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WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — House Oversight Democrats heard Tuesday from victims of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in Palm Beach County, where many of the crimes took place. The so-called shadow hearing, an informal event with lawmakers, took place less than three miles away from the mansion where Epstein abused hundreds of girls, and in the same county where prosecutors negotiated to have the financier avoid federal charges or extended prison time almost 20 years ago, allowing for the abuse to continue. Much of Tuesday’s forum focused on how victims and attorneys in the case didn’t know the…

A £200,000 redesign of a ceremonial jacket for female officers has reportedly been described as a “positive step for women” The Royal Navy has allocated up to £200,000 (nearly $270,000) to redesign female officers’ ceremonial uniforms amid concerns that the buttons on the jackets were “inappropriately placed,” according to an internal document cited by The Times.The current jacket, which is worn by women officers at ceremonial events, features four rows of two buttons, with the top row positioned at nipple level, which has repeatedly been the subject of jokes within the service. Under the redesign, all eight buttons will reportedly…

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has refused to go quietly, as some within the UK’s Labour government had clearly hoped, and has defied the rebels to openly challenge him. After months of talk about Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer being set up to take the fall for the May local elections, now that the moment has arrived, it appears possible his greatest strength is a simple-minded disinclination to pay attention to his critics whatsoever. At Monday’s ‘reset’ speech — only the latest of his leadership so far, the cloyingly earnest tones now a familiar part of the rhythm of British…

Marco Rubio’s Department of State is trashing a globalized pro-migration scheme by the United Nations, and is promising to help migrants’ remigration back home. “The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and U.N. efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies,” said a May 11 tweet from the Department of State, adding: For the citizens of Western nations, mass migration was never safe. It introduced new security threats, imposed financial strains, and undermined the cohesion of our societies… Under President Trump, the State Department will facilitate remigration — not replacement migration. The rejection…

An assisted suicide bill that would allow certain terminally ill adults to take life-ending drugs has been introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives.  Democrat State Rep. Kimberly Edwards introduced a “Death with Dignity Act,” or House Bill 5825, which would allow physicians to prescribe lethal drugs to an adult who has a terminal illness and a prognosis of six months or less to live, Midland Daily News reported.  Under the bill, patients would have to make multiple requests, both in written and oral form, wait at least 15 days between requests, receive an evaluation from two doctors, potentially undergo a…

Senators emerged from a closed-door meeting focused on ethics language that Democrats want to insert into landmark cryptocurrency legislation split over the status of the talks, with one Republican calling the negotiations a “circus.” A bipartisan group of senators met in the Capitol Tuesday with a top White House crypto policy adviser to negotiate language that would restrict government officials’ engagements with digital assets — a key demand for Senate Democrats who have raised concerns about the Trump family’s crypto businesses. Lawmakers are trying to come to a deal ahead of a Thursday markup in the Senate Banking Committee. “The…

The European Commission chief is “obsessed” with proving she’s in charge, diplomats and officials have complained European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has tightened her control over the EU’s executive branch to the point where the bloc’s leaders and diplomats now view her as too powerful, according to a Bloomberg report.In power since 2019, von der Leyen has rebuilt the European Commission in her image and become “the face of Europe,” Bloomberg wrote on Tuesday. She has spearheaded the EU’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, authored its hyper-belligerent policies toward Russia, and negotiated its trade deals with US President…

A transition from traditional energy was “always a fantasy” as alternative sources are not reliable, dependable, or affordable, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said during an event with Breitbart News on Monday. Burgum said there was a massive shift in the world toward green energy, which he said was “being pushed by certain elements” calling for the need to transition to new energy sources. This, however, was always a fantasy and a borderline lie, the Interior Secretary explained. “And transition meant we’re going to move from one form of energy to another. And the transition was always a fantasy, even stronger.…

A human rights organization revealed evidence in a recent report, highlighted by the Guardian on Tuesday, that Chinese automobile giant BYD’s first electric vehicle (EV) plant in Europe, a project advanced by former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Hungary, is subjecting Chinese migrant workers to abuse and forced labor. The accusations are far from the first that BYD has faced abroad for importing and then enslaving Chinese migrant workers, most prominently in Brazil. BYD, China’s top carmaker, is a company widely known to hold deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The New York-based human rights organization China Labor Watch (CWL) first…

In what may prove to be the first shot across the bow for broader unrest in the months to come, French farmers once again took to their tractors in Lyon on Monday to protest the rising cost of fuel in the country. Dozens of farmers took to the A7 motorway to descend upon the Rhône prefecture building in Lyon on Monday following the call of the Rural Coordination agricultural union to demand relief from the soaring energy prices, which have seen the cost of agricultural non-road diesel (GNR) skyrocket from 0.90 to 1.70 euros per litre ($7.50 / gallon) in…