Kim shows Vlad a tiny gift 🎁 and the North Korean’s 🇰🇵  appreciation while celebrating the Russian’s 🇷🇺  70-year-old birthday 🎂.

The Russian dictator who would like to have a tight grip on power but as his military setbacks pile up, there is new speculation about who may be next up for the Kremlin's top job. His seven-month-long Russian invasion of Ukraine plunged the Russian ruling elite into chaos, and within it, a growing understanding the war will not be won.

How is it that Republicans today claim they love the USA but manage to hate the majority of law-abiding folks living in our America?

It was a no-brainer and guess who made the original decision to house them on Orchard Beach, The Bronx, and then a reversal?

The Orchard Beach site was intended to serve over 1K male migrants after Republican Governors in border states began busing migrants north in a POTUS protest of immigration policies. Did the NYC Mayor do it to save face?

Loretta Lynn had more songs banned from American radio than every other male country artist combined in the 20th century.

She was a straight-talking woman with a real down-home style and a series of direct USA country music songs with a serious message to tell.

In a career that spanned six decades in country music, Ms. Lynn released multiple gold albums. She had hits such as "You Ain't Woman Enough", "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin", "One's on the Way", "Fist City", and "Coal Miner's Daughter".

I am lots more proud than many peacocks of my management skills as well as filled with joy to learn about one of my hires.

My wide simile alludes to the NBC peacock, with its colorful tail that can be expanded like a fan, which has long symbolized vanity and pride. Both Natalie and I worked there, but at different times. I worked there as a news producer back in the days of Brokaw, Gumball, Pauley, Chung, and Norville.

On October 4, Catholics honor St. Francis of Assisi, Founder of the Franciscan spirituality as practiced by the friars and nuns 

St. Francis of Assisi thirsted with his whole body and soul after Christ. Drawing hope from his example, we are strengthened by our closeness to God. Praying together in community and coming before Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, we too seek to thirst with our whole body and soul after Jesus Christ.

Following St. Francis https://youtu.be/OQ-lpGujV88

After declaring an emergency in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico last month he arrived with millions, not paper towels.

President Biden ordered Federal assistance to supplement Commonwealth and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Tropical Storm Fiona.

Today, POTUS surveyed damage from Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico, where tens of thousands of people are still without power two weeks after the storm hit.