LOS ANGELES (OC).--Putting his cards on the table, Russian PresidentVladimir Putin told U.S. and Ukrainian officials what would have to happen if they wanted peace.  Putin offered Ukraine’s 47-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky the same deal as in March 2022, only weeks after the Feb. 24, 2022 invasion:  Accept the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk and Russia sovereignty over Crimea.  Zelensky rejected Putin’s offer as has fought a bloody, costly war, losing some 25% of Ukraine’s best sovereign territory on the Black...

LOS ANAGELES (oc).--Kremlin officials said yesterday after meeting with President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff that Russian President Vladimir Putin had not rejected the peace plan that could bring an end to the Ukraine War.  Trump has been working for months on a plan to end the nearly four-year conflict that’s decimated Ukraine, killing thousands, exiling millions and lost some 25% of Ukraine’s best sovereign territory.  Ukraine’s 47-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to reject Trump’s...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--As United Healthcare CEO Brian Thomson comes up to the Dec. 4 one-year anniversary of his cold blooded killing by 27-year-old Luigi Mangione.  When Luigi shot Thomson in the back in Midtown Manhattan, he only had what looked like glee, believing he was doing the world a service by taking out a symbol of today’s health care nightmare.  Now that he’s under suicide watch in a Manhattan jail, his attorneys are pulling out all the stops, trying to get evidence tossed out before an eventual trial.  Mangione’s...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the European Union of sabotaging President Donald Trump’s peace plan to end the Ukraine War.  “They don’t have a peace agenda, they’re on the side of war,” Putin said, speaking to an investment group before meeting with Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and other U.S. officials.  Trump has been working feverishly on a peace deal for months, actually taking his frustrations out on Putin, when, in fact, Ukraine’s 47-year-old President and the EU have been the obstacles to...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) told CBS News “Face the Nation” Margaret Brennan that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike on a drug boat Sept. 2, killing two remaining survivors, accusing Hegseth of committing war crimes. Citing a Nov. 28 Washington Post report, an anonymous source said Hegseth was quoted as saying “kill them all,” then ordering a second bombing of the disabled drug-ferrying vessel.  Kaine clearly plays Democrat political hack, making more a statement to besmirch President...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Speaking today on CBS News Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), once a running mate to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of war crimes.  “If that reporting is true, it’s a clear violation of The DoD’s own laws of war, as well as international laws about the way you treat people who are in that circumstances,” Kaine told Brennan.  Kaine referred to a Washington Post story citing unnamed sources that Hegseth ordered a second...

LOS ANGELES.--Firing his long-time Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak for a corruption scandal, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked foreign leaders to believe he knew nothing about it, despite Yermak’s close ties to the Ukrainian president.  Yermak was accused by Ukraine’s anti-corruption commission of taking kickbacks Of 10%-15% of nuclear energy deals, Ukraine’s biggest source of energy despite widespread blackouts due to its war with Russia.  Yermak was quoted days ago saying that Zelensky would never agree to a...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Warning about possible land intervention in Venezuela, President Donald Trump turned up the heat on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, asking him to come to the table or face possible military intervention.  Trump has declared Maduro the head of a narco-trafficking operation, something Maduro denies.  Maduro accuses Trump of seeking regime change but Trump has said recently that he’s open to meeting with Madura and making a deal to curtail narco-trafficking operations but, more importantly, to open up...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Russian President Vladmir Putin agreed to end the war as long as Ukraine ceded territory of Donesk and Luhansk to the Kremlin, something Ukrainian President Volodymer Zelensky has refused to do until recently.  Zelensky had resisted Trump’s past peace plans which have been very consistent in requiring the Ukraine trade land-for-peace.  Zelensky decided Feb. 24, 2022 to go to war with the Kremlin with the expressed purpose of degrading the Russian military to the point it could no longer wage war.  Putin...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Struck by a glaring act of Islamic terrorism, U.S. officials were dumbfounded to explain the cold blooded attack November 26 on two National Guard troops from Virginia only blocks from the White House.  While government officials say there’s no motive yet for the brazen attack by 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakawal, government officials know it’s terrorism.  Living in Bellingham, Washington since 2021, where he entered the country under former President Joe Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome,...