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YouTube has suspended the account of Odessa-based Chinese national Wang Jixian after he reported on atrocities committed as Russian troops withdrew from Bucha, RFA has learned. Odessa-based programmer Wang has been uploading videos since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began last month, but hasn't published any new videos since one on March 30 in which he hits out at pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) critics as "human trash," and translates news reports of gang rape being committed by Russian troops in Bucha, including of a young girl. Wang had been uploading to the site daily, with the same introduction every time:...

Abbott said he’s responding to the Biden administration announcement that it will lift a pandemic-era emergency health order that allowed immigration authorities to turn away migrants at the border, even those seeking asylum.

Dan Brophy's mother took the stand for the first time on Wednesday, as did the lead homicide detective and the medical examiner.Day three of Nancy Brophy’s murder trial saw witness testimony from Dan Brophy’s mom, a longtime acquaintance of the couple, officers who worked on the scene and medical examiners — including the one who conducted Dan Brophy’s autopsy. Nancy Brophy, a romance novelist, is accused of killing her husband Dan Brophy, a chef at the Oregon Culinary Institute. Students found him shot to death on June 2, 2018. The first witness called to the stand was Maxine Borcherding, a...

A fourth shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine increased protection against viral infection for only four to seven weeks, according to a massive study published Tuesday. The study included 1.25 million people age 60 and over in Israel who received their fourth dose between January and March. Israel uses only the Pfizer vaccine. People who got the fourth dose were half as likely to test positive for COVID-19 four weeks later when compared to people who only had three doses, according to the study. But by the eighth week, the groups were almost equally likely to catch COVID-19, researchers found....

Kat Nazar has been leading whale-watching tours in the San Francisco Bay for nearly two decades but it never gets old when she sees a spout briefly skim the surface of the water, followed by a tiny puff of steam. And on Sunday afternoon, she may have had one of her closest encounters yet. Nazar was steering the San Francisco Whale Tours’ 65-foot catamaran — aptly named the Kitty Kat — near the Golden Gate Bridge and Crissy Field when she approached several windsurfers and had to slow down. As they came to a stop and her passengers scanned the...

...In prison, he began to study the Quran in greater detail, and focused on the aspects that most puzzled him. Among these was the figure called Dhu-l Qarnayn, “the two-horned one,” who appears in the Quran’s 18th chapter and is believed by many to refer to Alexander the Great. Cerantonio did not see a resemblance between Dhu-l Qarnayn and the Alexander of history—but he noted similarities between Dhu-l Qarnayn and a heavily fabulized version of Alexander’s story written in Aramaic. He considered that the Aramaic version may have plagiarized the Quran, but after acquiring a copy of the Aramaic and...

More Americans would rather kick Joe Biden out of the White House than see Vladimir Putin removed from power in the Kremlin. Just a week after the US president was accused of making a gaffe calling for regime change in Russia, an exclusive poll for the Sunday Express has revealed Americans would rather see his presidency end. Asked which would be better for America, 52 per cent chose "Biden loses power in the US" over 43 per cent for "Putin loses power in Russia". The findings, in the poll by the Washington-based Democracy Institute, show almost two-thirds of Americans (62...

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me." "Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called...

The difference between negative vs positive rights is that one requires action while the other requires inaction. Negative rights are the requirements of someone else not to interfere in your ability to obtain something. Positive rights are a requirement of someone else to provide you with something. You may hear negative rights referred to as “liberties,” and that’s because they are basic human and civil rights stating that no one can interfere with our right to obtain something through trade or bartering. Positive rights are often called “entitlements” because they are things that someone must provide to us, whether we’ve...

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) on Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) following the Senator's objection to a bill advancing Montenegro’s bid to join NATO. "The Senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin." Clip...

Tucker Carlson's Monologue Calling Out Utah Governor @SpencerJCox & Utah Senator @MittRomney For Abandoning Their Voters To Embrace The Woke Left "So Utah is definitely not California, and yet some of its most prominent politicians would very much like to change that." Segment...

The moving goodbye letter a murdered ISIS hostage wrote to his parents has been read at the trial of the terror suspect accused of masterminding his abduction. Peter Kassig wrote the final letter to his parents Ed and Paula five months before he was beheaded by Jihadi John in November 2014, and revealed that he did not believe his captors' claims that his family had given up on him. It was read at the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, Wednesday by Peter's retired teacher dad Edward Kassig, who struggled to hold back tears, as Kassig's mom Paula, a former...

From the lepers in the Old Testament to the Plague of Justinian in Ancient Rome to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, covid represents the first time ever in the history of managing pandemics that we quarantined healthy populations. While the ancients did not understand the mechanisms of infectious disease—they knew nothing of viruses and bacteria—they nevertheless figured out many ways to mitigate the spread of contagion during epidemics. These time-tested measures ranged from quarantining the sick to deploying those with natural immunity, who had recovered from illness, to care for them. Lockdowns were never part of conventional public health measures....

Steve Bannon suffered a setback ahead of his criminal trial when a judge on Wednesday ordered that he could not tell jurors he relied on advice from lawyers when he defied a subpoena to answer questions about the January 6 violence before Congress. He was charged with two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide documents and testimony to lawmakers investigating the attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters. Bannon's lawyers argued in a February filing that he had acted in good faith, based on the advice of veteran defense attorney Robert Costello, that he could not give...

Former President Trump announced on Wednesday he would be endorsing first-term Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) along with a slew of other House Republicans who objected to certifying 2020 election results in his favor. Greene is an outspoken Trump supporter, as is Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), whom Trump also announced Wednesday he would be backing. The House Republican endorsements by Trump come one day after Rep. Fred Upton (Mich.) became the fourth GOP congressman who voted to impeach Trump after the Capitol riot to announce he would not seek reelection. In his endorsement of Greene, Trump called the Georgia Republican...

Starting a new job can be exciting and even a little nerve-wracking. But in a recent survey by The Muse of 2,500 millennial and Gen Z employees, a whopping 72% of respondents reported feeling surprise or remorse in a new position because the role or company wasn't what they expected. As Insider's Rebecca Knight reported, many new employees are experiencing new-hire's remorse as Zoom What is Zoom? A comprehensive guide to the wildly popular video-chatting service for computers and smartphones Zoom is a free videoconferencing app that's easy to download, set up, and start using right way. Here's a full...

The bodies of a father, mother and adult son were found badly decomposed in an Irvine home Wednesday after police say their extended family members called for a welfare check after not being in contact for a year. The Irvine Police Department said after Canadian authorities contacted them asking for a welfare check on the behalf of concerned family members, officers entered a home at 58 Riverboat in Irvine at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Officers found "three severely decomposed bodies inside that appeared to be adults." There were no signs of someone entering the home, and police are not looking for...

Gov. Brian Kemp continues to lead former Sen. David Perdue in the Georgia Republican gubernatorial primary race, but if a runoff were to occur, the race would become much tighter, according to a poll released Wednesday. The poll, conducted by Emerson College Polling and the Hill from April 1 to 3, found Kemp held an 11-point lead over Perdue on a full primary ballot, with Kemp receiving 43 percent support compared to Perdue’s 32 percent support.

El Salvador’s congress has authorised prison sentences of 10 to 15 years for news media that reproduce or disseminate messages from gangs, prompting accusations of censorship from press freedom groups. The vote late on Tuesday was the latest in a flurry of legislative action against the gangs after 62 suspected gang killings on 26 March led President Nayib Bukele to seek and win a state of emergency. Harsh measures against imprisoned gang members and increased prison sentences followed, as well as the arrests of some 6,000 people accused of being gang members. The law says that “radio, television, written or...