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Later this month, a by-election will take place in Britain that may seal the fate of the UK’s beleaguered prime minister, Keir Starmer. But it’s also sending a warning to all who believe that the fanatical leftists who now dominate progressive politics must be stopped if we’re still going to have a society worth living in. It’s a warning not just for Britain but also for America’s Republicans, Vice President JD Vance and tech mogul Elon Musk, who are all expressing huge concern about the erosion of Britain’s historic identity and what this means for the West. The by-election is...

A teenage girl was hospitalized after a male suspect knifed her in the neck in England on Friday, according to reports. The barbaric attack unfolded at around 3 p.m. in Burnley, a town in Lancashire. The 17-year-old victim can be seen strolling along a sidewalk when a man suddenly runs up behind her and plunges a blade into her throat and neck at least twice, leaked surveillance footage shows. The assailant can be seen bouncing and menacing in apparent excitement following the vicious ambush. from Imgflip Meme Generatorfrom Imgflip Meme Generatorfrom Imgflip Meme GeneratorA 30-year-old male was arrested at the...

Well my friends SpaceX Starship Flight 13 is getting closer! This week we cover the latest Starbase progress, Pad 2 upgrades, and the massive new expansions as SpaceX pushes toward more frequent launches. We also touch on the historic SpaceX IPO, and ambitious space data centre architecture. Indeed SpaceX Just Revealed Its Biggest Plans Yet! With that, record-breaking Falcon 9 mission, plus updates from Stoke Space and Japan’s H3 rocket. NASA also revealed major new Artemis III details, including Blue Origin’s Blue Moon demonstrator, Orion docking plans, and how Starship fits into future Artemis missions. There’s also the latest from...

Foreign intelligence services are using "spy turtles" and "spy fish" to snoop on China, the country's Ministry of State Security said Friday. "An unseen covert war of espionage is currently unfolding" in the seas around China's coast, the ministry wrote in a post on the WeChat social media platform. In recent years, overseas spy agencies have been "continuously collecting and stealing sensitive maritime data through various new types of espionage equipment," it said, including "spy turtles and spy fish." In certain Chinese waters, "relatively large living marine animals have been fitted with sensors to swim in specific areas, collect ocean...

Americans have been assured that we’re importing the “best and brightest” foreigners the world has to offer. So, when a story like this hits the internet, people are going to wonder what the hell is going on. Because the public has been sold a very specific story about these amazing standards, credentials, and competence from immigrants who come here to work and are placed in positions of tremendous trust. Apparently, that’s not entirely true. This case we’re about to share with you is a complete and total nightmare. According to a lawsuit filed in Oregon by the parents of a...

U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Middle ‌Eastern leaders and attend a working ‌session with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during the ​G7 summit in France next week, senior U.S. administration officials said on Saturday. Officials said Trump would meet separately with the ‌leaders of Egypt, ⁠Qatar, United Arab Emirate, France and India. No bilateral meeting ⁠was planned with Zelenskiy but the two leaders could meet on the sidelines ​of the ​summit, they added. Trump ​planned to raise ‌issues of shared importance with leaders at the summit, including economic growth and development, supply chain resilience, illegal migration and AI, one...

Nuclear energy is about to play a huge role in powering America, but the new reactors that will do the heavy lifting are surprisingly small. Some are so small they are classified as microreactors—mobile powerhouses capable of being transported anywhere they’re needed to provide power, including the most remote sites on the planet. Spotlight on America traveled to the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), where these microreactors are about to be powered up and tested for the very first time inside a facility already famous for making history. Now, history is unfolding here once again. The newly renovated and reconfigured Dome...

BALTIMORE — Video captured the arrests of two people Thursday by federal immigration agents outside a school in Southeast Baltimore. The arrests were recorded by bystanders on video that some may consider disturbing. The video shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents trying to put a man in handcuffs in the parking lot of a building on Fait Avenue that's currently being used as a temporary home for Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School. WBAL-TV 11 News reached out to ICE for comment about this incident and received a response shortly after 9 p.m. from Acting Assistant ICE Secretary Lauren Bis,...

A sanctioned Russian LNG tanker from the Portovaya project idled near Singapore in May 2026 with no buyer. At the same time, Ukrainian drones had already knocked roughly 700,000 barrels per day of Russian refining capacity offline across 16 major facilities. Europe had locked in a binding legal phase-out of Russian gas. And just four months earlier, U.S. forces had captured Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.

Early on a Sunday evening last year, Anneli Berg said "see you later!" to her 16-year-old son Rio as he headed out to the gym with his friends. She expected him to arrive back at their home in Stockholm, Sweden, in just a couple of hours. But Berg would never speak to her son again. Just after 9 p.m. that night in March 2025, a hooded stranger emerged from the dark, came up behind the group that had just left the gym, pulled a gun and opened fire. One teen was shot in the thigh. Rio was killed. "It's still...

🚨 NOW: Two anti-ICE rioters in Newark just attempted to play CHICKEN with a Jeep leaving Delaney Hall and ATE ASPHALT These idiots never learn And of course, their “comrades” start screaming “MEDIC!!!” like they’ve just taken artillery fire in WWII🤣🤡 The cosplay is pathetic

Anti-monarchy protesters booed the King and Queen as they travelled past them on The Mall during the annual Trooping the Colour ceremony. In footage shared by Republic, demonstrators could be seen holding placards, one reading “down with the crown”, and one person was heard shouting “not my King”. In the short video clip, Charles was seen waving at crowds in front of the protesters. A message posted alongside the clip read: “Despite the Met trying to stop us, the royals have been confronted by protestors at the Trooping the Colour ceremony, demanding they answer questions about the cover-up of the...

Archaeologists in Germany have confirmed the discovery of a 1,750-year-old amulet containing a silver scroll, now recognised as the oldest physical evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. The extraordinary artefact was first uncovered in 2018 during excavations of a Roman-era grave in Frankfurt and was formally announced in a press release from the City of Frankfurt am Main on 11 December. The grave, dated to between 230 and 270 AD, contained the amulet, inside which archaeologists noticed a small silver scroll. However, its fragility posed significant challenges for researchers attempting to read its contents. Initial efforts to unroll the...

President Donald Trump was right to suggest that there is a national security risk posed by open borders, the British government’s top terrorism expert has belatedly admitted in the wake of yet another gruesome, alleged migrant-versus-native outrage that triggered riots. Senior lawyer Jonathan Hall, who has been the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation since 2019 and is the Independent Reviewer of State Threats Legislation under the National Security Act 2023, has demonstrated his remarkable perspicacity by noting that mass migration carries a security risk and a potential threat to “the health of the nation”. Responding to the alleged “attempted beheading”...

Emily Chang meets Anthropic co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei for a rare, in-depth discussion of the startup's origin story, its battles with the Pentagon and how the company says it intends to put safety first in the high-stakes AI race. Inside Anthropic, the $965 Billion AI Juggernaut | The Circuit | 47:39 Bloomberg Originals | 5.05M subscribers | 1,009,720 views | June 10, 2026

The far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, will be joined by fellow far-right campaigner Laurence Fox and journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti for the debate on 17 June. They will be opposed by former Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, activist Abdullah al Andalusi and podcaster Michael Doward. "It is particularly frustrating to see this event still going ahead, despite the union society being well aware of the extent of local concern about it," said Ms Dodds. The Oxford Union (OU) has a long history of hosting controversial debates, and says its roots "lie in free speech". Arwa Elrayess, the debating union's...

Over the past decade, the Lehigh Valley has voted narrowly for Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and then Trump again. In that time, the district has elected both Republicans and Democrats to the House, also by thin margins. If any place represents the changeable character of American politics over the last 10 years, surely it’s Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District. This fall, Democrats are hoping to take back the seat, which encompasses the population centers of Allentown and Bethlehem. This district’s voters elected Democrat Susan Wild to three full terms in Congress, starting with her party’s wave election in 2018, but the...

Americans are struggling to pay for groceries and gas while Elon Musk becomes a TRILLIONAIRE. When the federal government is for sale, the rich get richer and everyone else gets shafted. The system is rigged.

WASHINGTON, — June 12, 2026 : The United States has formally proposed a significant reduction in the military assets it contributes to NATO operations in Europe, marking a major shift in the alliance's force posture and burden-sharing arrangements. According to a document shared with European allies earlier this month, Washington intends to scale back several key military capabilities currently allocated under the NATO Force Model, including fighter aircraft, surveillance platforms, aerial refueling tankers, naval strike assets, and bomber forces. The planned reductions are part of a broader effort by the United States to encourage European NATO members and Canada to...

When the world’s richest man left California — taking his multitrillion electric car and space companies with him — the Golden State lost out on billions of dollars in economic benefits. Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its record-breaking IPO on Friday, making him the world’s first trillionaire while enriching many employees and investors. Musk didn’t travel to the New York Stock Exchange for the ceremonial bell ringing, instead choosing to celebrate at his company’s headquarters in South Texas — surrounded by some of the estimated 4,000 millionaires he created through the public offering. It was a symbolic move for Musk, who’s...