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Starmer promised a 10-year plan to fix the state-funded National Health Service, which in recent years had gone from a source of national pride to a symbol of a state and society under growing strain. “Although the NHS does much good, patients repeatedly share their frustrations and confusion about accessing care,” said William Pett of patients’ group Healthwatch England. He added that “these challenges are not experienced equally, with poorer communities hit hardest.” U.K. health spending grew by 2.4% a year between 2019 and 2024, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, down from an average of 3.6% over the...

Merchan wants to make sure that no one who may vote democrat will sit out the election - Disappointed with Kamala et al? How about this - If Trump wins the election, there's no way he goes to jail. But if he loses he DOES - so don't sit home, get out and vote!

Population control organization Planned Parenthood will have a presence at this week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago where it will be offering up free abortions and vasectomies. In a post to X, the St. Louis-based branch said that medical baby killing as well as male sterilization services would be provided gratis on Monday and Tuesday in the vehicle which will be parked on the crime-ridden city’s West Loop. “Here we come, Chicago! Our mobile health clinic will be in the West Loop with @ChiAbortionFund & @TheWienerCircle Aug 19-20, providing FREE vasectomies & medication abortion,” the post read. “EC will also...

State Dining Room 2:14 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Well folks, today I have two announcements to make. One, is we’ve got ourselves a Secretary. Xavier, welcome. SECRETARY BECERRA: Thank you, Mr. President. THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for being willing to do this, and I really appreciate. And also today, I’ve — I said when we became a team and got elected, that the Vice President was going to be the last person in the room. She didn’t realize that means she gets every assignment. (Laughs.) But the Vice President and I, and all of us here, have been working very hard...

Bring a vote to expel each and every one of them form congress. They should also be investigated to see if they were communicating with the SS director concerning Trump's protection. The repubs really need to step up and fight these leftists. When there is no enforcement against crime, the people begin taking matters into their own hands. So, you want to stop a civil war? Consider taking the legal and political actions against leftists - -Leftist lawyers should be disbarred and sued for malicious prosecution and prosecutorial misconduct. -Leftist judges need to be impeached. -Leftist bar associations need to...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday it had sacked “several” employees accused by Israel of involvement in Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 attack on southern communities. The accusation also prompted the United States to suspend critical funding to the organization. The decision was taken “to protect the agency’s ability to deliver humanitarian assistance,” said UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini. “Any UNRWA employee who was involved in acts of terror will be held accountable, including through criminal prosecution,” he said. A senior Israeli official told the Axios news site that the Shin Bet and the IDF provided information that pointed to...

Murphy, a grandfather who grew up in Texas, was in Sacramento, California when two armed men stormed into the Sunglass Hut on West Gray in Houston. uring the investigation, officers received a call from Anthony Pfleger, the head of loss prevention for EssilorLuxottica. Pfleger said he worked with Macy’s loss prevention to determine that the person who robbed the store was Murphy. 'Using artificial intelligence and facial recognition software, EssilorLuxottica and Macy’s took the video from the robbery and determined that Murphy was the robber,' the lawsuit states. 'The video was recorded by Kimco’s poor low-quality cameras.'

A small group of protesters, including relatives of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, demonstrated at the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Thursday to picket humanitarian trucks going into the Palestinian enclave while demanding that aid be cut off until the captives held by terrorists in the territory are freed. Part of the group was initially stopped by a roadblock but they made their way through, walking several kilometers toward the crossing for a second day in a row. It was not immediately clear what impact the protest had on truck movements. On Wednesday the demonstrators held up over 100...

A California woman who stabbed a man she was dating 100 times and killed him, before turning the knife on herself and her dog, has been handed 100 hours of community service. Bryn Spejcher, 32, was given the astonishingly low sentence following psychiatrists' ruling that the tragedy was '100 percent' caused by cannabis-induced psychosis, which she suffered after taking two hits of the victim's bong. The judge ruled that Spejcher 'experienced a psychotic break from reality' and 'had no control over her actions' when she killed Chad O'Melia, then 26, on Memorial Day weekend 2018. She will spend the 100...

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Friday that the only peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict included the creation of a Palestinian state, and he suggested this might need to “be imposed from the outside,” without Israel’s agreement. “The actors are too opposed to be able to reach an agreement autonomously,” Borrell said. “If everyone is in favor of this solution, the international community will have to impose it.”

A Chinese marathon runner who chain-smoked his entire way through a 26.2 miles race has been disqualified, despite achieving a competitive time. Uncle Chen, nicknamed the 'Smoking Brother', managed to complete the Xiamen Marathon in three hours and 33 minutes on January 7 this year. But despite crossing the finish line only five minutes slower than his 3:28 finish two years ago, the 52-year-old was disqualified for 'smoking on the track'. He placed 574th out of more than 1,500 runners.

Nice vid on EV fires where the use of an Electric Vehicle Fire Blanket is used to smother the fire. They cost about 3k and weigh about 60 lbs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itGeAq9rBeYRunning time about 8 mins.

Alaska flight 1282, a Boeing 737-9 MAX bound for Ontario in California, left Portland just after 5pm local time on Friday when a deactivated emergency door used as a regular cabin window blew out at 16,000 feet. The controversial jet was carrying 171 passengers and six crew. ...ripping a child's shirt off and sucking passengers phones out of the plane. The Boeing 737-9 MAX rolled off the assembly line just two months ago, receiving its certification in November 2023, according to FAA record posted online Miraculously, no injuries were reported on the plane, which had only gone into service in...

Morgane Oger, a transgender woman, was given a Meritorious Service Medal by Canadian Governor-General Mary Simon on December 7. Official photos show her receiving the award alongside dozens of other Canadians honored for their 'exceptional deeds'. Oger was chosen for the award in 2018 and it was unclear why it took five years for her to actually receive it. Oger was at the time spearheading an effort to strip Vancouver Rape Relief of city funding because it refused to shelter transgender women. Vancouver City Council in March 2019 pulled its CAN$34,000 a year grant from 2020 unless the shelter, the...

-Avoid mouldy grains, nuts and apples -Avoid mouldy soft cheese, berries and bread -But some cheeses ARE safe One of the only foods you can eat even if it is mouldy is hard cheese. 'Hard, dense foods like hard cheeses or firm fruits and vegetables are more resistant to penetration by the mould so the mould could be cut out and the food consumed', he added. To be safe Dr Fuchs recommends people cut off about 2.5cm of food around and below the mouldy area. However, when mould is specifically used to make a product, such as blue cheese, it...

Ramallah is working with US President Joe Biden’s administration on a plan for running the Gaza Strip after the Israel-Hamas war ends, even as the Palestinian Authority’s prime minister expressed hope that Hamas will be a partner in the process, according to a Bloomberg report. Citing a senior Palestinian official, the news outlet reported that US officials recently met with PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh on a plan for post-war Gaza. “We’re not going to go there on an Israeli military plan,” Shtayyeh told Bloomberg. “Our people are there. We need to put together a mechanism, something we’re working on...

Astounding video shows the house erupt, sending debris in all directions as a SWAT vehicle sat outside. The sky was lit up in bright orange as glowing particles of the explosion fell down over the Virginia neighborhood. After SWAT teams arrived, the unidentified person inside the duplex began firing at officers, it is claimed. They prepared to enter the property - only for it to explode in a huge blast that sent debris and a fireball roaring into the sky.

As Israel’s four-day truce with Hamas came into effect in Gaza on Friday morning, thousands of people who had fled to areas near Gaza’s border with Egypt were seeking to return to their villages with children and pets in their arms and their belongings loaded onto donkey carts or car roofs. Overnight Thursday-Friday, Hamas urged Gazans to return to the north of the Strip, where the IDF has focused its ground offensive for the past three weeks. The truce deal, under which the Gaza-governing Hamas terror group is set to free 50 Israeli hostages over four days from Friday, bars...

The parents of a young Louisiana child have been slammed for hosting a gangster-themed party where they were filmed playing with realistic looking guns and dancing to explicit rap music. The 'NBA YoungBoy themed' children's birthday party in Louisiana went viral online after video was released of five young boys dancing while also flashing fake cash.

Sabrina Khan-Williams, the “team leader/diversity, equity & inclusion teacher” in the World Studies department of Tilden Middle School, contends in social media posts that Hamas’ paragliding attack on a rave was a hoax. “Debunked!! No music festival attack. Babies were not burned. Women were not violated,” she wrote on Facebook. “Palestinian’s [sic] are being killed and their organs are being sold,” wrote Khan-Williams, who teaches in Bethesda, Maryland, which has a significant Jewish population. Christopher Cram, a spokesman for MCPS, would not explain what the role of a “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Teacher” was, or how “inclusion” could encompass Khan-Williams’...