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The Diocese of Brooklyn wants to resolve the issue out of court to avoid “emotional strain for victim-survivors” · FILE PHOTO: A memorial mass at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, NY, September 11, 2016. © Getty Images / Corazon Aguirre/Pacific Press/LightRocke · [RT] The Diocese of Brooklyn, which has already paid over $100 million to victims, has announced that it will pursue a “global resolution”…

Mark Rutte likened the pace of Moscow’s battlefield progress to a “garden snail” despite Ukraine’s continued retreats from major strongholds · NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte attends the Munich Security Conference on February 13, 2026 in Munich, Germany. © Getty Images / Johannes Simon · [RT] NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte sniped at the Russian army, comparing its battlefield progress in Ukraine to the pace of a “garden snail.” His…

The Ukrainian leader is apparently gauging support for a vote that he swore he’d never hold · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rt-newsroom/By RT newsroom -Vladimir Zelensky makes a speech during a press conference in Kiev, Ukraine, April 22, 2025 ©  Danilo Antoniuk / Anadolu via Getty Images · Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s team has floated and later rejected the idea of holding an election this summer. Like much of…

Ro Khanna says Epstein files could end the monarchy—then targets Trump's Commerce Secretary. · While Democrats weaponize scandal, Trump kills the Green Agenda with the largest deregulation in US history. It's a 200-year-old British playbook, and it will fail. · Barbara Boyd · In this episode, Barbara Boyd breaks down how the Epstein files might threaten the British Monarchy as revealed by Ro Khanna on Sky News. Boyd analyzes how the…

Alex Krainer · The philosophy we embraced under I-System Trend Following is that a lifelong success at investment management entails four essential elements: truth, strategy, discipline and patience. Truth might be the most difficult and the most important of the four, because we couldn’t hope to forge effective investment strategies without discerning the truth about the world we live in and about the systems within which we must…

The timing of SVR’s warning about the West’s, and especially Poland’s and the US’, “NGO”-led Color Revolution plans in Belarus during its 2030 presidential elections might signal Russia’s concern that President Alexander Lukashenko is moving too fast in his détente with them due to naiveté. · Andrew Korybko · ussia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned in earlier this week that a collection of Western countries, Poland and the US…

Frank Bergman · Newly released Justice Department documents are raising disturbing new questions about Jeffrey Epstein, as records have revealed a large sulfuric acid purchase for his private island on the very same day that the FBI launched its federal trafficking investigation into the convicted child predator. · According to receipts and internal emails contained within millions of files released on January 30, Epstein arranged…

The shift to a new global order will have to be fought for, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has said · Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova talking to RT journalists. ©  RT · [RT] The future belongs to the multipolar world, but building it will not come without a struggle, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. · During an interview with RT on Thursday, dedicated to…

Berlin should pressure Kiev to agree to peace instead of issuing it with blank checks, Sahra Wagenknecht has said · FILE PHOTO: Sahra Wagenknecht addressing a BSW party congress. © Getty Images / Jens Schlueter · [RT] The German government is wasting taxpayers’ money by continuing to fund Ukraine, veteran politician Sahra Wagenknecht has said. · European nations have largely compensated for the sharp reduction of American…

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has urged Jim Ratcliffe to apologize for his “offensive and wrong” remarks · An anti-migrant protest in Crowborough, East Sussex, January 25, 2026. ©  Maja Smiejkowska / PA Images via Getty Images · [RT] British chemical industry tycoon Jim Ratcliffe has blamed the rapid influx of foreigners for the country’s economic problems, saying the UK “is being colonized by immigrants.” The 73-year-old drew…