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Update from Ukraine | Big drama in Bakhmut. Ukrainian Soldiers still hold the city But for how long? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIDc3eKuniw Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ ****SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: NEW- New Marine Brigade is being formed - February 25, 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/new-marine-brigade-is-being-formed/ The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 28th February 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-370-summary/

Matt Pobereyko was a baseball pitcher and a prospect in the New York Mets minor league system, who then began playing ball in Mexico in the Mexican Pacific Winter League. He died on Friday of a heart attack while in his Chicago-area apartment. His brother, Daniel Pobereyko, confirmed his passing in a statement to NBC News: “He just dropped, and that’s all we know,. We don’t know. There’s nothing outstanding on the autopsy. But from what I understand, he would have gotten a clean bill of health if he had a pulse.” Continuing, Daniel said “For what we know now,...

In 2019, I bought a three-bedroom, 1,400-square-feet house in Atlanta, Georgia for $196,000. I figured I could earn extra income by renting out the spare rooms on Airbnb, especially since I traveled a lot for work and was rarely home. Unfortunately, the bookings dried up in 2020. No one wanted to share a house with a stranger in the early days of the pandemic. My work travels also stopped, so I was living alone in a house that felt too big. But that May, as I stared out the kitchen window into my huge backyard, something clicked: I could use...

Not counting the 5 dollar bid for a three legged pedestal, there are a host of items that are going for less than pennies on the original purchase dollar price. Better hurry though, the auction expires today, 28 February 2023, unless extended! Amazing how fear and panic contribute to very poor decision-making, right? Here’s a snap shot of some of the items on offer, expiring 7 pm tonight EST:

San Francisco police said Tuesday they do not have information that would suggest foul play is a factor in the disappearance of Wild 94.9 radio station host Jeffrey Vandergrift, widely known as "JV." Police said there were no other updates in the case. Vandergrift, 54, has been missing since Thursday night, according to the radio station and police. He was last seen at his home on the 200 block of King Street. In an update shared Monday, the radio station said there hasn't been any trackable activity on Vandergrift's cellphone or credit cards since he disappeared. Vandergrift is 6 feet...

FIRST ON FOX: Missouri Democratic Rep. Cori Bush's campaign doled out $60,000 in private security payments last year to Cortney Merritts, who she quietly married earlier this month. Merritts, however, pocketed the security payments despite not having a St. Louis private security license, which is needed to perform security functions in the area, Fox News Digital has discovered. Merritts also received the campaign's cash as it simultaneously paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a St. Louis security firm and another individual for personal protection. Fox News Digital filed a public records request with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department...

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is citing her recently born child as another reason she should be allowed to delay the start of a more than 11-year prison sentence while her lawyers appeal her conviction for duping investors about the capabilities of her failed company's blood-testing technology. The birth of Holmes' second child was confirmed in court documents filed last week in advance of a March 17 hearing about her bid to remain free during an appeals process that could take years to complete. The filing didn't disclose the date of the birth or the child's gender, but the news...

The official story is that the waters around East Palestine, Ohio, and surrounding areas are perfectly fine. But as is often the case, the official story is only in place for the plebeian class. The powers-that-be know the truth and one of them admitted it today. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan visited East Palestine and took some questions. The answer to a question posed by independent journalist Nick Sortor prompted an honest and scary answer from Regan. Watch:[video at link]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/oregon-puts-gas-generator-into-governors-mansion-despite-transition-away-from-fossil-fuels-in-homes_5087490.html *snip* The project comes to light as the debate over banning natural gas in homes and buildings heats up across the nation, and just weeks after Eugene became the first Oregon city to ban natural gas hookups in all new construction. Eugene Mayor Lucy Vinis applauded the Feb. 6 city council vote, saying that “burning fossil fuels in homes pose an imminent threat to our health and climate.” “It’s clear we cannot let this source of pollution grow unchecked,” she added. Vinis also expressed her support for the governor’s leadership on the state’s housing shortage while denouncing the use...

In impassioned speech, Avichai Mandelblit says it would be court's "duty" to annul legislation, which would otherwise "abolish" Israel's liberal democracy. Former Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit described the government's judicial overhaul program on Tuesday as "a regime coup" and insisted that if the proposed legislation is approved by the Knesset, the attorney general and High Court of Justice would have "a duty" to strike it down. Mandleblit's explosive comments, which if heeded by the High Court would lead to a full-blown constitutional crisis between the government and the judiciary, come as the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee is set...

Residents of Soda Springs, California, are dealing with an estimated 36 feet of snowfall this winter, with more predicted on the way.

Ratona Harr, a cycling and yoga instructor, shares the warning signs she missed before her heart attack.Two years ago, Ratona Harr, 46, was teaching the same Saturday morning fitness class she always taught. But this time, the class didn't go according to plan. About 20 minutes into the cardio-focused session, "I felt like there was an explosion in my chest," Harr, who owns Full Body Fitness & Yoga in northern Kentucky and also teaches at CycleBar, tells TODAY.com. "It was like somebody punched me in the chest; it was just immediate." Harr tried to push through, but when she went...

Doctors and patients should be on the lookout for symptoms of this worrying infection.A drug-resistant strain of bacteria is quickly becoming more common, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned in a health alert. The bacteria, shigella, causes an infection called shigellosis that can come with gastrointestinal symptoms, like diarrhea and stomach cramps. An increasing percentage of shigella samples are turning out to be extensively resistant, meaning they have resistance to all five recommended antibiotic treatments, the CDC said. The news comes as norovirus, aka the stomach flu, is spreading the U.S. In 2015, no shigella infections were caused...

Despite the record-breaking scale of the blizzard pummeling Lake Tahoe, it seems some drivers are still a bit confused about the conditions of the area’s roads — or at least that’s the takeaway from some of the increasingly direct messaging coming from area CHP and sheriffs' offices around the Tahoe Basin. Officials in surrounding areas of the Sierra Nevada issued equally direct messages for drivers, including the Mono County Sheriff's Office, which told drivers Tuesday morning: “The roads are closed. All of them. There is no alternate route, back way, or secret route. It's a blizzard, people. You cannot see...

The prosecutor on the case explained why Michael Russell isn’t charged in Lace Price’s death.Sitting emotionless and with his backed turned nearly the entire time, 24-year-old Michael Russell from San Jose listened to 16-year-old Lace Price’s family and a friend as they gave victim impact statements during his sentencing Wednesday. The judge did not allow NBC Bay Area to record video in court, but they spoke with the Investigative Unit outside showing a mix of grief, anger and forgiveness. “I understand how hard it must be for [Russell],” said Davis Price, Lace Price’s brother. “I really wanted to forgive him.”...

On Sunday, former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to say Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg should be prosecuted after reports emerged that a group he donated millions to, the US Alliance for Election Excellence, recently gave money to an election board in Georgia, despite a ban on such funding after the 2020 election.Trump said, "He cheated on the Election(s). The whole system is RIGGED. Why isn't he being prosecuted? The Democrats only know how to cheat. America isn't going to take it much longer!"Trump's calls for Zuckerberg's prosecution follows a report from Fox News that the...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Allison is an actress. When we meet up for coffee — she has an almond-milk cortado — in midtown, something’s different about her, but I’m not sure what. She looks like an Instagram version of herself but in real life. It turns out she’s down about ten pounds and happy about it. “Somebody once told me I had a size-zero personality, and they assumed that I was thinner than I was,” she tells me. “We don’t talk about it, but...

"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. "Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, "To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." Matthew, Chapter 26 1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, 2 Ye know that after...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Bp. Schneider warns ‘ecological conversion,’ ecumenism ‘undermine’ Catholic teachingSpeaking to LifeSite recently, Bp. Schneider warned of modern ecumenical efforts as proposing arguments which attacks the truth of the Catholic Church as the 'only Church of God.'Bishop Athanasius Schneider has warned that current trends in the Catholic Church on ecumenism and “ecological conversion” present a threat to Catholic teaching and “undermine the truth that there is only one Church of God, and this is the Catholic Church.”The auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, made the comments during a recent interview he gave with LifeSiteNews in Rome, on which a...

Fox News has a big sad today.CONTEXT – After months of promoting Ron DeSantis to become the 2024 GOP nominee, which includes the efforts of Rupert Murdoch (and family) via a multimillion-dollar Harper Collins book deal for the Florida governor; lengthy friendly interviews with DeSantis on every program; a full feature infomercial running on Fox News to present him to the national audience; attendance by key program pundits at DeSantis donor events and campaign organization meetings; weeks of specific messaging coordinated with board member Paul Ryan – and the consulting efforts of Karl Rove with the DeSantis operation; they are...