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The summer season in Seaside Heights, Ocean County, has begun with a surge of violence, prompting police to deploy SWAT teams and backup officers to maintain safety on the boardwalk. ---SNIP--- What they're saying: Locals attribute the chaos to large groups of teens and young adults. "We call them gangs. I don’t know what they are, just groups of kids, some tougher than others, and we’ve seen them pushing and stuff," said Karen Singh, a visitor.

Anyone else concerned by them? In Germany they've been happening frequently now it happened in the UK. How do you stop these attacks? Are we going to have to put up bollards or something in major cities and on roads or certain areas/routes. I know for example the UK Parliament in London has a lot of bollards around it to stop such ramming but that's the only place I know of specifically protected.

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In the swish hotel conference rooms and cafés of the Brussels EU quarter, the indignation was palpable: Why had poor Henrik been singled out? Henrik Hololei, a gregarious Estonian who had reached the heights of director-general in the EU’s civil service, had been caught accepting freebies from the government of Qatar while his department was negotiating a lucrative aviation deal ― with, ever so coincidentally, Qatar. It was fine, the European Commission said when the matter came to light in 2023: All his free flights had been signed off by a senior person in the department. Trouble was, the senior...

Paleontologists have described a new species of the extant bee genus Leioproctus from a fossil specimen found in southern New Zealand.Named Leioproctus barrydonovani, the new species lived during the Middle Miocene epoch, some 14.6 million years ago.The ancient insect belongs to Leioproctus, a large genus within the plasterer bee family Colletidae.Extant Leioproctus species are small, black, hairy bees between 4 and 16 mm in length.They are found in Australasia and South America, and include the most common native bees in New Zealand...The specimen (total length of the body is 6.4 mm) was recovered from the Middle Miocene deposits of the...

Moscow makes comment after US president’s criticism of record drone strikes on Ukraine Russia has suggested that Donald Trump is suffering from “emotional overload” as it deflected his criticism of its record drone strikes on Ukraine at the weekend.

6. Many of the Hessians opted to stay in AmericaOpportunities in America impressed these soldiers so much that thousands of them opted not to return to their native country. Johann Döhla, an enlisted man who kept a journal about his experiences, wrote upon seeing New York for the first time that, "The American land is good and incomparable land... It is rich and fruitful, well cultivated, and with much grain, especially a great deal of Indian corn; and it has many and beautiful forests of both soft and hardwood trees unknown to us." He went on to write about the...

President Donald Trump pardoning a Virginia sheriff sentenced to... A controversial US-Israeli aid scheme to provide food for Gaza supported by US military contractors is underway... In the UK a card drove into a crowd...dozens were hurt with at least two injuries described as serious... "That is a rather dangerous decision" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reacting to comments of German Chancellor... US President Donald Trump participating in a Memorial Day... "Death to Arabs" Those words shouted in the Arab Quarter of Jerusalem today as nationalist protesters gathered... Israeli air attacks this afternoon in eastern Lebanon... "There are no longer any...

In what can be called a victory speech over failed neoconservative foreign policy, President Donald Trump proclaimed the end of 30-some years of existing foreign policy in the Mideast. The ideology dragged the U.S. through pointless wars from Libya to Yemen is now dead. At an investment conference in Riyadh, in a speech little-commented on by the mainstream media, Trump said, “In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built. And the interventionalists [sic] were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand.” For the first time since the First Gulf War in...

Ukrainian intelligence and open-source data show Russian President Vladimir Putin does not "plan to end the war," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his daily evening address Monday. "There is currently no indication that they are seriously considering peace or diplomacy," he added. "On the contrary, there is ample evidence that they are preparing new offensive operations." The address came after an overnight exchange of long-range cross-border drone attacks between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine's air force said Russia launched a total of 364 "air attack vehicles" -- nine cruise missiles and 355 attack drones -- in the latest bombardment. All...

Democrat Rep. Glenn Ivey (MD) fumed after he was denied access to wife beater and MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Rep. Ivey spent Memorial Day weekend in El Salvador fighting for a criminal illegal alien who was ordered deported by an immigration judge. An immigration appellate court also upheld the judge’s deportation order. Typical Democrat.

Israel’s onslaught on Gaza shows no sign of abating despite increasing international condemnation and diplomatic pressure. ... A series of strikes across the strip left dozens dead on Tuesday including almost all of the Sheik Khalil family who were sheltering in a school in Gaza City. Lindsey Hilsum reports on the remarkable escape of one member of that family.

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to declare a ceasefire in Gaza within the coming days, according to a Sky News Arabic report on Monday morning. The report cited anonymous sources familiar with United States-led negotiations, which are reportedly being led by Palestinian-American mediator, Bashara Bahbah. The Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese news channel Al-Mayadeen reported that both Israel and Hamas are currently evaluating the proposal, which it said was developed “in cooperation with and with the approval of” Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East. On Sunday, Trump told reporters that he wanted to try to end the war. “We...

It is easy to forget that before Biden’s disastrous debate performance last spring, he and his team were running full steam ahead on his reelection campaign. They actually believed Biden could win a second term and serve another four years. Knowing what we now know, it’s obvious that this would have been impossible. But what if he had run and somehow won the election. How would his team have tried to pull it off? Now we know that too, and it’s terrifying. According to Alex Thompson, Jake Tapper’s co-author on their new Biden book, Biden’s inner circle of unelected White...

DOGE: Social Security Officially Removes 12.3 Million Individuals Listed Age 120+ 111 Elon Musk holds a chainsaw reading "Long live freedom, damn it" during the annuaSAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Hannah Knudsen26 May 20251,624 2:03 Social Security has removed from its rolls 12.3 million individuals listed as 120 years old or older, according to the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The discrepancies in the Social Security figures and the alarming ages of some of the individuals listed have garnered national attention over the last several months. As a result, in March DOGE began to update the American people on the...

US District Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee on Monday denied a Trump DOJ motion for reconsideration related to the criminal aliens deported to South Sudan. The Boston-based judge blamed the Trump Administration for the chaos he caused with his court order grounding the plane. .... Snip.... The judge’s order is putting ICE agents in danger. “A local judge in Boston ordered the flight grounded and has now trapped ICE officers in Djibouti with these savage monsters! Having to guard and protect them 24-7 in a location with no appropriate facilities! No detention space! No detention beds! Nothing! Putting their...

The left is furious that the Trump administration is officially enforcing (effective date: June 25) the longstanding law that truck drivers must be proficient in English.The left claims that you don’t need to speak English to drive; this must be bigotry against immigrants, or against Spanish speakers, or against the uneducated, or against certain ethnicities.It’s not.Whether one is an immigrant or a native American, whether one has a college degree or just a high school diploma, whether one’s skin color is black or white or plaid or polka-dotted — none of this matters to the question of whether a person...

Watch live: SpaceX launches Starship mission on critical 9th test flight Live in 19 hours | May 27 at 5:30 PM | Spaceflight Now 364K subscribers | 27 waiting | Scheduled for May 27, 2025

Is the president of France his wife's puppet? Is she like, maybe, a super-charged Jill Biden, commanding her commands from behind the scenes ... or else? Or is Emmanuel Macron in a spousal abuse situation, the way Kamala Harris appeared to be, given the reports out there about her hubby, Doug Emhoff, and the credible accusations of against him by a past girlfriend who said he hit her so hard she spun around. Brigitte Macron was caught on camera actually beating her husband: Brigitte Macron slaps her husband in the face, as he exits aircraft. The French President’s office branded...

The White House has said it is “monitoring” the case of Lucy Connolly in an escalation of free speech tensions with Sir Keir Starmer. State department officials are examining the treatment of Connolly, the wife of a Conservative councillor, who was jailed for 31 months over a social media post about the Southport attacks. Judges threw out an appeal brought by the 42-year-old last week, meaning she will not be released before August. Campaigners raised her case with Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, as part of a wider effort to challenge what they regard as draconian hate speech...