criminal justice system has been quietly transformed by a group of radically liberal billionaires and millionaires. They have attacked our system of justice at its roots, bankrolling the campaigns of activist district attorney candidates who promise to give criminals soft sentences in the name of so-called social justice and equity.Now self-styled progressive district attorneys, many of whom toppled conventional Democratic opponents across the country by running to their left, are enforcing their own warped sense of social justice instead of the actual law. Unsurprisingly, crime has risen...

PHILADELPHIA - Two juveniles are facing charges after authorities said they let their dogs viciously attack a cat as it was sitting on the front porch of a home in Frankford. The Pennsylvania SPCA shared video Tuesday of two people walking their dogs past a house in Frankford when they spot a cat, later identified as Buddy, on the front porch of a home. The dogs lunged towards the cat and the person holding the leash allows them to walk onto the porch closer to the cat. The suspects then drops the dogs leashes, allowing them to attack the defenseless...

As American workers and businesses struggle with the fallout from the most vicious bout of inflation in 40 years, workers across the US are struggling as wage growth lags behind inflation. For example, federal jobs data released last month showed that wage growth was disappointingly slow, as the YoY growth rate actually declined from January, coming in at just 5.1% (and missing the Wall Street consensus forecast of 5.8%). Since the start of the pandemic, most economists expected near-record numbers of open jobs would force employers to hike wages significantly. And while wages did indeed climb for public-facing workers during...

In the months before Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, an oligarch with Russian ties allegedly paid for locals to paint swastikas around Kharkiv, sources say. The effort, according to the sources, was part of a false flag operation to exaggerate Ukraine’s Nazi presence at a time when Putin was using it as a pretext for war. The alleged plot, according to multiple sources, involved Pavel Fuks, a real estate, banking, and oil magnate who, the sources claim, was co-opted by Russian security forces to participate. Through intermediaries, Fuks allegedly offered between $500 and $1,500 for street level criminals to vandalize...

Republican Joe Kent is running on a populist platform for a seat in Congress, but first he must win his Washington state GOP primary against incumbent Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler and her corporate donors. “She’s getting money from Google, she’s getting money from Amazon, she’s voting for amnesty … she’s supporting H-1B visas,” Kent told Breitbart News. *** “It is something, I think, that we haven’t done a good job of on the right is talking about the moral obligation that we have to our own people,” he said. “Hey, what is the purpose of having a country? Are we...

Moscow, March 25, Interfax - The Kremlin regards the initiative of Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky on introducing morning prayers in Russia's schools as a proposal made by a top official of the Russian Military Historical Society, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. Journalists who met with Peskov on Friday asked him to comment on Medinsky's proposal to introduce glorification of state symbols in schools by analogy to the U.S. practice. "I think it was more of an initiative of a top official of our Military Historical Society. And it has nothing to do with any official position. That's...

Pope Francis will meet with a delegation of Canadian Indigenous people and Catholic bishops at the Vatican from March 28 to April 1, the Vatican confirmed on Wednesday. On March 28-31, the pope will meet with the Indigenous groups individually, before a final audience on April 1 in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall. Members of the Canadian bishops’ conference will also take part. The delegation’s week-long visit will also include attendance at the pope’s Sunday Angelus and Wednesday general audience, as well as a private tour of the Vatican Museums. The visit was initially scheduled to take place in December 2021,...

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