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Roland Nice spent eight minutes in the car park in Haverhill, Suffolk, after discovering he was not allowed to pay in cash. After trudging between two machines with the help of his walking stick only to realise his 20-year-old Nokia couldn't download the payment app, he left. Days later, the grandfather was slapped with a £100 fine – reduced to £60 if he paid within a fortnight – for the time he spent there. 'I find it very frustrating. Eventually, banks are going to work it so you have to do everything by card,' he said. 'I've always been a...

WASHINGTON — A former Southern Poverty Law Center chief finance officer declined to face charges in person that she fraudulently funneled $1.2 million in donor money to white supremacist groups. Heidi Beirich waived her right to appear at a virtual court arraignment in the Middle District of Alabama on 14 felony charges involving alleged wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering. Instead, her defense team appeared for the Zoom arraignment and entered a not-guilty plea before US Magistrate Judge Kelly Pate on all counts. Pate set a trial date of Oct. 5, which both prosecutors and Beirich’s defense attorneys indicated...

“We’re only cooked if we accept it.” —Blaine Holt on “X” They don’t call economics the dismal science for nothing. It has been noted — since Thomas Carlyle minted the term in 1849 (objecting to the emancipation of black slaves on Britain’s colonial sugar plantations as a harm to productivity) — that attempts to manage the billion-footed transactions of human beings always find a way to bite back. But how can this creature we call society not try to regulate its affairs, with evils and hazards lurking in all we do, everywhere and always? And so, you get politics, the...

Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) is projected to win the South Carolina Republican primary runoff to replace her brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), on the November ballot, according to Decision Desk HQ. Lindsey Graham, 71, died unexpectedly in early July after serving in the Senate for more than two decades — and after winning an initial June primary for renomination to the red state seat. Darline Graham, 62, was appointed by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) to fill the vacancy, and she’s now running for a full Senate term with support from President Trump. Darline Graham on Tuesday...

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For the fourth year in a row, multiple Oklahoma state agencies are found to have mismanaged tens of millions in federal funding, according to the state auditor. “For expenditures dating to the fiscal year 2024, questioned costs totaled close to $25 million, State Auditor & Inspector Cindy Byrd told media in her annual Oklahoma Federal Single Audit press conference Aug. 24, which presented findings from Fiscal Year 2024. Like with Fiscal Year 2023, Byrd's office found the faults in Oklahoma Department of Management & Enterprise Services (OMES) and Department of Human Services (DHS). Before the pandemic, the average amount mismanaged...

At the 2017 Emmy Awards, Dolly was reunited with her co-stars from the 1980 hit comedy Nine to Five. It was nine months into the Trump administration, and two of the presenters weren’t about to let you forget it. Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda let loose mini-screeds against Trump. Dolly looks uncomfortable, then defuses the awkwardness by making a joke about the size of her breasts. And the podcasters want to know—they need to know—why Dolly didn’t attack Trump along with her co-stars and friends. Doesn’t she hate the guy? (Translation: Please tell us you hate the guy!) For the...

“ Several 'doomsday planes' were spotted circling above the US on Tuesday, just hours after the CIA director made a surprise visit to Moscow. Flight enthusiasts spotted at least five Boeing E-6 Mercury aircraft along the West Coast and in the central region of the nation. These giant unmarked planes, constructed using the frames of the Boeing 707, are built to survive a nuclear war and coordinate America's military response from the air if bases on the ground are attacked. Public flight trackers began following the aircraft at around 1:30pm EST, although the main planes appeared with blank or missing...

The Montana gunman who massacred eight family members – including four children – at a home he then torched has been ID’d as a 44-year-old relative who had been told to move out of the home, according to two of the victims’ father. The mass shooter was identified as Alan Smith, according to Brad Ireland, whose ex-wife and two children were among those killed in the shocking rampage. Ireland said that Smith had recently been asked by the family to move out of the home before the shooting occurred.

Dean has a sidearm which may be allowed in Canada. This is the Reichsrevolver Model 1883 with replacement cylinder pin. The group was shot with 200 grain Ultramax .44 Russian loads. They do not appear to be available any more.By Dean Weingarten | Contributing WriterThis correspondent has been considering a trip to Canada to do some research.The current Canadian government has stopped all importation of handguns for the foreseeable future.However, Canada does not classify antique guns as firearms. The requirements to qualify as an antique are strict. The handgun must have been made before 1898. The handgun may not...

So if you’re keeping score, Josh Shapiro is now opposed to data centers. Loudly and forcefully — for Pennsylvania voters to hear from Allentown to Ligonier, and for progressive Democrats to hear from Des Moines, Iowa, to Charleston, South Carolina. For Pennsylvanians, I understand if you’re confused. After all, Shapiro had been passionately for data centers — making a play to be the national leader and offering tax incentives and expedited concierge service for new applications. ---SNIP--- A governor so lacking in core values that he shamelessly moves from leading a press conference welcoming Amazon’s data centers to posturing TV...

U.S. Senate (R) Darline Graham (R) 13,029 55.7% Ralph Norman (R) 10,358 44.3% Votes in: Estimated 6.1% Updated every 2 minutes at this link: https://www.wbtv.com/politics/election-results/

How is the Secretary of Agriculture not willing to talk about where Americans are getting their beef from?

And now you understand Bessent’s obsession. The entire funding base of the US government is, at the margin, LEVERED. The buyers are not holding the bonds with their own money.. they are holding them with borrowed money, rolled overnight, against collateral that gets marked to market daily. That is a magnificent machine when repo is cheap and calm, and a doomsday device if repo ever seizes: a repo spike forces margin calls, margin calls force bond sales, bond sales push yields up, higher yields trigger MORE margin calls.. and suddenly the buyer of last resort is selling into a falling...

Saudi Arabia's futuristic megaproject Neom has come to a standstill, as the extraordinary costs of the planned city have collided with financial reality. After sinking more than $50 billion into Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's dreams of a sci-fi metropolis, the kingdom is now spending billions of dollars more to wind down contracts, leaving mammoth-sized partially built structures to gather sand in the desert. WSJ's Eliot Brown analyzes internal documents and satellite images to show how and why the world's largest construction project came to a halt, and what comes next for Neom. Why the World's Largest Megaproject Collapsed...

BAYCHESTER, The Bronx (WABC) -- Three people were shot, one of them fatally, after an apparent car meetup early Sunday in the Baychester section of the Bronx. The gunfire broke out during the street takeover at East 233rd Street and Boston Road at 5:40 a.m. Police believe multiple people opened fire and dozens of shots, as many as 60, were fired at the scene. An 18-year-old man, later identified as Werling Mendez, was shot in the head and died. Additionally, a 20-year-old woman was shot in the foot and a 22-year-old man was shot in the chest. Both victims were...

State Rep. James Talarico holds a narrow lead over Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the closely watched U.S. Senate race, according to a new Texas Politics Project poll that also found Democrats reporting greater enthusiasm for voting. Talarico leads Paxton in latest poll By the numbers: The latest polling from the Texas Politics Project shows Talarico with a 3-point lead over Paxton, 42%-39%. The poll also shows Libertarian candidate Ted Brown with the support of 3% of those polled, while 14% said they haven't thought about it enough to form an opinion. Democrats are more enthusiastic about vote and...

U.S. President Donald Trump and leaders from around the world sent messages of support to Ukraine on Aug. 24, the nation's Independence Day. This year's holiday marks Ukraine's fourth Independence Day since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. "The people of Ukraine have an unbreakable spirit, and your country's courage inspires many," Trump said in a letter of support posted to social media by President Volodymyr Zelensky. "As you mark this important day, know the United States respects your fight, honors your sacrifices, and believes in your future as an independent nation."

As a governor and senator, Huey Long is best remembered for his radical proposals to redistribute wealth by force and for criticizing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal" as not expansive or progressive enough. So when Vice President J.D. Vance says out loud that he finds Long "great" and "interesting," that's worth keeping in mind.

Have you found a girlfriend yet, young man? I ask because people are pairing off at the lowest rates in modern history. While many argue over the causes, everyone—both left and right—agrees on the culprit: men. The internet is awash in articles positing some variation of the title “Where have all the good men gone?” On the left, one of the most prominent works on this question is the New York Times’ essay “Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back” by Rachel Drucker. Leftists never consider the mess that is the modern dating world—or their role in creating it—and...