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Update from Bakhmut Front: A series of geolocation of drone footages by DeepStateUA confirmed a MASSIVE breakthrough by Russian forces after the Russian forces overrun a major entrenchment west of Blahodatne.The Russian forces advanced all the way to the Bakhmut-Slovyansk highway; and Ukrainian MoD tacitly confirmed the situation by reporting fighting near Orikhovo-Vasylivka and Dubovo Vasylivka, the 2 towns lines along the southern side of the highway.This breakthrough threatens an encirclement of all the Ukrainian troops that are currently valiantly and successfully holding the Russian advance in Krasna Hora and Paraskoviivka. A major withdrawal from this region is now expected.

Republican Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins told former Twitter executives to prepare to be arrested for alleged criminal interference in the 2020 elections during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter censorship Wednesday. Higgins accused Twitter executives of working with the FBI to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story the month before the 2020 election in order to hide criminal evidence against the Biden family.

A new method to reduce the progression of diabetic kidney disease, affecting 40% of people with diabetes, has been discovered by scientists. The study could help people with diabetes who are four times more likely to need either dialysis or a kidney transplant. Recent clinical trials show a commonly used blood pressure medicine, known as spironolactone, is an effective treatment by reducing protein leak into the urine. However, despite its positive effect, the drug can have adverse side effects, causing problems including high blood potassium levels (hyperkalaemia) in patients, making clinicians reluctant to use it. Researchers aimed to understand how...

A Virginia woman who advocated for “traditional American values” was kicked from the Virginia Board of Education after contending that socialism is “incompatible with freedom.” Suparana Dutta, who Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin appointed to the Virginia Board of Education in July, was removed from her nomination just moments before she was set to be confirmed by the Senate of Virginia. Virginia State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi introduced an amendment that stripped Dutta of her nomination. The amendment passed on a party line vote.

"And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. "And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm." "But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money." "" Matthew, Chapter 8 1 When he was...

"In December of 2021, two months before the first Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Jake Sullivan convened a meeting of a newly formed task force—men and women from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the State and Treasury Departments—and asked for recommendations about how to respond to Putin’s impending invasion. It would be the first of a series of top-secret meetings, in a secure room on a top floor of the Old Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, that was also the home of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB). There was the usual back...

Former federal prosecutor Mark Pomerantz has written a new book in which he presents the case that the Manhattan District Attorney should have charged former President Donald Trump with several crimes relating to his financial dealings. Pomerantz, who assisted the Manhattan District Attorney's office in its investigation into Trump's finances from December 2020 until he left the case in February 2022, had been in private practice for a long time before taking the position. He was originally hired by DA Cyrus Vance but left the job after new DA Alvin Bragg decided not to continue with charges against Trump. He...

Bills and Sabres owner Kim Pegula is still in recovery from suffering cardiac arrest in June 2022 and is dealing with “significant expressive aphasia” and “significant memory loss,” daughter and tennis star Jessica Pegula revealed in an article she penned for The Players’ Tribune which published Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know: Jessica said Kim, 53, can “read, write, and understand pretty well, but she has trouble finding the words to respond.” Jessica also said, “The doctors continue to be blown away by her recovery, considering where she started, and her determination is the driving force of that.” According...

Drinking coffee helps maintain low blood pressure. People who drink two or three cups of coffee a day have lower blood pressure than those who drink just one cup or none at all. This applies both to peripheral and central aortic pressure, i.e. the one closest to the heart. The investigation analyzed the association between coffee consumption and peripheral and central blood pressure parameters in a sample of the Italian population. "The results obtained show that those who regularly drink coffee have significantly lower blood pressure, both on peripheral and central levels, than those who do not drink it," explains...

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It will be the first State of the Union address for both of them. Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) will take Philadelphian Dennis “Freedom” Horton as his guest to President Joe Biden’s address Tuesday night, underlining his commitment to criminal justice reform in his first time attending the nationally watched event. Fetterman is still establishing himself as a freshman senator, just sworn in last month, and inviting Horton for his first State of the Union sends an early signal that clemency work and second chances remain a major focus for him. Horton, along with his brother, Lee, served 28 years...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation was once one of the most trusted institutions in the nation. FBI agents had the image of being honest, upright, patriotic, and not only not corrupt, but not corruptible. Beginning late in the Obama administration and accelerating sharply during the misrule of Old Joe Biden, however, the FBI took its sterling reputation, stomped on it with muddy shoes, tossed it in the dumpster, took it out and set fire to it, and threw the smoldering remainder into a vat of raw sewage. The survey site Statista reported in August 2022 that “Where 57 percent of...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — A woman says she tried to warn the Memphis Police Department about an officer now charged in the death of Tyre Nichols. Kadejah Townes said she was at the Walgreens on Knight Arnold on February 21, 2021, when Memphis police got a false shooting call. “We were returning a Redbox and getting another Redbox,” she said. Townes said they were about to leave when a male officer approached her asking if she heard gunfire. “I told him no. He told us we could go ahead and leave,” she said. She put the car into reverse when...

The persecution and betrayal of the pro-life causeWhile early indications reflect a decline in the number of abortions in the months following the US Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v Wade,1 a backlash to the decision has contributed to a significant worsening of the situation in Europe. In France, a consensus is emerging across the political spectrum aimed at guaranteeing access to abortion under the constitution.2 In January, the Italian Chamber of Deputies, dominated by the coalition Government of Georgia Meloni, voted with virtual unanimity to prohibit the adoption of any measure that would restrict access to abortion even indirectly.3...

The on-air audience for the State of the Union address fell considerably from a year ago. President Joe Biden’s second State of the Union averaged 24.17 million viewers across the four main broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC) and three largest cable news channels (CNN, Fox News and MSNBC). That’s down by about 29 percent from 33.83 million who watched the State of the Union on those seven outlets in 2022. The 2022 State of the Union, the first official one of Biden’s term, brought in 38.2 million viewers across 16 outlets. Fox News had the largest for the...

The FBI Doubles Down on Christians and White Supremacy in 2023The FBI’s Richmond Division would like to protect Virginians from the threat of “white supremacy,” which it believes has found a home within Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass. An intelligence analyst within the Richmond Field Office of the FBI released in a new finished intelligence product dated January 23, 2023, on Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVE) and their interests in “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics” or RTCs. The document assesses with “high confidence” the FBI can mitigate the threat of Radical-Traditionalist Catholics by recruiting sources within the Catholic Church.The acronym,...

But in a twist, the proposal would encourage Americans to choose low-return majors, providing larger taxpayer subsidies to students who choose gender studies while requiring engineers to repay their loans in full.

Depression can drain a person's energy. In the elderly, depression has been linked with the deterioration of the tiny power plants in our cells. These power plants are the mitochondria, tiny structures within our cells that handle several important tasks. The most critical is producing the molecules our cells use for energy. When mitochondria don't function well, it causes all kinds of problems for us. Mitochondrial diseases such as Alper's disease and Barth syndrome are the best known and usually become obvious in infancy or childhood. But researchers are now finding other effects. Major depression, for example. Researchers report that...

FIRST ON FOX: Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is teasing an expected announcement of a 2024 White House bid next week in a new video being released Wednesday -- which highlights her past as a fighter at the U.N. and in South Carolina, and hints at new battles against President Biden. "Where will you stand?" asks the video, obtained by Fox News Digital, with a date of 2/15/23, which is when Haley is expected to announce a presidential run. The teaser begins with former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick’s famous speech to the Republican National Convention in 1984 in which the...

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