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Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Friday unveiled a 61-page budget resolution that would lay the groundwork for the Senate to pass a special budget reconciliation bill that would provide $175 billion to secure the southern border and $150 billion to beef up national defense. “To those who voted for and support real border security and a stronger defense in a troubled world, help is on the way,” Graham said in a statement. “This budget resolution jumpstarts a process that will give President Trump’s team the money they need to secure the border and deport criminals, and make...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pored over a once-classified map of vast deposits of rare earths and other critical minerals during an interview with Reuters on Friday, part of a push to appeal to Donald Trump's penchant for a deal. -snip- "We need to stop Putin and protect what we have - a very rich Dnipro region, central Ukraine," he said. -snip- "The Americans helped the most, and therefore the Americans should earn the most. And they should have this priority, and they will. I would also like to talk about this with President Trump." -snip- In addition, Zelenskiy said Kyiv...

A Louisiana woman with a history of drugging men and stealing their credit cards was arrested in connection to the death of a Kansas City Telemundo reporter while he was in New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl, police said Friday. Danette Colbert, 48, of Slidell, was busted after she was captured in surveillance camera footage leaving journalist Adan Manzano’s hotel room, then allegedly using his credit card at stores around the Big Easy, NBC News reported. She was captured in surveillance camera footage leaving the 27-year-old reporter’s hotel room in the suburb of Kenner before going on the alleged...

Adan Manzano, a sports reporter covering the Chiefs, died Wednesday while on assignment for Super Bowl 2025 in New Orleans for Telemundo Kansas City and Tico Sports, KGKC general manager Steve Downing said in a statement Thursday. A cause of death wasn’t immediately made available, and Downing said in his statement that the network was “cooperating with law enforcement as they investigate this tragic event.” “As KGKC’s Sports Anchor & Reporter, Adan was a true professional and a rising star, who exemplified excellence in his work,” Downing continued in his statement. “We will deeply miss Adan and his passion for...

Attorneys general in over a dozen states are threatening to sue the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk, citing privacy concerns. The 14 attorneys general include California Attorney General Rob Bonta, as well as those representing Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Vermont. They begin their joint statement pointing to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, writing that it has “given Elon Musk access to Americans’ personal private information, state bank account data, and other information that is some of our country’s most...

The waters of Cape Cod Bay are coming for the big brown house perched on the edge of a sandy bluff high above the beach. It’s just a matter of when. Erosion has marched right up to the concrete footings of the multimillion-dollar home where it overlooks the bay. ... Massive sliding doors that used to open onto a wide deck, complete with a hot tub, are now barricaded by thin wooden slats that prevent anyone from stepping through and falling 25 feet to the beach below. ... The owner.. removed the deck and other parts of the house, including...

It is amazing, very revealing that today's radical democrat party uniformly praised and elevated Greta Thunberg, a vegan Swedish professional protester and activist with no degree and no training at age 15 for demanding tens of trillions of dollars be lost from the econmy6, be diverted and be dedicated to fighting natural climate change. This same worldwide group of liberal democrats are cursing and attacking the five professional programmers hired through Musk's DOGE government workshop, some only 18 years old, who are exposing more billions in government waste and democrat party corruption every hour.

It's mind boggling.

President Donald Trump may soon meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. "He may meet next week, yeah. Whenever he would like. I’m here," Trump told reporters while hosting Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday. Trump said that the meeting would likely be held in Washington, D.C., because he would not go to Ukraine. Trump also said there was a possibility he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, noting that the two have always had a "very good relationship."

As the world’s attention is now focused in the upcoming peace negotiations between the US and Russia, with the subsequent ceasefire and eventual end of the war in Ukraine, the combat operations continue all along the 600-mile frontline.Russian Federation forces continue to advance over the crumbling Ukrainian defenses, and as a result of no less than 5 months of siege, troops from the ‘Center’ group conquered the city of Dzerzhinsk (Ukrainian name Toretsk), an important mine town in the Donetsk People’s Republic.EurAsia Daily reported:“The corresponding statement was published on Friday, February 7 by the press service of the Ministry of...

More than six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, as scientific understanding of the novel coronavirus continues to evolve, one question remains decidedly unanswered. How will this pandemic come to an end? Current scientific understanding is that only a vaccine will put an end to this pandemic, but how we get there remains to be seen. It seems safe to say, however, that some day, somehow, it will end. After all, other viral pandemics have. Take, for example, the flu pandemic of 1918-1919.

I'm not big on recycling, and have even run afoul of the volunteer recycling police at our little community here, who discovered that I had put cardboard in the garbage dumpster. So permit me to atone for my crimes against the planet by recycling one of my columns from five years ago. I do so in response to Joe Scarborough's castigation of President Trump on today's Morning Joe for having criticized Democrats at yesterday's National Prayer Breakfast, suggesting that they oppose God. (Some of us remember the 2012 Democrat convention, where a large number of Dems loudly screamed as they...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesperson has said. UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Seif Magango told CNN that most of the 165 female prisoners who were raped by escaping male inmates died in the fire. Between nine and 13 female inmates, “all of whom had also been raped,” survived the blaze, Magango added, citing a judicial source in the DRC. “We did not independently verify the judicial official’s...

Awareness days help educate the general public and specific communities about HIV and AIDS.

Researchers in Oregon analyzed nearly 200 samples of shrimp, salmon, and other fish native to west coast waters to test for microplastics, tiny particle that get into our blood, accumulate in our organs and cause untold damage.

CNN senior political commentator and former Obama adviser David Axelrod said Friday on “Newsroom” that President Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID were “stupid” and “more radical than any spending.” Axelrod said, “I am appalled by what happened at USAID, and I think it’s not just a blow to humanitarian causes and democratic causes around the world, but it’s a stupid move for our own national security. It creates a tremendous opening for China and Russia and foes of our country who want to fill the breach that we leave in a lurch here.”

I have always felt that some of the neatest factoids and stories from The Bible are those describing historic events that are often talked about outside of churches and studies, especially those in which a large chunk of time elapsed between two points in fulfillment. Take the kingdoms prophesied to come by Daniel, or maybe the story of Alexander the Great’s Destruction of Tyre, which was prophesied in Ezekiel, as a couple prominent examples. History remains an immaculate guide for the present and future and is a living, breathing study for us to draw from. In stunning fashion, yet another...

Circular mammoth bone structures have been recovered across western Russia and the Ukraine. Most have been dated to around ~26,000–14,000 cal BP (calibrated years before present) and are usually found along the Desna/Dnpr river systems."The circular mammoth bone structures are from the height of the last Ice Age, a period of intense cold, and are widely considered to have been dwellings for shelter during long, full glacial winter seasons or possibly year-round," explains Dr. Lorenzen, one of the study's researchers...However, precisely what they looked like is yet unknown...Previous radiocarbon dates indicate the site was likely built around 24,000–25,000 ya. Making...

As the Trump administration this week dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development, the primary vehicle for U.S. foreign aid, the White House issued a statement justifying its actions. Titled “At USAID, Waste and Abuse Runs Deep,” the news release claimed USAID “has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the ridiculous — and, in many cases, malicious — pet projects of entrenched bureaucrats, with next-to-no oversight.” The news release then listed 12 examples, plucked from the websites of right-wing media. But the numbers cited — as low as $32,000 — hardly justify the claim...

Members of Congress are being denied entry into the Department of Education, which is locked and guarded by a security guard. 2 year olds upset they are told "NO"