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GAMBELL, Alaska (KTUU) - Village authorities on St. Lawrence Island notified the Coast Guard on Tuesday that two foreign nationals had landed near the community of Gambell in a small boat. A spokesperson from Sen. Dan Sullivan’s office said the senator was made aware of the situation after being contacted by a senior community leader from the Bering Strait region early Tuesday morning. Sullivan’s office released a statement that read in part: “Given current heightened tensions with Russia, Senator Sullivan then called the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and spoke to him as well as another senior...

FORT MYERS, Fla. – A man and his cat rode out the fury of Hurricane Ian last week in his sailboat, which was his home before the storm. Ian was a monstrous Category 4 hurricane with 150-mph winds when it slammed into Southwest Florida on Sept. 28. The terrible winds pushed ashore feet of water from the Gulf of Mexico as it made landfall. Widespread destruction was left behind. Ron Latta, of Fort Myers, said he had been living in his 32-foot boat named "Lattatude" for four years, and decided to stay with his home. "You don’t leave your boat,"...

Friends, our Gospel today is about prayer and the power of prayer. This excerpt from Luke is filled with wisdom in regard to the proper attitude of prayer. What is prayer, and how should we pray? Prayer is intimate communion and conversation with God. Judging from Jesus’ own life, prayer is something that we ought to do often, especially at key moments of our lives. Well, how should we pray? What does it look like? You have to pray with faith. Have you noticed how Jesus says before working a miracle, “Do you believe I can do this?” Can you...

Ben Sasse is likely to accept a job at the University of Florida and resign his Senate seat in the near future, according to two people familiar with the Nebraska Republican’s plans. The Nebraska governor would then appoint a replacement for Sasse under state law. The second-term Sasse made a name for himself as a consistent Trump critic in Congress as well as a reliable conservative vote.

The head of the National Bank of Ukraine has been charged in the case of the Ukrgasbank funds embezzlement. This was reported by the Specialized Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office, according to Ukrinform As noted, the detectives of the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine exposed the illegal operations of the state-owned JSC Ukrgasbank officials, which led to losses in the amount of more than UAH 206 million. “To date, in the said criminal proceedings, five main culprits have been notified of suspicion, including the incumbent governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, as well as former and current high-ranking officials of banking...

Editor’s Note: This post highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process. Here, Webb interdisciplinary scientist Rogier Windhorst and his team discuss their observations. “We got more than we bargained for by combining data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope! Webb’s new data allowed us to trace the light that was emitted by the bright white elliptical galaxy, at left, through the winding spiral galaxy at right – and identify the effects of interstellar dust in the spiral galaxy. This image of galaxy pair VV 191 includes...

Testifying before the Senate last month, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon spoke eloquently of what a wonderful country we live in and about the freedoms we enjoy. ... While I was glad to hear Dimon speak proudly of America and our freedoms, I am concerned that his bank fails to live up to such lofty ideals. He referred to religious freedom as a “foundational belief,” but his bank recently decided to close the account of the National Committee for Religious Freedom, a nonpartisan, faith-based nonprofit organization dedicated to defending the right of everyone in America to live one's faith freely....

When the midterm election winds shifted direction this summer toward Democrats, powered by a gust of anger among young women voters over the Supreme Court and abortion rights, no incumbent GOP U.S. senator looked in worse shape than Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson. Johnson had already broken a promise to retire in 2022 — which would have spared him from defending a cargo hold full of political baggage from dumb climate denial to his seeming love for Mother Russia — even before his name got dragged into the probe of the Jan. 6 insurrection. As the fall campaign loomed in a state...

Tim Michels isn’t saying what a flat tax would look like if he becomes governor, but he says he’s open to the idea. Michels, who is running for governor as the Republican candidate, on Wednesday said he’s willing to take a look at changing Wisconsin’s personal income tax. "I'm going to sit down with all the smart tax people, we're going to figure out how low we can get the income tax," Michels said at a stop at a tavern in Baraboo. "Right now, it looks like we could get it somewhere just below 5%.” Wisconsin’s personal income tax rates...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of “simple possession” of marijuana under federal law, as his administration takes a dramatic step toward decriminalizing the drug and addressing charging practices that disproportionately impact people of color. Biden’s move also covers thousands convicted of the crime in the District of Columbia. He is also calling on governors to issue similar pardons for those convicted of state marijuana offenses, which reflect the vast majority of marijuana possession cases. Biden, in a statement, said the move reflects his position that “no one should be in jail just for...

close Fox News Flash top headlines for October 6 President Biden’s approval rating continues to struggle among Republicans and independents with as many as 69% of Americans expressing the opinion that the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, according to a Marist Poll released Thursday. Biden’s approval rating has been on a steady increase over the last three months with 44% of Americans saying they support the job he is doing. The president’s approval jumped up three points from September, and disapproval among American poll takers shrank by five points, dropping to 49% from 54% last month.

Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson’s says his proposed referendum on abortion is simple. Johnson, late Tuesday, released his suggestion for a ballot question that would allow voters in the state to decide on a new abortion law. "At what point does society have the responsibility to protect the life of an unborn child?” the question asks. Johnson then gives voters 10 options, ranging “From the moment of conception,” to “Never – an unborn child has no right to life.” Johnson told the crowd at Tuesday’s Rotary Club of Milwaukee campaign event that he believes the people of Wisconsin should...

A man in Daytona Beach, Florida, went viral after sharing that he successfully waterproofed his store against Hurricane Ian with spray foam and Flex Seal. Eddie Kastrul, the owner of Midwest Motorcycle Sales & Rental, posted a video of his undamaged store on Facebook over the weekend. A woman named Cori Bosco (@eastcoastdiy) later re-posted Kastrul's video to TikTok, where it has gone viral with over 1 million views. You can watch the full video here. Hurricane Ian moved through Florida and the Carolinas last week, causing tens of billions of dollars in damage, reported Reuters. Bosco—a Daytona Beach resident...

"Every effort to explain what the various terms like "the big guy" mean, you have purely and simply historians will conclude, the most corrupt president in American history. You have basically a crime family, and you have them dealing with foreign governments in Ukraine. The mayor of Moscow's widow who sent $3 million. Russian influences, massive Chinese influences. I think we have to be honest about it. And the Justice Department has been corrupted by the left and has refused to take seriously crime on the left while grossly exaggerating threats on the right.

Saturday, October 8, 2022: Join the RSBN broadcast team LIVE in Minden, NV for all day coverage of President Donald J. Trump's SAVE AMERICA rally. President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will hold a rally in Minden, Nevada on Saturday, October 8, 2022, at 7:00PM PDT. Saturday, October 8, 2022, at 7:00PM PDT Livestream begins: Oct 8, 2:00 pm EDT

Federal agents who have been conducting a long-running probe of the president's son Hunter Biden believe they have 'sufficient evidence' to charge him with tax fraud and making a false statement on a gun permit, according to a bombshell report in the Washington Post. Federal prosecutors have made no decision on charging Hunter Biden with a crime, and his lawyer blasted what he called a DOJ 'leak,' demanding an investigation of anyone who put out the information. Hunter paid an outstanding tax liability back in 2020 and acknowledged a probe into what he called his 'tax affairs.' The investigation was...

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The Biden administration will begin redirecting U.S.-bound travelers who had been to Uganda within the previous 21 days to five major American airports to be screened for Ebola as public health officials sent an alert to healthcare workers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday issued an alert to healthcare workers to raise awareness about the outbreak but said there were currently no suspected or confirmed U.S. Ebola cases from the Sudan strain, which is behind the latest Uganda infections. According to Uganda's Health Ministry at least nine people had died of the disease in Uganda by...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Wednesday he is suing Fleet Farm for selling guns to straw buyers. The lawsuit alleges Fleet Farm sold at least 37 guns to straw purchasers, a person purchasing a gun for an individual not allowed to own one, over the course of 16 months. In a span of four months in 2021, Ellison alleges Fleet Farm sold 24 guns to the same straw purchaser, Jerome Horton, who was charged in federal court last year. Ellison says one of the guns traced to a sale at Fleet Farm was...

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) is trailing her Republican opponent, Adam Laxalt, by 2 points in her bid for reelection, according to a new CNN poll released on Thursday. With just over four weeks left until Election Day, 48 percent of likely voters said they support Laxalt, compared to the 46 percent that said they back Cortez Masto, according to the poll.