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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to achieve his goal of “restoring imperial Russia,” having an “almost messianic belief in himself,” The Guardian reported. Clinton spoke Thursday at the Hay Festival, an annual multiday literature and arts event held in the United Kingdom, saying she observed Putin’s attitude toward himself and Russia while she was leading the State Department and he was serving as prime minister of Russia, according to The Guardian.

Twitter users were shocked by President Joe Biden’s latest gaffe during a public statement on holding Russian oligarchs responsible for their corruption. During a speech given on Thursday, the president announced a new $33 billion spending package to provide more aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia. When Biden began talking about holding corrupt Russian oligarch’s responsible for their actions, he made a major verbal stumble that broke Twitter.

In pushing white guilt, the Salvation Army is starting to resemble the NEA with CRT. Soon, its supporters will be forced to choose between their favorite charity and their country. The Army and I go way back – to before I was born. My mother grew up in a poor, immigrant neighborhood in Troy, New York. Every year during Christmas, the Salvation Army would come around with warm mittens, knit caps and oranges for the children. My father, who served in the Second World War, knew he could always get a cup of coffee and a donut at one of...

... "In just a few hours, though, my heart had fallen harder and faster than I can remember. Like all of you, I watched as a gang -- organized, violent, and mad they'd lost an election -- laid siege to the United States Capitol," she added. "They set up gallows. They proudly waved the traitorous flag of the Confederacy through the halls. They desecrated the center of American government." "Once authorities finally gained control of the situation, these rioters and gang members were led out of the building not in handcuffs, but free to carry on with their days," Obama...

BEIJING — In China, it is legal to eat cats and dogs. Even so, ordinary people reacted with alarm this week as news broke of a Chinese man caught with 500 cats, crowded into tiny cages, which he intended to sell to restaurants. The man had used sparrows and caged birds to lure both stray cats and domestic ones in the city of Jiujiang in southern Jiangsu province, the 163.com and news.ifeng.com websites reported. Many of the cats were found in cages in the back of a small truck, some near death and mewing faintly in the heat, while others...

FULL TITLE: World war brew: J.C. Penney places huge billboard advert over Interstate Highway for kettle 'that looks just like Hitler' Retailer J.C. Penney may want to rethink the design of their new kettle after a string of customers complained it looks remarkably like Hitler. The retailer advertised the new kettle - which is exclusively available in its stores - on a huge billboard over the 405 Interstate Highway in southern California. But rather than being tempted into buying new kitchen equipment, commuters driving along the route near Culver City found themselves instantly reminded of the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler....

NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Police say an Ohio Salvation Army bell-ringer outside a Kmart store was robbed of his red kettle by four men with a knife. North Canton police say they don't know how much donated money was in the kettle when it was taken Saturday evening. Police Sgt. Frank Kemp tells WJW-TV (http://bit.ly/vPzm84) the four men, all wearing dark clothing and hoodies, threatened to use the knife. Kemp says the bell-ringer followed the Salvation Army's standard procedure in such cases and did not put up a struggle. The robbers took off on foot. Police are asking for...

NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Police say an Ohio Salvation Army bell-ringer outside a Kmart store was robbed of his red kettle by four men with a knife. North Canton police say they don't know how much donated money was in the kettle when it was taken Saturday evening.

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has lost legitimacy and must leave office, US President Barack Obama said Thursday.

The 2008 Presidential race finally got underway yesterday as Barack Obama used his race to try and innoculate himself against criticism: Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Repub>icans to highlight the fact that he is black as part of an effort to make voters afraid of him. ."It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy," Obama told a fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida. "We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid. "They're going...

FRUITLAND PARK, Fla. -- An unidentified man stole a Salvation Army kettle Tuesday in Fruitland Park, getting away with an undetermined amount of money, according to police. It happened at the Wal-Mart on N. Citrus Boulevard around 2:30 p.m., police said. Police said they were searching for a white man, but had no other details about the suspect's appearance.

Aaron McGruder, whose cartoon strip "The Boondocks" is known for its attacks on Republicans, went on the syndicated television show "America's Black Forum" this past week and denounced National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as a killer. "I don't like Condoleezza Rice because she's a murderer," Mr. McGruder said...

The grinning, spectral presence of Jack Abramoff, the corrupt superlobbyist, is the last image any Republican candidate needs wafting about this campaign year. But there Mr. Abramoff stands in a photograph from his infamous 2002 golf junket to St. Andrews, Scotland, beaming next to Ralph Reed, the former director of the Christian Coalition who is running hard now for lieutenant governor of Georgia. "This is a piece of business I should have declined," Mr. Reed declared last week, following a Senate report that he had enjoyed $5.3 million in lobbying fees plus globe-trotting treats from Mr. Abramoff, whose influence-peddling mill...

The blood is in the water. The sharks are circling. Now it is time for the main course. Lower the tank and drop in the political corpse of Tom Delay. Democrats are whipping themselves into a frenzy — as are their allies in the press — over the impending political death of Tom DeLay. The Majority Leader is helping fan the flames by holding up rifles at NRA rallies while asking for more bullets. But if you are scoring this one at home sports fans, expect to see a flurry of revelations coming out about the Democratic leaders in the...

ATLANTA - For more than 100 years the sound of Christmas in America has been from an army of bell ringers raising money for the Salvation Army. For Willie Pickett in Atlanta, it's also about spreading Christmas cheer. "I just love making people smile," says Pickett, a frequent bell ringer.

A prosperous Twin Cities businessman didn't think he was entitled to his 2004 Social Security payments, so he became an early Santa Claus for the Salvation Army. The anonymous man dropped a check for $14,845 into a red kettle outside the Barnes & Noble bookstore on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis sometime Wednesday. The size and odd amount of the check piqued the curiosity of Salvation Army spokeswoman Annette Bauer, who sought out the man for an explanation. On Friday the man, who declined to be identified, released a written statement through Bauer.

Thursday, September 11, 2003 - WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Democratic Party launched a strident attack on President Bush on Wednesday, fueling a quarrel between the two parties over the role of the political opposition during wartime, and presaging a harsh tone for the upcoming presidential campaign. Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe accused Bush of making "absolutely ludicrous and insane statements" that endangered U.S. troops in Iraq. The DNC chairman urged Bush to "go tell the parents" of Americans killed in Iraq why the president found it necessary to don a flight suit, land on the deck...

Role U.S. played in 1991 massacre of Shiia may haunt Iraq's American rulers BY OLIVIA WARD STAFF REPORTER In the sweltering, dust-blown outskirts of the central Iraqi town of Hilla, scenes of chaotic horror have been taking place, beamed around the world by television cameras. The discovery of the remains of up to 15,000 Iraqis in mass graves has prompted international revulsion, as well as uncontainable grief and despair among Iraqis clawing through piles of bones that once were their relatives. In Washington, the discovery of what appears to be ruthless executions of Shiites who rebelled against Saddam Hussein following...