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In case you missed it over the weekend, Volodymyr Zelensky abruptly fired his nation’s top prosecutor along with the head of Ukraine’s intelligence agency. Several other lower-ranking officials were given the boot as well. Given the lack of any recent news suggesting that these officials had failed to perform their duties, some analysts have been forced to consider the possibility that Zelensky may have had “other motives” for removing them. Perhaps rather than not doing their jobs well enough, they may have been doing them too well. Most of the American media has been endlessly cheerleading for the Ukrainian government...

The GOP’s newest legislator, Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX), is defending her Thursday vote to help get green cards to the adult children of the Fortune 500’s foreign contract workers and managers, who take jobs and career opportunities from Americans. “Amnesty was not passed last week!” Flores said in a July 17 tweet. “An amendment in the NDAA bill gave legally documented children of LEGAL VISA workers the ability to remain in the United States with their parents. Stop the misinformation and stay focused on taking back the house this November!!”

A former teacher from the West Contra Costa Unified School District has been detained and accused of assaulting a kid in 2021. Jane Shetterly, 42, of Martinez, was charged with 12 felonies, including eight charges of alleged specified sexual acts on a kid and three counts of lewd acts on children. She was also charged with one count of making improper contact with a minor. According to court documents, Shetterly entered a not guilty plea during her arraignment before Judge Rebecca Hardie on July 11. After the mother of the alleged victim informed police that she had discovered proof her...

Instead of The Boston Strangler, we now have the DC Strangler. Better known as The Federal Reserve and their war on inflation. US existing home sales crashed -14.24% YoY and -5.40% MoM in June as The Fed tightens its icy grip on the housing market. Existing home sales were lower than expected at 5.12 million home sold SAAR. Median price for existing home sales declined to 13.27% YoY as inventory available for sale remains MIA. And The Fed’s balance sheet is still out in force. The US housing market in terms of sales has entered a bear market, but with...

Three out of 4 middle class households report falling behind the rising cost of living as inflation continues to soar., according to a new poll. Primerica released the report, which found that 75% of middle-income families “say their income is falling behind the cost of living,” an eight-point rise since March. The poll found only 16% of those surveyed think they will be better off financially in a year. Surveyed American middle-income families cited inflation as a top concern. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest federal inflation data showed a 9.1% increase in consumer prices in the past year...

Nearly five months into its senseless war against Ukraine, Russia has concocted a wild new explanation for why the Kremlin’s plans for a quick takeover fell apart so spectacularly—because Ukrainian troops were turned into superhuman killing machines during “secret experiments” in American-run biolabs, of course. Never mind the myriad reports of Russian troops refusing to fight by the thousands, sabotaging their own shoddy equipment and even deliberately wounding themselves to abandon the war, Russian lawmakers claim the real setback for Moscow was “drugged up” Ukrainian soldiers. That claim was made Monday by two Russian lawmakers heading up a commission to...

The steamship Roanoke arrived at this port last night, from New-Orleans on the 12th inst., to which date she brings our files of New-Orleans papers We give interesting extracts below. We are indebted to Purser REQUA, of the Roanoke, for the prompt delivery of our news packages. NEW ORDERS AND REGULATIONS. How GAMBLERS AND "UNCOMMON" WOMEN ARE DISPOSED OF. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, NEW-ORLEANS, July 10, 1862. SPECIAL ORDER NO. 179. -- JOHN H. LARUE, being by his own confession a vagrant, a person without visible means of support, and one who gets his living by playing cards, is...

For months, we have been told by the Biden administration that the reason for the high gas price is Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. The purpose of those talking points is to divert blame from Biden’s policies to destroy the fossil fuel industry. Now that prices have come down a little they are claiming credit for the price decline. Here's the latest from Biden's White House economic advisor Jared Bernstein, in a press briefing off the White House website: While there’s a lot that goes into setting the global oil and gas price, the historic actions taken by President Biden...

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The Interpipe Pipe and Wheel Holding sent a vessel loaded with pipes to the United States for the first time since the beginning of the war in July, it plans to send a second vessel in July. Interpipe CEO Andrii Korotkov said this in an interview for Forbes, Ukrainian News Agency reports. "At the beginning of the third 10 days of June, for the first time since the beginning of the war, Interpipe sent the first ship with pipes to the USA. I hope that on July 20 we will send the second one. Currently, the USA maintains a 23.75%...

Vladimir Putin was snubbed by Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan who left him twiddling his thumbs in front of TV cameras during a summit in Iran yesterday. The Russian leader was holding face-to-face talks with his sometimes-ally in Tehran on Tuesday for the first time since ordering the invasion of Ukraine back in February. But he was left waiting for a toe-curling 48 seconds in front of the world's press as Erdogan failed to arrive on time for a hand-shaking photo-op. Putin's critics said he was left 'humiliated and insulted' by what they saw as a bare-faced snub, while others...

Big Tech in recent years has consistently discriminated against conservatives and independent thinkers by censoring them online. This has affected everyone from the former president of the United States to everyday men and women. When Big Tech companies censor someone, they don’t only block that one person. But they also block all of that person’s followers from new ideas and viewpoints. This phenomenon is best thought of as “secondhand censorship.” Secondhand censorship is defined as the number of times that users on social media had information kept from them. MRC Free Speech America tracked the effects of secondhand censorship using...

The European Union has unveiled its emergency gas rationing plan — a day before it fears Russia could drastically cut the flow of natural gas to the continent. The "Save Gas for a Safe Winter" plan announced Wednesday sets a target for the 27 member states to reduce their gas demand by 15% between August and March next year. That reduction is based on countries' average gas consumption during the same months over the previous five years. The measures come just one day before officials worry Gazprom, Russia's state gas company, may refuse to re-start deliveries through the Nord Stream...

A San Francisco school board member apologized Tuesday after she made a racist statement, saying one of the biggest challenges in educating Black and brown students was their “unstable family environments” and “lack of parental encouragement to focus on learning.”

Cruise ship companies are thrilled that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended its COVID-19 monitoring program that tracked how many COVID-19 cases were reported ship-by-ship. On Monday, the constantly updated spreadsheet was gone without a trace, replaced with this notice: It is hard to make sense of why the CDC would pull back from a detailed monitoring program just as COVID-19 cases are again rising worldwide. (The World Health Organization says cases in Europe have tripled in the last six weeks, and hospitalizations have doubled.) When the site took down the monitoring page, 93 of the 95 ships...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE ESTHER – THE NEW QUEEN E S T H E R CHAPTER 2 When the turn came for Esther to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her. She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence. Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than...

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available

Missouri officials are slamming a planned FBI audit of various sheriff’s offices in the state, saying the audit is an attempt "to illegally obtain" information on concealed carry permit holders. One sheriff, in particular, said that even under a threat of federal arrest, he will not comply and release the concealed carry information."As the sheriff of Scotland County, I want all my citizens to know that I will not allow, cooperate or release any CCW information to the FBI, ‘even at the threat of a federal arrest,’" Republican Scotland County Sheriff Bryan Whitney wrote to residents of his community on...

In the final hours of the Trump presidency, the U.S. Justice Department raised privacy concerns to thwart the release of hundreds of pages of documents that Donald Trump had declassified to expose FBI abuses during the Russia collusion probe, and the agency then defied a subsequent order to release the materials after redactions were made, according to interviews and documents. The previously untold story of how highly anticipated declassified material never became public is contained in a memo obtained by Just the News from the National Archives that was written by then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows just hours...

“When Jesus came into Peter’s home, He saw his mother-in-law lying sick in bed with a fever. He touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she got up and waited on Him” (Matthew 8:14–15). Through the centuries, most male Jews have displayed much preju-dice toward women, as evidenced by the old prayer, “Lord, I thank Thee that I was not born a slave, a Gentile, or a woman.” But here Jesus, just as with the leper and the Gentile centurion, shows mercy and compassion to an outsider—a woman—someone not favored by the Jewish establishment. He cuts through the...