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On Kremlin state TV they admitted to taking horrendous losses of their junior officers and they have been graduating military cadets early as well as giving field promotions to sergeants in order to make them into officers and make up for their losses.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alan Arkin, the wry character actor who demonstrated his versatility in everything from farcical comedy to chilling drama as he received four Academy Award nominations and won an Oscar in 2007 for “Little Miss Sunshine,” has died. He was 89. His sons Adam, Matthew and Anthony confirmed their father’s death through the actor’s publicist on Friday. “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man,” they said in a statement. A member of Chicago’s famed Second City comedy troupe, Arkin was an immediate success in movies with the Cold...

The Biden administration is considering a plan to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to assist with Kyiv's counteroffensive against Russia, according to two U.S. officials and a person in familiar with the talks. In recent days, the discussion, which involves sending dual-purpose, improved conventional munitions has been growing while Ukraine's efforts against Russia have stalled, but as of late last year the administration was saying it had concerns about delivering the weapons because of humanitarian reasons and because it was not yet determined whether Ukraine needed them at that time, reports Politico. However, the sources said the administration's debate about...

ESPN has let go of NBA Countdown’s Jalen Rose, The Post has learned. Rose, 50, had been on ABC/ESPN’s top NBA broadcast for a decade, which was especially impressive because of the amount of changes the network has made over that time. The Post first reported Friday morning that ESPN was laying off around 20 on-air personalities. Top NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy was also let go by the network. ESPN had reduced Rose’s role at the network after his daily program with David Jacoby was canceled at the end of 2022.

The following is the complete text of an email received by Rasmussen Reports this morning:My name is Elliott Morris, (snip) I am emailing you to send a final notice that FiveThirtyEight is considering formally banning Rasmussen Reports from its coverage. Such a ban would result in being removed from listing on our main polls page and being excluded from all of our aggregation and election forecasting models. If banned, Rasmussen Reports would also be removed from our historical averages of polls and from our pollster ratings. Your surveys would no longer appear in reporting and we would write an article...

The US Coast Guard covered up more than 100 instances of rape, sexual assault and other sexual misconduct at its Connecticut officer training academy dating back to the 1980s, a secret investigation found. The “Operation Fouled Anchor” probe, which was kept confidential by top military officials for several years, revealed that the alleged crimes were ignored or covered up by top officials, CNN reported Friday. “There was a disturbing pattern of not treating reported sexual assaults as criminal matters,” a draft of the report stated. Most of the credibly accused suspects never faced criminal investigations, instead being slapped with extra...

The Supreme Court released a ruling on Friday in favor of the Colorado evangelical Christian web designer who had not wanted to be forced by the state to design websites for same-sex marriages. YES! Huge victory for free speech as Lorie Smith the web designer who did not want to be compelled by CO law to make a same-sex m. website (tho she serviced the lgbt community in general) WINS HER CASE! This is a BIG WIN FOR FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA — Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 30, 2023 The justices, 6-3, held that the First Amendment prevents the state...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to back a Christian wedding website designer’s choice not to provide services to gay couples, calling the decision “profoundly wrong” in a scathing dissenting argument read from the bench. “Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class,” Sotomayor wrote. The associate justice harkened back to the civil rights and women’s rights movements in her dissent, suggesting that in recent years, gender and sexual orientation minority groups have faced “backlash to...

"The decision of the Staff - Chief Commander Zaluzhnyi and Commander of the "North" Naiev - was to implement a set of measures to strengthen this area," Zelensky informed. [snip] President Volodymyr Zelensky is convinced that the contingent of the "Wagner" PMC in Belarus will be insignificant, as more than 20,000 "Wagnerites" have already been destroyed by the Ukrainian defense forces.

Our cousins across the pond apparently have jumped on the woke bandwagon and the Muslim Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is leading the charge.In fact, Sadiq Khan's staff have been banned from calling people 'men and women' as part of a new inclusivity drive.Pictured is an example of some of the banned phrases issued to staff working for the London Mayor's office. In the guide's section on gender, staff was told: 'Avoid using "men and women" - say "people" or "Londoners".'Similarly, instead of ‘ladies and gentlemen' say something that doesn't exclude non-binary people.'The memo reportedly goes on to say the...

NewsNation's 90-minute town hall broadcast live from Chicago Wednesday with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was an intellectually stimulating and emotionally moving event. Despite the hour of mostly put-downs that preceded it (hosted by Chris Cuomo with featured guest Bill O'Reilly) and the half-hour of analysis that followed it (Chris Cuomo again with a panel that included former Wisconsin Republican governor Scott Walker, the most fair and objective), Kennedy more than met the challenging questions presented to him by town hall host Elizabeth Vargas and a number of pre-selected Democrat and independent voters in Chicago, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.By the...

Social media giants TikTok and Snapchat heard a plea for help Friday from French President Emmanuel Macron as he looks for ways to tamp down coverage of the violent riots engulfing the country. “Social media platforms play a significant role in the events of the past few days”, Macron said in televised remarks from an inter-ministerial emergency meeting as he pleaded with rioters to cease and desist. Macron notably called on the platforms to delete the “most sensitive” content, adding he expected from them “the spirit of responsibility.” He did not say who would decide what content was “most sensitive.”

The Supreme Court has struck down President Joe Biden's $400 billion student loans forgiveness plan in another bombshell decision. The justices ruled 6-3 against Biden's controversial plan to wipe out debts for around 20 million Americans, which the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked in October. .....

On Tuesday, a reporter for The New York Times authored a column with this teaser:Using four decades of health data from Denmark, the study offers the clearest picture yet of the suicide risk among transgender people.The study was published two days ago in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and concluded what many of us likely already know: “transgender” people are at a massively increased risk of both successful and attempted suicide. In the report the NYT touted as the “first in the world to analyze national suicide data for this group”, researchers found:Transgender people in the country had...

Some 555 days after Tijuana spilled millions of gallons of raw sewage onto San Diego's otherwise environmentally regulated beaches, the local Board of Supervisors, which is nearly all Democrat, has up and taken notice.According to the local Times of San Diego:San Diego County supervisors unanimously approved a proclamation Tuesday declaring a state of emergency due to pollution and sewage flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border. Board Chairwoman Nora Vargas and Vice Chair Terra Lawson-Remer introduced the proclamation, which asks Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden to issue similar declarations, “suspend red tape that may hinder response efforts, and expedite access...

A New “Synodal Church” Undermines the Catholic ChurchNote: Bishop Schneider sent us this incisive “appeal for prayer and reflection” with the request that it appear today, the Solemnity of the Apostles Saints Peter and Paul. We thought it significant enough to warrant special publication by TCT, which we’re happy to bring to your attention. – Robert Royal Many questions have arisen about the current “synodal process,” and therefore in order to be of service to Christ’s flock, I would like to address some important points of the Instrumentum Laboris for the October 2023 Session of the Synod on Synodality. This...

The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, denying tens of millions of Americans the chance to get up to $20,000 of their debt erased.

One of the many distressing videos circulating on social media showed a devastating scene of rioters in France setting ablaze the largest public library in the city of Marseille. The footage shows flames engulfing the institution, symbolising the loss of knowledge, culture, and community resources. This act of destruction represents a tragic blow to the city's cultural heritage and a deeply concerning manifestation of the ongoing unrest.

Kevin Spacey is a "sexual bully" who assaults other men, jurors have been told at the outset of his trial. The American actor is facing 12 charges in a British trial, covering allegations made by four men stretching from 2001 to 2013. He appeared at London's Southwark Crown Court on Friday to hear the first day of evidence. The 63-year-old denies all the allegations, which his lawyer said contained "many damned lies". The American actor spent considerable time in the UK while he was employed as the director of the Old Vic theatre in London between 2004 and 2015. Prosecutor...

"Extreme heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather hazard," is the first claim in this Washington Post piece warning about the deadly summer heat – and it is almost certainly false. Similar warnings about the deadly weather appear in virtually every mainstream media outlet. First off, the only reason "extreme" temperature kills more people than other weather hazards is that deaths from weather have plummeted over the century – even as doomsday climate warnings about heat, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts have spiked. All extreme weather accounts for only about 0.1 death for every 100,000...