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As the U.S. commits to support Ukraine no matter how long it takes, some in government are asking: Did America learn its lessons from Afghanistan? Ukraine is not Afghanistan, but in terms of how the U.S. approaches aid and oversight of funds, "has that changed?" asked John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR) which tracked billions of dollars of wasted money over the decades-long effort to rebuild that nation. "We made some significant mistakes in dealing with Afghanistan," The question isn't whether money might be lost to fraud or incompetence in Ukraine but what the U.S. can...

A 17-year-old Michigan honor student was killed by two younger boys after leaving a birthday party and offering them a ride home out of the cold, authorities said. Jack Snyder had just left his girlfriend’s birthday party Feb. 17 in Battle Creek when he offered two kids, ages 14 and 13, a ride during below-zero temperatures, according to WZZM-13. He didn’t know the youths, who then allegedly tried to carjack Snyder — and then fatally shot him when he resisted, authorities said. The Calhoun County Prosecutor’s Office charged Justice Chimner, 14, as an adult with felony murder, carjacking and two...

Maximus Decimus Meridius didn't die. He changed careers and became an exorcist.

President Joe Biden's mental health is declining; that's no secret. However, it is alarming when he can't make it through an interview without stumbling over his words or being unable to recall whether he's already talked to someone. During an interview with ABC on the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Biden said that he has "talked to everyone that there is to talk to" but can't remember who he has spoken to. Host David Muir asked Biden if he plans to travel to Ohio and has talked to the mayor. "I can't recall whether I've — I don't...

The mother of 15-year-old Jaheim McMillan, Black Lives Matter Grassroots and other activists are calling for a federal civil rights investigation into the Black teen’s shooting death by a Gulfport police officer. “I am so disappointed by the decision and had hope that Mississippi would do the right thing, but they do not have the courage,” Jaheim’s mother, Katrina Mateen, said in a statement released by Black Lives Matter Grassroots, a non-profit group made up of over a dozen BLM chapters. On Friday, the Mississippi and Gulfport branch of the NAACP joined the mother and activists demanding accountability from law...

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GOP Rep. Jordan of Ohio Dies Suddenly at Age 46 'His death is a great loss to our county's Republican Party, the Ohio Statehouse and the conservative movement...' (Ben Sellers, Headline USA) State Rep. Kris Jordan, a staunch conservative and well-known fixture in the Ohio legislature, died suddenly and unexpectedly Saturday at the age of 46. “Fran and I are shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Representative Kris Jordan,” said Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in a statement, according to the Columbus Dispatch. The paper reported only that he died of “natural causes.” DeWine ordered that flags at...

Newsdump Alert: Mass Protest In Berlin For Peace Opposing Germany's Hostile Stance Against Russia In Ukraine... Newsdump Update: Air Raid Alert Across Ukraine Today... It's time for a China update the Steve Miller Band "Take The Money And Run"... The endgame following the increasing demonization of China following demonization of Russia seizure of the Russian and Chinese assets by the US and US aligned nations. "Thou shalt not steal"... Racism isn't on God's Top Ten List That's Probably Why We Talk About It All The Time Distraction Deflection From What Really Matters To The Higher Authority. In New Zealand this...

This was political kabuki theater at its transparent worst. On his new Saturday Show on MSNBC, Jonathan Capehart invited on the liberal candidate Janet Protasiewicz. The clear intent was to signal to voters and donors how she would vote on key issues before the court, notably abortion. Capehart dutifully played his role in the farce by saying: "I know you'd never tell us how you'd rule on any particular case, but . . . "Of course, the "but" was what her appearance was all about. "I've been very, very careful to share with people what my values are. But my...

Fetterman Rumored Brain-Dead as Dems Attempt to Avoid Special Election Viral tweet has received more than a million views and 18,000 likes as of Saturday night... (Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A viral tweet from John Cardillo, a former NYPD officer turned conservative radio host and social-media influencer, called for an investigation into whether Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., may be clinically brain dead as Democrats engage in a cover-up to avoid a special election before August. John Cardillo @johncardillo Being told that Fetterman is essentially brain dead and it’s being hidden because keeping him in office until August 18th avoids a...

n our time Christian church throughout Western civilization, the former Christendom, and the former Protestant America, is withering away and breaking apart in raging apocalyptic winds of nihilism. Nihilism can be seen in the shrugging of shoulders and heard in expressions such as “who cares?’ “so what?” or “what’s that to me?”Nihilism is a condition of soul. It emerges from the labyrinth of disordered and evil passions in the fallen souls of mankind when there is no fear of God, thus, no transcendent Authority, Immutable Truth, Absolute moral Law, or meaning and purpose for human life since in the absence...

Nearly sixty-two years since the first of the Soviet Army’s T-62s entered service, the Russian Army has once again modified the now obsolete tank. The “T-62M Obr. 2022” as shown in this Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) tweet appears equipped with a thermal sight only about half as old as the tank itself. Russia has deployed its aging T-62s to Ukraine since last spring, and in October announced a plan to "modernize" 800 of the type for service. The base T–62M dates to 1983, and NATO intelligence first observed the upgraded model during the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan. It represented...

If wormholes exist, they could magnify the light of distant objects by up to 100,000 times — and that could be the key to finding them, according to research published Jan. 19 in the journal Physical Review D.

The European Union agreed Saturday to impose new sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine targeting more officials and organizations accused of supporting the war, spreading propaganda or supplying drones, as well as restricting trade on products that could be used by the armed forces. The EU’s Swedish presidency said..."...Transactions with some of Russia’s largest banks are also prohibited.”

Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, told Newsmax Saturday that the United States must give Ukraine the tools to go on the offensive in the next year to bring the war with Russia to a close...He said the military equipment being sent to Ukraine as part of America's more than $100 billion in military and humanitarian aid is being fully accounted for with as many as four separate audits to ensure the aid is going where it is supposed to. He said, however, he is "less certain about the cash" being sent.

The video, which has been digitally manipulated to show a text crawl at the bottom with figures of Ukrainian deaths, is actually from a climate change protest in Austria. The original video, which can still be viewed online, was filmed by Austrian news outlet OE24 in Ballhausplatz, Austria on Feb. 4, 2022, just a few weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. And no one was trying to pass it off as being from Ukraine until it entered the right-wing media ecosystem.

President Joe Biden, as first reported by The Daily Mail, had a private Mass in a room at the Marriott Hotel in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, as back in the United States the White House was announcing that Biden had nominated to a federal district court a magistrate judge endorsed by pro-abortion politicians. The White House put out a press release that day, stating that Biden had nominated U.S. Magistrate Judge Kato Crews to the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Crews had been recommended to Biden as a district-court nominee in a letter that Democratic Senators John...

Pretransplant screening chest computed tomography (CT) is beneficial for identifying abnormalities before allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (alloHSCT), according to a study. Mohammad Alhomoud, M.D. and colleagues characterized the prevalence of abnormalities on chest CT and explored their impact on alloHSCT eligibility and outcomes posttransplant in a retrospective analysis of 511 adult patients. The researchers found that 199 patients (39 percent) had abnormal screening chest CT. The most frequently detected abnormalities included pulmonary nodule, consolidation, ground-glass opacification, bronchitis and bronchiolitis, pleural effusions, and new primary cancer (found in 35, 19, 15, 11, 6, and 2 percent, respectively). In 48 percent...

Minnesota - Abdullah Arif, 48, of Stillwater was shot and killed last Thursday outside his tobacco shop in St. Paul. Arif’s murder is in part the result of a broken court system that has repeatedly failed to hold violent offenders accountable. Sadly, Arif’s assailant had walked out of a Ramsey County courtroom just 40 mins earlier, after appearing on a gun-related charge. If any other entity failed at public safety the way our Minnesota courts have been failing, there would be consequences. Instead, our court system continues its record-setting pace of departing from sentencing guidelines while obsessing over perceived “racial...