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"I want you to address three things that aren't being talked about ... the first is that if the media was doing its job properly one of the biggest stories right now would be the number of people taxpayers specifically workers who are actively looking at ways to get out of the UK..." Katie Hopkins: THIS is the biggest story in Britain right now. (And the media are deaf to it.) [video]

A woman who owns a business adjacent to the apartment complex taken over by Venezuelan gangs in Aurora, Colorado, said she has been forced to put up bulletproof glass to protect her business, describing the chaos in her community caused by migrants to Breitbart News Daily host Mike Slater. “It’s horrible. Mike, I run a business right adjacent to that apartment complex,” she said, describing the current situation as “overwhelming.” “It’s out of control. Denver is just a sanctuary city. They’re just, they’re just flooding them into the smaller communities. Now they’re busing them out here. They’re busing them to...

Mr. Pfizer and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has found himself at the center of a growing online storm after an alleged contract surfaced, claiming his relationship with Hollywood elite Taylor Swift was nothing more than a staged PR stunt. According to the leaked document, a planned break-up date of September 28 has already been set and strategized, the Daily Mail first reported. The rumors began swirling after a document, allegedly bearing the letterhead of Kelce’s PR firm, Full Scope PR—a Los Angeles-based public relations company—began making the rounds on social media. First appearing on Reddit, with a...

UPDATE: At least four people are reportedly dead, with approximately 30 injured, per CNN. As of 2:23 pm ET, CNN reports that nine people were transferred to hospitals with injuries and four are confirmed dead, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. One suspect is in custody. According to CNN, “The shooter who opened fire inside Apalachee High school is believed to be a 14-year-old boy, a law enforcement source tells CNN. The source said it is not yet known whether the teen attended that school.” An active shooter situation at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, about 40 miles...

Some Republicans believe that they are better off with Trump winning the White House on the grounds that he will be theoretically term limited and thus can be shoved off the stage after 2028. Should he lose to Harris this fall, the thinking goes, "he would once again insist he was cheated and hold out the possibility of a fourth consecutive bid, prolonging the party’s capture." Other Republicans, however, want to have Trump gone as quickly as possible and they think that they could hold off major policy advances by a Harris presidency by retaking the Senate this fall and...

democrats tend to seek to destroy things that they cannot rule over and are roadblocks to a forever one-party fascist state, like Donald Trump, the electoral college, the Supreme Court and more recently, Elon Musk. Now the left has put the Constitution in its sights. A Berkeley (of course) law school Dean has decided it's time for the Constitution to go: Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California at Berkeley’s law school, called for a new constitution Friday, claiming that failing to make changes would cause the U.S. to “drift toward authoritarianism.” Chemerinsky appeared on “Morning Joe” to...

A plant in Charleroi will close its doors by the end of the year.Employees at the Anchor Hocking plant say they were given the news by the chief executive officer. The closure would affect around 325 jobs. The CEO allegedly told employees that 150 positions would be moved to their plant in Lancaster, Ohio.City officials tell Pittsburgh Action News 4 they are devastated. Quality Pasta Company near the plant shut down. That closure meant 100 jobs lost.In the case of the Charleroi plant, employees say they were told production was shut down because officials did not want to keep two...

Explanation: Can you see the bat? It haunts this cosmic close-up of the eastern Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. While the Veil is roughly circular in shape and covers nearly 3 degrees on the sky toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus), NGC 6995, known informally as the Bat Nebula, spans only 1/2 degree, about the apparent size of the Moon. That translates to 12 light-years at the Veil's estimated distance, a reassuring 1,400 light-years from planet Earth. In the composite of...

A Manifest Heretic Can Neither Become nor Remain a PopeThe saints and doctors of the Church teach that if a pope having sufficient knowledge and having made sufficient reflection denies an article of Faith and professes heresy, he falls to heresy and loses his papacy.When it is taught that ‘a pope cannot profess heresy’ it simply means that this profession cannot be made and completed while he is pope, for upon attempting to profess heresy he loses his papacy and is reduced to a heretic, whereby the profession is made as a heretic and not as a pope. Hence a...

The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man after he allegedly began to fire multiple weapons and killed roughly 80 animals during an approximate three-hour period. The sheriff's office said that they booked Vicente Joseph Arroyo, 39, of Salinas, into the Monterey County Jail on suspicion of discharging a gun with gross negligence, illegally possessing an assault weapon, animal cruelty, vandalism, making threats. His bail was set at $50,000. Efforts to speak to Arroyo or determine if he had an attorney were not immediately successful on Wednesday. As the sheriff's office explained it, they began getting several calls on...

While off the Japanese island of Chichijima on this day in history on Sept. 2, 1944, then-future President George H.W. Bush was the only survivor after his aircraft was shot down by enemy fire, according to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. At the time, Lt. Junior Grade George Bush was a pilot with Torpedo Squadron Fifty-One (VT-51) aboard the aircraft carrier USS San Jacinto (CVL-30), a light carrier that was deployed in the North Pacific, according to U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. Bush’s squadron was conducting a bombing mission when it encountered heavy anti-aircraft fire, according...

U.S. Steel shares plunged on Wednesday as Wall Street questioned whether its $14.1 billion deal with Japan's Nippon Steel is at risk of derailing. Shares of U.S. Steel plunged as much as 25% in afternoon trading after the Washington Post reported President Joe Biden is preparing to formally block the proposed acquisition. As of 2:35 p.m., shares of U.S. Steel were down $7.12, or 20%, to $28.48. The White House downplayed the Washington Post report, which cited three people familiar with the president's plans. In a statement, it cited a process of review by the Committee on Foreign Investments in...

The moves show how Musk’s legal dispute about X is affecting SpaceX and its Starlink satellite-internet service.. SpaceX has moved to evacuate employees from Brazil and warned others against traveling to the country, a sign of how Elon Musk’s ongoing battle against Brazil’s highest court over his social-media company X is spilling out to affect some of his other businesses.

The Biden-Harris administration is planning to accuse Russia of a “covert” and “sustained effort to influence the 2024 presidential election” and take a “series of moves” to address it, “six sources familiar with the matter” told CNN. CNN reported that the administration will accuse Russia of doing so by claiming it uses Kremlin-run media and other online platforms to target U.S. voters with disinformation. The report did not provide evidence or examples of the disinformation, but it said RT — Russia’s state media network — is a major focus of the announcement. RT is widely known to be government-directed and...

The Washington Commanders have suspended a vice president in their organization for derogatory comments he allegedly made in a video released Wednesday while being surreptitiously recorded on a date. An undercover woman working for James O’Keefe’s media company went on multiple Hinge dates with Commanders VP of content Rael Enteen and recorded him allegedly saying that NFL players are homophobic, fans are alcoholic mouth-breathers and that the league’s social justice initiatives are insincere. “The language used in the video runs counter to our values at the Commanders organization. We have suspended the employee pending an internal investigation and will reserve...

[Catholic Caucus] The New TLM Suppression: Crisis Averted?Remember when everybody was sure that there was a new Latin Mass suppression coming down the pike from The Dictator Pope and his mercy for the margins?That came from a credible rumour published by our friends at Rorate back on June 17th. While that was brewing, Viganò got the axe from the Vatican, and a different report denied any existence of a new TLM suppression.Meanwhile, the “Agatha Christie Petition 2.0” was released, along with a second petition by the same authors for the faithful to sign. A third petition was also put out...

The independent Oversight Board for Instagram and Facebook ruled Wednesday that the phrase “from the river to the sea” is not necessarily hate speech when addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The ruling means that people on Meta-owned social media apps can continue to use the phrase in comments and posts, as long as there’s no overriding context that would otherwise be deemed problematic by Meta, such as violent language, legitimization of hate or calls for excluding others from territory, the board said.

The House Education and Workforce Committee subpoenaed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday for records related to a $250 million COVID-19 relief fraud scheme that occurred on his watch. Walz, 60, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, was ordered to hand over any documents about the scandal, which involved pandemic relief funds being distributed via “the Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) administration of federal child nutrition programs (FCNP).” Rather than nourishing hungry children, however, the money funded lavish lifestyles — including fancy cars and real estate holdings as far away as Turkey and Kenya — for the operators of a fraudulent...

BREAKING: Alexandre de Moraes ordered the freezing of Starlink's assets in Brazil, including cars and aircraft.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday said it disrupted Russian-directed foreign malign influence campaigns it referred to as “Doppelganger,” that sought to spread Russian government propaganda. The effort was meant to reduce international support for Ukraine, bolster pro-Russian policies, and influence voters in the U.S. and elsewhere, the Justice Department said. Separately, the DOJ accused two Russian employees of RT, the Russian state-owned media outlet, of a $10 million scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences while keeping the connection to Russia hidden. RT worked with an online content creation company in Tennessee, which was directed to...