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CBS News hasn’t put the same kind of spotlight on weather as many of its rivals, but that may all be about to change as quickly as a shift in the wind. The Paramount Global news unit is teaming with The Weather Channel to bring more reporting on weather and climate to CBS News programs including “CBS Mornings” and “The CBS Evening News,” as well as the division’s streaming efforts. “This is a holistic partnership that brings together the scale of both companies’ reporting teams, technologies and audiences,” says Neeraj Khemlani, co-president of CBS News and Stations, in a prepared...

Ukraine has vowed to investigate after graphic videos emerged purporting to show the horrific abuse of Russian prisoners of war, including some who were shot in the legs. “The government is taking this very seriously, and there will be an immediate investigation,” senior presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said Sunday, the Washington Examiner reported. “We are a European army, and we do not mock our prisoners. If this turns out to be real, this is absolutely unacceptable behavior,” President Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser added. One clip shows what appear to be Ukrainian troops removing three Russian soldiers from a van seconds before...

Observed each year on March 28th, National Something on a Stick Day is a food holiday that lets you use your creative talents. Once you get started, the possibilities are endless. Foods that come on a stick are fun and easy to eat. There isn’t much that can’t be put on a stick when talking about food. Soup might be that one exception, though if it were flavorful frozen, we might make an exception. From cool summer treats like the Popsicle to frozen food staples like the corn dog, food on a stick is one of the world’s great inventions....

When asked whether someone who doesn’t know what a woman is should serve on the Supreme Court, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, “I think it’s pretty clear that Judge Jackson is a woman. So, I don’t think she has any doubt as to what a woman is." At the Capitol on Thursday, March 24, CNSNews.com asked Sen. Whitehouse: “Senator Blackburn, on Tuesday during the hearing, asked Judge Jackson to define the word ‘woman’ and Judge Jackson said, ‘No. I can’t.’ Should someone who does not know what a woman is serve on the...

Search teams have recovered the second black box from the wreckage of the China Eastern 737-800 as authorities have now confirmed all passengers and crew were killed in the crash. The recovery of the second black box should allow experts to begin piecing together what caused the plane to nosedive into the mountainous terrain in rural China last Monday. Investigators have identified 120 of the plane's 132 victims... The flight from the city of Kunming in southwestern China was flying at 29,000 feet last Monday when it suddenly nosedived into a mountainous area. The plane crashed shortly before it would...

Headline: "DeSantis signs controversial bill restricting certain LGBTQ topics in Classroom." (CNN)Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed legislation banning certain instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom, approving the controversial measure that opponents have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" law. HB 1557, titled the "Parental Rights in Education" bill, was given final passage by Florida's GOP-controlled legislature earlier this month. The law is set to take effect in July. The legislation set off a social and political firestorm in Florida when it was introduced by Republican lawmakers in January. Its passage comes as conservatives around the...

Biden says he's 'not walking back' suggestion / comments that Putin should leave power

2:45 PM ET President Biden Announces his Budget for Fiscal Year 2023 President Biden Announces his Budget for Fiscal Year 2023, Which will Reduce Deficits by More than $1 Trillion Over the Next Decade, Advance Safety and Security at Home and Around the World, and Make the Investments Needed to Build a Better America.

Russia is working out methods for accepting payments for its gas exports in roubles and it will take decisions in due course should European countries refuse to pay in the Russian currency, the Kremlin said on Monday. -snip- The Russian central bank, the government and Gazprom , which accounts for 40% of European gas imports, should present their proposals for rouble gas payments to President Vladimir Putin by March 31. “We are not going to supply gas for free, this is clear,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call. “In our situation, this is hardly possible and appropriate to...

Dune harnessed Oscar power on Sunday night. The sci-fi adaptation from Legendary and Warner Bros. took home six Oscars, winning in cinematography, editing, score, visual effects, production design and sound. Cinematographer Graig Fraser won his first Oscar as part of a busy year that also saw him unveil his work on The Batman and prepare to film Dune: Part Two. Backstage, he told press that he recently read a draft of the sequel, which is due out next year: “Part Two is a bigger story. I read the script, and I was more blown away than Part One.” Hans Zimmer...

A paltry 15.4 million viewers tuned into Sunday night’s debacle of an Oscar telecast, the second-worst in the history of a telecast that just a few years ago was attracting 30 to 40 million viewers without breaking a sweat. For context, back in 2017, when the Oscars earned 33 million viewers and 9.1 million demo viewers in the 18-49 age group, people were freaking out over the plunge in public interest. Well, last night, the number was less than half that 33 million… That’s how bad things are. The left-wing Hollywood Reporter uses the word “rebound” in its ratings headline....

Fourth Week of Lent John 4:43-54 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus heals the son of a royal official. Healer: that’s why he’s come; that’s who he is. In Jesus, divinity and humanity meet. His hands and mouth and eyes, his whole body becomes a conduit of God’s energy. What’s God’s energy, God’s purpose? To set right a world gone wrong, a suffering world. Out of every pore of his body, Jesus expresses the healing love of God. Jesus’ ministry of healing expresses in history God’s ultimate intention for the world. In Jesus, we see a hint of that world to...

1. Acknowledge the Press Has a Narrative In May 2020, when the Covid-panicked media’s predictions about Florida’s Covid response were already being proven wrong, DeSantis didn’t just call out their lies, he pointed to their motivation for lying. 2. Don’t Call Media ‘Mainstream,’ Call Them What They Are The more partisan the big names in media like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and their ilk become, the more inaccurate it is to call them “mainstream.” 3. You Catch More Flies With Wit than Boring Press Releases DeSantis took notes from former President Donald Trump’s penchant for...

President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is involved in an anti-racist agreement that all parents of children at Georgetown Day School (GDS) must sign for enrollment, according to documents obtained by Breitbart News. Jackson has been a board of trustees member at GDS since 2019 and a member of the Georgetown Day School community for about a decade. While Jackson denied to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is taught at the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)-affiliated GDS during last week’s Senate confirmation hearing, the school demands that all parents sign a form called...

A French defense contractor riding in a Dassault fighter learned the hard way that the grab bar next to his seat was actually the ejection handle. • A French defense-industry employee about to retire was gifted something he was extremely reluctant to accept: a ride in a Dassault fighter jet. • The 64-year-old was not correctly instructed, to say the least, in passenger etiquette, and to make a long story short, he self-ejected midflight. • He's okay, according to the government's incident report, but the chance of this gentleman ever repeating the stunt is definitely zero. Imagine: You work hard...

reported on the Private Blog that I had a copy of the legislation and I was told it would be introduced today – Monday 28th. That info was correct. Well, here it is!. Reps. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), Jesús Chuy Garcia (D-Ill.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), all Democrats, have introduced the “Electronic Currency And Secure Hardware Act” (ECASH Act) that does far more than just creating a digital currency. This Act cleverly strips the Federal Reserve of its authority to create the money. I wrote: Next week there will be a bill introduced which will be entitled ECASH...

During the execution of a search warrant on March 13, 2020, 26-year-old emergency room technician Breonna Taylor was fatally shot and Louisville police Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly was shot and nearly killed. The incident sparked an establishment media feeding frenzy marked by a combination of facts and hysteria, resulting in a public outcry marked by violence in the streets and a war on cops.

Morning Joe was out in force with its shovels today, doing the dirty work of cleaning up after Biden's latest—and most dangerous—gaffe. Mika Brzezinski began by claiming that Biden's regime-change gaffe was "far more tame" than President Reagan's hot mic moment in which he spoke about bombing Russia. The difference, of course, was that Reagan was obviously joking, whereas Biden was dead serious. And Mika praised the gaffe for having "put the Kremlin back on his heels." Joe Scarborough agreed, saying the gaffe was "a good thing." And in a laughable moment, he described Biden as having engaged in "psyops,"...

North Carolina Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn said the 'sexual perversion' and drug use at the nation's capitol on popular TV show House of Cards is just like what he sees in Washington, D.C.. Cawthorn, 26, was asked during an interview with the Warrior Poet Society how closely his experience on Capitol Hill aligns with the Netflix series, specifically its elements of 'corruption, power, money and perversion.' Cawthorn said that the her once heard a former president say the only thing that was unrealistic about the show was that Congress would ever be able to pass a piece of legislation that...

Andrew Bailey has warned the hit to living standards from surging energy prices in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be worse than in any year in the 1970s.Speaking at an event in Brussels, the Bank of England Governor said: “This really is an historic shock to real incomes. The shock from energy prices this year will be larger than every single year in the 1970s.”Vladimir Putin’s warmongering and resulting sanctions have sparked a huge surge in oil and gas prices, piling further pressure on households at a time when inflation is at a 30-year high.