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TidalWave Comics released a comic book detailing the life of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday. The comic book, “Political Power: Volodymyr Zelenskyy,” is part of the company’s comic book series that focuses around politicians and political figures. The 22-page book was written by Michael Frizell and drawn by Pablo Martinena. It was released days before the war between Ukraine and Russia hit the three-month mark.

Elon Musk said twice this week that he plans to vote for Republicans in upcoming elections, even though he says he previously voted for Democrats such as former President Barack Obama. Musk's stated political leanings will not surprise people who follow the celebrity CEO's interactions and proclamations on Twitter and elsewhere. Behind the scenes, Musk and his biggest companies, SpaceX and Tesla, have worked to influence the U.S. political landscape for years through lobbying and political donations. Combined, SpaceX and Tesla spent over $2 million on lobbying in 2021. They tend to spend on both sides of the aisle. But...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Stars & Stripes Descending From The Sky! Hooray! A U.S. Special Operations Command parachute team member, Para-Commando, makes their decent to ground during the opening ceremony of the Ellsworth Air & Space Show – Raider Country Open House event, May 15, 2022. The two-day airshow showcased a variety of military and aerial acts with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels aerial demonstration team headlining the event. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Jorrie Hart) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies'...

Failed GOP Pennsylvania Senate candidate Kathy Barnette took to Twitter to blame Fox News host Sean Hannity for her primary election loss. “Never forget what Sean Hannity did in this race,” she said in a video posted on Twitter Wednesday. “Almost single handedly Sean Hannity sowed deep seeds of disinformation, flat out lies every night for the past five days and that was just extremely hard to overcome.”Her comment comes after Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz said Tuesday Hannity has been giving him advice “behind the scenes.” “I want to thank Sean Hannity. Sean has been like a brother...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Chicago took aim at Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's announced new restrictions for minors in the city as the mayor unveiled another new curfew for young people. "Curfews and bans create group culpability for young people - whether they are there to enjoy the sights and sounds of downtown or something else," the ACLU said in a statement to ANC 7 Monday. "The vague description - relying on an undefined 'responsible adult' - allowing young people to be present in the park and the promise of strict enforcement will result in unnecessary stops and arrests...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday invoked the Defense Production Act to speed production of infant formula and authorized flights to import supply from overseas, as he faces mounting political pressure over a domestic shortage caused by the safety-related closure of the country’s largest formula manufacturing plant. The Defense Production Act order requires suppliers of formula manufacturers to fulfill orders from those companies before other customers, in an effort to eliminate production bottlenecks. Biden is also authorizing the Defense Department to use commercial aircraft to fly formula supplies that meet federal standards from overseas to the U.S., in...

Multiple woke academics now claim the word 'obesity' is racist and should be dropped in favor of 'people with larger bodies.' The University of Illinois Chicago's school of public health published a health brief titled: 'Addressing weight stigma and fatphobia in public health' that explored 'the association between racism, weight, and health.' According to Amanda Montgomery RD, public health's focus on preventing obesity has brought in an increase of negative attitudes towards 'people with larger bodies' - her preferred alternative term - and is currently one of the only socially acceptable forms of discrimination. The brief claims that public health...

CANTON — Gov. Brian Kemp told voters in Canton Tuesday that “we are in a fight for the soul of our state.” Kemp visited voters at Reformation Brewery in Canton Tuesday to meet and discuss some of his priorities as part of his statewide bus tour stop to meet and talk with voters ahead of the May 24 primary. The governor touted his decision to reopen the state “before anyone else did” during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Pennsylvania high school music director who replaced a teacher who had been charged with sex crimes against students has been charged with having an inappropriate physical relationship with a student herself.

Republican primary voters showed up in droves to take part in Tuesday’s contests, a good early sign for GOP hopes to regain the House and Senate this fall. As of midday Wednesday, Republican voters made up 54.9% of the turnout in Idaho, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oregon and Pennsylvania, according to data compiled by JMC Analytics & Polling.

Francis Engulfed in Problems, Talk About SuccessorsTantrums. Francis has never had to deal with so much adversity as in 2022, writes Jean-Marie Guénois on Figaro.fr. Francis is deaf to criticism, Guénois says. Everyone, even Francis’ supporters, experience not a friendly but a tense climate in the Vatican. Francis divides and terrorises. His authoritarian style and his tantrums are omnipresent in the Vatican. A veteran Italian observer spoke to Figaro of a Latin American confusion that is incomprehensible to European minds.Health. Rumours are circulating in the Vatican about Francis' health. The pain in his knee is unbearable. He finds the wheelchair...

“Enough is enough,” declared former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, as she called to secure the border and warned that if all illegal immigrants were currently gathered into a new city, it would be the fourth largest in the country. In a roughly one minute clip provided in advance to Breitbart News, Haley begins by quoting former U.S. President Ronald Reagan as saying, “A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.”

Khan has identified numerous vulnerabilities in NCC Group client products and is also the creator of Sniffle, the first open-source Bluetooth 5 sniffer. Sniffers can be used to track Bluetooth signals, helping identify devices. They are often used by government agencies that manage roadways to anonymously monitor drivers passing through urban areas.

On the eve of the 2016 presidential election, former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann sought to create an "October surprise" by feeding the FBI a bogus story claiming Donald Trump was secretly communicating with the Kremlin through a Russian bank, prosecutors charged in opening statements in Sussman's trial in federal court. Sussman – who was indicted in special counsel John Durham's probe of the Obama investigation of now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion – is charged with falsely claiming he was operating merely as a private citizen rather than a campaign operative when he gave the information to the FBI.

"United We Stand" is a song written by Tony Hiller and Peter Simons. It was first released in 1970 by The Brotherhood of Man, becoming the band's first hit, peaking at #13 in the U.S. It has been recorded by over 100 different artists.

With diesel prices remaining elevated — forcing significant costs onto shippers and trucking companies — the impact of fuel costs on inflation could put a dent in consumer spending, according to experts.Diesel pump prices averaged $5.61 a gallon nationwide, 51% higher than diesel prices across the country in JanuaryEconomist Anirban Basu said the elevated price of diesel fuel damages the near-term U.S. economic outlook and “renders the chance of recession in 2023 much greater.” “These high diesel prices mean that despite the Federal Reserve’s early stage efforts to curb inflationary pressures, for now, inflationary pressures will run rampant through the...

President Biden warned Wednesday that “hurricanes are coming” as he received a briefing ahead of the Atlantic storm season — just a day after he pulled a Federal Emergency Management Agency nominee who Republicans claimed was “pro-hurricane.” “We know hurricanes are coming our way. They grow more extreme every season thus far,” Biden said.

The alleged Buffalo supermarket shooter shared his rambling plans for his deadly racist attack a half-hour before he gunned down 10 people on Saturday, a new report said. Payton Gendron, 18, invited people to a private chat on the Discord app that revealed his white supremacist views and outlined how he’d scouted the Tops Friendly Markets in a crazed plan to kill as many black people as possible, CNN reported.

*** Open-use drug havens such as San Francisco’s Tenderloin and L.A.'s skid row have become notorious and contentious, but those places have nothing on East Hastings, part of a neighborhood called Downtown Eastside. In every direction, there were needles in arms and butane lighters melting chunks of fentanyl, heroin and meth — the stench of burning chemicals was unavoidable. For many residents and business owners in Vancouver’s historic Chinatown, only a block away, East Hastings means theft, garbage, graffiti and a near-constant blare of sirens. I came to Vancouver to see what can be learned as we debate safe consumption...

Video LinkChris Salcedo of NewsMax TV lists the direct destroyers of our country and their aiders and abettors. Some of us have seen this coming for at least two to three decades. Some people for longer than that.