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Patriot Launch Units. CREDIT: Public Domain Image Monday night, the Russian armed forces launched an unprecedented missile attack against the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. At least 18 state-of-the-art Russian missiles were used in the attack. Six Kh-47 hypersonic missiles were launched from MiG-31K aircraft, surface combatants from the Black Sea Fleet fired nine Kalibr cruise missiles, and land forces in Occupied Ukraine launched three Iskander-M semi-ballistic missiles. This attack was supported by six Iranian-designed Shahed 136 suicide drones and three Orlan-10 reconnaissance drones to evaluate the operation.Defending against the attack was a layered air defense system built around the...

Uptick in troubled office-building sales indicates more owners believe weak demand is here to stay ... Property owners are starting to unload troubled office buildings at fire-sale prices, a sign that the office market slump is moving into a new phase where more landlords are ready to capitulate. In recent weeks, Blackstone sold the Griffin Towers office complex in Santa Ana for $82 million, or about 36% less than the firm paid in 2014 ... Principal Financial Group sold a Parsippany, N.J., office building for $14.3 million, down from the $52 million it paid in 2008 .... The tower at...

As we reported on Monday, in a shocking turn of events, the whole IRS team working on the Hunter Biden probe has been removed from the case, according to a whistleblower.The whistleblower’s attorneys told Congress in a letter that this was done at the order of the Department of Justice and that it was in retaliation for the attempt to make whistleblower disclosures.Today the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Supervisory Special Agent we represent was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our...

Joe Biden had planned on taking an extended trip overseas, centering around his G7 trip to Japan.But that would be right in the middle of debt negotiations with Republicans which he has been avoiding for months. He finally is in talks with the Republicans, but the trip as planned would have taken him away for several days beyond just going to Japan.House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) excoriated Biden on Monday saying that running off like that when they needed to get this done showed that his priorities weren’t right and he wasn’t focused on America and what was best for...

SIXTH WEEK OF LENT John 16:5-11 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus tells his disciples that when he returns to the Father he will send the Advocate to be with them. This “Advocate” is presumed to be ontologically one with the Father and the Son. Jesus says, “He [the parakletos] will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.”In receiving the Spirit, the Church, throughout the course of...

We agree wholeheartedly with Dr David Martin that the members of the criminal covid enterprise, including Fidel’s boy, are guilty of premeditated mass murder. There were no mistakes. Rather, it was meticulous diabolic planning and execution. Here is a masterpiece in my opinion! It is an intense 4 minute video. My dear friend and colleague Dr Tess Lawrie is speaking.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has filed for divorce from her husband, Jayson, the Garfield County Republican announced Tuesday. The couple has been married for roughly two decades. ….“I’ve always been faithful in my marriage, and I believe strongly in marriage, which makes this announcement that much more difficult.” …The Boeberts have four sons, the oldest of whom is 18 and was expecting a child in April. …She wrote that she was 16 and working at Burger King when she met her future husband and “fell in love … immediately.” …“Four months after we met, Jayson and I went off to...

British journalist and racing driver Dorothy Levitt died 101 years ago on May 17 1922 with a unique catalogue of achievements. She was the first British woman racing driver, holder of the world’s first water speed record, the women’s world land speed record holder, and an author. She advised women drivers: Don’t be afraid of your car. Dress well. Don’t forget your gun. You can fix your own car.

ROCKVILLE, Md. — The passage of almost 60 years has done nothing to dim former Navy fighter pilot Everett Alvarez Jr.’s memories of the night that he was shot down in the South China Sea and began what would be the second-longest period of captivity for an American service member in the Vietnam War. At 85 years old, Alvarez still vividly remembers his Douglas A4 Skyhawk filling with smoke and coming apart as he had just a few seconds to make a series of life-or-death choices. “I was really low. I knew I had to get out right there,” he...

DeSantis refuses to acknowledge the 2020 election was rigged.Why? Because he is controlled opposition. You want answers and accountability? Only President Trump will provide that. pic.twitter.com/E6gesUDaP2— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) May 16, 2023

A senior Aeroflot flight attendant told the publication that employees were instructed "not to record any breakdowns encountered during flights in the Cabin Log Book (CLB), but rather to verbally communicate the details of the issues and their location," according to a translation by independent Russian media outlet The Insider. A former pilot told Proekt that on a flight in January, he found a fuel leakage while starting the engines of a Boeing 737. When he called technicians to investigate the leak, they said it had been there for a while. "It had happened several times before, but there were...

Two staff members of the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria were shot and killed along with two police operatives traveling in a convoy, and three others were kidnapped, police in the volatile West Africa nation said Tuesday. The group was on a humanitarian mission when they were attacked in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of the country's Anambra State, one of the epicenters of separatist violence in the region, said Tochukwu Ikenga, a police spokesman in Anambra. Ikenga said no U.S. citizen was on the trip. "We confirm there was an incident May 16 in Anambra state. Mission Nigeria personnel are...

Friday on CNN’s “New Day” 2020 presidential hopeful, former Vice President Joe Biden said Russia would not have gotten away with interfering in an election under his or President Barack Obama’s watch. Biden said, “Look at what’s happening with Putin. While Putin is trying to undo our elections, he is undoing elections in Europe. Look at what’s happening in Hungary, look what’s happening in Poland, look what’s happening. You think that would happen on my watch or Barack’s watch? You can’t answer that, but I promise it wouldn’t have, and it didn’t.”

It looks like red meat isn't so bad for your health after all, as a recent study debunked years of claims that consuming red meat leads to a host of health problems, such as stroke, heart disease, and cancer, according to Big Think. Scientists at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) analyzed past research that led to the demonization of red meat and found the research to be supported by "weak evidence" and "lazy scientists." "We found weak evidence of association between unprocessed red meat consumption and colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and...

A viral social media video shows an elderly man walking off stage saying he’s a “man of God” after being asked to dance with a drag queen. The video is from the media company Participant, and was released on Nov. 13, 2019. The show’s producers paired three drag queens with three elderly men, not telling either of them beforehand that they would be challenged to choreograph a dance routine together to Britney Spears’ “Toxic” in 30 minutes. The video has amassed 112,236 views on YouTube as of this writing. A clip from the video shared on Twitter has amassed 2...

People have been pooping in elevators at the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall, and the frequency of the problem has reportedly picked up. "It's like twice a week now. It used to be once a month," Abimael Garcia, who manages janitors at the mall, noted, according to the San Francisco Standard. "So lately, it's increased." Garcia believes people poop in the elevators because they are the nearest semi-private areas to Mission Street, where there are often individuals camping, according to the outlet — several workers indicated the only routinely utilized public bathrooms at the mall are located on the second...

A woman killed after returning from a trip to Colorado to get an abortion had told Dallas police officers — weeks earlier — that her boyfriend repeatedly had attacked her. Harold Thompson, 22, is accused of killing Gabriella Gonzalez on Wednesday after she had returned from a trip to Colorado to get an abortion. A police affidavit states that Thompson tried to put her in a chokehold and later pulled out a pistol and shot her in the head. After Gonzalez fell to the ground, the affidavit says, Thompson “then fired multiple more shots” into the 26-year-old Gonzalez’ body. The...

Ken Rosato has been spending time with his husband following his ousting from ABC7. The foul-mouthed anchor’s spouse, Chris Sobel, posted a photo of the pair on Instagram Saturday, captioning it, “It’s our 24th anniversary today. So 24 years down. Forever to go!” The social media shoutout was shared online a day after Page Six broke the news that Rosato, 56, was now out of a job after being caught insulting a colleague on a hot mic.

North Carolina lawmakers on Tuesday overrode the veto of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to enshrine into law a ban on most abortions in the state after 12 weeks of pregnancy. Both chambers of the legislature have Republican supermajorities, though the governor had hoped at least one Republican lawmaker would vote to uphold his veto and traveled the state last week to convince a lawmaker to take that stance, the Associated Press reported. The Old North State previously barred abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The new ban makes exceptions for rape, incest, medical emergencies and severe fetal anomalies. Cooper had...