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Several people have been arrested after a foiled attack on the TurkStream gas pipeline on Russian territory, the Kremlin said on Thursday."The saboteurs were caught and several people were arrested. They wanted to blow up the facility on our territory," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Kazakhstan's capital Astana....Russia has enhanced surveillance measures following recent leaks at the Nord Stream gas pipelines and oil leak from the Druzhba pipeline in Poland.

“Our economy is strong as hell,” President Joe Biden declared in an impromptu remark on Saturday – but, a new national survey shows that nearly nine of ten U.S. voters say they think the country is currently in a recession. “Our economy is strong as hell -- the internals of it," Biden said, while eating ice cream and speaking with reporters. "Inflation is worldwide. It’s worse off everywhere else than it is in the United States. So the problem is the lack of economic growth and sound policy in other countries, not so much ours.” However, 89% of voters say...

WASHINGTON — Biden administration officials are considering trying to discourage American companies from expanding business ties with Saudi Arabia as part of a U.S. response to a recent Saudi-led push by oil-producing countries to cut global production, said three current and former U.S. officials familiar with the discussions. The administration also will not send any U.S. official to Saudi Arabia’s annual Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh next week, officials said. The thinking behind a move to pull back American business investment in Saudi Arabia is that it could influence the kingdom without directly affecting U.S. security in the region,...

Babylon Bee logo Top 10 Achievements Democrats Can Tout Going Into the Midterms SPONSORED · Oct 17, 2022 · BabylonBee.com Article Image Brought to you by PublicSq: Polling data shows that Democrats have a chance of losing both chambers of Congress. But it's not all doom and gloom! Democrats have some noteworthy achievements under their belt that they can cite to remind Americans why they should stay in power. Here are ten fantastic things the Democrats have accomplished this year: The standard of living is up 500% among Ukrainian politicians: Wow! Good for them! Hilarious memes of Biden eating ice...

ATLANTA, Oct. 18, 2022/PRNewswire/ -- While changes in the earth's climate and actions to reduce carbon emissions receive significant attention in the news cycle, people are less familiar with how the earth's changing climate is impacting health. Today, the CDC Foundation announced a new focus to bring together young people to raise awareness about the linkage between climate and health and to engage them in their communities to better prepare for the growing health impacts from climate change. "The health and mental health impacts of our changing climate are daunting, but we must not lose sight of opportunities to come...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will publish an anthology book featuring his wartime speeches from the past year, to be released in early December, the Penguin Random House subsidiary Crown announced on Monday. The book, titled A Message from Ukraine, will contain 16 speeches delivered since Zelensky became president in 2019, most of them likely to be from the past year. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, half a decade before Zelensky took over the nation’s top office, but the West reacted tepidly to Moscow’s colonization of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula at the time, leading to Russian leader Vladimir Putin announcing a full-scale...

A set of missing persons reports has turned into a murder investigation after dismembered bodies found in an Oklahoma river were identified as four men who vanished last week...The men appear to have been planning to commit a crime when they set out...

Cannabis users soon may be a majority among young adults in the District of Columbia and several pot-friendly states, a trend that points to a potential future of destigmatized marijuana across much of the nation. More than two-fifths of young men and women nationwide now use cannabis at least on occasion, according to federal data, a quotient that has risen steadily in a decade of relentless legalization. Much of the trend is driven by young women, who have all but closed a decades-long gender gap in marijuana use.

The J6 House Soviet Select Committee on Daddy Issues recently got back to work after having retreated to their lairs to pull the wings off of butterflies while watching old episodes of Jerry Springer on DVD. The Democrats were hoping that the antics of the committee’s fascist miscreants would not only foil a presidential run by Donald Trump in 2024 but provide them some cover in this year’s midterm elections. The dream was that the focus on J6 would distract from the fact that a loaf of bread now costs $475 and that the Oval Office is occupied by a...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that then-President Trump’s statement telling the rioters to leave the Capitol was “BS.” CNN aired footage that filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) daughter, took on the day of the insurrection on “Anderson Cooper 360” on Thursday. Schumer and Pelosi were taken to Fort McNair, an Army base on the Potomac River, after the Capitol was evacuated as the insurrection unfolded, where they called multiple officials from the Trump administration to seek help from the National Guard to stop the attack. Footage showed Schumer speaking...

A 17-year-old boy died Friday night after collapsing during a rehearsal for a show choir event at Naperville North High School. The DuPage County coroner's office has identified the boy as Daniel Moshi of Franklin Park. An autopsy was performed Saturday A determination of the cause of death is pending an investigation. Daniel was one of 48 students from throughout Illinois attending the three-day Honors Show Choir of the Illinois chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, according to chapter President Laura Coster. She said Daniel and the others were seated during a rehearsal when he collapsed. Two teachers and...

President Biden on Tuesday will announce that the first bill he would send to Congress if Democrats retain their majorities would be one to codify the Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights. Biden is set to make the remarks at an event in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Democratic National Committee. It illustrates how Democrats and Biden want to put the emphasis on abortion rights ahead of the midterms as new polls suggest the party is losing momentum in its effort to retain the Senate and House. Biden’s announcement has caveats. Sending the bill is dependent on Democrats retaining...

A new ad from Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) supporting Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections portrays a woman being arrested in front of her family for having an abortion, warning such situations could happen if Republicans are able to ban the procedure. The ad shows a family having dinner when police officers come to their door and tell the woman that she is under arrest for unlawful termination of a pregnancy. The woman says it is “her personal business,” but an officer responds that the courts will decide that before arresting her. “Elections have consequences,” a narrator later says. “Vote...

Georgia voters turned out for the first day of early voting in record numbers, with ballots cast already exceeding one-day early voting results in the 2018 midterms. On Monday, 131,318 ballots were cast in-person. In the 2018 midterm elections, 70,849 ballots were cast in-person on the first day of early voting, according to a release from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office. Monday’s results inched close to the 136,739 ballots cast on the first day of early voting in 2020, a presidential election year.

Much like the convenient phrase “virtue signaling,” describing those people intent on convincing others of their superior righteousness, “gaslighting” has quietly and helpfully slipped into our political lexicon in recent times. Put simply, this term means trying to convince people that what appears to be one thing is really another, that they are not really seeing what they are seeing, that they should not trust their lying eyes over the word of their superiors. This is precisely what Democrats, starting with the leader of the band, President Joe Biden, have adopted as a midterm campaign strategy. From inflation to crime...

Conservatives have long been concerned about companies discriminating against their viewpoints and promoting a left-wing agenda, but there have been few conservative-leaning businesses offering viable alternatives. Several new companies have emerged to combat this problem in various fields including financial services, entertainment and consumer goods; conservative entrepreneurs want to influence the culture and offer an alternative to businesses that are hostile to their beliefs. “This movement has to be cultural, it can’t just be about business … It’s about daring people to think this way and showing them it can be done. It transcends a lot of the fake and...

Former US Ambassador to the Soviet Union: Ukraine’s NATO Collusion Caused the Russia ConflictFormer US ambassador to the Soviet Union, Jack Matlock has admitted that Ukraine’s own actions brought about their own peril with regards to Russia.“The war might have been prevented – probably would have been prevented – if Ukraine had been willing to abide by the Minsk agreement, recognize the Donbas as an autonomous entity within Ukraine, avoid NATO military advisors, and pledge not to enter NATO,” Matlock said.“Nevertheless, what was possible even as late as January 2022 may not be possible now. The Russian annexation of additional...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday said it was proposing a new rule to collect data on climate-related risks from property and casualty insurers, one of the first concrete actions in a new push to beef up financial regulation to help fight global warming. The Treasury's Federal Insurance Office said in a Federal Register notice that it was seeking public comment on the proposal, under which it would collect current and historical underwriting data on homeowners’ insurance. The zip-code level data would provide the insurance office with "consistent, granular, and comparable insurance data needed to help assess the...

Our vision and mission for the College of Education at California State University, Fullerton is to cultivate educators who are prepared to provide just, equitable, and inclusive education in birth-through post-secondary settings. Theory-to-practice experiences, including clinical practicums, fieldwork, and student teaching, are major components of effective teacher preparation. Therefore, it is critical that we place teacher candidates in districts that support their growth and development throughout the program. The placement of student teachers in Placentia Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD), at this time, would place us in conflict with our goals to prepare teacher candidates with pedagogical approaches rooted...

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, one of the most infamous Congressional RINOs in recent memory, wants Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as the Republican presidential candidate in 2024.NEW: The GOP 2024 nominee will be "someone other than Donald Trump," said former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan at a closed conference in New York Wednesday afternoon. According to a recording of his talk, he named DeSantis, Youngkin, and Tim Scott as his three favorites.— Bradley Saacks (@SaacksAttack) October 11, 2022Ryan remarked that DeSantis’ tough talk against Disney was “really good for him, from a political perspective,” and that the American Conservative...