The Ukrainian government has responded angrily and vowed never to surrender after Pope Francis said the country should have “the courage to raise the white flag” and negotiate an end to the war with Russia. “Our flag is a yellow and blue one. This is the flag by which we live‚ die‚ and prevail. We shall never raise any other flags‚” Ukraine’s foreign minister‚ Dmytro Kuleba‚ said on social media on Sunday. Ukraine’s president‚ Volodymyr Zelenskiy‚ said the pontiff was engaging...

The leader of a local Young Republicans chapter in Alabama was arrested last week in connection with the death of another man‚ with charges against him including a count of "sexual torture." On Thursday‚ deputies with the Madison County Sheriff's Office discovered a dead body later identified as 54-year-old Derek Franklin Walls of Harvest‚ Alabama‚ after being called to a home on the 1700 block of Capshaw Road. Later that same day‚ it was announced that deputies had...

The U.S. military carried out an evacuation mission of U.S. Embassy staff in Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti‚ amid a deteriorating security situation. The State Department requested the military carry out the mission to both airlift non-essential personnel out of the capital and to increase the security posture at the embassy‚ according to a statement from U.S. Southern Command. There were no Haitians on the military aircraft‚ the military said‚ signaling that no senior...

Alabama GOP Sen. Katie Britt on Sunday responded to allegations that her response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address was misleading. The criticism centers on a story Britt told about a victim of human trafficking‚ which she implied happened during Biden’s tenure. Britt spoke in her Thursday-night speech about visiting the U.S.-Mexico border in 2023 and speaking to this woman. “She had been sex-trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12. She told...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded publicly and directly on Sunday to biting personal criticism from US President Joe Biden the day before‚ saying in an interview that the US president was “wrong” when asserting that he is “hurting Israel more than helping Israel” with his handling of the war against Hamas. Responding to Biden’s comments to MSNBC‚ Netanyahu told Politico‚ “I don’t know exactly what the president meant‚ but if he meant by that I’m pursuing private policies...

Outside political advocacy groups spent $85.2 million supporting Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign‚ leading to the former South Carolina governor securing merely 89 of the 2‚429 available Republican primary delegates before her withdrawal on Wednesday — a total cost of over $957‚300 per delegate. Among Haley’s largest benefactors were Yes for America Action and Americans for Prosperity Action‚ who — along with Haley’s campaign committee —...

The Associated Press has morphed into a Berkeley-style left-wing rag. The key difference is that the Associated Press plays to a global audience of millions. Take‚ for example‚ how the AP broke the news this week of the Supreme Court’s ruling against Colorado’s attempt to keep former President Donald Trump off the ballot. The court ruled unanimously‚ 9-0‚ that Colorado had no legal authority to bar a candidate from running for federal office. A majority of the justices added...

To raise awareness of what constitutes an emergency and countries’ obligations‚ last month World Council for Health published a ‘Legal Brief on Preventing the Abuse of Public Health Emergencies’. The document explains […]