The King was waking up in a Labour constituency for the first time on Friday after the Cities of London and Westminster dethroned the Conservatives. Amid a historic landslide for Sir Keir Starmer’s party, Labour candidate Rachel Blake took 15,302 votes or 39% of the total for a majority of 2,708 over Conservative Tim Barnes. […]
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Diverse Phoenix neighborhood wakes up on Juneteenth to find swastikas, slurs on cars
Swastikas and racial slurs were found painted on the sides of multiple vehicles in a working-class and largely Black and Latino east Phoenix neighborhood on Wednesday, Juneteenth, witnesses say. Celleste Murtagh went out her front door on Wednesday about 7 a.m. and was greeted with the unpleasant sight of her neighbor’s vehicle vandalized. The car, […]
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Which university will replace St. Aug’s to partner with Wake’s leadership academies?
N.C. State University or Shaw University could replace St. Augustine’s University as the new higher-education partner for Wake County’s two leadership academies. Wake school administrators met with N.C. State University, N.C. Wesleyan University, Shaw University, Wake Technical Community College and William Peace University about providing college courses to students at the two academies. Administrators said […]
New Orleans City Council staff member wakes to find home vandalized
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The New Orleans City Council has released a statement regarding threats made to a member of the staff. The statement reads that on May 16, alleged vandals covered the home of a Jewish city council staff member in red paint, possibly representing blood, in retaliation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Regardless of […]
Driver sleeping behind wheel bursts into song when deputy wakes him, Florida cops say
A motorist found unconscious behind the wheel of his idling vehicle burst into song when a deputy knocked on the window, Florida investigators say. Exactly what he was singing isn’t clear in Deputy Jesse Brown’s body cam video, but the odd encounter ended with the man under arrest, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said in […]
10-year-old wakes up to find his family killed in murder-suicide ‘massacre’
A 10-year-old boy woke up to discover his father killed his entire family and mother before killing himself, Oklahoma Police said on April 23. In a press conference, Oklahoma City Police Sgt. Gary Knight said that the father, Jonathon Candy, had argued with his wife, Lindsay Candy, “sometime overnight.” Knight said Jonathon Candy armed himself […]
10-Year-Old Boy Wakes to Find Entire Family Massacred in Horrific Murder-Suicide
A 10-year-old Oklahoma boy woke up alone on Monday morning and found himself the subject of a waking nightmare: while he was sleeping, his entire family had been slain by a father who then turned the gun on himself. According to a police report, the boy dialed 911 around 9:35 a.m. Monday morning. Responding cops […]
Snoozy Trump Wakes Up as Prosecutor Calls Him a Liar
Opening statements had not yet begun on Monday when former President Donald Trump dozed off for the first time. He quickly opened his eyes when defense attorney Todd Blanche slid him a note, as prosecutors prepared to kick off opening arguments in the historic trial, which hinges on accusations that the former president falsified business […]
Too late, China wakes up to the threat from within
China, China, China. Scarcely a day passes without some new scare story about China. The Middle Kingdom was struggling with its image overseas long before Covid, but the pandemic cemented attitudes in the West. Ever since, and with plenty of justification, its every move has been regarded with growing “reds under the bed” paranoia. The […]