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Two Russian men who claim to be former Wagner Group commanders have told a human rights activist that they killed children and civilians during their time in Ukraine. The claims were made in video interviews with Gulagu.net, a human rights organization targeting corruption and torture in Russia. In the video interviews posted online, former Russian convicts Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savichev – who were both pardoned by Russian presidential decrees last year, according to Gulagu.net – describe their actions in Ukraine, during Russia’s invasion. CNN cannot independently verify their claims or identities in the videos but has obtained Russian penal...

Afghanistan's Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, controlled by the radical Islamist Taliban organisation, announced that Chinese company Gochin expressed its interest in investing $10 billion in Afghanistan’s lithium deposits, reported The Khaama Press. The Taliban arguably perceive Beijing as a potential source of economic investment following the US withdrawal. The acting minister for Mine and Petroleum, Shahabuddin Delawar, met with the Chinese company representatives in Kabul and said that the investment would create 120,000 direct and a million indirect jobs in the country, reported Khaama Press.

A New Prison Near Walt Disney World? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Turns Up The Heat On Reedy CreekDeadlineJill Goldsmith4/17/2023Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis insisted again today that he and the state legislature can and will overturn any Disney development deal and retake control of the acreage that’s home to Walt Disney World and was administered by the company in what’s called the Reedy Creek Improvement District.He called the recently discovered Disney contracts legally unsound but said that even if they weren’t, “Florida statutes provide the legislature with the authority to revoke development agreements in this exact kind of instance.” He told...

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Republicans who have pushed back on the boycott of Bud Light are facing backlash from fellow conservatives. Perhaps the most high-profile name drawn into the controversy is Donald Trump Jr., who recently called for an end to the Bud Light boycott. But a prominent GOP committee is also being criticized by right-wing figures for backing off its attacks on Bud Light. The calls for a boycott of Bud Light and its parent company Anheuser-Busch began soon after it was revealed that Bud Light had a partnership with transgender influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney. The news resulted in many conservatives announcing...

Country star Brantley Gilbert became the latest artist to protest Bud Light's partnership with with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney by showing the beer company what he thought of their product at a concert this weekend. While performing at Indian Mountain ATV Park in Piedmont, Alabama, the multi-platinum singer was tossed a can of the beer onstage. Gilbert gave up drinking in recent years, but he took a look at the beer and exclaimed: '**** that!' He then smashed the can of Bud Light to the ground before being tossed a different brand of beer. Gilbert continued not to partake but...

Damascus (AFP) – Saudi Arabia's top diplomat is expected in Damascus on Tuesday, Syria said, ending more than a decade of diplomatic deep-freeze between the two countries just weeks after a landmark Saudi-Iranian rapprochement. Recent months have seen increasing Arab engagement with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been politically isolated in the region since the start of the civil war in 2011. A flurry of diplomatic activity has been underway in the past week as regional relations shift following a decision by Saudi Arabia and Damascus ally Iran to resume ties. "Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan is...

This weekend, I contributed to an article for the New York Post with an exclusive on a move by the new board governing Disney properties to declare the recent transfers of power to the company to be null and void. Below is my column on the legal implications of that move and how Disney may be set for a truly wild ride in the weeks ahead. Here is the column: Walt Disney used to say, “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” Gov. Ron DeSantis is about to put Disney’s own motto to the test...

Plane etiquette is a hotly contested topic that continues to get the internet in a spin but Toronto Blue Jays player Anthony Bass has just added a lot more fuel to the fiery debate after tweeting about his recent flight saga. The 35-year-old, who is from Michigan but plays for the MLB team in Canada, posted a Twitter photo on Sunday of his two toddler daughters on a flight playing on electronic devices with popcorn strewn all over the floor. In the accompanying caption, the sportsman - whose spouse was traveling alone - explained that the flight attendant on the...

“Mobocracy” is a word that should inspire fear. Increasingly, however, it’s a reality of life in 21st-century America. Regardless of the outcome of elections, Democrats intend to use the mob to retain and expand their power. The following happened in roughly the space of a week. President Biden invited three Tennessee state legislators, two of them expelled by their colleagues, to the White House to celebrate their alleged courage and decry their supposed victimization. The former consisted of the trio taking over the well of the Tennessee House chamber and leading chants to encourage the mob, which had invaded the...

Residents of an upscale enclave of Los Angeles are complaining after a homeless encampment mushroomed in the last few days on the border of Beverly Hills - with one of the tent-dwellers saying they were told to move there by police. The tents and people arrived on San Vicente Boulevard in Beverly Grove, setting up a camp to the anger of locals. 'They're fighting at all hours of the day. They're doing drugs. They're selling drugs. It's out of control,' said one Beverly Grove resident, speaking to KTLA. 'We pay so much in property tax and so much in income...

Item: An article at The Humanist calls for “expanding humanism to clearly and robustly include sentientism.” The new word there needs explaining. It begins with granting “moral consideration” to sentient beings other than humans. I quote now from the article:The most obvious candidates for moral inclusion are animals other than humans. While scientific debate continues on the margins (sea sponges, for example, are animals with no brain or nervous system), it’s clear that most animals, particularly those we farm in the trillions, are sentient. If we care about suffering and flourishing then it’s sentience, not species membership, that matters.

The shocking murder conviction of Army Sgt. Daniel Perry earlier this month in the 2020 death of a protestor who allegedly aggressively approached Perry with an AK-47 and pointed it at him has once again highlighted the grotesque perversion of the law advanced by Democrat officials and liberal activists. Under the left’s vision of so-called “criminal justice reform,” not only do violent criminals walk free, law-abiding citizens face prosecution and imprisonment for engaging in legitimate self-defense. As video of the deadly encounter shows, on the night of July 25, 2020, Perry was working as a ride-share driver in Austin, Texas,...

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A plus-size travel social media influencer demanded that airlines better accommodate larger passengers when traveling. Jae’lynn Chaney from Vancouver, Washington, started the Change.org petition “Demand for the FAA to Protect Plus-Sized Customers,” detailing several demands to ensure larger passengers can fly without issues. Chaney kicked off the petition claiming she and her fiancé were subjected to discrimination on a recent flight from Pasco, WA to Denver — which roughly takes just over 2 hours.

An estimated 14 million cases of type 2 diabetes were caused by a poor diet, a recent study published in Nature Medicine found. Diets that lacked whole grains or had too much refined rice, wheat or processed meats were linked to the disease. Those that included overconsumption of fruit juice or insufficient amounts of non-starchy vegetables, nuts or seeds also had some impact on diagnoses, though not as much.

Actor Billy Gardell has detailed his impressive 150-pound weight loss, revealing he’s no longer diabetic. The “Mike & Molly” alum told Entertainment Tonight that he’s “walking around pretty healthy these days” as his weight now “floats between 205 and 210.” “I think you got to find peace with yourself and at some point, look in the mirror and go you know, it’s probably time to take care of you,” he told the outlet. “Then I didn’t get that note early on. So I’m a big believer that when you get it, you get it. It doesn’t matter when. As long...

The Writers Guild of America has voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike against film and television studios and streamers, which gives WGA negotiators licence to launch a work stoppage in the coming weeks. More than 9,000 screenwriters - nearly 98% of those casting ballots - voted to authorize a strike if the WGA cannot reach a new agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and TV producers by May 1. The guild said the balloting set a WGA record for both turnout (nearly 80% of those eligible voted) and support for a possible strike. **SNIP** The AMPTP further said, "Our...

Chris Smith, who spent eight seasons in the NFL, has died, according to his West Rowan High School in North Carolina. He was 31. No cause of death was announced. “Rest in Peace to a West Rowan legend!” West Rowan’s football account tweeted Monday. “Chris was a better person than he was player! The impact he had on those around him will be remembered forever!”

A 20-year-old woman was shot dead by an upstate New York homeowner Saturday night after the driver of the car she was riding in turned into the wrong driveway, authorities said. Kaylin Gillis, from Saratoga County, was inside the vehicle with three pals when they made a wrong turn into a driveway while searching for a friend’s house in the town of Hebron, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said. As the driver of the car was leaving, Kevin Monahan, the owner of the home the group accidentally pulled up to, allegedly fired two shots from his patio at the vehicle,...