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2 Russian oligarchs, families found dead

In Spain, a Russian natural gas oligarch and his family were found dead Tuesday — just one day after a similar fate befell a Moscow-based oligarch and his family. According to Newsweek, Spanish authorities are investigating the death of Sergey Protosenya, 55, and his wife and adult daughter to determine… Read More

Scholar uses trash to study life in North Korea

When the waves wash trash onto the beaches of front-line South Korean islands, Kang Dong Wan can often be found hunting for what he calls his “treasure” — rubbish from North Korea that provides a peek into a place that’s shut down to most outsiders. “This can be very important… Read More

Queen Elizabeth II plans her birthday… privately

Queen Elizabeth II is marking her 96th birthday privately on Thursday, retreating to the Sandringham estate in eastern England that has offered the monarch and her late husband, Prince Philip, a refuge from the affairs of state. Elizabeth is expected to spend the day at the estate’s Wood Farm cottage,… Read More

Poll shocker! Many rate Biden too soft on Putin

Many Americans still question whether President Joe Biden is showing enough strength in response to Russia’s war against Ukraine, even as most approve of steps the U.S. is already taking and few want U.S. troops to get involved in the conflict. A poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public… Read More

Pope turns 95 (At least, one of them does)

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI turned 95 this past weekend, a significant milestone on its own but even more given he has now been a retired pope longer than he was a reigning one. To mark the occasion, a new book sets out to examine the current state of Vatican affairs… Read More

Russia’s nuclear nightmare in Chernobyl

Here in the dirt of one of the world’s most radioactive places, Russian soldiers dug trenches. Ukrainian officials worry they were, in effect, digging their own graves. Thousands of tanks and troops rumbled into the forested Chernobyl exclusion zone in the earliest hours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February,… Read More

China city eases out of virus lockdown

Shanghai allowed 4 million more people out of their homes Wednesday as anti-virus controls that shut down China’s biggest city eased, while the International Monetary Fund cut its forecast of Chinese economic growth and warned the global flow of industrial goods might be disrupted. A total of almost 12 million… Read More

Dems wild 2022 election plan leaks

by Frank Holmes, reporter Democrats have a serious problem on their hands in this November’s midterm elections: In order to save their job, they have to say that they’re doing great. Everything — from inflation, to immigration, to keeping kids masked in public — says that’s not going to work…. Read More

Puzzling outbreak of liver disease in kids spreads from UK to US

Health officials say they have detected more cases of a mysterious liver disease in children that was first identified in Britain, with new infections spreading to Europe and the U.S. Last week, British officials reported 74 cases of hepatitis, or liver inflammation, found in children since January. The usual viruses… Read More

Huge spike in border crossings amid new asylum policy

Illegal immigrants attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at the highest level in two decades as the U.S. prepares for even larger numbers with the expected lifting of a pandemic-era order that turned away asylum seekers. Immigration authorities stopped illegals 221,303 times along the Southwest border in March, a 33%… Read More