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Reports last week confirmed that former special counsel Jack Smith “secretly arranged” to preserve evidence in his criminal cases against President Trump in order to maintain the threat of future prosecution once the president leaves office. This is not a big surprise. Democrats have thrown every civic norm out the window in their ruthless efforts to target Trump’s businesses and send him to prison for life. eports last week confirmed that former special counsel Jack Smith “secretly arranged” to preserve evidence in his criminal cases against President Trump in order to maintain the threat of future prosecution once the president...

Finally, someone has seen the light:Bolt CEO fires his entire HR team because they “created problems that didn’t exist”, and “those problems disappeared when I let them go”. Welcome to the party, pal.Ryan Breslow, the co-founder and chief executive of US fintech firm Bolt, said the department was scrapped as part of sweeping layoffs aimed at returning the struggling business to “start-up mode”.The 32-year-old added that HR professionals were more suited to “peacetime” conditions at larger companies rather than a start-up environment focused on rapid growth and efficiency.In his seminal work, Up The Organization, the late Robert Townsend had a...

Europe is dealing with a full-blown sexual health crisis as cases of gonorrhea and syphilis skyrocket to unprecedented levels, shocking new data show. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) revealed the continent is in the grips of a dirty STI explosion not seen in over a decade. Gonorrhea cases across Europe hiked a staggering 303% since 2015, clocking in at 106,331 painful infections, while syphilis cases more than doubled over the same period, topping more than 45,550 cases. Spain ranks as Europe’s hotspot, racking up 37,169 gonorrhea cases and 11,556 syphilis infections in 2024, according to the...

A Texas hunter turned the state’s picturesque Hill Country into a real-life horror show, allegedly slaughtering at least 13 white-tailed bucks, slicing off their heads and leaving the headless carcasses to rot on residents’ front lawns. Darrell Maguire, 55, of New Braunfels, is accused of shooting deer with a crossbow from his vehicle, chopping off their prized heads and leaving the decapitated bodies behind for horrified locals to find over 11 months between fall 2024 and summer 2025, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department said Thursday. He was arrested by game wardens in September 2025 after at least eight white-tailed...

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An alarming shift is emerging in US hospitals. A new study has revealed a disturbing rise in life-altering amputations nationwide, with one unexpected at-risk population seeing a particularly sharp increase in recent years. Even more concerning, those cases tended to be more severe, often involving loss of an arm or the upper leg above the knee. In the study, researchers from Mass General Brigham and University of California, San Francisco analyzed US hospitalizations between 2016 and 2022 to see how amputation rates have changed over time. Over the six-year period, amputations rose overall, by 35.3% (from 58.9 to 79.7 per...

Austria has moved to restrict refugee family reunification through a new quota-based system as part of a broader tightening of its asylum policy. The government says the measure will align migration flows with national capacity, while rights organizations warn it risks prolonging family separations. Austria’s parliament has approved legislation introducing caps on the number of family members able to join refugees each year, marking a significant shift in the country’s migration policy. The quota system is expected to take effect from July, though officials have not yet set a fixed number, saying it will depend on Austria’s reception and integration...

Former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander (D) is leading incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman (N.Y.) in the Democratic primary for New York’s 10th District by more than 20 points, according to a new survey. In the Emerson College Polling/PIX 11 poll, 56.6 percent of respondents said they would back Lander while 23.1 percent said they support Goldman and 20.3 percent were undecided. Lander launched his bid to challenge Goldman late last year, shortly after losing the party primary for the New York City mayoral race.

Denmark has led some of the strictest asylum legislation in Europe. The center-right government of Mette Frederiksen has claimed that limiting the number of foreigners in the country is necessary for maintaining a generous welfare state. The Danish Refugee Council says this is causing a lot of uncertainty and anxiety among refugees. A historically low number of asylum approvals were granted by the Danish authorities in 2025. Denmark granted 839 asylum permits, the government announced on January 10. In 2024, the country accepted some 860 of the 2,333 asylum requests filed that year. These statistics illustrate the Danish government’s drive...

A Newport Beach family is living in fear after the man who murdered their grandmother 30 years ago may be considered for parole. Shannon Wadsworth, the victim's granddaughter, is speaking out, pleading for Gov. Gavin Newsom to block the release. "I'm terrified. My entire family is terrified," Wadsworth said. "He should not be on the streets; he's not safe. He even said in his parole hearing that he has the possibility to commit this crime again, a crime of sexual nature, and that says it all." In the 1990's, teenager James Dennis Lynch made headlines after pleading guilty to the...

In 2020, just 246 people tried to sneak into Poland from Belarus through the marshy wetlands on the border, according to the Polish government’s records. There was a pandemic on, after all. But over the following year, almost 40,000 migrants from Syria, Somalia, Iran, Afghanistan, India and other countries crossed or attempted to cross this frontier. Those migrants didn’t end up in Belarus by accident. Some were carrying Russian visas or entry stamps. Russia and its ally — some would say lackey — Belarus were, in effect, importing migrants, delivering them to the Polish-Belarusian border and telling them to head...

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Federal judges in Maine and Wisconsin on Thursday dismissed lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Justice seeking to compel the states to hand over detailed voter registration information. U.S. District Judge James Pederson in Wisconsin said the state’s voter registration list is not a record that can be requested under the Civil Rights Act of 1960, as President Donald Trump’s administration argued. In Maine, Chief U.S. District Judge Lance Walker described the government’s claim as “half-hearted” and granted a state motion to dismiss it. The rulings were the latest in a string of defeats for...

Single-sex toilets and changing rooms in England, Wales and Scotland must exclude transgender men and women, according to a new code of practice from the equalities watchdog. But the long-awaited guidance also says that businesses and service providers have to offer practical alternatives such as gender-neutral toilets for people who do not wish to use services for their biological sex. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) document sets out how public bodies, businesses and other service providers should respond in practical terms to April 2025’s landmark supreme court ruling that sex in the Equality Act refers only to biological...

@ky_statesman I've lived in KY-04 my entire life and closely follow the election results here. There is no way that the turnout legitimately doubled. This was election fraud carried out by the highest levels of our state & federal governments.

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The Fort Wayne Police Department released footage Tuesday afternoon of last week’s fight at Tim Hortons that preceded the death of a 75-year-old woman. The footage from the events of May 13, posted on the department’s YouTube page, can be viewed in the video above. Although the Allen County Coroner’s Office previously said it would not disclose details, a report released Tuesday coinciding with the FWPD’s statement officially identified her as Anita Ann Grayson, a 75-year-old Fort Wayne woman. The report said her cause and manner of death were both still pending, but the autopsy...

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This video features a commentary on a heated exchange between Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Mazie Hirono during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing regarding voting rights, gerrymandering, and the historical record of racial discrimination in the United States. Key Highlights: Cruz’s Historical Argument: Senator Ted Cruz challenges Democratic claims about the history of racial discrimination in the U.S. by highlighting the historical connection between the Democratic Party and policies such as Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, literacy tests, and the founding of the Ku Klux Klan (0:43 - 2:41). Contrasting Republican History: Cruz emphasizes that the Republican Party was founded...