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Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) was projected to lose his primary in North Carolina on Tuesday night, marking the end of a brief yet controversial tenure in the House that earned him critics on both sides of the aisle. The Associated Press called the race for Cawthorn’s rival, state Sen. Chuck Edwards, at 11:09 p.m. ET. Cawthorn’s campaign confirmed earlier Tuesday that the lawmaker had already conceded to Edwards. Heading into the Tuesday primary, Cawthorn faced a crowded field of Republican rivals, though he remained the favorite to clinch the nomination in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District.

VLADIMIR Putin is set to undergo an operation for cancer and will hand over power to his hardline spy chief, a Kremlin insider has reportedly claimed. The Russian tyrant’s health has been source of considerable speculation amid reports that he is battling both abdominal cancer and Parkinson’s Disease. But now it has been reported that 69-year-old Putin could soon vanish as he goes under the knife, with power transferred to Nikolai Patrushev. Shadowy Patrushev, 70, is seen as a key architect of the Ukraine war strategy and the man who convinced Putin that Kyiv was awash with neo-Nazis. The claim...

4/28: America approves a "Lend Lease" program with Ukraine. Ukraine will receive NATO equipment en-masse. 5/12: An artillery barrage from Russian forces in the Ukraine kills 17 Americans, who were sent to train the Ukrainians on our equipment. 5/30: Russians target NATO transports coming from Belarus with effective artillery. 45 dead, 17 trucks destroyed. 6/17: Second attempt by Russia to destroy Belarussian transports. Firefight ensues. Russian and American troops are now in direct conflict. Counter-battery NATO artillery is fired, with shelling occurring directly into Russia. 7/15: Russia stops ALL oil and gas exports. 7/17: America, having already sent 50,000 troops...

'but we will go to heaven while they simply croak' Russian media has began openly discussing the prospect of global nuclear war Margarita Simonyan, one of Russia's chief propagandists, told viewers last night that nuclear conflict is 'more probable' than the chance of Russia losing the war 'This is a horror to me,' she said, before adding: 'But it is what it is. We will go to heaven while [the West] will simply croak... we're all going to die someday' Comes after Putin and foreign minister Lavrov also threatened to go nuclear Vladimir Putin will launch an all-out nuclear war...