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Polish President Karol Nawrocki has announced plans to strip Volodymyr Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest honour, after the Ukrainian president named a military unit after a group that led massacres of ethnic Poles during World War Two. However, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose government regularly clashes with the opposition-aligned president, has sought to calm emotions, warning that the only one to benefit from conflict between Poland and Ukraine is Russia. Zaproponowałem, aby jednym z punktów było odebranie prezydentowi Zełenskiemu Orderu Orła Białego – Prezydent RP @NawrockiKn. pic.twitter.com/4NaOAIjO3C — Kancelaria Prezydenta RP (@prezydentpl) May 29,...

The pinnacle of Louis Prima’s career, ‘The Wildest!’ blended jazz chops with danceable grooves, and became an influence on Elvis Presley.Those who’ve seen Disney’s 1967 animated movie, The Jungle Book, will recognize Louis Prima’s husky, elastic voice, even if they’re not remotely familiar with his name or face. Then 57, Prima was cast as the zany orangutan, King Louie, who delivered one of the movie’s most memorable songs in the shape of “I Wanna Be Like You.” Given his long history as a recording artist at that point – he cut his first record for the Bluebird label, in 1933...

@XFreeze SpaceX just became even more central to America’s next-generation defense architecture In one week, the U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX $6.45 BILLION to build the future of space-based military sensing and communications That includes: • $4.16B for SB-AMTI: a space-based tracking system designed to detect and track aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, and other airborne threats from orbit, with initial capability projected by 2028 • $2.29B for the Space Data Network Backbone: a high-speed, low-latency military data network designed to connect sensors, weapons platforms, and warfighters globally Put simply: SpaceX is being asked to help build the sensing layer and...

When you look at Warren Beatty’s resume, you can’t help but notice that there are some long gaps between films. Some of that has to do with the star’s famously deliberate approach to his work...Another reason for those long fallow stretches, though, is due to Beatty’s political activism... Beatty’s never been shy about his liberal-leaning positions on the issues... But that never stopped him from reaching across the aisle when it came to friendships. Take his personal connection with Ronald Reagan... After Reagan began his first term in the Oval Office in 1981, he and First Lady Nancy Reagan invited...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus and his disciples returned once more to Jerusalem. As he was walking in the temple area, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders approached him and said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things? Or who gave you this authority to do them?” Mark 11:27–28Jesus and His disciples were in Jerusalem for Passover, which would culminate in His death. In the preceding months, Jesus prepared His disciples for this final journey, telling them three times that He would be handed over in Jerusalem, suffer, die, and rise again. Each time, the...

Benjamin Netanyahu is seething as Donald Trump edges closer to striking a peace deal with Iran, leaving the Israeli prime minister wishing Barack Obama were back in the White House, according to a new report. Netanyahu privately views the looming US-Iran pact as an unmitigated catastrophe and lays the blame squarely at Trump's feet, a senior political source revealed to Al-Monitor. 'This time, the prime minister’s hands are tied. He is completely paralyzed and knows that he will not be able to do anything, even if the agreement signed between the United States and Iran remains the disaster he now...

Mamdani claimed that his agency would actually make government more efficient. Far-left New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the creation of a new city agency that sounds like his version of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. Mamdani said Thursday that the Commission on Government Efficiency would meet with community organizers and union members in order to improve coordination with city government efforts. "This morning we are introducing COGE — the Commission on Government Efficiency," Mamdani said. "This Commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster, and more effectively for working people. New Yorkers deserve a...

Canada's economy posted a surprise contraction in the first quarter versus the year before, making it two straight ‌quarters of annualized decline - which some economists call a technical recession - as the country struggles with U.S. tariff uncertainty. Gross domestic product declined at an annualized rate of 0.1% in the first quarter, Statistics Canada said on Friday, compared with a downwardly revised contraction of 1% in the fourth quarter of last year. Analysts ​polled by Reuters and the Bank of Canada had predicted first-quarter growth of a robust 1.5%. On a quarterly basis, ​first-quarter GDP was unchanged against a...

🚨 BREAKING 🚨Spencer Pratt is now officially LEADING Karen Bass in the new Emerson poll.🔴 Spencer Pratt: 35% 🔵 Karen Bass: 33%The leftist meltdown will be epic if this happens. The Democrat party is imploding even in deep blue states. Original post by @TheRightMelissa on X

Tough times are happening in the Washington Nationals’ media department. According to James O’Keefe, a secret video has surfaced of Nationals Director of Community Relations, Sean Hudson, who was let go on Friday, admitting the team doesn’t use pitcher Trevor Williams in video promotions on social media due to his religious beliefs. In O’Keefe’s post on X, it features multiple transcriptions from the secret video with Hudson talking about Williams and his religious beliefs. “One of our pitchers, Trevor Williams. He’s super Christian-Catholic, all these tattoos that mean a lot,” the post reads. The post also follows up with Hudson...

Former reality TV star and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt rebuffed a potential endorsement from President Donald Trump, telling NBC News on Thursday, “I don’t need anyone’s endorsement but mothers’. That’s who’s getting me elected.” Pratt, who has focused his insurgent campaign against Mayor Karen Bass on calling for better wildfire management and combating homelessness, added that he’s chosen not to comment on Trump or national politics on principle throughout his campaign. “My race is a local race. I don’t care what’s going on in the, in the national politics, in other states. I am running for a local...

In Alaska three Latvian climbers fell to their deaths... The top US general in Latin America met Cuba's military leadership... Two killed and two wounded in a Ukrainian drone... Three more killed in the latest US air attack... President Trump turning against Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace of South Carolina endorsing... The messaging from the White House...no 'final determination'...deal with Iran... warning of dangerous military activity tonight in the Strait of Hormuz... Bulgaria's new nationalist Prime Minister...government will limit the stays of US military aircraft... A federal judge in Miami announcing an inquiry into the... lawsuit by President Trump... judge ruling...

The FBI has reportedly arrested a man accused of threatening to kill U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Newark.🚨 BREAKING: FBI has just RAIDED and ARRESTED the man who I caught on video threatening the lives of an ICE agent and his family outside ICE Newark

We're starting to get some of the first daytime images of LC-36, giving us a much better view of the pad. For context, last night, a New Glenn rocket was conducting a static fire in preparation for its fourth mission when it exploded. Not only was the vehicle lost, but the launch pad suffered extensive damage. Now that it's day, we can see the extent to which it's damaged and what's left after the dramatic loss of the vehicle. A Closer Look At The Damage To New Glenn's Launch Pad | 8:00 TheSpaceBucket | 77.9K subscribers | 158,192 views |...

A growing number of experts are raising the alarm over billionaire Bill Gates’s extensive involvement in genetically modified mosquito projects after it emerged that the Microsoft co-founder has released hundreds of millions of bacteria-infested mosquitoes into the wild in Colombia. The revelation is drawing renewed scrutiny to Gates’s other mosquito-based biological interventions around the world, with scientists warning that the long-term consequences remain largely unknown. The concerns intensified after the government of Burkina Faso terminated the controversial Target Malaria project last year, citing biosafety risks, questionable effectiveness, and concerns over scientific sovereignty. The project had received significant funding from the...

Thousands of miles from the Persian Gulf, a sprawling network of tanker-to-tanker oil transfers off the coast of Malaysia and Singapore is helping Iran sustain its crude exports to China, even as the country navigates a tense ceasefire with the United States.Analysis of satellite imagery and maritime tracking data has identified the waters roughly 100 kilometres southeast of the Malay Peninsula as the primary hub for what analysts describe as a clandestine laundering operation for Iranian crude. Dozens of ship-to-ship transfers take place there every week, involving not only Iranian vessels but a wider cast of tankers serving the shadow...

If the standoff in the Strait of Hormuz is a game of chicken, it sounds as though the Iranians will either swerve first – or accelerate. One way or the other, though, the blockade appears to have succeeded in bringing the regime to its crisis point. As discussions around a potential deal (really a pre-deal) continue, the IRGC has begun to demand an end to the US Navy's complete siege on Iranian ports. That message has come from the top of the food chain today, including the Nepo Babytollah's supposed attaché: Mohsen Rezaei, military advisor to Mojtaba Khamenei: If the...

Democrats and liberal media seem to be constantly taking issue with anything President Donald Trump does, regardless of the merits of his actions. But they've now truly jumped the shark with their Trump Derangement Syndrome when they're objecting to Trump cleaning up fountains and monuments around Washington, D.C. Our sister site Townhall reported on some of the interesting reaction. Here's the account that used to be the Kamala Harris Headquarters account, terming things like spending on the Reflecting Pool, Trump "vanity projects." New reporting reveals the Trump admin has used $67,000,000 of National Parks entrance fees to fund Trump's vanity...

The long-held idea that language learning is better before adulthood is up for debate... Lourdes Ortega, a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University...says factors beyond age, like immersion, make a bigger difference in language learning success. “Without the opportunity to be exposed to the language, there's no learning that can happen, early or late..." The FSI [Foreign Service Institute] says languages that native English speakers would find similar to their own, such as Spanish or French, can be taught relatively quickly in about 24-30 weeks. In contrast, languages that have significant cultural differences from English, like Greek or Russian, will...

Spencer Pratt is now Karen Bass’ biggest headache. A bombshell California Post poll conducted with McLaughlin & Associates shows the reality TV star-turned-mayoral candidate has surged to a statistical tie with the incumbent mayor. And voters blame homelessness, affordability and the direction of Los Angeles as the reason for turning on Bass. Pratt now leads the field with 30.1% support, compared with 29.5% for Bass, setting up a razor-thin race heading into next week’s primary. Socialist councilwoman Nithya Raman sits in third place at 23.4%.