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Prince Harry's visa documents will not be made public, a judge has ruled in a major victory for the Duke of Sussex. In a court decision handed down on Monday, US District Judge Carl Nichols said the British royal had a 'reasonable privacy interest' in relation to his US immigration paperwork and therefore such files should remain private.... The decision comes after Judge Nichols spent five months reviewing Harry's immigration file as part of a case brought by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank based in Washington, D.C... The judge said that some documents submitted to him by DHS...

These are my notes on Mercouris' video from 3 days ago. It took a few days for me to listen and write notes on the entire video. I probably should just write notes on the portion I listen to before he releases one or two more, and call it a day. :DIn comment #1 below , I paused to post my notes on the first 12 minutes of today's 9/23 Alexander Mercouris video to see how much I missed these past few days. EU Commission President is in Kyiv, talking with senior officials/Zelensky.Explanations for her visit - some suggest she's...

Following a warning to Lebanese civilians, the Israel Defense Forces carried out the largest series of attacks during the current war, hitting over 1,100 Hezbollah targets across southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley throughout Monday.According to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, the Israeli strikes had destroyed "tens of thousands" of Hezbollah's rockets and precision missiles by the evening."This matter has a decisive significance on Hezbollah's capabilities and this action is an action that the IDF carries out with professionalism, modesty and a very high quality," Gallant said. "What was built over 20 years, since the Second Lebanon War, is now being...

In a city that has raised taxes by almost 25% over the past half-decade, the mayor has made the obvious suggestion: use your home's equity to hand over your wealth to keep the city's gravy train going. You will own nothing and be happy. ⚡South Portland Mayor Misha Pride tells seniors to take out a reverse mortgage to afford the city's sharp increase in property taxes. pic.twitter.com/auJK1pzAdt— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) September 23, 2024It's a brilliant solution if you think about it. You worked all your life to buy your house outright, happy that you can pass along the value...

Russia has been making more nuclear threats lately but there's a growing sense in Moscow that they aren't working like they used to. Putin has become the boy who cried nuke.When Russian President Vladimir Putin warned earlier this month that Western approval for Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia would mean Moscow was at war with NATO, Russian propagandists rushed to rattle the nuclear saber.Alexander Mikhailov, director of the Bureau of Military Political Analysis, called for bombing plywood mock-ups of London and Washington — complete with reproductions of Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and the White House — to simulate nuclear...

Yarden Silveira was a 23 year old male transgender who suffered immensely due to vaginoplasty and had many complications eventually resulting in death. The doctors refused to help him and would not consider his desire to fix his surgery. He said he had wished he never had the surgery or if he knew what he knew today would never do this. Since the age of 15 he wanted to be a woman. Transitioning and detransitioning are deeply personal processes, and it's crucial that individuals receive support that aligns with their needs and choices at every stage. If a person experiences...

When individuals kill themselves, we look for answers in their DNA, their environments, their personal reactions to feelings of impotent rage, rejection, disappointment, heartbreak, and mental illness. But how to explain group suicide? There are numerous examples, going back to 206 B.C., and these relatively recent cases:In 1943, in the final phase of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, many of the Jewish fighters besieged in the “bunker” at Miła 18 committed mass suicide by ingesting poison rather than surrender to the Nazis.In 1945, about 1,000 residents of Demmin, Germany, committed mass suicide after the Red Army had sacked the town.In 1978,...

Former President Donald Trump on Monday questioned the impartiality of the Justice Department in carrying out the prosecution of the man accused of trying to assassinate him at a Florida golf course. Mr. Trump said he didn’t trust the federal government that is prosecuting him to also prosecute accused assassin Ryan Wesley Routh, 58.“The DOJ and FBI have a Conflict of Interest since they have been obsessed with ‘Getting Trump’ for so long,” Mr. Trump said in a statement. “It’s very difficult to trust the Biden/Harris DOJ/FBI to investigate the assassination attempts, due to Election Interference and the FAKE CASES...

If Kamala Harris were truly running away with this race, as public polls purport, there’s no way she would be clamoring for another debate.Latest public polling shows Kamala Harris — yes, her — to be more popular with voters than a free massage, water in the desert, and even group sex at P. Diddy’s house. Which is why it remains confounding that she’s clamoring for yet another debate with Donald Trump.The only reasonable explanation is that her campaign managers have told her she’s on track to lose, probably decisively.CNN on Saturday announced that the vice president accepted a second debate...

Shares of Intel jumped 3% Friday as The Wall Street Journal’s Lauren Thomas, Laura Cooper, and Asa Fitch reported that Qualcomm has approached Intel about acquiring it for perhaps as much as $90 billion, citing multiple unnamed sources. The “massive” deal, as the authors put it, is financially daunting, as Qualcomm has just $13 billion in cash and equivalents on its balance sheet against $13 billion of long-term debt. Even a mostly stock exchange would require some large debt raise. Intel, moreover, already has $19 billion of net long-term debt. The deal is much larger than Qualcomm’s attempted acquisition of...

A North Carolina student has been found dead a day after she went missing while hiking a mountain in South Africa, authorities and her “devastated” family said Monday. Brook Cheuvront, 20, was reported missing Saturday from Table Mountain in Cape Town — where she was studying — after she stopped responding to friends and couldn’t be located on a tracking app, a rep for SANPark, which manages the mountain, told CBS News.

Caitlin Clark took a brutal poke to the face in her WNBA playoff debut on Sunday night - leaving the Indiana Fever rookie with a black eye. Clark's first playoff appearance up in the big leagues did not go to plan as the Fever slumped to a 93-69 defeat against the Connecticut Sun. And not only did she struggle in the game - with her return of 11 points a lot lower than she's become accustomed to this season - but the 22-year-old was also left rolling around on the floor in pain early on after being struck in the...

The husband of one of the two moderators in next week’s CBS News debate featuring vice presidential candidates J.D. Vance and Tim Walz appears to have made two donations of $250 apiece to the controversial Lincoln Project during the 2020 election. Records from the Federal Election Commission show that Ali “Yado” Yakub, the husband of Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, contributed on July 2 and Sept. 26 of that year to the anti-Trump super-PAC.Screenshot of Ali ‘Yado’ Yakub’s donations in 2020 to the Lincoln Project / IMAGE: FEC.gov Voting records confirmed that the address listed was the residence of...

resident Biden professed his admiration for Bill and Hillary Clinton Monday evening after being “trapped” by his wife into giving a speech in New York City — telling the former first lady that “I love you” for defending him in public. Biden, 81, was not scheduled to give remarks at the Clinton Global Initiative’s summit, but he appeared there to support Jill Biden before being called to the stage himself to accept a Global Citizen award. “This is what you call being trapped,” Biden said, before proceeding to thank the former first couple. “Hillary, I want to thank you —and...

… historically, Latinos have tended to favour the Democrats. ..But polls suggest Republicans have gained ground this election cycle, with many factors cited including the economy, immigration, and abortion rights. … Elon Musk, who has endorsed Trump, posted a faked image of Kamala Harris in a red uniform emblazoned with the communist hammer and sickle, captioned “Kamala vows to be a communist dictator on day one. Can you believe she wears that outfit!?” … Posts linking Harris to communism really took off online after the presidential debate, according a report by the DDIA prepared for the BBC. During the debate,...

A Fijian survivor of abuse by New Zealand Marist brothers wants the Pope to apologise to Pacific victims as well as those in New Zealand. The New Zealand Catholic Church will not say whether it is urging Pope Francis to make a public apology following recommendations by the Royal Commission. Felix Fremlin was 7 years old when abuse began by a New Zealand Marist brother, Bertrand Hodgkins, who taught at the Marist Brothers Primary School in Suva in 1979. Another brother, Terence Payne, started teaching there shortly after and the abuse continued. Fremlin said Payne offered lollies and chocolates to...

Sean “Diddy” Combs welcomed droves of Hollywood’s biggest stars to his Hamptons mansion decades before the feds started looking into his “Freak Off” parties. Following the disgraced rapper’s arrest, photos from some of his star-studded White Parties have resurfaced online, showing everyone from teen heartthrobs to some of fashion’s biggest names attending Diddy’s parties out East. One photo, from July 2000, shows Diddy and then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez lounging on a massive white bed covered in pillows. The pair dated from 1999 to 2001. During the same party, the pair were pictured alongside Kimora Lee Simmons and then-husband Russell Simmons, Matthew...

In Bolivia former Leftist President Evo Morales demanding... In Israel early Tuesday rocket fire from Lebanon rockets landing... Telegram CEO Pavel Durov saying the social media app will share phone numbers and IP addresses with authorities when presented with a valid legal request. Durov currently under the pressure... A police internal investigation order in Israel that's after confrontation between religious Jews (Haredi) and police... The US moving additional troops to the Middle East... The US sanctioning Chinese technology for cars as well as car technology from Russia... At least 30 bodies have been discovered on a boat drifting off the...

Fadi Boudia, one of Hezbollah famous mouthpieces apparently hit while going live on air, No update on his situation, he was going to tell us about ongoing victories 1:31 PM · Sep 23, 2024

If President Biden had any decency, he’d limit his United Nations speech Tuesday to two words: I’m sorry. Kamala Harris should echo that. Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates once warned (all too rightly) that Biden had been “wrong on nearly every major foreign-policy and national-security issue over the past four decades.” Over the past four years, Joe and Kam have continued that pattern, leaving the world facing its most perilous threats in decades. Start with the disastrous bugout from Afghanistan, executed in blatant defiance of every military adviser and the plan left in place by the Trump team. That bugout...