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When Emma Clayton decided to go back to work after five months of maternity leave, she knew there would be a price to pay. Not just less time with her young daughter but the hefty cost of daily childcare, too. But little did she realise just how crippling the astronomical sums involved would be. Absurdly, despite working full-time, the only way she could sustain her career and be a mother, too, was to rack up a £38,000 debt in the first eight years of her child's life. A marketing brand manager, Emma, 47, was earning a very healthy £50,000 a...

Mayor Eric Adams declared the US has entered into a recession and “Wall Street is collapsing” – contradicting President Joe Biden’s claims that the nation is doing fine earlier Thursday. “You tell me what to take off the plate if you want me to put something else on the plate. I’m coming to you as a city and saying, ‘This is how much we have, that’s it,” the Big Apple mayor said during an event in Staten Island at Sanzer Yeshiva hosted by nonprofit Project Hospitality, according to a report in Hamodia. “We are in a financial crisis like you...

Just visited my county website to check status of my drop box primary election ballot. Good News - ballot received and counted. Not So Good News - a bold, top of the Home Page announcement..."Following the decision in State v. Blake, if you were convicted of drug possession prior to February 2021, you may be eligible to have your conviction vacated, your sentence reduced, or your court fees refunded." Bottom Line - if your drug possession was unintentional or unknowing, you walk away free and compensated for your trouble!

Thursday's GDP numbers indicated a decline of 0.9 percent, pointing to a recession, considering the economy also declined by 1.6 percent last quarter. President Joe Biden and many others in his administration have denied we're even in a recession and have instead pointed to a different, more vague definition based on data from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Chief among the recession-deniers includes Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who gave remarks on Thursday. TUNE IN: @SecYellen hosts a press conference to discuss America’s recovery over the last 18 months from the depths of the pandemic, and the resilience of...

In an editorial called "Trump's Silence on Jan 6 Is Damning," the New York Post wrote: "His only focus was to find any means -- damn the consequences -- to block the peaceful transfer of power. There is no other explanation, just as there is no defense, for his refusal to stop the violence. It's up to the Justice Department to decide if this is a crime. But as a matter of principle, as a matter of character, Trump has proven himself unworthy to be this country's chief executive again." I disagree. Former President Donald Trump felt robbed, understandably so....

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Barr is calling for a Special Counsel, Kash believes Hunter will be indicted soon, CNN are finally headlining that Hunter Biden is under investigation, even though he has been since 2018. What’s going on? All the sudden things shifted gears. A switch was flipped. Based on the posturing from the DNC and the admittance of left-wing media, it would appear the enemy are accepting the inevitable. HUNTER BIDEN IS GOING TO BE INDICTED. This is why we have seen the sudden uptick of mainstream entities distancing themselves from the Bidens. You are seeing it everywhere. MSM left-wing comedians like Jimmy...

The U.S. has offered a deal to Russia aimed at bringing home WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday. In a sharp reversal of previous policy, Blinken also said he expects to speak with his Kremlin counterpart for the first time since before Russia invaded Ukraine to discuss the deal and other matters. Blinken's comments marked the first time the U.S. government has publicly revealed any concrete action it has taken to secure the release of Griner, who was arrested on drug-related charges at a Moscow airport in February and...

Francis And Canadian Regime Invoke Demons (Video)Francis and his Canadian entourage took part in a somewhat primitive "smudging" ritual on 27 July in Quebec at a meeting with representatives of the Canadian regime, including Caudillo Justino Trudeau.During a welcome ceremony, an old man belonging to the Hurons performed a Smudge to The Four Direction in order to achieve an alleged "purification."He lit sweetgrass with a match in a small bowl to "honour" earth, wind, water and fire. Then he spread the little smoke he produced with a feather expressing his belief that the sacred fire shall unite everything that exists...

A new video shows the moment a Sesame Street theme park employee allegedly snubbed a five-year-old black girl as her father sues for $25 million. Quinton Burns claims four employees dressed as Sesame Street characters ignored his daughter, Kennedi, and other black guests during a meet-and-greet on June 18. The video opens with the costumed characters dancing in a parade as the employee dressed as the Telly Monster walked over to wave and shake the hands of several children. Among the kids in the group was Kennedi, who tried reaching out to the character before he walked away and waved...

The head of the World Health Organization has suggested that men who have sex with men temporarily limit their number of sexual partners while monkeypox cases increase within their community — a shift in messaging from the global health agency days after it raised its threat alert level for the monkeypox outbreak. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the comments Wednesday during a news briefing in which he said 98 percent of monkeypox cases have been reported in men who have sex with men. Tedros said “this is an outbreak that can be stopped,” as long as governments take...

Will Merrick Garland show the same prudence as his predecessor and appoint a special counsel to investigate his boss’s family? Recent developments warrant the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, former Attorney General William Barr says. “[I]ntervening events, especially recent reports about FBI whistleblowers and the possible reach of the investigation, warrant adding the protections of special counsel status to assure that key decisions are made independently without political ‘favor,’” Barr told The Federalist. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has been under federal investigation since 2018 for issues related to his foreign business practices, including obtaining investments...

The first thing to remember about the reconciliation bill Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer agreed to Wednesday is that despite its utterly preposterous name, it has absolutely zero to do with inflation. The Inflation Reduction Act is crammed with the very same spending, corporate welfare, price-fixing and tax hikes that were part of Build Back Better — long-desired progressive wish-list agenda items. Pumping hundreds of billions into the economy will do nothing to alleviate inflation. The opposite. Let’s also remember the Democrats’ deflection on inflation last year — claiming it was “transitory” and “no serious economist” is “suggesting there’s...

Former President Donald Trump defended hosting the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Series at his Bedminster, NJ course on Thursday, brushing off criticism from families of 9/11 victims by saying “nobody’s gotten to the bottom” of the 2001 terrorist attacks.…“Well, nobody’s gotten to the bottom of 9/11, unfortunately, and they should have as to the maniacs that did that horrible thing to our city, to our country, to our world,” Trump said. “So nobody’s really been there.” The former president then attempted to put a positive spin on the event, saying, “there are a lot of really great people that are out...

This tweet: Vice President Kamala Harris @VP United States government official Gas prices have now dropped 69 cents per gallon over the last six weeks. This drop in gas prices is the fastest in over a decade. We will continue to fight to lower costs for the American people. We say: Sorry, Madam Veep, but your “whopping” 69-cent drop pales in comparison to the $2.65 spike in gas prices — from $2.46 a gallon to $5.11 last month — since you and President Joe Biden took office. In fact, your team has overseen the fastest such surge ever recorded in...

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling on the National Guard to be activated to help deal with the migration crisis in the nation's capitol after Texas and Arizona launched an initiative sending asylum-seekers there. 'The pace of arriving buses and the volume of arrivals have reached tipping points,' Bowser wrote in a letter to the Biden administration. 'Our collective response and service efforts have now become overwhelmed.'

The Netherlands has descended into an ideological war zone between city-bound bureaucrats trying to polish their climate credentials on the world stage, and local farmers who have been feeding Europe for centuries. As one farmer said, ‘This is not a democracy anymore: it’s a dictatorship.’ Farmers have set up dozens of blockades on highways by dumping large piles of manure on choke points to cause maximum traffic chaos. Others have taken to setting some of these piles on fire and leaving them to smoulder away, just like citizen anger. SNIP There is another very nasty reason for the treatment of...

More than 70 migrants were found in six houses in Washington, D.C., operated by human smugglers, according to documents by Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations. Immigration officials discovered the migrants, 60 adults and 13 children, in six residential homes located in northwest Washington after conducting an operation that sought to uncover so-called “stash houses” in the area, according to the report obtained by NBC News. Stash houses are buildings in which human smugglers keep migrants in cramped quarters, typically without running water or air conditioning. Migrants are usually not able to leave the houses unless given permission by...

Taiwan's military fired flares on Thursday to warn away a drone that "glanced by" a strategically-located and heavily fortified island close to the Chinese coast that was possibly probing its defences, the Taiwanese Defence Ministry said. Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory, has complained of stepped up Chinese military manoeuvres over the past two years or so to try and force the democratically elected government in Taipei to accept Beijing's sovereignty.

New York judge overturned a law that allowed the state government to place even healthy citizens in quarantine camps for an indefinite time without review. Until July 8, the New York Department of Health had immense power to enforce quarantine measures on citizens. It received this power from the state’s Rule 2.13. Legislators never voted to allow the New York Commissioner of Health to put any individual into quarantine for any length of time. Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Department of Health ordered the rule’s protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, the state renewed Rule 2.13 every 90 days. The...