Russian troops that have deployed to Belarus for joint military exercises near the Ukrainian border will be in the country at least through Feb. 20, the Russian Defense Ministry announced Wednesday. The deployment and exercises have only exacerbated U.S. and NATO fears that Moscow is putting in place forces on three sides of neighboring Ukraine…Continue Reading
CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker abruptly resigned Wednesday over his failure to divulge a romantic relationship with a senior network executive. Mr. Zucker, who joined CNN in 2013, said in his stunning announcement that he neglected to reveal the involvement during the network’s investigation into former host Chris Cuomo, who was fired in December. “As part…Continue Reading
Fort Pickett in Virginia has released its last Afghan evacuees, the Biden administration announced Wednesday, leaving just two military bases still housing people airlifted in August. All told, 68,000 evacuees have now been processed and set free into the U.S., and six bases that had been housing them have closed their camps. With Fort Pickett’s…Continue Reading
Border Patrol agents found 14 illegal immigrants stuffed inside two portable toilets last week and arrested an American man who said he was being paid to smuggle them deeper into the U.S. Agents sniffed out the smuggling operation after receiving a report of a drone incursion near McAllen, Texas. When they responded, the agents found…Continue Reading
Omicron has taken a much bigger bite 0ut of the labor market than expected, data from payroll processing firm ADP indicated Wednesday. The number of workers on private payrolls fell by 301,000 in January, falling far short of expectations for growth of 225,000 jobs. This was the first decline in payrolls reported by ADP since…Continue Reading
Twelve people were shot, three of them fatally, on Tuesday alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. FOX 32 reports the first of the fatal shootings occurred around 6 a.m. in “the 900 block of East 79th Street.” Two people were killed in the incident, 67-year-old Gloria Binder and 42-year-old Erskine Binder, both of whom were…Continue Reading
The time has come to fully and publicly investigate Hunter Biden’s financial activities, the editorial board of the New York Post posited Tuesday, adding the U.S. attorney in Delaware began the process back in 2018 before quietly letting the issue fade from view. The Post acknowledged the challenges confronting any Justice Department seeking to investigate the…Continue Reading
The Quebec government has abandoned its proposed plan to implement a ‘Health Contribution’ tax on unvaccinated residents as the government looks to relax Wuhan coronavirus restrictions this month. The government of the French-speaking Canadian province led by Premier François Legault of the conservative Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) has dropped the proposal to tax residents not vaccinated…Continue Reading
Kenya Airways says it plans to stop transporting monkeys on behalf of a Mauritius-based primate farm after a recent such shipment suffered an escape of four cynomolgus macaques while in transit in Pennsylvania to a U.S.-based laboratory that uses the animals as subjects of science experiments, Africanews reported Monday. Africanews based much of its January…Continue Reading
As the Ukraine crisis shows no sign of easing, Russians are being asked to support rebels in the two separatist statelets.Moscow, Russia – Russian volunteers are being sought to reinforce separatist forces in eastern Ukraine over social media networking sites such as VK, the Russian-language equivalent to Facebook which has hundreds of millions of subscribers.…Continue Reading