An east London shop owner has accused the Met Police of failing to investigate after a man was filmed climbing over a counter at his store. Mohamed Fahad tweeted at Newham Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) asking them if they had the “balls” to catch a man who can be seen attempting to clamber over a […]
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Holly Willoughby plot accused ‘disgusted’ at previous kidnap attempts
A security guard accused of plotting to abduct, rape and murder Holly Willoughby has told a jury he is “disgusted” by his previous attempts to kidnap and falsely imprison women. Chelmsford Crown Court has been told of Gavin Plumb’s two previous convictions for attempted kidnap in 2006 and another two offences of false imprisonment committed […]
Biden campaign attempts to flip the age script with a flurry of unflattering Trump videos
As some misleading videos of President Joe Biden have exploded online in recent weeks, his re-election campaign has intensified its pushback against them while attempting to flip the script by repeatedly highlighting unflattering clips of former President Donald Trump on social media. A prolific Biden campaign account on X, called @BidenHQ, has shared at least […]
On Immigration, Biden Attempts to Replicate a Powerful Obama Moment
WASHINGTON — In the summer before a tough reelection contest in 2012, President Barack Obama was losing support from Latino voters who called him “deporter in chief.” Then he signed a sweeping executive order to shield hundreds of thousands of young migrants from deportation. Luis V. Gutiérrez, an Illinois Democrat and former congressman, recalled that […]
Bear unsuccessfully attempts to break out of enclosure at southeast Kansas zoo
INDEPENDENCE, Kan. (KSNW) — A bear unsuccessfully attempted to break out of its enclosure at a zoo in southeast Kansas on Sunday. “Earlier today, Ralph Mitchell Zoo staff discovered one of its three Siberian bear sisters had apparently decided zoo life had become unbearable and made an unsuccessful attempt to tunnel out of her enclosure,” […]
In visit to military cemetery in France, Biden attempts to draw contrast with Trump
PARIS — Not once in his trip to France did President Joe Biden speak Donald Trump’s name. Standing near the gravesites of American soldiers killed in two world wars, Biden shied from overt references to his Republican rival or the presidential campaign back home. Yet in some sense, Trump figured in virtually all of Biden’s […]
Trump attempts to take credit for insulin pricing in Truth Social post
Former President Trump attempted to take credit for insulin pricing in a post on Truth Social Saturday. “Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, and the Trump Administration, not by Crooked [President Biden,]” Trump said in the Truth Social post. “He had NOTHING to do with it. It was all done […]
Most CEOs are defeating attempts to vote down their pay. Can Tesla’s Elon Musk do the same?
Most bosses are defeating attempts so far this year to tamp down their pay. The question now is whether Tesla CEO Elon Musk can do the same. Just two companies out of 340 that held shareholder votes on CEO pay as of June 6 had their executive pay packages rejected, according to ISS-Corporate, a business […]
Morale plummets inside The Washington Post as staffers express alarm over publisher’s attempts to squash story
Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. Will Lewis is quickly losing the confidence of his newsroom. The chief executive and publisher of The Washington Post, who took the helm of the venerable newspaper in January — and was initially […]
Boeing Starliner attempts to launch 1st manned space mission with NASA astronauts
Boeing’s Starliner crew will attempt to launch its first crewed mission to space on Wednesday morning with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on board. The Starliner capsule is scheduled to take off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida, at 10:52 a.m. ET. If successful, the two are expected to return […]
Boeing Starliner attempts to launch first manned space mission with NASA astronauts
Boeing’s Starliner crew will attempt to launch its first crewed mission to space on Wednesday morning with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on board. The Starliner capsule is scheduled to take off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10:52 a.m. ET. If successful, the two are expected to return […]
House Republicans’ Attempts to Attack Fauci Go Wildly Off Rails
Dr. Anthony Fauci visited Capitol Hill on Monday to testify on the origins of Covid-19, but some Republican members on the House Oversight Committee had no intention of asking anything even remotely relevant to scientific inquiry. The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was repeatedly grilled by GOP lawmakers who […]