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Ukraine has launched a fresh offensive in Russia's Kursk region, the Russian Defence Ministry says. In a statement, the military said efforts to destroy the Ukrainian attack groups are ongoing. Officials in Ukraine have also suggested an operation is under way.

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC 339 AM EST Sun Jan 5 2025 DCZ001-MDZ013-014-503-504-VAZ053-054-501-505-506-526-527-051645- /O.CON.KLWX.WS.W.0002.250106T0300Z-250107T0600Z/ District of Columbia-Prince Georges-Anne Arundel-Northwest Montgomery-Central and Southeast Montgomery-Fairfax- Arlington/Falls Church/Alexandria-Northern Fauquier-Western Loudoun-Eastern Loudoun-Northwest Prince William-Central and Southeast Prince William/Manassas/Manassas Park- 339 AM EST Sun Jan 5 2025 ...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 AM EST TUESDAY... * WHAT...Heavy mixed precipitation expected. Total snow and sleet accumulations between 5 and 9 inches, with amounts of 10 to 12 inches possible in isolated spots if heavy banding sets up in this area. Ice accumulations...

Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer has said he will resign in the coming days after talks on forming a new government failed for a second time. The announcement came after the People's Party (ÖVP) and the Social Democrats (SPÖ) continued coalition talks a day after the liberal Neos party’s surprise withdrawal from discussions. Neos, alongside Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer's conservative Austrian People's Party and the centre-left Social Democrats have been trying to forge a three-party ruling coalition after the right-wing Freedom Party won national elections in September.

'One year ago, we faced tremendous challenges and they made the difficult decision to sell their home in hopes of breathing new life into Sage. 'We all poured our passion into shifting the concept to regenerative agriculture, but despite our efforts, we find ourselves in the same predicament today. 'Sunday, January 5th will be our final day of service. We invite you to visit us during our last week. Please share your favorite memories with us; they mean the world. 'Thank you for 14 incredible years of support. With love from the Sage family, Mollie & Elias, we say goodbye.'...

The recent terrorist attack (14 dead, 35 injured) in New Orleans by a homegrown former soldier, Shamsud Din Jabbar, who had “become radicalized” by ISIS has called America’s attention to the threat of Islamic extremism in the USA. Has the enemy without become a serious enemy within? And if so, what can be done to protect ourselves from further atrocities? We previously contended with the murderous events of 9/11 (2001), with downed planes and 3,000 dead; the Washington sniper and his pal (10 killed in 2002), who liked to pick off people at gas stations; the Fort Hood massacre (2009)...

"We call on all actors to avoid any actions, including the destruction of civilian property and infrastructure, that could jeopardize the cessation of hostilities," it continued. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) claimed that an IDF bulldozer destroyed a blue barrel marking the line of withdrawal between Lebanon and Israel in Labbouneh, in a Saturday night X/Twitter post. During the incident, which allegedly happened on Saturday morning, peacekeepers also claimed to have witnessed the bulldozer destroy an observation tower belonging to the Lebanese Armed Forces. "The IDF’s deliberate and direct destruction of both clearly identifiable UNIFIL property and...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (1/5/25)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Good Spirit) Psalm 143:1010 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

On December 27, 2024 WFIN in Florida quoted Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells about a recent home invasion and shooting. The Sheriff said:“This is the state of Florida, if you want to break into someone’s home, you should expect to be shot.”The incident happened on December 26, 2024 about 9 p.m. From wfin.com:“He knew something bad was about to happen and he didn’t stall,” MCSO Sheriff Rick Wells said during a press conference Friday. “He grabbed his firearm [and] told his wife to get into a safe spot.”The homeowner fired multiple rounds, hitting Flores-Toledo “several times,” while Soto-Mella fled the...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KATU) — Corvallis Police and Fire responded to a train trestle collapse near Avery Park on Saturday afternoon. “Initial investigations show the trestle collapsed while a freight train was crossing. At this time, there are no known injuries, but it is still an active scene and investigation,” Corvallis Police said in a post on Facebook. "At approximately noon today, a Portland & Western Railroad (PNWR) bridge outside Corvallis collapsed while a 19-car train was traversing over it, derailing a railcar carrying urea into Mary's River," a spokesperson for PNWR tells KATU News. The spokesperson says that environmental agencies...

The Talk Shows December 5th, 2025 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Senate Majority Leader John Thune; Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.); new ICE director Tom Homan; Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee; Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.).FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: guest-anchored by Jacqui Heinrich: Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.); Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.). Panel: Mary Katharine Ham, Marie Harf, Doug Heye and Mario Parker.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD); Senate Minority Loser Chuck Schumer (D-NY); Sen....

The first week of 2025 is a reminder that while the country and the world face peril, we are on the cusp of a revolution in the West by voters who demand accountability and a sweeping out of arrogant, corrupt, and incompetent leadership. The week began here with an Islamist from Houston who plowed a F-150 into New Year’s celebrants on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street. He left the truck and began firing into the crowd. Brave law enforcement officers dashed to the scene of the mayhem and eliminated him and the threat. The first announcement by the FBI denied that...

Manhattan authorities have refused to take a fresh look at the suspicious 1965 death of famed journalist and TV celebrity Dorothy Kilgallen — but Hollywood actress Jessica Chastain will star in a movie portraying the reporter’s ill-fated investigation of the JFK assassination as a “murder mystery,” The Post has learned. Detectives with the NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney’s Office have brushed off a plea by City Councilman Robert Holden to dig into whether Kilgallen’s death was a homicide — not “accidental,” as authorities quickly labeled it at the time. Kilgallen, a famed columnist for the New York Journal-American, was hot...

On January 6, 2025, Congress certifies President-Elect Donald J. Trump’s victory. There is something poetic about reclaiming that day from all those who have worked so hard to turn the sixth of January into “a date which will live in infamy.” To be sure, Democrats and propagandists in the press will continue to frame January 6, 2021 as worse than Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and the Civil War — fantastically false claims that make the speaker look dumb, deceitful, and historically illiterate. Still, it will be difficult for Establishment automatons to continue pushing J6 lies when January 6th’s bête noire is...

One of the top overtime earners in disgraced ex-NYPD Chief Jefferey Maddrey’s office is talking to federal investigators as they probe sex-for-overtime allegations uncovered by The Post, law enforcement sources said. Ingrid Sanders, the ex-driver of the department former top uniformed cop, had her cell phone taken by the feds, who are looking at whether the NYPD was using federal funds to pay for the overtime, the sources said. “The only thing she can be talking about is her overtime and her interactions with Maddrey,” a source familiar with the investigation said. Sanders, who joined the department in 1993, made...

<p>The embattled speaker enlisted the president-elect to neutralize his rivals. It worked — this time.</p><p>Speaker Mike Johnson was sitting inside Mar-a-Lago on New Year’s Day, talking legislative strategy with President-elect Donald Trump, when the conversation turned to the troublesome conservative hardliners who might trip up the Republican agenda — and one in particular, Rep. Chip Roy.</p>

The Biden administration is banning certain natural gas water heaters from the market as part of its climate change agenda, a move critics say will jack up energy costs for low-income and senior households. The move in the final days of the administration will take non-condensing, natural gas-fired water heaters off the shelves by 2029 in a bid to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which climate change advocates and President Biden say cause global warming. The new rules will require new tankless gas water heaters to use about 13% less energy than today’s least efficient tankless models. The rules apply to...

On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, the co-hosts did what they could do downplay and dump on the magnitude of Mike Johnson's first-ballot election as Speaker of the House, and on Trump's contribution to that victory. But panelists Julie Tsirkin and Eugene Daniels showed some surprising independence. Co-host Symone Sanders portrayed Trump's call to House holdouts as "slapdash." And co-host Michael Steele claimed Trump had to be persuaded to "come in off the back nine" to make the call. But NBC News correspondent Tsirkin said that Trump actually made two calls, during which he made the case that Johnson...

Breaking News Alert: Joe Biden to resign so Kamala Harris can become first female president. OK, it hasn’t happened yet, but don’t be shocked if the president makes the dramatic move to improve his awful legacy. He’s already using every trick in the book to try to wipe away the Big Stink from his tenure, but nothing is working. Following the election, Biden has spent two months trying to get people to forget the last four years. The effort hit a cringe-inducing low this week when he awarded prestigious civilian medals to the undeserving likes of Liz Cheney, Hillary Clinton,...

You can smell it in the air. A deep sense of betrayal among Democratic voters. An underlying realization that the Democratic party’s politburo — Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries, and their courtiers of elected official and consultant sycophants — sold voters a bill of goods: the gaslighting of the public on President Biden’s decrepitude; the false idol of the Kamala Harris “campaign of joy” as a smart last-minute stand-in; and the repeated cowering to the far left whose wokeness and moral condescension turns off most voters. In a just world, one might expect a formal no-confidence vote on this leadership failure....

Progressive billionaire and Democratic Party activist and megadonor George Soros received the nation’s highest civilian honor from President Joe Biden at a Saturday White House event. Soros was one of 19 people to receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom, joining the likes of Hillary Clinton, Bill Nye, and Magic Johnson during a ceremony that was broadcast live in its entirety by CNN. Alex Soros accepted the award on behalf of his 94-year-old father, embracing the president as the White House celebrated the billionaire investor and progressive activist, saying of him: Accepting on behalf of George Soros is Alex Soros. The...