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One of Russia's newest and most advanced warplanes has crashed in a residential area in the southern Russian city of Yeysk, after one of its engines caught fire during takeoff. The Russian Defense Ministry said both crew members of the Su-34 bailed out safely, while pictures shared on Russian Telegram news channels showed one of the pilots descending under a parachute, illuminated by the blazing wreckage.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said the FBI possesses records indicating potential criminal activity by President Joe Biden's family in foreign business deals. Among records held by the FBI, Grassley said, is evidence that sheds light on Hunter Biden's business and financial relationship with Ukrainian energy company Burisma, and indicates that Joe Biden was aware of his son's business arrangements and might have been involved in some. It's unclear if the records, which according to a release were reviewed by the senator's investigative staff, have been shared with the Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office as part of its ongoing criminal investigation into...

Ghislaine Maxwell broke her silence on her relationship with former President Bill Clinton and Hillary will be furious. Maxwell called their relationship a “special friendship” that lasted for years. “Yes, I follow what is happening to him,” Maxwell said about Prince Andrew. “He is paying such a price for the association with Jeffrey Epstein. I care about him, and I feel so bad for him. “There are many people who have been impacted by this story who have been canceled, some friends of mine who never even met Epstein lost their jobs. People who literally had nothing to do with...

Democratic concerns are growing that a years-old discrimination lawsuit is tarnishing the party’s frontrunner in Arizona’s gubernatorial race, jeopardizing the party’s chances of flipping the top executive post in a key swing state. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who’s running for governor, was hit with controversy last month when a jury found for the second time that Talonya Adams, a Black woman, was discriminated against when she worked for state Senate Democrats and ultimately fired in retaliation after raising concerns about pay disparity. Hobbs was the party’s minority leader in the chamber and participated in Adams’s firing in 2015....

VIDEOOn Sunday October 16, 2022 I went to a Governor Ron DeSantis campaign rally at Wings Plus restaurant in Coral Springs, Florida. I had been to Wings Plus many times before because their wings have been rated the BEST in South Florida and several times there have been political campaign rallies at that location. From my experience with the previous rallies I expected dozens of people to show up and perhaps even a few hundred. However, imagine my SHOCK when it turned out there were THOUSANDS of people at that DeSantis rally. Wings Plus was completely filled up and the...

A new subvariant of the novel-coronavirus called XBB dramatically announced itself earlier this week, in Singapore. New COVID-19 cases more than doubled in a day, from 4,700 on Monday to 11,700 on Tuesday—and XBB is almost certainly why. The same subvariant just appeared in Hong Kong, too.A highly mutated descendant of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that drove a record wave of infections starting around a year ago, XBB is in many ways the worst form of the virus so far. It’s more contagious than any previous variant or subvariant. It also evades the antibodies from monoclonal therapies,...

Ukrainian servicemen refitted captured Russian tanks in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region. And prepared them for future battles Ukrainian soldiers re-fit captured Russian tanks | Watch (msn.com) ........ 1:20 minutes

During an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned the claims of Biden-China connections go deeper than President Joe Biden and his family, including his son Hunter Biden. According to Pompeo, we were “only beginning to pull the threads” in understanding how much Biden’s Cabinet was tied to the communist Chinese government. “[I]f you have senior leaders, certainly, the president of the United States and his family members, but I also think of the folks that are in the Biden administration’s Cabinet who worked on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party,” he...

Back in the mid-80s, I was a young Army Paratrooper Lieutenant assigned to the 325th Airborne Battalion Combat Team in Vicenza Italy. Each January-February we did training exchange rotations with the famed Berlin Brigade .... While in West Berlin, by agreement, members of our military could travel into East Berlin through Checkpoint Charlie. .... East German secret police, known as the Stasi. They would be shadowing us. Stasi was part of a brutal regime that imprisoned their political opposition; many of whom were never to be heard from again. .... America is becoming a Stasi state.Over the past year, we...

Kari Lake destroys Dana Bash

American families have lost $6,000 in annual wages thanks to President Joe Biden’s soaring inflation, a Heritage Foundation study revealed over the weekend. The loss in wages represents a $1,800 increase from September, when American families had lost $4,200 in annual wages under Biden. “People are just absolutely being crushed,” Heritage fellow E.J. Antoni told Fox Business. “It’s not the price of caviar and yachts that are driving these numbers. It’s necessities, it’s staples. It’s things like eggs, milk, flour, soup. These are things that are up 20 or 30 percent year-over-year.”

Government agencies and private security companies in the U.S. have found a cost-effective way to engage in warrantless surveillance of individuals, groups and places: a pay-for-access web tool called Fog Reveal. The tool enables law enforcement officers to see “patterns of life” – where and when people work and live, with whom they associate and what places they visit. The tool’s maker, Fog Data Science, claims to have billions of data points from over 250 million U.S. mobile devices. Fog Reveal came to light when the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit that advocates for online civil liberties, was investigating...

In times past, a historical refrain echoed across America: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” And nowhere was that directive more fittingly employed than in the Armed Forces. In the past few years, however, the quote’s relevance appears to have waned. Since the advent of our national defense, pride and sacrifice have ruled the day. The idea was pretty straight forward: When you sign up to serve, you give up your individuality. You become an instrument to be used by the government in whatever ways it sees fit. You...

MORRIS — A 10-year-old boy was attacked by a bear Sunday morning, state officials say. Environmental Conservation police and state troopers responded to a report that a black bear had attacked the boy in Morris around 11 a.m. Sunday, a Department of Energy and Environmental Protection spokesperson said. The boy was taken by ambulance to Charlotte Hungerford Hospital for medical treatment, the spokesperson said, noting the child’s injuries appear to be non-life-threatening. "The bear was still present near the scene and was located and euthanized by EnCon police," they said.

MADISON — Radical state Rep. Jonathan Brostoff (D-Milwaukee) suggested on Twitter last week that Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels staged a break-in of a car to spotlight Milwaukee epidemic. Michels’ video, in which he talks about the crime occurring while he was hosting a press conference in Milwaukee, has gone viral. And it’s all true — as Fox6’s Jason Calvi reported. The vehicle hit was a rental car driven by a Fox6 producer. “The bad guys are so emboldened, they’re like ‘I don’t care if there’s cameras around, people around, future governors around, I know I’m going to get away...

Former President Donald Trump is holding a rally in Texas two days before early voting starts for the November election.The rally will be Saturday in Robstown, outside Corpus Christi on the Gulf Coast. Republicans are targeting districts in the area as they try to take over South Texas’ congressional seats.The rally will start at 7 p.m. at the Richard M. Borchard Regional Fairgrounds, according to a media advisory. It said speakers in addition to Trump would be announced later.

The military's equity chief once recommended a book to high school students that referred to 9/11 first responders as 'not human' and 'menaces.' This latest revelation comes as the Pentagon continued a probe into Kelisa Wing's tweets in which she used words such as 'Karen' and 'CAUdacity' to describe white people. According to Fox News, Wing recommended the 2015 book Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates while she represented the Pentagon on two occasions.

Only 26 percent of likely voters want to see His Fraudulency Joe Biden run for reelection in 2024, according to the latest from Rasmussen Reports. The question was asked simply: “Should Joe Biden run for reelection in 2024?” Only 26 percent said yes, while a whopping 60 percent said no. Fourteen percent don’t know.

Congresswoman Cori Bush, who supports the 'defund the police' movement, spent $500,000 in campaign funding on private security, according to a new report. Bush (D-Mo.), a member of 'the squad', splashed out over $100,000 on 'security services' through the third quarter of 2022 alone, according to Federal Election Commission records, seen by Fox News Digital. Of that, $71,201.06 was paid to St. Louis-based private security company named Peace Security. The remaining $30,000 on security services went to Cortney Merrits and Nathaniel Davis, who reportedly share an address with Bush's campaign HQ.

Regulatory hurdles are stymieing growth in natural gas production in the Marcellus-Utica basin, the largest U.S. gas-producing region, which is set to miss out on the expected boom in American liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports in the coming years. Not only is Marcellus-Utica missing the opportunity to export and monetize natural gas in a world scrambling for LNG supply, but it is also unable to provide more natural gas to the regions close to it in New England, analysts and the pipeline industry say.