Tag: attempts

Shopkeeper attempts to stop man from climbing over glass counter

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]