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NYT and The Times of London saying a "pro-Ukraine group" blew up the Nord Stream pipelines. Seymour Hersh who I respect says Biden/US Navy divers did it. Is this propaganda then, Freepers? What's going on here...

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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched predawn drone and missile attacks against Ukraine on Thursday that blended several types of weapons, including the most sophisticated in its arsenal, in a complex barrage designed to penetrate Ukrainian air defenses and hit targets throughout the country.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Desperate to keep more of the American public from seeing previously unreleased security camera footage from the January 6, 2021 breaching of the U.S. Capitol, New York Senator Chuck Schumer has now issued a warning that the Buffalo Hat QAnon Shaman will crawl out of the television set and kill anyone who dares to view the video. "I cannot overstate how dangerous this is," Senator Schumer said to members of the media at the Capitol. "I heard from a friend who said their uncle's cousin's ex-wife told them that this video is cursed. Cursed! If you watch...

And no, it's not the bodyguard Congresswoman Bush just recently married, which is a real thing that happened. Yes, the queen of 'Defund the Police' is personally protected by a phalanx of armed security guards, one of whom she fell in love with. The other bodyguard I'm referring to is a man who is...rather special, it seems. Kudos to the Washington Free Beacon for somehow tracking down this absolutely wild story, starting with an exceptionally memorable lead paragraph: He claims he can summon tornadoes at will, cause earthquakes with his hate, and conduct blood rituals to bring ruin upon his...

A Virginia state lawmaker charged in what authorities are calling a hit-and-run swerved his SUV toward a woman after they argued, striking her and leaving her with minor injuries, according to police and allegations outlined in court documents. Del. Matt Fariss, a 54-year-old Republican who has represented part of central Virginia in the House of Delegates for over a decade, faces two felony charges — malicious wounding and being involved in a hit-and-run — plus misdemeanor reckless driving. Fariss has denied the allegations.

Shawn Kemp, a six-time NBA All-Star, has been booked in an alleged drive-by shooting in Washington. The Tacoma Police Department tweeted on Wednesday that there were shots fired following an altercation between the occupants of two cars in a parking lot. One of the cars fled the scene; a gun was later recovered.

Researchers at McGill University have developed the strongest and toughest glass ever known. Inspired, in part, by the inner layer of mollusk shells, this glass does not shatter when hit, and acts more like plastic. The material, once commercially viable, could be used to improve cell phone screens, among other applications in the future. Interestingly, this may be an example of modern science rediscovering an old technology, now long lost. Apparently, a form of flexible glass existed during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar. So the story goes, as told by Petronius, a glassmaker brought a drinking bowl...

A massive great white shark pinged off the coast of Florida this week ahead of what is expected to be a very busy spring break at the beaches. According to OCEARCH's Global Shark Tracker, great white shark Maple pinged on Monday morning southeast of St. George Island, Florida in the Gulf Of Mexico. Maple measures 11-feet, 7 inches long and weighs in at 1,264 pounds. "Over the past two seasons Maple has spent much of her winter in the Gulf of Mexico."

The pregnant model and her boyfriend, RAC, celebrated their upcoming arrival Monday with a strip club-themed “baby blowout.” Baldwin, 27, gave a glimpse of her bare bump at the event in a lacy black number. She completed her daring maternity look with a pink wig, a sash and a “Mom” ribbon pinned to her chest. The pink dessert, which featured a “Baby’s First Strip Club” sign, was covered in champagne bottles and depicted a doll hunkered down beside a toilet.

The prime minister has declared Australia will maintain "100 per cent sovereignty" over its future nuclear-powered submarines as multiple leaks from both the United Kingdom and United States suggest two types of boats will be acquired under the AUKUS partnership. Numerous media reports from both sides of the Atlantic, citing American and British officials, say Australia will buy the US-designed Virginia-class submarine as a stopgap, and then a future UK-designed boat under a multi-billion-dollar deal. According to news outlets including Reuters, Bloomberg, the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal, Australia's "optimal pathway" will first involve the rotation of US nuclear...

A disgruntled Florida stripper was arrested last month after she allegedly hurled a “large amount of rolled-up money” at her co-worker’s head. Tierah Miller, 29, and her accuser, a 34-year-old man whom she had previously dated for six months, both work at the Baby Dolls strip club in Clearwater, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Smoking Gun. The alleged cash attack happened inside the club at 11:55 a.m. Feb. 26 — a week after the couple had called it quits, the complaint said.

While Lithuanian has changed, it changed more slowly than other Indo-European languages and so the contemporary language has features similar to those of such ancient ones as Sanskrit, Greek and Latin. Traditional Lithuanian houses are often adorned with a horse motif. The twin horse heads are known as ‘Ašvieniai’. In Lithuanian mythology, the Ašvieniai are divine twins portrayed as pulling the carriage of the sun god (Saule) through the sky. That their name sounds uncannily familiar to Indians is on account of the fact that the term and other details pertaining to their portrayal are akin to the Ashwin twins...

A 7-month pregnant Chicago woman was shot and killed by a team of drug dealers she was trying to rob, a report said. The woman — identified by family as 21-year-old Genesis Escobar — had orchestrated the heist with her boyfriend, a law enforcement source told the Chicago Sun-Times. Escobar climbed into a car parked in the city’s Belmont Cragin neighborhood around 1 p.m., when her intended victims shot her in the shoulder, back and hand, police confirmed.

Hollywood legend Gene Hackman proved he’s still in tip-top shape as he performed yard work at his ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Sunday. The “Unforgiven” actor — who celebrated his 93rd birthday in January — looked fit and healthy as he brandished a shovel at his private estate. Earlier in the day, the two-time Oscar winner was spotted fueling up for physical labor at a local Wendy’s, where he ordered a meal at the drive-thru.

The spirited Israeli actor and singer died in Tel Aviv.Chaim Topol, the spirited Israeli actor and singer who, one season following another, portrayed Tevye the milkman in Fiddler on the Roof on stages all around the world and in an Oscar-nominated turn in Norman Jewison’s 1971 film adaptation, has died in Tel Aviv, the Associated Press reported. He was 87. Israel’s first international movie star, Topol also played famed Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in Galileo (1975); an American scientist, Dr. Hans Zarkov, in the cult sci-fi classic Flash Gordon (1980); and Milos Columbo, a Greek smuggler and ally of Roger...

Summary: Researchers have discovered what they believe is the earliest use of steel in Europe -- on Iberian stone pillars from the Final Bronze Age... Using geochemicalanalyses, the researchers were able to prove that stone stelae on the Iberian peninsula that date back to the Final Bronze Age feature complex engravings that could only have been done using tempered steel. This was backed up by metallographic analyses of an iron chisel from the same period and region... that showed the necessary carbon content to be proper steel. The result was also confirmed experimentally by undertaking trials with chisels made of...

EXCERPTS: Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, a Marine sniper who served in Afghanistan during the American withdrawal, recounted the ordeal in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday, telling members about the moment he and a friend were hit with a "flash and massive wave of pressure" after a suicide bomb detonated at Kabul airport on Aug. 26, 2021. "The troops on the ground had to tirelessly work to control the crowds, day and night. The Department of State staff at HKIA (Hamid Karzai International Airport) would completely shut down processing Afghans every evening and into the morning, leaving ground forces...

A massive police response was deployed Wednesday night in east Los Angeles after three officers were shot. The shooting took place some time after 6 p.m. near the intersection of Mission Road and North Broadway in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood. Video from Sky5 showed a large perimeter set up around the scene for what appeared to be a barricaded suspect.

Researchers show the benefits of screening adult patients in remission from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) for residual disease before receiving a bone marrow transplant. About 20,000 adults in the United States are diagnosed each year with AML, a deadly blood cancer, and about one in three live past five years. A bone marrow transplant, which replaces unhealthy blood-forming cells with healthy cells from a donor, often improves these chances. However, research has shown that lingering traces of leukemia can make a transplant less effective. After screening adults with variants commonly associated with AML, researchers showed that the two most common...