Karelina’s sentencing, weeks after the prisoner exchange, underscored the risks of travel to Russia, with U.S. officials warning of a sharp rise in hostage diplomacy — the practice of arresting foreign citizens for political leverage or use in prisoner exchanges. Russia swapped 16 prisoners including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, Washington Post contributing columnist Vladimir Kara-Murza and other prominent political prisoners, and several German citizens, in return for 10...

“I love people, and my health is good, so I’m happy to do what I can,” said Grace Carr of Allentown, Pa., who has worked at the same hospital for 80 years. Source: Nurse began working at hospital during WWII and hasn’t stopped. She’s 97. Love it!

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In 1981, he appeared in the 'Taxi' episode “Latka’s Cookies."

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The deep state knows no shame and they are desperate. Our sources confirm that a section of Rikers Island has been prepared for President Trump.. https://t.co/vFL01nPLjB — Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) August 15, 2024

from ZeroHedge: After the unoriginal Vice President Kamala Harris stole former President Trump’s proposed ‘no tax on tips’ policy, she’s at it again with yet another recycled idea. This time, she’s echoing President Biden’s actions and rhetoric to crack down on sky-high food prices by proposing the first-ever federal ban on “corporate price-gouging in the food and grocery industries”—a […]

by Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall St On Parade: It is now one of the unspoken but immutable dictates on Wall Street: with each new banking crisis, the Federal Reserve will quickly create an emergency bailout program and give it a three to four letter abbreviation so that it vanishes into an alphabet soup […]