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WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - The United States had intelligence of a detailed Ukrainian plan to attack the Nord Stream pipeline three months before it was bombed, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing leaked information posted online.The CIA learned last June, through a European spy agency, that a six-person team of Ukrainian special operations forces intended to blow up the Russia-to-Germany natural gas project, the newspaper reported.The European intelligence reporting was shared on chat platform Discord, allegedly by Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who was recently charged in relation to the leak of sensitive U.S. documents. The Washington...

Two Cleveland Browns players had their cars stolen over the weekend, one of them at gunpoint, according to officials and online reports. Cornerback Greg Newsome II had his car taken during an armed robbery at 3:30 a.m. Monday near the 700 block of Superior Avenue, according to interviews and a report in Sports Illustrated. ..snip.. Both cars were Hellcats, a high-end Dodge model that has gained popularity in recent years. The Browns said the players did not want to speak about the incidents.

All the hoopla over the end of Title 42 was for naught, we are told by the media. We’re told the amount of people entering dropped drastically. Is the border under control? It depends on what you mean by “under control”. If by “under control” you mean the Biden Rush is over, then no. But if by “under control” you mean border policy is following the administration’s agenda, then yes.

The crazed ex-boyfriend of a popular Florida high school softball star repeatedly stabbed his former flame before cutting his own throat in a desperate suicide bid, cops said. The grisly, broad-daylight assault in posh Ponte Vedra Beach near Jacksonville was interrupted only after a courageous good Samaritan spotted the frenzied attack and intervened, according to police. Madison Schemitz, 17, a rising senior at Ponte Vedra High School, was eating at a restaurant Saturday with her mother, Jackie Roge, and friend Casey Estep when they spotted Spencer Pearson, a recent graduate of the school and a former football player. Estep told...

(Note: This was republished by Zero Hedge and it is not your average blog post) What Happens When the Competent Opt Out? By this terminal stage, the competent have been driven out, quit or burned out. What happens with the competent retire, burn out or opt out? It's a question few bother to ask because the base assumption is that there is an essentially limitless pool of competent people who can be tapped or trained to replace those who retire, burn out or opt out, i.e. quit in favor of a lifestyle that doesn't require much in the way of...

Ukrainian forces have advanced on Bakhmut, Kyiv's deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar said, describing the embattled city as the 'epicentre of hostilities'. Ms Maliar said Kyiv's troops had 'some success' on the battlefield surrounding Bakhmut and they are 'advancing on a wide front', but she dismissed suggestions of a major operation. 'The main focus now is on the Bakhmut sector,' she said. 'This has resulted in certain successes, including advances. We have taken control of certain heights.' -snip- News of the Ukrainian advances came after the head of Russia's feared paramilitary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, slammed claims by the Russian...

Special Counsel John Durham’s final report faults the FBI for opening the Trump-Russia collusion investigation on baseless grounds and relying on Hillary Clinton-funded material to pursue it, all while ignoring a warning that Clinton was plotting to frame Trump as a Russian asset. Yet Durham does not address the Clinton campaign’s equally central tie to Russiagate’s other foundational allegation: that Russia interfered in the 2016 election by hacking Democratic party servers and releasing the material through Wikileaks to help elect Trump. Durham’s silence on the Clinton team’s role in generating this unproven claim comes despite his unearthing of evidence that...

Former Trump presidential adviser Stephen Miller’s America First Legal formally demanded that Target be transparent in the midst of backlash against the big box chain for its decision to sell “pride”-related items for children. The group, working on behalf of the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), served Target Corporation with a “formal demand for the production of corporate books and records” about its alleged support for a “radical LGBT political agenda” that has reported cost the company billions in market valuation since the middle of last month, according to a news release issued Tuesday. Because the NCPPR is...

On the morning of June 6, in the Kherson region, it became known about the breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP. Kiev blamed Russia for the explosion of the hydroelectric power station, Russia stated that the reason for the dam break was allegedly the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (while local residents, including those who lived close to the dam, did not report anything about the shelling). MAIN TOPIC: the breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP in the Kherson region. What has already been flooded, how could it happen and what will be the...

Inflicting heavy fines on developers of a project billed as supplying clean, renewable energy, a federal jury has awarded a couple in southwest Georgia $135.5 million after runoff from “Lumpkin Solar” severely polluted waters and soils on their rural property. According to a lawsuit filed by Shaun and Amie Harris, Lumpkin Solar’s developers – after clearing about 1,000 acres of timberland, farmland, and land previously used for hunting and fishing – failed to install adequate measures for erosion and sediment control. “The result is what one would expect – when it rained, pollution poured downhill and downstream onto the neighbors’...

The group of 40 migrants are threatening to sleep rough outside the hotel until the U.K. Home Office agrees to its demands....... Better Wi-Fi, more financial assistance, and private rooms were just some of the demands made by migrants who demonstrated outside the doors of their new hotel accommodation in an upscale residential area of central London on Thursday. The group of adult men, many of whom arrived in Britain illegally in small boats via the English Channel with a view to claiming asylum, used their suitcases to barricade the front doors to the Pimlico Comfort Inn and staged a...

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on “The Girl from Ipanema” made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, has died at age 83. Musician Paul Ricci, a family friend, confirmed that she died Monday. He did not provide additional details. Born in Salvador, Bahia and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto became an overnight, unexpected superstar in 1964, thanks to knowing just enough English to be recruited by the makers of “Getz/Gilberto,” the classic bossa nova album featuring saxophonist Stan Getz and her then-husband, singer-songwriter-guitarist João Gilberto. “The Girl from Ipanema,” the wistful...

Eric Adams is considering Churches and Private Residences for housing illegals. “It is my vision to take the next step to this faith-based locales and then move to a private residence... They have spare rooms."

Royal Oak, MI, resident David Yellen is very vocal about how he despises President Trump and hates conservative values. 100 Percent Fed Up reports – The FBI recently discovered that the outspoken Trump-hating Yellen, a well-known photographer of girls’ gymnastics in the metro-Detroit area for over a decade, likes to possess and share naked photos of little girls online

In anticipation of attacks o this study, let me say that this page is not presented as a self-righteous condemnation as if I (or any who cite this study) are without sin, for we are all sinners, having misused everything from our brain to our feet, and thus in this way and to some degree we and I have usually committed many or most things that we condemn others for, and our lesser sins that we may excuse are offensive to God and not just those that we rightly deplore.. However, the difference here is that of having repented from...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL), on behalf of its client, the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), served the Target Corporation with a formal demand for the production of corporate books and records, seeking transparency regarding its management’s radical LGBT political agenda that has apparently cost the corporation over $12 billion in market valuation since mid-May 2023. NCPPR is a Target shareholder.

Most Republican voters like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, but when it comes to who should get the GOP’s 2024 nomination, they prefer former President Donald Trump by a 28-point margin. The survey of 1,012 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on May 30-June 1, 2023 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

The PGA Tour, European Tour and rival Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit announced a landmark agreement on Tuesday to merge and form a commercial entity to unify golf.Additionally, the three organizations said in a joint news release that they will work cooperatively to allow a process for any LIV Golf players to reapply for PGA Tour and DP World Tour membership following the 2023 season."After two years of disruption and distraction, this is a historic day for the game we all know and love," PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said in a joint news release.

The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index, a leading national poll on consumer confidence, today revealed that economic optimism rose a cautious 0.2% in June after last month's 12.2% drop. This month's reading of 41.7 was up overall from May's 41.6. The index has now been in negative territory for 22 consecutive months. A reading above 50.0 signals optimism and below 50.0 indicates pessimism on IBD/TIPP indexes. The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index has established a strong track record of foreshadowing the confidence indicators issued later each month by the University of Michigan and The Conference Board.

Poll: Would you vote for Mike Pence as President?