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Russia's President Vladimir Putin signed a decree late on Tuesday renaming the airport in Volgograd as Stalingrad, as the city was known when the Soviet army defeated the Nazi German forces in the biggest battle of World War Two, APA reports citing Reuters. "In order to perpetuate the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, I hereby decree ... to assign the historical name 'Stalingrad' to Volgograd International Airport," the decree published on the Kremlin's website said.

In mid-April, the notorious late-late-late term abortionist Warren Hern announced that his Boulder Abortion Clinic was closing. His retirement, on January 22, 2025, was not supposed to slow down the killing machine. His clinic would continue to make available “the safest, most compassionate and highest quality outpatient abortion services available anywhere.” But after almost 55 years and a death toll rising to an estimated 42,000 babies, the 86-year-old Hern told Colorado Public Radio [www.cpr.org/2025/04/24/boulder-abortion-clinic-closes-after-50-years] “All of us who do this work have had increasing difficulty in being able to offer the services,” adding, “We can’t continue, and it breaks my...

Colorado Governor Jared Polis has signed a bill forcing Colorado taxpayers to fund abortions. Polis signed SB25-183, a recently approved state measure that would allocate a minimum of $1.5 million per year of taxpayer funds to cover elective abortions. With Colorado having abortions up to birth, that means taxpayers will be on the hook for paying for killing viable babies who could easily live outside the womb. And with the $1.5 million figure a minimum, Colorado residents may be forced to pay even more to kill thousands of babies. “One thing pro-life and pro-choice people agree on nationwide is that...

An Ohio judge has blocked a common sense law that stopped Planned Parenthood from dumping the bodies of aborted babies in landfills. The Unborn Child Dignity Act was first introduced in 2016, following an investigation by then Attorney General Mike DeWine into Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facility practices in Ohio. The investigation found that Planned Parenthood’s Ohio locations had been dumping the bodies of aborted babies in landfill Because the Ohio Revised Code did not define “humane” disposal, the state of Ohio was unable to take legal action. In 2020, DeWine, as Ohio’s governor, signed into law a new pro-life...

Since 2012, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded over $30 million to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the guise of tackling “global health challenges” In a 2008 conversation with Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates outlined his vision for the next 15 years, stating that his efforts would largely focus on population control through health interventions. He emphasized that combating infectious diseases and expanding access to healthcare could lead to lower birth rates.

CV NEWS FEED // New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced Jan. 14 that the state will “stockpile” mifepristone, a drug used in chemical abortions, as a precautionary measure ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House next week. The Democrat governor’s announcement came during his State of the State address, where he outlined his administration’s stance on abortion and other priorities, NJ.com reported. Murphy said that New Jersey is preparing to resist potential “anti-choice” policies under the Trump administration and a Republican-led Congress. He described the move to stockpile mifepristone as essential to ensuring that “every woman can...

Historian Norman Naimark argues that today's narrow definition of genocide is Stalin's lasting legacy Murder on a national scale, yes – but is it genocide? “The word carries a powerful punch,” said Stanford history Professor Norman Naimark. “In international courts, it’s considered the crime of crimes.”

A federal district court Sunday granted a Texas doctor an injunction against Biden administration regulations that illegally restrict how doctors can protect patients from the harms of abortion and “gender transition” while a lawsuit proceeds. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed suit on behalf of a Texas physician in October to challenge rule changes by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The changes to regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act added unprecedented restrictions on doctors’ ability to report abuse and states’ ability to protect children from abortion and harmful drugs and surgeries related to gender confusion....

Biden admin pressuring African country to expand abortion by withholding aid: reportThe Biden administration is allegedly attempting to use foreign aid to pressure the African nation of Sierra Leone to decriminalize abortion in its final weeks or else forgo $480 million in foreign aid meant for affordable electricity.WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The Biden administration is attempting to use foreign aid to pressure the African nation of Sierra Leone to decriminalize abortion in its final weeks, according to a new report by the Daily Signal.According to a “former senior U.S. government official who has worked in the West African region,” the...

And kicking a Jewish female student in the head was a “peaceful protest.” On October 7, Islamic terrorists invaded Israel and murdered over 1,000 people. They raped, looted, and burned families alive in their home. Those whom they did not kill, they took hostage.According to the Biden administration’s newly announced Islamophobia strategy, however, Muslims in America were the real victims of Oct 7 just like they were the real victims of 9/11.“Threats and acts of violence against Muslim and Arab communities have increased since the October 7 terrorist attacks,” the official White House ‘Islamophobia’ strategy claims. Muslims are also concerned...

The doctor behind the so-called Sarco “death pod” has said he will bring his invention to Britain if assisted dying is made legal. Dr Philip Nitschke, 77, has said he is ready to launch in Britain a 3D-printed portable machine that floods with nitrogen gas at the press of a button, should Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying Bill become law. The Private Member’s Bill is due for its second reading in the House of Commons at the end of next week.

After decades of sitting on the sidelines of politics, Bill Gates, one of the richest people in the world, has said privately that he recently donated about $50 million to a nonprofit organization that is supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential run, according to three people briefed on the matter. The donation was meant to stay under wraps. Mr. Gates, one of the founders of Microsoft, has not publicly endorsed Ms. Harris, and his donation would represent a significant change in the strategy that has previously kept him away from gifts like this. In private calls this year to friends...

CV NEWS FEED // A district judge in Oregon ruled September 30 that Oregon Right to Life is required to cover abortions in its employees’ healthcare insurance plan, dismissing the pro-life organization’s argument that it is a religious organization exempted from the pro-abortion law. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken stated in her ruling that ORTL does not fit inside the category of “religious employer” under the state’s Reproductive Health Equity Act (RHEA), as it does not mainly or exclusively serve individuals of the same religion. “Plaintiff does not qualify as a ‘religious employer’ under the RHEA because ‘its purpose is...

Singer Stevie Nicks has released her first solo single in four years, and it’s an ode to abortion. In an interview with PEOPLE, Nicks said she wrote “The Lighthouse” after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. “I find it very sad, at 76 years old, I had to see Roe v. Wade taken away,” she said. “Two years ago, when I realized the consequences of women’s rights that are vanishing, I watched a lot of news, and I was like a sponge — it just went into me.” She...

Scheduled for a Netflix launch on September 18 is a new docu-series from billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates that pushes the notion that “we have to give up hydrocarbons almost entirely,” among other anti-human ideas. Because the climate is currently not to the liking of Gates and his acolytes, major changes are needed to stop the human herd from living – all “for the planet.” Even though he jaunts around the world in his own climate-polluting private jet, as do Netflix’s executives, Gates feels as though humanity needs to be muzzled and confined as people’s carbon footprint is tracked, monitored and...

Disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is set to testify publicly before Congress for the first time regarding his controversial handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes, which killed thousands of vulnerable seniors. The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has requested Cuomo’s testimony in a hearing scheduled for Tuesday, September 10, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. in the Rayburn House Office Building.

On Sunday, vice presidential nominee and Ohio Senator J.D. Vance (R) joined Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation” for an interview. Predictably, the conversation started with six questions in a row on abortion. While answering those questions, Vance spoke of the contrast between former President Donald Trump’s views on abortion and the view of the Democratic Party. He said, “You have Democrats who have supported abortion right up to the moment of birth — and even beyond the moment — of birth, which is just sick stuff. And I think it’s such a contrast…” Margaret Brennan cut off Vance...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” House Speaker Emerita Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that abortion rights are “about the ever-widening circle of freedom in this country,” and “The Founders had a beautiful vision for our country,” “but they couldn’t put it in the Constitution. But thank God they made it amendable.” So freedom expanded on subjects like the abolition of slavery and ending voting discrimination on the basis of race and gender, which were done by constitutional amendments, until Roe v. Wade was overturned. Pelosi stated, “Trump, the worst job record of any president since Herbert Hoover....

All insurers in Illinois will now be required to cover induced abortions, thanks to a new bill signed by Governor J.B. Pritzker. This week, Pritzker held a signing ceremony for the Birth Equity Initiative, which mandates that Illinois-based health insurance, both private and Medicaid, must cover abortion with no co-pays or deductibles. The ceremony came on the heels of neighboring state Iowa’s law protecting nearly all preborn children from abortion taking effect, which lawmakers appeared to present as a reason for the bill’s passage. “Iowa is now the 22nd state in the nation to enact an extreme abortion ban solidifying...

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg praised abortion for making men “more free” during a virtual campaign event called “White Dudes for Harris” on Monday. “I’m so glad she has made freedom the theme of her campaign because I think in so many ways that’s at stake,” Buttigieg said of Vice President Kamala Harris...“Of course, women’s freedom is Exhibit A after Donald Trump demolished the right to choose. But, of course, men are also more free in a country where we have a president who stands up for things like access to abortion care. ... “Pete Buttigieg is right. Men...