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With an eye toward winning back the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm elections, former President Donald Trump has begun crafting a policy agenda outlining a MAGA doctrine for the party. His template is the 1994 “Contract with America,” a legislative agenda released ahead of the midterm elections in the middle of President Bill Clinton’s first term. And, as a cherry on top, he’s teaming up with its main architect — Gingrich — to do it.

HONG KONG—Chinese leader Xi Jinping is preparing to visit Moscow for a summit with Russia’s president in the coming months, according to people familiar with the plan, as Vladimir Putin wages war in Ukraine and portrays himself as a standard-bearer against a U.S.-led global order. Beijing says it wants to play a more active role aimed at ending the conflict, and the people familiar with Mr. Xi’s trip plans said a meeting with Mr. Putin would be part of a push for multiparty peace talks and allow China to reiterate its calls that nuclear weapons not be used. [Snip] Arrangements...

Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner group, on Tuesday accused the Russian defence minister and the chief of the general staff of depriving his fighters of munitions and trying to destroy Wagner - actions he said were equivalent to treason. A onetime catering entrepreneur who once shunned the public spotlight, Prigozhin has assumed an more public role since the start of the war in Ukraine a year ago, with his Wagner Group spearheading Russia's months-long battle for the town of Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region. "There is simply direct opposition going on," Prigozhin said in a voice message posted on...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it. He was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.” Mark 9:30–31Why would Jesus wish that no one know that He and His disciples were traveling through Galilee at that time? It appears the reason was that Jesus was intently focused upon teaching His disciples about His...

Under the cloak of darkness Joe Biden made a secret trip to Ukraine. The Washington Post heralded it as "cloak and dagger." Leftists on Twitter found themselves raptured by this heroic action. To add to the drama, as Biden and Zelenskyy strolled out of the Presidential residence air raid sirens blared. There was no additional alacrity upon the sound of the alarm. Indeed there was no alacrity at all. Zelensky and Biden continued their leisurely stroll. Nothing to see here, just Biden and Zelenskyy strolling through Kyiv while air raid sirens sound. Trump would have needed a diaper change pic.twitter.com/iSq6xBLM8U—...

The senior inclusion officer of a Philadelphia-based social justice group has been lying about her ethnic identity for years — claiming she is a woman of color despite being “as white as the driven snow,” her mother alleges. Raquel Evita Saraswati, 39, who was born Rachel Elizabeth Seidel, is the chief equity, inclusion and culture officer of the American Friends Service Committee, which fights “violence, inequality and oppression,” the Intercept reported. The Muslim activist, who has access to files of the progressive Quaker group’s workers and volunteers, has claimed for years to be of Latin, South Asian and Arab descent....

The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a green energy non-profit organization with links to China, is among several organizations receiving considerable funding from the Departments of Energy and Transportation as part of their effort to expand electric vehicle (EV) charging routes. The department confirmed the funding via a press release.

Is there anything that green guru Al Gore does that's actually green? We know he's an energy hog, using way more than his "fair share" of energy to heat his mansions. We know he flies around on carbon-spewing private jets. Turns out he doesn't even invest green, even though he would like you to think he does. According to the New York Post:The “green-friendly” investment firm co-founded and run by former Vice President Al Gore, 74, owns a portfolio of more than $26 billion worth of shares in nearly two dozen companies that were found to have increased greenhouse gas...

[Catholic Caucus] TRANSLATION - Rescriptum ex Audientia - From Yesterday’s Audience of Francis with Card. RocheRESCRIPTUM EX AUDIENTIA SS.MI, 21.02.2023[B0150]The Holy Father, at the Audience granted on Feb. 20 to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, confirmed the following about the implementation of his Motu Proprio Traditionis custodes of July 16, 2021.These are dispensations reserved in a special way to the Apostolic See (cf. C.I.C. can. 87 §1):- the use of a parish church or the erection of a personal parish for the celebration of the Eucharist using the Missale...

Morning Joe was all aboard the Sycophant Express today, turning the gush meter to 11 as it unleashed a string of superlatives to praise Biden's visit to Ukraine. "Incredible, staggering, historic...absolutely stunning...extraordinary...incredibly moving."Joe Scarborough twice put Biden's bravery in the same category as that of Lincoln visiting Union troops during the Civil War.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, will face Republican challenger Leon Benjamin in a special election Tuesday to fill the 4th Congressional District seat left vacant by the death of Democratic Rep. Donald McEachin. The 4th congressional district, which stretches from Richmond to the North Carolina border, has had a Democratic representative since 2016 when McEachin was first elected to Congress. Leading up to the November election in 2022 when McEachin won reelection just weeks before his death, Cook Political Report designated the seat “solid Democrat.”

Gonzalez v. Google centers on the contention that YouTube’s algorithms engendered the radicalization and recruitment of Islamic State members and affiliates, ultimately making the social media platform liable for attacks like the November 2015 Paris ones that cost the lives of 130 people including the petitioners’ daughter, Mexican-American college student Nohemi The case touches on a core legal article for the Internet, Section 230, which says that social media platforms and other interactive computer services are considered not liable for content posted by their users. “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher...

The mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, on Monday, said that President Biden’s visit to Ukraine was the “biggest slap in the face” as his town continues to deal with the chemical fallout from a train derailment in the small town. During an appearance on Fox News, East Palestine Mayor Trent Conway was asked to give his thoughts on Biden’s surprise visit to Kyiv on Monday while he is in Poland for an international trip. “That was the biggest slap in the face that tells you right now. He doesn’t care about us,” Conway told host Jesse Watters. “So … he...

Democratic governors in 20 states are launching a network intended to strengthen abortion access in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision nixing a woman’s constitutional right to end a pregnancy and instead shifting regulatory powers over the procedure to state governments. Organizers, led by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, described the Reproductive Freedom Alliance as a way for governors and their staffs to share best practices and affirm abortion rights for the approximately 170 million Americans who live in the consortium’s footprint — and even ensuring services for the remainder of U.S. residents who live in states with more...

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Voters in a Richmond-based Virginia congressional district will settle a special election Tuesday for the open seat previously held by the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Donald McEachin, who died in November shortly after being elected to a fourth term. Democratic nominee Jennifer McClellan, a veteran state legislator who if elected would be the first Black woman to represent Virginia in Congress, is widely seen as the heavy favorite. She faces Republican pastor Leon Benjamin, a Navy veteran who has espoused conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic and election fraud. "Jenn’s going to win this race," U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine declared...

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Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections ‘Team Jorge’ unit exposed by undercover investigation Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world Mastermind Tal Hanan claims covert involvement in 33 presidential elections Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Manisha Ganguly, David Pegg, Carole Cadwalladr and Jason Burke Tue 14 Feb 2023 23.00 EST A team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media has been exposed in a new investigation. The unit is...

The steamer Geo. B. McClellan, Capt. GRAY, with New-Orleans dates to the 10th, arrived yesterday. The steamer George Cromwell, with New-Orleans dates to the 12th, also arrived last evening. The news is unimportant. There had been no movement of Gen. BANKS' forces. There was some discontent among the troops, growing out of the unwillingness of white officers to be placed on common relations with black officers. There was a report from Galveston that the frigate Brooklyn was aground in eleven feet of water. There were rumors that the rebels had attacked the Mobile blockaders, after the fashion of Galveston; but...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Tuesday that Moscow was suspending its participation in the New START treaty — the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States — sharply upping the ante amid tensions with Washington over the fighting in Ukraine. Speaking in his state-of-the-nation address, Putin also said that Russia should stand ready to resume nuclear weapons tests if the U.S. does so, a move that would end a global ban on nuclear weapons tests in place since Cold War times. Explaining his decision to suspend Russia’s obligations under New START, Putin accused the...