El Paso Walmart gunman charged with murder as domestic terrorist
A Twitter account that appears to belong to Crusius included pro-Trump posts praising the plan to build more border wall.
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As Trump intensifies race row, it’s revealed Ilhan Omar has been US citizen longer than Melania Trump
Donald Trump continues to justify his cruel comments.
Trump in white supremacy row as he tells Democrat Congresswomen to ‘go back’ to their countries
Whether or not Trump’s inflammatory and racist tweets intend to distract from national immigration raids and a flurry of news reports detailing inhumane conditions in which migrants are being detained, he has been immediately called out for the shocking racist public pronouncements.
Trump says nationwide immigration raids set to begin at weekend
The sweep has sparked outrage and concern among immigrant advocates.
Trump’s US Labour Secretary Acosta resigns over Epstein sex trafficking scandal
President Trump, who told New York Magazine about his friendship with fellow tycoon Jefffrey Epstein back in 2002: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy… He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many ...
Life sentence for white supremacist who ran over Charlottesville protestors
James Alex Fields Junior apologised to the judge before he was sentenced.
Georgia ‘heartbeat’ bill banning most abortions challenged as ‘unconstitutional’
Georgia's so-called fetal heartbeat abortion bill, would outlaw abortions as early as six weeks, when many women do not yet know if they are pregnant.
Obstruction of justice probe closer than ever to Trump as close aide Hope Hicks set to testify
Hope Hicks, once a close aide and communications director for President Donald Trump, becomes on Wednesday the first member of his inner circle to testify to the congressional panel leading a probe into possible obstruction of justice by Trump, reports Reuters in Washington. Democrats who control the House of Representatives ...
Nigel Farage faces ban as MEP for failing to declare half a million in gifts from Brexit backing tycoon
MEP Nigel Farage, whose Brexit Party now has 29 MEPs and is in talks to join the far-right bloc in the European Parliament, may be suspended from his lucrative (£90,000 a year) job as an MEP. The European Parliament has issued Farage with a summons to a hearing on Wednesday ...
Jeremy Corbyn to address anti-Trump demonstration as President meets outgoing PM Theresa May
As Donald Trump meets Prime Minister Theresa May while expressing support for her possible successor Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn is set to address a rally against the US President. Hundreds of thousands of protestors are expected to march against the State Visit by Donald Trump from Trafalgar Square to Parliament ...
Humans at risk as world set to lose an eighth of species if drastic action isn’t taken warns UN biodiversity report
A landmark report by the United Nations’ scientific panel on biodiversity warns humanity is at dire peril unless urgent action is taken to restore the plants, animals and other natural resources we depend upon to survive. Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history, warns the grim report ...
Netanyahu to name settlement in disputed Golan Heights after Trump
The newly-re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Biyamin Netanyahu vowed today to name a settlement in the Golan Heights after Donald Trump. The move by newly elected Netanyahu is to thank Trump for flouting international law and recognising Israeli sovereignty over the lands just before the Israeli elections. Israel captured the region ...
What isn’t being reported about Julian Assange
...By a fellow whistleblower The barbarity of wars In Franz Kafka's story Metamorphosis, a travelling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning to discover that he has turned into a giant insect. This is not dissimilar to what has happened to Julian Assange. Tired of his uncomfortable presence in the ...
Majority of Americans believe First Amendment rights under attack
A recent survey found that 57% of Americans expressed concern that the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution are at risk.
Donald Trump lashes out at Theresa May, says second referendum on Brexit “unfair”
In another explosive Brexit intervention, Donald Trump today poured scorn on the Prime Minister and insisted she rule out a second referendum giving the British public the final say on their future relationship with the EU. In a week of dramatic votes on the Brexit process, including ruling out leaving ...
Baby Donald Trump blimp stalks Trump around the world to today’s crucial Texas rally
Remember the inflatable Baby Trump that flew over London as the President made his first visit to the UK, among much outrage from conservatives? Since Trump's London visit, his baby likeness has greeted him across the world. Today protestors take to the streets at the President’s first campaign rally of ...
AeroMexico use ‘DNA Discount’ to troll anti-Mexican sentiment in US
AeroMexico has launched "DNA discounts" as part of a marketing push trolling anti-Mexican sentiment in the US. The airline took to the American Deep South to interview resident's on their attitudes towards travelling to Mexico. Several interviewees expressed their dislike of the country, saying they have no interest in visiting. One ...
Firefighter staged this dramatic roof blaze to propose
Zach Steele, 30, sent his girlfriend Maddison Ridgik, 30, into a panic when their attic appeared to go on fire in the midst of a family holiday par
Catholic body paid almost a million to settle sex assault complaint against top priest, it has been revealed
Fr John McCloskey was a celebrity cleric, ministering to the conservative elite in Washington, D.C and helping convert high-profile political figures to Catholicism, including former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. He wrote books and often appeared on TV. A Catholic organisation paid out almost a million pounds to settle a ...
Donald Trump tweet identifies covert US Navy Seals in Iraq by mistake
“Revealing them casually, through an unusual media exposure even if it’s the commander in chief, would prove a propaganda boom if any of this personnel are detained by a hostile government or captured by a terrorist group. There would be no denying who you are and what you do.”
Trump would rather you didn’t share this video of him saying a President in his situation should be fired
A shutdown of government spending on certain departments is set to last until January, Donald Trump’s new acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has warned. Spending stopped flowing to many public employees in the United States on Friday after Trump and Congress failed to agree on a budget for his ...
First witnesses to speak after California killings say shooter was equipped with smoke bombs & survivors hid in bathroom
Two men held the door to the womens' bathroom shut while patrons rang their families in horror
US Midterms: Marginal gains with huge implications expected
The Midterms are expected to return marginal gains that could have huge implications on US politics according to early indicators. Spread betting data shows electoral shocks across key states could be in the offing, with the Republican’s slim majority likely to be upset by marginal swings. But political experts predict ...
Tens of thousands sign open letter from Jewish leaders asking Trump to stay away from Pittsburgh until he denounces white nationalism.
President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you stop targeting and endangering all minorities.
Hilarious advert uses reverse psychology to get young people to vote
A hilarious new advert has been rolled out in the US encouraging young people to vote by using reverse psychology. Although voter participation among the young has been going up in America just 50 per cent turned out in the last election, with those who did cast a vote overwhelmingly ...
Politicians with wide faces are regarded as more corrupt
The finding adds to previous studies suggesting men with wide faces have higher levels of testosterone - and are more likely to consider cheating on their partners.
Roy Moore sues for $93m for this Sacha Baron Cohen prank:
Former US right wing senator Roy Moore is suing TV prankster Sacha Baron Cohen, as well as Showtime and CBS which air his Who Is America? show in a $93m lawsuit after a hilarious sketch which mocked the former conservative judge’s sex offence allegations. The lawsuit says that the show ...
Bullied 9 year old took own life after telling classmates he was gay
A heartbroken mum says her nine-year-old son took his own life after he was bullied for being gay. Leia Pierce, 31, discovered Jamel Myles dead at their home on Thursday, four days into the new school term. She said that a few weeks before he started the fourth grade at ...
N.K. Jemisin’s historic third Hugo award speech is going viral and it’s truly inspirational
Three years ago, N.K. Jemisin became the first black woman to win one of science fiction’s most prestigious prizes, the Hugo for best novel. She won it again last year, for the second in the series The Obelisk Gate, and this year became the first person to win three Best ...
Firefighters rescue man and parrot trapped in sinking mud
A 66-year-old bird owner was discovered waist-deep in mud after he attempted to save his green parrot from the bottom of a lake which had recently been dredged of water.
US Mayor to abolish local government to prevent neo-Nazi coup
Craig Cobb, 66, infamously tried to create an Aryan enclave in Leith after moving there in 2012
Melania Trump, Laura Bush slam immigration rules separating kids from parents
As disturbing images emerge of detention camps caging children separated from their parents, Donald Trump came under increasing pressure over his "zero tolerance" immigration policy. Amid protests from all sides, in an unprecedented move, the First Lady Melania Trump broke her silence to she hated to see children separated from their ...
Global warming crisis: sea levels rising much faster than was feared
The amount of Antarctica's ice melting into the oceans tripled between 2012 and 2017 compared to the previous two decades
Watch: Robert de Niro’s censored blast at Donald Trump gets standing ovation
Last night social media was ablaze with speculation about what Robert de Niro may have said to get bleeped out at the live broadcast of the Tony Awards. At America’s glitzy theatre awards the movie star took to the stage to introduce a performance by rocker Bruce Springsteen. When the ...
Airlines face call for international criminal inquiry into toxic exposure of crew & passengers
Airlines are facing a call for an international criminal inquiry into toxic exposure of crew and passengers. Campaigners are calling on anybody who may have suffered ill health linked to chemicals on board passenger jets to be part of an international inquiry into toxins in cabin air. John Hoyte, chairman ...
Watch: Donald Trump caught out bizarrely over Kim Jong Un letter
These video clips left many Washington commentators scratching their heads, as the President seemingly unwittingly embarrassed himself yet again over his on-off relationship with Kim Jong Un. This time it was over a letter from the North Korean leader, hand delivered by diplomatic official Kim Yong Chol. It was a rather ...
Japanese whalers admit killing 120 pregnant whales
Japanese whale hunters have admitted butchering 120 pregnant minke whales. In a report detailing a whaling expedition in the Southern Ocean, the slaughter of 333 minkie whales is detailed, of which 181 were females, including 122 pregnant ones. The report on the three-month expedition which began at the end of ...
Texas tragedy: Donald Trump says mass shootings “going on too long in our country”
Reacting to the mounting death toll of the Texas school shooting, Donald Trump said such outrages have been "going on too long in our country." Offering his condolence to the bereaved, the President of the United States vowed his government would "do everything in our power" to protect the nation’s ...
Trump’s thoughtless NRA speech should be a call for young people in America to mobilise
The President chose cheers over tears by stepping into the warm embrace of the NRA rather than tackling gun crime - a decision he should be made to rue Donald Trump’s address to the National Rifle Association convention on Friday was a thoughtless move from a President who has routinely failed to ...
Donald Trump compares London hospital to warzone in this bizarre speech to the NRA
President Trump mocks Paris terrorist outrage and tells NRA crowd that London hospital is like a "war zone" for stabbing wounds because of guns regulations at National Rifle Association convention. After another difficult week for Donald Trump, another lawyer resigning amid more revelations about Robert Mueller’s Russian probe and his ...
Watch 13 trucks line up under a bridge to stop suicide
When a man on a motorway bridge in Michigan was threatening to jump off, trucks lined up underneath to prevent a suicide attempt. The Michigan State Police came up with the ingenuous plan of calling in passing trucks to pull up and park under the bridge to prevent a fatal ...
Trump Steps into Amazon and UPS Feud
American President Donald Trump has recently posted several tweets that outline his concerns about the Amazon business model. The concerns have led to more news concerning Amazon and the parcel delivery company UPS, who, it has been revealed, have been feuding about Amazons use of the United States Postal Service ...
Woman who saved the life of a pregnant mum and her unborn child in the Las Vegas shooting is reunited with them for the first time
Sue Ann Cornwell, 52, led mum-to-be Miriam Finch, 21, to safety and laid on top of her to shield her from bullets as gunman Stephen Paddock gunned down 58 concertgoers
Historic vote stops internet companies using loophole to sell women and children online for sex
The US Senate just passed an important bill to tackle the loopholes used by internet companies that facilitate ads for sex trafficking. Senators voted yesterday to pass the historic FOSTA-SESTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act). This bill establishes criminal and civil liability for websites that ...
Mueller subpoenas Trump organisation for documents in Russia investigation
For the first time in his probe into Russian interference in the US election, special counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the Trump Organisation for documents. The move brings the net of the investigation ever closer to the President who had warned his FBI chief that meddling in his financial affairs ...