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The U.S. Navy recently reassigned a commander who is fighting the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate after the Supreme Court overturned a lower court order that barred a reassignment, according to the officer’s lawyer.The commander was informed by a superior on April 8 that the Navy was reassigning him to shore command, the lawyer said in a declaration to the court.“On Monday, April 11, instead of getting underway with his ship, Navy commander was ‘temporarily reassigned’ for 60 days under a new Navy policy that prohibits unvaccinated personnel from going underway on Navy ships,” the lawyer said.The Navy said in late...

New York Times reporters Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin offered a recording on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” allegedly of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy telling Rep. Liz Cheney that he would recommend to then-President Donald Trump that he should resign. Earlier today, a spokesman denied the report that McCarthy called for Trump’s resignation from the upcoming book, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” authored by Burns and Martin. Partial transcript as follows: CHENEY: I guess there’s a question. When we’re talking about the 25th Amendment resolution, and you asked if,...

Putin’s War, the invasion of Ukraine, is about to enter its third month. What was widely expected (at least by Western experts) to be a 72-hour romp ending with Volodymyr Zelensky in exile, another Putin puppet in Kiev, and a victory parade in Kiev is turning into a slugging meatgrinder.The map below depicts the war on a day-to-day basis since February 24. Gray areas reflect areas that are not firmly under the control of either side.The Russian army invaded Ukraine 57 days ago. This timelapse shows the movement and control of Russian forces across Ukraine over those 8+ weeks. Please...

A top advisor of US Secretary Antony Blinken acknowledged that the India-Russia relationship is decades old and added, "Washington fully understands New Delhi's long-standing ties to Moscow." While speaking to the news agency ANI on Thursday, Derek Chollet, Blinken's top advisor said that India and Russia have been sharing a "good bond" when the United States was not available to be a partner. However, he stressed that the India-US partnership has also enough potential to thrive tremendously. "We understand that India has had a long-standing defence relationship with Russia over many years and part of that was because the United...

That Kamala Harris is a big liability to the Biden administration at this point in her tenure as Vice President is something that appears even the White House itself is tacitly acknowledging if recent reports detailing the backroads places they’re having her travel to in the coming weeks are a reliable indicator. The reasons she’s become a hindrance more than a help to this administration have been documented extensively here, including most notably her failure at making any meaningful progress in determining the “root causes” of the southern border crisis, an assignment given to her by President Biden over a...

Based on my penname "Deaf and Delirious", most readers will probably - and correctly - assume I am hearing impaired. I've been wearing hearing aids since my teenage years. My hearing loss ranges between 80 - 90 dB bilaterally (both ears) and described as "severe hearing loss" level. At this level, without my hearing aids, I cannot hear speech at all when a person is talking to me at a normal level (60 B). But I can hear some loud sounds, like my lawn mower (90 dB) or my circular saw (100 dB). I also experience tinnitus daily. When someone...

A 19-year-old white woman was brutally beaten by a pack of black teen girls over her hairstyle in Boston’s Downtown Crossing Monday night. According to witnesses, as many as 20 teens surrounded the white woman, punched her and kicked her and pulled her hair because she had braids. The teens called the victim “white bitch with braids” and said she’s not allowed to wear her hair in braids because she’s “not black.” The teens also attacked two good Samaritans who intervened and assaulted responding officers.

What are the odds? Just after Joe Biden warned the nation of “very real” food shortages, multiple food processing plants and food companies were destroyed or damaged. Multiple fires and explosions have been reported at these plants across the nation. But here’s the thing: fires and explosions are rare at food companies. Trending: Secret Audio Recording Catches MSM In A New Huge Lie About Trump! Sure, it happens occasionally. That’s what you call an emergency. But what are the odds of multiple “emergencies” happening just as Biden warns of food shortages? In fact, over 20 food processing plants were shut...

Another $800 million in security assistance is headed to Ukraine, the Pentagon announced today. This is the 8th drawdown package announced, which is gear pulled from existing U.S. military stock. Included in this package are 72 155 mm howitzers, 144,000 artillery rounds, 121 Phoenix Ghost unmanned aerial systems and vehicles with which to tow the howitzers. The Phoenix Ghost Tactical Unmanned Aerial System, said Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby, is a system developed by the Air Force in response to Ukrainian requirements. "Phoenix Ghost is a tactical, unmanned aerial system ... [it] provides similar capabilities to the Switchblade series...

A major fire broke out today in a secretive Russian military research center, killing several people, injuring others, and leaving significant damage in its wake. The facility in Tver, 120 miles northwest of Moscow, is responsible for diverse research focused on air defense, but reportedly crosses over between the fields of both space and the military. Most notably, it reportedly studies stealth technologies — and, above all, counters to use against them. Local media reports on the fire at the Central Scientific Research Institute of the Aerospace Defense Troops, or TSNII VVKO, in the center of Tver, do not provide...

Arizona’s high court has pulled a ballot question from the November election that could have erased the state’s largest-ever income tax cut. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a veto initiative to repeal a gradual change from Arizona’s progressive income tax to a flat 2.5% wasn’t appropriate for the ballot process. The court didn’t immediately offer an analysis of the opinion. Lawyers representing the Arizona Free Enterprise Club (AFEC), a taxpayer advocating nonprofit, argued before the court that the state’s constitution bans government functions such as tax cuts from being challenged at the ballot box. Passed in 2021, the...

As many as 9,000 Ukraine civilians could have been executed by Russian forces and buried in mass graves outside Mariupol, according to local leaders. Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko revealed the grim development Thursday and called the site of the atrocities in the nearby village of Manhush “the new Babi Yar,” a reference to the Ukrainian Holocaust site where tens of thousands of Jews were killed in World War II. “Then Hitler killed Jews, Roma and Slavs. And now Putin is destroying Ukrainians. He has already killed tens of thousands of civilians in Mariupol,” ....Meanwhile, Russia continued to shell humanitarian corridors...

In the video titled “I Crashed My Plane,” Jacob can be seen diving out of the civilian aircraft and popping his parachute. He claims in the video the airplane malfunctioned while it was flying over the Los Padres National Forest in California. The video was reportedly met with some skepticism, with some believing the crash was staged. The FAA agreed it seemed "odd" Jacob was wearing a parachute at the time of the crash, the NYT reported. Furthermore, according to the FAA's letter, authorities took note that Jacob didn't make an attempt to contact air traffic control, and also didn't...

In a leaked recording of Kevin McCarthy on a call with Liz Cheney and other House Republicans, the Minority Leader told Cheney that he would counsel Trump to resign back on January 10, 2021. “I think [impeachment resolutions] will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign,” McCarthy said he would tell Trump before further adding, “what he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that and nobody should defend it.” Liz Cheney had pressed McCarthy about whether Trump could possibly choose to resign on his own: “Is there any chance? Are you hearing that he might resign? Is...

Craig and Kelly Robinson, former first lady Michelle Obama’s brother and sister-in-law, have sued their children’s school for alleged racial bias, CNN reported Thursday, after their two children were disenrolled from the school. The Robinsons in their suit state that the prestigious University School of Milwaukee notified the couple that their children — ages 9 and 11 — would not be permitted back at the school for the 2021-2022 school year. A portion of the letter sent at the end of last school year and obtained by CNN said, “We cannot continue a relationship with your family.” The Robinsons said...

Bonola frequented an Austin coffee shop in Forest Hills where he allegedly used to leave “creepy” love notes for baristas. Female workers were so fearful at his advances that they called cops on him multiple times. “He would come up to us and ask for coffees and tell us that we looked pretty and make comments about how we look,” former barista Oliwia Pikulinski, 21, told New York Post. “He was creepy, he stalked people… It was known. Everyone knew he was a weird individual, especially in the Starbucks on Austin Street." Bonola would visit the shop several times a...

WARNING—Graphic footage: Fox News host voices his concerns over the crime spike on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight 16 minutes

Spanish officials are investigating the mysterious deaths of a Russian gas executive, who was found hanged outside his Spanish villa, and his wife and daughter who were both discovered hacked to death inside the property. Investigators are said to be working on the assumption that Sergey Protosenya, 55, killed the two women with an axe and knife, before taking his own life in the courtyard of his Lloret de Mar villa on Spain's Costa Brava. However, local reports said evidence does not conclusively point towards this explanation, as no suicide note was found in the property and it appeared steps...

Joe Biden on Thursday traveled to Portland, Oregon to talk about infrastructure and improvements. Biden is underwater in Oregon, a state he supposedly won in 2020. 63% have a negative opinion about Joe Biden according to a new Oregon Public Broadcasting poll. Biden repeated his favorite lies: Putin’s gas price hike Biden claims he spent time in the “foothills of Tibet” with Xi Jinping (Washington Post gave Biden 3 Pinocchios) Rising Gas prices were a discussion at the dinner table when Biden was a child (gas prices were flat Biden’s entire childhood) Joe Biden bizarrely claimed he wrote the original...

According to representatives of Almaya Munnettam, a laity organisation of the archdiocese, of the total 340 churches under the archdiocese, only five witnessed the Mass in the new format.KOCHI: Even after Cardinal Mar George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church, urged the priests of Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese to conduct the uniform Mass in the churches on Easter, vicars of a majority of the churches and parishes didn’t on Sunday. According to representatives of Almaya Munnettam, a laity organisation of the archdiocese, of the total 340 churches under the archdiocese, only five witnessed the Mass in the new format. “The majority of...