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This is going round social media. Have a read. ---- The Seven Principles of public life. 1. Selflessness: Holders of public office should act solely in terms of the public interest. 2. Integrity: Holders of public office must avoid placing themselves under any obligation to people or organisations that might try inappropriately to influence them in their work. They should not act or take decisions in order to gain financial or other material benefits for themselves, their family, or their friends. They must declare and resolve any interests and relationships. 3. Objectivity: Holders of public office must act and take...

A suspected serial killer has been arrested over the notorious Gilgo Beach murders in Long Island, The Post can confirm. Rex Heuermann, 59, a married architect at a New York City firm, was caught after DNA from the hair of victim Megan Waterman matched that of his, taken by investigators from a discarded pizza crust in January. The father-of-two — a former classmate of Hollywood actor Billy Baldwin — was arrested Thursday after cops had staked out his home on 1st Avenue in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and office in midtown Manhattan. His arrest is tied to the so-called “Gilgo...

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson aggressively pressed former Vice President Mike Pence Friday about how he’d characterize the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob invaded the Capitol, forced the evacuation of lawmakers and interrupted the counting of electoral votes in the 2020 election. The questioning by Carlson, who described the events of Jan. 6 as “mostly peaceful chaos” while at Fox News, underscored how Pence’s break with former President Trump that day will be a defining feature of his campaign. Many of Trump’s supporters have never forgiven Pence, who was hanged in effigy that day, for...

Police said five people were hospitalized after a shooting incident in Bladensburg, Maryland. Roads were closed at the intersection of Annapolis Road and Bladensburg Road in Colmar Manor while authorities investigate the scene of the shooting, Bladensburg police said. "We will be holding a News Briefing to provide an update on the contact shooting at Annapolis Rd/Bladensburg Rd. The briefing will take place at the Bladensburg Waterfront Park located at 4500 Annapolis Rd and it will be held at 3:00pm," the police department said.

The deranged man caught on camera stalking a group of musicians through Times Square with a knife was granted supervised release by a Manhattan judge on Thursday evening. Prosecutors recommended the release of 22-year-old Deqon Massiah. He was charged with menacing, harassment and criminal possession of a weapon, which are not bail eligible. The judge agreed to release the suspect but said that the “highest level of monitoring is appropriate.” Massiah appeared in court wearing the same red shirt with the word “sly” on the back that he had donned when an alert photographer snapped his photo Wednesday. The suspect...

Former President Donald Trump made a second attempt to quash a Georgia investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state, filing a motion in the state’s supreme court and another court to bar the filing of any charges. Trump had already filed a motion in March to quash the investigation of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney has not yet made a ruling on the matter but is now named as a plaintiff in both suits, including one filed in the court where he serves as a judge.

President Joe Biden will forgive $39 billion in student debt for 804,000 Americans - two weeks after the Supreme Court struck down his $430 billion relief plan because it was unconstitutional. The president has continued his push to wipe billions in student debt, despite anger from taxpayers and Americans who have never been to college. The landmark Supreme Court decision dealt his plan a huge blow, but the White House has vowed to plow ahead to get widespread relief. Critics slammed the 'absurd' announcement and called it a 'slap in the face to taxpayers'. David Williams, President of the Taxpayers...

This is the shocking moment a snake hunter wrestled a 19ft Burmese python said to be the longest ever found in the US. The video, taken in the Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, shows snake hunter Jake Waleri, 22, grab the 125lb python by the neck after it lunges at him with opens jaws. Mr Waleri grapples with the python, which is as long as an adult giraffe is tall, and wrestles it to the ground as onlookers exclaim: 'Oh my God! Let's go!' Another man asks: 'Have you got tape on you, I know you carry tape,' as they...

NEW DELHI: Just days before the Chandrayaan-3 launch, Isro chairman S Somanath has given three main reasons that led to the crashlanding of the Vikram lander on September 6, 2019 just minutes before the touchdown. The Isro chief said the “five engines of the lander generating higher thrust, limitation of the software to detect errors and the small landing site” were the three primary causes for the crashlanding of the lander. “In a nutshell, we can say the (our) ability to handle parameter variation or dispersion was very limited,” he said. Speaking on the sidelines of the India Space Congress,...

Those stealthy Republican ninjas were at it again! Earlier this year, the Cackling Coven of ABC’s The View claimed Republicans were “behind” the classified documents found in President Biden’s Delaware garage. Now, on Friday, they were claimed Republicans infiltrated the White House and “planted” cocaine in the West Wing to “advance the Hunter Biden narrative.” At least that’s what Joy Behar and Ana Navarro wanted people to believe. In an attempt to deflect attention away from the possibility that someone in the administration or the Biden family was the perpetrator, racist co-host Sunny Hostin claimed, without evidence, that the cocaine...

Far-left American President Joe Biden is “desperately seeking talks with China on all fronts” to prevent an unforeseen controversy between Washington and Beijing from hurting his 2024 reelection bid, the Chinese state-run Global Times newspaper contended on Thursday. The Global Times cited Chinese Communist Party-approved “expert” opinions asserting that Biden is concerned that Republicans will be able to make the case that they would manage the relationship with America’s top geopolitical adversary more responsibly, especially after significant percentages of Americans expressed disapproval of Biden’s handling of an invading Chinese espionage balloon over the continental United States in early 2023. Biden...

A stranger randomly tripped a Jewish woman on a Brooklyn street this week, in an assault that the NYPD is investigating as a hate crime, police said Friday. The 51-year-old victim, wearing traditional religious garb, was walking on Empire Boulevard near Rogers Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens around 10 a.m. Thursday when the male assailant approached her from the opposite direction, authorities said. As the two were about to pass each other, he allegedly tripped her without saying a word, cops said. She fell to the sidewalk, suffering bruises and cuts on her hands and knees. The assailant then took...

Baby boomers - those born between 1946 and 1964 - came into the world during a kind of golden age for American automobiles. These are some of the most iconic cars of the 1960s and 70s, fuzzy dice not included. July 4 is Independence Day for the United States, but for teenagers in America, their true day of independence is the day they get their first driver’s license - a right of passage that, for those who were lucky or industrious enough, soon led to owning their first car. Baby boomers - those born between 1946 and 1964 - came...

A man in Virginia had a not-so-average trip to Waffle House recently. He went there to grab a bite to eat, but when he went inside there was no one to be found. William Davis woke up hungry and drove from Brookneal to the Waffle House in Lynchburg around 3 a.m. Tuesday morning. When he got there, he saw something he never expected: an empty restaurant. "All kinds of things go through your mind when you see stuff like that, you know, out of the ordinary," Davis said. Davis was not expecting to find a scene like this. In the...

Scientists x-rayed ancient Egyptian tomb paintings to better understand the painters' creative process.Every painter has a process, but the painstaking revisions and countless tiny edits are invisible to those who only see the final product. In a study published today in PLOS ONE, researchers used x-rays to reveal how 3000-year-old paintings inside Egypt’s Theban Necropolis unfolded step by step. The findings hint at the creative process used to produce these ancient masterworks.Applying the x-ray method to ancient Egyptian wall paintings “is really a game changer,” says Marine Cotte, a chemist at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, who previously collaborated with...

Dylan Mulvaney has freed the nipple as she wore a very daring dress to an LGBT film festival event in Los Angeles - just after claiming she felt unsafe in the US and fled to Peru. The trans influencer, 26, has been at the center of scandals this year - having caused a storm of outrage after partnering with Bud Light in April, which subsequently knocked millions off the value of the beer company. Mulvaney showed off her sultry, see-through dress and blond hair at the Outfest Opening Night in Los Angeles, California. The influencer donned graphic eyeliner and black...

The Biden Education Department announced it would “automatically forgive” student loans to hundreds of thousands of followers despite a Supreme Court ruling striking down another student loan scheme just two weeks ago. As reported by ABC News, Education Department officials announced Friday that are forgiving the debts of 804,000 borrowers to supposedly fix what they called “administration failures.” These borrowers are individuals who have been paying their loans back through income-driven repayment plans. This allows debts to be forgiven once they’ve been paid for 20 or 25 years. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement these borrowers would be...

At first, Josiah Rogers said he thought his older brother, a Las Vegas police officer, was joking when he brought up the idea of robbing a casino. But then the conversation took a turn, and soon they were putting a plan together for a heist in November 2021, he said. Rogers revealed details of the extensive planning that went into the robbery when he took the stand Thursday and testified for several hours against his brother, Caleb Rogers, who was on trial this week over a trio of casino heists in late 2021 and early 2022. The jury began deliberating...

July 14 (UPI) -- The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said a train was taken out of service when a snake was spotted on board. At least one passenger captured photos when the snake was spotted on the floor of the Blue Line Train at Reagan National Airport. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority spokesperson Sherri Ly confirmed the incident. She said officials do not know how the slithering strap-hanger got onto the train. "It did not have a farecard and clearly slipped onto the train without tapping in," Ly told WDVM-TV. Ly said the train was removed from service and...

Joe Biden is illegally blocking parents from removing sexually explicit books from school libraries. In conjunction with that, he is also forcing a DEI Library code of conduct on schools that prevent the removal of pornographic and age-inappropriate sexual material. The administration is usurping parents’ rights to decide what is not age appropriate in a library. Biden and his ‘advisers’ are bullying parents into keeping sexually explicit material in school libraries. In other words, the State will decide when children must be exposed to it, not the parents. THE TAKEOVER The assault began with an investigation of Forsyth County Public...