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The frontlines of Russia’s war in Ukraine have become infested with rats and mice, reportedly spreading disease that causes soldiers to vomit and bleed from their eyes, crippling combat capability and recreating the gruesome conditions that plagued troops in the trench warfare of World War I. A Ukrainian servicewoman, who goes by the call-sign “Kira,” recalled how her battalion was beset last fall by a “mouse epidemic” while fighting in as the southern Zaporizhzhia region. “Imagine going to bed, and the night begins with a mouse crawling into your pants or sweater, or chewing your fingertips, or biting your hand....

In September of 1960, on the campus of DePauw University in Indiana, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a keynote speaker for “School for the Prophets” at Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church. King’s message to Methodist clergy of Indiana was based on a sermon he had previously given, called “Paul’s Letter to American Christians.” King looked to St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans and contemplated: “America, as I look at you from afar, I wonder whether your moral and spiritual progress has been commensurate with your scientific progress.” He told his audience, “Black supremacy is as dangerous as white...

Washington, January 20./TASS/. In November, Russia cut its holdings of the US sovereign debt, from $31 min month-on-month to $28 min, according to the latest data published by the US Treasury... Japan remained he biggest holder of the US state debt in November 2023, as its increased its holdings to $1.127 trin from $1.09 trln in October, followed by China with $782 bln and the United Kingdom with $716.2 bln.

Oakland’s only In-N-Out will serve its last double-double on March 24 after more than 18 years in operation at 8300 Oakport Street, the burger restaurant’s chief operating officer Denny Warnick confirmed with SFGATE in an emailed statement Sunday. Warnick described the store as “busy and profitable” for the company, and drive-thru lines during the dinner rush often stretched all the way out into neighboring parking lots. However, he cited “ongoing issues with crime” as the reason for the closure. “Despite taking repeated steps to create safer conditions, our Customers and Associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft,...

France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire announcing electricity rate increases... Production at Libya's largest oil field resuming... Two US Navy SEALS presumed dead after going missing... Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspending his Presidential campaign endorsing President Donald Trump... The Russian military in Syria says that two French fighter jets of the US-led international coalition violated Syrian airspace... A flight radar website showing a US Navy aircraft near Crimea during a Ukrainian attack... Here in the United States a federal judge has released the last of four people...accused of terrorism...ordered release of three others in the case last year saying they...

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) proposed a $14 trillion reparations plan Tuesday “for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States.”

They want him gone – no matter the cost. President Trump is up in the polls, the Republican base is coalescing around him. DeSantis, his most formidable primary challenger dropped from the race and endorsed President Trump on Sunday. The globalist elites are in a panic. Trump is the greatest threat to their power over humanity in the civilized world. Something must be done. Alex Soros tweeted out an obvious threat against President Trump on Sunday evening. Alex is the son of George Soros and the Chair of the Open Society, the largest donors to Democrat politics.

Extremely cold Arctic air and severe winter weather swept southward into much of the U.S. in mid-January 2024, breaking daily low temperature records from Montana to Texas. Tens of millions of people were affected by dangerously cold temperatures, and heavy lake-effect snow and snow squalls have had severe effects across the Great Lakes and Northeast regions. These severe cold events occur when the polar jet stream – the familiar jet stream of winter that runs along the boundary between Arctic and more temperate air – dips deeply southward, bringing the cold Arctic air to regions that don’t often experience it....

Isn’t it interesting how Sweden’s doing a bit of a U-turn? I mean, who would’ve thought the right-wing government there would be all for keeping physical cash alive and kicking? So, get this – they’re not just talking about it; they’re considering making shops accept cash, going against the whole global trend of going cashless. It’s like they’re saying, “Hold on, we still want the option to use good old-fashioned bills and coins, thank you very much.”

A man has been charged with murdering his Google Engineer wife after he was found 'staring blankly' into space with her dead body nearby. Police arrested Liren Chen, 27, who also works for Google, on January 16 at a home on Valley Way, Santa Clara. He has been charged with murder but his arraignment was postponed after he was hospitalized. Chen was found 'spattered with blood' with an 'extremely swollen and purple arm' kneeling outside a bedroom where his wife was 'deceased on the floor'. His wife, thought to be Xuanyi Yu, had 'severe blunt force injuries to her head',...

E. Jean Carroll posed for the cover of New York Magazine in June 2019. She was wearing what she claimed was the Donna Karan jacket dress she had worn when Donald Trump allegedly attacked her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1994. She later was forced to change her story after New York Magazine pointed out that the dress she said she was wearing was not sold in 1994. Carroll later claimed the alleged attack occurred in 1995 or 1996. But she is still not clear on the date it took place. Carroll said she met Trump on the...

Ukraine hits the Russian Port at Ust-Luga near Saint Petersburg with drones, this is 870 kilometers from the border with Ukraine.

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to review a case called Fischer v. United States, which experts say could weaken prosecutors’ hand in hundreds of Jan. 6 cases, including former President Donald Trump’s, is already upending some defendant cases and sentencing proceedings.In December, the Supreme Court decided it would take up the appeal by Jan. 6 defendant Joseph W. Fisher of the Biden administration’s novel use of an Enron-era evidence-tampering law to prosecute hundreds of defendants for obstruction of Congress during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incident.The obstruction of Congress charge—which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in...

Paul Sperry @paulsperry BREAKING: Judicial Watch Sues Defense Department for Details of Alleged Conversation between CIA Employees Seeking to ‘Get Rid’ of then-President Trump

Sunday InsiderAdvantage poll of 850 likely voters in the New Hampshire GOP primary, conducted after Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the suspension of his campaign for the Republican nomination for president and endorsement of Donald Trump, shows former President Trump leading former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley by a substantial margin. The poll conducted January 21 has a margin of error of 4.32% with 95% confidence level. The Results: Nikki Haley: 35% Donald Trump: 62% Undecided: 3% InsiderAdvantage’s Matt Towery: “I have polled New Hampshire presidential primaries for many years and fully understand that this is a state that is hard...

President Joe Biden has been losing support from black voters, which could greatly damage his re-election campaign. The situation has been apparent over the past year, with more black folks no longer supporting him. Now, it appears Team Biden has a plan for winning back these voters, and it probably won’t involve telling them they "ain't black" if they don’t vote for him.Joe Biden is all but certain to win, and win big, in the first sanctioned Democratic primary in South Carolina early February.But the president’s aides and allies increasingly view the contest as a crucial opportunity to quiet critics...

As part of an overall effort to turn Texas from a Republican stronghold into a blue state, billionaire progressive financier George Soros is pouring oodles of cash into the state’s races to bolster support for far-leftist candidates.The idea is to transform Texas into a Democratic playground, and the strategy could work if the state Republican Party doesn’t find an answer to this political offensive.George Soros is pouring money into local Democratic parties in Texas in a ploy to help Democrats turn the state blue, according to the Texas Tribune.Soros, working with the Texas Majority PAC, donated six-figure sums to the...

Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, one of the few national journalists who focuses on the crisis at our southern border and is often down there filming the ongoing tragedy, posted a disturbing story to X Sunday describing how an illegal immigrant who sexually abused at least one minor was released -- only to go out and commit more offenses.How did this happen? Easy. The perp was allowed to walk the streets because, once again, local authorities -- especially those in sanctuary cities and states -- often refuse to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).Authorities in Fairfax County, Virginia...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., delivered an address at the 2024 March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., on Friday, explaining that the idea of God-given human value is intrinsic to American political thought going back to its founding. Johnson also noted to the large crowd braving the snowy weather how he was an unplanned pregnancy, and exhorted them to be encouraged that the U.S. can develop a stronger culture of life."It was the great British statesman G.K. Chesterton who famously observed that America is the only nation in the world that was founded upon its creed," Johnson said. "And...

From the beginning of the GOP primary season, I said I didn’t think Donald Trump deserved a coronation. Voters needed a choice. I strongly believe that had the race always been a two-person race between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis it would have been a much more competitive race, but that’s not what we got. We had several candidates run audition campaigns, chipping away at the Trump-alternative vote. That, combined with the various efforts by the Biden administration to imprison Trump on bogus criminal charges, made it impossible for anyone to compete with the pseudo-incumbent. DeSantis saw the writing on...