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Retired Foundation Director. West Virginia Veterans Memorial Inc. built on the West Virginia State Capitol Grounds Charleston, West Virginia. I now live in Huntington, West Virginia to be close to the VA Hospital.
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McDowell residents feel forgotten, overwhelmed as they face flood recovery with limited help westvirginiawatch.com/2025/04/23/m...

Marco Rubio announces sweeping reorganisation of US state department

OPINION: For many, diplomacy is a secretive pursuit, but Pope Francis sought to spread the practice widely. With no economic or military interests and no political agenda, the Holy See is free to pursue the common good for all. religionnews.com/2025/04/22/p...

Letter: Our members of Congress are doing nothing to protect our democracy or the Utahns who elected them. If they are that scared of Donald Trump, they should resign.

Police say a speeding truck carrying laborers, women, and children fell into a ravine in southern Pakistan, killing at least 13 people and injuring 20 others.

President Trump says he has "no intention of firing" Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. More info: cnn.it/42W7jPS

Tesla’s stock has undergone a withering sell-off, and the CNBC All-America Economic survey finds more than 47% of the public have a negative view of the company.

🔥 Explosions at Russian ammunition arsenal confirmed by Russia's Defence Ministry

JK Rowling calls for Sir Keir Starmer to apologise after Supreme Court ruling on women

A new analysis of state public health systems shows Ohio's has some of the worst funding support in the nation, and that funding could go down even more in the newest state budget buff.ly/5zjHeYA

Stellantis laid off a thousand U.S. workers in response to tariffs, then authorized billions in shareholder payouts. www.levernews.com/automaker-pa...

Sharon Osborne has called for Irish rap group Kneecap’s US work visas to be revoked, after their fiery pro-Palestinian set at Coachella.

⚡Ukraine shares evidence of Chinese citizens, companies involved in Russia's war. During a meeting with Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine Ma Shengkun, Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgen Perebyinis shared evidence that companies are producing military equipment for Russia.

Anticipation is building over whether diplomatic efforts can stop more than three years of fighting since Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour. #EuropeNews

The world was left in shock on Easter Monday when the Vatican announced the passing of Pope Francis after the religious figure, 88, suffered a stroke followed by heart failure.

Davos founder Klaus Schwab faces whistleblower investigation https://www.ft.com/content/63842232-a1fe-4b70-b96c-ba174650d741

Here's your guide to 4/20 celebrations, specials and discounts this weekend.

‘Whole ecosystems decimated’ by huge rise in UK wildfires

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DOGE's “discovery" of toddlers & centenarians receiving benefits was just another lie. “Many of the claims identified ... were not payments to individuals over 100 years of age, but rather ‘pseudo records’ of previously identified fraudulent claims,” a 2023 memo from the Dept. of Labor reads.

Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: The ACLU said in the report that the number is likely higher because the ADOC has failed to maintain accurate records.

Former Toronto mayor says letter to federal leaders on climate action ‘really hit a nerve’ By @suzannerent.bsky.social

Temu has dramatically slashed its online ad spending in the U.S. and seen its ranking in Apple’s App Store plunge following President Trump’s sweeping tariffs.

The Emanuel family fled their home in the Kokomo community of rural Marion County as a tornado hit on March 15. They returned to find two pine trees had fallen on top of their tortoise's backyard home. Myrtle was missing.

A Palestinian student at Columbia University went into a Vermont immigration office hoping to begin the final step to becoming a US citizen. But instead of having an interview, Mohsen Mahdawi – who’s been in the United States for a decade – was taken away in handcuffs.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said at the White House on Monday he had no plans to return a man mistakenly deported from the United States.

Rachel Maddow, "Saying no, we're gonna fight was an option for everyone. Harvard has now taken that option, which means that fight at least is on." #harvard #rachelmaddow #trump

Harvard following in what Princeton did and said F U to the administration, because they both have large endowments and have been under severe criticism for how they cracked down in student protestors last year

The US Department of Education froze $2.3 billion in federal funding for Harvard University, just hours after the school rejected President Donald Trump's demands that it make deep policy changes on diversity reut.rs/4ie41w1

Good for Harvard

This evening, April 14, 2025, @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com opened his program with a light exchange with @maddow.msnbc.com and said one word "Veritas"...this will be the only time he wears the tie he has on this evening- celebrating Harvard's rejection of #47's attempt to take over the university.

April 15 - Tax Day - HBO releases 2 films I directed as part of “The Dark Money Game.” The first, “Ohio Confidential,” about a $1.3 billion-dollar heist by pols in Ohio. Sen 2nd, is “Wealth of the Wicked” about the corruption of the Supreme Court. youtu.be/dykZuyO7RUU

Bernie stopped by Coachella after Los Angeles Rally! Bernie will be in Missoula on Wednesday, April 16th at the UofM Adams Center. 10:30am Doors Open 12:15pm Music by Cosmic Sans 1:00pm Speaking Program Starts with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Sara Nelson, International President of AFA-CWA

coachella. bernie sanders. viva revolution!

The US has deported another 10 people that it alleges are gang members to El Salvador, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, a day before that country's president is due to visit the White House reut.rs/3G8LvaT

BREAKING: A person is in custody in relation to the arson of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence. They will be charged with attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson and aggravated assault against an enumerated person, Pennsylvania District Attorney Fran Chardo said.

JUST IN: A suspect has been arrested in connection to alleged arson at the Pennsylvania governor's house that forced Josh Shapiro and his family to evacuate, police say.

Lady Gaga returned to a massive audience for the first time in eight years to headline the #Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, dancing with model skeletons, fighting a dancer dressed as a monster and serving up a surprise encore reut.rs/4j3PeoB

NOTUS [Apr 12] -- WorldPride organizers are warning trans athletes about the risks of traveling to the US to attend the 2025 event in DC. Separately, NOTUS contacted 40 corporate sponsors on WorldPride's website and only 5 affirmed their support. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

BREAKING: Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei says “indirect talks” between Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi and US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff have begun with the mediation of Omani FM Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi. 🟠 LIVE updates: aje.io/fqsw5g

Prince Harry has vowed to visit Ukraine again following his secret visit to a rehab centre in the war-torn country.

Trump’s tariffs are aimed at restoring US manufacturing in the name of national security. Instead, he’s alienating the allies he’d need in a potential war with China

Prince Harry made an unannounced visit on Thursday to the city of Lviv in western Ukraine, where he toured a rehabilitation facility for military and civilian victims of the war with Russia.

The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

"First of all, I think it's just worth pausing to recognize, this was an extraordinary, unanimous rebuke."

The UK government should issue a warning to British citizens implicated in the Israeli military’s alleged war crimes in Gaza, a former UN diplomat has advised, days after a report was lodged with the Metropolitan Police

China turning blind eye to its citizens fighting in Ukraine, says Zelenskyy

Greensboro woman bought Dodge Challenger with money defrauded from Medicaid, DA says

USDA programs that fund the purchase of local farm-fresh foods for school cafeterias and fund much of the product available in food banks were cut for 2025, amounting to more than $1 billion in purchasing. Here's how these changes are affecting those relying on this food across the country: