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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday that U.S. bank JPMorgan had this week stopped processing payments for the Russian Agricultural Bank as Moscow demanded action, not promises, from Washington to help Russian grain and fertilizer reach global markets.Moscow has a list of demands it wants met before it will return to a deal, which it quit on July 17, that had allowed the safe Black Sea exports of Ukraine grain for the past year. Under a related pact - also brokered in July 2022 - U.N. officials agreed to help facilitate Russian food and fertilizer exports."As soon as...

Just two points separate Christie and DeSantis in New Hampshire poll. Ron DeSantis is facing a serious threat from Chris Christie in the New Hampshire Primary, according to a new poll from the Manhattan Institute. The survey conducted last month shows just two points separate the Florida Governor and the former New Jersey Governor, with both men in low double digits. DeSantis stands at just 13%, two points up on Christie’s 11%. Close behind them are Vivek Ramaswamy (8%), Nikki Haley (7%), and Tim Scott (7%). This shows a functional diffusion of the opposition vote to Donald Trump, who still...

As Donald Trump was being arraigned in Washington on yet another round of criminal charges, his running mate-turned-rival Mike Pence hurried to capitalize on the news. Pence’s campaign unveiled new T-shirts and baseball caps for sale featuring the phrase “Too Honest” in big red letters — a reference to an episode in the indictment in which the former president called Pence to berate him over his refusal to go along with Trump’s scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “You’re too honest,” Trump allegedly scoffed at his second-in-command on New Year’s Day. Pence’s decision to seize on the...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a GOP presidential candidate, made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Friday, where he met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, the country’s capital. Christie met with Zelensky at the country's presidential palace, where he reiterated his support for Ukraine, according to a pool report, contrasting his candidacy with some in the Republican party who have opposed providing aid to the country. Christie, the second 2024 Republican presidential candidate to visit Ukraine, following former Vice President Mike Pence, said he hoped to get a firsthand look at the wartime atrocities that the country has...

Cybercriminals attacked the computer systems of a California-based health care provider causing emergency rooms in multiple states to close and ambulance services to be redirected. The data breach happened at Prospect Medical Holdings of Los Angeles, which has hospitals and clinics in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas. Prospect Medical is working on resolving the issue, the company said in a statement Friday. "Upon learning of this, we took our systems offline to protect them and launched an investigation with the help of third-party cybersecurity specialists," the company told the Associated Press. "While our investigation continues, we are focused on...

In 2017, David Garrow’s carefully researched Obama biography, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, appeared to much less fanfare than it deserved. The media undoubtedly downplayed it because it offered the truth behind many of Obama’s self-adulatory inventions, and Trump’s new presidency occupied everyone’s energy. What makes the book newsworthy today is that David Samuels has interviewed Garrow and revisited narratives in the book, reminding everyone of the scary, power-obsessed nastiness behind Obama’s carefully built façade. The interview on Tablet is long and worth every second it takes you to read it. However, I’ve summarized below some of the...

VIDEOIt turned out that there was only one positive outcome from Tony Blinken's recent trip to Australia. While waiting for Blinken's press conference to start an ABC (the Australian ABC, not the American ABC) foreign affairs reporter, Stephen Dziedzic, flat out admitted on hot mic that he dismissed the lab leak theory for strictly ideological reasons. Dziedzic also seemed quite irked that Sky News reporter Sharri Markson turned out to be absolutely RIGHT about the origin of COVID as due to the Wuhan lab leak. He acted as if Markson was just lucky but as Markson revealed, she did something...

The scenes of asylum-seekers living on the streets of New York City are without parallel in America since the Great Depression. The migrant crisis in New York City is nearing a breaking point with shelters at capacity and asylum seekers now being forced to sleep on the street. pic.twitter.com/DHNUCKnMyU— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) August 2, 2023'Migrant crisis in New York City worsens as asylum seekers are forced to sleep on sidewalks.' From @CBSNews: https://t.co/YNOBVgs3uB— Byron York (@ByronYork) August 3, 2023Thousands of people who crossed the border have come to New York looking for the city to fulfill its promise of...

More than six in ten Republican voters in Michigan back former President Donald Trump for their party’s nomination, setting him far apart from the rest of the crowded field, according to an Emerson College Polling survey. The survey, published Friday, shows that 61 percent of registered voters who plan to vote in the GOP primary support Trump, placing him a whopping 48 points ahead of his nearest competitor, Gov. Ron DeSantis (FL), at 13 percent. Seven percent of the respondents back former Vice President Mike Pence, which is good enough for third place, followed by 37-year-old entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy at...

Nashville Democrat Justin Jones, a member of the so-called “Tennessee Three,” won back his state House seat Thursday after Republican lawmakers expelled him for his participation in a pro-gun control protest in the Capitol. Jones, 27, defeated Republican candidate Laura Nelson. Along with Jones, fellow Democrat Justin Pearson, 28, was also vying to reclaim his House seat in Memphis against independent candidate Jeff Johnston after also being expelled in April. The young Black lawmakers were reinstated by local officials after being booted from the GOP-dominated Statehouse, but only on an interim basis. They needed to clear a special election in...

Former President Barack Obama once wrote that he fantasized about having sexual relations with other men, biographer David Garrow said in an interview published on Wednesday. The former president expressed his fantasies in a letter to a girlfriend at the time, Garrow told Tablet magazine in the interview. That letter has been redacted and is currently in the possession of Emory University, according to Garrow.

In February, as India endured its highest temperatures since 1901, Hillary Clinton visited the country to see firsthand the heat’s impact on female workers. In Rajasthan’s salt flats, she met with women harvesting salt, laborious work that involves raking up the tops of the salt ponds in the scorching heat of the desert. The women were pushing their start times to 4 a.m. to avoid the highest temperatures of the day. Yet, despite the record heat, future years are likely to be hotter still. “How are they going to keep going?” Clinton says. The former Secretary of State is the...

Last month, U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton tossed out a lawsuit challenging Connecticut’s ban on concealed carry in state parks, ruling that the plaintiff in the litigation didn’t have standing to sue because there was no credible threat of him being arrested or prosecuted for violating the ban. That was an exceedingly odd decision, but it kept the ban in place (at least for now), which counts as a win as far as anti-gunners are concerned. Now Arterton has followed up with another legal doozy, rejecting a preliminary injunction against the state’s newly-expanded ban on so-called assault weapons and...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland decries Latin Mass restrictions as ‘attack’ on the ‘Deposit of Faith’The 'traditional Latin Mass is rooted in the vine, robust with truth & bears much fruit,' wrote the Bishop of Tyler, Texas.Bishop Joseph Strickland offering a traditional Mass in 2020 Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas has publicly defended the traditional Latin Mass, stating that “any attempt to sever the traditional Mass from the Church” is an attack on “the Deposit of Faith.” The outspoken bishop of the Texas diocese issued his statement via X, formerly called Twitter, and seemed to address the severe restrictions imposed...

A Russian court sentenced opposition leader Alexey Navalny to another 19 years in prison after convicting him of “extremism,” a decision he had earlier described as “Stalinist.” The closed hearing on Friday held inside a strict-regime prison found President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken critic guilty of charges of founding an “extremist” group and six other related counts. The judge ordered the new term also to be served in a strict-regime prison. Navalny, 47, had predicted “a huge sentence, what they call a ‘Stalinist’ sentence” in a statement on his website the day before the verdict. He said he also expected...

A study in the journal Earth and Planetary Science has questioned the origin of a Moon rock sample collected during a 1971 NASA Moon landing. The startling study published this week has found the Moon rock’s chemical composition is much closer to Earth rock than it is to Moon rock. Researchers have found traces of quartz in the Moon rock – a mineral typically not found on the Moon. The Moon rock sample in question was collected by NASA’s Apollo 14 mission, which saw astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell land on the Moon.The rock was then loaned by NASA...

Democrats are pushing for former President Donald Trump’s trial to be televised, as detailed in a letter to Judge Roslynn R. Mauskopf, who serves as director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts as well as secretary to the Judicial Conference. The letter, signed by well over two dozen House Democrats, requests that the Judicial Conference “explicitly” authorizes Trump’s criminal trials to be televised, asserting that it is crucial for the sake of transparency. Notably, Chief Justice Chief Justice John Roberts stands as the presiding officer of the Judicial Conference.

Decades ago, someone had done a satirical piece I’m trying to find on, what if MicroSoft had built the F18? It had things about how you would have to shutdown and restart the plane a couple of times a day and you wouldn’t question that and if you attempted to deploy the ejection seat you would get a message reading, “Are you sure you want to deploy ejection seat?” Stuff like that. Can anyone supply a link to this satirical piece or supply the list? Thanks.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A male suspect was arrested on Wednesday after disguising himself as a woman during a SWAT standoff. Agents from the Bernalillo County District Attorney's Office responded to Mission Hill Apartments on Menaul Boulevard NE to arrest David Flores after locating him. After refusing to leave a residence, the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office SWAT team responded to assist in the arrest. Flores attempted to use a disguise to appear as a female, according to a Facebook post on Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman's account. Photos in the post show Flores wearing a wig and pink top....

Those politicians who want to eliminate the Second Amendment, which holds that Americans have the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, have a long road ahead of them. That's because gun sales in American have not even paused, surpassing 48 million over four years. July, in fact, marked the 48th straight month in which gun sales passed the one million mark. The Washington Examiner. reported a just-released FBI study showed likely sales of firearms in July totaled 1,023,903. "July 2023 marks the 48th month in a row, 4 years, that has exceeded 1 million adjusted background checks in a...