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During the past day, the enemy continued to terrorize the civilian population of the Kharkiv region. In the Chuhuiiv district, an infrastructure object was damaged by 4 rocket strikes. According to Censor.NET, the head of the Kharkiv RMA Oleh Synehubov reported this. "Yesterday evening, around 9:00 p.m., the Russian occupiers launched a rocket attack on the Kholodnohirsky district of Kharkiv, hitting the road surface was recorded. There were no casualties. In the Chuguyiv district, an infrastructure facility was damaged by 4 rocket strikes. Previously, 1 person was injured," the message reads. It is noted that yesterday the enemy massively shelled...

Today, October 13, another exchange of prisoners was held. As a result, it was possible to free 20 defenders of Ukraine, among them those who were held in Olenivka. This was announced by the head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak "These are 20 stories of Ukrainian heroes, 14 - soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 4 soldiers of the Red Army, one national guard and a member of the Navy. There are people who were held by the Russians in Olenivka, in the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions," Yermak said. Those freed from...

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Majorities of key voter groups say that rising gas prices would make them more likely to vote for Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections, a new survey conducted by The Trafalgar Group on behalf of the Convention of States reveals. “How would rising gas prices impact your vote in the upcoming 2022 midterm elections?” the national survey of 1,079 likely general election voters, conducted October 8-11, asked. Among all voters, a 54.4% majority said rising gas prices would make them more likely to vote Republican, while a third (32.8) said they’d be more prone to vote Democrat. Another 12.7% weren’t...

InfoWars founder Alex Jones mocked the $965 million verdict against him, calling it a "total joke," a "railroad job," a blatant effort to silence and bankrupt him, and an affront to freedom of speech and opinion, adding to Newsmax that there is a 99% chance he can get it overturned on appeal. "So, look, nobody's talking about the appeal," Jones, who was sued by Sandy Hook victims' families and an FBI agent, told Thursday's "Eric Bolling The Balance." "We are very, very sure — like 99% — that this is such a joke, this thing is such a fiasco, such...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson calls out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over not speaking out on the Russia-Ukraine war on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' #FoxNews #tucker Interesting clip of AOC Town Hall with two of her progressive constituents calling her out for backing and funding a possible nuclear war. She responds to it all by telling them they are rude...:-)

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Quote: "In attempts to find out what really has happened on the Crimean bridge, Moscow drowned in fakes, uts, tampering with facts, and official denials by various countries." Details: The Russians claim that the bomb that led to the bridge’s explosion was "camouflaged" in rolls of construction polyethylene wrap and sent from the port of Odesa to Bulgaria in early August, then transported to the Georgian port of Poti and then on to Armenia. Then the cargo crossed the Georgian-Russian border and was unloaded at the wholesale base of Armavir [a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia]. However, this version does...

On 6 October, when the European Union (EU) agreed to impose a Russian oil price cap as part of a new package of sanctions against Moscow, 23 oil ministers from the OPEC+ group of oil-producing countries spoke out in favor of a sharp cut in their joint production quota. Their collective decision to decrease output by about two million barrels of oil per day elicited strong reactions in the US in particular, and there was even talk of “declarations of war.” The EU feels duped, as the OPEC+ production cuts could drive up fuel prices and dampen their eight sanctions...

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Coinciding with a strategy summit between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić in Budapest to explore ways to end the illegal Muslim migration surge from the Middle East and Africa via the West Balkan route, over 200 migrants were arrested in a raid on a Serbian illegal Muslim migrant camp on the Hungarian border. Police “seized money and weapons.” In only the first half of this year, some 114,720 illegals entered the European Union along the West Balkan route. This is about 84% more than in the same period last year. Hungary...

WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) -Elon Musk is being investigated by federal authorities over his conduct in his $44 billion takeover deal for Twitter Inc, the social media company said in a court filing released on Thursday. While the filing said he was under investigations, it did not say what the exact focus of the probes was and which federal authorities are conducting them.

The White House is coordinating a five-year research plan to study ways of modifying the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth to temper the effects of global warming, a process sometimes called solar geoengineering or sunlight reflection. The research plan will assess climate interventions, including spraying aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space, and should include goals for research, what's necessary to analyze the atmosphere, and what impact these kinds of climate interventions may have on Earth, according to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. Congress directed the research plan be produced in...

Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky were indicted on multiple charges after a video showed their catch apparently stuffed with lead weights.Two fishermen captured in a viral video appearing to scam an Ohio fishing tournament are on the hook for multiple crimes, including cheating, authorities said in announcing their indictments Wednesday.Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley described the allegedly fishy conduct of Jacob Runyan, 42, and Chase Cominsky, 35, at last month’s Lake Erie Walleye Trail Tournament as “not only dishonorable but also criminal.”Runyan and Cominsky were indicted on charges of attempted grand theft, cheating, possession of criminal tools and unlawful...

President Joe Biden landed in Los Angeles Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 12, to kick off a two-day tour of the Southland — which will include visits to Brentwood and Orange County later this week. Sen. Alex Padilla, his wife Angela, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Rep. Karen Bass, greeted the president on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport as he deplaned Air Force One. Under overcast skies, the group exchanged brief conversation, hugs and handshakes before Biden departed once more on Marine One, a presidential helicopter. Neither Biden, nor the other elected officials present, stopped to give remarks or address...

Amid the gloom, one trade looms so unusually pessimistic that it is hard to process because the world would likely need to end, or come close to it, for it to prove profitable. The trade is predicated on the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, hitting 150 by March, a level that has never before been realized. In recent sessions, an investor bought 50,000 VIX March $150 call options, paying about 19 cents per contract. The trade is so large, and so unusual, that it was almost certainly made by a wealthy investor worried about a massive stock market decline, perhaps...

Denmark’s new Synthetic Party has produced a conversational AI to serve as nominal leader of the party and run for Parliament in the election scheduled for next June. The Synthetic Party was founded by the artistic tach collective Computer Lars, and the campaign is more of a stunt than a serious candidate. The AI’s personality and policy platform are built on the proposals by Denmark’s hundreds of small parties going back 50 years. Synthetic Party Computer Lars announced the formation of the Synthetic party in May as a way of leveraging a political campaign and AI party leader to draw...

Kentucky is the latest state to face a religious freedom challenge to its pro-life laws. Recently, Jewish and Satanic groups also sued Idaho, Indiana and Florida, alleging that protecting unborn babies from abortion violates their religious beliefs. On Thursday, three Jewish women from Louisville filed a lawsuit that argues the Kentucky abortion ban, which is saving thousands of unborn babies, would prohibit them from exercising their religious beliefs, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. “In Judaism, reproductive health of a mother is between the mother, her rabbi and her doctor — not the attorney general,” their attorney Aaron Kemper said. However,...

After more than 4 months under Russian control, large parts of the city have been destroyed ..."Are we in Donetsk Oblast already? Or still in Kharkiv Oblast?" "Donetsk Oblast," the guard laughed One of the soldiers in that SUV, identified only as Ivan, has been stationed about 100 kilometres north, in Kupiansk, and is using several days of leave to visit his home in Lyman for the first time since he enlisted on Feb. 24, the first day of the Russian invasion. Located in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, Lyman fell to Russian forces in late May and served as a...

“Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness” (Proverbs 14:13).