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Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers struggled to access their accounts this morning following technical issues across all three banks. Complaints on social media show people were unable to use both mobile banking and apps.... ...Outage tracker DownDetector showed the issues started around 6am with 2,000 people complaining of technical difficulties with Lloyds Bank....

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Russia's former Imperial capital, St Petersburg, hosts the country's first royal wedding since the 1917 revolution as Grand Duke George Romanov marries his fiancée Victoria Romanovna Bettarini. .....

(JNS) Over recent days, foreign leaders, rulers and tyrants flocked to New York City for the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, also known as UNGA. Did you listen to their speeches? I thought not. So, it occurred to me that I should provide you with the highlights. Only I couldn’t find any. So instead, I will treat you to some lowlights—lies, evasions, boilerplate and insults to your intelligence. Start with Xi Jinping, president of the People’s Republic of China, who pledged “to fight COVID-19 in solidarity” and “always put people and their lives first and care about...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a $47.1 billion package of bills at Cal State Northridge Wednesday intended to smooth the way for more California students to go to college. The bills that were made law Wednesday would make it easier and more affordable for California’s high school students to attend University of California and Cal State University colleges. They also help fund affordable housing for students, particularly those attending community college, and add more funding to financial aid programs.... ...Nearly three dozen bills were signed into law at the Cal State Northridge event, all with the intention...

A Colorado Democrat who planned to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in 2022 has halted her campaign fundraising, citing proposed changes to the state’s congressional map that would place the Democrat’s properties outside the 3rd Congressional District that Boebert represents, according to reports. Kerry Donovan lives in Vail and owns a ranch in neighboring Wolcott, neither of which would be located in the revised 3rd district as proposed in the state’s revised congressional map, which still requires approval from the state Supreme Court, FOX 31 of Denver reported. The map was redrawn and approved by the state’s Redistricting Commission...

Sandra Lindsay, a New York City nurse who was the first person in the U.S. to get a COVID-19 vaccine, received her booster shot today.

“Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows" (Proverbs 7:12-14).

The Great Reset is the end of individual freedom. Greg Reese reports. Report...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) declined to sign a proposed statement condemning recent protests against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) because it did not address her resistance to prescription drug reform and the Democrats' budget reconciliation package, Axios reported. Footage circulated over the weekend of activists following Sinema into a bathroom at Arizona State University, where she teaches, and calling on her to support the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. Sinema blasted the move in a statement on Monday saying it “was not legitimate protest." Jeff Giertz, communications director for Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), coordinated a joint statement among lawmakers condemning the protests...

[H/T Fractal Trader]The CDC isn't altogether feckless. If you know how to parse the data - you can get to some interesting details. The parsed CFR rate tells a very interesting story.This infamous Case Fatality Rate stat (CFR) has driven many-an-analyst crazy. Even Dr. Fauci infamously messed up his CFR/IFR jargon in front of congress - which may turn out to be the most fateful mistake ever. (More on that here).Today, we’re going to whittle down the CDC Case Surveillance File and take a look at a particular subset of data which tells a very interesting tale.First, here are the...

Turns out, Merrick Garland's daughter is married to a man who is the co-founder of an "education service company" called Panorama Education, which, you will not be surprised to learn, provides materials on critical race theory to school districts – including dismantling "unconscious bias and systemic racism in schools." Oh, so the thing that parents are complaining about, is the thing that Merrick Garland’s family is getting rich from. Two days ago, Merrick Garland made it a crime to complain about the beliefs that are enriching his family. Does this make sense? This specific company has raised a ton of...

When in doubt, pick the same stocks that lawmakers' spouses are buying? That's what young investors are doing when it comes to trades made by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, . . . Though Nancy Pelosi herself doesn't trade stocks, her husband does. And that's enough for some social traders. . . . "We've been tracking their performance and every single stock she has bought in the last two years has gone up significantly, . . ." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/retail-traders-follow-nancy-pelosis-stock-moves-to-find-winners-163943788.html

The diplomatic showdown between Lithuania and the world’s second-largest economy began with just one word. In Uagust, Vilnius authorized Taiwan to set up a “Taiwanese” represents office in the country. Using that name offended Beijing…. MORE-

A far-Right French TV pundit who says immigrants should be forced to have French names has overtaken Marine Le Pen for the first time in the presidential race, according to a new poll which suggest he would face Emmanuel Macron in a runoff for the Elysee in April next year. Eric Zemmour, 63, who holds convictions for inciting hatred, is threatening to upset the already unpredictable French political landscape with his diatribes against what he dubs the "great replacement" of white French by Muslims and the loss of French identity and traditional values, along with warnings of impending civil war....

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that Americans should “be afraid of your government” after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the FBI would probe a purported spike in threats to local school officials amid protests over mask mandates and the addition of critical race theory to curricula. “Moms at school boards are being told that they’re criminals, potential domestic terrorists, for the crime of dissent,” Paul told “Fox News Primetime,” “and I think criminalizing dissent is something that we should all be appalled with.” When host Ben Domenech asked Paul what he would say to Americans who are worried...

A Texas man who posted on Facebook that he paid someone sick with Covid-19 to intentionally spread the virus at San Antonio grocery stores by licking items was sentenced Monday to just over a year in prison. Christopher Charles Perez, who also goes by the last name Robbins, was found guilty by a federal jury of two counts of making false hoaxes related to biological weapons, the Justice Department said in a statement. According to court documents, Perez posted: "My homeboys cousin has covid19 and has licked every thing for past 2 days cause we paid him too [sic]. Big...

New data coming out of Florida school districts show virtually zero difference between masked vs. unmasked counties, even as Covid-19 cases plummet across the state. Leftists hellbent on forcibly masking every child in schools across the country never had any solid data to back up their position, only emotional pleas and scare tactics. In truth, however, this virus has never posed any statistical risk to children, nor were they a significant transmitter to adults. And besides, if teachers were vaccinated, what were they worried about? While many districts refused to implement mask mandates in their schools, others stubbornly insisted upon...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, has prayer candles with his own likeness on them inside of his home office, and he’s being berated online and on cable TV over it. Is there any point when this little man will eat humble pie and simply go away? Not according to what he told radio host Hugh Hewitt last week. Hewitt, in an interview, noted that Fauci seems to have lost a great deal of trust with millions of Americans, and he asked, “Is there a point where you will say, ‘I do more harm than...

The Central Intelligence Agency admitted in a top secret cable to counterintelligence stations around the world that dozens of informants have been killed in the last few years, as well as multiple agents, according to The New York Times. The cable notes that the agency’s counterintelligence mission center has reviewed dozens of cases involving the killing, arrest, or compromise of foreign informants in the last several years. It also included the specific number of agents that have been killed by other intelligence agencies, which the Times notes is unusual for counterintelligence cables. The message also noted the difficulties that the...