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Amid a recent uptick in asylum-seekers from the southern border arriving in Chicago, New York and Denver, the mayors of the three cities Wednesday renewed their collective call for the federal government to step up resources as the cities near a “breaking point” in coping with the crisis. In a first-time joint appearance, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston repeated a set of requests all three have been making for months. They asked the U.S. government to boost funding to cities and states receiving newcomers and to expedite their permits. They...

An investigation has been launched after a Russian passenger plane landed on a frozen river near an airport in Russia's far east on Thursday... It's not the first time a Russian plane has landed in an unusual location in recent months. In September, a Ural Airlines Airbus 320 that was flying from the Black Sea resort of Sochi to the city of Omsk in southwestern Siberia attempted to make an emergency landing at the airport in the city of Novosibirsk, but had to land in open countryside. Russia's aviation agency Rosaviatsia said the landing took place "on a site selected...

U.S. President Joe Biden hoped to present a firm international response to Yemen's Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping by launching a new maritime force, but a week after its launch many allies don't want to be associated with it, publicly, or at all. The Pentagon says the force is a defensive coalition of more than 20 nations to ensure billions of dollars' worth of commerce can flow freely through a vital shipping chokepoint in Red Sea waters off Yemen. But nearly half of those countries have so far not come forward to acknowledge their contributions or allowed the U.S....

Last January, the People’s Republic of China sent a massive spy balloon over the United States, including strategic military bases. When the intrusion could not be hidden from Congress and the public, Biden officials claimed they couldn’t shoot down the balloon for fear of damage on the ground. They did not explain why they failed to shoot it down when it passed over water between Alaska and the lower 48. By now the reason should be apparent. As Biden said in 2019, the Chinese are “not bad folks,” and the Delaware Democrat, basically on their payroll through son Hunter, lets...

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine even Now Took the Ground and Moved towards Horlivka | Awesome News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkbQuCd0-Yo Official introduction of 153rd Mechanized Brigade December 27, 2023 Today, the 153rd Mechanized Brigade was publicly announced. The unit received its insignia and motto – the power of unconquered. https://militaryland.net/news/official-introduction-of-153rd-mechanized-brigade/ [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

TAIPEI -- China's Luxshare is poised to become the world's second-largest iPhone assembler after it takes a majority stake in a Taiwanese peer's plant in the Chinese city of Kunshan. Taiwan-based Pegatron, a longtime iPhone assembler, announced on Thursday that Luxshare will invest 2.1 billion yuan ($296 million) into the Kunshan plant as a capital expansion. As a result, Pegatron's stake in the facility will drop from 100% to 37.5% and it will lose control of it, the company said in a filing with the stock exchange. This will make Luxshare the second-largest iPhone assembler by capacity after Taiwan's Foxconn....

Chicago and NYC, declared on the brink of collapse by their mayors, face an escalating crisis. The breaking point is here, with alarming numbers revealing an unprecedented challenge. Urgent actions are needed to address the immediate impact and prevent further deterioration.

In 2010, President Obama signed a credit card bill he desperately wanted. Inside the bill was an amendment removing the provision against exercising Second Amendment rights in national parks. A few people were offended. How dare the Constitution be allowed to be in effect in national parks! Some writers have claimed while it is legal to carry guns in most national parks, it is illegal to fire guns in the park (such as Yellowstone), even in self-defense. From yellowstonepark.com:Yes, you can carry a gun in Yellowstone. But it’s illegal to fire it – even in self defense. And once you...

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The Maryland Bar Counsel has filed a petition to suspend former Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's law license, following alleged misuse of her finances during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new petition, filed Tuesday, asked the Maryland Supreme Court to immediately suspend Mosby because she was found guilty of a "serious crime" as defined under state ethics rules for lawyers. The petition requests Mosby to "be suspended immediately from the practice of law pending the imposition of sentence and entry of a judgment of conviction." Mosby, who gained a national profile for prosecuting Baltimore police officers after Freddie Gray, a...

Last summer, I wrote a brief article about how China’s property sector is, structurally, a bubble. And as with all bubbles, policymakers are equipped with a toolkit limited to delaying, mitigating, or perhaps even changing (genco.substack.com/p/the-great-financial-reset-of-2009) the inevitable “burst”. And while Beijing has done a mostly admirable job over the past decade of delaying the debt crisis, a sort-of countdown to D-day has begun.

OPINION The USA, Canada, Australia, Norway and the UK which had the moral responsibility to rapidly phase out oil and gas production are responsible for planned expansion from new oil and gas fields for next decade and half. How can these countries advise India to cut on coal consumption? Our greenhouse gas emission is nearly 3 Giga tonnes of CO2 equivalent annually. We are distant third behind the two top emitters China with 14 Giga tonnes and the US with 8 Giga tonnes Among the important outcomes, COP 28 text proposes to triple renewable energy capacity and double the global...

Christianity compromised God’s biblical antithesis in the name of national unity. If we were a Christian nation, we might have a hope for survival, even with variations in language and race. However, like those who sought a humanistic unity at the Tower of Babel, we are doing the same thing as they did, and we are seeing the judgment of God in our own day. With the passage of laws legalizing abortion and homosexual marriage, the American people have declared war against the God of the Bible. Judgment follows the rejection of blessing. We no longer live in a post-Christian...

Members of Seattle, Washington’s Parks and Recreation department, along with city police, removed a community garden planted in Cal Anderson Park as part of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 on Wednesday. City officials said in a statement that the "makeshift," temporary garden was being removed because of public health and safety concerns, as well as for maintenance reasons including reseeding and turf restoration. The efforts on Wednesday also included the removal of tent encampments located near the garden and outside the park along E. Olive Street, which city officials said was to ensure the public spaces remain clean...

The Vice President is the safety mechanism for continuity of government in the event that something happens to the President.Additionally, for the unique nature of the 2024 election, the VP pick technically becomes the 2028 MAGA candidate by default and general intention. Therefore, the selection of Trump’s running mate holds a greater weight of importance given the single term objective.The primary factor of President Trump’s pick for VP should be, who will be the 2028 nominee.Prior to President Trump’s first term in office, traditionally the role of the Vice-President, the actual tasks they are assigned to carry out, were generally...

Here is my question. Was the North intending to end slavery to make growing cotton in the South untenable for the plantation owners in order to bankrupt them so that the Northern Textile barons could take over the land? I know the South seceded because the North was trying to end slavery, which would have raised the cost of growing cotton because the plantation would now have to pay wages, instead of trading labour for bodily needs. This likely was not an affordable option for the landowners, because the North was not going to pay a penny more for cotton...

Democrats and supporters of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Wednesday after she refused to name slavery as the primary cause of the Civil War. Haley, 51, made the apparent gaffe during a town hall event in Berlin, NH, after a voter asked the former United Nations ambassador to identify the cause of the deadliest war in American history. The White House hopeful appeared caught off guard by the question and failed to mention the antebellum South’s “peculiar institution” in her response. “I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government...

Channel 12 published a new photo of the commander of Hamas' military wing. The report also stated that one of his legs is missing.

An Idaho law passed this year that bans gender-affirming care for minors will not go into effect on Jan. 1, as planned. A federal judge on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction on the lawsuit against the ban. House Bill 71, "The Vulnerable Child Protective Act" was signed into Idaho law in April. It outlaws gender-affirming care for transgender minors; including puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries. The law finds any doctor that provides gender-transition care guilty of a felony, punishable by up to 10 years of prison time. After the law was signed, a lawsuit was filed against the state on...