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Russian relevant departments will take control of the operation of the occupied Zaporizhia NPP (ZAES), which until recently worked under the leadership of Ukrainian personnel as part of the United energy system of Ukraine. This was stated at a briefing by Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Vershinin, writes the Russian "Kommersant". However, he did not name a specific department. The Russian official noted that the operation of the station will be discussed with IAEA Director General Raphael Grossi during his visit to Moscow, announced yesterday, October 4. Earlier, Renat Karchaa, adviser to the general director of Rosenergoatom...

President Joe Biden said on Thursday evening that Vladimir Putin was not joking about using nuclear weapons in Ukraine - and said the risk of of Armageddon is the highest it has been since the Cuban missile crisis. He delivered his doomsday warning at a fundraising event for Democrats at the New York home of James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert. It comes amid growing fears that Putin is backed into a corner and could use tactical nuclear weapons to push back advancing Ukrainian forces.

Two D.C. high schools will remodel their curriculum with the intention to better prepare students for college and careers. Paul Laurence Dunbar High School and the Francis L. Cardozo Education Campus will be the first cohort of the DC+XQ, a partnership between D.C. Public Schools and the XQ Institute to “rethink and redesign all DCPS high schools,” a schools and XQ Institute news release said. The XQ Institute is an organization that develops programs aimed at improving high school education in the U.S. Dunbar and Cardozo will spend the current school year “prototyping and piloting elements of their school models,...

During the two months of operation of the grain corridor, 6.2 million tons of agricultural products were already sent from Ukraine, which is 48% of total exports. This was announced by First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and food of Ukraine Taras Vysotsky during a webinar. "Before the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 80-90% of all agricultural exports were carried out through seaports. Due to their blocking, we had to redistribute export flows to railways, cars, ferry and river ports. Today, thanks to the corridor, more than 270 ships with 6.2 million tons of cargo have already been able...

CNN's New Day aired a segment this morning reporting on the impact of laws in various states restricting abortions. CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen's report viewed the laws strictly from the pro-abortion perspective, bemoaning the absence of abortion clinics in 14 states, and the many abortions that could no longer occur there. Said Cohen: "In these 14 states, the Guttmacher Institute says there are no abortion providers—none [said as if that's a tragedy.] Look at it another way, in 2020, in those 14 states, more than 125,000 women got abortions. So that's the number, per year, more than 125,000...

The Washington Post reported stunning news on Thursday - federal investigators believe they have a chargeable case against Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden. Even more interestingly, they have felt that the case is sufficient to go to court for the past several months, according to the Post. **SNIP** What about those other accusations from the GOP? The scope of the Post’s report does not even begin to touch on all the various crimes GOP politicians, including most notably Donald Trump, have laid at the feet of Hunter Biden for years. Republicans have long alleged that a so-called “laptop...

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During the pandemic, gun and ammunition sales spiked dramatically in the United States — particularly among Black women, who have become the fastest growing group of gun owners in the country. “In 2021, we were just coming outta COVID and violence was at an all-time high, riots were at an all-time high and human trafficking is at an all-time high,” licensed gun instructor Robin Evans tells Yahoo Life as a way to explain the rise. “So at that moment, I feel like there was a huge shift in Black people, in general, just wanting to learn how to defend themselves.”...

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Another bus carrying migrants arrived Thursday morning near Vice President Kamala Harris' official residence in Washington, D.C., the same day that two other buses with migrants arrived in New York City. About 50 men, women and children were dropped off at Harris' house, the second such drop-off this week at the Naval Observatory, according to NBC Washington. Volunteers responded to help the migrants, many of whom are expected to travel out of the District of Columbia, according to NBC. Migrants were first relocated from Texas to Harris' home three weeks ago when two busloades of them were dropped off there....

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Ben Sasse is brilliant, a consensus builder and will be a great leader of a great University. Ben and family, welcome to Florida! https://t.co/FMlssqdT9q— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) October 6, 2022

Street artist LushSux became famous for his portrait of Hillary Clinton in a bikini around the corner from my place in Melbourne. Today in front of a wonderful LushSux portrait of Julian Assange in a back alley in Melbourne, I filmed young freedom activist Javin call on others to join him in the fight against the Socialist left tyranny spreading from the State of Victoria to engulf the whole of Australia. God Bless Freedom. God Bless Javin. Please pray for us.

KYIV, Ukraine—Outside the Giraffe shopping mall on the western edge of Ukraine’s capital, a group of locals prepared to meet the Russian armored column thundering their way. It was late February, and the Russians, from an elite airborne unit, were riding atop their vehicles, as if expecting a warm greeting. One wore a Cossack woolen hat instead of a helmet. Another hadn’t loaded his rifle. The few dozen Ukrainians from the towns of Irpin and Bucha had other intentions, which they had written on the cement mixer and bulldozer that blocked the road: “Welcome to hell.” After Russia launched an...

Manchukuo, Chinese Manzhouguo, puppet state created in 1932 by Japan out of the three historic provinces of Manchuria (northeastern China). After the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), Japan gained control of the Russian-built South Manchurian Railway, and its army established a presence in the region; expansion there was seen as necessary for Japan’s status as an emerging world power. In 1931 the Japanese army created an excuse to attack Chinese troops there, and in 1932 Manchukuo was proclaimed an “independent” state. The last Qing emperor was brought out of retirement and made Manchukuo’s ruler, but the state was actually rigidly controlled by...

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Abstract: The English sweating sickness caused five devastating epidemics between 1485 and 1551, England was hit hardest, but on one occasion also mainland Europe, with mortality rates between 30% and 50%. The Picardy sweat emerged about 150 years after the English sweat disappeared, in 1718, in France. It caused 196 localized outbreaks and apparently in its turn disappeared in 1861. Both diseases have been the subject of numerous attempts to define their origin, but so far all efforts were in vain. Although both diseases occurred in different time frames and were geographically not overlapping, a common denominator could be what...

At least two people were killed and six wounded after a series of stabbings in front of a casino in Las Vegas on Thursday, officials with the police department said, according to CNN. “The initial stabbing occurs on the sidewalk area. It appears unprovoked. There is no altercation beforehand,” Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Deputy Chief James LaRochelle said. “That stabbing occurs quickly, and then the suspect subsequently goes southbound on the sidewalk area and stabs additional victims.” Three of the victims are in critical condition, police Capt. Dori Koren told reporters. “The others appear to be stable but we...

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia has ruled in a three-to-two vote that the is constitutional, according to West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. Morrisey announced this afternoon, Oct. 6, 2022, that the court reversed the decision handed down by a Kanawha County Circuit Court judge that blocked the Hope Scholarship. West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore says the Hope Scholarship program will be up and running again “effective immediately.” “I want to thank the WV Supreme Court for ruling that the Hope Scholarship is constitutional!” Moore said. “This is a win for West...

"The truth is on our side and truth is strength!" Vladimir Putin boomed into a microphone on Red Square last week, after a grand ceremony at which he proclaimed four large chunks of Ukrainian territory to be part of Russia. "Victory will be ours!" But in the real world, things look very different. Even as Russia's president signed his illegal annexation treaties in the Kremlin, Ukrainian forces were advancing inside the areas he had just seized. Hundreds of thousands of men have been fleeing Russia rather than be drafted to fight in an expanding war. And things are going so...