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Ukraine is bracing for a grisly Russian offensive in the Donbas. Moscow has concentrated hundreds of thousands of troops in the country’s east, using brute-force tactics and human waves in a bid to chip away at the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ defenses. Amid a recent surge in fighting, many military analysts believe the long-awaited Russian offensive is already underway and is expected to accelerate as the first anniversary of the invasion approaches. “Something is brewing in the east,” said Jonatan Vseviov, secretary-general of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “More and more Russian soldiers are arriving on the front,” he said....

Washington — Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, has made the panel's first official requests for documents from President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and his brother, James Biden, over foreign business pursuits. In letters first obtained by CBS News, Comer informed Hunter and James Biden, as well as their then-business manager, that he is seeking documents and communications from the Bidens as part of his committee's probe into to any possible involvement by the president in their financial conduct, in particular in foreign business deals "with individuals who were connected to...

LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A panel of European Union lawmakers on Thursday backed an amendment to extend the reach of groundbreaking draft legislation to force companies to check whether their suppliers use slave or child labour, or pollute the environment. The EU's executive European Commission proposed the draft corporate sustainability due diligence (CSDD) law last year to put pressure on companies to meet net-zero climate targets. Under its terms companies would have to identify, monitor and mitigate the adverse impact of their activities on the environment, as well as adopt transition plans to meet net-zero goals. Parliament's environment committee...

More than 200 political prisoners were released by Nicaragua this morning. The 222 prisoners were put on an early morning flight to Washington and will arrive in the next few hours. On state television a judge said the government had decided to "deport" the prisoners, saying they had been declared traitors and can never again serve public office. A U.S. State Department spokesperson said Nicaragua made the decision "unilaterally," but that the United States had "facilitated the transportation" and the political prisoners would be admitted into the United States for "humanitarian reasons." Ever since anti-government protests erupted in Nicaragua in...

Synopsis As Introduced Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to create a voter registration affidavit that shall be the exclusive means by which a noncitizen of the United States may register to vote in school board elections. Provides that the elections conducted under the provisions are considered non-State elections and are not subject to the citizenship requirement in the Illinois Constitution. Provides for what the individual shall attest to in the voter registration affidavit. Provides that the voter registration affidavit shall be valid for one school board election. Provides for the notice that shall appear in...

In an apparent breach of the BBC’s impartiality code of conduct, a reporter for Britain’s public-funded broadcaster embraced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a hug at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon. During a visit to a military camp in Dorset, England alongside British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, President Volodymyr Zelensky was greeted with seemingly fawning admiration by a reporter from BBC Ukraine, Natalia Goncharova. When called upon to ask a question of the two leaders, rather than questioning President Zelesnky on the critical issues of the day, including his demand for Western leaders to supply fighter jets, BBC journalist...

The controversial reparations committee in San Francisco had to postpone a meeting after one of its members got stuck in Colombia where he visited Hooters. The far-left city of San Francisco approved a task force in 2021 that aimed to study “financial compensation, community programs and other ways to make reparations to the descendants of slaves,” according to the Daily Mail. Among the committee’s members is San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton, who did not return as scheduled on Tuesday from his vacation to Colombia, during which he visited Hooters.

In September of 2017, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, delivered a lecture on “strengthening collaboration in a fractured world” (what a handy euphemism for global tyranny!) before a group of students and faculty at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. While on stage engaged in conversation with David Gergen, an established D.C. operative (Swamp), Schwab said the following: There’s this notion to integrate young leaders as part of the World Economic Forum since many years. And I have to say, when I mentioned now names like Mrs. Merkel, even Vladimir Putin, and so on, they all...

Bill Clinton was so distracted by Monica Lewinsky, he lost track of Osama bin Laden. That’s according to a new book claiming the scandal that plagued the then-president haunted him to the point that he wasn’t 100% in the game — which allowed for the al Qaeda terrorist to orchestrate the attacks of 9/11. Doug Schoen, a campaign consultant and political adviser who worked on both Bill and Hillary’s presidential campaigns, made the stunning claim that Clinton let bin Laden get away in Power: The 50 Truths, which hits shelves on Feb. 14. While Schoen calls Clinton “the most accomplished...

Following the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Joe Biden appeared to catch one Democratic senator off guard as he made a comment to him. In the minutes following the speech, Biden made his way through Democratic lawmakers when he came across Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and he suddenly stopped to speak to Menendez. “Bob, I gotta talk to you about Cuba,” Biden said. A seemingly surprised Menendez simply replied, “Okay,” before Biden continued, adding, “I’m serious.” It’s unknown what exactly Biden intended to speak to Menendez about, but the New Jersey...

Bacharach was known for songs such as 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' and 'I Say a Little Prayer'Composer Burt Bacharach has died at the age of 94. Bacharach died Wednesday at home in Los Angeles of natural causes, his publicist Tina Brausam said Thursday. The Oscar-winner was known for songs such as "Walk on By," "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" and many more. Bacharach triumphed in multiple art forms. He was an eight-time Grammy winner, a prize-winning Broadway composer for "Promises, Promises" and a three-time Oscar winner. He received two Academy Awards in 1970, for the...

Hey Rep. Jordan: Want to Know How the FBI Co-opted Twitter? The FBI operates an indoctrination program for selected candidates and civlians called the FBI National Academy. This is different from the "FBI Academy" where FBI Agents are trained. The National Academy is a 6 week intensive program to develop assets and sources inside industry and other agencies who can provide access to persons and resources off the radar scope of normal judicially authorized searches and warrants. Alongside these people, all former FBI agents are considered mobilized assets to aid and assist with off-the-record probes and investigative leads without the...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Thursday denied a New York Times report that said the city was purchasing bus tickets to Canada for migrants. The New York Times on Wednesday reported that city officials are buying tickets for migrants who want to head to Canada and seek asylum there. Adams denied the report on Thursday, telling CNN’s Don Lemon that the city does not send migrants to Canada. “We are not encouraging anyone to go to another country,” he said. The report comes after months of Republican state leaders sending migrants to Democrat-led cities, including New York...

In 1943, Soviet troops liberated the capital of Ukraine from the Nazis. Now in Kyiv they are demolishing a monument to General Nikolai Vatutin, who commanded these troops and liberated the city from Nazi invaders.Oleksiy Goncharenko, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, wrote about the dismantling of the monument in his Telegram channel.On the photo published by him, you can see the beginning of the demolition of the monument. Workers drove a truck crane and grabbed the monument with a cable to remove it from the pedestal.The monument itself is located in the capital's Mariinsky park not far from the Ukrainian...

Russia’s widely-anticipated winter offensive has begun. Aiming to extend its control over eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, Russian troops are attacking north and south of Donetsk city. In the northern sector, around the city of Bakhmut, the Russians slowly are advancing—albeit at staggering cost. In the south, around Vuhledar, the Russians’ losses are just as steep—but they’ve made no clear gains that could justify the casualties. Vuhledar is turning into a meatgrinder for the Russian army, with enormous implications for the wider offensive. The latest Russian attack on Vuhledar—a town with a pre-war population of just 14,000 that lies a mile...

This was gaslighting at its liberal-media worst. Trashing the Twitter hearing held yesterday by the GOP-led House Oversight committee, Morning Joe would have you believe that far from seeking to suppress Republicans and help Democrats, Twitter—98.47% of whose donations went to Democrats in 2020— actually bent over backward to help Donald Trump!The most egregious example of Twitter's pro-Dem bias was its suppression, in the days leading up to the 2020 election, of the New York Post's reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop. But the panel literally laughed that off. That's an odd take, coming after the New York Times and the...

Warming temperatures unleash termites in more areas of the world, and more termites may actually accelerate warming temperatures. Scientists say it's time for climate prediction models to take note. Not only do termites find warm and humid climates more hospitable, but they consume and decay wood at much higher rates in such climates, according to an international team of scientists. As global temperatures rise, termites could expand their territories, take advantage of all the dead wood laying around, and further grow their populations. Using climatic models, the scientists concluded that termite habitats could increase by more than 30 percent of...

President Biden tried Wednesday to downplay House Republican investigations of his embattled son Hunter and the rest of the first family — claiming that voters just won’t be interested. In an interview with “PBS NewsHour” host Judy Woodruff, Biden was asked how he planned to deal with the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into his son’s shady business interests in China and Ukraine. “The public is not going to pay attention that,” Biden, 80, insisted. “They want these guys to do something. If the only thing they can do is make up things about my family, it’s not going to go...

Last night, President Joe Biden delivered the best State of the Union address I’ve heard in my lifetime. He turned what is usually a boring exercise in partisan clapping and mutual back-patting into a riveting combination pep rally, poetry slam and real-time legislative session. I was entranced the entire 72 minutes. I laughed. I cried. I yelled “sick burn.” Even Speaker Kevin McCarthy nodded along to half of what Mr. Biden had to say. Joe Cool was bipartisan. He appealed to Middle America. He handled his hecklers with a million-watt smile. He looked and sounded like Presidents do in the...

(Last Updated On: February 7, 2023) NATIONAL BAGEL AND LOX DAY DAY National Bagel and Lox Day recognizes one of America’s favorite bagel combinations on February 9th. #BagelAndLoxDay Bagels are one of the few breads that are boiled then baked. This creates a soft inside while keeping a crisp outside. Bagels originated in Poland in the early 17th century and now sell over a billion dollars worth each year in the United States. Scandinavians perfected the technique for preparing lox by curing salmon in a salt brine for several months. Using the fatty belly of the salmon results in a...