Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow is ready to end the war in Ukraine, branding it a "tragedy".

The Kremlin chief, who sent his troops into Ukraine last February, blamed Volodymyr Zelensky for the continued violence.

Both sides have lost thousands of soldiers on top of the many civilian deaths in Ukraine.

Putin is reportedly poised to use his speech at an upcoming G20 meeting to urge world leaders to work out a strategy for ending the war.

 Several Chinese students have fallen ill with a mysterious pneumonia in Beijing and Liaoning, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

 the wife of a candidate for office in Iowa was convicted on 52 federal charges of voter fraud after enlisting Vietnamese immigrants to fraudulently fill out absentee ballots, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Far-right populist Geert Wilders has won the most votes Wednesday in the Dutch election with a landslide margin, according to an exit poll, putting him in line to lead talks to form a new ruling coalition and possibly become the country’s Prime Minister.

In a major shock, the exit poll published by the national broadcaster NOS said Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) won 35 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament, more than twice the 17 he won at the last election.

If confirmed when votes are counted, a Wilders victory would send a seismic shock through European politics.

The FBI is investigating a vehicle explosion Wednesday at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing between the U.S. and Canada in what sources tell Fox News was an attempted terrorist attack.

Explosives were in the vehicle at the time and two people who were in the car are dead, the sources told Fox News. A border officer was injured.

The vehicle was driving from the U.S. to Canada and were attempting to drive toward the border officer building, the sources said.

Webmaster addition: I am very worried about a false-flag incident tomorrow!

A reported explosion at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls has prompted swift action, with New York Governor Hochul stating that she is being briefed on the incident.

“Americans have come to realize that being online can mean having your speech rights curtailed. But that doesn’t mean they like it. Indeed, they mostly oppose the idea, in particular when it’s Big Tech and Big Government censoring together, according to the latest I&I/TIPP Poll.

VIDEO: Scott Adams: The sitting president of the United
States, who is running for reelection, doesn’t feel the need
to campaign. He is one of the least popular presidents of all
times, the polls to say that he would lose, and he doesn’t
feel the need to campaign.

More mystery diseases. This time of the respiratory nature.

America's limitless and unconditional support for Israel's genocidal military campaign in Gaza "is losing us Arab publics for a generation," reads a diplomatic cable obtained by the media.

 Big-box retailer Target has apparently never learned from its earlier fiasco, as it is in hot water once more over "woke" Christmas decorations sold on its shelves.

US Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,  is blowing the whistle on a secretive surveillance program that permits federal, state, local and Tribal law enforcement agencies to surveil over a trillion domestic phone records annually.

People are so thin skinned today, they can’t even take a regular joke! It seems like the whole country is offended!!

 Cosmopolitan was always the trashiest of the ladies’ magazines one could pick up at your local Shop-Rite check-out aisle, but the dying of print and the squeeze put upon whatever shopping lane business they were still doing by self-checkout apparently has the editors over at Cosmo pretty desperate these days.

• Rents in August were just 0.28% higher than August 2022, according to RealPage.
• Compare that to a year ago, when rents were posting 11% annual growth.
• The number of new units being built is at a 50-year high, with more than 460,000 being completed this year alone.

The former Democrat Mayor of College Park, Maryland, Patrick Wojahn, has been handed a 30-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to charges related to the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material.

The true danger to American democracy comes from the radical left. Just don’t expect to hear it from the mainstream media.