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Update (1510ET): Ukraine's The Kyiv Independent English language news portal is citing the country's military who say Russian forces have partially withdrawn from Kyiv and Chernihiv, after the Kremlin said coming off "constructive" negotiations in Istanbul that the military would drastically reduce operations near the two major cities. "According to Ukraine’s military, the Russian army is regrouping in the east to concentrate its military power in the area. In the south, Russia is preparing to resume offensive operations," the Kyiv-based outlet wrote.⚡️General Staff: Russia partially withdraws military units from Kyiv, Chernihiv oblasts. According to Ukraine’s military, the Russian army is...

Will Smith slapped Chris Rock in the face yesterday. Here is how 14 different news organizations covered this very important story.

United States Border Patrol agents say they arrested a US citizen Monday who tried to cross into the US illegally by driving his truck through the Rio Grande. Agents say they saw the man walking along the south side of the border barrier near Fonseca Drive and Cesar E. Chavez highway. Agents say he was taken into custody for illegal entry. When agents checked his records, they discovered he had an extensive criminal history and an active warrant out of Wichita, Kansas, for murder.

BNEI BRAK, Israel (Reuters) — An Arab gunman killed at least five people in a Tel Aviv suburb on Tuesday before he was fatally shot, the national ambulance service said, in the third deadly attack in Israel in a week. "Israel is facing a wave of murderous Arab terror," Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tweeted after the shootings in Bnei Brak, a Jewish ultra-Orthodox city on the outskirts of Israel's commercial capital. The shooting raised to 11 the number of people killed by Arab gunmen in Israel over the past week, the sharpest spike in attacks on city streets in years....

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Washington, D.C., is affectionately known as “The Swamp” by many people who have had to deal with the legislation that happens in the capital city, or comment on the goings-on there. Now, it seems that one of the founders of our country and the first President of the United States might likely be spinning in his grave at Mount Vernon over the drugs and sex taking place in the city named after him.Maybe it is sex and drugs, though, I’m not sure of the order.A freshman lawmaker from North Carolina, Representative Madison Cawthorn made a stunning admission on a podcast...

Romney, Rand Paul, and Rob Portman vote with Democrats in support of State Dept nominee Three Senate Republicans shattered party unity to advance the nomination of a State Department nominee who has been accused of lying to Congress about the terms of a new nuclear agreement with Iran. On Tuesday, the nomination of Barbara Leaf, a veteran Democratic foreign policy hand who was nominated last year to serve as assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after three Republicans—Sens. Mitt Romney (Utah), Rand Paul (Ky.), and Rob Portman (Ohio)—abandoned their party...

A 71-year-old became Britain's first official witch after she was given unique permission to declare the job on her tax forms, including claiming spells and potions on expenses. Cassandra Latham-Jones, 71, was allowed to register as a self-employed 'village witch', using the term when she files tax returns with the inland revenue. It means she can also write off certain expenses as tax deductible, including ingredients for potions.

Moscow, March 29, Interfax - The head of the Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus, Ismail Berdiyev, considers negotiations with the Ukrainian side to be hopeless and advocates the total destruction of neo-Nazis in Ukraine. "There is no need to negotiate with them. Even if they agree to surrender now, you don't have to agree, you have to destroy them to the end. There should be no Ukraine," Berdiyev said on Tuesday at a round table of the State Duma Committee on the development of civil society, issues of public and religious associations. According to mufti, appeals to...

Currently the Church in Peru is led chiefly by three prelates whose Marxist inclination is well-known.(The New American) – In her famous key-note address to the 2015 Women in the World Summit, Hillary Clinton stated, Rights [reproductive health care, i.e., the right to abortion, sterilization, and contraception funded by the employer’s health insurance without copay, for example] have to exist in practice, not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources, and political will.… Deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs, and structural biases have to be changed.One wonders if she thinks that churches and religions should be infiltrated...

Three police officers were shot Tuesday during a pursuit, authorities in Buffalo, New York said. The officers sustained non-life threatening wounds and several people were in police custody, the Buffalo Police Department tweeted. Authorities have not disclosed the events that preceded the chase and how many suspects are involved.

This Tuesday the Vaudois police indicated that the family of five French people lived "withdrawn from society and had to fear that the authority could interfere in their way of life." On March 24, a French family of five fell from their apartment on the 7th floor of a building in downtown Montreux, Switzerland, killing four of them... This Tuesday, in a progress report on the ongoing investigations, the Canton of Vaud police finally declared that they were focusing on this track. "The thesis of collective suicide is privileged", thus the authorities know... About a half an hour before their...

A little while ago I highlighted a shocking Maryland bill that would essentially decriminalize neglecting an infant to death in the “perinatal” period — i.e., through the first 28 days after birth — by preventing investigations and prosecution of such deaths that resulted from “a failure to act.” I was interviewed on several talk-radio programs and was asked what the sponsor was thinking. My most charitable thought was that he was unaware of the definition of “perinatal.” That “defense” is now inoperative. A bill was just filed in the California Legislature that is even worse than the Maryland legislation. First,...

ACI MENA will operate from the campus of Erbil’s Catholic University.EWTN Global Catholic Network has launched an Arabic-language news service headquartered in Erbil, Iraq, Michael P. Warsaw, EWTN's chairman of the board and CEO, announced March 25, on the Solemnity of the Annunciation. The Association for Catholic Information Middle East and North Africa, or ACI MENA, will publish original news content in Arabic using a network of correspondents across the region. The news agency will operate from the campus of Erbil’s Catholic University (CUE). A ceremony marking the occasion was held in Erbil, which included Archbishop Bashar Warda of the...

Former Yale Administrator Pleads Guilty To Embezzling $40 Million In Massive Fraud. A former Yale Medical School administrator has pleaded guilty to embezzling $40 million from the school in an electronics purchasing scheme. According to federal prosecutors, Jamie Petrone, 42, took advantage of her position as the director of finance for the emergency medicine department to authorize equipment purchases without additional approvals, which weren’t required as long as the amounts were below $10,000.. In total, prosecutors say she caused Yale $40,504,200 in losses – which she never declared as income on her ‘false’ tax returns for years 2013 through 2016....

... On Monday, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took issue with Biden's use of the cue cards, and his off-the-cuff remarks about Putin. Paul questioned Biden's acuity, saying the aging president's remarks were a threat to national security. 'A lot of times when you're around somebody who's in cognitive decline, you find yourself trying to help them with a sentence, trying to help them complete it - but we shouldn't have to do that for the commander-in-chief,' he told Fox News. 'And, it is actually a national security risk because he's sending signals that no one in their right mind would...

Jon Stewart, a comedian who happens to be white, led a discussion on his Apple TV+ show last week, The Problem with Jon Stewart, in which he noted “the problem with white people,” and agreed with a white guest that writer Andrew Sullivan is a racist.

After a Century, Has the Age of the Tank Passed? – As Russian losses in Ukraine mount, the main battle tank (MBT) could soon join the battleship in the boneyard of military history. While a true game changer when the first tanks rolled across the battlefields of Europe during World War I, these metal behemoths could be just the latest weapon from another era whose time has passed. The truth is that from the introduction of the tanks at the Battle of the Somme in September 1916, enemies have looked at ways to counter the armored platforms. In the final...

The cool temperatures that had been helping to prolong the bloom might have taken things too far last night. It dipped into the low to mid-20s, which is nearly 20 degrees below normal for this time of year. And it's into the danger zone for the cherry blossoms. The extent of the damage isn't fully clear yet, but it's looking a bit grim. As of this morning, they're still white/pink. But they're also quite shriveled and droopy and clearly not their usual selves. You might notice in the photos below that there are no close-ups of open flowers–that's because I...