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'The Five' co-hosts weigh in on President Biden heading to his Delaware home for the weekend instead of visiting Ohio disaster victims.

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. (1 Timothy 2:1-2) THE WORLD WON’T GO ON FOREVER, FOR GOD HAS ALREADY APPOINTED ITS LAST DAY

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) estimates more than 43,000 fish and other aquatic animals have died as a result of the train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month. ODNR director Mary Mertz announced Thursday that roughly 38,222 minnows and about 5,550 other aquatic animals — such as small fish, crayfish, amphibians, and macroinvertebrates — were killed in the 5-mile span of waterway from the derailment site.

Nearly a decade after its inception, momentum behind China’s sweeping Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appears to be slowing as lending slumps and projects stall—forcing Chinese President Xi Jinping to again rethink a floundering initiative that he once hailed as his “project of the century.” After doling out hundreds of billions of dollars, experts say China’s lending for BRI projects has plummeted, largely a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic and the country’s own economic slowdown. Support has also waned as partner countries drown in debt and fractures emerge—literally—in projects, fueling uncertainty about the future of the sprawling initiative. In 2022,...

Around one in five people run background checks on their online dates before meeting them, a new survey says — but who has time for all that rigmarole? Some 38% of respondents say they simply “stalk” their first dates online instead. The survey of 1,000 singles, conducted in December by the Thriving Center of Psychology, comes as 127 million adults report being unattached. Despite an astounding 91% insisting they find solace in their independence, one in three admit they are not content as a singleton. Half confessed to missing physical connection, while others feel like they are being left in...

A 17-year-old student at Matanzas High School in Palm Coast, Florida was arrested Tuesday after he shoved a teacher’s aide so hard she flew in the air several feet. He then pounded her head into the floor, all because she took his Nintendo Switch away from him during class, according to police. He later spit on the victim and said when he comes back he would kill her, police said. Video shows the 6 foot, six inch, 270 pound student raced after the woman, sent her flying across the floor and knocking her unconscious when she landed on her...

Fulton County grand jury forewoman Emily Kohrs admitted in a recent interview that she told her boyfriend about the proceedings from a recent Georgia case revolving around former President Donald Trump and the 2020 election. “I told my boyfriend at one point during proceeding, during all this, I came home and I told him,” Kohrs told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) in an interview Tuesday afternoon. “Do you know that if I was in a room with Donald Trump and Joseph Biden and they knew who I was, they would both want to speak to me.” The foreperson, Emily Kohrs, then...

When John Fetterman's health went south, his wife went north. Former President Jimmy Carter to Receive Hospice Care Gisele Fetterman revealed on Friday that after her husband admitted himself into a Washington, D.C.-area hospital for treatment for severe depression last week, she packed up her kids at home in Pennsylvania and took a road trip. But not to Washington. "We drove straight into … Canada," Gisele announced on Twitter. "1 week ago today when the news dropped, the kids were off from school and media trucks circled our home. I did the first thing I could think of … pack...

Emergency crews responded to the “horrific scene” in the Texas city’s West Side around 2 p.m. and found a “completely bloody” 80-year-old man being dragged onto the sidewalk by one of two American Staffordshire terriers... When SAFD firefighters got off the truck they were attacked by the dogs and forced to defend themselves with pickaxes and pike poles while they tried to treat the victim... The dogs also attacked a woman, who was critically injured. A fire captain suffered a bite wound to the leg and a third victim was bitten in the hand. All three were taken to University...

Pakistan's Prime Minister saying his country is bowing to global bankers... In El Salvador today two thousand inmates suspected of gang activity moved into a super prison... Tonight, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte announcing the downgrading of diplomatic relations with Mexico... Intense talks between British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Northern Ireland's political leaders... In France the High Authority for Health recommending vaccination campaigns for COVID-19 booster jabs and flu shots... The World Health Organization expressing concern about birth flu spreading among humans... At least 10 killed and 23 injured in a bus crash in Algeria... Russian President Vladimir Putin on...

On 23 February, Israel joined 140 other UN member states voting in favor of a nonbinding resolution that calls for Russia to end hostilities in Ukraine and withdraw its forces.“For the past year, Israel has stood alongside the people of Ukraine in solidarity both on the ground and here in the UN,” Tel Aviv’s UN envoy Gilad Erdan said following the vote. The resolution, drafted by Ukraine in consultation with its western allies, passed 141-7, with 32 abstentions. Belarus, Nicaragua, Russia, Syria, North Korea, Eritrea, and Mali were the only member states to vote against the resolution.Israel’s condemnation of Russia’s...

The move comes more than three months after the late-night stabbing spree. University officials said the owner of the home where three of the students lived gave the building to the university. Police have not released a motive for the suspect, who is awaiting trial, leaving many with unanswered questions. Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were found dead inside the home on King Street in Moscow on 13 November. On 30 December, a criminology student was arrested and charged with their murders and burglary. He is due to go trial in June. Prosecutors have yet to...

We’ve reached the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and an unexpected player has arrived on the field. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve watched China and Russia move closer to formalizing an alliance, perhaps establishing a new military partnership that could shift the balance of power globally. There has also been talk of China providing Russia with lethal aid to use against Ukraine. But this morning, rather than a shipment of rockets or missiles, the Chinese Foreign Ministry delivered a peace plan proposing to end the war and return Europe to normalcy. And Ukraine expressed an...

Michael Hugo, the chair of the Framingham Democratic Committee, argued in a city council meeting that crisis pregnancy centers are a danger to the community because their screening might not catch a birth defect, the result of which would be the live birth of an expensive-to-care-for disabled child.Best to be sure to kill them before they have a budgetary impact.Hugo is not just the chair of the Democrats in this one town in Massachusetts, but the director of policy and government affairs for the Massachusetts Association of Health Boards.Nice to know. If you are planning on getting medical care in...

PEMEX You might say Mexican state-owned petroleum company Pemex had a bad day Thursday. As Reuters reported, there were fires at three different facilities owned by the company — two in Mexico and one in Texas. And while there are still some unknowns, in an update, the wire service gives what details are known:(Reuters) – A Thursday night fire at Pemex’s 312,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) Deer Park, Texas refinery broke out in a crude distillation unit (CDU), said people familiar with plant operations.The sources did not know which of two Deer Park CDUs were hit by fire. The plant has a...

The Biden administration just promised another $10 billion in economic aid to Ukraine, bringing the to-date sum up around $200 billion, with more likely to roll out in the coming months. But for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenksy, that's just not enough, and he has harsh words for Americans who'd like to keep their tax dollars here at home as opposed to using them to line Ukraine's war chest. The one year anniversary of Russia's invasion of their neighbor Ukraine fell this week. "I would like to thank the American people," Zelensky began, in his sweatshirt emblazoned with a small Ukranian...

Dr. David Buchin of Long Island Obesity Surgery helped Charles Gonzalez lose nearly 300 pounds. Now, the surgeon is shopping for a new wardrobe for Gonzalez so the 30-year-old can look sharp as he socializes more. The 30-year-old based in Huntington Station, NY, has struggled with weight his entire life. In 2018, he crossed the 500-pound threshold. He was living on a diet of “only junk, fast food and snacks” as he struggled to cope with the death of his grandparents and a failing marriage. “When I started eating I couldn’t stop,” he told The Post. “By the time I...

We had breakfast together this morning, so I had an opportunity to tell several brothers from church how grateful I am that I finally saw my doctor, after intentionally avoiding him for three years because of COVID. After a Christmas visit to the local emergency room for an incessant cough from bronchitis, the E.R. doc told me to follow up with my personal doctor. I sighed, deeply. Then I immediately began rehearsing my talking points about COVID, the vaccine, and the COVID medical establishment that has run — and ruined — everything for three years. But my personal doctor had...