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Zi Faámelu wants to escape the war in Ukraine, but her identity will not let her. The 31-year-old singer, who is transgender, has a passport that says she is male, the sex assigned to her at birth, and Ukraine has prohibited men of fighting age from leaving the country. That paradox has left Faámelu hunkered inside her Kyiv apartment as missiles soar all around her. She is considering following other transgender women who have crossed into Poland illegally through the woods in the week since Russia invaded. “Already we were fighting for our lives,” she said. “And now we’re actually...

NATO defence ministers met today to discuss the recent wave of Russian missile strikes on Ukraine, and how to continue providing help. But Russia itself is turning out to be an unexpected source of military hardware. As Russian troops retreated, recently, they abandoned huge amounts of equipment, including battle tanks. And as our correspondent John Ray reports, it's all being salvaged and put to good use.

Mobilized Russians are already in the south of Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the Joint Coordination Press Center of the Defense Forces of the Operational Command ‘South’ Natalia Humeniuk. They arrive at the front line without preparation. Many die in the first battle. About the everyday life of Russian mobilization - in the report of our correspondent.

President Biden blamed wildfires on climate change during his speech Tuesday at the Summit on Fire Prevention and Control. “And when the impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly evident, we’re calling on you more and more and more,” the president said, speaking to firefighters. “Extreme heat and prolonged drought have turned wildfire season into wildfire years, and local firefighters are being called in more to respond to the fires in the wildland urban interface where we’re moving out into the forest areas to develop and it becomes local and federal.” The president said that the Inflation Reduction Act “enables...

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WWith control of the Senate on the line, every close race gets mean. Predictably, the devils have come to Georgia in the form of big, out-of-state, coastal elite money, hoping to slime football hero Herschel Walker. He is running against a lucky incumbent, The Most Reverend Raphael Warnock.

President Trump responded after a federal judge ordered him to sit for a deposition in the defamation lawsuit filed by writer E. Jean Carroll, who alleges Trump raped her in the 1990s and harmed her reputation when he denied the allegation. "E. Jean Carroll is not telling the truth, is a woman who I had nothing to do with, didn’t know, and would have no interest in knowing her if I ever had the chance," Trump said Wednesday in an email to his supporters. In his statement, Trump called the lawsuit a "complete con job" and denied ever knowing who...

Two “crazy” dads have been charged with attempted murder after allegedly opening fire and hitting each other’s daughters in a terrifying road-rage gun battle in Florida, authorities said. Strangers William Hale, 35, and Frank Allison, 43, shot at each other’s vehicles with semi-automatic handguns during a high-speed “cat and mouse” chase late Saturday — and were finally busted when they got out and started brawling on the highway, according to cops. During the gun battle, Hale’s 5-year-old daughter was hit in the leg and Allison’s 14-year-old daughter was shot in the back, leaving her with a collapsed lung, Nassau County...

A fraudster has taken international romance scams out of this world by claiming to be an astronaut and conning a 65-year-old woman out of millions of yen, Japanese police announced last week. The scam reportedly began when the pair corresponded through Instagram on June 28. The con artist, who has yet to be identified, claimed to be a Russian cosmonaut working in the International Space Station (ISS). Romance between the two quickly blossomed. The “astronaut” eventually expressed his intent to marry the Japanese senior but said he could not leave the ISS unless he had enough money. “Even if I...

The 193-member body issued its most staunch support for Ukraine yet during Wednesday's vote, which saw 143 nations condemn Russia's actions...Only five countries voted against the resolution, one of which was Russia itself. North Korea, Belarus, Syria, and Nicaragua — all led by dictator-like regimes — joined the increasingly isolated nation...Several nations that had previously abstained from or not voted on the prior resolutions joined the majority on Wednesday to vote "yes," including Bangladesh, Morocco, and Iraq. Among the additional surprises were Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday offered to resume gas supplies to Europe through the intact part of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. "The ball is in the EU's court. If they want to, then the taps can be turned on and that's it," he said in a speech at an energy forum in Moscow. Germany, however,,said it would not take Russian gas via the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that has become a flashpoint in the Ukraine crisis. Asked if Berlin would rule out the use of Nord Stream 2, German government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann said, "Yes."

Conservative political commentator Candace Owens dismissed the charges that Kanye West was antisemitic in a recent tweet stating that he would "go death con 3 on Jewish people." Owens said that West's statement was not actually demonizing Jewish people. "If you are an honest person, you did not think this tweet was antisemitic," Owens, who works for the Daily Wire news site run by Jewish political commentator Ben Shapiro, said Monday. "You did not think that he wrote this tweet because he hates or wants to genocide Jewish people. This is not the beginning of a Holocaust." ..... "If you...

For months, die-hard environmental activists have camped in the fields and occupied the trees in this tiny farming village in western Germany, hoping that like-minded people from across the country would arrive and help stop the expansion of a nearby open-pit coal mine that threatened to swallow the village and its farms. But the hoped-for surge in protesters never materialized. And last week, the government effectively sealed Lützerath’s fate by announcing that RWE, Germany’s largest energy company, needed the coal under the village — to make up for gas that had stopped flowing in from Russia. The war in Ukraine,...

The Tren de Aragua rose to power in Nicolas Maduro’s anarchotyranny. Now they’re in Florida. Last week, El American broke the news that members of the Tren de Aragua, the largest criminal organization in Venezuela (after the government), had crossed the southern border and were living in Orlando, Florida. The news came a week after Breitbart had claimed that Venezuelan criminals were crossing the border to live in the U.S.—more than likely continuing their criminal enterprises. The source told El American that the criminals were living in Bogotá, Colombia, and were able to change their identity by bribing Venezuelan officials....

These people just overthrew their globalist tyrant government. Beautiful vocals....

Clayton and Natali Morris discuss the news that Ukraine has become so desperate for troops that it is recruiting ISIS and Al Qaeda members. From a clip from Clayton's interview with Col. Douglas Macgregor:Macgregor: "Most of Ukrainian's best forces are gone. They have been killed or wounded. Ukrainians have lost, roughly, 100,000 dead. Perhaps, 200, 300 or 400,000 wounded. They started out with an army of 600,000. Remember we spent eight years building this army up with express purpose of attacking Russia. That's what it was designed to do. That's why the Russians attacked it."

Singer and business empire owner Kanye West is one of the most controversial figures in the world. He’s a rapper in an industry that generally leans very much to the left, yet he’s a conservative. His Christian views are confusing to some, including many fellow Christians. And he’s never afraid to speak his mind on stage, through social media, or during interviews. But even someone like “Ye” is not immune to cancel culture and it just hit him in a big way. He now has until next month to move his financial empire out of JP Morgan Chase banks. According...

BRUSSELS—During a hearing today on the European Union’s COVID-19 response, Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, Janine Small, admitted that its vaccine had never been tested before its release to the general public on its ability to prevent the transmission of COVID when asked by Dutch politician and a current Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Robert “Rob” Roos. “Regarding the question around did we know about stopping immunization before it entered the market…No.,” Small replied with a smirk when asked by Roos if the Pfizer’ COVID vaccine was ever tested to stop the transmission of the virus before it...

“Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:11).

President Joe Biden was in Colorado Wednesday declaring a national monument. As the New York Times reported this week, Biden is the “storyteller in chief” who “spins yarns that often unravel.” We’re not sure we believe his stories about teaching his family to ski there and then talking about it over dinner back at home. https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1580315228918513664President @JoeBiden incorrectly said his late son Beau "lost his life in Iraq." As he so often does, Biden brought up his deceased son Beau, who died at Walter Reed hospital of brain cancer in 2015. According to the president Wednesday, his son actually died...