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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Against the backdrop of pressure from the new US administration and calls for negotiations with Moscow, Volodymyr Zelensky said that he allegedly had not been subject to Ukrainian law banning negotiations with Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the day before that negotiations with Kiev under the current conditions would be illegitimate due to Ukraine's ban on them, which means that the results of these negotiations could also be declared illegitimate. According to him, the sponsors of the Kiev regime should force Zelensky to lift the ban. As Zelensky said at a press conference in Kiev, immediately...

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BREAKING UPDATE: Colombia now offers its own presidential plane to take illegal alien deportees from the USA - CNN Trump had announced economic and diplomatic retaliation after Colombia refused to take them.

Ukraine Index: Tracking developments in the Ukraine war By: Michael E. O’Hanlon, Constanze Stelzenmüller, and David Wessel Research Support: Alejandra Rocha, Sophie Roehse, and Mallika Yadwad January 22, 2025 "On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The war follows on Russian territorial aggression against its neighbor that began in 2014 with the illegal annexation of Crimea and a proxy war in the eastern Donbas region. Tracking developments in the Ukraine war, the Brookings Institution — in partnership with The Washington Post — presents the Ukraine Index, which compiles security, economic, and political data presented in graphic...

Modified Citrus Pectin has been studied now for more than 30 years, and there are some 50 published reports in the medical literature. While the most powerful evidence involves biochemically relapsed prostate cancer, it shows promise as a suppressor of metastases in a multitude of cancers including: Prostate cancer4 Breast cancer38 Colon cancer25 Melanoma4 Ovarian cancer4 Lung cancer4 Nasopharyngeal cancer4 Leukemias4 Glioblastomas4 Today I report the case of a 70-year-old farmer with Stage 4 colon cancer with liver metastases who became cancer-free following an MCP-based protocol. Andy Aubin was a robustly healthy farmer who had constructed his dream home in...

The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as the next secretary of Homeland Security on Saturday, giving the South Dakota governor bipartisan support to lead a department that will play a key role in implementing Trump’s campaign promises for a tough-on-immigration policy. The 59-34 vote to approve President Donald Trump’s appointment to head the Department of Homeland Security included six Democrats joining Republicans. The Senate moved forward on the floor vote by unanimous consent, a sign her nomination did not have the contentiousness of other Trump cabinet picks. DHS will have a hand in Trump’s stated focus of mass deportation of undocumented...

WASHINGTON/BOGOTA Jan 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would impose retaliatory measures on Colombia including tariffs, sanctions and travel bans after the South American country turned away two U.S. military aircraft with migrants being deported as part of Trump's immigration crackdown. Trump said the action by Colombian President Gustavo Petro jeopardized U.S. national security and he has directed his administration to take retaliatory measures.

A national RV dealer is in hot water again for flying a mammoth American flag at one of its lots — and company CEO Marcus Lemonis of TV’s “The Profit’’ says this one isn’t coming down, either. Camping World — which runs more than 250 RV dealerships across the country — raised the new gigantic flag at its Greenville, NC, location in October, according to WLBT. Local zoning officials say the Stars and Stripes fluttering over the RVs is 15 times bigger than allowed. Even the 120-foot flagpole is too big, coming in at nearly twice the height permitted by...

If there is a golden rule to beating the stock market, members of the United States Congress seem to know it. Members are allowed to trade stocks, although — as in the UK and other countries — trading on insider information is illegal. And representatives of both parties have posted impressive returns, some gaining triple figures over the past decade — a political record that many investors would be keen to replicate. One of the most popular portfolios offered by the investment app Autopilot, which allows retail investors to mimic politicians and hedge fund managers, is the Pelosi Tracker —...

Should Theology, Religious Studies and Comparative Religion Students Take the Documentary Hypothesis (JEDP System) Seriously? Are the 5 Books of Moses (The Torah), a hotch-potch of largely unconnected writings by later writers? The Intellectual Arrogance of Julius Wellhausen. I recently wrote a letter. Upon reviewing my letter before posting it, I noticed that my letter was structured in 5 clear sections. In these sections I covered five different topics so my vocabulary naturally changed as I moved on to differing topics; in other words, my letter varied stylistically as I moved on to a different subject. I was immediately reminded...

CBN.com – Mary Forsythe grew up in rural Kentucky where family was celebrated and life was simple. But despite her “good life,” Mary felt she was some how “different.” “I always felt like I was odd in a bad sense. I felt like something was wrong with me,” she says. “Something was defective. Even though I went through the motions, inside I was in really pain and torment even from a young child.” Mary says she always felt rejected even though she never understood why. So to compensate she became an overacheiver -- a performer. For most of her adolescence...

After days of donning designer labels, First Lady Melania Trump stepped out in a rather casual outfit. For her first casual appearance on Friday, after President Trump's inauguration, Melania Trump wore black jeans and top layered with an olive puffer coat. The former model was photographed leaving the White House with Trump, in a casual outfit. She wore black Levi’s jeans paired with a turtle neck top, layered with a Rag & Bone puffer coat in an olive green hue. She added a pair of Xappeal black lace-up boots to go with it. The First Lady completed her look with...

North Carolina Republican Congressman Mark Harris introduced the “Teleabortion Prevention Act,” aiming to stop mail-order abortions. The measure would prohibit selling dangerous abortion pills by mail that kill babies and kill or injure women and it would help affirm abortion bans in pr-life states, where the bans are being exploited by abortion pill sellers nationwide. The proposed legislation mandates that anyone selling the aboriton drug must first conduct an in-person examination of a pregnnat woman bforehand to protect her health and safety and be physically present during the administration of the dangerous two-part mifepristone abortion drug. Additionally, it requires scheduling...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States would impose wide-ranging sanctions and impose tariffs against Colombia over its refusal to accept U.S. military aircraft with migrants being deported. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the United States would slap emergency 25% tariffs on all Colombian goods coming into the United States and would raise that to 50% in one week.

The state of North Dakota will keep fighting in court to uphold its abortion ban that saves babies from abortions. Yesterday, the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled that the state’s abortion ban will remain unenforced while the state appeals a prior decision declaring the law unconstitutional. This decision means that, for now, abortions in North Dakota are permitted only in cases where the life of the mother in in jeopardy and must be performed in a hospital setting. The legal journey of North Dakota’s abortion legislation has been complex. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v....

A federal judge, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, has blocked Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship from taking effect. s the debate over birthright citizenship rages on, the Center for Immigration Studies released data showing there were between 225,000 to 250,000 births to illegal immigrants in 2023. The organization said that figure is close to 7% of total births in the U.S. that year. CIS said it plans to "revise these numbers as we obtain more data" but the group does not expect a "very large upward revision in this 2023 estimate" since...

Believing that the new Trump administration may drop the former Biden administration’s lawsuit challenging Idaho’s pro-life law, St. Luke’s Health, the largest health system in Idaho, has filed a lawsuit of its own. St. Luke’s filed suit against Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador on January 14, 2025, to extend pro-abortion protections ensuring that induced abortions — the direct and intentional killing of preborn children — can be carried out in medical emergencies despite such exceptions that already exist in the state’s pro-life law. St. Luke’s Chief Legal Officer Christine Neuhoff said the lawsuit is an attempt “to advocate for our...

The Trump-led Department of Justice has dropped the Biden DOJ’s case against Eithan Haim, a Texas-based doctor who blew the whistle on gender-reassignment procedures that were being performed on minors despite state directives banning the practice. “The United States has finally agreed to drop the case against Dr. Haim, and the Court just granted dismissal,” Marcella Burke, attorney for Eithan Haim, told Fox News. “The case has been dismissed with prejudice so that the federal government can never again come after him for blowing the whistle on the secret pediatric transgender program at Texas Children’s Hospital.” “We took on the...

In the name of “ensur[ing] sustainability for the future,” Planned Parenthood of Illinois has announced that it will be closing four of its facilities in the state. The Planned Parenthood centers in Bloomington, Englewood (Chicago), Decatur, and Ottawa will stop seeing patients in March 2025. The other 13 Planned Parenthood centers in the state are expected to remain open. A press release from Planned Parenthood states, “PPIL is planning on expanding appointment availability and access at the Champaign, Peoria, Springfield, and Roseland health centers as well as expanding virtual options via telehealth appointments and the PPDirect app to minimize patient...

Once again, the media is exploiting the tragic loss of a child’s life to promote abortion. This time, the Lexington Herald-Leader falsely described abortion as if it is standard medical care during pregnancy complications. The outlet claimed that the standard of care for the premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) is an induced abortion — the act of deliberately killing a preborn child — because of the lack of amniotic fluid. First, a quick look at the Kentucky law, which states (emphases added): No person may knowingly 1. Administer to, prescribe for, or sell to any pregnant woman any medicine, drug,...