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The USA has called for Ukraine not to attack Russian refineries despite Russia's widespread offensive against several energy facilities in Ukraine. The Department of Defense has warned that such an attack could bring another spike in fuel prices worldwide. Michaelo Podoliak, advisor to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, claimed that such facilities were legitimate military targets. In a recent interview, he also claimed that such an attack was not only legitimate but desirable on a worldwide level in order to weaken Russia's hold on the energy lobby. “Ukraine must destroy Russia's refineries. They have no impact on worldwide pricing, and are...

Almost exactly two years ago RedState broke the story of the defection of CCP counterintelligence official Dong Jingwei to the United States. The “terabytes” of data Dong, the highest-ranking Chinese defector ever, brought with him to the United States included information and data showing “that SARS-CoV-2 was manmade and leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in addition to evidence confirming that the People’s Liberation Army managed the Wuhan bioweapons program (and others).” While it was essentially ignored by the mainstream media and dismissed by the professional former spook crowd, it was a huge story – so huge that RedState...

This is a public service announcement! Check your drawers for any Samsung (or different brand) phones that aren't in use, as they are a potential fire hazard! In case you follow the smartphone industry, particularly on YouTube and Twitter, you'd know that there have been recent reports of Samsung phones that are … "blowing up", or at least about to. Despite trying, in the end Samsung wasn't able to handle the Note 7 battery crisis. The company recalled the defective phones and released a fresh batch of Note 7s (after having changed its battery supplier). The issues persisted, and the...

I grew up on Chicago's Southside, a graduate of Morgan Park HS. I'm returning to downtown Chicago after almost 5 years. What will I see? How safe is it? Can I walk safely down Rush street and Michigan Avenue at night, or do I take an Uber just to go three blocks. Five years ago, you'd encounter a few homeless people sleeping in the street, and get hit on by a beggar or two, how is it now? What kind of security downtown. Any festivals in Grant Park this weekend? Thank you for the help.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Rep. and U.S. Senate candidate Tim Ryan (D-OH) said he wouldn’t support any restrictions on abortion if he is elected to the Senate and “you’ve got to leave it up to the woman.” Host Bret Baier asked, [relevant remarks begin around 4:15] “As senator, would you have any limits on abortion?”

President Biden told reporters on Wednesday that he doesn't believe the public opinion polls indicating his waning approval rating among moderates and independents. Asked by McClatchy White House correspondent Francesca Chambers how he plans to win back moderates and independents who voted for him in 2020 but, according to polls, are now unhappy with his job performance, Biden responded “I don’t believe the polls."

As the walls are closing in on those who’ve attempted to deflect, discredit, and ignore the evidence over the last 18 months that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a few legacy media organizations are starting to report what we’ve reported for a few months and bringing the receipts – sort of.As the New York Post reported on June 4 (and which RedState’s Scott Hounsell elaborated on later), a Chinese military scientist named Zhou Yusen filed for a patent for a coronavirus vaccine on behalf of the People’s Liberation Army in February 2020, only five weeks after...

Last night several reporters for Project Veritas had their homes raided by the FBI. The government wanted this information to be kept secret but James O'Keefe published this video anyway. James indicates this may have something to do with a copy of Ashley Biden's diary that was offered to Project Veritas. Supposedly the diary was misplaced and then found by a third party. Project Veritas could not confirm the diary's authenticity so they never ran a story on it and gave it to law enforcement to have it returned. (Why is the FBI investigating a lost diary?) Now they are...

Don't 'misunderestimate' George W. Bush © Getty Images Americans typically support newly elected presidents and those who have left office. It’s incumbents they often dislike. George W. Bush is no exception. Although he lost the popular vote in 2000 by a half-million ballots but achieved an Electoral College victory over Vice President Al Gore by the barest of margins (after a Supreme Court decision in Bush’s favor), his initial approval rating was 57 percent, 10 points above the percentage of votes he garnered from the electorate. His support would soar over 90 percent after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as Americans...

If you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, you don’t need a booster shot to protect against the Delta variant, the US government says. The CDC and the FDA teamed up to issue a reassuring statement after Pfizer announced it was developing a booster shot against what is now the country’s dominant strain. The Thursday evening press release said inoculated Americans were “protected from severe disease and death, including from the variants currently circulating the country.”

During this week’s broadcast of PBS’s “Firing Line,” CNN’s Don Lemon insisted his takes during his CNN program were not opinion. When asked by “Firing Line” host Margaret Hoover to differentiate between what he does and what anchors on Fox News do, Lemon said he was different because he was offering “point of view.”

It is no exaggeration to compare the COVID vaccine rollout to a Keystone Cops movie. When people spend hours frantically trying to find a website to register for vaccination while unused vials of it are discarded by day’s end, it doesn’t take a Sherlock Holmes to detect that something is wrong with the system. Part of the problem rests with efforts to prioritize vaccinations based upon individuals’ health status. Although it may intuitively — and perhaps ethically — make medical sense to inoculate people who are most likely to become seriously ill if infected, the nearly impossible logistics of doing...

“Just yesterday I testified before the State Legislators at the Georgia capital. Georgia has some of the most lax gun laws in the country. Georgia’s idea of gun control is whether you can hold your rifle straight. With all of the lax gun laws in Georgia, they’ve decided that they aren’t lax enough. We’ve got the fifth-highest population of uninsured individuals, and with all of the issues, we’re almost last in education, we haven’t figured out how to provide healthcare to all of these uninsured people, Governor will not expand Medicaid, and in the midst of all that’s going on...

The beast attacked the 54-year-old Iowa woman at Custer State Park in South Dakota on Wednesday, catching her belt by its horn and swinging her around violently, according to a report by the Custer County Chronicle and shared on the sheriff’s office’s Facebook page “She was apparently saved when her pants came off and she fell to the ground unconscious,” the report said. The woman was flown to a hospital on a helicopter and is expected to recover.

Five children were among the 12 people killed, including a 3-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl killed in separate shootings on Saturday. Chicago saw its highest number of shootings victims in a single weekend this year with 99 people shot across the city from Friday evening to Monday morning, 12 of them fatally. Five of those killed were minors. The latest child fatality happened early Monday in Austin on the West Side. Two boys, 15 and 16, were walking in an alley at 12:18 a.m. in the 4700 block of West Superior Street when someone fired at them, possibly from a...

This is a dem ad from a group called Nail Communications that has old white people telling young people not to vote. Dear Young People, "Don't Vote"

The Fed said that it now planned to keep short-term interest rates near zero until late 2014, continuing the transformation of a policy that began as shock therapy in the winter of 2008 into a six-year campaign to increase spending by rewarding borrowers and punishing savers. The economy expanded “moderately” in recent weeks, the Fed said in a statement released after a two-day meeting of its policy-making committee, but jobs were still scarce, the housing sector remained deeply depressed and Europe’s flirtation with crisis could undermine the nascent domestic recovery. The Fed forecast growth of up to 2.7 percent this...

Dear Owner, I am David Wilson, Head Officer-in-Charge, Administrative Service Inspection Unit United Nations Inspection Agency in Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport Atlanta, Georgia. During our investigation, I discovered an abandoned shipment through a Diplomat from United Kingdom which was transferred from JF Kennedy Airport to our facility here in Atlanta, and when scanned it revealed an undisclosed sum of money in 2 Metal Trunk Boxes weighing approximately 130kg. The consignment was abandoned because the Content was not properly declared by the consignee as money rather it was declared as personal effect/classified document to either avoid diversion by the Shipping Agent or...

Waitress Kelly Carter said a couple had written on the receipt: "Great service don't tip black people." Owner Tommy Tellez told BBC News the response has been "phenomenal". People have been dropping by the restaurant to give Ms Carter cash, Mr Tellez said, and a YouCaring campaign has raised over $300 (£245) for her. Her regular customers have been dropping by to give her hugs. Tipping is customary in the US, where restaurant servers often earn less than the minimum wage, with tips supposed to make up the difference in pay. The white couple who left the note appeared to...

A passionate Donald Trump supporter told CNN that she's sticking with her candidate: "I believe Donald. I'm telling you, he says what I"m thinking." The supporter, Susan DeLemus, said during a focus group--which aired on CNN's "New Day" on Thursday--"As far as the truth goes, we've got people in positions of power who I know for a fact are liars. Liars!" "I watched the TV," DeLemus explained. President Obama "comes on the TV and he lies to me. I know he's lying. He lies all the time. I don't believe any one of them, not one." "I believe Donald"...