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Police vehicles drive towards the building housing the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in downtown Prague, 21 December 2023 By Euronews Published on 21/12/2023 - 17:31•Updated 21:12 Share this article Comments The shooter, now believed to be deceased, opened fire in a university building in the city's downtown area. A mass shooting in downtown Prague has seen more than 14 people killed and left at least 25 injured. According to Czech police and the city's rescue service, the individual responsible for the shooting is also deceased. Authorities have not provided specific details about the victims, but have said that the...

The United States House of Representatives is now investigating another sex tape scandal that has emerged yet again.According to a report by Semafor, videos of an online user going by “Adam J” with the handle “Anjackson2019”on the social media platform Snapchat began circulating in 2022.Semafor saw one of the videos, which showed a man masturbating inside a House office building that could be recognized by the typical carpeting and furniture found there. There was also a congressional mouse pad branded on the desk where the suspect was.

Who got to Joe Scarborough?/The question arises in light of Scarborough's stunning flip-flop over the Colorado Supreme Court decision kicking Donald Trump off the ballot. Yesterday, we caught Scarborough expressing surprising skepticism over the court's ruling. Scarborough dubiously asked whether the decision should be made by "people on cable news," or by state judges "randomly" deciding. Scarborough suggested that a prerequisite to barring Trump should be a conviction for insurrection in a D.C. court. What a difference a day makes! Twenty-four hours later, there was Scarborough this morning, praising the Colorado decision to the heavens as "the most pro-democratic thing...

A recent study into Wales' LGBT+ community found 34% of the population identify beyond traditional heterosexual norms. Just over a third of people in Wales identify as "queer", according to a recent report by an LGBT+ organisation. Stonewall Cymru found in its recent Rainbow Cymru Report that 34% of the population is not strictly attracted to the opposite sex. Their study aimed to shed light on the queer community in Wales by using data and statistics from the 2021 England and Wales Census, an opinion poll of UK adults, and polling by Ipsos UK. When participants were asked who they...

RECENTLY there was a Virgin Atlantic aircraft that made its journey using 100 per cent sustainable aviation fuel. Now it seems a pioneering Japanese company may have trumped it by producing a rocket engine that runs on cow manure. Interstellar Technologies (IST), a trailblazer in the Asian aerospace sector, ignited a rocket engine using biomethane derived from cow dung. This ground-breaking event took place on Hokkaido island, Japan. IST, known for launching the first suborbital rocket in Japan back in 2019, is now focusing on biomethane as a sustainable rocket fuel. The successful test, posted on social media earlier this...

Angola announced Thursday that it's leaving the OPEC oil producers cartel, coming after it battled with the group over lower production quotas this year. Diamantino de Azevedo, the African nation's oil minister, said Angola “does not gain anything by remaining in the organization,” according to state news agency Angop. The country joined OPEC in 2007. Disagreements over lower oil quotas for some African countries, including Angola, led to an usual dayslong delay to OPEC's November meeting, where the group, along with allied producers led by Russia, decide how much oil to send to the world. At the meeting, Angola's production...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military campaign in Gaza, experts say, now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in history. In just over two months, the offensive has wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II. It has killed more civilians than the U.S.-led coalition did in its three-year campaign against the Islamic State group.

The year started with high hopes for Ukrainian troops planning a counteroffensive against Russia. It ended with disappointment on the battlefield, an increasingly somber mood among troops and anxiety about the future of Western aid for Ukraine's war effort. In between, there was a short-lived rebellion in Russia, a dam collapse in Ukraine, and the spilling of much blood on both sides of the conflict. Twenty-two months since it invaded, Russia has about one-fifth of Ukraine in its grip, and the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line has barely budged this year. A crunch has come away from the battlefield. In...

Two issues of Quadrant ago I wrote about the dire legal straits of former President Donald Trump under the assault of Democrat federal and state prosecutors who seemed to be weaponising US law to ensure the conviction of Tom Wolfe’s ultimate Great White Defendant by any technicalities necessary. It’s a process well-described as early as 1940 in a law journal article on “The Federal Prosecutor” by Justice Robert H. Jackson who was in turn FDR’s Attorney-General, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and the chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trial of war crimes: It is in this realm—in which...

Earlier this week, the Colorado State Supreme Court determined in a 4-3 ruling that Trump is ineligible under the 14th Amendment to appear on the ballot in the state. This nonsensical ruling essentially declares that even though Trump has never been convicted of, much less tried with sedition or participating in an insurrection, he is nevertheless guilty of such. The ruling is bound to be taken up by the Supreme Court, and experts on both sides of the aisle believe it will be promptly overturned. But that doesn't change the fact that four justices in the highest court in the...

A top Maine state environmental agency delayed a highly-anticipated vote to approve a sweeping electric vehicle (EV) mandate amid a storm that caused widespread power outages. The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) announced that it had indefinitely postponed the meeting, which was slated for Thursday afternoon, until further notice following the storm. Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills, who has pursued an aggressive green energy agenda, declared a state of emergency this week, an action that closed state government offices. "Governor Janet Mills declared a State of Civil Emergency for 14 Maine counties following a significant wind and rain storm...

Biden’s border crisis is getting worse by the day. Mass numbers of illegals are pouring into the United States daily. December is on track to be a record month for illegal border crossings. According to Customs and Border Protection, more than 300,000 illegals will likely pour into the US in December on Joe Biden’s open border invitation. On Thursday morning, over 700 illegals crossed the southern border into the U.S. in Lukeville, Arizona. This is just the morning alone. “Massive numbers of adult men from around the world mixed in with families from Mexico and Ecuador. This is daily here,”...

Russian war fanatics are enraged over an 'almost naked' party staged in Moscow by wealthy showbiz celebrities including Vladimir Putin's 'goddaughter'. The 'debauched' gathering was likened to Sodom and Gomorrah by critics claiming the antics of the wealthy stars insulted those on the frontline in the Kremlin's illegal war against Ukraine. Among the most visible guests was a pregnant and braless Ksenia Sobchak, 40, a TV presenter and 'liberal' Russian presidential candidate in 2018, in a nude-coloured Sorelle outfit. She is known as Putin's goddaughter after he attended her baptism and viewed her late father Anatoly Sobchak as his political...

For DeSantis, policy positions have not really been an issue. The big obstacle is convincing a loyal base to ditch Trump. He's been hit by the MAGA movement because they believe he should have waited his turn and not run against Trump. DeSantis told CBN News, "Everyone has a right to be able to run. Obviously, Trump could win the primary. I'm not convinced he can win the general (election). I can." "I would say if I could have one thing change, I wish Trump hadn't been indicted on any of this stuff. I think, someone like a Bragg would...

A federal judge has blocked a California law, that if passed, would have banned the carrying of firearms in most public places. United States District Judge Cormac Carney blocked the law on Wednesday, stating that the ruling violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and stops people from being able to defend themselves. “[The ruling is] sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court,” he wrote. The law, which was signed in September by Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), was scheduled to go into effect on January 1st. It would have made it illegal for...

Luke 1:39-45 Friends, today’s Gospel tells the marvelous story of the Visitation. At the Annunciation, the angel had told Mary that the child to be conceived in her would be the new David. With that magnificent prophecy still ringing in her ears, Mary set out to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who was married to Zechariah, a temple priest.No first-century Jew would have missed the significance of their residence being “in the hill country of Judah.” That was precisely where David found the ark, the bearer of God’s presence. To that same hill country now comes Mary, the definitive and final...

According to far-left outlet Slate, which is loath to ever criticize a Democrat, Biden is facing the worst environment for an incumbent president since the Great Depression. Poll after poll shows the president's numbers plummeting to record lows. As President Joe Biden grows increasingly mystified by his unpopularity, he is also experiencing the worst polling of his presidency. This plummet was punctuated by last Thursday’s release of several Bloomberg/Morning Consult surveys showing him getting swept in a series of battleground states. Then, on Tuesday, yet another New York Times/Siena College survey showed former President Donald Trump beating Biden nationally and,...

Cover artwork from our 2012 Christmas double issue (The Economist magazine)

A prominent professor has called for the immediate sacking of Harvard University president Claudine Gay to steer the school “back towards sanity” after she allegedly plagiarized other academics’ work 40 times. Political science professor Dr. Carol Swain, formerly of Vanderbilt University, claims Gay used sections of a book she published in 1993 and an article published in 1997 without crediting her. “Fire Claudine Gay posthaste,” Swain posted Thursday on X, as part of a post titled “some free unsolicited advice for Harvard University.” “She can be relieved of duties until the terms are negotiated. “Hire the best man or woman...

In his complaint, as Law360 first reported, McCormick claims that more than 100 deputies and support staff conducted a predawn raid on his farm, East Wind AG, located just north of the Salton Sea on tribal land owned by the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians. The suit says the deputies intentionally ripped down hundreds of greenhouses and other infrastructure due to an “unbridled lust for chaos.”