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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited troops in the eastern Donetsk region, which Russia claims as its own after a sham referendum. The area - particularly around the town of Bakhmut - is now the main focus of fighting after Ukraine's forces retook Kherson in the south last month. President Zelensky called it the "most difficult area that protects not only the east, but our entire state". Russia and its proxies have controlled parts of Donetsk since 2014. But speaking on the Day of the Armed Forces, Mr Zelensky said he believed Ukraine would take back all the land occupied...

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Dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, reduced the risk for hospitalization for any cause in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) with and without type 2 diabetes. The findings suggest that dapagliflozin should be considered in such patients. Patients with CKD are often hospitalized, contributing to lower quality of life and higher health care costs. Prior studies have shown that SGLT2 inhibitors can reduce cardiovascular events and slow progression to kidney damage in patients with or without diabetes. The effect of these drugs on hospitalizations in patients with CKD is less clear. Researchers from University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands...

US man ‘trapped’ in Russian-controlled Donetsk despite release from prison “I am very happy to be free. But I don’t know what to do next. The Russians never gave me back my passport, and I feel trapped here,” Murekezi said in a phone interview from the city of Donetsk, the capital of the Russian-annexed Donetsk region. Before moving to Ukraine, Murekezi spent six years in the US air force. He left the military in 2017 and started investing in shares and cryptocurrencies. His interest in crypto eventually brought him to Kherson, a city he quickly started to call home. When...

What is it about a social media app that allows short video sharing that would constitute a national security risk? The answer is not about dog and cat videos, or dancing diatribes or funny, weird or goofy content; nor is the national security risk attached to any data of the app users or content providers. The national security risk is found in the ability to influence public opinion that is not under the control of the United States government, or more specifically the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS). The need for control is a reaction to fear. TikTok, as a...

“[Dr. Huff] is the whistleblower of whistleblowers,” said Alex Jones Tuesday. “So much of the intel we got over the last two-and-a-half years came from him.”“This is the guy who sent the documented reports to the senate committees, this is the guy that got massively harassed for it, and now he is standing tall & fighting harder than ever.”Watch & share this explosive interview & be sure to download the unredacted documents provided by Dr. Huff:

Critics are sounding the alarm on the Internal Revenue Service significantly lowering the threshold for transaction reporting through payment apps, warning the change signals a new level of government overreach that targets small businesses and middle-class Americans. The IRS issued a reminder last week to taxpayers who utilize third-party payment processors like Venmo and PayPal about changes to reporting income in an updated explainer on their website. These changes created by the American Rescue Act now require the platforms to report any transaction over $600.

In a cryptic tweet shared with his 107.9 million followers, the billionaire declared: “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.” And when asked whether it would have been easier just to start “X” from scratch, he replied: “Twitter probably accelerates X by three to five years, but I could be wrong. “Everything apps” haven’t really made a lasting impression in Western economies yet — but over in China, super apps have taken the economy by storm.

COMMENT To see where this dumptruck is heading, let's first follow the trail of debris. It's difficult to track back, but the impacts of internet content mills, which thrived until around 2010, are still readily visible. The net effect of content generated at the rate of ten to thirty pieces daily on specialty topics — all at the hands of non-specialists via the guiding hand of Google Trends — led to an internet that, by 2010, was saturated with fluffy (if not nonsensical), keyword-stuffed articles that offered little in the way of usable info and in many cases, plenty of...

Gates Inc has assumed complete regulatory capture over American "public health" institutions.Bill Gates is taking a short break from his efforts to depopulate the planet to join the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Thursday as their “special guest.” Both Gates and Anthony Fauci will participate in the annual meeting convened by the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) of the National Institutes of Health. The ACD is comprised mostly of academics who act as stooges for a variety of interests. Committee members vote on resource allocation and NIH regulation and policy, and can help facilitate government funding for several endeavors....

(CNN) - House Republicans say they will seek congressional testimony from top Twitter employees who oversaw the company’s handling of a New York Post report on Hunter Biden’s laptop in public hearings when Republicans officially reclaim control of the House in the next Congress, indicating that probes into digital content moderation will figure prominently. On Tuesday, Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the top Republican and likely next chairman of the House Oversight Committee, wrote to three people who reportedly played key roles in the decision to temporarily suppress the Post’s story in the weeks before the 2020 election, calling on...

President Trump made a simple and common-sense case for Constitutional justice in America on Monday in a Truth Social post. “WE WANT PEOPLE WHO ‘LEGITIMATELY’ WON THE ELECTION TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY, NOT PEOPLE WHO HAD TO CHEAT IN ORDER TO WIN!!!” he wrote.Trump’s comments came after the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, dumped a treasure-trove of evidence related to Big Tech censorship and governmental collusion during the 2020 presidential election.Via RSBN, the “Twitter Files” revealed that Twitter handily worked to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 presidential election, highlighting the dirty underbelly of government and...

[Catholic Caucus] “Innumerable miracles”, reduced to none: Saint Nicholas in the Traditional and Modern Roman Missals Today is the feast day of Saint Nicholas, and his collect in the traditional Roman Missal alludes to his Greek title of "wonderworker", and the "innumerable miracles" he worked during his life: Deus, qui beátum Nicoláum Pontíficem,innúmeris decorásti miráculis:tríbue, quǽsumus;ut eius méritis et précibusa gehénnæ incéndiis liberémur. (CO 1463)O God, who made the holy Bishop Nicholasrenowned for innumerable miracles,grant, we beseech you,that by his merits and prayerswe may be saved from the fires of hell.The Corpus orationum (CO) tells us that this collect—along with...

The Washington Post published a report Monday slamming Discovery Channel’s "Shark Week" programming for featuring too many White males as shark experts and continuing to peddle "negative messages" about sharks. The report highlighted a study done by the Public Library of Science led by Allegheny College biology professor Lisa Whitenack. The project observed that "Discovery’s programming emphasized negative messages about sharks, lacked useful messaging about shark conservation and overwhelmingly featured White men as experts — including several with the same name."

Oregon Measure 114 temporarily blocked by Harney County judge in separate challenge

It was once a symbol of hope. Haiti: the first black republic and first Caribbean state to declare independence. Now, it symbolises only death and despair. The poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, devastated by disasters both natural and man-made, plagued by disease, stalked by hunger, and now over-run by gangs. There has effectively been no government here since President Jovenel Moise was assassinated last year, a crime which continues to go unpunished. Into that power vacuum have moved hundreds of highly organised and extremely violent criminal groups which often have links to politicians and police - meaning they are...

Mindy Kaling, writer and star of “The Office,” recently claimed that the bingeable sitcom couldn’t be made in today’s politically correct climate — because it’s “so inappropriate now.” “The writers, who I’m still in touch with now, we always talk about how so much of that show we probably couldn’t make now,” Kaling, 43, said during a recent interview on “Good Morning America.” “Tastes have changed, and honestly what offends people has changed so much now. I think that actually is one of the reasons the show is popular, because people feel like there’s something kind of fearlessness about it...

During the Pennsylvania Senate race, people who pointed to John Fetterman's patent inability—in light of his major, recent, stroke—to do the job as senator were met by the liberal media with accusations of "ableism," and flat denials that he had any limitations. It was only after Fetterman won the race that his handlers admitted that he would not be able to respond to direct questions, given the continuing effects of his stroke. So, when on today's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski said: "This is not a matter of left or right. This is a matter of, can he speak to the...

The season of baby fairs is here once again in South Korea. Busy, noisy affairs held in cavernous conference halls where hundreds of vendors try to sell expectant parents everything they could possibly desire for their new bundle of joy – and plenty of other things they never knew they needed. But this is a shrinking business, and the customer base is dwindling. South Korea recently broke its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate. Figures released in November showed the average number of children a South Korean woman will have in her lifetime is down to just 0.79....

Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State and Central Intelligence Agency director, on Tuesday called on all Republicans to oppose a Democrat attempt to cram a bill that would create a mainstream media cartel into an unrelated defense bill. “Giving the media cartel power is bad enough. The JCPA’s ‘China loophole’ means this will benefit our adversaries. All Republicans should oppose cramming this bad bill in the NDAA,” Pompeo tweeted.