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Russian President Vladimir Putin sent aides and deputy ministers to hold peace talks with Ukraine in Turkey on Thursday, spurning Kyiv’s challenge to go there in person to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Putin last weekend proposed direct negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul and Zelenskyy had said he would be waiting for the Kremlin leader. But …
By Martin Armstrong The average American will never take a 16-day consecutive vacation from work. Why did President Joe Biden take off for nearly half of August? RNC Research reported that Biden has spent 532 days, or 40.3% of his entire presidency, on vacation. Who is leading the nation? Many often forget that Joe Biden …
The number of chronically absent schoolkids jumped by 6.5 million from before the pandemic to the 2021-22 year, says a study on how COVID lockdowns hurt classroom attendance. More than a quarter of students missed at least 10 percent of the 2021-22 school year, making them chronically absent, Stanford University research shows. Before the pandemic, …