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President Vladimir Putin has sought proposals from his armed forces commanders on how they think Russia's military campaign in Ukraine should proceed, during a visit to the operation's headquarters, the Kremlin said on Saturday. A series of defeats in 10 months of fighting, resulting in Russian withdrawals from areas around the capital Kyiv and Ukraine's second city Kharkiv and most recently from the city of Kherson, have forced Putin to call up reservists and generated rare public criticism from military bloggers and some allies. -snip- In video footage released by the Kremlin on Saturday, Putin presided at a meeting of...

Luke Warford is vying to become a top sheriff overseeing the state’s powerful oil industry — and to replace a self-dealing ‘political animal.’

I sat at the Livingston table for this 2013 trial while a Moore descendant sat at the other table.Trial Before Christmas The Trial in Photos Hint: the good guys won in the real trial. No idea what Hallmark will do with it. First showing tonight: Hallmark Channel, Saturday, Dec 17, at 8 p.m.

Basic services were being restored in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Saturday after the latest wave of Russian air strikes on critical infrastructure, as residents navigated a city gripped by fog and girded for a holiday season marked by uncertainty. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a quarter of Kyiv remained without heating but that the metro system was back in service and all residents had been reconnected to water supply by early morning. Only around one-third of the city remained without electricity, he said, but emergency outages would still be implemented to save power. "Because the deficit of electricity is significant," he...

For decades, astronomers assumed that Mars was geodynamically dead — a planet without rumbling earthquakes and erupting volcanoes. Though remnants of towering volcanoes exist on the surface of the Red Planet today, these colossal structures have been dormant for millions of years. With little to no heat firing the planet's engine, scientists reasoned, Mars became dormant long ago. However, over the last five years, this assumption has been proven wrong. NASA's InSight mission has detected quakes and even evidence of recent volcanism around one Martian region, known as Elysium Planitia. And now, they think they know why this activity is...

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit to bar two transgender athletes — Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood — from competing in the 2020 spring outdoor track season on a girls team at a Connecticut school. According to ADF: Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools, a lawsuit filed on behalf of four female athletes who were consistently deprived of honors and opportunities to compete at elite levels because the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference adopted a policy that allows males who identify as female to compete in girls’ athletic events. Starting in 2017, two male athletes began competing in Connecticut...

This year, the capital’s main Christmas tree will be an artificial one, measuring 12 meters tall. It will be decorated with energy-saving garlands that will be powered from a generator, though they will only be lit at specific intervals. Charging stations for electronics are also planned to be installed around the tree.The top of the tree will be crowned with the coat of arms of Ukraine.The generator was also provided by benefactor, leading Klitschko to claim that money is not being spent from the municipal fund on the tree. He also stated that there will be no mass entertainment events,...

As reported earlier – On Thursday the National Archives released thousands of the never disclosed JFK documents. But the FBI-CIA would not allow the release of all of the documents. Around 3% of the JFK documents are still being withheld from release by the government to the public — more than 50 years after the assassination. What are they hiding? Tonight Tucker Carlson provided the answer to this question on Thursday night. According to Tucker Carlson the answer is that the CIA was involved in the assassination of JFK. Tucker Carlson: “We spoke to someone who has access to these...

The radical left-wing Washington Post has lost 500,000 subscribers since January of 2021, as more and more Americans reject their woke ideology. The Washington Post’s affinity for all things radical is perspicuous. Indeed, the Washington Post promoted the Russia Collusion hoax.

A Biden administration official recently told members of Congress that Ukraine has the military capability to retake Crimea, but some officials are concerned any large-scale offensive that threatens Russia’s hold on the peninsula could push Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons, say two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The late November Ukraine briefing to some members of Congress included discussion of the reasons Ukraine will continue to need U.S. weapons and equipment for the foreseeable future. The two officials said a Biden official, when asked during the briefing about continued support for the Ukrainian military and whether it would...

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said the European Union’s massive corruption scandal had presented an opportunity to “drain the swamp” in Brussels.

LAST SUPPER OF A BLESSED NATIONTwo millennia ago, Jesus Christ gathered the Apostles for His Last Supper to offer them a New Covenant, to bring His Gospel and Light to a world that desperately needed it.In my painting I used the “Da Vinci - Last Supper” to represent the Covenant our Lord has made with the people of this land. Christ lays His hand upon the hourglass of time and sits in judgement upon this nation.Twelve Presidents represent the rise and fall of American culture, the great demise of our nation’s honor and virtue, as this country’s destiny is laid...

After the 2021 Election, there was an unstoppable effort to get to the bottom of the 2020 Election in Arizona’s Maricopa County. Eventually, an audit was voted on, approved and performed in the Arizona GOP-led Senate. There was much discussion then on who would perform the audit and where it would be performed. Eventually, it was determined that the audit would be performed at the Maricopa County Veterans Memorial Coliseum. There also were months between when the audit was voted on and when it started. The audit did occur, but based on the information we know today, the ballot count...

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

A magnitude 3.6 earthquake centered in the East Bay rattled folks around the Bay Area early Saturday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The brief shaker hit at 3:39 a.m. PST with a depth of 3.6 miles (5.8 kms), just .6 miles northeast of the city of El Cerrito. The epicenter appeared to be in the Hillside Natural Area, an open space owned by the city of El Cerrito. On the USGS Community Intensity Map, people reported feeling the quake throughout the region as far south as Fremont and north just beyond Vallejo.

Noctilucent clouds — the rarest clouds in the world — glowed like shimmering cobwebs in the sky over the San Francisco Bay Area early Friday morning, and experts think they were likely the result of a rocket launch. Skywatchers across the region were delighted by the otherworldly spectacle overhead and shared images on social media. One Twitter user posted a photo taken in the Sunset District at 6:30 a.m. "Pretty crazy looking," the tweet read. Scientists chimed in with excitement. "Great shot of what appears to be a noctilucent cloud over the SF Bay Area this morning!" UCLA climate scientist...

Video posted to social media shows a fan throwing a bucket with a white substance at Tom Glover, Melbourne City’s goal-keeper during the team’s match with Melbourne Victory. Glover was taken off the field dazed and bleeding, and officials said he had suffered a possible concussion, according to a report. Fans rushed onto the soccer field after the 20-minute mark at the AAMI Stadium in Melbourne as City led the match 1-0. Tensions were high from the start of the game, with fans planning to leave after the 20-minute mark to protest Australia Professional Leagues’ recent decision to award hosting...

The largest free standing aquarium in the world, containing close to 1,500 exotic fish, exploded early Friday morning in Berlin, injuries at least two people. The explosion of the AquaDom aquarium caused a torrent of water, fish and debris to flood the street outside the building, Berlin emergency officials said, according to CNN. The AquaDom was housed in the main floor of the Radisson Collection hotel in Berlin’s DomAquarée business complex. "In addition to the unbelievable maritime damage... two people were injured by glass splinters," the city’s police tweeted. Over 100 firefighters were sent to the scene of the accident....

CNN hosted Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for a dinner and joint interview at Hunan Dynasty. CNN reporter Jamie Gangel led the conversation. Gangel: “I want to talk about how the two of you navigated working with former President Trump.” With a chilling giggle, Schumer replied: “We had a good time.” Gangel: “Was there a strategy when you went into a meeting? Was there a good cop/bad cop?” Pelosi: "So I’m thinking, ‘How is he going to begin?’ Is he going to quote the Constitution, American history, [a] poet, the Bible?” Mocking Trump, Pelosi continued: “‘You know, I won the...

“Joseph, Did You Know?” (Matthew 1:18-25) If you’ve listened to one of those radio stations that play Christmas songs for about two months before Christmas, then you’ve probably heard a song called “Mary, Did You Know?” You’ve heard that song, right? The lyrics involve asking Mary a series of rhetorical questions about whether she knew what her son would grow up to do: “Mary, did you know that your baby boy would one day walk on water?” “Mary, did you know that your baby boy will give sight to a blind man?” That sort of thing. Well, today I’m wondering...