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Wednesday’s edition of Special Report on Fox News aired a bizarre segment featuring newly declassified documents about UFOs. Using the report, the segment contained several questionable – if not fantastical – claims. Although “UFO” has become synonymous with “alien spacecraft,” the acronym means exactly what it stands for: unidentified flying object. U.S. government officials increasingly prefer the term “UAP,” or, unidentified aerial phenomenon. “I feel like we should have the X-Files music here, but they say the truth is out there and it might be terrifying,” Bret Baier said to kick off the segment. “A just-uncovered defense department summary of...

The Democrat frontrunner for governor in Arizona, Katie Hobbs, did not say if she would support any time limits on abortion when asked. Hobbs refused to provide a cut-off date when asked about her thoughts on limits to abortion. “What would your limits be on this? This limits nearly all abortions after 15 weeks. Where do you draw the line?” a local news host asked Hobbs. “Well, women deserve access to abortion care. Abortion is health care,” Hobbs replied. She then touted her legislative record to illustrate what Arizonans would get if she were elected governor.

Two drone videos show several destroyed Russian vehicles along E40 highway In the first, a row of around ten destroyed tanks and other armoured vehicles can be seen lined bumper-to-bumper down the middle of a short stretch of road The second shows destroyed or abandoned Russian vehicles more scattered Kyiv's forces have ambushed Russia's vast invading forces to great success Moscow has seen thousands of items of military hardware destroyed in Ukraine The footage comes after the Kremlin pulled all of its forces out of the Kyiv region The wreckage of an obliterated Russian convoy lying along a Ukrainian highway...

Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) on Tuesday announced his exit from Congress, notching up a 40-percent exit rate among House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump. Just before announcing his retirement, Upton noted in a campaign email on Tuesday “very positive” poll numbers in his primary race against Trump-endorsed Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI). Both Huizenga and Upton were running for the same seat due to state redistricting. “My district was cut like Zorro — three different ways,” Upton told reporters. “So I’ve been here 36 years. When I first ran, I thought I’d be here 10.” Upton was first elected...

Republican Herschel Walker holds a narrow lead over incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) in a hypothetical matchup in the race for U.S. Senate in Georgia, according to a poll published Wednesday. The poll, taken by Emerson College Polling and the Hill from April 1 to 3, found Walker with a four-point edge over Warnock. Walker received 49 percent support compared to Warnock’s 45 percent support, while six percent of respondents said they were undecided on a candidate. The poll was conducted among 1,013 registered voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus three percent. Walker, a...

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- The Escambia County Circle K where a clerk was set on fire by a woman on March 30 remains temporarily closed. The clerk, identified by family as Joie Hellmich, suffered severe life-threatening burns after being doused with gasoline and lit on fire. Betty McFadden, 30, was charged with attempted murder. Hellmich's friend Jodie Jones told Channel 3 on Wednesday that Hellmich is currently in critical but stable condition. She’ll likely have more surgeries in the future and will have a long road to recovery," Jones told Channel 3 in a statement. " She continues to fight...

Sumy has been liberated! Evidence has begun to circulate that Russian forces have also withdrawn completely from the Sumy Oblast, and now the Ukrainian flag flies boldly over the Ukrainian-Russo border there. The war has now shifted completely to the southeastern area of the country, and the Russians may be attempting to increase pressure on some of these key areas.

WASHINGTON — A Ukrainian official has provided VOA with exclusive photos of the aftermath of Russia’s five-week occupation of Ukraine’s decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, showing what he says are Russian trenches dug into radioactive soil near a 1986 nuclear accident at the site. Evgen Kramarenko, director of the Ukrainian state agency managing the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl plant, sent the photos to VOA on Wednesday, saying he had taken them himself on a visit to the site with several of his colleagues the day before. It was the first visit to the site by Kramarenko’s team since...

@LBC Nick Ferrari clashes with this trans caller who said 'most of the trans women athletes were pretty lousy when they were men so they're not going to be so good as women either!' Caller...

Mariupol's mayor said that according to preliminary estimates, Russian troops have killed approximately 5,000 local residents - 210 of them ...

ISSAQUAH, WA—The popular retail store Costco has announced that due to rising costs created by inflation and food shortages they will now be offering customers payment plan options to pay for beef. "I didn't know how I was going to pay for a pack of ground beef, but now that Costco is offering easy payment plans, I can pay it off over time," said Dan Bilsby, a local Costco patron. "Now I can afford to eat roast without picking up 3 extra jobs! Thanks, Costco!" According to sources, for a limited time, Costco is selling all beef with zero percent...

Jesse talking about Biden nominating as SEC commissioner Jaime Lizarraga, currently a senior adviser to Nancy Pelosi. SEC is investigating several companies for fraud. Pelosi's son is involved with those companies. Other people have been prosecuted, but not Paul. Starts at about 17:38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFSkOYcsGgI

“And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house. Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him” (Proverbs 7:10-13).

The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday night to call for an investigation of war crimes committed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Six House Republicans voted against the measure. “We rise today not as Republicans, Democrats, but as Americans, as a united Congress on behalf of the American people condemning these atrocities,” said Representative Michael McCaul, a Republican from Texas and the co-author of the bill. The six Republicans who opposed the legislation did not immediately explain their votes, but nearly all of them were members of the hard-right Freedom Caucus and have argued against interventionist foreign policy.

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...