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"I visited Piddington in Oxfordshire, a village that is planning a referendum on becoming independent from the United Kingdom and could potentially then ask to join the United States. The move is in response to a British government proposal to house 1,200 asylum seekers at a former military base on the outskirts of the village of 350 people. I spoke to parish council chair Tim McNally and other villagers about their plans and how joining the USA could change Piddington. If you're American please let me know what you think in the comments!"

Charles Baudelaire, a French poet, gets credit for the line about the Devil’s greatest trick being to convince you he doesn’t exist. (No, it wasn’t Kevin Spacey in the movie “The Usual Suspects.”) Usually people reach for it to describe evil operating in plain view, unbothered, because nobody bothers to look.It came to mind reading the Democratic Socialists of America’s 2025-2026 platform. More precisely, it came to mind watching what happens to that platform once it reaches any election campaign.Nothing about the document itself is hidden. It sits on the organization’s website. The national political committee adopted it formally. Fox...

A Somali refugee turned St. Cloud businessman whose childcare center has racked up years of state licensing violations is now one step closer to the Minnesota Legislature. Abdi Daisane won last week’s Democratic primary with 62.5% of the vote, advancing to the November general election against Republican Mike Conway in House District 14A. Daisane, who was born in Somalia and spent time in a Kenyan refugee camp before entering the United States, has owned Blooming Kids Child Care Center in St. Cloud since 2017. Alpha News first reported on the center’s history of violations in July 2024, when Daisane was...

Tiny East Texas Town of Under 1,000 Implodes Over Dirty Water Cover-Up, Retaliatory Arrests, Fired Judge, Mass Resignations, and 15 Years of “Bad Policing” The Henderson County District Attorney and County Attorney have informed the Trinidad, Texas Police Department that they will no longer accept ANY cases for prosecution solely investigated or filed by the department until further notice. The letter, obtained by local media, effectively neuters the Trinidad PD’s ability to bring meaningful criminal cases. The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office will now handle crimes inside city limits. Pending cases will be reviewed one by one. The prosecutors themselves requested...

State Rep. Angie Nixon upset Trump impeachment witness Alexander Vindman in Florida’s Democrat Senate primary on Tuesday night.Nixon, who ran to the left of the TDS-addled Vindman, defeated the fired National Security Council (NSC) aide by a 56-44 percent margin.Vindman has built his campaign around his obsessive hatred of President Donald Trump and anyone who supports him, repeatedly calling President Trump a “Russian asset” and calling the MAGA movement a “nihilistic cult bent on establishing dictatorship.”

Senator Darline Graham’s (R-SC) shocking debate fail has gone viral — with observers on both sides roasting the senator’s stunning lack of command on key issues. The defining moment in Graham’s debate with Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) came when co-moderator Greta Van Susteren asked: “Are Taiwan and the South China Sea national security issues for the United States? And if so, why or how?” “I’m just gonna be honest here,” Graham replied. “I’m not, on national security- I’m not that informed on national security, so- but I do support the military. My brother was in the Air Force for 33...

Examples of what happens to the woman of countries that are ruled by Islamists.

President Donald Trump proclaimed on Tuesday that talks with Iran were not happening, a direct contradiction to his own son-in-law and top negotiator Jared Kushner, who said a day earlier that the negotiations were ongoing. “There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the president posted to Truth Social on Tuesday. “The Naval Blockade remains in full force and effect. The Hormuz Strait is open and operating. All water mines have been removed or detonated. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” But Trump’s post may have been news to Kushner,...

California’s super-rich have plenty of luxury bunkers to choose from — but this one takes doomsday prepping to a whole new level. A massive network of underground vaults is being carved into the Swiss Alps, offering the ultra-wealthy a heavily fortified place to stash everything from priceless art and gold to vintage Ferraris and expensive wine. The complex will house about 20 private vaults buried under more than 100 meters of solid rock — a natural fortress designed to keep criminals out. Each underground cave is being sold on a 99-year lease, with prices starting at nearly 1 million Swiss...

President Donald Trump’s administration announced Monday that it is pausing all border construction in Big Bend National Park following bipartisan backlash over the project’s potential impact on the West Texas wilderness. CBP is pausing all construction activity in Big Bend National Park while I visit and conduct a personal, on-the-ground evaluation. CBP is firmly committed to protecting America, and that includes our national treasures like Big Bend National Park (BBNP). We know the current and… pic.twitter.com/UkmzvTluwH — CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott (@CBPCommissioner) August 17, 2026 U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott announced the halt, adding he had just...

Flock Safety, whose surveillance cameras blanket the United States, released a slate of new privacy and transparency “safeguards” Thursday amid reports of police officers abusing the system and spying on innocent people. But critics say the move is largely about optics, warning Americans not to miss the forest for the trees: that a surveillance state has been built right before their eyes.“As long as Flock continues to value profits over privacy and continues to treat legitimate privacy concerns as mere PR issues, we are going to continue to see more Flock efforts like today’s that seek to create headlines about...

The number of bison being hit on roads in the N.W.T. appears to be on the decline. From 2021 to 2025, the N.W.T. Department of Environment and Climate Change (ECC) recorded 60 collisions with bison. So far in 2026 however, there has been only one. Terry Armstrong, Bison Ecologist with ECC, says the territory may actually have wildfires to thank for those statistics. “The immediate effect of fire is that bison change where they're spending their time,” he said. “Bison have a habit of moving into recently burnt areas and benefiting from those.” He says they can start to return...

Dr. Anthony Fauci has declined another Senate appearance, this one a voluntary, transcribed interview before Sen. Ron Johnson’s investigative subcommittee.Johnson (R-WI) chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which is conducting a separate investigation into the federal COVID-19 response. The inquiry includes the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines.The refusal came from Fauci’s attorney, David Schertler. He argued that forcing Fauci to appear again after the July 29 hearing would “impermissibly harass or degrade Dr. Fauci for political purposes.”

A mob of teenage thugs, made up mostly of minorities, caused mayhem at the Wisconsin State Fair over the weekend terrorizing families. The mob also brutally attacked police officers. Watch video of the violence below and click here to get my daily breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox. “Absolute insanity at the Wisconsin State Fair. MULTIPLE police officers were badly beaten, as families with kids were seen RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES as teens began brawling,” one eyewitness wrote on Facebook. “Pretty sure these weren’t the 4H kids from Portage County.” Video shows at least one police officer being punched...

"On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) argued that “democratic socialists are people who believe in a market economy, they believe in capitalism, but they believe in regulations as well.” And “we’re not going to be bullied by their characterization of maintaining a safety net for Americans and calling it Communism, no.”Moore said, “Republicans are very disappointed that David Crowley won that election, because they had planned their entire campaign around characterizing Francesca Hong as a Communist, as a democratic — as a socialist and really conjuring up fear among people who have come to...

The Japanese defense minister on Saturday prayed at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, seen by Japan’s Asian neighbors as a symbol of the country’s past militarism. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, despite repeated past pledges to visit on the day marking Japan’s surrender, has so far stayed away from the shrine to avoid exacerbating diplomatic tensions. Visits by Japanese politicians to the shrine, which also commemorates World War II war criminals, have been criticized by China and South Korea. They see it as showing a lack of remorse over Japan’s wartime atrocities. Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has regularly visited the controversial shrine to...

Wasserman Schultz’s decision to run in one of a dwindling number of majority-Black districts after Republicans redrew her former seat has deeply divided colleagues. Florida’s primary next week will test whether Debbie Wasserman Schultz can survive her latest fall from grace within the Democratic Party she’s served for decades. Her run in the state’s 20th District has roiled the caucus: Wasserman Schultz, 59, is facing a crowded slate of challengers —several of them younger, several of them Washington outsiders — in an election cycle that has increasingly seen its voters oust longtime incumbents in favor of generational insurgents. ~~~~~ But...

A progressive New York City lawmaker says shoplifters should be left in peace to steal items like toothpaste and soap. Emily Gallagher - a Democrat Socialist member of the New York State assembly - shared a clip on her X account that also villainized drugstores, which have been forced to lock products in plexiglass cases because of rampant theft. Gallagher wrote that 'no one should be arrested - much less jailed' for stealing toothpaste' and said in a speech that such thefts were just 'crimes of poverty.' Speaking at an event, she continued: 'People who were stealing things like toothpaste,...

Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, the official Joe Biden publicly threatened and forced out of office in 2016, claims in his book Biden’s Corruption and War: The True Story of the 1 Billion Dollar Prosecutor that hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars connected to Ukraine were recycled through political interests and “globalist networks.” According to a Blaze Media column citing Shokin’s first-person account, massive sums of U.S. aid intended for Ukraine were recycled through political and globalist networks. He alleges $350 billion in American taxpayer money was diverted into these opaque channels amid the chaos of war. Arms...

A senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence official is the new owner of a historic building overlooking the White House Complex, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.Located approximately 650 feet northeast of the White House grounds, the 100-year-old Securities Building on 15th Street was purchased on July 21, 2026 for $8.4 million by the Philip Qiu and Family Foundation, filings show. The building’s new owner, Philip Qiu, has held numerous positions within Chinese intelligence and state security arms, according to university records and DCNF translations of Chinese government announcements.Qiu did not respond to multiple requests for comment.