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A Russian millionaire arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Raleigh. New social media video of expired Russian military food. A stalled 40-mile long Russian military convoy in Ukraine. WRAL Investigates found they may all be connected. Video circulating on social media reportedly shows a Ukrainian soldier mocking Meals Ready to Eat, or MREs, given to the Russian military. The packaging shows they were made in 2013 and expired in 2015, yet are on the battlefield today, 7 years later... The label on the expired food, written in Cyrillic, translates to a tie back to an infamous criminal case...

At the Oceanside, California city council meeting Professor Mark Dice openly discusses Democrats' plan for American public schools.

SFGATE politics editor Eric Ting Did His Own Research and is Just Asking QuestionsI don't believe for a minute that Will Smith's "slap" of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards on Sunday night was real. No way. No how. No evidence to the contrary — no matter how compelling — can persuade me to abandon my world view that "elites lie, my own research is always better." The Academy — a cabal of Hollywood scum with a penchant for drinking the blood of children — is clearly seeking to improve the Oscars broadcast's sagging ratings and disappointing crowd size. They...

If you get a text message that looks to be from yourself, don't click on it. That's the sage advice of experts and of Verizon, which has received numerous complaints about customers getting spam text messages that seem to come from their own phone numbers. Verizon's community [customer?] forum includes a thread published on Sunday that details a recent increase in "spoof" texts informing recipients that they've paid their March bill and can get a free gift by clicking a link. "We can't block ourselves..........what's the solution Verizon?" asked one customer of the wireless giant.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn says his fellow lawmakers have invited him to take part in orgies in Washington and snorted lines of cocaine right in front of him. Cawthorn, a 26-year-old Republican from North Carolina, was asked in an interview last Thursday about whether the former Netflix series “House of Cards,” which chronicles a corrupt representative from South Carolina in DC played by Kevin Spacey, was fiction or more like a documentary. “The only thing that’s not accurate in that show is that you could never get a piece of legislation about education passed that quickly,” Cawthorn said on the Warrior...

Fourth Week of Lent John 5:1-16 Friends, in today’s Gospel, we find the beautiful healing of a paralyzed man who had been ill for thirty-eight years. Jesus sees the man lying on his mat, next to a pool, and asks, “Do you want to be well?” The man answers him, and Jesus replies, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.” Immediately, the man is healed. Now at this point, the story really heats up. We notice something that is frequently on display in the Gospels: the resistance to the creative work of God, the attempt to find any excuse, however...

Editor’s note: Whether the rain that the last 24 hours was enough to pump up local creeks and waterfalls is unclear. InMenlo weather watcher Dennis Nugent’s digital rain gauge measured 0.40″ between yesterday and today though 1:30 pm. That brings the year-to-date to 13.88″Here’s a list of places to explore in Midpeninsula Regional Open Space preserves when the water is flowing: Stevens Creek Nature Trail, Monte Bello Preserve Check out Midpen’s guide, including photos and video clips, to enjoying the Stevens Creek Nature Trail in the rainy season on a 3-mile loop hike. Crazy Pete’s Waterfall, Coal Creek Preserve This...

This brief summarizes a report that comprehensively examines nonviolent, cost-imposing options that the United States and its allies could pursue across economic, political, and military areas to stress—overextend and unbalance—Russia’s economy and armed forces and the regime's political standing at home and abroad. Some of the options examined are clearly more promising than others, but any would need to be evaluated in terms of the overall U.S. strategy for dealing with Russia, which neither the report nor this brief has attempted to do.The maxim that “Russia is never so strong nor so weak as it appears” remains as true in...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -Denmark’s domestic security on Tuesday designated pandemic-linked “antigovernmental extremism” as a menace for the first time ever. The agency, known by its Danish acronym PET, said in its annual assessment that although this type of extremism is not “a significant driving force for the terrorist threat” in the country, it does make the situation “more complex.” PET said the menace which expresses the need to use violence against elected representatives, had appeared in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. Michael Hamann, head of PET’s Center for Terror Analysis that analyzes the threat of terrorism against Denmark and Danish...

A Florida teacher told MSNBC he worries that he can’t discuss his love life with his kindergarten class after Governor DeSantis signed the parental rights education bill. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday signed into law HB 1557, a measure that forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity to children in grades pre-K through grade 3. The left is angry that DeSantis is protecting children from groomers. There is no reason why any adult should be talking about gender identity or sexual orientation to 5 year olds. One Florida teacher said he’s worried that he can’t talk about his...

"McKee, who voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 Presidential Election—said she’d likely vote for him again in 2024 if he runs—although she isn’t completely happy with the job he’s doing."

Update (1210ET): Following Blinken's earlier urging to focus on Russia's "actions" on the ground and "not just what it says" coming out of the Istanbul talks, some top officials are charging that Russia's potential "compromises" being offered are but a ploy to buy more time on the battlefield. Via Newswires: "Western official says nothing we have seen so far has demonstrated that Russia is particularly serious about peace talks and seems to be more of a tactical exercise to play for time." Concerning a draft ceasefire deal in the works, each side has confirmed they will return to their respective...

Kasey suffered the worst headache of her life and went to hospital, where she died four days laterWe use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info An 18-year-old died two weeks after having her Covid vaccination when a blood clot caused a 'thunder clap' headache. Kasey Turner was admitted to hospital two weeks after having the AstraZeneca vaccine. An inquest this week heard her severe and sudden headache was...

A school district in Washington state has passed a new policy that critics say encourages administrators to factor in race when disciplining students. The Clover Park School District board approved the new policy on a 3-2 vote on March 14, over the objections of board members who expressed concerns that it was ill-conceived. The district in the suburbs of Tacoma will now use 'culturally responsive discipline' that encourages school staff to impose disciplinary policies that 'may be adapted to individual student needs in a culturally responsive manner.' Critics say the new approach is in effect a race-based disciplinary policy that...

On February 16, 2022, the Biden Administration filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Central Division, claiming the Second Amendment Protection Act, (SAPA) was unconstitutional. From the federal filing:This lawsuit challenges a Missouri state statute that purports to invalidate federal firearm laws within the State. The Missouri law uniquely discriminates against federal agencies and employees; impairs law enforcement efforts in Missouri; and contravenes the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.The statute referred to was passed as HB 85 and 310. The bills specifically challenge federal power in several ways. The bills...

America’s most powerful, elite institutions now cooperate to misinform the public and suppress dissent. It’s hard to think otherwise during the arc of the Hunter Biden laptop story that turned out to be true. In late March, The New York Times reporters wrote that they authenticated email “obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. [Hunter] Biden in a Delaware repair shop.” This is in reference to a story the New York Post broke in 2020, shortly before the presidential election, about emails sent from the...

Kids surrounded by advanced technologies are very much adept at the idea of having and also making smart toys.Kids playing with conventional toys is passe. With their environment well surrounded by advanced technologies like Alexa, smart security gadgets attached to their bodies, smart classrooms, etc., they are well adept at the idea of having smart toys. Taking this trend further, companies are making programmable robots for kids to channel their interest in playing with toys into a more beneficial area, ie., developing critical thinking which is very much required to build a programmable robot. Here we list out the top...

Advances in Religious Freedom Under Trump vs. Biden’s War on Faith: An NFAB AnalysisWhen Donald Trump was sworn in as president, many of us were doubtful that he would keep the promises he made to the religious community during his campaign. We had heard similar promises before by many elected officials who only made those promises to garner our votes. But they left us abandoned and disillusioned. Trump was a political outsider and a man of action. So we held hope that he might be different.Not only were we not disappointed, we were very often amazed. No president in recent...

On Monday night's The 11th Hour on MSNBC, after reading some of the key findings of the new NBC poll showing Biden's approval ratings sinking, host Stephanie Ruhle seemed stumped as to why President Joe Biden isn't getting credit for what she describes as his "big wins." Ruhle started the segment by reading from an NBC News story on Biden's approval numbers: "the next headline sounds alarming. Quote, 'Biden's job approval falls to the lowest level of his presidency, amid war, and inflation fears,'" Ruhle announced before lecturing middle-class Americans on why they should be thanking Biden despite not being...

When it came to defending Biden's Putin regime-change gaffe, you could be excused for figuring that Morning Joe had hit rock bottom on yesterday's show in its pathetic pro-Biden sycophancy. After all, as we noted, Mika Brzezinski praised Biden's remarks, claiming he had "put the Kremlin back on his heels." And Joe Scarborough agreed, calling the gaffe "a good thing," ludicrously adding that Biden had engaged in "psyops." But Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough demonstrated today that there are apparently no depths to which they won't sink in their dogged defense of Biden. After playing a clip of Biden's bumbling...