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WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that the country was seeking to break Russia's siege of Mariupol as Russia continued to assault the southern city and threatened to increase its missile strikes on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. In his nightly address to the nation, Zelenskyy said he met with the country's military leaders to discuss the situation in Mariupol, where fighting raged around the city's Illich Steel and Iron Works plant. "The details cannot be made public now, but we are doing everything we can to save our people," Zelenskyy said. "The successes of our military on...

Fox News fired back at White House press secretary Jen Psaki Friday after she attacked the cable news giant, suggesting higher-ups fed White House correspondent Peter Doocy questions that “might make anyone sound like a stupid son of a bitch.” “In his role as White House correspondent, Peter Doocy’s job is to elicit truth from power for the American public,” a spokesperson for the top-rated network told The Post. “His questions are his own, he is a terrific reporter and we are extremely proud of his work.” Psaki — who is reportedly weeks away from leaving the White House for...

A group of right-wing protesters and conspiracy theorists gathered outside Disneyland's entrance in California on Wednesday to rally against "grooming," following weeks of similar rallies against Disney — the latest in a growing culture war trend of conservatives accusing opponents of corrupting children. Prominent republicans and far-right influencers have spent weeks baselessly accusing Disney of grooming children after the company withdrew its support from Florida's controversial "Don't Say Gay" bill, which will restrict public school instructors from talking to K-3 students about "sexual identity and gender orientation." Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law in late March. Grooming,...

Fed up with the Biden Administration failure to stem the tide of illegal immigrants flooding into Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott authorized a plan to put them on buses bound for Washington, DC. "President Biden invited them to come to America," he said. "If these immigrants would like to go to our Capital to seek the benefits he promised we'll pay their bus fare." U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus called Abbott's plan "unfair. Just because some immigrants want to come to DC doesn't mean that we want them there. The Governor needs to seek our permission before he...

"It is all about winning" President Trump defying Republican Party leaders in Ohio by endorsing lawyer and author J.D. Vance for US Senate... The Pentagon rolling out its "equity" policies... The Chinese city of Xian with a population of 13 million moving into a partial lockdown until Tuesday... In New Zealand Brian Tamaki recently freed after being jailed for speaking against COVID mandates speaking on Easter Sunday... A COVID vaccine mandate for California school students delayed... Vaccine passports and an indoor mask mandate remain in force in Western Australia... In the Netherlands an outbreak of the bird flu one of...

A jury took just over an hour Friday to convict Miami-Dade officer Alejandro Giraldo of felony battery and official misconduct in the rough arrest of Dyma Loving, a black woman, who called police for help. Giraldo was suspended after cellphone video circulated on social media showing him tackling Dyma Loving, who had called police in Miami March 2019 to report that a neighbor had pointed a shotgun at her. Police body cameras also recorded the encounter. 'Police officers can put their hands on people to effectuate a lawful arrest. If the arrest is unlawful, they have no more rights than...

Former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said Friday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that the “rot” that led to the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, was not just from former President Donald Trump but other leaders who should be investigated by the Department of Justice. Guest-host anchor Jason Johnson said, “We’re starting to see more incriminating evidence leak out. We’re seeing just how deep the plan to steal the election of 2020 was. Newly revealed text messages obtained by CNN show Senator Mike Lee and Congressman Chip Roy going right to Mark Meadows in full support of the claims of...

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid had a fit of laughter Friday on her show “The ReidOut” after playing a rap video praising Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). After playing a clip from the video, while laughing loudly, Reid said, “I’m so sorry! I’m so sorry! Ok, it’s the way he — Help me!”

For decades on or about April 15, I published a tax day column pointing out that working Americans in our time are as enslaved as 19th century blacks on cotton plantations. I never in 30 or more years saw any response from any economist, historian, or anyone. I think my statement was regarded as too fanciful for comment. People think of slaves as beings of highly restricted mobility who are bought and sold like commodities. In that sense, we are not slaves. But in a wider historical sense we are. A slave is a person who does not own his...

Democratic senator Raphael Warnock asked a Georgia judge on Tuesday to seal his contentious child custody dispute from the public, arguing that because he is "currently running for reelection" his opponent could use the case to "gain some political advantage," according to a court motion obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Warnock made the request in a joint motion with his ex-wife, Oulèye Ndoye, following renewed media attention on their divorce. Warnock and Ndoye said in the filing that there is an "overriding interest that is likely to prejudice the parties and their minor children if hearings relating to modification...

How did Jesus die? A priest – who used to be a doctor – claims he suffered from a shoulder injury that caused a major internal bleed. Reverend Prof Patrick Pullicino, former consultant neurologist at East Kent Universities Hospital Trust, came to his conclusion based on a study of the Shroud of Turin. He argued that the image on the shroud shows a man with a dislocated shoulder, pulled so far out of its socket that the right hand stretched four inches lower than the left. He wrote: ‘Because of this right arm stretching, the right subclavian/axillary artery was also...

It has been apparent for quite some time now that the legacy news media is clearly no longer in the business of providing accurate information to the public. Instead, the supposed ‘arbiters of truth’ have thrown journalistic ethics to the wayside in favor of pushing the approved narrative and dutifully serving the elitist agenda. In other words, long gone are the days of honest reporting based on the principles of the First Amendment. The once-trusted fourth estate, which serves as the final check between the elite power structure and the people, has completely sold out on its responsibilities and is...

Corpus Christi:I thought this would be a good day to point out a few details about Corpus Christi, named for the body of Christ.The highways form a cross. That appears to have been planned (I'd be surprised it if weren't), along with the name "Crosstown Expressway."But there are some other interesting data points.The long "vertical" post is highway 358, which in Hebrew = "Messiah" --This is also the sum of the letters on the four faces of a dreidle: nun, gimel, hei, and shin -- 50 + 3 + 5 + 300The letters are the first letters of the Chanukah...

ESPN has written a long profile about Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai, and it highlights how he has brought his support of the Chinese Communist Party to the NBA. According to ESPN, Tsai “personifies the compromises embedded in the NBA-China relationship, which brings in billions of dollars but 'requires the league to do business ' with an authoritarian government. “Tsai believes much of the criticism he receives is politically motivated by people who purposely distort his views, according to sources close to him,” the ESPN report reads. Tsai thinks there isn't a humans rights problem in China because about 80%-90%...

"Curiously enough, today the West and Russia have switched roles. Russia supports the values that had been considered 'western' — the role of the Christian Church, autonomy of the traditional family, and cultural diversity. All these have become secondary in the West. They are only valued as long as they do not contradict liberal dogmas.”In his recent essay, Vakhtang Kipshidze, Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department for the Russian Orthodox Church's Relations with Society and Mass Media, deliberates on the drastic change in the system of traditional Western values. We are publishing excerpts from the piece. “In his sermon on...

President Joe Biden has nominated Michael Barr, one of the designers of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act that overhauled the financial regulatory system, to serve as the Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator. Barr previously served as assistant treasury secretary for financial institutions under former President Barack Obama ...a Yale graduate and Rhodes scholar, currently serves as the dean of the University of Michigan’s public policy school.

A Canadian church has hosted an assisted suicide ceremony for one of its members.. The Churchill Park United Church of Winnipeg held what it described as a “Crossing Over Ceremony” in which an 86 year old, Betty Sanguin, ended her life through an assisted suicide in the church sanctuary. Minister of Churchill Park, Rev. Dawn Rolke, said that it “seemed appropriate” to hold the ceremony in the sanctuary, as churches are often “host and home to all the raggedness of our lives and to some of our significant life rituals: baptism, marriage, ordination, funeral or memorial services”. “For us, it...

SÃO PAULO – An appearance by Cardinal Orani Tempesta of Rio de Janeiro at a ceremony with President Jair Bolsonaro last week, as the country prepares to enter the campaign for the 2022 presidential election, has caused controversy in Brazil. Tempesta, Bolsonaro, and other authorities met at the Christ the Redeemer Sanctuary to sign a cooperation agreement in which the federal government increased the church’s autonomy in managing the site. The monument belongs to the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro but is located in a federal forest reserve. Over the past few years, there have been numerous clashes with the...

President Joe Biden has knowingly released 756,000 migrants encountered at the border, another 146,000 illegal youths to guardians inside the United States, and an estimated 620,000 “got-aways.” Each is here indefinitely, and most forever. That is unsustainable — but the president has no plan to stop it anytime soon,” wrote Arthur. “This is not ‘open borders,’ or ‘catch and release,’” Arthur wrote. “It is ‘no border’ WITH TRAVEL ASSISTENCE.

Islamic extremists raided the village of Masambo in the northeastern province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on April 3, the Barnabas Fund reported Thursday. The raid by jihadists from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a group allied to the Islamic State, is just one episode in a flood of Islamist violence across North Kivu and its neighboring province of Ituri, Barnabas noted in an email Tuesday. “It is a miracle I survived,” said Masambo resident Kakule Saanane. “We were already in bed when we heard the sound of boots outside and bullets. It was...