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Hundreds of police officers from across England have been drafted in to restore order in Middlesbrough amid fears the town is on the brink of descending into a gang war. Violence, believed to be linked to five young men who were killed in a wrong-way crash on the A66 on Saturday, has spiralled across Teesside. This afternoon, armed police swarmed a house on the Bankfield estate in Eston after a 39-year-old man was injured in a stabbing. A house was also rammed by a vehicle this morning in South Bank. The suspected knife attack took place just down the road...

Among information provided, Oman and Qatar report achieving 80% of pre-war production of oil through the Strait. That leaves Iran out - and that's good.

U.S. — The Girl Scouts of America, in cooperation with the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, MI, unveiled a new Muslim badge girls could earn by getting married before the age of 8. Because of the strict age requirement, the Muslim badge can only be earned by Daisies and Brownies. Other program levels are ineligible for the coveted new badge. GSUSA President Telva McGruder said, "Islamophobia is a growing problem, and we want to do our part to teach our Girl Scouts about what it really means to be tolerant, which is why we will be offering a...

West Virginia law enforcement said a 20-year-old man who allegedly used the name “MrChildPorn” online is accused of possessing material depicting children engaged in sexually explicit conduct. West Virginia State Police said the suspect, Garrett Michael Highlander of Morgantown, was arrested last week after he allegedly used the Discord platform to share those images, WSB-TV reported Wednesday. Authorities are holding the suspect on a $100,000 bond. Troopers served a warrant at his home once they received numerous tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding a man bragging about having numerous images of child sexual abuse material...

Many of you who read Just the Facts know my 2003 book, Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11. It reached #2 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction list that fall. Its final chapter, “The Interrogation,” broke the story of what Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah told CIA interrogators shortly after his capture. There’s front-page news today that brought me back to it —and what the coverage is missing. A military judge, Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, has set a June 5, 2028 trial date for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three of his Guantánamo Bay...

Explanation: What a sight to behold, when a night sky became filled with colors that appeared to rain over the Skógafoss waterfall in Iceland. This image was taken in a single 5 second exposure by the photographer in April 2025. Seeing an aurora is on many people's bucket lists. But it is not easy. It requires high solar activity, dark and clear skies, and usually a viewing location at high latitude. That makes the northern lights more easily seen than the corresponding southern lights, simply because there is less landmass in the Southern Hemisphere, especially around the Antarctic Circle. Auroras...

Police in Minneapolis reportedly raided the apartment of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son and seized firearms before arresting his roommate. Law enforcement sources told Alpha News that a search warrant was carried out at the home of Omar's son Adnan on Tuesday night. According to the outlet, they recovered guns and ammunition from the home and arrested his roommate Abdulrahman Abdi, 22. Earlier that day, the city's police department said in a statement to the Daily Mail that they conducted a traffic stop and cited Abdi for no proof of insurance and no license. The department said that Abdi was released...

President Trump vowed to spend “a lot of time in Texas” to help his candidate Ken Paxton defeat Democrat James Talarico, who the president bestowed with a new nickname: “Tele-a-freak-o.” “We have a very good candidate, Ken Paxton, and he’s running against Tel-a-freak-o, they call him, because he is a little freaky,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office. Trump has blasted the Democratic contender with numerous insults and repeatedly accused Talarico of being a vegan (which he denies) in a state known for its beef and barbeque. Both parties are heavily invested in the Texas Senate race, seeing...

Delaware Sen. Chris Coons is facing backlash after declaring that the United States is "no longer" the leader of the free world and pointing instead to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the national leader putting his country "on the line for freedom." "I would say we are no longer the leaders of the free world. In fact, if anything, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the primary national leader who is putting his country's men and women on the line for freedom," Coons said during a town hall earlier this month. "We need to earn our place back as leader in the free...

A George Soros-backed outfit intentionally designed to be mistaken for a local newspaper just mailed Michigan voters a headline calling Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) a veteran. He's as much a veteran as he is a doctor. Well, more on that last part in a minute. The "Michigan Independent" sent out unsolicited mailers to voters celebrating El-Sayed's primary win and, according to the Washington Free Beacon, completely whiffed on the headline. "El-Sayed — veteran, doctor, and former health official — is Democratic Senate pick," the header declares. Missed it by that much.

CNN was forced to apologize to Dolly Parton’s family for mistakenly using a photo of a Las Vegas impersonator of the country music legend while reporting on her death. The cable news network aired an image of tribute artist Kelly Vohnn as it covered Parton’s Tuesday death from cancer — leaving the 58-year-old Vohnn stunned as friends began bombarding her with messages. The errant image were broadcast during “Laura Coates Live” some 12 hours after Parton’s death was announced by her family. “We regret the error and apologize to the Parton family,” CNN told The Post in a brief Thursday...

Country music icon and beloved philanthropist Dolly Parton recorded a secret song that will be locked away until 2046. Prior to her death at age 80 this week, Dolly Parton recorded more than 60 albums, including a never before heard song that she wanted to lock away until 2046, per WKRN. In her 2021 memoir, “Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics,” Dolly revealed she penned a secret song. The track is locked in a box on display at Dollywood’s Dream More Resort and Spa in Pigeon Forge. Inside the display are four personal items, including a box made of...

A text message sent by Vice President JD Vance on behalf of the Republican National Committee urged people not to donate if they couldn't afford groceries. The fundraising text sent in the Vice President's name told recipients: 'If you can't give right now, don't. Groceries cost what they cost.'*** The appeal then offered an unusually frank admission about the Republican Party's finances. 'Now the part I owe you honesty about,' the message said. 'The Republican National Committee needs money. That's true of every party committee, and anyone who tells you otherwise is doing the exact thing I just apologized for....

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he exacerbates his trade war with Canada. The Republican president signed an executive order in the Oval Office that updated the lake's name for the U.S. geographic naming service. Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however.

The Department of Homeland Security is mandating random paper ballot audits for upcoming elections, citing significant security risks posed by Chinese-manufactured components in widely-used voting machines. The Homeland Security Department will require random audits of paper ballots in the midterm elections, citing long-simmering concern that the nation’s largest voting technology companies use Chinese parts in their voting machines, according to a letter from Secretary Markwayne Mullin released Thursday. Mullin sent the letter to the White House Transparency Task Force earlier this week outlining the dangers posed by Chinese components in American voting machines and the way that these components could...

This video, presented by Dr. Steve Turley, discusses a series of recent arrests, indictments, and convictions of various Democratic officials across the United States (0:00 - 1:11). The speaker characterizes these legal actions as a sign of growing accountability within the political system during the current presidential administration. Key cases of political corruption discussed include: Massachusetts: Lawrence Mayor Brian Deena was arrested and indicted on federal charges of wire fraud and money laundering, allegedly misusing over $1.5 million in COVID-19 relief funds (1:26 - 2:21). Massachusetts State Representative Francisco Paulino was also indicted in connection with the same scandal (2:21...

Tributes have poured out from around the globe. It's true — Dolly really was one of the last universally beloved stars. Nobody had a bad word to say about her. One of the reasons she was so treasured was because she was almost entirely apolitical, at least in public. She essentially never got involved in political or cultural disputes. She was just a great entertainer and a good woman. Yet the Washington Post attempted to recruit her as a soldier in one of the most contentious disputes of our time: "Dolly Parton's lack of children demonstrated that the world could...

Dolly Parton‘s reps have revealed her cause of death. The iconic singer died after a “brief battle” with cancer at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, her reps said Tuesday. “Our beloved Dolly Parton spent her life and career bringing joy, laughter, hope and integrity into everything she touched. Her unmatched generosity reached the lives of countless people whom she would never meet, yet she was always there to offer a helping hand,” the statement from her reps to People magazine read.

A California school bus ride home turned into a scene out of a third-world country Monday when furious parents smashed their way onto a Calaveras Unified bus and children started climbing out the windows because the driver refused to let the kids off. The wild scene unfolded along Highway 49 near Russell Road in Calaveras County after students were held on the stopped bus for about an hour. According to KCRA 3, the trouble began when a student reportedly tried to climb out a window before the bus had come to a stop. The driver then pulled over, contacted law...

Santa Monica is putting more cops on the streets after a summer of violence hit the tourist hotspot — including two shootings in just two days. **SNIP** Saturday, a knife-wielding man was shot and killed near the Santa Monica Pier after he allegedly charged toward officers. The following day, a person was shot in the leg during an attempted robbery. The violence comes after a string of deadly incidents that has put the normally tourist-packed city on edge. In mid-July, a man was fatally shot in a parking lot near the Pier. Police responding around midnight found an adult male...