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H ow does the war in Ukraine end? Earlier this year, former President Donald Trump boasted that if he were re-elected, he’d “have that war settled in one day, 24 hours.” Russian President Vladimir Putin is making a slightly less ambitious forecast: If things go his way, the war can be settle in a week. In remarks Thursday at the annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, a Kremlin-friendly confab on global issues, Putin foretelled that Ukraine would collapse if the West turns off the taps of military aid and economic assistance. “By and large, the Ukrainian economy cannot exist without external support,” he said. “Once you stop this, everything will be over in a week. Terminated. The same applies to the defense system: Imagine that supplies will stop tomorrow — you will only have a week to live when the ammunition runs out.” These remarks were perhaps Putin’s most clear articulation to date his strategy in Ukraine: He is counting on the Western alliance that backs Ukraine to fractur...

I t wasn’t long ago that Republican lawmakers revealed President Joe Biden had used several pseudonyms to conceal his identity in emails when he was vice president. The massive scale of this deception has only just been made public, though. The National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) has admitted that it possesses possibly as many as 5,400 emails and other documents on which Biden used one of three fictitious names. NARA was central to the investigation of former President Donald Trump for supposedly mishandling classified documents, but, for as long as it could, the agency declined to acknowledge the existence of Biden’s fake-name emails. The Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) first filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the emails in 2021, but NARA did not produce them. In 2022, the legal group followed up with a second FOIA request and finally filed a lawsuit. Only then did NARA come clean about Biden’s alter egos. However, the emails have yet to be handed...

O rigin of Independence Day The holiday celebrates the Second Continental Congress' unanimous adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, a document announcing the colonies' separation from Great Britain. One year later, according to the Library of Congress, a spontaneous celebration in Philadelphia marked the anniversary of American independence. But across the burgeoning nation, observations didn't become commonplace until after the War of 1812. It quickly took off: The Library of Congress notes that major historic events in the 19th century, such as groundbreaking ceremonies for the Erie Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, were scheduled to coincide with Fourth of July festivities. Fireworks became tradition The display of pyrotechnics has been a big part of Independence Day from the outset. Founding Father John Adams saw it coming. Commemoration of America's independence “ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports,...

  F ormer President Donald Trump kicked an NBC reporter off his plane following a March campaign rally after getting frustrated with the reporter’s line of questioning, according to reports. “Don’t ask me any more questions,” Trump said after journalist Vaughn Hillyard suggested Trump seemed “Cramped” by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation, according to a recording obtained by Vanity Fair and the Washington Post. The interaction further intensify after Hillyard continued to ask questions about the investigation, revolving about Trump’s Truth Social posts where the former president warned there would be “potential death and destruction” if he was indicted. “I don’t want to talk to you,” Trump told Hillyard. “Do you hear me? You’re not a nice guy,” Trump added when Hillyard tried to as another question, turning to take a question from another reporter, according to Vanity Fair. After Hillyard’s third attempt to get an answer, Trump told aides “Alright, let’s go, g...

F rancisco Oropesa, 38yrs, is suspected of shooting dead five neighbours aged between eight and 31. San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers, centre, announces the arrest of Francisco Oropesa who is the center focus of killing five neighbours in Cleveland, Texas.  A man accused of killing five neighbours after they asked him to stop firing his rifle in his yard has been entrapped after a manhunt launched last week, Texas law enforcement said. Francisco Oropesa, the entrapped attacker, had eluded authorities since the mass shooting on Friday in the small town of Cleveland in southeastern Texas. “We now have this man in custody,” San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told reporters at a news conference on Tuesday night. “He was caught hiding in a closet underneath some laundry.” The 38-year-old Mexican national allegedly shot his neighbours after they asked him to stop shooting his semiautomatic rifle because the noise was keeping a baby awake. The victims were aged between eight and ...

  E aster, Latin Pascha, Greek Pascha, principal festival of the Christian church, which celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion. The earliest recorded observance of an Easter celebration comes from the 2nd century, though the commemoration of Jesus’ Resurrection probably occurred earlier. Easter, Dogma festival of the Christian church, which celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion. The earliest recorded observance of an Easter celebration comes from the 2nd century, though the commemoration of Jesus’ Resurrection probably occurred earlier. Eastern Orthodox churches use a slightly different calculation based on the Julian rather than the Gregorian calendar (which is 13 days ahead of the former), with the result that the Orthodox Easter celebration usually occurs later than that celebrated by Protestants and Roman Catholics. Moreover, the Orthodox tradition prohibits Easter from being celebrated be...