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Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov suspended a senior official while authorities investigate suspected corruption in the procurement of weapons, his ministry said on Friday. Umerov took office last year on a pledge to clean up graft inside the ministry as Ukraine's Western partners weighed sending more military aid to Kyiv following Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. Toomas Nakhkur, who led the defense ministry's department for technical policy and weapons development, was suspended after being named an official suspect in an unspecified criminal case, the ministry wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

The disappearance of top Russian generals dating back to September has sparked questions about their whereabouts amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Russian and Ukrainian forces have presented different public findings since the purported death of Russian Admiral Viktor Sokolov, who Kyiv said was one of 34 Russian officers killed in late September by a missile strike executed against the headquarters of the Russian Navy's Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea. Sokolov was viewed by Ukrainian forces as a high-value target. The lack of visibility by Russia's top general, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, has additionally caused wonderment regarding...

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Vice President Kamala Harris “occasionally” turns on Fox News to watch “The Five” — and criticism of her on the show has lately ” got in her head and caused high anxiety,” according to a report. A former aide to the vice president told Axios that Harris has reeled from the critical commentary by the Fox News personalities, which have included questioning her leadership skills and past relationships. “It got in her head and caused high anxiety because they were constantly hammering her,” the former aide said. Last June, “The Five” co-host Greg Gutfeld said the prospect of Harris taking...

Forty six year old Melissa Powell and her sixteen-year-old son Riordan were driving in Broomfield Colorado just before Christmas when their car was struck another being driven by Jose Menjivar. Menjivar's car was estimated to be traveling at 100 mph when he struck the Powell vehicle. Powell and her son were both killed. Menjivar was found unconscious and claimed not to remember the accident. Menjivar was later determined to have a blood alcohol of .249 - more than three times the limit. Menjivar is an illegal alien who had been deported four times. He had no valid license and I'll...

A menstrual product dispenser was recently torn off the wall of a boys’ bathroom at Brookfield High School in Connecticut. In a statement, the Brookfield superintendent relayed the news but reiterated that the school would keep following the law, which states that such dispensers must be placed in certain areas, NBC Connecticut reported Thursday. The outlet said, “It’s all part of a new state law that goes into effect this fall. Local and regional boards of education shall provide free menstrual products in women’s restrooms, all-gender restrooms and in at least one men’s restroom for 3rd to 12th grade students.”...

Remember Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her infamous “You’ll have to pass it to find out what’s in it” idiocy to force Obamacare down our throats? You know, where The Federal Government tried to force you to buy insurance while they hand out free healthcare to illegal immigrants? Well, NY Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is doing the same thing as SanFran Nan. He is going to force a Senate vote on immigration on Wednesday, a bill that no one has read and will not go to committee. As you can imagine, it is a HORRIBLE bill. Of course, Schumer is couching...

About 40 members of the Arizona National Guard were wounded in Sunday’s aerial drone attack in northeast Jordan, including one critically injured, the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs said Tuesday.Injuries to the Guard members ranged from cuts and bruises to traumatic brain injuries, but 34 of the injured were able to return to duty, Arizona Guard spokeswoman Capt. Erin Hannigan Three injured service members were expected to arrive at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on a U.S. Air Force Aeromedical Evacuation flight Tuesday evening and be transferred to nearby Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.One of the injured service members is...

Guys, why is this woman still allowed in the US Congress? Ilhan Omar, who has been revealed in recent days by her own public admission to be a foreign agent, who is alleged to have committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother, who dismissed 9/11 as some people doing something, that lady just gave away the game. ... I am an American migrant in US Congress. But I am a Somali girl. A girl with your lineage, a girl with your language, a girl with your religion. That was a young child taken from her country and wishes to live...

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is on track to secure reelection in November against either of his top-polling Democratic rivals, according to a new University of Houston poll. The survey found that, in a straight fight between Cruz and Rep. Colin Allred, the leading Democratic candidate, the Republican incumbent would win by nine points. Alternatively, if Cruz faces Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez, who is also running to be the Democratic nominee, he would secure victory by 10 points. * * * The University of Houston poll is a substantial improvement for Cruz from an Emerson College survey released earlier this...

Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis defended her decision to fire an employee who blew the whistle on attempted abuse of taxpayer funds in her office, saying in a statement Friday she terminated the whistleblower for poor work performance. But Willis sang a different tune about the whistleblower, former director of juvenile diversion Amanda Timpson, in the months leading up to her abrupt termination in January 2022, emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Willis sang Timpson’s praises in a staff-wide email on Sept. 9, 2021, saying the whistleblower had a "dynamic" skill set that would serve her well...

Almost all babies with anencephaly die before birth, although some may survive a few hours or a few days after birth. Anencephaly is likely caused by an interaction between genetic and environmental factors , many of which remain unknown. Lindsey R. Dennis writes and speaks on what God has done to bring hope and healing in her life through the life and death of her first two daughters. Within a few weeks of learning the news of her first daughters’ diagnosis, she began to blog about her unfolding story of hope and loss. Lindsey's book is called Buried Dreams: From...

This is on her Twitter account and she is allegedly sharing letters from a fan that loves her. You can see it is from her own computer because it has a lit up send button. She will probably erase this tweet in a few minutes because a lot of people are calling her out already. Bird brain indeed.

Biden’s defiant refusal to secure U.S. borders has again led to violence against Americans – this time the vicious beating of two NYC police officers by a mob of illegal immigrants, who were later released without bail. It is outrageous that our leaders continue to allow non-citizens to hurt Americans and to steal from our citizens – and anyone who supports the McConnell-Schumer-Lankford so-called border “deal” is supporting exactly this kind of insanity.

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Feb. 2. It is believed here in military circles that a large rebel cavalry force is in the Shenandoah Valley preparing for a raid on an extensive scale. Preparations have been made to receive them. A great sensation was produced in military circles, to-day, by the news from Charleston that the most successful fire at long range upon that city, with projectiles almost noiseless, was maintained by NORMAN WIARD's twelve-pounder light battery steel guns. Since the failure of the large rifled Parrott guns, GILLMORE has been using these overlooked pieces of WIARD, that drifted down to Hilton Head...

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Hey Joe! Food inflation isn’t dead yet! The Biden Administration which motto should be “Make Crime Great Again!” with awful crime in big cities, and millions pouring over the border, not to mention providing jobs for foreign workers and not native born Americans, is likely breathing a sigh of relief as food inflation falling to 2.7% year-over-year, still higher than pre-Covid levels under Trump. But at least food price inflation is slowing as The Fed’s money stimulus recedes. But food inflation may not be dead. Cocoa prices climbed to a 46-year high this week in New York as concerns about...

Criminal Illegal immigrant gangs target New York City to commit their crimes, knowing they will get away with it, and then head to Florida to spend the money, according to NYC law enforcement sources. NYPD Detectives reportedly told CNN’s Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence analyst John Miller that the criminal gangs return to the sanctuary city to commit more crimes because they know if they try it in Florida they’ll “go to jail.” A group of illegal aliens assaulted two NYPD officers in Times Square on Saturday and were quickly released without bail back on to the streets. Viral video...

On this date in 1915, three of the Black Hand conspirators who had assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo the previous June were hanged for treason and murder as the World War that assassination ignited engulfed Europe. You could say it was too little, too late. Ironically, the gunman who actually got the Archduke, Gavrilo Princip, was too young to receive the death penalty under Austro-Hungarian law — barely short of his 20th birthday,* a more liberal standard for capital responsibility than even present-day human rights standards require. In fact, that was true of five of the eight student nationalists...

When K Monica Kelly saw that women in Texas had filed a lawsuit challenging the contours of their state’s abortion ban, she posted on Instagram to cheer them on. “I shared how terrible I thought it was, that they weren’t able to get the proper healthcare they needed in their state,” Kelly said. “It never crossed my mind that that was actually going to happen to me soon.” Kelly and her husband spent a year trying to have a second baby. So when they discovered in February 2023 that Kelly was pregnant, the couple was ecstatic. They taught their son,...