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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invited Chinese leader Xi Jinping to visit Ukraine during an interview on Tuesday. “We are ready to see him here,” Zelensky told The Associated Press. “I want to speak with him. I had contact with him before full-scale war. But during all this year, more than one year, I didn’t have.” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning responded to the request, telling reporters that she had no information on whether an invitation had actually been extended to Xi or if he would even accept an invitation to visit Ukraine, according to AP. Xi visited Moscow last...

An activist group is due to hold a 'Trans Day of Vengeance' demonstration outside the Supreme Court on Saturday, warning against 'astronomical amounts of hate from the world' and following the horrifying Nashville shooting which left seven dead on Monday. The Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN) will host the event in Washington D.C. from 31 March until 2 April, starting Friday and marching on the Supreme Court at 11am on Saturday. On their website they cite Gender Affirming care ban bills and the political climate as motives for the demonstration. But commentators are up in arms over the decision to...

Donald Trump has tapped an operative to lead his 2024 efforts in New Hampshire. And for the role, he’s turned to a veteran of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential bid. Trevor Naglieri will serve as Trump’s New Hampshire state director, according to two GOP operatives familiar with the move. Naglieri was a field coordinator for Bush in 2016 and went on to serve as New Hampshire field director and then national field director for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). He most recently managed Pennsylvania Republican Jeremy Shaffer’s unsuccessful 2022 congressional bid. He also did stints at Republican consulting firm...

Tennessee's Governor Bill Lee has revealed a teacher killed in the Nashville school massacre was his wife's best friend - and that she had been due at their home for dinner on the day she died. Lee announced his wife Maria was best friends with victim Cindy Peak, 61, who died while working as a substitute teacher at Covenant Christian school Monday. And he revealed he and Maria - who trained as a teacher - were also good friends with head of school Dr. Katherine Koonce, 60, who died after running to try and protect her students from transgender shooter...

Hard work does not, in itself, improve character. For a talented and spirited young man, especially, doing menial labor for pitiful wages under idiot supervisors not only fails to build character—it can destroy it. Some men yearn for nothing but life in a hut tilling the fields and aging with the seasons. But others look out on the vast ocean and wonder what lies beyond. They yearn for more. An older adviser once told me when I was a boy that I simply needed to learn to “play the game.” But I ask now: what if the game is stupid?...

... The good news is AI can be a tremendous tool for helping nonprofits increase impact. Even though we are at the beginning of a new era of AI-driven innovation, it’s clear that today’s AI tools can help nonprofits accelerate their missions in a number of critically important ways: - Cost savings. Using AI to automate steps in everything from grant writing to engaging with donors can yield significant cost reductions. Already, we’re seeing examples where generative AI can lower the average unit cost of manual tasks from $15-35 to under $1. - Increased productivity. By automating routine tasks, analyzing...

Somebody new going to fall out of a window in Moscow? Seems the czar of Russia is not well regarded by the boyars he holds in his closest circle, and now the entire world now knows about it. That's what we read in the Daily Mail:Moscow's high society has been rocked by a scandal after a pair of prominent Vladimir Putin cronies were allegedly heard insulting the Russian despot.Oligarch and former Russian senator Farkhad Akhmedov and high-profile Moscow music producer Iosif Prigozhin, both supposedly supporters of Putin, have been accused of calling him 'Satan' and a 'dwarf'.An audio recording of...

President Joe Biden was slammed Tuesday for joking about the Nashville school shooting that left six dead on Monday. When asked on the White House South Lawn whether he believed Christians had specifically been targeted by the shooter - 28-year-old transgender Audrey Hale - 80 year-old Biden said, 'I have no idea.' When one reporter told Biden that Senator Josh Hawley believes the shooting was a hate crime against Christians, a grinning Biden said, 'Well, I probably don't then.' 'No, I'm joking. I have no idea,' he added. Biden was also criticized Monday for cracking a joke about ice cream...

Actor Mark Hamill has joined an increasingly long line of Hollywood stars seeking to insert themselves into the Ukraine conflict with his voice, mustering a Jedi knight’s sonorous gravitas, now used on an air raid app to warn of incoming attacks from Russia. “Attention. Air raid alert. Proceed to the nearest shelter,” says Hamill over Air Alert, an app linked to Ukraine’s air defense system. When the threat is no longer at hand the 71-year-old American screen veteran simply signs off with “The alert is over. May the Force be with you.

Thus far, Donald Trump is essentially re-running his 2016 campaign in his bid to win the presidency in 2024. He has chosen to emulate his 2016 scorched earth primary campaign and hope for the same outcome despite a far different America and a far different Donald Trump. The electoral landscape is not the same as 2016 and Trump is no longer the brash no-holds-barred insurgent candidate with whom the corporate media was infatuated as they gave him nearly $5 Billion in free coverage, which was mostly favorable, during his primary campaign. There are four factors that were not in play...

Chicago — A CTA customer service agent beat a 54-year-old man for an hour at the LaSalle Blue Line station, then tossed him down two flights of stairs like “garbage,” prosecutors said. The victim, a 54-year-old man traveling with a wheelchair, died at the scene. Emmett Richardson, 39, must pay a $300,000 bail deposit to be released on electronic monitoring, said Judge Barbara Dawkins during a Tuesday afternoon bail hearing. His supervisor told police that Richardson, a CTA employee for about two years, had been verbally warned twice in the past ten months about his attitude and treatment of customers....

Chicago — A New York City man is holed up at the Cook County jail today, accused of causing $16,000 in damages to the Gucci store, 900 North Michigan Avenue. His defense attorney said he was participating in an anti-fascism demonstration. Todd Fine, 42, is charged with felony criminal damage to property in connection with the incident, which unfolded around 1 p.m. Monday. Prosecutors said he entered the luxe retailer and walked down the aisles, knocking purses and bags to the floor. He refused to leave and threatened to come back every day to break the store’s windows, Assistant State’s...

School safety advocate Andrew Pollack, who lost his daughter in the Parkland, Florida shooting, pleaded with parents to take matters into their own hands in light of the Nashville school shooting, which claimed the lives of three adults and three children on Monday. “A lot of these shootings, even the one that [just] took place, was avoidable in my eyes,” Pollack, whose daughter Meadow and 16 others were killed when a gunman opened fire at her school in Parkland in 2018, told Fox News on Tuesday. “What we’re failing to note here is that parents need to wake up and...

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(Last Updated On: March 21, 2023) NATIONAL LEMON CHIFFON CAKE DAY National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day on March 29th offers a bright and zesty celebration among the cake holidays. #LemonChiffonCakeDay For a nice refreshing spring dessert, chiffon cake is a very light cake made with vegetable oil, eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, and flavorings. The fluffy texture is made by beating egg whites until stiff and folding them into the cake batter before baking. Chiffon cakes tend to be lower in saturated fat than butter cakes, potentially making them healthier than their butter-heavy counterparts. The Secret of Chiffon The recipe...

Last August, Daysia Holiday decided to try one more time to join the Army. She’d taken the academic test and failed three times. So, when she was offered a slot in a new Army prep course to help improve her scores and qualify for basic training, she jumped at the chance. Seven months later, Pvt. 2nd Class Holiday is a proud graduate of Army basic training, and is finishing her advanced instruction at Fort Lee, Virginia, to become a power generation specialist who will maintain engines and other equipment for the service. Holiday is an early beneficiary of the new...

A major global outlet funded by leftist billionaire George Soros published scathing criticism by two economists blasting the Federal Reserve’s role in creating the pretext for the bank failures that rocked U.S. markets. Project Syndicate, which dubs itself as the “World’s Opinion Page,” published an op-ed by economists Raghuram Rajan and Viral Acharya headlined: “The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures.” The authors iterated Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) historic collapse isn't merely linked to the fact that 90 percent of its deposits were “uninsured.” The problem, said Rajan and Acharya, “may be more systemic,” and it involves the Fed’s recklessness....

The Post Millenial's Andy Ngo said people who suffer from gender dysphoria also suffer from 'very high rates of mental health comorbidities' on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'

In the hours after the shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday, some conservatives rushed to blame the massacre on the suspect’s gender identity, connecting the tragedy to their national crusade against transgender rights.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) claimed victory Tuesday over oil companies with the signing of a law that caps their profits and punishes price gouging — though there is little evidence they are engaged in the practice. California gas prices are usually the highest in the nation, a fact that became painfully clear during nationwide price surges last summer. But as been widely documented, including by the New York Times, that has to do with state taxes and with climate change regulations. One oil company CEO responded last year to claims of price gouging by noting that California has a...