Author: Press Room
Right-wing Farage keeps rising in the polls, and leftist Starmer keeps falling. Farage keeps up-trending in Britain, while Starmer sinks into lower and lower poll numbers. A new mega-poll released yesterday (6) shows that Reform UK’s Nigel Farage is close to becoming Prime Minister and forming a majority government in Britain. Daily Mail reported: “The More In Common survey found, if a general election was held today, Reform would become the largest party in the House of Commons with 290 seats. Although this is below the number of MPs needed for an outright majority, meaning a hung parliament, it was…
The dollar is “unattractive.” At least that’s how UBS sees it. In a recent note, the Swiss investment bank said it is time to “reduce and hedge exposure to USD before further dollar declines.” The dollar has weakened significantly over the last six months, with the dollar index (DXY) falling by over 10 percent so far in 2025. It was the biggest dollar decline through the first half of any year since 1973. That was just two years after Nixon severed the last tie between the dollar and gold. UBS analysts say they expect a further dollar weakness, and the U.S.…
Algerian teenagers are an astonishing 56 times more likely to be suspected of a crime than their German-born counterparts, according to new German statistics published for the first time. “In almost all crime categories surveyed, foreign nationals have an exorbitantly high crime rate compared to German suspects”, says an Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmaker after the German Federal Criminal Office collated and released per-capita crime suspect data for the first time. The data combines the number of criminal suspects with the total number of any given demographic group in Germany, allowing like-for-like comparisons on a per capita basis. Paper of…
Abortion giant Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday over a provision in the “Big, Beautiful Bill” stripping the organization of taxpayer dollars through Medicaid for one year. The organization filed the lawsuit in Boston federal court, arguing that the provision is unconstitutional and will block its nearly 600 centers from receiving Medicaid reimbursements, Reuters reported. “The true design of the Defund Provision is simply to express disapproval of, attack, and punish Planned Parenthood, which plays a particularly prominent role in the public debate over abortion,” Planned Parenthood said. The lawsuit comes after Planned Parenthood told…
Benjamin Netanyahu presents President Trump with Nobel Peace Prize nomination letter Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday during a dinner meeting with President Trump that he is nominating the President for the Nobel Peace Prize. Netanyahu made his third appearance at the White House —the most of any foreign leader—on Monday to have dinner and meet with the President to discuss the situation in Gaza. During their dinner, the Prime Minister presented President Trump with his letter to the Nobel Prize Committee, officially nominating Trump for the Peace Prize. “He’s forging peace as we speak, in one country…
Emmanuel Macron appears intent on continuing his grip on power in France, with reports suggesting he may be eyeing a potential third term in office. Although President Macron’s second five-year term in the Élysée Palace is quickly approaching its end in 2027, when he will be constitutionally prohibited from standing again, the 47-year-old leader does not seem content with riding off into the sunset of political retirement. In a quote reported by POLITICO from a gathering of the youth group which supported his first presidential bid in 2017, Macron is claimed to have said: “I still need your help and I’m…
Sade Perkins, who served on the Houston Food Insecurity Board until January 2025, is facing backlash for a TikTok video she posted this weekend. She was appointed by former Mayor Sylvester Turner in 2023. In the viral video, Perkins accused Camp Mystic of intentional racial segregation. “I know I’m probably gonna get canceled for this, but Camp Mystic is a whites-only girls’ Christian camp,” Perkins claimed. “They don’t even have a token Asian, they don’t have a token black person… it is a all white, white-only conservative Christian camp. If you ain’t white, you ain’t right. You ain’t getting in,…
The military bloc’s push for higher defense spending encourages more wars, the Brazilian president has said NATO is fueling a global arms race by pushing for massive increases in military spending, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said. The US-led military bloc endorsed a plan last month to raise its defense spending target from 2% to 5% of GDP.Speaking on Sunday at the opening of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Lula said the world is experiencing a record number of armed conflicts since World War II and warned that NATO’s policies are exacerbating the situation.“NATO’s recent…
A federal magistrate judge on Monday said Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan is not entitled to dismiss her federal case on a judicial immunity claim. “Dugan moves to dismiss the indictment under Fed. R. Crim. P. 12(b) on the grounds that she, as a judge, is immune from criminal prosecution for judicial acts, that her prosecution violates the limits of federal power under the Tenth Amendment, and that the indictment could be dismissed under the canon of constitutional avoidance,” magistrate judge Nancy Joseph wrote. “For the reasons explained below, I recommend that Dugan’s motion to dismiss be denied,” the judge…
The producers of James Gunn’s latest theatrical version of Superman asked reviewers not to release their thoughts on the film until Tuesday, but several outlets ignored the demand and posted their reviews early. And some don’t bode well for the film. Popular website The Daily Beast, for instance released a damning piece entitled, The Terrible New ‘Superman’ Movie Is the Final Nail in the Grave for the Superhero Genre, before pulling it down not long after it went live. The Beast’s review, by writer Nick Schager, tears the film to pieces, calling it “superficial,” “overstuffed,” and even “silly.” “The movie lacks emotional…