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President Joe Biden, 79, his 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken and 45-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan have deliberately camouflaged the Ukraine War as a war between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. While 44-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymer Zelensky and his 40-year-old Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba publicly admit the U.S. is funding and supplying weapons to Ukraine, they all deny the obvious: That the U.S. is at war with the Russian Federation.

A Kentucky man sued his employer for disability discrimination and retaliation after he was subject to an unwanted birthday party and subsequently fired — and won at least $450,000. The suit was brought in the Kenton County Circuit Court in northern Kentucky, where the man alleged he was fired from Gravity Diagnostics after he was thrown a birthday celebration in August, according to a report. The man said he informed his employer that a birthday would trigger his anxiety disorder. Being the "center of attention" would cause the man to endure an anxiety attack, according to the report. He told...

Elon Musk is speaking to investors who could partner with him on a bid for Twitter, sources close to the matter told The Post. A new plan that includes partners could be announced within days, those sources said. One possibility, the sources said: teaming with private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners, which was planning to co-invest with him in 2018 when he was considering taking Tesla private. Silver Lake’s Co-CEO Egon Durban is a Twitter board member and led Musk’s deal team during the 2018 failed effort to take Tesla private, sources said. Silver Lake declined to comment.

Trump funded attack ad against Kemp in Georiga.

A South Carolina inmate who has spent 21 years on death row has chosen a firing squad for his April 29 execution. If the execution happens it will be South Carolina's first since 2011. Richard Moore, 57, chose a firing squad over the electric chair. "I believe this election is forcing me to choose between two unconstitutional methods of execution, and I do not intend to waive any challenges to electrocution or firing squad by making an election," Moore said. Moore's lawyers continue to challenge the constitutionality of both types of execution. They are challenging the execution in both state...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi defended Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) after reports questioning Feinstein’s mental fitness to serve. Calling Feinstein “a workhorse for the people of California and a respected leader among her colleagues in the Senate,” Pelosi stated the attacks on her fellow San Francisco Democrat are “unconscionable” and “ridiculous.” “It is unconscionable that, just weeks after losing her beloved husband of more than four decades and after decades of outstanding leadership to our City and State, she is being subjected to these ridiculous attacks that are beneath the dignity in which she has led and the esteem...

SAS troops have trained local forces in Kyiv for the first time since the war with Russia began, Ukrainian commanders have told The Times. Officers from two battalions stationed in and around the capital said they had undergone military training from serving British special forces, one last week and the other the week before. Captain Yuriy Myronenko, whose battalion is stationed in Obolon on the northern outskirts of Kyiv, said that military trainers had come to instruct new and returning military recruits to use NLAWs, British-supplied anti-tank missiles that were delivered in February as the invasion was beginning.

TheHill.com BUSINESS & LOBBYING Abbott border inspections threaten fresh produce supply in US BY KARL EVERS-HILLSTROM - 04/15/22 5:18 PM ET SHARE TWEET ... MORE Getty Images Semi-trucks wait for inspection before crossing the border at the Zaragoza International Bridge, in Juarez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso, Texas on May 31, 2019. – President Donald Trump escalated his abrupt tariff threats against Mexico, triggering alarm about the likely economic fallout, spooking global markets and raising the prospect of US trade wars on multiple fronts. Trump unexpectedly announced his readiness to levy tariffs on all Mexican imports, beginning at...

Bill Maher ridiculed President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan during a recent appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” saying the president’s signature effort will primarily benefit consultants and other “pigs” who feed at the trough of government spending. On Tuesday’s episode of Rogan’s podcast, Maher said some of the plan’s stated goals make sense to

Hundreds of scientists from around the world took part in protests last week to apply pressure on government agencies to make “rapid and deep” cuts to greenhouse gas emissions before it’s too late. In London, 25 scientists glued pages of scientific papers, along with their hands, to the windows of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to force the agency to look at the climate research they say the British government has been ignoring, The Guardian reported. In Madrid, over 50 protesters were arrested after taking to the streets and throwing fake blood on the steps of the...

Most Americans believe it is time to end mask mandates on airlines, polling by Scott Rasmussen, detailed by America First Policy Institute, reveals. On Wednesday, federal officials announced yet another extension of the federal mask mandate, forcing Americans to wear masks on planes, trains, buses, and other modes of public transportation for another two weeks. The mandate was set to expire on April 18, but many had their doubts, as the Biden White House has continued to extend the mask mandate time and time again throughout the entirety of his presidency — another reminder that the president failed to uphold...

Dozens of concerned parents, teachers and students gathered Friday outside Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters demanding unvaccinated staff be allowed back on campus and in the classrooms to help with staffing shortages in the district. Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said he will fill 400 classroom teacher vacancies by drawing from a pool of about 3,000 administrators and other school staff. This comes after a report by Partnership for Los Angeles Schools said thousands of teachers, counselors and other school staff positions remain vacant in the district. Teachers demonstrating Friday said they should be brought back because some who are filling...

In 1970, Agnes Moorehead performed this dramatic Biblical reading as a special guest on the 'Oral Roberts Easter Special'. The show was actually recorded a couple of months earlier, in January 1970. Moorehead, of course, was best known to TV audiences as 'Endora' the mother of Samantha on the hit ABC series 'Bewitched' at the time of this special. I thought I'd share it here as we celebrate the beginning of Passover and Easter weekend around the world. Moorhead was a devout Christian, brought up in a strict Presbyterian household in which her father was a minister. It's been reported...

I was listening, this afternoon, to one of the local conservative radio hosts here in Vegas and he played a clip of Sen. Kennedy who appeared on TV last night on, I believe, Newsmax. After the clip was played, the host stated that Kennedy would be his choice for VP under Trump (or DeSantis). The more I thought about it, the more I began to concur. Every time I hear Kennedy he seems to make a lot of sense, he has a great sense of humor and appears to be someone would would be an effective debater going up against...

A second group of asylum seekers arrived in Washington, D.C., Thursday on a charter bus after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to transport migrants from Texas to D.C. This comes just one day after the first bus of undocumented migrants from Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, was transported to the nation’s capital. Abbott said the order is a direct response to President Joe Biden's plans to end Title 42 expulsions on May 23. The controversial policy, which the Trump administration implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, restricts migrants from coming into the country under the...

Shocked beach-goers have spotted large weedy sea dragons far away from home and splurged across beaches in Australia - the fish have been found lifeless at the city’s northern beachesDozens of bizarre and vibrant creatures have washed up on Australian beaches following weeks of record rainfall. Experts have been left stunned by the dead marine fish as pictures emerge of their unusual presence across seafronts in New South Wales. The weedy seadragons have been spotted in Cronulla, Malabar and the Central Coast and they are thought to be 10 times the amount of normal wash-ups to hit the beaches. Dr...

The relatives of the doomed crew of Russia's Black Sea flagship Moskva defied Russian censors to hold an unofficial memorial today, as Ukraine claimed that all 510 servicemen onboard died - including the ship's captain. -snip- As a result 'all the crew of the cruiser Moskva died'. This included the ship's captain, Anton Kuprin, Gerashchenko said. The battleship had a usual crew number of 510 sailors. He claimed: 'The leadership of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation have deliberately hidden the truth from relatives and friends of the crew members.' His account contradicts other earlier versions, including that...

Russia sent a formal diplomatic note to the US this week calling on Washington and NATO to stop arming Ukraine. The note, which was obtained by The Washington Post, said the Western campaign to pour weapons into Ukraine was “adding fuel” to the conflict and could lead to “unpredictable consequences.” The diplomatic note was sent Tuesday, when news broke of a new massive US military aid package for Ukraine. President Biden announced the new aid on Wednesday, which is worth $800 million and includes howitzers for the first time. The package also includes helicopters, armed Switchblade drones, coastal defense drones,...

The United States now believes that the Russian guided-missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of President Vladimir Putin's Black Sea fleet, was hit by two Ukrainian missiles before sinking, according to a senior U.S. official. The official told reporters on Friday that the vessel had been hit by Neptune anti-ship missiles. Russia claimed that she sank when being towed in stormy seas after a fire triggered explosions in an ammunition store. But the official's account backs Ukraine's Operational Command South which claimed that the Moskva began to sink after being hit by Neptune missiles. Mykhailo Samus, director of a Lviv-based military...

Neil W. McCabe, the national political editor of The Star News Network, reports from Washington’s Union Station, where Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott sent migrants who crossed the border into his state. A social worker from the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington told The Star News Network that she and other staffers from Catholic Charities, including Monsignor John Enzler, the local president provided the migrants with food, clothing, diapers and toys – and tickets to their requested destinations. Some of the migrants went to New York City, others went to Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Miami.