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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday adopted Republican-drawn maps for the state Legislature, handing the GOP a victory just weeks after initially approving maps drawn by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

The White House has quietly resumed its after-dark charter flights of underage migrants to a suburban airport north of New York City — after a Post expose led to their suspension last year. The Post watched as a group of migrant teens got off an Avelo Airlines plane that arrived at the Westchester County Airport near White Plains at 9:25 p.m. Thursday. The group then boarded three waiting buses that drove off about 50 minutes later.

Former President Donald Trump has endorsed best-selling author J.D. Vance, a vocal national populist, in the Ohio Republican Senate primary race. In a statement on Friday, Trump issued a full endorsement of Vance, calling him “the candidate most qualified and ready to win” against the likely Democrat Senate candidate, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), in the November midterm elections. "We cannot play games,” Trump wrote. “It is all about winning!” “Like some others, J.D. Vance may have said some not-so-great things about me in the past, but he gets it now, and I have seen that in spades. He is our...

Watch veteran journalist and geopolitical expert Fareed Zakaria sharing his perspective on the Russia-Ukraine war only on India Today with Rajdeep Sardesai. ...

One child per couple means that China is “the fastest aging society in human history, with the largest sex imbalance in human history.” “They’ve run out of people of childbearing age.” They were going shrink in half by 2100. “Then they realized that they had been overcounting people for some time.” Then new data moved the date moved up to 2070. And now they’re saying it will be 2050. “For that to be true, the Chinese would have overcounted the population by 100 million.” And all of those missing people are of childbearing age. Their population actually peaked 15 years...

Another unnecessary death, caused as a direct result of the CCP’s draconian COVID lockdown policy that bars anybody without a current COVID test from seeking medical treatment in Shanghai’s hospitals, has rattled the people of Shanghai – and again shaken the people’s faith in the CCP’s “zero COVID” policies – all while the economic carnage from China’s latest lockdowns reverberates across both the country and the world. According to the SCMP, Qian Wenxiong, a cadre with the city’s Hongkou District Health Commission, died on Tuesday afternoon, according to a statement published on an official Weibo account on Thursday. He was...

As a punishing, record-breaking drought enters its 13th year, Chile on Monday (April 11) announced an unprecedented plan to ration water for the capital of Santiago, a city of nearly 6 million. "A city can't live without water," Claudio Orrego, the governor of the Santiago metropolitan region, said in a press conference. "And we're in an unprecedented situation in Santiago's 491-year history where we have to prepare for there to not be enough water for everyone who lives here." The plan features a four-tier alert system that goes from green to red and starts with public service announcements, moves onto...

Geraint Rowlands, 64, set up a fake identity to seek out 'disturbing' content onlineA convicted male sex offender posed online as a "56-year-old lesbian named Carol" to search the internet for "disturbing" content. In 2017 Geraint ap Dewi Rowlands was handed a two-year suspended sentence and banned for 10-years from using any social networking websites or apps without first making the police aware. But the 64-year-old from Cleveland Avenue in Tywyn, Gwynedd, who'd been found guilty of possessing extreme and prohibited pornographic images, was caught using a fake identity in order to look for indecent images of young girls. He...

Simone Biles has become nearly as famous for the Olympic events she quit as the ones she won, and now she is doubling down, saying that walking away last year was her “biggest win” yet. The renowned gymnast became the target of criticism after she dropped out of several events at the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympic games. The 24-year-old gymnast said she skipped the events due to her “mental health.” Since she walked away from some of the events, Biles has become the toast of the left for deferring to her “mental health” instead of achieving excellence in competition. She...

<p>Former National Security Council Director for European Affairs U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman said Thursday former President Trump has “spiraled down” mentally and therefore was not a viable candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.</p><p>Vindman said, “Honestly, it was word vomit, is what we heard, what that clip showed. It’s shocking that he didn’t have the intellect, the intelligence to have the self-preservation to criticize somebody that the vast majority of the American public despises and identifies as a barbarian, as a war criminal. So, I mean, he’s always been his own worst enemy, and he continues to do so now.</p>

For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to it. Let's try to examine the roots of the Ukrainian conflict. It starts with those who for the last eight years have been talking about "separatists" or "independentists" from Donbass. This is a misnomer. The referendums conducted by the two self-proclaimed Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in May 2014, were not referendums of "independence" (независимость), as some unscrupulous journalists have claimed, but referendums of "self-determination" or "autonomy"...

LVIV, Ukraine -- Under relentless bombardment and a Russian blockade, the key port of Mariupol is holding out, but weapons and supplies shortages could weaken the resistance that has thwarted the Kremlin's invasion plans. More than six weeks after the Russian siege began, Ukrainian troops are continuing to fight the vastly superior Russian forces in ferocious battles amid the ruins of what once was a bustling city on the Sea of Azov. The mayor says an estimated 120,000 people remain in the city, out of Mariupol’s prewar population of about 450,000. The Ukrainians' fight has scuttled Moscow's designs, tying up...

<p>By WSBTV.com News Staff April 15, 2022 at 10:49 am EDT ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a state of emergency in reaction to ongoing supply chain disruptions. The order goes into effect Saturday.</p><p>The order prohibits price gouging of goods and services, including gasoline.</p>

While most joints proclaim there's just salt and pepper in their rubs, there is a key ingredient that even Aaron Franklin fesses up to using.Texas barbecue’s reputation is built on beef, wood smoke, and salt-and-pepper seasoning. And while kosher salt and coarsely ground black pepper are the backbone of briskest at most joints in the state, there are often more ingredients added. Inside the prep rooms of several top-ranked pitmasters, there’s also commercially produced seasoned salt. Last June, Jonny White released a video on his Jirby BBQ YouTube channel describing his method for brisket seasoning. He’s the pitmaster and co-owner...

A California judge has found a teenage boy guilty in the slaying of a taco truck owner last yearA California judge found a teenage boy guilty Thursday in the slaying of a taco truck owner last year, The Modesto Bee reported. The boy, who was 13 at the time, walked up to the Modesto taco truck Feb. 16, 2021, and fatally shot Rafael Avila-Rodriguez in the face, Judge Rubén Villalobos ruled Thursday in Stanislaus County Superior Court. SNIP California law states that children under 14 years old can only be prosecuted if, at the time of the crime, "they knew...

U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker reacted to a piece from The Nation’s Elie Mystal declaring Walker to be “an insult to black people.” “I know what I signed up for when I decided to run,” Walker said. “But what’s strange is he’s not telling everyone the Democratic Party has left the brown and black people behind. They forgot all about us. You look at the policies that’s going on, which has nothing to do with color. What it has to do with is these policies is not suitable for the people of Georgia. They’re not suitable for the people of...

Famous Original Ray’s Pizza still rules — no matter what pizza snobs say. As its crown logo proclaims, the local chainlet, which has three locations in Manhattan, is the king of pies, the imperatore of all New York street food. The Big Apple is full of vaunted pizzerias, such as Una Pizza Napoletana, which just reopened to a blizzard of hype on the Lower East Side after a two-year hiatus. “Big cheese foodies” and celebrities stampeded the Orchard Street spot at its launch, Page Six reported. I wonder how many sprang for a $750 tasting menu for four. A pizza...

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) offered a stark warning to the administration as he visited the U.S.-Mexico border this week: Without a comprehensive plan, they could face a “humanitarian crisis.” **SNIP** Kelly is leaning in to a border fight with the administration as he seeks his first full six-year term in November. Republicans view immigration as a potent political issue not only in Arizona - a border state with one of the country’s largest Hispanic populations - but in states with races far from the border. Kelly, speaking with reporters during his fifth trip to the state’s southern border since joining...

January 6 protester Dustin Thompson was found guilty on Thursday of a felony and several misdemeanors. After Dustin Thompson’s guilty verdict was read, he was removed from the courtroom in shackles, with little objection from his attorney. It wasn’t expected that he’d be ordered detained like this before sentencing. As two older security guards removed his belt, ring, and personal items from his pockets, Judge Reggie Walton said in a harsh tone that Thompson was “weak-minded.” ____________________________ Judge Walton, “Trump is a charlatan who caused an insurgency. He is tearing America apart. That’s the reason why our country is falling...

Oops, he did it again. Pope Francis, who, throughout his papacy, has done a lot more political “activating” than “poping,” declared during a Good Friday interview that the West is guilty of widespread “racism,” while also claiming migrants are “subdivided” by skin color and country of origin. And that’s just for starters.During the lengthy interview on Italian television, as noted by Breitbart: “We are racists, we are racists.”There’s first-class, second-class, skin color, [whether] they come from a developed country [or] one that is not developed.We are racists, we are racists. And this is bad.The problem of the refugees is a...