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As a result of the mishap, some passengers had to fly without their bags, while others dealt with check-in delays as long as two hours. According to the BBC, a Heathrow spokeswoman apologized for the chaos. “Earlier today there was a technical issue with the Terminal 2 baggage system which has now been resolved,” she said. Due to the coronavirus pandemic [sic], the aviation industry is suffering from staff shortages after letting thousands of employees go.

The video was shot at a rally in London. The day before, Great Britain decided that the United States would extradite WikiLeaks founder

Germany is "very confident" that an agreement on Finland and Sweden joining the Nato alliance can be reached, a source inside the German government has told news agency Reuters (siirryt toiseen palveluun). However, the source considered it unlikely that a consensus could be found before a Nato summit in the Spanish capital Madrid next week, as Turkey continues to block accession talks. "As nice as it would be to announce concrete steps .. it would not be a catastrophe if it needed a few more weeks," the source said, adding that the German government has not identified any "insurmountable problems"...

The White House’s newest economic catchphrase to blunt the force of a potential recession in 2023 is to tell the American people that it is not “inevitable.” On Sunday, members of President Joe Biden’s team told the establishment media four separate times that inflation is not inevitable, despite polling and data that suggest a probability of recession.

NEW YORK (PIX11) — In less than two weeks, New Yorkers will cast their vote for who they want to be their party’s representative in the gubernatorial primary. Gov. Kathy Hochul, the incumbent frontrunner, faces a number of Democratic challengers. In the Republican Party, Andrew Guiliani, Harry Wilson, Rob Astorino and Congressman Lee Zeldin will square off against each other in the primary on June 28. Early voting runs until June 26. Zeldin was the favored candidate of choice among Republican voters ahead of the forum. He had 34% of the vote in a recent PIX11/Emerson College Polling/The Hill poll....

President Joe Biden took Monday off for the recently created Juneteenth federal holiday, remaining at his beach house in Delaware for the fourth day away from the White House. The president had nothing on his public schedule on Monday to recognize the federal holiday that he signed into law in 2021.

Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) reacted to a Wall Street Journal report that Democrats were expecting President Joe Biden to run again in 2024 but were not sure if he should. Host John Berman asked Clyburn to expound on his remarks in the report that he supported Biden first and then Vice President Kamala Harris if not.

“If Planet Nine is real, it would be on such an odd orbit and so far out in the outer Solar System, that it would really challenge our ideas of planet formation and dynamics,” Ann-Marie Madigan, assistant professor of astrophysics... Madigan isn’t searching for just one planet — she’s looking for an entire belt of celestial objects. Like Planet Nine, this proposed Zderic-Madigan, or ZM, belt would be really out there, far beyond the Kuiper belt, with some of its closest bodies being more than twice as far from the Sun as Pluto at perihelion. Unlike the Kuiper belt, this...

Sharp chest pains. Myocarditis and pericarditis. Heart attacks. Strokes and subsequent blindness.These are just some of the many COVID-19 vaccine-related adverse events reported by commercial airline pilots and by a growing number of advocacy groups representing aviation industry workers.According to these individuals and groups, the number of pilots speaking out about their vaccine injuries is dwarfed by the number of pilots who are still flying despite experiencing concerning symptoms — but not speaking out because of what they describe as a culture of intimidation within the aviation industry.These individuals fear they will lose their jobs and livelihoods in retaliation if...

Alasdair Burns, a stargazing guide on Stewart Island/Rakiura, received a text from a friend: go outside and look at the sky. “As soon as we actually went outside, it was very obvious what it was he was referring to,” Burns said. He saw a huge, blue spiral of light amid the darkness. “It looked like an enormous spiral galaxy, just hanging there in the sky, and slowly just drifting across,” Burns said. A spiral of blue lights as seen from Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand, on Sunday. Theories on social media about its origins ranged from aliens to foreign rockets to...

Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) was confronted by conservative activists for his controversial stances regarding “red flag laws” and using American tax dollars to fund Ukraine’s war effort against Russia, as well as his connections to the World Economic Forum (WEF). Among those who confronted the Congressman was Alex Stein, a prominent YouTuber and conservative activist. Stein is also a delegate for the Texas State legislature. When confronting Crenshaw, Stein called him “Eyepatch McCain” and “Globalist RINO”, a dig at Crenshaw’s neoconservative foreign policy stances and moderate stances on cultural issues affecting Americans. Stein even likened him to late Senator and...

Be thankful Merrick Garland is not on the Supreme Court. He is an absolute disaster as Attorney General. Oh sure, he's great at tarring moms and dads as domestic terrorists because they want to know what sort of trash is being stuffed into their kids' heads. He sucks at everything else. HIs DOJ won't prosecute someone who tried to set fire to a police car during the Floyd riots but he's happy to toss a disabled vet who was present for the Jan 6 protests but never entered the Capitol into solitary for 49 days. He's "watching" the Jan 6...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (TND) — In what must have been a terrible surprise, a north Florida man reportedly says a monstrous alligator exploded out of the water and devoured his beloved pet while they were playing fetch. Josh Wells tells the Tallahassee Democrat he was with his 40-pound black Labrador Retriever mix, named "Toby," on a nature trail in early June when the attack happened. Toby was reportedly standing in shallow water near the trail when he was grabbed, head first, by the gator. Wells says he and Toby were playing fetch with a tennis ball at the time. Boom, the...

t is widely seen that the U.S. House Select Committee about January 6 is falling flat. See, e.g., Breitbart's article, "January 6 Committee's Third Hearing So Boring NBC Cut to Golf Instead." (For golf to be more interesting, it's bad.) What's more amazing is that no clue has penetrated the fog of Democrats, establishment Republicans, the news media, or far-left activists about why. Our political class is so out of touch that it could not see this collective yawn coming. And no, this is not about interviewing that one magic witness. It is the fundamental concept of their entire effort...

Democrat John Fetterman managed to take nearly 60% of his party’s votes in the May primary. Fetterman has a few ways he can secure the seat, which could decide party control in Congress. Play down his stroke. Fetterman suffered a stroke days before the primary and has been off the campaign trail recovering from pacemaker surgery. News of Fetterman’s condition caused by atrial fibrillation didn’t appear to hurt as he took nearly 60% of the votes in the primary. Fetterman doesn’t look like a politician, often wearing shorts and shirts revealing his arm tattoos as he towers over most people...

Nine people were shot, one of them fatally, when gunfire erupted in Harlem overnight. Seven men and two women, ranging in age from 21 to 42, were struck in the area of Fifth Avenue and East 139th Street just after 12:35 a.m. Monday. The victims were enjoying a late night gathering when gunfire rang out. One area resident told Eyewitness News there were so many gunshots she could not believe her ears. "I was sitting in my living room and all I heard was sporadic shots ringing," she said. "It was like, 'Prong, prong, prong!'. And then it stopped and...

The Austin City Council voted to approve a resolution that would direct the city manager to adopt a minimum wage of $22 per hour for city employees. During the meeting on June 16, several city workers testified and said that a higher wage is necessary because of inflation, according to FOX 7 Austin. The resolution asks the city manager to develop a plan and timeline to increase the minimum wage to $22 per hour for city workers, which is increased from the current $15 per hour.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NSC-1v2.pdf The purpose of Interim National Security Strategic Guidance is to articulate an Administration’s national security priorities. president Biden’s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance March 2021 is at the link. It is a shining example of doublespeak and gibberish. AND, its purpose is to be used by all Departments as their guiding principles in all aspects of their responsibilities. It is full of flowery statements and sweeping generalities. There is no clear definition of the objectives, no procedure described for the achievement of the vague objectives, and no clear vision of the end state. There is no obvious synchronization of...

(Translation) The bill that would amend Gun Law 168-2019 to, among other things, add flexibility to certain aspects of the statute, and that caused a stir because it would allow citizens to carry two firearms at the same time, will not be reviewed during this Ordinary Session which will end on June 30. The information was confirmed to EL VOCERO by House Speaker Rafael “Tatito” Hernández who recognized that it does not look prudent to review the bill during this session, although he indicated that the legislative piece – which has several provisions that have been amended – has the...

Governor Jay Inslee (D-Washington) sent an eerie letter to his supporters on Monday predicting that they are in for a summer of "blackouts, destruction, and death" over the alleged climate crisis. The letter was sent directly after Gov. Inslee gave tacit support for destroying four dams along the Snake River which account for 8 percent of Washington's annual electricity generation, Environmental Director of Washington Policy Center Todd Meyers reports.