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But while Trump and Vance and Gabbard are all showing up, the actual people running this country have been missing in action. It took until February 16—nearly a full two weeks after the crash—for the first top Biden official, EPA administrator Michael Regan, to be on the scene. Meanwhile, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg—who has one job, overseeing the infrastructure of this country—has not yet witnessed the catastrophe in person nor did he acknowledge it until February 13, though he is scheduled to arrive today. President Joe Biden released a fact sheet about the accident and tweeted about it, but...

Spiritual adviser and bestselling self-help author Marianne Williamson is making a second straight run for the White House and taking aim at President Joe Biden. Williamson, who called for reparations and a Department of Peace as part of her long-shot campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, declared she plans to launch her candidacy for president in 2024 in an exclusive interview with Medill News Service on Thursday. "I wouldn’t be running for president if I didn’t believe I could contribute to harnessing the collective sensibility that I feel is our greatest hope at this time," Williamson said. With many...

The Republican National Committee says it will hold the first 2024 GOP presidential nomination debate in August in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

n the year since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine, tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have been killed; countless others have been wounded. Another 14 million Ukrainians have fled their homes, and Ukraine’s economy has shrunk by more than 30 percent. Meanwhile, a year of war has brought the Ukrainian nation together like nothing in its history. But what has happened to Russia? Beyond the casualties — estimates suggest as many as 200,000 Russian dead and wounded — how has the war that Putin started changed his country? In some ways, what’s happened to...

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russia’s private military contractor Wagner, has made a surprise appearance in Ukraine’s frontline town of Bakhmut to record a video message and congratulate the Russian military on the Army Day. Mr Prigozhin was seen standing in a deserted town in full military gear and a machine gun in his hands, with at least three bodyguards standing behind his back. “I’d like to congratulate all the guys who are now on the front line and in hospital, all the military men who are fighting for our country,” he said on Thursday which is celebrated in Russia...

Orderbook ‘sword of Damocles’ will soon hit container market.. Here it comes. An unprecedented flood of new container ships is about to enter service. The pace of deliveries will pick up in earnest next month, surge much higher in the second quarter, go higher still in the second half, even higher throughout 2024, and stay strong in 2025. “The colossal orderbook is like a sword of Damocles hanging over the market, with a raft of new ship deliveries in the next months inevitably triggering a return of overcapacity,” ... Maritime Strategies International (MSI) estimates that deliveries will total 717,900 twenty-foot...

The Big Apple’s public hospital system plans to spend more than $90 million to house migrants in four Midtown Manhattan hotels through the spring in response to President Biden’s border crisis, The Post has learned. NYC Health + Hospitals CEO Mitchell Katz has approved $40 million in payments to the four-star Row NYC near Times Square and $28 million to the four-star Stewart Hotel across from Madison Square Garden, according to documents first reported by The City. Last month, The Post revealed workers at the Row were throwing out nearly a ton of food daily because the migrants living there...

The Florida House announced proposed legislation to protect Florida pensions and state investments from politically-driven ESG discrimination. TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA — On Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Renner (R-Palm Coast) announced the filing of what he calls “landmark legislation” that would protect Florida retirement accounts and state investments from financial discrimination. Eliminating the consideration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment strategies have become a focus of the upcoming legislative session after both Governor DeSantis and Florida’s CFO Jimmy Patronis announced that the state would divest from BlackRock Investments after concerns over ESG. “DRIVE UP THE COST OF LIVING”.. House Bill 3,...

Flight LogFlight 45 Sol 714 Date Feb. 22, 2023 Horizontal Distance 496 m ~1,627 ft Max. Altitude 12 m ~39 ft Max. Groundspeed 5 m/s ~11.2 mph Duration 144.5 seconds Route of Flight From Airfield Zeta to Airfield EtaFlights 45 (as of 2/22/23)Distance Flown 9,659 meters (~31,691 ft)Highest Altitude 14 meters (~46 ft)Fastest Ground Speed 5.50 m/s (12.3 mph)Flight Time ~77.2 minutes (4,629 seconds)

Former President Donald Trump more than doubled Gov. Ron DeSantis in a hypothetical Republican primary matchup, a Rasmussen Reports poll found Thursday. The survey asked respondents, “If the contest for the Republican nomination were between Nikki Haley, former president Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, which candidate would you support?” Fifty-two percent supported Trump, while only 24 percent chose DeSantis, less than double. Just 15 percent said they supported former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, widely viewed as the most establishment among the three potential contenders. The poll surveyed 900 likely voters from February 16 to 20...

Yesterday, James O’Keefe was fired by the board of the media organization he founded 13 years ago. He gave a 45-minute going away speech yesterday to staff. Today, the reporters loyal to O’Keefe have told the board that unless they resign today, they are all quitting as a bloc. ... This matches the loss of nearly 100,000 followers of PV on Twitter in one day. According to one PV insider about the current Project Veritas board member Matt Tyrmand: “Tyrmand is in full panic mode. We’re all about to walk out after an emergency board meeting tomorrow unless they all...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will implement a new rule to restrict asylum similar to rules implemented during the Trump administration, according to a Tuesday announcement from the agency.The proposed new rule means that migrants seeking to come to the U.S. to claim asylum, who pass through safe countries on their journey without making an asylum claim there, would be presumed to be ineligible, barring certain exceptions, according to DHS. The expected rule’s announcement follows changes the Biden administration made to allow migrants to enter the country legally either using a phone app at ports of entry or a...

… and because of that, he’s now a bigger target than ever.Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is not willing to join the NATO alliance in pushing further escalation of war against Russia.Now, we begin to connect the dots, see the bigger picture and understand exactly why Samantha Power is running an operation inside Hungary with the unspoken intent of destabilizing the Hungarian population against the government.(Via Daily Mail) – Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban snubbed Wednesday’s meeting in Warsaw with President Joe Biden and the other Bucharest Nine leaders after insisting Donald Trump was the only person who could...

John Rourke of Blue Line Moving was one of the people who worked the logistics of bringing supplies donated by President Trump to the people of East Palestine, Ohio.President Trump thanked Mr. Rourke personally and publicly for his efforts in supporting the visit. Additionally, Mr. Rourke appeared with Fox News Tucker Carlson to give his overall impression of what President Trump’s visit meant to the people of Ohio and the region. {Direct Rumble Link} WATCH:.

A federal judge ordered Thursday that former President Donald Trump can be questioned in sworn testimony by attorneys for ex-FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page as part of their lawsuits related to the government's disclosure of their private text messages. Trump and current FBI Director Christopher Wray can each be deposed for two hours on a "narrow set of topics" that were hashed out during a sealed hearing earlier in the day, Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote in an order in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. But there are still some lingering questions about executive privilege to be...

Pro-Trump cartoonist Scott Adams pulled the mask all the way off this week, declaring on his podcast that white people should “get the hell away from Black people” while labeling African-Americans as a “hate group.” Adams, who has written the satirical office comic strip Dilbert for more than three decades, said during his Coffee with Scott Adams online video program that current polling proves that there is “no fixing” the current racial tension in America and that whites should live in largely segregated neighborhoods. Citing a recent Rasmussen survey showing 53 percent of Black people agree with the phrase “It’s...

FLORIDA – (Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will host an event for top donors and social-media influencers this weekend, the latest in a flurry of moves that suggest he’s ramping up to battle former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination. About 150 guests are expected to attend the three-day event at the Four Seasons resort in Palm Beach, Florida, including wealthy Republican donors and conservative social-media influencers whom DeSantis’ camp has courted in recent months ahead of a widely expected presidential run, according to a source who asked not to be identified in order to share details....

"For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. "But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living." Matthew, Chapter 22 1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, 2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a...

The U.S. and Germany have warned China not to deliver weapons to Russia. According to information obtained by DER SPIEGEL, however, Beijing and Moscow are said to be negotiating the purchase of 100 strike drones, which could be delivered as soon as April. -snip- A Warhead up to 50 Kilograms in Weight the Russian military is engaged in negotiations with Chinese drone manufacturer Xi'an Bingo Intelligent Aviation Technology over the mass production of kamikaze drones for Russia. The revelations create a new urgency in the debate over possible Chinese military support for Russia. Bingo has reportedly agreed to manufacture and...