Republican lawmakers are pressing President Joe Biden’s administration to allow farmers to plant crops on millions of fallow acres through a federal conservation program, saying larger US harvests would help stabilize food prices and prevent famine amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict. At issue are the more than 4 million acres of …
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Read More »Bizarre anime opening parody featuring photoshopped faces of Biden and other politicians triggers Democrats
“Any anime fans out there?” Gosar tweeted on Sunday night, along with his video. The clip features footage from the Japanese anime’s opening. The ‘Titan’ story focuses on people fighting against threatening ‘titans’. While bits of the opening credits play, images of immigrants and Border Patrol are spliced in, along …
Read More »Going green? RT visits British town opening NEW coal mine (VIDEO)
Whitehaven, located on the Cumbria coast, is not exactly a flourishing place. Once a booming port and a major centre of the coal and chemical industries, the town has been in decline, with its streets dotted by long-since boarded-up businesses. However, Whitehaven has been selected by the West Cumbria Mining …
Read More »‘Hate is so toxic’: Zach Wilson’s mom targeted by trolls after son’s opening day NFL debut loss for New York Jets
Lisa Wilson was once one of the darlings of the elite football championship and its fans after coming to prominence during the NFL draft in late April. Dubbed the event’s “real MVP” and causing a Twitter frenzy by trending on the social network, the mother-of-six and self-described fitness fanatic was complimented on …
Read More »Ahead of next month’s Russian parliamentary elections, are cracks now opening in the popularity of the pro-Putin ruling party?
The United Russia party, which backs President Vladimir Putin and holds 334 of the State Duma’s 450 seats, is likely to come out on top. That said, there is still a lot to play for at the margins and the possibility of some major upsets remains. In the last parliamentary …
Read More »Tokyo Olympics show director FIRED on eve of opening ceremony over decades-old ‘Holocaust joke’
Olympic Organizing Committee president Seiko Hashimoto announced the move during a press conference on Thursday, saying Kobayashi had been fired and that officials would undertake a last-minute “review” of the opening and closing ceremonies, both of which were meant to be directed by the comedian. “It has come to our …
Read More »South Korean President Moon to skip Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony after scandal with Japanese diplomat derails summit chances
A summit between South Korea’s Moon Jae-in and Japan’s Yoshihide Suga on the sidelines of the Olympic Games would have been the first face-to-face meeting of the two leaders. On Monday, the president’s office said plans for the event have been canceled because no positive result was expected to come …
Read More »Russia’s about-face on Syria’s Idlib is the opening gambit of a larger diplomatic chess game
In a rare display of diplomatic cooperation, the US and Russia agreed last week on a one-year extension of the UN Security Council authorization for humanitarian aid supplies to reach northern Syria through the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the border with Turkey. The Biden administration had made the extension of …
Read More »Israeli FM tells Arabs ‘WE’RE HERE TO STAY’ at embassy opening in UAE
“Israel wants peace with its neighbors, with all its neighbors,” Lapid said during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Israel’s new embassy in Abu Dhabi. “We aren’t going anywhere. The Middle East is our home.” “We’re here to stay. We call on all the countries of the region to recognize that and …
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