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Andy Burnham would like us to believe the small boats crisis is under control. Earlier this month, he said that co-operation between the UK and France “has helped us reduce summer small boat crossings to a seven-year low”. There are lots of facts and figures that can be thrown around. However, the idea that the boats have stopped or been significantly reduced in number is simply not true. Official figures show that in the year ending June 2026, the number of people caught arriving in a dinghy was about 33,000. That’s down from 43,000 in the 12 months to June...

A former senior U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official and his accomplice are facing charges for an alleged bribery scheme in which they accepted nearly $960,000 in exchange for favors in the processing of immigration benefit applications, including citizenship cases. The former official, Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu, and his financial accomplice, Adeniyi Akeem Somoye, were arrested on federal charges for their roles in an alleged multi‑year scheme to receive illegal gratuities in exchange for manipulating and expediting immigration applications, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas. The pair were charged with conspiracy to receive illegal gratuities...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is reveling in the remaking of St. Paul's Cathedral into a nightclub with events hosted by rave company Fabric. Raves, of course, are all night dance parties where attendees take drugs and use hallucinogens in a bid toward bacchanalian depravity and not a deepening of their Christian faith. St. Paul's is an Anglican cathedral that was consecrated in the year 604. Their archives date back to 1099 and their library, designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1708, holds over 13,000 volumes and manuscripts going back to the 12th century. Medieval stonework, Grinling Gibbons' wood carvings, and...

A California woman and her two sons have died in a horrific plane crash that severely injured her husband, The Post has learned. Danna Eady, 41, a flight instructor from Auberry, was killed along with her boys Pavel, 10, and Remus, 13, when their aircraft went down on a hilltop near Sierra Sky Park airport in Fresno on Saturday. Her husband Craig, who was also on the plane, survived but suffered severe burns and extensive injuries, friends said. Danna is also survived by her other children Lucien, 17 and Felicity, 18... Nick Wilcox, who owns the Soar Paso flight school...

Explanation: The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (an official designation) is divided from the larger North America Nebula by a molecular cloud filled with dark dust. The deep featured picture from Utah, USA incorporates 25 hours of exposure and brings out great details of this filamentary dust. The Pelican Nebula receives much study because it is a particularly active mix of star formation and evolving gas clouds. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming the cold gas to hot gas, with the advancing boundary between the two, known as an ionization front, visible in bright...

A business owner out of Detroit was arrested by Homeland Security for alleged international money laundering with major drug cartels in Mexico. Officials say 58-year-old Juan Romo-Padilla, who is the owner of Mexican restaurant ‘La Posada' in Southwest Detroit, was arrested on Thursday following a joint investigation by the DEA and IRS. Romo-Padilla faces charges of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, international money laundering, laundering of represented drug proceeds, and violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, announced US Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. According to a federal criminal complaint, agents from DEA and IRS-CI have been investigating Romo-Padilla since 2024...

Unemployment among younger workers who didn’t go to college has rarely been lower in recent decades. It is the opposite story for college grads For most U.S. workers—those without college degrees, that is—it is one of the best job markets in decades. In fact, the unemployment rate for workers ages 22 to 34 who never graduated from college has rarely been lower in the past two decades, according to a new analysis by labor-market think tank Burning Glass Institute. Unemployment rates for workers ages 22-34 by education level, with each group ranked against its own unemployment history since 2003 What...

Chandler Hall, representing, on Television, the foolish Center for American Lack of Progress, stated that adding the National Guard to Cities, including our now Great Again, Washington, D.C., had “NO impact on Crime.” How crazy is that. Hall was met with furious dissent. The report is just another Radical Left SCAM, as are the people who fund this gaggle of Lunatics, including George Soros, Bill and Melinda Gates, Google, Apple, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, WellsFargo, Bank of America, Walmart, Toyota, T-Mobile, and NBC Universal. Foreign support includes the Embassy of Japan, the Korea Foundation, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office...

[Catholic Caucus] The Holy See Legitimizes Panentheism: A Heresy Against the Creator A new Vatican document praises panentheism, a heresy that blurs the essential distinction between Creator and creation. This seemingly subtle theological shift actually strikes at the very foundations of Creation, Original Sin, Redemption, and the necessity of Christ’s Cross. Panentheism: When God and Creation Are No Longer DistinctOn August 21, the International Theological Commission published a document entitled “Caring for Our Common Home: A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Trinitarian God.”This document sets out the context in which theological texts have been produced at least in recent...

U.S. — Millions of murderers across the country expressed overwhelming optimism today following reports that killing someone is effectively legal, provided the perpetrator informs authorities they were sad. According to legal experts, centuries of criminal precedent had been rendered obsolete by the simple, groundbreaking defense of "feeling a little overwhelmed." "For years, we operated under the outdated assumption that taking a human life required accountability," defense attorney Arnold Carter explained. "We now understand that as long as you mention feeling sad beforehand, the entire legal system immediately pivots to asking if you've been getting enough self-care." Hitman Frank Rizzoli noted...

When Gloria Steinem was 22 years old and a recent graduate of Smith College, she found herself sitting in a doctor’s office in London, asking for an abortion. Not long before, she had slipped off her engagement ring, tucked it under her fiancé’s pillow and, in her words, fled. She was headed to India on a fellowship, leaving behind the comfortable domestic life expected of her, and walking into a future that must have looked awfully fuzzy even without an unwanted pregnancy blurring her path forward. This was 1957, and elective abortion was illegal in both the United States and...

President Donald Trump posted a stream of AI-generated images and a series of sweeping and unverified claims on Truth Social on Sunday, including saying that he has made hundreds of billions of dollars on stocks and other holdings for the U.S.The 80-year-old commander in chief spent more than 10 hours on Sunday posting dozens of apparently AI-generated images on his social media platform. The posts included a depiction of Iran’s defeat, Trump on horseback with George Washington, and an apparently AI-generated image of Robert De Niro holding a shirt that read, “Trump is my president.”One AI image appears to show...

Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander who died while serving a life sentence for war crimes, was buried on Monday with military honors and crowds attending as Serbia defied European Union warnings against allowing public homage to the man found guilty of the continent’s first case of genocide since World War II. Thousands of mourners started arriving early at the small Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Luke in Belgrade to honor Mladic as his body lay in state. Mladic is still viewed as a hero by many Serbs. His military officer’s cap and saber rested on the coffin, which was...

OpenAI has reportedly hired Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s daughter Jessica Schumer for a top policy job as Silicon Valley increasingly works to shore up ties with Democrats ahead of November’s midterm elections. Jessica Schumer, Amazon’s former top public-policy official in New York, is joining OpenAI to handle the company’s government outreach and partnerships in Northeastern states, Axios reported, citing a spokesperson for the AI giant. The Harvard and Yale-educated Schumer brings deep ties to Democratic politics and government to OpenAI, which is rapidly expanding its operations in Washington, DC, and state capitals as lawmakers wrestle with how to regulate...

WASHINGTON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Democrats need to pick up four seats from Republicans to win control of the 100-seat Senate in the midterm elections on November 3. While voters will pick candidates in 35 states, independent analysts only see nine of those races as competitive.

Donald Trump revealed a potential uniform for the US Space Force that has people comparing the service's new look to classic science fiction movies. The newest wing of the American military has been mocked in the past for the futuristic nature of their uniforms. However, many were taken aback when Trump posted a new 'Service Dress Uniform' for the force titled 'Next Generation' which directly references the 1997 film Starship Troopers. The design is inspired, according to the photo description, 'by the discipline and functionality of the starship trooper uniform modernized for the guardians of the space domain.' The color...

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Far-left delegates gather in Chicago for a socialism conference to discuss strategy. Democratic Socialists of America co-chair Megan Romer reveals growing enthusiasm within the group to back Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for president.

Could the former First Lady of the United States eventually become the next commissioner of the WNBA? There have been rumblings throughout this season about WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert stepping away at the end of the year. Well, she confirmed this Friday that she'll be retiring on Dec. 31. "Over the years, it has been amazing to watch WNBA players thrive and lead the massive cultural surge around women's sports," Engelbert said in a statement. "I retire knowing we have built something bigger, stronger and more enduring than we could have imagined. I am grateful to the WNBA and NBA...