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The Pakistani Muslim child rape grooming gang scandal in Britain has allegedly extended all the way to the South Asian government, with a former Pakistani state minister having reportedly been arrested on suspicion of raping young girls in Manchester in the 1990s. Former Pakistani minister Rukhsar Ahmed, 62, who was re-elected to the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly last week, is currently on bail after having been arrested in July 2024 over allegations of having raped and trafficked young girls while in a Manchester grooming gang, The Guardian newspaper reported. Two alleged victims of Ahmed reportedly came forward in 2024, claiming that the…

Labor productivity expanded at twice the rate expected in the second quarter, accelerating from the start of the year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday that labor productivity, the output per hour of nonfarm employees across the economy, increased at a 1.4 percent annualized rate in the April through June period. That was an acceleration in productivity growth from the first quarter. The first quarter’s growth rate was revised up to 0.8 percent from the preliminary estimate of 0.3 percent. Economists had forecast just 0.7 percent growth in the second quarter. Unit labor costs — what businesses pay employees…

Criminal networks are selling Americans’ white-collar jobs via the huge and complex H-1B visa program, says Anthony D’Esposito, the Inspector General at the Department of Labor. “This is not just fraud: This is a criminal enterprise that stretches far beyond the borders of America,” D’Esposito told Breitbart News during an interview in his D.C. office. He explained: Without revealing too much of an investigation, I think that when complete, one of the things that will probably make the American people most angry… and will probably lead to the biggest change from lawmakers — they will probably bring oversight to this — [is] the fact that many…

Three Democratic House lawmakers unveiled legislation Thursday to tax artificial intelligence companies and use the proceeds to fund a jobs program aimed at offsetting AI’s impact on workers, marking one of Congress’ most ambitious efforts yet to redistribute the industry’s gains. The AI Tax and Work Protection Act, championed by Reps. Greg Casar (Texas), Valerie Foushee (N.C.) and Sara Jacobs (Calif.), would impose a levy on AI developers to fund the program, which is dubbed the Work Protection Administration. The bill comes amid a growing push from progressive lawmakers on Capitol Hill to tax AI companies. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)…

Manny Rutinel/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license./Author: Andybosselman Democrat Manny Rutinel, running for Congress in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, which accounts for 26% of the state’s beef and cattle output, and with 75% of its 2.5 million acres devoted to farming and raising livestock, is under fire for a resurfaced paper that attacks his constituents’ livelihoods. The paper, Reducing Animal Agriculture Emissions: The Viability of a Farm Transition Carbon Offset Protocol by Rutinel and Sebastian Quaade, was published in 2022 and suggests that the Paris Agreement’s goals on fossil fuels are not enough and that there should be…

The Disney Grooming Syndicate cut a deal with TikTok that allows content creators to use Disney characters in short videos. Then that “short-form content will be shared across TikTok and on Vert, a vertical video feed on the Disney+ streaming app,” reports far-left CBS News. This is being described as a “first-of-its-kind global deal.” “A pilot program for the videos will roll out in the coming months and then spread to other markets. TikTok creators will have access to a large library of Disney content,” adds the report. This will include “hundreds of films and TV shows.” Disney says this…

Moroccan prosecutors have charged at least 86 individuals over their involvement in last week’s illegal migrant invasion of the Spanish city of Ceuta, multiple outlets reported. The group of individuals —  which reportedly include several young men and minors — face charges of rebellion, organizing illegal border crossings, transporting passengers without a driver’s license, overstaying visas, and public property damages, among other felonies. Ceuta, a Spanish city located on Northern Africa home to some 87,000 inhabitants, is still reeling from last week’s dramatic events after tens of thousands of illegal migrants flooded the city, seeking entry into European territory. The…

DC’s girlboss Supergirl movie has ended its theatrical run as a historic and epic failure. After a six-week run, this stinker grossed a pathetic $72 million domestic and an even more pathetic $53.8 million overseas. That brings its global total to $126 million. That’s it. That’s all the money this dead-cat-bounce is gonna make in theaters, even after a ton of publicity, an attachment to one of the most popular superheroes ever, and a wide release in 3,600 U.S. theaters along with thousands of screens more around the globe. If you figure in inflation, the $38 million that Howard the Duck…

The Congressional Black Caucus on Thursday voiced its opposition to the bipartisan Protect College Sports Act that’s currently under consideration in the Senate, urging Democrats to block the bill until it “reflects the interests of Black athletes.” In a statement, CBC Chair Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) said that though the legislation has “evolved” from when Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) first introduced it, “fundamental concerns” remain. The bill — which seeks to establish a single federal framework for name, image and likeness rights for athletes, limit conference expansions and grant collegiate sports a limited federal antitrust exemption…

The remarks come ahead of November’s midterm elections, with economic data offering a more mixed picture of the economy US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said the country’s long-running economic divide between wealthier and lower-income Americans is narrowing, even as inflation and high living costs continue to weigh on consumers.Bessent made the remarks in an interview with CNBC this week, dismissing the idea that the US remains a “K-shaped economy” – a term describing an economy in which wealthier households continue to prosper while lower-income groups fall further behind.“I got sick of hearing about this K-shaped economy,” Bessent said. “I…