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@IAPolls2022 NEW: Fabrizio Lee and Associates 2022 Ohio Senate Republican Primary J.D. Vance 31% (+6) Josh Mandel 19%(+1) Matt Dolan 12% (+3) Mike Gibbons 12% (-1) Jane Timken 8% (-3) Undecided 17% +- from April 19 poll Fieldwork: April 25-26 / 800 LV

While commercial citrus growers in Florida are keenly aware of where the industry stands with citrus greening, I get many questions from the general public about the disease and citrus in general, so I thought an update on the situation was fitting. I’ll start with a quick history lesson to bring us all up to speed. Citrus greening or HLB is short for Huanglongbing, a bacterial disease that affects nearly all types of citrus and ultimately cause trees to die. Many have reported that it is the worst disease to ever impact citrus. The disease is vectored or transmitted by...

Russian state TV has said the possibility of nuclear war is more likely than Vladimir Putin losing the conflict he started in Ukraine. Margarita Simonyan, editor of broadcaster RT and one of the most highly paid Kremlin mouthpieces, made the chilling prediction last night. Speaking with a panel of nervous looking experts on TV, she said: ‘Either we lose in Ukraine, or the Third World War starts. ‘I think World War Three is more realistic, knowing us, knowing our leader. The most incredible outcome, that all this will end with a nuclear strike, seems more probable to me than the...

HAVANA TIMES – On Thursday, Cuba thanked the Russian government of Vladimir Putin for a donation of 19,526 tons of wheat, which reached the island a month late due to Western sanctions on Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine. The Cuban authorities received the support of the Russian Government in an act at the Ministry of the Agri-Food Industry, which in the last year has already sent food and medical supplies to the Island, which is going through a serious economic crisis. The Russian ambassador to Cuba, Andrei Guskov, said that this important “humanitarian cargo” had problems because the shipowner...

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964. Their classic line-up consisted of lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist and singer Pete Townshend, bass guitarist John Entwistle, and drummer Keith Moon

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has seemingly confirmed plans to siphon healthcare services away from American veterans treated at Veterans Affairs (VA) to illegal aliens arriving at the United States-Mexico border. During a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas confirmed to Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) that the Biden administration is in talks with VA officials to potentially transfer doctors and nurses to the southern border to treat illegal aliens arriving every day in record-breaking numbers. “Is the department planning to reallocate resources, doctors and nurses, from our VA system intended...

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: Biden requests $33 Billion more from Congress for weapons shipments to Ukraine 10:14 AM · Apr 28, 2022

Second Week of Easter John 3:31-36 Friends, today’s Gospel promises eternal life to those who believe in the Son of God. In almost every religion, the life of faith has something to do with a creature’s relationship to the Creator; nearly all religions speak of the creature’s dependency upon God, of his subjection to the divine providence, and of his need for grace and forgiveness. Christianity, too, articulates these basic relationships, but it pushes beyond them because it speaks of the Incarnation and the gifts associated with it. We hear in the third chapter of John’s Gospel that “God so...

Moskal, plural Moskali, also known as Muscal, is a historical designation used for the residents of the Grand Duchy of Moscow from the 12th to the 15th centuries. It is now used by some Slavic nations, mainly Belarus, Ukraine, and Poland, but also in Romania, as an ethnic slur against Russians. The term is generally considered to be derogatory or condescending. Another ethnic slur for Russians is kacap in Polish, or Chazar (pronunciation Kha:zar) in Czech, or katsap (Кацап in Ukrainian).

The world's richest man took to Twitter last night to jokingly tease a new potential takeover of Coca Cola - and it didn't long for Scots to jump on it.Elon Musk never seems to be out the news at the minute after he clinched a deal to buy Twitter for a cool $44 billion cash on Monday. The world's richest man then took to the platform to jokingly tease a new potential takeover target, saying that he is "buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in" in reference to the soft drink’s original recipe and its use as a tonic...

A long-dormant underwater volcano near Antarctica has woken up, triggering a swarm of 85,000 earthquakes. The swarm, which began in August 2020 and subsided by November of that year, is the strongest earthquake activity ever recorded in the region. And the quakes were likely caused by a "finger" of hot magma poking into the crust, new research finds. "There have been similar intrusions in other places on Earth, but this is the first time we have observed it there," study co-author Simone Cesca, a seismologist at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, told Live Science. "Normally, these...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday is introducing a bill to abolish Section 230 — the law the protects online platforms from liability — on the heels of Twitter accepting Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company and take it private. Greene’s bill would eliminate the law making online platforms not liable for content posted by third parties and replace it with a provision to require “reasonable, non-discriminatory access to online communications platforms” through a “common carrier” framework that Greene compared to airlines or package delivery services.

Tributes have been paid to a "much-loved" police officer who died after becoming unwell suddenly. Northamptonshire PC Alex Prentice had been praised for his policing, which included trying to save the life of teenager Rayon Pennycook. SNIP During that time, PC Prentice was attacked by a knifeman in Corby in 2015 and he was also credited for his actions to try to save the life of Rayon Pennycook, 16, in May 2021, who was fatally stabbed in Corby. Chief Constable Nick Adderley said: "The force is mourning the loss of PC Alex Prentice, who was taken ill and died suddenly...

Joe Biden struggled to speak earlier today as he discussed specific actions the United States is taking to punish those close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden promised to “accommodate” the “oligarchs” before laughing twice. Biden promised to “Enhance our underlying effort to accommodate the Russian oligarchs and make sure we take their, take their ill begotten gains.” At this point, Biden apparently realized he got a word wrong, and began laughing. “We’re going to accommodate them,” said Biden, fighting laughter. “We’re going to seize their yachts, their luxury homes, and other ill begotten gains of Putin’s kleptocric– yeah, kleptocracy,...

President Trump’s attorneys reached out to The Gateway Pundit. They are asking our readers and supporters for assistance. The Trump legal team wants The Gateway Pundit community to help them in their crowdsourcing of video footage from the January 6th protests in Washington DC. Trump attorney Peter Ticktin released a letter asking for the public’s help in locating January 6th footage to assist his team in defending President Trump. See the official letter here:

Bradford City fan Adam Waugh 'was kindest person' who 'always had a smile on his face'The brother of a Bradford City fan who died suddenly aged 39 has paid tribute to him as "probably the kindest person to walk the Earth." Stuart Waugh was speaking about his brother Adam Waugh, who tragically died of a suspected heart attack shortly before his 40th birthday. Stuart said younger brother Adam "always had a smile on his face" and was a big fan of his beloved City, having followed his team home and away for many years. Stuart said: "Adam will be very...

People who don’t get vaccinated against COVID-19 are putting themselves in danger and also are creating a “disproportionate” threat to the health of vaccinated people, even in places with high vaccination rates, says a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The study by University of Toronto researchers used computer modeling based on the province of Ontario to predict infection rates when unvaccinated and vaccinated people mixed to varying degrees. The researchers worked in factors such as vaccine effectiveness, baseline immunity among the unvaccinated, and infection recovery rates. Unvaccinated people were always at a higher risk of infection, the...

A whistleblower who got her own parents arrested and charged with more than 100 counts of abuse at a girls' school has now set out on a 'mission' to close down an associated facility. The Agapé Boarding School for Boys in Stockton, Missouri, has been hit with 14 lawsuits and Amanda Householder believes the time has come to shutter it for good. ‘The fact that the Agapé Boarding School is still open is beyond infuriating,’ Householder, 31, who was key to getting her parents' Circle of Hope school in nearby Humansville shut in 2020, told DailyMail.com. ‘When Circle of Hope...

Although many Marvel fans were ecstatic when the trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder finally arrived, others were less than thrilled. In fact, it seems that quite a few Twitter users have been calling out actor Chris Pratt for being homophobic after the trailer launched. It seems that one joke in the trailer has been the reason for the name-calling. As those who’ve seen the footage know, there’s a moment where Chris Pratt’s character Star-Lord is speaking with Chris Hemsworth’s Thor. He gives the following word of advice: “You ever feel lost? Just look into the eyes of the people...

When Mexican police found a pile of about 150 skulls in a cave near the Guatemalan border, they thought they were looking at a crime scene, and took the bones to the state capital. It turns out it was a very cold case. It took a decade of tests and analysis to determine the skulls were from sacrificial victims killed between A.D. 900 and 1200, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday. Frontera Comalapa in southern Chiapas state has long been plagued by violence and immigrant trafficking. And pre-Hispanic skull piles in Mexico usually show a hole bashed...