Month: April 2022

Falun Gong Adherents Who Sought Religious Freedom in China Give ‘Courage to Millions’: Rep. Perry

April 22, 2022
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A peaceful gathering of about 10,000 religious adherents in communist China more than two decades ago “continues to give courage to millions around the world” who seek an end to Beijing’s repression, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) said on April 21. Perry was referring to an appeal by adherents of the spiritual group Falun Gong at…

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Falun Gong Adherents Who Sought Religious Freedom in China Gives ‘Courage to Millions’: Rep. Perry

April 22, 2022
April 25CCPChinaChina Human RightsChinese RegimeFalun GongPoliticsreligious freedomRepublicansSpecial TopicsUSUS-China relations
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A peaceful gathering of about 10,000 religious adherents in communist China more than two decades ago “continues to give courage to millions around the world” who seek an end to Beijing’s repression, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) said on April 21. Perry was referring to an appeal by adherents of the spiritual group Falun Gong at…

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Ohio Governor Candidate Joe Blystone Faces Campaign Finance Hearing One Day Before Primary

April 22, 2022
2022 Midterm ElectionsJoe BlystoneOhio Election CommissionOhio Governors RaceOhio Secretary of StatePoliticsRegional-Local NewsRepublicansUSUS News
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Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Joe Blystone will face a full-panel hearing to further investigate and decide upon two campaign finance complaints on May 2, which falls one day before the primary election. This was determined by the Ohio Election Commission (OEC) during a Probable Cause Panel meeting on April 21. The three-person panel voted unanimously…

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Beauty and the Blade: Meet the Knife-Maker Transforming Discarded Farm Tools Into Beautiful, Bespoke Knives

April 22, 2022
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In deep rural Vermont, there’s a handbuilt post-and-beam house made of boards chiseled by hand from logs hauled out of the woods by a man and a horse. Attached to the house is a carpenter’s workshop and a blacksmith’s shop. It was in these workshops that, as a child, Chelsea Miller watched her father do…

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Are the Sanctions the United States’ New Best Friend or Worst Enemy?

April 22, 2022
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Commentary Ongoing global sanctions will shape and determine the post-Putin era. Economic warfare can easily backfire and turn once pro-American energy dependent countries into pariahs and push Russia toward the United States’ adversaries. The sanctions-triggered geopolitical changes all point in one direction: China. In the past decades, choking sanctions have repeatedly failed and spawned consequential…

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Russian Defense Institute Engulfed in Flames Amid Reports of Chemical Plant Fire

April 22, 2022
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Seven people were killed on Thursday after a fire broke out at a defense research institute in the Russian city of Tver, emergency services officials said in state-run media. Other officials told state-run TASS that about 25 people also sustained injuries, with many jumping out of the windows of the three-story building while the fire…

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North, South Korean Leaders Exchange ‘Personal’ Letters Amid Tensions

April 22, 2022
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has exchanged letters with the outgoing South Korean President and thanked him for his efforts in pursuing peace between the two countries, North Korea’s state media reported Friday. South Korean President Moon Jae-in is due to end his five-year term on May 10, after which he will be succeeded…

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Russia’s Billion Dollar Crypto Market Targeted by US for Evading Sanctions

April 22, 2022
Business & EconomycryptocryptocurrencyEuropeMarketsRussiaRussia-Ukraine WarWorld
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Russia’s billion dollar crypto market is facing new scrutiny from the West in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine amid warnings that digital currencies are being used to help evade economic sanctions. The U.S. Department of the Treasury on April 20 announced the names of entities and individuals in Russia that it says have been involved in attempts to evade sanctions…

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Trump-Appointed Federal Judge Blocks Kentucky’s Abortion Bill, Planned Parenthood CEO Claims ‘Win’

April 22, 2022
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A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking Kentucky authorities from enforcing the HB 3 bill that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and requires women to submit to an examination by a doctor before receiving abortion pills. The abortion law contains reporting requirements and restrictions that Planned Parenthood said it…

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US Military OKs Prototype Mobile Nuclear Reactor in Idaho

April 22, 2022
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BOISE, Idaho—The U.S. Department of Defense plans to build an advanced mobile nuclear microreactor prototype at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho. The department late last week signed off on the Project Pele plan to build the reactor and reactor fuel outside of Idaho and then assemble and operate the reactor at the lab….

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