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Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-appointed leader of Chechnya, has criticised the Russian army’s leadership after it appeared to be caught off guard by Ukraine’s fightback against the Russian invasion in the north-east. In a sign that the Kremlin may face serious fallout over the loss of territory that the Russian occupation administrations had repeatedly stated they planned to keep “for ever”, Kadyrov also suggested that Vladimir Putin might not be aware of the real state of affairs. “They have made mistakes and I think they will draw the necessary conclusions,” Kadyrov said in an audio message posted to his Telegram channel...

UPS has stepped up its anti-gun campaign by requiring online sellers to ship an average of 50 handguns daily to use its 2nd Day Air service. Sellers who do not ship at least 350 handguns a week risk losing their shipping accounts. Under the new agreement, UPS is only required to give customers a ten-day notice before cutting them off from the shipping service. The volume necessary means that most online retailers and manufacturers are now cut off from shipping guns through the carrier unless the handgun is shipped using the expensive Next Day Air service. The notice was sent...

Using 2021 data, U.S. News and World Reports’ feature on the “Best States” has ranked U.S. states on several metrics, including economics, education and health care. The listing also measures natural environment, which is based on a state’s air/water quality and pollution levels. Pollution was determined based on air and water emissions from industry and utilities, and overall measures to long-term human health effects, using information from the Environmental Protection Agency. States with the worst pollution 50. Louisiana 49. Nevada 48. Indiana 47. Delaware 46. Utah 45. Ohio 44. Oregon 43. Tennessee 42. Illinois 41. Alabama 40. Texas

This September 11, let's not forget: A Democrat administration deliberately destroyed the Northern Alliance. Democrats were offered Osama bin laden and refused to take him. A Democrat regime deliberately left Americans behind enemy lines in Afghanistan and tried to stop private organizations from getting them out.

Vice President Kamala Harris' model stepdaughter Ella Emhoff bared her boobs while walking the runway at a New York Fashion Week show Saturday. Emhoff, who is the daughter of US second gentleman Doug Emhoff and first wife, Kerstin Emhoff, wore a barely-there mint blouse and a black leather lambskin miniskirt with black gloves for the outing. The outfit appeared to be a deliberate choice, and there's no suggestion the bared boobs were a wardrobe malfunction. The designer told The Associated Press he discovered an industrial space in the former home of the Japanese consulate while on a bike ride on...

NASA will use a spacecraft later this month to test a planetary-defense method that could one day save Earth.The Double Asteroid Redirect Test spacecraft, otherwise known as DART, will be used as a battering ram to crash into an asteroid not far from Earth on Sept. 26. The mission is an international collaboration to protect the globe from future asteroid impacts."While the asteroid poses no threat to Earth, this is the world's first test of the kinetic impact technique, using a spacecraft to deflect an asteroid for planetary defense," NASA said Thursday.In November 2021, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched...

President Joe Biden spoke at a memorial for the lives lost on 9/11 on Sunday, urging Americans to look toward the future and act to defend Democracy. “Because on this day it is not about the past, it is about the future,” he said. “We have an obligation, a duty, a responsibility, to defend preserve and protect our democracy.”

The young mother who was brutally beheaded last Thursday has been identified as 27-year-old Karina Castro. Castro was beheaded with a sword just before noon last Thursday in broad daylight as shocked neighbors watched. The attack took place in front of her apartment building. An earlier report stated she was 25 years old. The alleged killer, Jose Solano Landaeta, reportedly cut off Castro’s head with a sword. He left her head under the car that her body was in. Cops swarmed in minutes later to find the grisly crime scene. Shortly thereafter, Landaeta returned to the location with two friends...

Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-appointed leader of Chechnya, has criticised the Russian army’s leadership after it appeared to be caught off guard by Ukraine’s fightback against the Russian invasion in the north-east. In a sign that the Kremlin may face serious fallout over the loss of territory that the Russian occupation administrations had repeatedly stated they planned to keep “for ever”, Kadyrov also suggested that Vladimir Putin might not be aware of the real state of affairs. “They have made mistakes and I think they will draw the necessary conclusions,” Kadyrov said in an audio message posted to his Telegram channel...

A senior World Economic Forum official accused Canadian politicians of spreading disinformation, apparently for citing founder Klaus Schwab's boast that the globalist organization had "penetrated" the nation's cabinet. Adrian Monck, WEF's managing director, said in an interview with CBC Radio that politicians espousing such theories have bigger issues they should be thinking about, Canada's CBC reported. "Canada should be talking about a lot of things right now. It shouldn't really be talking about the World Economic Forum based here in Geneva," he said. In a comment-and-question session in the House of Commons in February, Conservative Member of Parliament Colin Carrie...

September 6th saw the arrest of a former teacher at a private Christian school who had previously been charged with sexting a student. Julie Hoover, 39, is now charged with a new misdemeanor for aiding a child in becoming delinquent as well as a second felony for soliciting or participating in sexual behavior with a student. The most recent allegations relate to the school’s prom on April 8. During the occasion, a student said Hoover was urging him to consume alcohol, even shoving the straw from her cup into his lips. An administrator claimed that after the incident, when the...

Florida took the top spot in The Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card that was released on Friday. The organization took into account four broad categories when ranking what it referred to as education freedom: education choice, regulatory freedom, academic transparency and education spending return on investment. In the inaugural 2022 edition of the Education Freedom Report Card, Florida is the top-ranked state across the board. The Heritage Foundation lauded Florida’s commitment to establishing and maintaining parental rights in their child’s education, a positive return on investment, and the state’s available options among private, charter, and district schools. “If sunlight...

Did you know that Prince Charles, now King Charles, was the first to announced the Global Reset? Boy was that prophetic. Farmers in the Netherlands are being persecuted more than ever to stop providing food to the masses. What is this all about? We break it down.

CHICAGO (CBS) – At least three people are dead and 11 others were wounded in shootings across the city during the weekend. The ages of the victims range from 22 to 56. In the first shooting of the weekend, a 30-year-old man was shot while riding a bicycle on the city's Near West Side Friday evening. Police said the bicyclist was riding, in the 1300 block of West Washburne Avenue around 5:10 p.m., when he was struck in the abdomen and legs by an unknown offender. The victim was transported to Stroger Hospital in stable condition. A 22-year-old man is...

Vice President Kamala Harris said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that if Democrats win two more seats in the U.S. Senate, they will remove the filibuster rule to pass abortion and voting legislation. Harris said, “In less than two months, we are looking at a midterm election in which so much is on the line. Take, for example, the issue of choice. The United States Supreme Court in the Dobbs decision just took away a constitutional right that had been recognized from the women of America from the people of America.”

Vice President Kamala Harris said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the U.S.-Mexico border is “secure,” but our immigration system is broken. Anchor Chuck Todd asked, “I want to ask about the border. Would you call the border secure?”

Chelsea Clinton said during a recent interview that she hasn’t spoken to Ivanka Trump in about six years which is when she says her former friend switched over to the "dark side." "I would say we were friends," Chelsea Clinton said during an interview on "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen" on Thursday, New York Post reported. "She’s not the person I called when I was curious about something for my kids or if I was debating a life decision, but we were definitely friends. And then she went to the dark side." Clinton confirmed that the last conversation...

On August 9, The Gateway Pundit posted an article on a planned demonstration outside the FBI headquarters in Washington DC to protest the “out of control FBI.” The protest was organized by Special Ops Veteran Adam Hardage who said he sees his current mission clear as day; Defending America against Tyranny. TGP later updated the report that the protest was canceled due to the possibility of bad actors and unpredictable actions of law enforcement agencies. The article received hundreds of responses from patriots, 892 people in total. The FBI also flagged a comment posted by a commenter at The Gateway...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams called for credit card companies to establish a merchant category code (MCC) for gun and ammunition stores, saying "the creation of a new code would enable financial institutions to help the government detect suspicious activity that may be tied to criminal purposes." Mastercard spokesman Seth Eisen was unenthusiastic about Adams' proposal, calling it "a troubling invasion of privacy based on specious reasoning. Criminals don't typically use credit cards to buy their guns. It leaves a too obvious paper trail. I can't see this added scrutiny applied to law-abiding citizens as a useful tool in...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...