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The number of people receiving direct welfare benefit payments in Britain has soared to an all-time high, the government has disclosed. According to data published this week by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), 8.4 million people were receiving Universal Credit welfare payments as of May, an increase of around 700,000 from the previous year and 100,000 more than in February. The DWP said this meant it is now the highest number of people receiving welfare under the Universal Credit scheme since it was introduced in 2013. The number of people on the rolls has increased from 5.5 million since…
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said Sunday that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has not responded to his requests for more information about the senator’s health and ability to serve following a hospitalization and lengthy rehabilitation stay. “I’ve heard absolutely nothing back from Mitch McConnell,” Beshear said on CBS News’s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan. McConnell, 84, was hospitalized June 14, and he and his staff released limited information about his condition for several weeks. Beshear sent McConnell a letter July 8 seeking an update on his health. Days later, McConnell released his first statement since the hospitalization, saying he…
It took Bill Maher about 30 seconds to prove that the Palestinians have never really wanted a two-state solution. The topic came up on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast in the spring with Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania as his guest. A clip from that interview about Gaza was reposted over the weekend and went viral. Maher noted that “freeing” Palestine is the in-vogue cause that celebrities in Hollywood, where he lives, have grabbed ahold of lately. “As if Palestine would be liberated by living under Hamas,” he first quipped. “By the way, [Gaza], geniuses educated on TikTok, was liberated in…
Noah Wyle, the ER alum and star of HBO’s hit medical drama The Pitt, said he hopes Paramount chief David Ellison is “saber rattling” in his threat to move the iconic studio out of California as the company faces an ongoing lawsuit in its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Wyle revealed his thoughts about the ongoing standoff between California and Paramount at the HBO Max Emmy Nominee Celebration in Los Angeles on Sunday night. “I hope this is saber rattling because I can’t think of anything that would less engender you to the population of this industry than to say you’re going to take…
President Donald Trump says he told Florida Rep. Cory Mills to exit the Republican primary before his election defeat Tuesday but that the embattled lawmaker “wouldn’t listen.” Mills, who was defeated by former local television news reporter Ryan Elijah on Tuesday night in Florida’s 7th District, was dogged by a litany of scandals, including a restraining order issued by a Florida judge last year after a former girlfriend accused him of threatening to reveal her sexually explicit videos. Still, Trump endorsed him in February. But the president suggested on Truth Social on Wednesday that he was far from confident in…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sanctioned Tomoko Akane and a senior trial lawyer amid a dispute over the Netanyahu arrest warrant The US has imposed sanctions on two senior International Criminal Court (ICC) officials, accusing The Hague-based institution of overstepping its authority.Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday designated ICC President Tomoko Akane and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, describing the court as a “corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate.”The designations are a part of a campaign announced by Rubio last month to “systematically dismantle the threat posed” by…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. A progressive event called ‘Democracy Summit 2026’ took place in Austin, Texas this week, but apparently, everyone on the left forgot to show up. The day featured Zoom remarks from James Talarico, Kamala Harris, Mark Kelly and a host of other heavy hitter Democrats, but for some reason there was no audience for the show. 🚨 DEMOCRACYSUMMIT 2026 IS THIS SATURDAY. GET YOUR TICKET: https://t.co/PHvL7l9CWx 🇺🇸 On August 15, hundreds of young leaders from across the country are coming together in Austin for DemocracySummit 2026: America at 250 — a day of big ideas, honest debate,…
Google has agreed to pay $10 million for a massive collection of internal Spirit Airlines data, part of the bankrupt carrier’s ongoing asset auctions, according to Bloomberg Law. The tech giant will train its AI on everythnig from consumer flight records to private employee chat logs. Tom’s Hardware reports that after Spirit Airlines declared bankruptcy and ceased operations in May, it began selling off its assets in bankruptcy court to address roughly $8.1 billion in debt. Multiple tech companies have been bidding on the company’s vast trove of consumer data to feed into its AI models, and Google has won…
The Swiss government plans to resume the transfer of alleged asylum seekers who entered E.U. territory through Italy back to the neighboring nation by the end of August. For nearly four years, the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has suspended the application of the so-called Dublin Regulations in Italy. The regulations are a controversial E.U. rule that grants member states nations the ability to send alleged asylum seekers back to the E.U. country in which the migrant first entered E.U. territory. Although Switzerland is not a member of the European Union, it is part of the region’s Schengen open…
A new website allows drivers to find out whether their license plate has been photographed and searched through law enforcement agencies’ Flock camera systems. The new website, “Have I Been Flocked,” compiles Flock camera audit logs and lets users see if their plate number has been run through the Flock application by a system operator. If a person’s license plate appears in the database, it means not only that the plate was photographed, but that someone using the Flock system actively searched the database for that plate, according to the site. Included in the audit log is the stated reason…