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China food security: farmers in Jilin leave fields fallow as lockdown threatens corn supply

A new California bill threatens to strip doctors of their medical licenses for saying things the state doesn’t like

Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March, slightly hotter than expected and the highest since 1981

Exxon Bets Another $10 Billion On Guyana’s Oil Boom

Shooting in Brooklyn subway station leaves multiple victims, authorities find undetonated explosives

UPDATE 1-U.S. wheat supply outlook rises as exports fall – government

The Oregon State Treasury is moving into a newly constructed structure designed to withstand every disaster the designers could conjure.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 11

Democrats are sleepwalking into a Senate disaster

The marines complained over a lack of support from Ukraine’s military leadership: “No one wants to communicate with us anymore because we’ve been written off.”

Five Democrats — but not Cuomo — have filed to run for New York governor

Now New York bond yields are higher than Florida’s just as the Empire State’s rich-resident tax base has significantly thinned.

Shanghai Lockdown Horror: Starvation And Suicide

How Marine Le Pen conquered Normandy

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 10

Secret Service agents in Biden detail reportedly part of bribery scheme

Covidians and the Coin Shortage

Fourth dose booster honeymoon all over in just 8 weeks

Russian Mass-Casualty Attack on Civilians at Kramatorsk Train Station

COVID-19 cases rise rapidly in New York City, DC

‘Unbearable’: Over 800K customers in Puerto Rico without power for second day

Why, in spite of my preferences, I am stockpiling rice instead of wheat. I don’t think this will last. Rice prices, meanwhile, were mostly unchanged compared to February.

Survivors Describe the Russian Atrocities in Bucha

The United States and Europe need to toughen up on the spoilers in their own ranks.

3 Shanghai officials sacked over COVID-19 response

New Details Emerge on Downtown Sacramento Massacre that Killed Six

The Post Millennial reported that the concept emerged from Good Shepard Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to help children experiment with transgenderism without their parents’ knowledge.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 9

Sunspot Activity on The Sun Is Seriously Exceeding Official Predictions

New Bayraktar UAVs Spotted In Ukraine

Prosecutors Fail to Secure a Single Guilty Verdict in Alleged Whitmer Kidnapping Plot

California food waste law proves heavy lift in small towns as fuel costs spike

Pets Slaughtered in Shanghai Because of Covid

These 5 States Will Have Highest Tax Burdens in 2022

A Few Remarks on the W Boson Mass Measurement

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 8

What’s Going on in Shanghai?

Wait, the Russians really did dig trenches near Chernobyl?

Explaining the LGBT Explosion

Walmart will train scores of warehouse workers as truckers, starting at up to $110,000

More than a dozen tornadoes have struck Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina on Tuesday

U.S. court reinstates Biden federal employee COVID vaccine mandate

US Senate Revives Lend-Lease Act

Chinese tests show nuclear bunkers are not what they used to be, with earth-penetrating weapons on the rise

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 7

SpaceX’s Starship: America’s Secret Weapon

Why is the U.S. inflation rate especially high?

Israel reaches out to China, again

U.S. says it secretly removed malware worldwide, preempting Russian cyberattacks

German Intelligence Intercepts Radio Traffic Discussing the Murder of Civilians

Israel’s Yair Lapid battered by security, coalition crises

Russia Sees Steepest Oil Production Decline Since May 2020 In Early April