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Two Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters were shot down in Mariupol. APA's Moscow correspondent reports that the statement came from Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov. According to him, in the morning of March 31, official Kyiv tried to evacuate the commanders of the Azov Regiment from Mariupol with two Mi-8 helicopters. The general said that "DNR forces" shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter with the Stinger complex they seized. One of the helicopters crashed near the village of Rybatskoye. The second helicopter was damaged by a rocket, but flew into the sea, but crashed 20 kilometers off the coast....

In a statement Friday, Cawthorn, R-N.C., didn't walk back his recent comments but tried to distinguish that he wasn't talking specifically about his fellow GOP lawmakers. "Corruption and unethical activities exist in Washington," Cawthorn, 26, said in a statement first obtained by Fox News Digital. "It’s an indisputable fact. If you don't think that's true, you've not witnessed the Swamp. "My comments on a recent podcast appearance calling out corruption have been used by the left and the media to disparage my Republican colleagues and falsely insinuate their involvement in illicit activities." In a recent interview for the "Warrior Poet...

Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of the churches in Jerusalem condemn the attack by settlers belonging to the Israeli organization Ateret Cohanim on Saturday, March 26, at the historic Petra Hostel near the Jaffa Gate, in the Christian quarter of the Old City. The possession of the old hotel for pilgrims is at the center of a grueling legal dispute between Ateret Cohanim and the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem, which claims ownership of the property and denounces the fraudulent ways in which it was used by the organization, linked to the Israeli settler movement. On Tuesday March 29,...

ATLANTA — Atlanta police have arrested a man and charged him with a woman’s murder after police say there was an argument over a bowling ball. Lakevia Jackson, 31, was shot and killed at the Metro Fun Center, an entertainment venue with a skating rink, bowling alley and more, just before 11 p.m. on March 18. Jackson shared a child with Atlanta-based, Grammy Award-winning rapper Young Thug. Investigators say that 25-year-old Joshua Fleetwood was on a date at the Metro Fun Center when he got into an argument with Jackson’s family, who was bowling on an adjacent lane. Once everyone...

Despite ongoing crises abroad and at home, a new poll found that President Joe Biden is still more popular than his Oval Office predecessor. The NBC News survey showed that 37 percent of Americans had a favorable view of Biden compared with 46 percent who had a negative view of the commander-in-chief. That's slightly better than Donald Trump's numbers: 36 percent of U.S. adults rated Trump positively compared with 50 percent who had a negative view.

ABUJA, Nigeria, March 28, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Thursday (March 24) killed an estimated 50 Christians and abducted a Catholic priest in attacks on communities in an area of Kaduna state, Nigeria, area sources said. In late-night attacks on 10 predominantly Christian communities of Giwa County, herdsmen and others also took about 100 people captive and burned down a church building, area residents said. “They also burned houses, stores and killed animals,” resident Nuhu Musa told Morning Star News by text message. “These attacks continued and lasted up to the morning of Friday, 25 March. They...

On Inauguration Day 2021 Madison Cawthorn and 16 other freshmen congressmen wrote Joe Biden a letter. The letter congratulated Biden on his presidency and administration, stated they hoped to work together with him, decried the "horrific attack on our nation's Capital (sic)" and lamented "the partisan divide between Democrats and Republicans does not serve a single American." The entire text is as follows with the 17 signatories. ---- January 20, 2021 President-elect Joe Biden 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20230 Dear President-elect Biden, Congratulations on the beginning of your administration and presidency. As members of this freshman class, we...

Polish Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki raised concerns about the 'Synodal Path' with the Pope in a Monday meeting, leading to conflicting reports on the Pope's position on the process.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Poland’s most senior bishop shared with Pope Francis his concerns regarding the influence of the dissident “Synodal Path” process being undertaken by the German Catholic bishops in a Monday meeting. A communiqué from the Press Office for the Polish Bishops’ Conference stated that during Monday’s 45-minute meeting, president of the conference Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki raised his concerns about the direction of the German program, supposedly leading the Pope to...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admitted there is an adolescent mental health crisis due to the draconian coronavirus protocols they recommended. According to new survey data released Thursday, more than 44 percent of American teens reported “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” while nearly 20 percent seriously considered suicide, and nine percent actually did attempt suicide in 2020.

As Covid-19 cases continue to fall in the United States, cases of another virus are rebounding to pre-pandemic levels. Outbreaks of norovirus, the bug responsible for the dreaded stomach flu, have been on the rise since January, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In a deposition released March 25, the former Bishop of Albany admitted that he did not report several instances of alleged sexual abuse of minors by priests, instead choosing to keep the allegations quiet and to refer the priests for treatment. Bishop Emeritus Howard Hubbard, who led the diocese from 1977 until 2014, is himself facing allegations of abuse — which he denies — as well as numerous lawsuits filed under New York’s 2019 Child Victims Act. That legislation set up a one-year window, since extended until August 2021, for clergy sex abuse lawsuits in cases where the statute of...

The four-day workweek just became a reality for dozens of companies across the U.S. and Canada, at least for the next several months. The pilot program, being led by 4 Day Week Global, kicked off on Friday and is expected to last six months. Participating organizations include crowdfunding platform Kickstarter and a number of tech companies.

We are going back to WINTER! Hopefully frost damage will not be widespread! I wonder how many people won’t be able to pay their gas and electricity bills this month… Scotland and UK A blast of icy Arctic air has seen snow blanket parts of Britain, with flurries reported as far south as London, prompting warnings of travel disruption. Icy conditions across Scotland are causing travel chaos for parts of the country after heavier than expected snowfall. After overnight temperatures dropped as low as -6°C in Scotland, much of the UK remained in sub-zero conditions on Thursday morning. The mercury...

On Friday, on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Vice President Kamala Harris said that President Joe Biden’s SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson “cut through the political gamesmanship” of Republican senators during her confirmation hearings. Anchor Joy Reid said, “We sat and watched the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings in which she very calmly sat through what I think a lot of particularly black women, let’s be honest, felt was brazen disrespect from senators like Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, Senators like Josh Hawley. What did you think when you watched that hearing?”

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Open borders advocates – including those who serve in the Biden administration and on Capitol Hill – have been demanding that President Biden end Title 42 since the day he took office during a full-blown pandemic. Title 42 is a public health provision that was invoked by the Trump administration in 2020 at the onset of the COVID pandemic, allowing for the expedited removal of people crossing our borders illegally.

On an uncertain date in the spring of 325, the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great had his onetime co-emperor — and now prisoner — Licinius executed for a purportedly treasonable plot. In the system of tetrarchy whereby the Roman world was divided in two, each half governed by an Augustus with a lieutenant Caesar, Constantine and Licinius had established themselves as masters of the west and the east, respectively. History, which records Constantine as the vessel of Christianity’s political triumph, recommends religious faction as the cause of the strife between them: the two had jointly promulgated the Edict of Milan...

House and Senate Democrats, representing battleground and swing states, are panicking over President Joe Biden’s “frightening decision” to end the Title 42 border control — a move expected to spur the largest wave of illegal immigration in American history. On Friday, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the Biden administration would end Title 42 — a broad authority that allows federal immigration officials to quickly return border crossers and illegal aliens to their native countries.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has said it will stop using International Energy Agency (IEA) data to assess compliance with production quotas of OPEC member countries. The decision came after an extraordinary meeting held via videoconference Thursday. OPEC agreed to replace IEA with consultancy groups Wood Mackenzie and Rystad Energy as secondary sources while assessing the crude production levels of member countries. The group said the decision will take effect immediately.

BERLIN, April 1 (Reuters) - Germany has approved the delivery to Ukraine of several dozen infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) that originally belonged to the former communist East Germany amid criticism that Berlin is not sending enough military aid to Kyiv. Berlin has given the green light for 56 vehicles of the type PbV-501 to be passed on from a Czech company to Kyiv, a spokesman for the defence ministry said on Friday.