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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, announced Tuesday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus. “I’m feeling fine, and grateful to be vaccinated and boosted," the 61-year-old Schiff tweeted. “In the coming days, I will quarantine and follow CDC guidelines. And remember, please get vaccinated!" Schiff chairs the House Intelligence Committee and represents the 28th Congressional District. Schiff didn't indicate where he might have contracted the infection or whether it involved a new COVID-19 subvariant, BA.2, that has provided worrying upticks in caseloads overseas and is spreading in the United States.

The countries neighboring the Russian Federation have to defend themselves not so much from the very Russian language, but from everything that is attached to it. In the fall of 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the attempts to ‘blatantly reduce the Russian language [and culture] space in the world’. He put the blame on the ‘primeval nationalists’ and the governmental policy of individual countries. Well, that’s where one has to agree with the Russian president. The Kremlin policy indeed does not serve the cause of the Russian language. Unlike English, the Russian language is deprived by Moscow of...

**SNIP** Joe Biden is now the most unpopular person in virtually any room he enters. If you doubt it, watch the scene at the White House today. You've never seen anything like it. It's the president United States in his own house, shunned. Nobody would talk to him. So Biden wandered off, looking vacant as a crowd formed around a former president, Barack Obama, who was obviously deeply grateful for the attention. And then it got worse. It got much more poignant than that. Biden tried to horn in on the conversation swirling around Obama. Everyone involved in that conversation,...

From the words of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with reference to the political drama in the Knesset: On Passover we celebrate the Exodus of Israel from Egypt to the Land of Israel, the Promised Land. Today we are happy for a similar reason, and congratulate MK Idit Silman for making the right decision. We all receive her with a warm embrace and open arms. Idit returned home - to the right, to the national camp. There is a weak and limping government in Israel today. Its days are few. I hereby call on other members of the coalition whose...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday post-war Ukraine will likely be modeled as a “big Israel” in terms of security with self-protection, and will no longer be a “liberal European” city. “Ukraine will definitely not be what we wanted it to be from the beginning. It is impossible. Absolutely liberal, European – it will not be like that. It [Ukraine] will definitely come from the strength of every house, every building, every person,” Zelensky said at a press briefing. “We will become a ‘big Israel’ with its own face. We will not be surprised if we have representatives of...

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April 5, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) BUCHA, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the Russian military must be brought to justice immediately for war crimes, accusing the Kremlin’s troops of the worst atrocities since World War II. Zelensky urged the council to “act immediately” on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of his country, calling for Russia to be expelled from the Security Council. Zelensky called on the 15-member council, which aims to ensure international peace and security, to “remove Russia as an aggressor and a source of war,...

Zelensky speech: Visibly emotional leader speaks to press on streets of Bucha: A visibly emotional Volodymyr Zelensky today stood motionless as he surveyed the scene of utter devastation he encountered in the town of Bucha, with dozens of bodies shot at close range laying on the empty streets. The Ukrainian President appeared overwhelmed at seeing the carnage in the town, admitting he finds 'it very difficult to talk when you see what they've done here'. On the streets of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, the bodies of civilians have laid scattered, many with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of...

I WILL Talk about MY Sexually in CLASS It makes me very angry when people don’t want to talk about gender and sexuality in classrooms Not everyone who menstruates is a woman. You are a birthing person! - video is only 8 minutes

President Joe Biden found himself relegated to the sidelines on Tuesday as his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama stole the limelight during his first visit to the White House in five years.

The future of Kazakhstan’s relationship with its closest ally, Russia, is on the minds of many Kazakhs – and their Facebook pages – these days. Watching Russia’s indiscriminate attack on Ukraine, Kazakhs are asking: Will we be next? How much will our economic ties with Russia hurt us? Will we too be punished by Western sanctions for belonging to the Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union, the EAEU? Others argue in support of Russia, some even marking their cars with the letter “Z”, the symbol invading Russian troops have painted on their armored vehicles. Facebook is where Kazakhs go to discuss and...

Five kilometers from the front in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, the danger from Russian targeted strikes is so high that ambulances prefer to wait for the cover of night to evacuate casualties, and to travel without lights when they do so. “There was a Jeep that drove by us with its lights on. About five minutes after passing us, the Russians shelled it,” said Michael Ratinsky, 56, a Kfar Saba resident and father of three. For the past month, he has served as a medic in the Ukrainian army, despite having only limited medical training connected to lifeguard certifications and...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called out the "hypocrisy" in the Biden White House and told Sean Hannity several actions America can take to further disable Putin. NEWT GINGRICH: There's such total hypocrisy in the Biden White House where they say strong things about Putin. You know, he's a war criminal. He's a murderer. He ought to be tried for war crimes. But at the same time, the number one person negotiating with Iran is a Russian, and their goal is to get us to agree to give up all of the sanctions as it relates to Iran. And if...

Have you ever met a transgender kid? That’s the question The GenderCool Project asks in a national campaign by Swissa Creative. The high-energy 30 second spot features 11 transgender and non-binary kids ages 13 through 17 playing the team sports they love while talking about how participating in sports makes them feel. Known as the GenderCool “Champions”, these young people are at the core of GenderCool, a youth-led, youth-inspired organization with a simple mission: help replace misinformed opinions with positive, powerful experiences meeting transgender and non-binary youth who are thriving

The highest ranking military officer in the U.S. said Tuesday that he expects the conflict in Ukraine to last years. "I do think this is a very protracted conflict, and I think it's measured in years. I don't know about decade, but at least years for sure," Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley told the House Armed Services Committee Tuesday during testimony on the defense budget. "This is a very extended conflict that Russia has initiated and I think that NATO, the United States, Ukraine and all of the allies and partners supporting Ukraine will be...

From this month on, no more Russian gas in Lithuania,’ President Gitanas Nauseda said in a tweet as he urged other European nations to do the same Lithuania managed to cut its energy dependence on Moscow after it launched the Klaipeda offshore LNG import terminal in 2014 Lithuania said it has cut itself off entirely of gas imports from Russia, apparently becoming the first of the European Union’s 27 nations using Russian gas to break its energy dependence on Moscow. “Seeking full energy independence from Russian gas, in response to Russia’s energy blackmail in Europe and the war in Ukraine,...

A teacher in Texas was fired after 'torturing' her students by playing a video of a high-pitched dog whistle for 40 minutes to punish them. The unidentified woman played the YouTube clip at Leland Edge Middle School for an entire period on March 2, leaving students clutching their ears in agony, and accusing them of torture. It is unclear what the class had done to merit being punished. The teacher has since been dismissed, with police also probing the incident, as one girl who was in the classroom condemned the teacher's behavior. Zoey Lohrs told NBC DFW: 'She put on...

Special Counsel John Durham revealed he has unearthed a text message showing Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann falsely told the FBI he was not working on behalf of any client when he delivered anti-Trump research. Special Counsel John Durham is revealing new smoking gun evidence, a text message that shows a Clinton campaign lawyer lied to the FBI, while putting the courts on notice he is prepared to show the effort to smear Donald Trump with now-disproven Russia collusion allegations was a "conspiracy." In a bombshell court filing late Monday night, Durham for the first time suggested Hillary Clinton's...

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid condemned on Tuesday Russia's "war crimes" in Ukraine, intensifying Israel's criticism of Russia since the fighting in Ukraine started. "The images and testimony from Ukraine are horrific. Russian forces committed war crimes against a defenseless civilian population. I strongly condemn these war crimes," he said in a statement. Earlier on Tuesday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett condemned the killing of civilians documented in the Ukrainian town of Bucha "We're shocked by the terrible sights in Bucha - awful scenes - and we condemn them. The suffering of Ukrainian citizens is immense, and we're doing everything we...

Elena Bunina, a Russian-Jew who in recent years headed top Russian tech company Yandex, has stepped down as the firm’s CEO and has moved to Israel due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to media reports. Last week, Reuters reported that Bunina has decided to step down as chief executive of Yandex LLC, Russia’s largest tech company that has been dubbed “Russia’s Google,” two weeks before her tenure was set to expire. The report did not specify the reasons behind Bunina’s sudden departure from the company, where she had served as CEO since 2017. Following her departure from Russia,...