Trump stuns democrats with a bold move – Checkmate

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Monica Pop
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President Donald Trump addressed the Congress on March 4th for the first time since taking office and the speech he delivered became a hot topic, making headlines not only in the States but worldwide.

Among the rest, he delivered a message to the people of Greenland, saying, “If you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America.

“We need Greenland for national security and even international security.

“And we’re working with everybody involved to try and get it. But we need it really for international world security.”

Further, in his speech to the Congress, Trump blamed Biden’s administration for spending $8 million on making mice transgender, something comedian and host Jimmy Kimmel mocked him about on his show.

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President Trump bragged of his administration’s accomplishments so far, and while the Republicans praised his speech, the Democrats showed their discontent with the government’s work.

Taking to the social media, many of them sparked debates about constitutional crisis, claiming he’s undermining democracy.

The deep divisions in American politics are now more obvious than ever.

Addressing the Republican Governors Association, Trump said, “I think the midterms are going to be a big, big surprise.

“You go back to the last I think eight elections in a row, the midterms haven’t been great for the person that wins the presidency. And I think so far, we’re very popular.”

He expressed his confidence that his party would dominate the 2026 elections, maintaining full control of the federal government, as per the Daily Mail.

“The red states are going to do good, and the blue states, I don’t know, maybe they’ll totally disappear off that map,” Trump said.

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According to the Independent, the House Democrats are looking for a way to “productively” disrupt President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress. Citing Axios, they reported a democrat to have said, “The part that we all agree on is that this is not business as usual and we would like to find a way — productively — to express our outrage.

“There are definitely a lot of constituents that really want Democrats to disrupt and there are… constituents who feel like that just plays into his hands,” a House Democrat told the outlet.

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My wife left me and the kids for a rich man — 2 years later, she begged for another chance

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Monica Pop
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My wife left me and the kids, and her decision not only brought devastation and anger but also left me facing a million questions from my girls and my entire family—questions I didn’t have the answers to.

What I believed to be a beautiful marriage of ten years ended as though it had never existed.

During the last couple of months of my union with Melissa, she became distant and spent more time on her phone and on the social media than around the girls.

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It felt like something switched in her. She was no longer her old self.

And then, out of the blue, she told me she wanted out of the marriage.

“Melissa, it’s not just about you and I, we have two daughters together,” I tried to convince her to change her minds.

In the days to come, my pleas turned into begging, but she wouldn’t listen.

“What is wrong, Melissa, we can work together on whatever makes you feel this way,” I said, but she seemed determined to leave.

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We weren’t extremely wealthy, but we did have nannies for the girls growing up and could afford to go on family vacations twice a year, but it seemed like my wife wanted more.

“I’ve found myself,” she said. “I want something different.” She then packed her bags and left.

Heartbroken, I found myself struggling between work, the house, and taking care of my girls. On top of everything, my entire family wanted to know why my marriage burst like a bubble, and I didn’t know the answer.

The girls kept asking when mommy was coming home, and those questions shattered my world.

The worst of all was that I was diagnosed with cancer, but my wife left before I even had the chance to share my diagnosis with her.

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A few weeks later, I finally learned the true reason behind Melissa’s decision. She was with another man, her financial consultant.

As I scrolled through his Instagram, I saw photos of them at expensive 5-star restaurants, and their travels to Paris.

My wife left me and the kids so that she could have fun while her daughters left empty spaces on their crayon drawings hoping she would come back.

It was excruciating, especially for Sophie and Emily who longed for their mom.

But over time, we managed to cope with the reality of Melissa’s absence. My days consisted of struggling to balance my commitments and the long and tiring chemo sessions. My biggest concern was that my girls could lose their father.

The following year was a real hell. Chemo was excruciating, leaving me vomiting and barely standing on my legs. I lost my hair and a significant amount of weight. But I refused to give up.

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After all those struggles, twelve rounds of chemo and a number of radiotherapies, I was finally cancer-free.

And then, two years after my wife abandoned us, I met her at a gas station and the meeting almost felt like poetic justice. Seeing her after that much time felt surreal. I couldn’t believe my eyes. “Melissa, is that you?” I asked as soon as I got out of my car.

She looked older and fragile, as though her entire world collapsed.

Melissa tried to avoid me at first, but she then asked to talk to me at the nearest park.

The woman who felt confident and wanted more from her life than being around her husband and her children was now crushed. She regretted her decision of ever leaving and begged to reconnect with her daughters.

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“No, Melissa,” I said firmly. “They spent a long time feeling miserable because their mother had left them. But now they finally moved on an are thriving.”

Her new man, Marco, turned out to be a fraud who left her penniless.

At one point, I even felt sorry for my wife who left me and the kids and her poor choices, but I didn’t let her tears change my decision of not taking her back.

Both me and my kids deserved better.

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Mother-in-law makes fun of son’s wife for a long time

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Monica Pop
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In-law relationships can be difficult to navigate. Often, both sides feel the pressure of balancing respect for each other while protecting their boundaries. The truth is that these relationships require patience and open communication.

From the very first moment Liliya met her mother-in-law, it was obvious the elderly woman didn’t like her. She believed Liliya wasn’t good enough for her son, Igor.

He was an engineer, and Liliya seemed to be just an ordinary manager at the mall located at the city’s outskirts. Often, Liliya’s mother-in-law, Alla Sergeevna Voronova, would tell her son to leave his wife because she wasn’t worthy of his love.

These words hurt Liliya, but her love for Igor was so big that she felt like she needed to endure everything.

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What neither Alla nor Igor knew was that the shopping mall where Liliya worked belonged to her parents. They also owned a number of apartments around the city.

Following their passing, it was Liliya who inherited everything.

So, one day, when Alla said she was looking for a place to rent, Liliya knew she had to put her plan to teach her MIL a lesson into action.

It wasn’t long before Liliya ran her fingers through the lines of the lease agreement. Alla never assumed she would be paying rent to the daughter-in-law she disliked so much. The deal was done through a real-estate agency so that Alla never suspected anything.

Time passed by before Alla failed to pay her rent on time. It was then that Liliya sent her an eviction notice. She somehow felt sorry for her MIL because she was her husband’s mom, but she knew Alla deserved it.

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However, as she felt the pressure of her secret too big, she decided to tell Igor everything before she sent the notice. She explained to him that her parents were wealthy people and that she owned a business and several estates. Among the rest, she confessed that she also owned the apartment his mother rented.

Igor was confused, and even mad, but once Liliya explained her reasons, he said he understood her. Then, it was about time Alla also learn the truth.

Needless to say, when she received the eviction notice with her daughter-in-law’s name on it and realized she was paying rent to her for so long, she felt betrayed and angry.

Eventually, the mother-in-law understood that she treated Liliya badly and never gave her a chance.

It took time before the two women started getting along and put all their differences aside, but they knew they had to do it because of the man that meant the world to both of them, Igor.

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Woman entered my apartment with a key saying my hubby invited her

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Monica Pop
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I spent the last couple of months away from home, taking care of my sick mother. All I knew during that period were sleepless nights, bland cafeteria food, occasional hospital chair naps, and a lot of worry.

When mom finally started feeling better and it was about time I get back home, I felt relieved. Honestly, I couldn’t wait to have coffee in my kitchen, sleep in my bed, and see my husband, Michael.

However, shortly after I returned home, I received a huge surprise that almost turned my world upside down.

I entered my apartment and took a long shower, but that’s when I heard the front door open.

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Wrapped in a towel, I rushed downstairs and that’s when I saw a gorgeous young woman holding the key to my home.

“Who are you?” she asked me the moment she saw me.

“Who am I!? I live here. The question is who are YOU and why do you have a key to my apartment,” I asked, confused and worried.

She was obviously puzzled. “Well, Michael gave it to me,” she said.

“Oh, did he?” I said, my voice unusually calm. “Because I—his WIFE—am back, and that is definitely news to me.”

“His wife!? But he told me he was single,” the woman whispered.

And just as she wanted to leave, I told her to stop and invited her to the kitchen where Michael was having his coffee.

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I was about to learn what was really going on and what he was doing while I was gone.

When we stepped food in the kitchen, the woman looked at Michael and asked, “Who is this?”

Well, that’s Michael, my husband.

Michael was looking at both of us, surely aware something odd was going on.

At that moment, the woman took her phone out and showed a photo, saying, “This is Michael.”

Well, we finally learned what was really going on. The photo was of Nick, Michael’s brother who somehow always found himself in trouble.

Michael smiled, although deep down he was mad at his brother. “That’s why Nick was so interested about my work schedule during the last couple of months,” he said.

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The three of us decided to teach Nick a lesson. So, Michael called him and told him we were waiting for him for dinner. “I’ll be there in 20,” he said.

But when he knocked on the door, it was the woman, who introduced herself as Sonya, who opened the door.

As expected, Nick knew he was busted.

When we asked him why he did what he did he said the dating expenses were too big nowadays and we were not around our apartment much anyways.

Well, Sonya decided to give him another chance as long as he didn’t lie to her ever again. As of my husband, he joked with Nick that he was paying our rent for the month, making his promise he won’t give our apartment key to anyone else.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s wife, Olena Zelenska, shares news on abducted children

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Monica Pop
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Since the start of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has become a widely discussed figure. His recent trip to Washington, D.C., which was dubbed a debacle by the media, placed him under the spotlight yet again. However, even though things have grown complicated of late for the Ukrainian leader, he has the support of his wife Olena Zelenska every step of the way.

Volodymyr and Olena have been together for many years, tying the knot on September 6, 2003. The couple have two children, Aleksandra and Kiril.

Olena Zelenska hasn’t been in the public eye as much as her husband, but she’s loved by her people.

The two first met while at university, where she was studying law. They didn’t start dating immediately as she was involved with someone else at the time, but over time, they understood they shared many interests together.

Zelenskyy, who became a comedian and rose to fame with the TV show Servant of the People, in which he played a high school teacher who became the president of the country, had Olena as a writer of the series. At the time, neither of them ever thought the series would later become a reality.

In fact, the show, which ran from 2015 to 2019, ended because Zelenskyy became the actual president of the country.

Mere months after becoming a First Lady, Olena addressed several issues, among which children’s health and reforms in school nutrition.

When the military conflict started in 2022, Olena and her children stayed in Ukraine.

“I will not have panic and tears,” Olena Zelenska wrote on Instagram at the time. “I will be calm and confident. My children are looking at me. I will be next to them. And next to my husband. And with you.”

However, as expected, the war affected their relationship. Olena and her husband were forbidden from seeing each other due to safety issues.

“But at least I can physically feel him next to me,” Zelenska said. “This isn’t normal. It’s not a normal relationship when children cannot see their father and have to talk to him on the phone. So our relationship is on pause just as it is for all Ukrainians.”

“We need to accumulate our strength, we need to save our energy,” she added.

Despite the was and their inability to be by each other’s side as much as they’d want to, the Ukrainian first lady shared with the Daily Mail that their relationship is as strong as ever.

“We’re never tired of each other, we never bore each other. And it makes the family stronger, too. It’s not a normal life for any person to live in a country at war. It’s a constant psychological burden and pressure. I hope when this pressure is relieved, with our victory, we will be able to stay sane and we’ll be fine. However, now I think that we are as close as ever emotionally,” Olena said.

She added: “And we understand each other very well. In fact, it is very important that you can respect your nearest and dearest. I am sure love is not enough. And I am happy that I can respect my husband because it would have been very hard to stay with him, even given huge love, if I hadn’t believed in his honesty.”

Olena Zelenska urged the world not to forget who started the war, asking their country to receive the much-needed support.

“Instead of stopping the aggressor and ensuring that he can never harm anyone again, discussions begin about some so-called mutually beneficial dialogue with him. This is a distortion of reality, a blurring of morality. And it is an extremely dangerous situation for everyone,” she said on the Italian political and news talk show Quarta Repubblica.

“We are not fighting for kilometers. We are fighting for our people in the occupied territories. These kilometers are their homes, their jobs, their schools, their familiar streets. These people have the right to live in their country without fear. We cannot leave them in danger.”

The Ukrainian government claimed that Russia has abducted over 19,000, and according to Olena, only 1,227 children have been returned.

“Unfortunately, this is not a mechanism that works consistently. That is why the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children was created – to ensure that such a mechanism exists and operates. Today, 41 countries are already part of this coalition,” she concluded.

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The ‘world’s deadliest food’ claims over 200 lives every year, yet nearly 500 million people still eat it

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Monica Pop
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When it comes to our diet, we should be mindful that the food we choose to consume affects our health and overall well-being. Opting for a balanced diet helps ensure our body gets all the necessary nutrients. Some foods, however, can be dangerous, such as cassava, which is labeled “world’s deadliest food.”

Cassava is a root vegetable rich in Vitamin C and copper. It is native to Central and South America, and is highly popular throughout the tropics. In fact, it is used the same way as the potato.

The top producing countries of this highly consumed vegetable are Nigeria, Thailand, and Indonesia.

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It is believed that cassava is consumed by over 500 million people worldwide. However, if eaten raw, it can pose risks due to the harmful compounds it contains.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 200 people die due to consumption of cassava annually.

This led cassava to be dubbed “the world’s deadliest food.”

“Cassava tubers contain a varying quantity of cyanogenic glucosides which protect the root against attack by animals and insects. Appropriate processing before consumption can reduce cyanogenic glucoside content of cassava. When high cyanogenic cassava is not processed correctly, high dietary cyanide exposure occurs,” a research published by WHO states.”

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“This often happens during times of famine and war. Cyanide in cassava is associated with acute cyanide poisoning and several diseases including konzo.

“Konzo is an irreversible spastic paraparesis of sudden onset, associated with the consumption of bitter cassava 22, 23 and a low protein intake. It is a disease of extreme poverty. Konzo mostly occurs in epidemics, but sporadic cases are also reported.”

If cooked and consumed properly and moderately – by soaking peeled cassava in water 24 hours before preparation, or by boiling it and drying it in the sun – cassava is a significant source of carbs, fiber, vitamins, and minerals.

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With threat levels increasing for three US volcanoes, experts warn of potential eruptions

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Monica Pop
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Scientists raise concerns over the increased threat levels for three US volcanoes, Alaska’s Great Sitkin and Mount Spurr, along with Hawaii’s Kilauea.

Following the seismic activity increase, the US Geological Survey (USGS) is keeping Alaska’s Great Sitkin volcano on a watch list, which is the third level on a four-tier warning system, due to it “exhibiting heightened or escalating unrest.” The volcano

This week, lava started erupting from the volcano’s summit and a few small earthquakes were felt in the past day.

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Regarding Mount Spurr, which is located 75 miles west of Anchorage, scientists believe there is a 50-50 chance of eruption.

Hawaii’s Kilauea also erupted this week, marking it’s ninth episode since December 23. The latest eruption saw lava shooting 300 feet into the air within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Residential areas haven’t been affected, but still, authorities remain cautious of the the risks of ash clouds and volcanic glass.

There are 169 active volcanoes on the territory of The United States of America.

As per the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO), the seismic activity is the result of presence of magma beneath the volcano. This is a sign that an eruption is imminent.

The factors experts monitor in order to predict any changes in the volcanos’ behavior include seismic activity, ground deformation, volcanic gasses, and thermal emissions.

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Scientists mapped danger zones and communities around Great Sitkin, Mount Spurr, and Kilauea that are of greatest risk in case of an eruption. In Alaska, Great Sitkin poses a threat to the Aleutian Islands, with ash clouds possibly disrupting flights and covering nearby towns.

Mount Spurr could affect travel, power infrastructure, and air quality at Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage, while in Hawaii, Kilauea’s activity in Volcanoes National Park raises concerns about lava flows and hazardous gases forcing evacuations.

Residents should stay informed and alert of any potential eruptions.

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Donald Trump’s Latest Dig at Canada’s Prime Minister: The ‘Governor’ Nickname

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Bryan Seal
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In a move that’s turned quite a few heads, Trump calls Trudeau Governor instead of “Prime Minister” – and it’s already fueling tension between the two leaders. The U.S. president didn’t hold back while responding to Canada’s new retaliatory tariffs, slapping an undermining title on his North American neighbor’s head of government.

Escalating Tariffs Spark a War of Words

Recently, President Donald Trump announced tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China, claiming they need to be “held accountable for illegal immigration and drug trafficking.” Canada got hit with a 25 percent tax on its exports to the U.S., plus a 10 percent tariff on energy products. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fired back by slapping American imports with a matching 25 percent charge. While the trade standoff was enough to raise eyebrows, Trump calls Trudeau Governor to mock him on social media, hinting he sees the Canadian leader as more of a subordinate than a fellow head of state.

Trump’s Unapologetic Nicknaming

In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “Please explain to Governor Trudeau, of Canada, that when he imposes new tariffs on the U.S., we’ll match it immediately!” Observers saw this pointed choice of words as a direct dig, undermining Trudeau’s office as Prime Minister. Trudeau was quick to respond in the press, slamming the U.S. for “starting a trade war with its closest partner,” questioning Trump’s logic in one breath while referencing how the White House approaches relations with Russia in another. And let’s not forget, this friction comes right after Trump’s public scuffle with other world leaders – from Zelenskyy to a push to rename the Gulf of Mexico and clamp down on birthright citizenship.

Fallout and International Reaction

The feud between the United States and Canada has already rattled supply chains and stoked fears among businesses on both sides of the border. As if these developments weren’t enough, China’s also incensed, threatening to retaliate after tariffs on its goods soared to 20 percent. Mexico hasn’t sat idle either – though it’s balancing carefully between economic concerns and political alliances. By labeling Canada’s PM a mere “governor,” the White House signals it’s ready to keep raising the stakes. As Trump calls Trudeau Governor repeatedly, tensions only seem to grow. Whether they’ll cool down or spiral into a full-blown trade war remains the burning question.

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