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A rebel Labour MP is threatening to trigger a by-election [Special Election] unless Sir Keir Starmer scraps plans to restrict jury trials. Karl Turner, a former shadow attorney general and criminal barrister, said he was prepared to quit the Commons to force a by-election to make his “principled point”. The Hull East MP broke the party whip for the first time since becoming an MP in 2010 to vote against the proposals and told the Prime Minister that he “ought to be ashamed of himself” over the plans. In an interview with The Sunday Times, he said he was “not...

Mass protest is a long way from revolution. The people of Iran have been here before. In 2009, over perceived electoral fraud; in 2019, over fuel prices; in 2022, over the abuses of the morality police. The authorities have honed their playbook, through the thuggery of the revolutionary guard and the Basij militias, the killing of protesters, mass detentions, public executions and the shutting down of the internet. That last point is hugely significant. It means that people don't know if anyone else is going out. They can't connect. It is hard to keep momentum going across Iran's 31 provinces,...

BREAKING: New Footage of a full 3 minutes on the road before Renee Good’s final moments. She’s lucky she didn’t get hit by another car. Also, Some Very Insightful Takes Her name was Renee Good. She was from Colorado, not Minnesota. She was also a mother. WAS. She left her kids to protest ICE. Was she was a paid protestor? Needless to say, Liberals are plenty upset and protesting. Meanwhile, conservatives and many others stand with the ICE agent.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” CNN Senior Correspondent Josh Campbell discussed the video of the shooting in Minneapolis and said that while officers are trained not to step in front of vehicles, “it appears, from other vantage points, that he was likely struck by that car, and so, under policy, an agent can articulate, I felt my life was in danger, I opened fire. But there are big questions based on the angle where he was, were there other options, could he have jumped out of the way? That’s a big question.” Campbell said, “[H]e puts himself...

On Friday’s “CNN News Central,” Minneapolis City Council Member Robin Wonsley responded to a question on what should replace ICE if it is abolished as she wants by stating that “This was used as a wedge issue to divide Americans, thinking that these immigrant — law enforcement agents are going to go out and get the bad guys off the streets. No, they are the bad guys.” Co-host Sara Sidner asked, “[Y]ou have called for abolishing ICE entirely. But we have seen polling from the American people who have said, look, they did put Donald Trump in office, in part,...

A TikToker shared a hilarious clip of a White female convert to Islam lecturing Muslims on how they treat members of the LGBT community and women. The video kicks off with the TikToker reading the caption on one of the woman’s social media posts, “If you’re a Muslim that’s transphobic and homophobic…” he pauses, noting, “Oh no….now the Muslims are going to have to deal with White women who think they understand the religion better than they do.” He continues, “A White woman convert to Islam calls on Muslims around the world to stop being transphobic and homophobic as the...

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How come no one ever challenges buffoons such as Jesse Ventura?

A man is dead after a hit-and-run in West Baltimore. On January 4, an officer was on patrol in the 1200 block of West North Avenue when he was told that a man had been struck by a car. Police say they found a 48-year-old man suffering from multiple abrasions to the head and body. He was taken to a hospital where he remained in critical condition. The man, later identified as Philip Jones, died three days later. Investigation determined that the incident was not accidental and that a homicide had occurred. Ollice Weaver was heading to church across the...

Cam Higby is on the ground in minneapolis, following about 1k protesters that have been going around to hotels they think have ICE staying as guest and trying to make entry or harrassing them. They appeared to have broken into one building, but have moved on from that scene. There has been hardly NO police presence, and only 2 cars had been seen.

Actor and director Timothy Busfield, famous for his work on "The West Wing" and "Thirtysomething," is being accused of pedophilia ... prosecutors in New Mexico allege he sexually abused underage boys who were child actors on a TV production set. According to a criminal complaint filed Friday in New Mexico, obtained by TMZ, Busfield is charged with child abuse and two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor under the age of 13. The charges stem from allegations that he sexually abused two boys on the set of "The Cleaning Lady."

@RupertLowe10 It looks like Starmer is seriously considering a ban on X. I will protest against this on the streets of London. I hope you will all join me.

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Violent rioters favoring monarchy vandalized public and private properties in a number of cities across Iran on Thursday night, inflicting injuries on ordinary people and security forces. The violent unrest that erupted in a number of Iranian cities on Thursday night caused damages to the government buildings, private shops, and even mosques. The rioters backing monarchy vandalized public properties, blocked streets, attacked the administrative buildings and Police stations, and injured a number of security and law enforcement forces. In remarks on Friday morning, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said the vandals have destroyed...

Crystal-clear new footage shows the moments leading up to the killing of Renee Nicole Good, filmed by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who shot her. Good, 37, could be seen smiling at Jonathan 'Jon' Ross while sitting in her Honda Pilot on Wednesday afternoon and saying, 'That's fine dude. I'm not mad,' in a video shot by the officer that was obtained by Minnesota outlet Alpha News. Her wife, Rebecca Good, 40, could be heard urging the agent to 'show his face' as she asks him, 'You want to come at us?' 'You want to come at us?...

911 heard MULTIPLE DEATH THREATS directed at me by a mob, MPD pretended for 20 MINUTES that they were responding Then they told me I was on my own, and HUNG UP This city needs to be taken under FEDERAL CONTROL After about two minutes on scene, my security began wanting to bring me out of there due to the immediate threats of violence. I tried to shorten this video as much as possible but it’s tough given all the BS that unfolded. As soon as I dialed 911, one of the leftist screamed “Minneapolis Police are on OUR side!”...

(NewsNation) — Word in Los Angeles is that former VP Kamala Harris and her hubby, legal eagle Doug Emhoff, are done with Brentwood. A well-placed source in LA told me the two have dropped $10 million on a house in Malibu, near Zuma Beach. ”He bills $2,000 an hour (as a lawyer), and she has a best-selling book and is making a lot of money for speaking engagements,” my source said. “They can afford it.”

Journalist and podcast host Kara Swisher recounted Monday how Vice President Kamala Harris scolded her in front of an audience over a question about Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) RFK Jr. that she previously laughed about backstage when the journalist brought it up. "I just had an experience with Kamala Harris where we were joking about something backstage about Robert Kennedy Jr., circumcision and autism — the link he was making, a link which is not there. And it was so weird. It was like, ‘That’s so f------ strange.’ And then when I got on stage and mentioned it...

The same party that brought you the “Maryland Dad” narrative for Kilmar Abrego Garcia now wants to sell you the narrative of the innocent “Minnesota Mom" for Renee Nicole Good. Good is not a MS-13 gang member or a human trafficker like Abrego Garcia, but she’s not the scared and confused mom who just happened to find herself caught up in an ICE operation that she didn't understand and panicked. According to a new report, she was “an anti-ICE ‘warrior’ and was part of a group of activists who worked to ‘document and resist’ the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota.”(snip)...

President Donald Trump ordered the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, toppling a brutal totalitarian regime. But he's only getting started. The Babylon Bee consulted with experts at the FBI, CIA, NSA, and DMV to compile the following list of who Trump is planning to arrest next: Tim Walz: He just declared war on the federal government, which is more than Maduro ever did. Kathleen Kennedy: It's time for her oppressive rule over Lucasfilm to end. Travis Kelce: It may be the only way to save him from Taylor Swift. Ariana Grande: At least as a prisoner, she'll be forced...

At about 2:30 a.m., a shelter dog named Dawson escaped from his gated enclosure and then used his teeth to open the front door of the animal shelter in West Virginia, slipping quietly into the night. When staff at Huntington Cabell Wayne Animal Shelter arrived at about 5 a.m. on Jan. 4, they were puzzled to find the front door unlocked.