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Russia cannot accept U.S. proposals to end the war in Ukraine in their current form because they do not address problems Moscow regards as having caused the conflict, a senior Russian diplomat said, suggesting U.S.-Russia talks on the subject had stalled. The comments by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov suggest Moscow and Washington have so far been unable to bridge differences which President Vladimir Putin raised more than two weeks ago when he said U.S. proposals needed reworking. -snip- "We take the models and solutions proposed by the Americans very seriously, but we can't accept it all in its current...

Summary It's an anxious wait for world leaders with details of US President Donald Trump's 2 April tariffs still largely unknown Global markets have been volatile as investors prepare for a massive slate of import taxes The European Union says it is ready to retaliate, while UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he wants to avoid "a knee-jerk response" In the Oval Office on Monday, Trump told reporters he has "settled" on what the tariffs will be for Wednesday, a day he has dubbed "Liberation Day" The measures will come on top of tariffs already imposed by Washington on aluminium,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump assuaged fears that he would seek an unconstitutional third term as President by suggesting he may instead become an immortal emperor of mankind for the next 10,000 years. "I'm not ruling anything out," Trump said during a phone call interview with NBC News. "A lot of people want me to do it. They want me to become the living embodiment of universal order and rampage across the galaxy in mechanized armor, crushing illegal aliens in my cybernetic grip. But I tell them, you know, it's very early in the administration. Anything's possible." Though Democrats...

Majority of Federal Gun Confiscations Are NOT for Criminal Acts Less than one-third of guns and ammunition taken by the federal government are done through criminal forfeitures. During the Biden administration, criminal forfeitures of guns and ammunition nearly doubled, while administrative forfeitures and civil forfeitures were essentially level. The chart shown was obtained from the Department of Justice (DOJ). It lists the three types of forfeitures for the last five fiscal years. The federal fiscal year is the time period used for budget purposes, running from October 1 to September 30 each year. The five years covered span most of...

A legal fight over free insurance coverage for HIV-prevention drugs and making a self-insured Christian company "complicit in facilitating homosexual behavior" reaches far beyond its Obamacare context, but ordinary Americans wouldn't know that by reading pro-government friend-of-the-court briefs submitted to the Supreme Court. Affordable Care Act provisions that force insurers to charge beneficiaries nothing for preventive services on a list determined by a task force – neither appointed by nor answerable to the president – are symbolic of unaccountable bureaucrats throughout the federal government making unconstitutionally unreviewable decisions, newly filed briefs argue. The high court hears oral argument later this...

Communist dictatorships China and Russia are “friends forever, never enemies,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi declared Tuesday during a visit to Moscow.“The principle of ‘friends forever, never enemies’ … serves as a solid legal basis for advancing strategic cooperation at a higher level,” Wang told Russia’s RIA state news agency in an interview as reported by Reuters.

Russia has issued a stark warning over US threats to strike Iran's nuclear facilities, saying such an attack could have 'catastrophic' consequences for the region. -snip- 'If they don't make a deal, there will be bombing,' Trump declared. 'It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.' Moscow, which has been strengthening ties with Iran, condemned Trump's threats. 'Threats are indeed being heard, ultimatums are also being heard,' Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the Russian journal 'International Affairs' in an interview, extracts of which were published on Tuesday. 'We consider such methods inappropriate, we condemn...

The Trump administration sent a Venezuelan national with no criminal record to a Salvadoran megaprison based on an administrative error, according to The Miami Herald. Frengel Reyes Mota, 24 years old, was deported to El Salvador earlier this month.... But Reyes Mota’s immigration records contain multiple errors, including marking him as a woman, using a different last name, and filing two ID numbers for him.

The Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress say they will fully enforce sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and are prepared to expand them in response to recent efforts from top ICC officials to evade the measures. Earlier this month, Judge Tomoko Akane, the ICC’s president, petitioned the European Union to invoke what is known as the blocking statute, a legal maneuver that shields EU members from sanctions issued by third-party countries such as the United States. Akane told the EU’s parliament "it is obvious the court cannot survive alone," warning them that "the time to act...

I have no idea if this article is real, given all the propaganda that gets published about this war, it could be an April Fools Hoax. If this story is true, it would be the final act of insanity in a war that is itself insane. Trump wanting the US take control of Ukraine's Nuclear Power Stations lends some credence the story is true.

Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for details of any investigations, inquiries, or referrals concerning potential misconduct of any person working for Special Counsel Jack Smith (Judicial Watch Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:25-cv-00801)). Judicial Watch sued after the Justice Department failed to respond to two FOIA requests on December 5, 2024, sent to the Office of Professional Responsibility and the Office of Information Policy requesting: Records and / or communications about any investigations, inquiries, or referrals concerning potential misconduct of...

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ELON: U.S. INSTITUTE OF PEACE TRIED TO DELETE TALIBAN FUNDING RECORDS—DOGE RECOVERED IT.. Elon says the U.S. Institute of Peace deleted 1TB of financial data linking them to funding Taliban and Iraqi leadership—but DOGE wasn’t fooled. According to Elon, the agency attempted to scrub the records, but DOGE engineers recovered the entire archive thanks to “their shocking incompetence with tech.” The data reportedly includes detailed financial transfers tied to groups in Afghanistan and Iraq. ... The names government things are always the opposite of what they actually do. "United States Institute of Peace"? Of course it was full of treason,...

Six questions for Congress about their duties related to the federal judiciary. 1. What is Congress doing to ensure that proper standards for good behavior are being enforced for Judges on both of the supreme and inferior Courts of the United States of America? 2. What Regulations shall Congress make to ensure that Cases brought before inferior federal courts so that proper appellate jurisdiction is exercised on these Cases as to Law and Fact? 3. What laws shall Congress make to direct the Places that Trials take place for Crimes not committed within any State? 4. What is Congress doing...

Plane that crashed into a home in Minnesota went straight down "Like a lawn dart", caught of neighbor's RING camera. Can some FReeper pilots explain this?........... 2:25 VIDEO AT LINK...................

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Friday, March 31. The latest intelligence from the Army of the Potomac is up to noon of yesterday, at which time no general engagement had been fought, and no fighting of any kind had taken place, save desultory skirmishing. The particulars of reported engagements given by the afternoon papers here are merely guesswork. A large force is thrown to the west side of Hatcher's Run as a support to SHERIDAN's powerful column, which will strike for the Southside and Danville Railroads. It is apprehended that this movement may precipitate an attack from the...

President Donald Trump says about 30 people have expressed interest in becoming U.S. ambassador to the United Nations since he pulled the nomination of New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik for the position. Trump made the comment Monday. He also said David Friedman, who was the U.S. ambassador to Israel during his first administration, and Richard Grenell, who was the former ambassador to Germany, as potential nominees. “We have a lot of people that have asked about it and would like to do it,” he said. Trump also said about 30 people are interested in the position.

The former mayor of Syracuse says then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo forcibly kissed her several times when she was in office, and she angrily describes the encounters as “all about power.’’ Longtime Cuomo foe Stephanie Miner, speaking to The Post on Monday about her new book, “Madam Mayor,” recounted passages in her tome in which she claims she was kissed against her will by the then-governor while they were at loggerheads over policy issues during her two terms. “It was clearly unwanted. It was about power with him,” the Democrat said of the encounters — while blasting Cuomo’s administration as a total...

More than 200 people aboard a still-at-sea Cunard Line cruise bound for New York, including members of the crew, contracted norovirus in the latest cruise ship outbreak of the nasty stomach bug. Of the 2,538 guests on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2, 224 reported getting ill on the current voyage along with 17 crew members, this month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The cruise departed from Southampton, England on March 8 to set out for New York and later the Caribbean. The entire journey, however, doesn’t conclude until April 6, leaving the rest of the guests stuck...

A woman who alleged Elon Musk fathered her baby has claimed she has been forced to sell her Tesla because he reduced child support payments. Ashley St. Clair, 26, was photographed forfeiting the vehicle, manufactured by Mr Musk’s company, to an online seller in Manhattan. She claimed she was selling the car because the world’s richest man slashed the amount he was sending her in order to care for their alleged son. “I need to make up for the 60 per cent cut that Elon made to our son’s child support,” she told MailOnline. Asked why she thought Mr Musk...