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SIR Keir Starmer is one boat away from claiming Britain’s worst-ever small boats record. New figures show 65,703 migrants have arrived on his watch in just 19 months. That puts him within touching distance of Boris Johnson’s 65,811 tally, which took the ex-PM three years to reach. Crossings in 2025 alone hit 41,474, with another 23,242 pouring in as Labour took power. Monday’s crossing saw 56 migrants reach Britain – the first arrival since January 19, when 275 made the journey. Only 933 crossed last month, the lowest January figure in five years, but Storm Chandra and brutal winter seas...

Church and government officials in Italy have launched an investigation into claims that the face of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was painted on an angel during the restoration of a fresco in Rome. Italy's culture ministry has sent officers to inspect the artwork in a chapel of the Basilica of St Lawrence in Lucina, while the Diocese of Rome expressed its "disappointment" and said it would determine who had been responsible. The artist, Bruno Valentinetti, said he had simply restored the fresco he painted in 2000 and denied modelling the angel after the prime minister. Meloni responded in a post...

VIDEOAny liberals who discount the charge that Minnesota elected officials, especially Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan aka "Flan Southside," were administrators of the Signal Chat group as just another "conspiracy theory" just had their ridiculous dismissal blown out of the water by the president of the Minneapolis Teacher's Union. Listen as she forthrightly admits that elected officials were proud of their work as Signal Chat administrators because they helped IMPEDE federal law enforcement such as ICE.

It's easy to spot a Mazda long before you've gotten close enough to check out the logo or detailing. That is, it's easy if it's finished in the company's signature Soul Red Crystal: a reflective, multi-layered coating crafted with bright pigments, tiny aluminum fragments, and light-absorbing flakes. Although the color is eye-catching courtesy of its reflective shimmer and depth, that's not the main reason why it's so well known. It's actually mostly because of the specialist and exclusive way the paint is applied and designed.

Army Ranger and GOP Rep. Warren Davidson clashed with Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters for demonizing ICE agents and suggesting that a “Civil War” in America is imminent. “The invasion you are fueling of our country is TREASON!” Davidson snapped at Waters. “Silence, the time is mine!”

12:59 PM PT -- The Pima County Sheriff's Department posted on X they are "aware of reports circulating about possible ransom note(s) regarding the investigation into Nancy Guthrie."

A January survey from Harvard University and The Harris Poll found that a slight majority of respondents believe that former President Biden was more effective than President Trump. The poll, released Monday, found that 51 percent of respondents said Trump is doing a worse job than Biden, while 49 percent said the president is doing a better job than his predecessor. The same survey conducted in December found that 53 percent of respondents said Trump is faring better than Biden did. The latest results also mark a stark reversal from February 2025, when 58 percent of respondents to the Harvard-Harris...

A quiet diplomatic decision just redrew the geopolitical map of the Red Sea. This video breaks down why Israel’s recognition of Somaliland is a calculated power move tied to global shipping lanes, Berbera Port, and rising tensions with Turkey—far beyond a symbolic gesture. We connect the dots between the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint, Gaza’s future, and a brewing regional rivalry. If you enjoy clear, no-nonsense geopolitics, drop your take in the comments and consider subscribing. .....

NEW: ICE confirms to Fox News that they’ve arrested a New Orleans Police Department recruit who they say is an illegal alien from Cameroon with an active deportation order & no work authorization, & they say he was illegally given a gun by New Orleans PD. ICE says 46-year-old Larry Temah was one week away from graduating the New Orleans PD academy when they arrested him. They say Temah first entered the US legally in 2015 on a visitor’s visa and was granted conditional residency after marrying a US citizen in 2016. However, in 2022, his application for permanent residency...

A new poll shows 76% of Greenlanders say they wouldn’t benefit from becoming part of the U.S., noting their concerns about exchanging the Danish welfare system for American healthcare, elder care and education. Only 3% of Greenlanders had a “very positive” view of U.S. government-provided benefits, while 59% held a mainly or very negative view of it, the poll shows. The U.S. has some of the highest healthcare costs in the world. In a new survey conducted by Verian in Denmark for Berlingske and Sermitsiaq, Greenlanders are asked: "Do you want Greenland to leave Denmark and become part of the...

NEW: High school anti-ICE protester runs in front of a moving car that was flying a Trump flag, gets knocked to the ground. The incident happened at Fremont High School in Nebraska. The student's mother is fuming at school officials for failing to prevent the protest, arguing that children are too young to make informed decisions. "First of all, I don’t feel she’s informed enough to have made a decision like the one that she made by doing a protest," the mother said. "I don’t feel that any of the young people that were involved know enough about what’s going...

JUST IN: Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler appears to suggest American citizens would be justified in shooting masked ICE agents. "What is really the major problem in this country today is the fascism in our streets." "The attacks on American citizens by masked hoodlums. If you were attacked by a masked person, you might think you were being kidnapped. You'd be justified in shooting the person to protect yourself."

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov warned on Tuesday that Moscow would take "military and technical compensatory measures" if the United States deploys elements of its proposed "Golden Dome" missile defense system on the Arctic island. Ryabkov made the remarks during a briefing at the Russian Embassy in China. His remarks came as US President Donald Trump seeks to assert greater control over Greenland, the semi-autonomous Danish territory, and advances plans to deploy the "Golden Dome" missile defense system — a multibillion-dollar project he says will be operational before his term ends in 2029. ...His controversial plan comes as the...

Federal and local authorities have uncovered what they allege was an illegal biological laboratory operating inside a Las Vegas home owned by a Chinese national. Newly released footage from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows a dramatic hazmat response as agents hauled bags of medical tubing, vials and containers filled with unknown liquids from the suburban property. During a press briefing on Monday, LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill revealed investigators discovered a 'significant volume of material' stored in refrigerators and freezers throughout the home, including vials and containers holding liquids of varying colors and compositions. Investigators also located 'pathogen-labeled containers'...

It’s the same dark money, with new signs. Anti-ICE protests in Minnesota may appear to be “grassroots” efforts organized by concerned citizens, but they’re really funded with megadonor money — some coming from China. A so-called “ICE Out” march drew an estimated 15,000 left-wing political activists to a frozen, snow-covered Minneapolis on Friday, with attendees chanting “ICE out now” and demanding an end to federal immigration enforcement in the city. Although framed as a spontaneous uprising of concerned, everyday people, the demonstration — like countless that have regularly metastasized during President Trump’s terms — featured a familiar cast of politically...

The leader of a Canadian separatist group pushing for independence for the province of Alberta said "the Trump administration shows Albertans far more respect than is shown to Albertans by the government in Ottawa." Jeffrey Rath, leader of the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), made the comments in an interview with Canadian Television (CTV) on Sunday, when he was asked if he could understand how some may "view the idea of people here meeting with a government that has spoken the way it has about this country as a whole as problematic." Newsweek has contacted the APP, via email, for comment.

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There are three advertisements displayed in a cycle on the digital billboard at Jefferson and Mason streets. One reads, “Defensive player of the year: ICE,” and shows an ICE agent holding a trophy. Another reads, “Cheering because the home team finally started investing in defense,” with ICE agents shown in riot gear lined up along the border wall.

Explanation: Oh what a tangled web a planetary nebula can weave. The Red Spider Planetary Nebula shows the complex structure that can result when a normal star ejects its outer gases and becomes a white dwarf star. Officially tagged NGC 6537, this two-lobed symmetric planetary nebula houses one of the hottest white dwarfs ever observed, probably as part of a binary star system. Internal winds flowing out from the central stars, have been measured in excess of 1,000 kilometers per second. These winds expand the nebula, flow along the nebula's walls, and cause waves of hot gas and dust to...