Month: February 2022

North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Amid Russia-Ukraine Conflict

North Korea fired an alleged ballistic missile on Sunday morning, said South Korean and Japanese military officials said. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed to Yonhap that North Korea fired a suspected missile toward the sea from its east coast near Sunan, where the isolated, communist regime’s airport is located. The missile fired on…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Duma:’ Director Carroll Ballard’s Primo Shaggy Cheetah Story

During his 40-year filmmaking career, retired director Carroll Ballard choose the great outdoors as the settings for all but one (“Nutcracker: The Movie”) of his eight movies, including two Vietnam War-era documentaries (“Beyond This Winter’s Wheat” and “Harvest”) commissioned and produced by the U.S. Information Agency. “Duma” was Ballard’s final feature effort and, with the…


New York Governor Drops Mask Mandate for Schools

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Sunday that the state will drop its statewide school mask mandate, becoming the latest Democrat official to ease COVID-19-related rules. Hochul, who unveiled the development during a news conference, cited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) having eased its masking recommendations in most public settings for the…


Russia’s Attack on Ukraine May Embolden China to Seize Taiwan: Analysts

The Chinese regime is learning from the Russia-Ukraine conflict and what it’s currently witnessing may embolden Beijing ambitions in relation to Taiwan, analysts say. As Russia advances through Ukraine, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is cataloging “all information from the invasion” as part of their plan to invade Taiwan sooner than later, according to Col….


Beautiful Bucharest: An Overlooked European Capital Worth Exploring

The upheavals of 1989 are now a long time ago, but walking down that street in the heart of the capital, Theresa relived it all, like yesterday. Unlike some revolutions across Eastern Europe, the uprising in Romania wasn’t peaceful. Over there, she says, pointing to a balcony, that’s where Ceausescu made his last speech. The…


Don’t Know Enough About Who Donald Trump Really Is? Watch This | Larry Elder | Tim Devine

Guest Tim Devine talks to Larry Elder about his book “Days Of Trump: The Definitive Chronology of the 45th President of the United States,” which chronicles all 1,461 days of the Trump presidency. Devine says he wrote the book because he noticed there was so much news coming out every day about Trump that it…


China Was Never Going to Condemn Russia

News Analysis A call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping on Feb. 25 was done with the intention of one thing—and one thing only: expressing solidarity in the ongoing effort to upend the U.S.-led international order. “It is necessary to abandon the Cold War mentality,” said Xi. Instead,…


Athletes Use Stress to Boost Their Well-Being—and You Can Too

Almost everyone wants to know how to reduce stress. After all, stress can have many negative effects on both our physical and mental health. An increasing body of evidence shows that changing the way we think about stress might actually better help us manage it. Not only can this improve our well-being, including our mental…


Top 25 Roundup: Nation’s Top 6 Teams All Lose

Tommy Kuhse scored 14 points and No. 23 Saint Mary’s posted an epic wire-to-wire 67–57 victory over top-ranked Gonzaga on Saturday night in their West Coast Conference matchup at Moraga, Calif. It marked the second time the Gaels have defeated a No. 1 team in 13 opportunities. The other time was the school’s memorable 60–47…


World’s Largest Cargo Plane Destroyed at Contested Airport Near Kyiv, Ukrainian Government Says

The Ukrainian government said Sunday that “the world’s largest aircraft” has been destroyed at a strategically important airport outside Kyiv amid a Russian attack. “This was the world’s largest aircraft, AN-225 ‘Mriya’ (‘Dream’ in Ukrainian),” Ukraine’s’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter alongside a photo of the plane. “Russia may have destroyed…