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Russia, Ukraine to resume in-person talks after Biden’s overseas gaffes on troops in Ukraine, Putin’s ‘power’

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Diplomatic talks between Ukraine and Russia are set to renew this week, even after a sequence of gaffes by President Biden raised issues about potential escalation in Ukraine and decay in U.S.-Russia relations. 

Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamia stated Sunday that Russia and Ukraine agreed on a video name to carry in-person negotiations this week in Turkey, beginning both Monday or Tuesday. Russia stated the talks are probably to start Tuesday, in response to Reuters, with Monday probably serving simply as a journey day. 

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This isn’t the primary time Russia and Ukraine met for potential cease-fire negotiations in the course of the warfare – which has now dragged on for greater than a month. But it surely’s notable after the White Home was pressured to stroll again three feedback from Biden – on three consecutive days – that many feared had the potential to inflame worldwide relations within the area.

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President Joe Biden speaks on the Nationwide League of Cities Congressional Metropolis Convention, Monday, March 14, 2022, in Washington.
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On Thursday, Biden was requested if the U.S. would reply if Russia had been to make use of chemical weapons as a part of its invasion of Ukraine. Biden stated such a transfer by the Russians would “set off a response in form.”

After that comment, it was as much as nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan to make clear that Biden meant “we’ll reply accordingly” and that Russia would pay a “extreme value.” Sullivan added that “america has no intention of utilizing chemical weapons, interval, below any circumstances.”

On Friday, Biden was chatting with U.S. troops in Poland, and he stated the Ukrainian folks “have numerous spine” earlier than showing to recommend that the troops would quickly be in Ukraine itself – one thing U.S. officers have repeatedly dominated out.

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“And you are going to see whenever you’re there… you are going to see girls, younger folks standing – standing… in entrance of a rattling tank, simply saying, ‘I am not leaving. I am holding my floor,’” Biden stated. 

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A White Home spokesperson later clarified: “The president has been clear we aren’t sending U.S. troops to Ukraine and there’s no change in that place.”

And Saturday, Biden appeared to name for regime change in Russia, declaring, “For God’s sake, this man can’t stay in energy,” in reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“The president’s level was that Putin can’t be allowed to train energy over his neighbors or the area. He was not discussing Putin’s energy in Russia, or regime change,” a White Home official advised Fox Information Digital shortly after the speech concluded.

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov Monday stated Biden’s assertion was “definitely alarming,” in response to Reuters. 

Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., stated Biden’s gaffes represented a continued lack of self-discipline in its overseas coverage communications from the administration. 

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“It occurred once more. All of us keep in mind the ‘minor incursion’ greenlighting that the White Home needed to instantly attempt to clear up earlier than Putin determined to invade Ukraine within the first place,” he stated on “Fox Report.” “We have seen it with Vice President Harris throughout her travels. Phrases matter. While you’re the president of america, the commander in chief, the vice chairman of america, you’ll be able to’t be saying these things off the cuff. Your job is to deescalate and never escalate.” 

 Former U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus, additionally on “Fox Report,” stated he was involved Biden’s feedback may make issues more durable for Ukrainians to barter any sort of cease-fire. 

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“It was a mistake, clearly. He might imagine that personally. I feel numerous People suppose that personally. However he’s the president of america, so he can’t say that publicly,” Baucus stated. 

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“By saying it publicly he just about confirmed what President Putin already suspects,” Baucus continued. “The extra america says issues like that publicly the extra it closes our potential negotiations between all of the events who’re concerned right here, the extra it corners Putin, the extra Putin would possibly get extra harmful.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks via video call to the Doha Forum in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, March 26, 2022, calling on the energy-rich nation and others to boost their production to counteract the loss of Russian energy supplies.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks through video name to the Doha Discussion board in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, March 26, 2022, calling on the energy-rich nation and others to spice up their manufacturing to counteract the lack of Russian power provides.
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However nonetheless, Russia-Ukraine talks will resume this week. And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy advised Russian journalists over the weekend his nation is “able to go for” a deal that might embody some type of safety ensures in change for potential “neutrality” between Russia and NATO. 

The talks additionally come as Russia, after its tried blitz to overhaul Ukraine stalled and resulted in a lot increased than anticipated casualties, seems to be shifting its efforts to deal with probably breaking off a part of japanese Ukraine. 

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The Russian navy declared Friday that the “first stage of the operation” had been largely completed, permitting Russian troops to focus on their “high purpose — the liberation of Donbas.” Donbas, in Ukraine’s far east, was managed by separatist teams forward of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. And it was a part of the primary wave of Russia’s invasion into Ukrainian territory when Putin launched the invasion final month. 

The chief of Ukrainian navy intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, stated Sunday the change of focus may mirror Putin’s hope to interrupt Ukraine in two, like North and South Korea, and implement “a line of separation between the occupied and unoccupied areas.” 

Fox Information’ Greg Norman, Alex Rego and The Related Press contributed to this report. 

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Soros DAs suffer 12 big defeats, billionaire's agenda faces uncertain future

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Americans are turning the page on the woke left’s approach to crime, if this week’s district attorney elections are anything to go by.

A majority of the 25 George Soros-linked district attorneys on the ballot this week were defeated, signaling a backlash against progressive policies that critics say are to blame for a surge in crime across the country in recent years.

Many of the losing Soros candidates were running for office in deep blue jurisdictions and suffered heavy losses despite Vice President Harris clocking up comfortable majorities in those same areas – indicating that a large portion of Democrats are also done with the progressive Left’s soft on crime experiment, according to the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, a pro-police non-profit that tracked the 25 races. 

Of the 25 Soros-linked district attorneys on the ballot, 12 were either defeated or recalled. 

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Soros, the Hungarian-born left-wing billionaire, runs a dark money web of non-profits that bankroll various candidates around the world who align with his progressive agenda, including his Open Society Foundations. Soros has given over $32 billion to Open Society Foundations since 1984, according to its website. 

The most high-profile loss this week came in the city of Los Angeles, where District Attorney George Gascón, backed by Soros, was thumped 24% by his tough on crime opponent, Nathan Hochman, a former federal prosecutor, with crime being a top issue of the election cycle.

In contrast, Harris swept Los Angeles County by 30 points. 

In other areas of the liberal bastion state, hard-on-crime San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins comfortably beat out prosecutor Ryan Khojasteh, who was the handpicked candidate of former district attorney Chesa Boudin, who was recalled in 2022.

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Jenkins claimed in January that the city has been experiencing a “hard turn to the right” in recent years. Those sentiments were echoed by Gascón after his loss this week. 

In another loss for Soros-backed prosecutors in the Golden State, District Attorney Pamela Price was recalled in Alameda County, home to Oakland and Berkeley, less than two years after taking office following backlash for her alleged soft-on-crime approach. Vice President Harris clinched the county 75%-25%. 

“Across the battleground states and in Vice President Harris’ home state of California, a sizable share of Democrats voted to oust progressive prosecutors,” Sean Kennedy, the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund’s policy director, tells Fox News Digital. 

Nathan Hochman and George Gascon

Nathan Hochman unseated Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon on Tuesday. Gascon survived two recall attempts and came under fire for his progressive criminal justice policies.  (AP)

“The election results show that the soft-on-crime approach is not only a failed policy experiment, but also a political loser – even in deep blue areas.

California’s Proposition 36, which sought to restore tough penalties for drugs and theft, easily passed with 70.4% of voters. Every single county in the state voted in favor of Prop 36.

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The defeats come after retail chains and mom-and-pop shops have been hit hard by theft, smash-and-grab robberies and organized retail crime gangs, while cities like San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles have been ravaged by rises in property crime and retail theft.

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Kennedy says the voter backlash against soft-on-crime policies was especially acute in the battleground states.

In Georgia, District Attorney of Athens-Clarke and Oconee Counties, Deborah Gonzalez, was tossed out by 20%. She represented the same county where nursing student Laken Riley was allegedly killed by an illegal migrant, who had been arrested and then released before the brutal crime. 

Gonzalez ran 16% behind Harris, who carried those counties 56.5% to Trump’s 43.5%.

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In Georgia, District Attorney of Athens-Clarke and Oconee Counties, Deborah Gonzalez, was tossed out by 20%. She represented the same county where nursing student Laken Riley was allegedly killed by an illegal migrant, who had been arrested and then released before the brutal crime.  (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Meanwhile, traditional prosecutors in Arizona’s Maricopa County and Michigan’s Macomb County overperformed Trump’s margin of victory and beat back Soros-backed challengers, according to Kennedy. 

“In the most significant district attorney races, traditionally minded prosecutors got a larger share of the votes than either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris because one out of eight Harris voters backed the tough on crime candidate. It turns out public safety isn’t a partisan issue, it’s a common sense one.”

However, there were wins for Soros-linked candidates, with Savannah’s progressive prosecutor Shalena Cook Jones holding on to her seat by 7%.

In Florida, Soros-backed Monique Worrell reclaimed her position as the Orange-Osceola state attorney, beating out Andrew Bain by just over 5%. She was ousted last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for “dereliction of duty” on crime.

Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks

District Attorney Pamela Price was recalled in Alameda County, home to Oakland and Berkeley. (Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle)

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However, another DeSantis foe, Andrew Warren, lost to Republican Suzy Lopez in Hillsborough County. DeSantis suspended Warren in August 2022 for refusing to enforce the state’s abortion ban.

Kennedy says that out of the roughly 75 Soros-linked prosecutors nationwide his organization has since identified in 2022, over 30 have left office, and 20 have been replaced by traditional district attorneys. 

Fox News’ Andrew Mark Miller, Jamie Joseph, Louis Casiano and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report

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A comic, Trump and Alpha Male walk into an election

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Alpha Male has won.

What happens now?

Comedian Brent Terhune has for years satirized the angry, working-class white man who rails against libtards and expresses unyielding devotion to Donald Trump. His monologues resound with right-wing rants and epitomize toxic masculinity in a character he calls Alpha Male. But the aggrieved American man now rides on a sense of vindication in celebrating Trump’s return to the White House. And Terhune wonders what that means for his character and the nation.

“I think he’ll go from being a sore loser to a sore winner,” said Terhune, who lives outside Indianapolis in a blue-collar neighborhood. “Alpha Male will always exist. He was there before Trump. He doesn’t go away. He’s your dad, your cousin. We all feel misunderstood and betrayed at times. But he’s got to find a way to justify everything Trump and MAGA do. It’s a weird hurdle, and a way for me to get out my frustrations.”

Terhune — a former Boy Scout and a Catholic-school-raised liberal — abhors Trump and is nothing like his alter ego. Alpha Male, who wears a russet beard, wraparound sunglasses and a backward ball cap, is enamored with the likes of Tucker Carlson and has no tolerance for gender studies, critical race theory or what he sees as the liberal radicalization of a country that has succumbed to snowflakes and bibliophiles.

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The character is at once emblematic and a caricature of the Joe Rogan demographic, bros and aging bros, mostly white but with a growing number of Latinos, who revere Elon Musk and march to Trump’s crass, weaving rhetoric.

“His people will be encouraged,” Terhune said of the president-elect, suggesting that the most extreme of Trump’s followers will become more of a threat to democracy, civil rights and gender equality than during his first term.

“He’s an embodiment of who they are,” he said. “They believe he hates the same things they do. They’re willing to excuse anything and everything for their guy. There’ll be no repercussions.”

Trump and his allies ran a high-testosterone, anti-immigrant, protect-the-economy campaign that appealed to ranchers, mechanics, pastors, billionaires, college students and the radical Proud Boys. Musk — who has 204 million followers on X — urged men to turn out and vote, posting a militant reference on the day of the election: “The cavalry has arrived. Men are voting in record numbers. They now realize everything is at stake.”

Musk reposted an artist’s depiction in which he, muscle-bound and stripped to the waist, resembles the Hulk carrying an American flag. Rogan sits atop Musk’s shoulders lifting Trump toward the sky in a trinity that evokes both a savior complex and hyper-masculinity.

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Such imagery suits Alpha Male. Terhune’s character does not apologize. He does not equivocate. He represents, said Terhune, who was profiled in The Times last year, men who feel empowered by Trump’s showman brashness and the belief that he shares their rage and bewilderment at a left-wing, woke society that conspires to leave them behind.

Alpha Male was born out of what Terhune saw as the hypocrisy of conservatives who espouse American ideals, such as freedom of speech and religion, but attack anyone opposed their prescribed views. The character’s first appearance came when Terhune posted “Redneck Burns Nikes” in reaction to then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick taking a knee in 2016 during the national anthem to protest racism. That was followed by Alpha Male diatribes on book banning, the Black “Little Mermaid,” Trump’s mug shot, ruminations on Hunter Biden’s laptop and swipes at President Biden, whom he calls “Papa Long Hugs.”

Brent Terhune channels his character Alpha Male in a video rant from his car in Greenwood, Ind.

(AJ Mast / For The Times )

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Alpha Male, whose videos have had millions of views on social media, has become a way for Terhune to understand and navigate the nation’s divisions. The character is a funny, if unsettling, mirror who at times — like Archie Bunker before him — earns a degree of empathy. Terhune’s irony and satire can be so sly that some people don’t get the joke, thinking that Alpha Male is not an act but the comic’s true self.

“Is this satire or is this guy really as deranged as he sounds?” one man posted on Facebook.

Like many liberals, Terhune, who spoke by phone from his home on the day after the election, was finding it difficult to reconcile the many ruptures and recriminations that have jolted the country since Trump’s first campaign eight years ago.

Trump’s recent victory is “a shocking but not so shocking revelation of where we are as a country,” said Terhune, the son of a lunch lady and a father who trucked fuel to construction sites. “A lot of people were fed up with the last four years, but this says that people don’t think past themselves. It is their need to put party over country for perceived patriotism. I’m a straight white guy. I’ll probably be fine. But what about people who aren’t straight and white?”

Through it all, though, the focus of Terhune’s Alpha Male bits will stay on Trump and what he has shaped. In a recent video about Trump working at McDonald’s, Alpha Male says, “Mr. Trump doesn’t need to work there. He was just sticking it to lying Kamala Harris. … There’s no proof she even worked there. Hell, are we even sure she was the attorney general of Commie-fornia? No. Are we even sure she was vice president? No. Nobody knows. There’s no proof.”

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In another skit, Alpha Male is the driver in the garbage truck Trump rode in after Biden’s verbal gaffe suggesting that Trump’s supporters were garbage: “You done pissed me off, Joe, and if being a patriot is what they’re calling garbage these days, then, yeah, I am garbage cause I’m going to show up to the polls wearing a garbage bag to show you what us white trash can do.”

Alpha Male, sometimes tearing up when he recounts his many grievances, mythologizes Trump, a leader who survived an assassin’s bullet, an army of prosecutors, 34 felony counts and endless scandal.

After what authorities said would have been a second assassination attempt against Trump at his golf course in Florida, Terhune reimagines the incident in a video in which Trump grabs a golf club to deflect bullets: “The first one he sent flying went back to the shooter, knocked his Bud Light clean out of his hand and he took off scared. And he was running away and there was an envelope of cash that fell out of his pocket. You could see on it, it said, ‘Pay off from the Dumb-ocrats.’ It was then that the Secret Service finally got off their lazy asses and did something.”

That is the kind of fervor — James Brown’s “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” played at the Republican National Convention in July — that has surrounded Trump since he swaggered onto the nation’s political stage.

“He can do no wrong,” said Terhune, mimicking his alter ego. “If you don’t like it, deal with it.”

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For Tehrune, the only way to deal with it is to keep channeling Alpha Male’s deep well of suspicion and anger.

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More than half of Harris voters want to relocate following Trump win: survey

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More than 50% of voters for Vice President Kamala Harris say they want to move following Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, according to a survey commissioned by StorageUnits.com.

Storage Units surveyed 1,837 Harris voters on Nov. 6 to determine how many would like to relocate – and who actually plans to – and the top concerns of those who voted against Trump.

Of those surveyed, 44% would like to move, but probably won’t, while 5% said they will definitely move and another 5% said they probably will. Those who would like to move, but probably won’t, cited personal finances, family and community ties as reasons they will stay in place.

Of the 10% planning to move or seriously considering it, 90% are looking into moving to another country, with the top choices being Canada, the United Kingdom and Mexico. California, New York and Colorado were the top three choices for those considering moving to another state.

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Nearly 54% of Vice President Kamala Harris’ voters want to move to a different state or country following Trump’s win on Tuesday, according to a survey commissioned by StorageUnits.com. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

According to the survey, the top three reasons Harris voters want to relocate are concerns that a federal abortion ban will be enacted, an increase in racial inequality and progressive rights will be overturned.

Abortion access at the federal level, which was one of the Democrats’ top campaign issues, has been an area of concern for many Dem voters despite Trump stating he would not enact a federal abortion ban and reiterating that he agrees with the decision being left in the states’ hands after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022.

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Though President-elect Donald Trump has stated multiple times he would not enact a nationwide abortion ban, many Democrat voters listed abortion access as a top concern under a Trump presidency. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Other top areas of concern include: reduction in healthcare access, increased social inequality, lack of gun regulation and the weakening of public education.

“​Some Harris voters who are ​​experiencing fear, anxiety, and concern ​following the election results may elect to​ shift from a red to a blue state with friendlier LGBTQ+ and/or less restrictive abortion laws. However, there are a number of factors influencing any potential moves, such as cost of living, job availability, and housing prices,” Realtor Jo Ann Bauer told Storage Units.

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Of all the generations surveyed, Gen Z had the highest number of Harris voters saying they will definitely or probably move (nearly 20%) when compared to Millennials, Gen Xers and Boomers. 

Gen Z also had the least number of participants say they have “no interest in moving” at about 30%.

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A flag is left at the event held by Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during Election Night at Howard University

President-elect Trump beat Vice President Harris by a landslide, winning the electoral college and the popular vote by 5 million. (REUTERS/Daniel Cole)

Trump won the 2024 election decisively, garnering at least 301 electoral votes over Harris’ 226 and beating Harris by more than 5 million in the popular vote.

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