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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Kyiv's ambassador to Germany on Saturday as well as several other top foreign envoys, the presidential website said.

In order to photograph a comet with just your camera, one of the best lenses for astrophotography is a fast lens. A lens with an aperture of f/2.8 or lower is usually preferable. If you are photographing a comet as part of a scene or landscape then a wide-angle is usually best, but you can opt for a longer focal length for deep space shots - just be careful of your shutter speed with longer focal lengths. ...a remote shutter release will also be very helpful to avoid moving the camera with your finger. As it's likely that K2 won't...

President Biden travels to Israel and Saudi Arabia next week — his first trip to the Middle East since entering the White House. And while the president has been eager to criticize a range of his predecessor's policies, he is fully embracing one key pillar of Donald Trump's Middle East policy — the Abraham Accords. Those deals were brokered by the Trump White House in 2020 to normalize relations between Israel and a number of Arab countries, including Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Morocco. It was a huge rupture from recent history in which Arab nations had made it...

Former President Donald Trump called on drug dealers, human traffickers, and those who kill police to get the death penalty during a Save America rally held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Friday night.Trump said:So this is a little controversial. And I will either get a standing ovation – and I don’t care about the ovation, I care about the country – or people are going to walk out of the room for what I’m about to say. But it’s time finally to say it. If you look at countries all throughout the world…The only ones that don’t have a drug...

“Did you know that the Chinese [CCP] owns 100 million acres of farmland?" CHARLIE KIRK VIDEO - SEE Charlie Kirk explains why Bill Gates is the largest single farmland owner in the United States and shares the legal approval Gates received to purchase 2,100 acres in North Dakota for $13.5 million. Bill Gates, wins legal approval to buy a huge swath of North Dakota farmland where $13.5 million Bill Gates is buying what is going on in North Dakota. Yeah, that's all the land owned by Bill Gates, by the way. Here’s a breakdown of the ownership land type and...

FBI releases 60 year old files on Nancy Pelosi's father. The files detail a two-month investigation into Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., a Maryland politician who served in a long career in Congress and as mayor of Baltimore, Just the News noted in a Feb. 19 report on the FBI files. An FBI agent wrote on page 14 of the files: "There have been allegations that D'Alesandro has associated with the Baltimore criminal element and [redacted] and the son, Franklin Roosevelt D'Alesandro, had been arrested for rape." The allegations may have been rumor, the agent noted. Agents had written that Franklin Roosevelt...

The state of the economy and inflation have reportedly forced a local law enforcement agency to issue an emergency action order. On Thursday, Ozark County Sheriff Cass Martin signed the order stating his office will not seek traffic violations, and only calls of violent misdemeanor and felony offenses will be answered. Sheriff Martin says the cost of gasoline and other goods and the decrease in revenue forced him to take action. Any crime that doesn’t fall within the guidelines will need to be taken care of over the phone or via a walk-in. The Ozark County Sheriff’s Office can be...

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced that he will resign after protesters stormed his palace and set the prime minister's house on fire. BBC reported that prime minister and the president were not in the buildings. Thousands gathered at the capital for a giant protest during which the called on the president to resign following what they defined as "mismanagement of the economic crisis". According to the report, the president will step down on 13 July and the prime minister as well has agreed to resign. .....

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — More than 300 employees from five state agencies have resigned since Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Virginia’s new telework policy in early May, according to records obtained by 8News. This includes 183 Virginia Department of Transportation employees, 28 of whom cited “telework options” as the reason for leaving. Two VDOT workers who listed telework as the reason did move to another state agency, records obtained by 8News after filing a Freedom of Information Act request show.On May 5, Youngkin ordered all state workers to begin working in-person full-time by July 5, a change the governor said would...

A Houston man who was charged for making a terrorist threat against GOP Senator Ted Cruz in a cryptic phone call is still at large. 22-year-old Isaac A. Nformangum of Richmond, Texas called Ted Cruz’s office on June 26 and left a threatening voicemail. Nformangum was angry about Cruz’s plans to ‘repeal’ the voting rights act (more lies from the media) and said every single Republican who supported his plan deserves to be found and killed. “Every last one of your republican colleagues to have signed off on that platform is to be found, and is to be found and...

Caitlin McFall Sat, July 9, 2022 at 8:19 AM·3 min read Ukraine’s military has seen a spike in the number of women who have volunteered to join its ranks amid its deadly war against Russia.Roughly 1,000 women have volunteered to fight since the war broke out in February, Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Malyar said this week according to a report by the defense ministry."From February 24 to today, we have mobilized about 1,000 women – these are those who voluntarily came and declared their desire to be mobilized," she said.

National Public Radio (NPR), the propaganda arm of the progressive Biden Regime in America, hailed the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, calling it “a more focused defense of democracy than we saw from Robert Crimo III at a 4th of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois earlier in the week. With a precision not seen since the Dec 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese patriot skillfully eliminated a divisive right-wing zealot as he was speaking at a campaign rally.” This initial tweet was later deleted by NPR, but not without an expression of regret “for...

Remember David Ismay? He was [Massachusetts’] $130,000 a year climate change czar — a mini-John Kerry — who was forced to resign after he was inadvertently caught telling the truth. He revealed how the Green anti-fossil-fuel movement wants to punish you to save the planet. Ismay, speaking to a virtual meeting of the Vermont Climate Council last year on gas and oil emissions, said, “Sixty percent of our emissions that need to be reduced come from you — the person across the street, the senior on fixed income.” If that was not damaging enough, he added, “There is no bad...

And no mention of his double course of antiviral pills. Jordan Schachtel I wanted to turn your attention to a revealing interview conducted with Dr Fauci this week. It shines a light on his faith-based approach to the mRNA “miracle,” and his overall lack of a data-based thought process regarding his own bout with the virus. In the interview, Fauci credited getting quad vaxxed with keeping him from having a “much more serious” bout with COVID-19. A visibly ill Fauci told the interviewer: “I’m really fortunate that I’ve done very well, and I keep telling people … is that I...

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Event organizers would not disclose how many tickets have been reserved from the 5,000-seat arena, but the former president told Mike Pocaro, an Anchorage-based talk radio host, that the crowd is expected to be “enormous.”

The right to self-defense has been recognized throughout American history and has deep roots. So why is New York persecuting a man for defending himself? So why is New York persecuting a man for defending himself? “A clerk for a New York City bodega was charged with killing a man who attacked him behind the counter,” a local NBC news station reports. “Jose Alba remained quiet Thursday as he returned home after being released on bail following almost a week at Rikers Island. The 61-year-old is facing murder charges after police said he fatally stabbed a man inside a Washington...

The United States will provide almost $368 million in additional humanitarian aid to Ukraine to support people inside Ukraine and refugees forced to leave their country, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. "Our commitment to the people of Ukraine is resolute. The United States is providing nearly $368 million in additional humanitarian aid to support people inside Ukraine and refugees forced to flee their country to seek safety in the midst of Russia's brutal war," he wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is running in one of this year’s most competitive senate races. This is likely why she tried to keep quiet her office’s presentation of a “certificate of commemoration” to drag queen Miss Ginger Devine for his work with children at the local library. https://www.westernjournal.com/dem-senator-privately-presents-faglicious-homo-drag-queen-story-hour-award-doesnt-want-voters-know/

🔴LIVE: "Summer of Rage" Kicks Off Nationwide | Jayland Walker Protests Akron, Ohio Live stream started about 25 minutes ago. This youtuber has several window open of different Pro-Abortion protests going on across the country. Looks like mostly antifa and women Laz would not hit on.