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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky praised President Biden on Tuesday after the U.S. leader said Russian President Vladimir Putin is committing genocide in Ukraine. “True words of a true leader @POTUS. Calling things by their names is essential to stand up to evil. We are grateful for US assistance provided so far and we urgently need more heavy weapons to prevent further Russian atrocities,” Zelensky wrote on Twitter. The message came hours after Biden, while delivering remarks in Menlo, Iowa, accused Putin of committing genocide in Ukraine.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) blasted the Biden Administration in the wake of Tuesday morning’s record-breaking inflation announcement; the consumer price index rose 8.5% —a four-decade high. “Stop begging OPEC. Stop looking to Venezuela. Stop looking to Iran and rely on the American roughneck. No one does it better than we do, and these liberal politicians are regulating our communities and our country into poverty,” Boebert said during the a recent press conference.

Gilbert Gottfried, a comedian and film and television actor with a distinctly memorable voice, has died after a long illness, his family announced on Tuesday. He was 67.

CHICAGO — A former U.S. Postal Service employee based in Chicago has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly stealing stimulus checks from the mail. Olivia Bryant, 33, of Chicago, has been charged with three counts of theft from the U.S. mail. During her arraignment, Bryant pleaded not guilty.

HARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia — Former Vice President Mike Pence is speaking at the University of Virginia on Tuesday evening after news of his invite prompted leftist students to pressure the school’s administration to ban his event. The event is hosted by Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) at UVA.

The Russia/Ukraine conflict could soon be coming to an end because actor Sean Penn (you remember him as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High) says he’s thinking about “taking up arms” against Russia. “Oh, gnarly!” Penn has been in Ukraine filming a documentary and expressed his support for Ukraine and desire to fight on its behalf in an interview with Hollywood Authentic. “The only possible reason for me staying in Ukraine longer last time would’ve been for me to be holding a rifle, probably without body armour,” Penn said. “Because as a foreigner, you would want to give...

Hearing oral arguments in a major Second Amendment case on Wednesday, Supreme Court justices considered whether to dramatically loosen gun control restrictions across the county, spiraling into a debate over whether New Yorkers should be able to carry firearms on the subway. The case is New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, and it is a lawsuit brought by a pro-gun ownership group on behalf of two men denied a concealed carry license by New York State. The Empire State has a 108-year-old handgun-licensing law that allows authorities to deny a gun license to an applicant to anyone...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered on Wednesday to swap pro-Kremlin oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, who was arrested by Kyiv after escaping house arrest, for Ukrainians captured by Russia. 'I propose to the Russian Federation to exchange this guy of yours for our boys and our girls who are now in Russian captivity,' Zelensky said in a video address posted on Telegram in the early hours of Wednesday. 'And may Medvedchuk be an example for you. Even the former oligarch did not escape. What can we say about much simpler criminals from the Russian hinterland? We will get everyone.' Ukrainian authorities on...

Pope Francis, a leading advocate of Doormat Christianity, is at it again. Although it is traditional for papal podiums to depict the crucifix, during his recent visit to the island of Malta, Pope Francis ditched the cross lest it offend Muslim migrants. As the archdiocese of Malta openly admitted, “The podium will not be adorned with a crucifix, given that the majority of migrants are Muslim.” Instead, the podium backdrop used by Francis consisted of recycled plastic bottles with red blobs meant to highlight the two primary reasons Francis was visiting Malta — to defend migrants and the environment. “When...

Nothing has revealed the class divide in the U.S. quite like runaway inflation and skyrocketing gas prices. But in addition to the economic impact the staggering incompetence of the Biden administration is having on the working class, there is a political one; it's undeniably driving working class voters even further from the Democrats and toward the GOP. But it's not all good news for conservatives. The recent Amazon vote to unionize could be a precursor to something less appealing to the Right: a nascent rebellion among the vast armies of service workers who for decades have inhabited the lower economic...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said the political atmosphere is good for Republicans heading into the midterms but warned that the party could bungle its chances if “unacceptable” candidates win their primaries but go on to lose in November.

Whoopi Goldberg will be taking a break from her duties on “The View” in the coming days – an absence that co-panelist Joy Behar attributed to filming obligations for an acting gig.

1:30 President Joe Biden’s approval rating is nine percentage points lower than former President Donald Trump’s approval four years ago, according to Rasmussen Reports. Biden’s approval stood at 41 percent on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Fifty-eight percent disapprove. Four years ago — in the same point of the presidency on April 12, 2018 — Trump saw a 50 percent approval rating, which is nine points higher than Biden’s current figure:

A judge in Washington D.C. denied on Tuesday federal prosecutors' motion to detain the two men impersonating federal agents because he says he isn't convinced that there are links to Pakistan intelligence. He also claimed that deleting social media posts wasn't proof that the other defendant would tamper with evidence, as federal lawyers argued. I am going to 'deny the government's request that the two defendants be held pending trial,' Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey said during proceedings Tuesday. The decision comes after it was revealed in proceedings earlier Tuesday that Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Sher-Ali, 35, were 'inadvertently...

Authorities released the name of a person of interest in the Brooklyn subway attack on Tuesday. They identified him as Frank James during an evening news briefing. NYPD officials said they were looking for him to determine his connection to the attack that injured 28 people, including 10 people shot.

SIALKOT(Punjab, India): A man climbed a mobile tower in Sialkot on Sunday after an argument with his wife. According to details, a man named Omar Hayat, a resident of Sadiqabad in Sialkot, climbed the mobile tower after an argument with his wife. Upon receiving the information, four rescue teams rushed to the spot so that the man could be taken down from the pole. Rescuers successfully pulled the man out of the mobile tower. Neighbors of the Sialkot man said that Omar Hayat is addicted to drugs and he usually gets out of control. Earlier, a man allegedly climbed a...

Indian military rescuers with helicopters lifted to safety on Tuesday (April 12) the last of almost 50 passengers who had been trapped mid-air since a fatal cable-car collision two days earlier, police said. The collision on the pilgrim cableway directly killed one person, and another fell to his death on Monday when trying to climb on to a rescue helicopter, a police officer in Jharkhand state's Deoghar district told Reuters. Most of the almost 50 survivors in the dangling cars were rescued on Monday. But three were not lifted to safety until Tuesday, said Mr Subhash Chandra Jat, the police...

Petition at Jesuit college calls bishop ‘bigoted’ for asking Catholic middle school to remove gay pride, BLM flagsA group centered at the Jesuit College of the Holy Cross are chiding the local bishop for threatening to remove the 'Catholic' designation of a school flying gay pride and BLM flags. WORCESTER, Masschusetts (LifeSiteNews) — Students, faculty, and alumni of the Jesuit College of the Holy Cross petitioned the administration to disinvite Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester from this year’s graduation ceremony due to his request that a local Jesuit middle school remove its gay pride and Black Lives Matter flags.Catholic News...

An LGBTQ reporter who goes by "they/them" pronouns is peeved that MSNBC "misgendered" them during a segment on women who face online harassment. On Friday, Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz and 19th News reporter Kate Sosin sat down for a joint interview and spoke about how viral attacks have impacted their work as well as their personal well-being. Sosin later took to Twitter to object to being labeled a female. "I really did not want to get into this, but I don't know what to do. It's been five days since @MSNBC pubbed this piece on gender-based harassed facing journalists...

NOTE: A hat tip to my friend Leo in NJ for this. He got it from somebody else. Spread the word. How many coal fired power plants are there in the world today? Green New Deal? Just look at this... The EU has 468 - building 27 more... Total 495 Turkey has 56 - building 93 more... Total 149 South Africa has 79 - building 24 more... Total 103 India (thanks) has 589 - building 446 more... Total 1035 Philippines has 19 - building 60 more... Total 79 South Korea has 58 - building 26 more... Total 84 Japan has...