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New Russian "Glide Bombs" Proving Highly Effective As Summer Offensive Begins A new weapon (outfitted using old weapons) has been used increasingly by Russia in the past two months and it's proving to be highly effective as the Russian forces in Ukraine ramp up what looks to be the beginning of a long anticipated summer offensive.  Dubbed the "glide bomb," they are actually Soviet era FAB bombs retrofitted with glide technology and rudimentary laser/GPS guidance.  The FABs can weigh up to 6600 pounds and have a deadly shrapnel radius of at least 200 yards.  The glide bombs are launched from Russian air assets well away from Ukrainian anti-aircraft positions and the weapons "glide" up to 40 miles to front line targets with relative precision.  The cost of retrofitting FAB bombs is far cheaper than building modern laser guided weapons like ATACMS.  The bombs give Russia the ability to provide air support to offensive troops without p...

Alexsl, Tovovan/Getty Images, Abanti Chowdhury/BI Gen Z has come of age swimming in a gloppy stew of digital content. Every day they navigate memes, photos, social media, chats with their friends, flashes of video, influencers influencing , news articles from a zillion places across the net. How do America's teens and youngest adults sort through all that digitized gunk to determine what's important, or useful, or true? A lot of folks would love to know. Social networks want young users . Media outlets want subscribers . Politicians want votes . Professors want to know why their students won't read books . Everyone, it seems, has a stake in understanding Kids These Days. Over the past couple of years, researchers at Jigsaw, a Google subsidiary that focuses on online politics and polarization, have been studying how Gen Zers digest and metabolize what they see online. The researchers were hoping that their work would provide one of the first in-depth, ethnographic studies...

The governor can and should reform teacher-prep programs, a hotbed of progressive ideology, in his state and provide a template for the nation on how to do so. Daniel Buck National Review Online https://www.nationalreview.com/rss.xml

The US Department of Justice has until 7 July to make a final decision on whether to prosecute the firm. BBC News - World https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Russia has blamed the United States after at least four people including two children were killed and more than 120 injured when a Ukrainian missile was shot down over a crowded beach in Crimea. In a [...] The post Russia Blames US For Deadly Crimea Strike appeared first on The People's Voice . Niamh Harris News Punch https://newspunch.com/

Students walk past a gated entrance to Yale University, 2017. Two things seem like they should go without saying: People use their own money more efficiently than they use someone else’s, and the more you subsidize a thing the more of it you tend to get. Both profoundly apply to American higher education, a teetering tower of ivory made simultaneously skyscraping and bloated by federal taxpayer dollars.  We would all be better off if the feds withdrew from higher education, requiring ivory tower denizens to sustain themselves not with money originally belonging to involuntary third-party participants – taxpayers – but students, lenders, and research patrons using their own money to buy what the tower is hawking. That would make higher education more efficient, effective, and better for society.  “Better,” importantly, does not mean that colleges and universities will get wealthier or more opulent. That is what most institutions would likely prefer, but ...

Wales Moves Forward With Plan To Punish Politicians For Telling Lies Authored by Jonathan Turley, Will Rogers once said that “if you ever injected truth into politics, you’d have no politics.” In Wales, it appears that the government is challenging that assessment. However, if the  new legislation  criminalizing political lies is successful, the Welsh are likely to find themselves with the same abundance of lies but little free speech. A proposal in the Welsh parliament (or the Senedd) would make it the first country in the world to impose criminal sanctions for lying politicians. Adam Price, the former leader of the liberal Plaid Cymru Party is pushing for the criminalization,  citing  a “credibility gap” in UK politics. Astonishingly, this uniquely bad idea has received support from a key committee. Once on track for adoption, this is the type of law that can become self-propelling through the legislature. Few politicians want to go on record voti...

We've seen a raft of appointments by President Joe Biden, since becoming president, who all seem to be classified, not by their competence in the office they are being nominated for, but for how they look (their race), gender, national origin, and sexual orientation. Is that any way to run a government?  Chuck Lehmann CanadaFreePress.Com http://canadafreepress.com/

[rebelmouse-proxy-image https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/blaze-news-investigates-biden-s-illegal-immigration-crisis-pushes-nation-s-only-right-to-shelter-state-to-its-breaking-point.jpg?id=52483244&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0,0,0,107 crop_info="%7B%22image%22%3A%20%22https%3A//www.theblaze.com/media-library/blaze-news-investigates-biden-s-illegal-immigration-crisis-pushes-nation-s-only-right-to-shelter-state-to-its-breaking-point.jpg%3Fid%3D52483244%26width%3D1245%26height%3D700%26coordinates%3D0%2C0%2C0%2C107%22%7D" expand=1] Massachusetts, the only state in the nation with a right-to-shelter law, is battling the budgetary consequences of its sanctuary policies amid the Biden administration's self-inflicted border crisis. The influx of illegal immigrants arriving in the state seeking taxpayer-funded shelter and aid does not appear as though it will let up any time soon. Massachusetts' limited homeless shelter system reached capacity with 7,...

Screenshot: Donald J Trump/Youtube In a fiery speech in Philadelphia this past Saturday, President Donald Trump vowed to completely shut down the Department of Education if he returns to the White House. This bold proposal is aimed squarely at dismantling the “indoctrination” of students through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, Critical Race Theory (CRT), and the integration of “woke sexual content” in school curricula. For years, American schools have been plagued by leftist teachers and administrators more focused on pushing a political agenda than on education. During the rally, Trump outlined his vision for a radical overhaul of the American education system, emphasizing a return to state control and away from federal oversight. “I will shut down the federal Department of Education, and we will move everything back to the states where it belongs and where they can individualize education and do it with the love for their children,” Trump said. WATCH: ...

Something odd was found last weekend in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge north of Las Vegas. “MYSTERIOUS MONOLITH!” Las Vegas Metropolitan Police posted on X. “We see a lot of […] The post Police Issue Statement After 'Mysterious Monolith' Is Discovered Outside Las Vegas appeared first on The Western Journal . Jack Davis The Western Journal https://www.westernjournal.com/

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(Fox News) - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced he is filing a lawsuit against the state of New York for what he called "their direct attack on our democratic process through unconstitutional lawfare against President Trump." On Thursday, Bailey said on his podcast, "The Bailey Wire," that his office would be taking steps to combat illicit prosecutions against the former president. Bailey said it's time to restore the rule of law.... Fox News RenewAmerica http://www.renewamerica.com/

Britain’s prime minister Rishi Sunak has suggested that young people who refuse to do national service could forfeit their driving licences and be denied access to student loans. Sunak said there would need to be [...] The post UK PM Says Teenagers Who Refuse National Service Could Forfeit Driving Licence appeared first on The People's Voice . Niamh Harris News Punch https://newspunch.com/

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Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio has blasted the Biden administration over their tunnel vision regarding national security. Vance lashed out after it was announced that the administration was putting Ukraine at the front of [...] The post Biden Admin Accused of ‘Actively Endangering National Security’ appeared first on The People's Voice . Niamh Harris News Punch https://newspunch.com/

Louisiana has become the first state in the US to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom. World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News https://news.sky.com/world

The online travel firm says generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, are driving the explosive rise. BBC News - Technology https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology/#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

When we reward the trolls, it ruins great stuff for everyone else. Christian Schneider National Review Online https://www.nationalreview.com/rss.xml