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Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Pushed Wagners back in Bakhmut | Ruzzia got stuck again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RD4wgNXJ1c ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 412 – Summary April 11, 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-412-summary/

Almost 1.5 million people of working age in Japan are living as social recluses, according to a government survey, with about a fifth of cases attributed to the pressures unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Large numbers of hikikomori said they had begun retreating from mainstream society due to relationship issues and after losing or leaving their jobs, the cabinet office said. A significant proportion – 20.6% – said their predicament had been triggered by changes in lifestyle imposed during the pandemic. Hikikomori – classed as people who withdraw from society, spending all or almost all of their time isolated at...

Doubts about Vladimir Putin’s health have been re-ignited today as leaked Pentagon documents claim the Russian dictator is undergoing chemotherapy for a cancer diagnosis. Top secret intelligence papers were published online last week in what may become the worst breach of US intelligence in American living memory. -snip- Embarrassed US authorities are desperately trying to locate the source of the leaked information, but the 100 pages of sensitive information offer an incredible insight into intimate details about the Russian president’s state of health. Running in parallel to this are even more incendiary rumours about a suspected plot from within Putin’s...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea has reached an agreement to lend the United States 500,000 rounds of 155mm artillery shells that could give Washington greater flexibility to supply Ukraine with ammunition, a South Korean newspaper reported on Wednesday. The DongA Ilbo newspaper cited unidentified government sources as saying South Korea decided to "lend" the ammunition instead of selling, to minimise the possibility of South Korean shells being used in the Ukraine conflict. South Korea's defence ministry said the allies have been exploring ways to support Ukraine but declined to confirm specific discussions.

Aurora Regino is speaking out against the Chico Unified School District’s “parental secrecy policy,” which allows school officials to provide gender counseling to students without informing parents. Regino’s 11-year-old daughter’s elementary school reportedly assisted her in transitioning from female to male during the last school year, but a guidance counselor kept Regino in the dark throughout the entire process. Regino was diagnosed with breast cancer while this was all going on behind her back. After being kept in the dark about her daughter’s identity and transition, Regino is now suing the district. Regino expressed her frustration with the district’s policy...

Public art can be engrossing. But for a man who tried to climb the Talus Dome sculpture in Edmonton, a city in Alberta, Canada, it became entrapping—and expensive. According to the CBC, a man was arrested on the evening of Easter Sunday after firefighters had to rescue him from inside the Talus Dome, a monumental roadside sculpture comprised of nearly 1,000 handmade stainless steel spheres. Authorities say the 26-year-old man was climbing the bulbous form when he somehow fell through an opening near the top and became trapped inside. Three crews “including a technical rescue team” were on sight to...

A new class of voter is waiting to shake up our politics. In 2016, we learned about the crucial importance of “Obama-Trump” voters. Some estimates held that up to 13 percent of Trump’s voters in 2016 had voted for Obama in a previous election. This reflects the moodiness of swing voters, the changing composition of the two parties, and the continuities between the two very different men. Notably, Obama and Trump both ran their campaigns as critics of NAFTA. Hillary Clinton lost about one out of every four Obama voters who were white men with only high-school education. Some analysts...

PC Rowan Knight repeatedly punched the man to the face in CardiffA police officer has been sacked after repeatedly punching a man and giving a "dishonest account" of the incident. PC Rowan Knight of South Wales Police kneed the man and placed him in a headlock during the Cardiff arrest as well as asking him: "Do you want some more?" The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) began an investigation into PC Knight in February 2021 after a complaint over the arrest, which had happened the previous month on Northern Avenue. An IOPC spokesperson said: "We examined allegations including whether...

A former auctioneer has pled guilty to helping create and sell dozens of fake Basquiat paintings that were seized by the FBI last year from the Orlando Museum of Art, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. Michael Barzman, 45, from Hollywood, California, has been charged with making false statements to authorities about the provenance of the works, which ignited a headline-grabbing scandal when they were confiscated from the OMA in view of curious museumgoers. The works were on display in the show “Heroes & Monsters: Jean-Michel Basquiat” that opened in February 2022. The court filings detail how Barzman and a...

Former President Donald Trump has hinted the U.S. was involved in the explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines....President Joe Biden called the leaks a "deliberate act of sabotage" at the time, but he did not directly accuse Moscow of being responsible.Since then, there has been speculation that the U.S. ordered the sabotage, while news outlets including The New York Times and The Washington Post have suggested a pro-Ukraine group may have been responsible, citing unnamed officials.

TALLAHASSEE - In a move that likely would spur a constitutional fight, Florida lawmakers appear ready to pass a proposal that would allow the death penalty for people who commit sexual battery on children under age 12. The House is scheduled Thursday to take up its version of the bill (HB 1297), while the Senate version (SB 1342) was approved Tuesday by the Rules Committee, positioning it to go to the full Senate. The proposal comes after decades of U.S. Supreme Court and Florida Supreme Court rulings that have said it is unconstitutional to execute defendants in rape cases. A...

Rep. Matt Gaetz said this week that he received a death threat following remarks he made about the school shooting last month in Nashville, and argued that leftists are driving their own side to violence with end-times rhetoric. Speaking on Monday on his podcast “Firebrand,” the Fort Walton Beach Republican said, “Innocent people are forced to share a country with dangerous people,” and that violence is a natural consequence when Democrats repeatedly tell their followers that “Republicans are evil, and racist and fascist, and must be stopped at all costs.”

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A sculpture by Damien Hirst was the subject of a different kind of spectacle last month, after a woman drove her Rolls-Royce sedan onto the property of its owners. According to a police report, on March 31 a 66-year-old woman drove her blue and gray luxury car through a driveway on Canterbury Lane, hit a curb, kept driving, and hit a “coral art sculpture”. It then drove through a landscape fence and onto the beach. The Rolls Royce sedan that crashed through 102 Canterbury Lane in Palm Beach. Photo courtesy of Palm Beach Police. That sculpture was Hirst’s 2017 work...

The Italian culture ministry is advocating for a law that would impose a large fine on individuals found to have vandalized the country’s monuments or cultural sites to cover repair costs. The move follows protests staged by climate activists in Italian squares. During a cabinet meeting held on Tuesday, Italian lawmakers approved the culture ministry’s proposed legislation. The fine for potential violators of Italy’s cultural sites is proposed at a range between 10,000 and 60,000 euros ($11,000–$65,000). The proposal is expected to be approved by the right-leaning Italian parliament. Related Articles A portrait of Pablo Picasso plowed into a field....

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The lack of diversity policies at Historically Black Colleges and Universities makes clear that the concept means something other than its public definition. It’s a curious feature of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that they rarely have any diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) administrators or policies on their campuses, beyond what federal law requires. Howard University, for instance, the alma mater of Vice President Kamala Harris, has no central administrator dedicated to DEI, and its student affairs programming aims to help the disabled and LGBTQ students. Neither Jackson State nor Grambling State, two famous HBCUs, have DEI plans...

About 50 people attended Hunter’s “Bridging the Abstract” exhibit at his art dealer’s Soho gallery, including art appreciators and critics. Those in attendance viewed the pricey paintings on sale for $85,000 each. The price of Hunter’s artwork has ranged between $75,000 to $500,000 throughout his short career. One attendee who was permitted to view the art told the New York Post that Hunter’s newest works were “terrible.” “I think it’s terrible — the two on the right as you walk in,” said the man who refused to give his name. Hunter’s newest works of art contrast his prior shapes and...

WEDNESDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER Luke 24:13–35 Friends, in today’s Gospel, two disciples meet Jesus on the road to Emmaus. He asks what they are discussing and one recites all of the data concerning him.Then Jesus speaks: “Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke!” He then rehearsed for them the whole of the biblical story, showing how it culminated in the Messiah who offered a sacrifice for the salvation of the world.When they came near the village to which they were heading, Jesus “gave the impression that he was going...

BOSTON — A religious leader in Boston is condemning the fatal shooting of a man in Roxbury late Saturday night, and he’s calling on the city’s Black community to “cease fire” and turn in their guns to stop the violence. The Rev. Kevin Peterson on Sunday said Christopher Shivers was gunned down on Easter weekend in Roxbury -- and he wants the community to step up and find his killer. “We call on residents of the Black community to turn in the murderer of Christopher Shivers who was victimized in Roxbury Saturday night on the eve of Easter,” Peterson said...