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Ukrainian President Volodoymr Zelensky is in Washington Thursday, where he's expected at the White House to meet with President Joe Biden. Importantly, he's also soon due to meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, at a moment some GOP dissenters are holding up Pentagon funding and the potential for more Ukraine aid.

McCarthy vowed Tuesday to confront and intensely question Zelensky when the two meet. He posed going into the meeting, "Is Zelensky elected to Congress? Is he (more…)

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

Hundreds of millions of people are desperately hungry all over the world, and by the time you are done reading this article more children will starve to death.  Earlier this year, CNN actually admitted that we are in the midst of “the worst food crisis in modern history”, but because the mainstream media rarely features images of the tremendous suffering on the other side of the globe most Americans don’t even (more…)

Hollywood writers and producers are close to an agreement to end the Writers Guild of America strike following face-to-face meetings on Wednesday, CNBC reports, citing people close to the negotiations.

If discussions hold together, the two sides hope to finalize a deal Thursday. That said, if the tentative deal unravels, the strike could last through the end of the year – keeping more than 11,000 film and TV writers in limbo. The writers and producers have argued that t hey (more…)