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According to the NY Times, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell had been under observation since suffering a concussion during a fall on Wednesday. He also has a “minor rib fracture,” his office said. He’s off to rehab and rumor has it that he might never return. Mitch McConnell could be sidelined. A spokesman, David Popp, said that the lawmaker’s “concussion recovery is proceeding well” and that Mr. McConnell, 81, had been discharged from George Washington University Hospital, where he was taken after the accident at the Waldorf Astoria on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington about 9 p.m. Wednesday. “At the advice...

DES MOINES, IA — A local couple has discovered the perfect deterrent to help them handle rowdy children. The exasperated mother and father warned their overly rambunctious kids that if they didn't start behaving, they would take them to Applebee's for dinner. "Worked like a charm! They quieted down right away!" said relieved dad, Michael Tucci. "They have been acting up all day long, whining, bickering, misbehaving…but we fixed that real quick with a simple threat of taking them to a God-forsaken hellscape of greasy, tasteless food guaranteed to cause indigestion." Michael returned home from work to learn that the...

A Russian plot to sabotage Poland's train lines in a bid to stop the country delivering arms to Ukraine has been uncovered, with six suspected foreign agents arrested. According to news outlet RMF FM, the 'foreigners from across our eastern border' were detained by Poland's Internal Security Agency 'on suspicion of working on behalf of the Russian special services'. The six agents - who are thought to be from Belarus - were seized after intelligence officers from Poland’s ABW found hidden cameras recording important railway routes for transferring weapons and ammo to Ukraine. They are suspected of trying to sabotage...

Last month, Revolver profiled the Biden Administration’s persecution of former Twitter anon Doug Mackey, who was a famous pro-Trump voice back in 2016 under the moniker of Ricky Vaughn.For those whose memory is foggy, a quick review: In the late stages of the 2016 race, Mackey posted several memes, designed to resemble Hillary Clinton campaign images, claiming that supporters could vote by simply texting a phone number. (snip) "Basically, “stochastic terrorism” is the idea that, when somebody on the right criticizes somebody, they aren’t really just making a political argument. Instead, they are trying to “stoke hatred” in the expectation...

(Reuters) - Switzerland is under pressure from at least one major government to intervene quickly on Credit Suisse, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters, after the Swiss bank led a rout of European bank stocks on Wednesday. Credit Suisse shares dropped by as much as 30.8%, leading a 7% fall in the European banking index, while five-year credit default swaps (CDS) for the flagship Swiss bank hit a new record high, reviving fears of a broader threat to the financial system. Two supervisory sources told Reuters that the European Central Bank (ECB) had contacted banks on its watch...

President Biden's gun control advocacy led him to a "virtual gun-free zone" still wracked with violent crime, where he announced his latest executive order, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said Tuesday. Biden traveled to Monterey Park, Calif., to stump for the directive, which — in his words — will take "every lawful action possible to move us as close as we can to universal background checks without new legislation." Massie said Biden chose the Golden State to announce such an order because it is where gun control laws have long failed. "[California has] got a higher-than-average mass public shooting per capita...

You are a treasure to others that do not know, How deeply you intercede as your tears flow, Breaking my heart to answer your prayer, Causing me to come and be right there, I carry your heart's desires in my very hand, Because you go behind enemy lines and take back my land, As Joshua and Caleb you are fearless and true, And this is why I come to you . . . So continue on no matter their heart, Your call and prayer is where I look to let healing start, For you always remain on my front line,...

Syria's Bashar al Assad has offered Russian President Vladimir Putin his support in the conflict in Ukraine. In a televised meeting with Putin in the Kremlin on Wednesday, Assad said Russia was fighting "neo-Nazis and old Nazis" in Ukraine, according to a Russian translation.

Eisenwerk Verlag GmbH has filed a claim to declare itself bankrupt. The reason for bankruptcy is standard for our time - energy resources have risen in price. Think about it, this Saxon metallurgical enterprise traces its history back to 1380. For 600 years it has survived the Hanseatic League, two orders of knighthood - the Teutonic and Livonian, the Reformation, the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War and the Global Economic Crisis, but didn't survive Olaf Scholz...

In Hoogwoud, a city in the Netherlands, a 27-year-old historian named Lorenzo Ruijter struck medieval gold with his metal detector. More specifically, he found four crescent-moon-shaped gold pendant earrings, two gold leaf pieces that fit together, and thirty-nine small, precious silver coins, all from the Middle Ages, the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities announced. The museum dates the gold treasure back to roughly A.D. 1050. Ruijter has been metal detecting for most of his life and now it's paid off big time. "It was very special discovering something this valuable, I can't really describe it. I never expected to discover...

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara announced today (Wednesday) announced the closure of the investigation against former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen over the $20,000 he received from Australian business tycoon James Packer in 2016. The State Attorney’s Office and the head of the police’s investigative and intelligence branch both recommended that the investigation against Cohen be closed, the attorney general's office stated, The investigation had been opened by the previous Attorney General, Avichai Mandelblit, in 2021, after the allegations against Cohen surfaced. “The inquiry showed that the Mossad’s legal adviser at the time approved receipt of the gift,” the attorney general's office...

One of Silicon Valley’s legacy companies is getting rid of a giant piece of real estate. Intel has put its four-building campus in San Jose on the market, as first reported by The Registry. That’s nearly 500,000 square feet of office space for the Santa Clara-based tech company, which has about 8,700 employees in the Bay Area, according to LinkedIn. There is also more than 50,000 square feet of lab space across the buildings. The 24.6-acre site includes parking for more than 800 cars surrounding 101, 121, 131 and 141 Innovation Drive. The Registry, which analyzed a marketing brochure from...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is holding a “drag story hour” event which will be open to children. A promotional poster for the event states “Families with children are invited to join Attorney General James, drag storytellers, and city and state elected leaders.”

Reconstruction of the earliest ichthyosaur and the 250-million-year-old ecosystem found on Spitsbergen. Credit: Illustration by Esther van Hulsen For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched for the origins of ancient sea-going reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs. Now a team of Swedish and Norwegian paleontologists has discovered remains of the earliest known ichthyosaur or ‘fish-lizard’ on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen. Ichthyosaurs were an extinct group of marine reptiles whose fossils have been recovered worldwide. They were amongst the first land-living animals to adapt to life in the open sea, and evolved a ‘fish-like’ body shape similar to...

Wellesley College, an all-women’s school that has long prided itself as a place for “women who will make a difference in the world,” has truly lost the plot. Currently, the school’s policy is that students who were “assigned female at birth who identify as men are not eligible for admission,” but students who were “assigned male at birth who identify as women are eligible for admission.” ... Wellesley hasn’t truly been an all-women’s college since 2015, when it last updated its policy to accept applications from biological males who identify as women. But even that policy allowing biological men to...

Joe Biden is a fabulist. We all know this. And by now it should fail to surprise. Yet it continues to do so, perhaps because his lies are so transparent, and the MSM so willing to spread them. In an interview with The Daily Show’s Kal Penn (who?) Biden dropped some whoppers, but the most striking of them was his utterly ridiculous claim that he had an epiphany about same-sex marriage as a senior in High School. Uh, yeah. Right. His dad apparently supported gay marriage too, in 1960, and explained that love is love to Joe.

A grandmother is in custody, facing charges after her grandson was allegedly stabbed to death by her daughter. Mary Johnson was booked with child endangerment after summoning the police to the home of her daughter, Monica Figueroa, in the early hours of March 13, CBS 19 reported. When police arrived on scene, they found 4-year-old Grayson Hurt, Johnson’s grandson, dead and partially covered with a blanket, the outlet reported. The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) said in their preliminary investigation that Johnson had witnessed Figueroa allegedly stabbing her son the previous day with a wooden-handled knife as he was wrapped...

A truck driver passing through Arizona says his dash cam appears to have caught what looks like a ghost – but of course, that's unconfirmed. William Church said he was driving on SR 87 near mile marker 200 around 2:30 a.m. on March 11 when he passed by a transparent figure standing on the side of the road. Church says he was between Phoenix and Payson with no cars in sight. He described the figure as "just standing in the roadway as I passed by looks like you can see the lines through the legs making the figure." SR 87...

Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign had “surreptitious involvement” in organizing a letter written by 51 former intelligence officials that falsely claimed the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday. The complaint, from lawyers for former President Donald Trump, asks the FEC to record the infamous “Dirty 51” letter as an “in-kind contribution” to Biden’s campaign because it allegedly was used to influence the outcome of the election. The Oct. 19, 2020, letter was signed by 51 ex-spooks, including five former or acting CIA directors...

The people of East Palestine, Ohio, are still dealing with the long-term effects of last month’s train derailment. While the Biden administration’s response has been slow, President Donald Trump continues to support Ohioans and posted about the ongoing situation on his Truth Social account on Tuesday. He noted how his visit to Ohio influenced public officials to offer more support, but that the cleanup is still not done.Ohio has recently filed a 58-count lawsuit against Norfolk Southern, per CNBC. The suit claims that the railway company is responsible for multiple state and federal violations, which led to the toxic chemical...