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“I fear that you will get more violence,” said Sen. Lindsay Graham on “Meet the Press” this Sunday. “Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently I think it was a mistake.” In so saying, Graham, like so many pundits on the Right, showed how little he knows about what transpired on January 6, 2021, and during the four years afterward. In truth, the one thing all J6ers have in common, including the allegedly violent ones, is that they had no more chance at securing justice in Joe Biden’s D.C. than the Scottsboro...

The Kremlin said on Monday it had yet to receive any signals from the United States about arranging a possible meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump, but remained ready to organise such an encounter. "So far, we have not received any signals from the Americans", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call. "(Russia's) readiness (for a meeting) remains, and the same readiness, as far as we have heard, remains on the American side. Apparently, a certain amount of time is required (to set something up)," he said.

A heartwarming clip of first lady Melania Trump speaking in her native language while comforting victims of the Los Angeles wildfires has gone viral, with social media users praising the sweet moment. The video, captured by RSBN news cameras and shared on social media by Melania fan account “FLOTUS Report,” shows the first lady shaking hands and having a solemn conversation with a small group of people in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood: (Vid available at link) “The lady told Melania ‘Ja sam ovde dosla pre 10 godina’ which means: ‘I came here 10 years ago,'” former Republican nominee for Maryland...

Honduras has launched the “Brother, return home” program for Honduran migrants returning or deported from the US. “The program will be based on three pillars: a solidarity bonus for migrants, food support and a massive employment program,” reports El Heraldo.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that “Colombia and all nations should be on notice” after President Trump said he was placing tariffs and a travel ban on the South American country. “Colombia and all nations should be on notice – Congress is fully prepared to pass sanctions and other measures against those that do not fully cooperate or follow through on requirements to accept their citizens who are illegally in the United States,” Johnson said in a post on the social platform X. “President Trump is putting America first, just like he said he would. And Congress will...

Ukraine may cease to exist if there are no serious negotiations before the summer — Head GUR Budanov in Parliament Budanov told the deputies about the threat to Ukraine's existence if peace talks do not begin before the summer, Ukrainskaya Pravda writes. Recently, a closed meeting was held in the Rada, where the leaders of the parliament and the factions were informed by the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine about the real state of military affairs. "At first, it was a lot confusing, but the representatives of the General Staff told us very interestingly. Then there were various...

A Chinese AI company that rivals ChatGPT, is gaining attention in Silicon Valley with its rapid rise, nearly outperforming leading American AI companies like OpenAI and Meta. DeepSeek is a Chinese AI startup that develops open-source large language models (LLMs), according to the company's website. The company unveiled R1, a specialized model designed for complex problem-solving, on Jan. 20, which "zoomed to the global top 10 in performance," and was built far more rapidly, with fewer, less powerful AI chips, at a much lower cost than other U.S. models, according to the Wall Street Journal. The announcement of the latest...

Appearing on Sunday's edition of CNN's State of the Union, Lindsey Graham described himself to host Dana Bash as someone who is "all-in" for President Trump and wants him "to win." So it was striking to hear such a strong Trump supporter also candidly and firmly express his disapproval of Trump's grant of across-the-board pardons and commutations for all J6 participants. But that wasn't good enough for Bash. When Graham also criticized Biden for having commuted the sentence of a man who killed two FBI agents and pardoned multiple family members despite having promised not to do so, and criticized...

Republicans are cautioning that Tulsi Gabbard’s path to confirmation to lead the U.S. Intelligence apparatus is narrowing as she seemingly has trouble winning over key GOP senators. Gabbard, along with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kash Patel, are set for their high-stakes confirmation hearings this week as senators face some of President Trump’s most controversial nominees. But it’s Gabbard who appears to have the most tenuous path to confirmation as she struggles to assuage Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which will determine her fate, ahead of Thursday’s hearing. “I think it remains to be seen,” said Sen. John Cornyn...

Bad news for the progressive media once again—turns out Trump’s policies aren’t just popular across the pond, but they’re resonating with British voters too. A new Opinium poll reveals that a majority of Brits back the President’s hard-line stance on migration, with 58% agreeing that the UK should declare its own “border emergency.” No surprise there given the ever-growing waves of Channel boat crossings…

SAN DIEGO – Russell Thurston, a former executive vice president at Cambridge International Systems, Inc., a defense contractor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he participated in a bribery scheme with other Cambridge employees and former Naval Information Warfare Center employee James Soriano.According to Thurston’s plea agreement, Cambridge – acting through Thurston and multiple other Cambridge employees – gave various things of value to Soriano, including expensive meals at restaurants in San Diego; a ticket to the 2018 Major League Baseball All Star Game held at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.; and a job...

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"Andrzej Duda told the BBC that the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which have not been used since 2022, "should be dismantled". This, he said, would mean the likes of Germany would not be tempted to restore Russian supplies to boost its own struggling economy. "I can only hope that European leaders will learn lessons from Russia's aggression against Ukraine and that they will push through a decision to never restore the pumping of gas through this pipeline," he said. The Polish president, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, insisted that economic sanctions against Russia were working and European...

“He withdrew into Galilee; and leaving Nazareth, He came and settled in Capernaum, which is by the sea” (Matthew 4:12-13). Nothing was accidental or happenstance about Jesus’ earthly ministry. He did not go from Judea to Galilee because Herod or the Jewish leaders forced Him to or because He had nowhere else to go. He left Judea because His work there was finished for the time being. And He came to Galilee because that was the next place, according to the Father’s plan, for Him to minister. Humanly speaking, Jesus left the lower Jordan region for Galilee because of the...

A leading progressive law firm in Maine is advising public school officials on how they can effectively resist potential immigration enforcement actions that may involve the families of minors who attend government-run schools, including by destroying evidence of potential immigration crimes. The advice may place school officials in the legal crosshairs of the Trump Administration under a new policy advisory distributed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which warns state and local officials not to interfere with federal law enforcement activities. “[S]chool officials should generate a plan for what to do if immigration officials seek to conduct activities at school,...

Dr. Phil was left stunned on Sunday as he joined Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan to detain an illegal migrant who said he was 'not really' a sex offender. The 74-year-old television host grilled the alleged sex criminal handcuffed right on the street in Chicago as agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement rounded up undocumented migrants. Dr. Phil claimed on social media that the man apprehended was a 'convicted sex offender and internet predator from Thailand.' He included a video of the man's arrest. The detainee responded that he had never been deported before when the television psychologist alleged he...

Millions of Christians in churches around the world heard the same passage on Sunday from the Gospel of Luke. In it, Jesus declares his intentions “to proclaim good news to the poor,” as he speaks to people gathered in a synagogue in Nazareth. At Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Dallas, the passage felt particularly appropriate this week, though it was chosen years ago as part of a three-year cycle of Bible readings. “It’s Jesus 101,” said Michelle Williams, 55, a parishioner at the church. It was the first Sunday since a fellow Episcopalian, Bishop Mariann E. Budde, delivered a...

A team of researchers led by Dr. Orly Lewis from the Department of Classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has introduced a pioneering multidisciplinary approach to the study of ancient medical texts. Supported by a grant from the European Research Council (ERC), this innovative research combines expertise from veterinary and human medicine, computer and data science, ancient history, and classical philology to shed new light on Greco-Roman medical practices.By reenacting an anatomical dissection described by Galen, one of antiquity's most influential physicians, the team has provided critical answers to questions that have puzzled historians for centuries. Galen's 2nd-century CE...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Tetrarchic boundary stone at the site of Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel. Originally marking land borders under Roman Emperor Diocletian's tax reforms, the stone provides insight into ancient land ownership, local settlement patterns, and imperial administrative practices. The discovery also introduces two previously unknown place names, expanding our understanding of the region's historical geography and socio-economic landscape...The inscription revealed two previously unknown village names, Tirthas and Golgol, which may correspond to ancient sites identified in the 19th-century Survey of Western Palestine. The slab also mentions an imperial surveyor, or "censitor," whose name is attested...