A gunman targeted a bowling alley and a local bar in Lewiston, Maine, leaving at least 18 dead as well as injuring around 50 more, some of whom were reportedly caught in a stampede. As of the time of publication, the gunman is still at large, with the “person of interest” in the shooting identified as 40-year-old Robert Card, a firearms instructor at a U.S. Army Reserve center who recently spent two weeks in a mental health facility.
The Lewiston Police Department declared certain areas off-limits during their active search for the shooter. Road closures included sections of Mollison Way, River Road, and Locust Street to South Avenue, although police confirmed residents will be allowed into the restricted River Road area. Schemengees Bar and Grill, one of the crime scenes, expressed shock and sadness over the killings in a heartfelt social media post, mourning the loss of community members.
All municipal buildings in Lewiston will remain closed today as authorities pursue the hunt for the gunman. A shelter-in-place order was issued in the aftermath of the shootings, and citizens who are non-emergency personnel have been advised to stay home. The lockdown extends to local schools as authorities continue their investigation.
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A gunman targeted a bowling alley and a local bar in Lewiston, Maine, leaving at least 18 dead as well as injuring around 50 more, some of whom were reportedly caught in a stampede. As of the time of publication, the gunman is still at large, with the "person of interest" in the shooting identified as 40-year-old Robert Card, a firearms instructor at a U.S. Army Reserve center who recently spent two weeks in a mental health facility.
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The alleged ‘nationalist’ Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni has announced she intends to surrender more national sovereignty to the European Union by allowing the bloc to assume control of Europe’s southern borders.
Meloni told the Italian parliament on Wednesday morning, “Italy will support … the creation of a European naval mission, in agreement and cooperation with the North African authorities.”
She also wants the EU to allocate increased funds to combat the recent influx of illegal migrants surging through Italy’s borders in its multi-year budget for 2021 to 2027.
The last naval mission, called “Operation Sophia,” was launched at the height of the 2015 Migration Crisis to tackle illegal migration smuggling channels being exploited in North Africa. However, the programme ended in March 2020 due to insufficient resources.
Despite being elected on a populist, anti-immigration manifesto, Meloni has allowed over 120,000 illegal immigrants to cross into Italy in 2023 alone. Former President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz even admitted that the bloc managed to discipline populists like Meloni into accepting the bloc’s globalist policies.
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The alleged 'nationalist' Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni has announced she intends to surrender more national sovereignty to the European Union by allowing the bloc to assume control of Europe's southern borders.
British police officer Lewis Edwards, 24, has been handed a so-called life sentence for grooming more than 200 girls online and persuading them to share explicit images – though he will be eligible for release in just 12 years.
Edwards, who provided a false identity as a 14-year-old boy on Snapchat, was serving with South Wales Police force as he was grooming his victims. They included girls he made contact with during his work hours, with one instance involving a girl he met during his official duties.
Edwards was found to have over 4,500 indecent images of children aged between 10 and 16, and to have issued threats to his victims, including exposing the images or endangering their families if they resisted his demands. He told victims to write ‘Snapgod’ on their bodies on multiple occasions, in reference to a child pornography distributor from whom he had purchased material using cryptocurrency.
Edwards pleaded guilty to 161 offenses, including blackmail and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
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British police officer Lewis Edwards, 24, has been handed a so-called life sentence for grooming more than 200 girls online and persuading them to share explicit images – though he will be eligible for release in just 12 years.
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The French government is preparing legislation empowering it to deport “radicalized foreigners” more easily, even if it means breaking the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Enforced by the European Court of Human Rights – technically not a European Union institution, although prospective EU members are all required to submit to it – the ECHR makes it difficult to deport even the most dangerous criminals if they have local relatives or might face the death penalty or other strict punishments in their home countries.
France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin is now asking why France should keep such foreigners “when they can also cause death in our country,” however, emphasizing that his main function is protecting the French population.
“I think the French people… find that it makes sense that someone given a ten-year jail sentence for terrorist activities can be expelled because they are very dangerous,” he explained.
Unlike Britain’s governing Conservative (Tory) Party, which has long suggested it might break with the European Court of Human Rights but never followed through, the Frenchman indicated he will follow a more simple approach and simply deport foreign criminals without waiting for the court to rule.
“We used to wait until we had the opinion [of the European Court of Human Rights] even if that meant keeping extremely dangerous people on our soil. Now we don’t wait. We expel and we wait to see what the court is going to say. The consequence of that is indeed a fine,” he said.
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The French government is preparing legislation empowering it to deport "radicalized foreigners" more easily, even if it means breaking the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
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Like New York City and Chicago before it, Los Angeles is beginning to be overrun by the Joe Biden-engineered migrant crisis, with Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) executive director Angelica Salas saying “we have between 1,000 and 1,600 people” arriving “every week”. The City of The Angels is “an immigrant city,” she added.
The Los Angeles City Council voted to make LA a “sanctuary city” for migrants as recently as June, and as with other Democrat-run “sanctuary cities” conservatives in Texas and other frontier states have begun taking them at their word by busing illegal aliens to their jurisdictions.
For now, bused migrants are still “a minority” of the arrivals LA is dealing with, according to Salas, with most still being “people who come through the California border and who walk here or get here on their own”.
While activists like Salas are for now still sympathetic to the migrants, working-class Californians are beginning to feel the negative effects of their presence, with hotel bosses accused of hiring them, possibly in violation of labor laws, to replace local workers striking for better pay and conditions.
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Like New York City and Chicago before it, Los Angeles is beginning to be overrun by the Joe Biden-engineered migrant crisis, with Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) executive director Angelica Salas saying "we have between 1,000 and 1,600 people" arriving "every week". The City of The Angels is "an immigrant city," she added.
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Former President Donald Trump has been hit with a $10,000 fine by Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron for allegedly violating a gag order the judge had issued earlier this month. Just five days ago, Judge Engoron fined the former President $5,000 for violating the court issued gag order. When to issuing the earlier fine, Engoron threatened to throw Trump in jail for any future violations.
Engoron, the Democrat judge overseeing New York Attorney General Letitia James’s $250 million fraud prosecution of Donald Trump, warned the former President regarding any possible future violations of the court’s gag order, “Don’t do it again or it will be worse.” Earlier in the day, Trump – while speaking to the press outside the courtroom – called Engoron a “…very partisan judge with a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is.”
The comments prompted Engoron to summon Trump to the stand, believing that the reference to the “person who’s very partisan sitting alongside him” meant the judge’s law clerk Allison Greenfield who is, in fact, a verypartisanoperative.
The gag order prohibits the former President from making references to court staff, including Greenfield. Trump insisted he was referencing his former lawyer Michael Cohen and not Greenfield. Engoron ultimately disagreed. Reports from inside the courtroom indicate Trump abruptly left after the $10,000 fine was handed down.
Prior to Engoron’s gag order, former President Trump had fervently criticized his seemingly partisan prosecution at the hands of Letitia James. Earlier this month, Trump posted on social media prior to his initial court appearance: “I’m going to Court tomorrow morning to fight for my name and reputation against a corrupt and racist Attorney General, Letitia James, who campaigned on ‘getting Trump,’ and a Trump Hating Judge who is unfair, unhinged, and vicious in his PURSUIT of me.”
Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba has repeatedly emphasized just how weak Attorney General James’s case is against the former President. Habba has also stressed that previous political statements made by James against Trump illustrate that this is a partisan prosecution.
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Former President Donald Trump has been hit with a $10,000 fine by Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron for allegedly violating a gag order the judge had issued earlier this month. Just five days ago, Judge Engoron fined the former President $5,000 for violating the court issued gag order. When to issuing the earlier fine, Engoron threatened to throw Trump in jail for any future violations.
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Congressman Mike Johnson (R-LA) is officially the new Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Louisiana Republican emerged from relative obscurity to become the consensus candidate of House Republicans after three other nominees for Speaker failed to garner the 217 votes needed to attain the gavel. When asked what he thought about Speaker-designate Mike Johnson, former President Donald Trump said, “Everybody likes him… it looks like it’s gonna happen” – providing a key nod of support.
Johnson managed to head off a late revolt by supporters of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) who sought to restore the establishment Republican to his station after he was ousted by a ‘motion to vacate’ brought by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) over two weeks ago. Gaetz told Steve Bannon on War Room it was McCarthy and his allies who engineered the defeats of the three prior Republican nominees for Speaker, Reps. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Tom Emmer (R-MN). According to Gaetz, McCarthy believed that he could wear down House Republicans over time and retake his Speakership.
Interesting background on Steve Bannon's War Room from @mattgaetz on McCarthy's maneuvers taking down other Speaker candidates in an attempt to retake the gavel himself. pic.twitter.com/cqkHdLtRPj
The leaked results of a Republican Conference vote late last night indicated that Johnson had secured 128 votes out of the 221 total Republicans the House. McCarthy, pushed by a write-in campaign, secured 43 votes. However, when the Conference then took up an open roll call vote on whether they’d support Johnson on the floor, the McCarthy insurgency ended and Johnson secured 196 of the 199 Republicans who were present. Three House Republicans voted ‘present’ but subsequently endorsed Johnson’s bid for Speaker.
Speaker Johnson, first elected to the House of Representatives in 2016 on the back of Donald Trump’s historic presidential victory, has a reputation as an astute constitutional lawyer who has frequentlytangled with the Biden government in House Judiciary Committee meetings.
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Congressman Mike Johnson (R-LA) is officially the new Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Louisiana Republican emerged from relative obscurity to become the consensus candidate of House Republicans after three other nominees for Speaker failed to garner the 217 votes needed to attain the gavel. When asked what he thought about Speaker-designate Mike Johnson, former President Donald Trump said, "Everybody likes him… it looks like it’s gonna happen" – providing a key nod of support.
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Hurricane Otis made landfall on Mexico’s Pacific coast early Wednesday morning, initially as a devastating Category 5 storm before downgrading over land. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned that the area around Acapulco faced potential “catastrophic damage.” As the storm reached land, strong winds and substantial rain assailed the popular beach city, and parts of Guerrero state began experiencing power outages, according to the country’s national civil protection agency.
The storm was upgraded from a tropical disturbance to a major hurricane within roughly 12 hours, touching land at 1:25 a.m. Eastern with maximum sustained winds reaching 165 mph. Hurricane-force winds extended as far as 30 miles from the storm’s center. Shortly after making landfall, it was reclassified to a Category 4 storm, featuring continued severe winds at 130 mph.
Hurricane Otis is projected to bring 8 to 20 inches of rain to the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca through Thursday, potentially inciting life-threatening coastal flooding. High-rise buildings are particularly at risk from the powerful gusts associated with the storm. More than 8,000 Mexican army and navy troops have been deployed to assist in Guerrero, equipped with specialized gear for rescues. The region is currently in a state of heightened alert, with residents advised to shelter in place or find refuge in one of the city’s designated shelters.
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Hurricane Otis made landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast early Wednesday morning, initially as a devastating Category 5 storm before downgrading over land. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned that the area around Acapulco faced potential "catastrophic damage." As the storm reached land, strong winds and substantial rain assailed the popular beach city, and parts of Guerrero state began experiencing power outages, according to the country's national civil protection agency.
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The Supreme Court of Japan has overturned strict laws preventing people from legally changing gender unless they have followed through on transition surgery.
Under laws dating from 2004, Japan had required anyone who wished to change their gender to be at least 18, diagnosed with gender dysphoria by two doctors, and to have gone far enough down the path of “transition” that they had “no reproductive glands” or only reproductive glands that had “permanently” lost their natural function.
In addition, people asking to change their gender are required to be unmarried and to have either no children or only children who have reached adulthood, to protect the interests of their families.
Now, however, unelected judges have ruled the laws requiring people to be sterilized before legally changing gender “[restrict] a person’s free rights not to have their bodies invaded against their will” and “[cause] an extreme physical and economic burden,” and are therefore unconstitutional.
The ruling is opposed by a group of legislators known as the League of Diet Members to Protect the Safety and Security of Women and Women’s Sports, who believe the previous system kept natural-born women relatively safe from biological males accessing women’s spaces.
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The Supreme Court of Japan has overturned strict laws preventing people from legally changing gender unless they have followed through on transition surgery.
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Donald Trump’s lawyers have moved to have the Jan 6 indictments brought against him by Jack Smith for Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissed, arguing they violate the U.S. Constitution by criminalizing “core political speech” protected by the First Amendment.
“If there is any constant in our democratic system of governance, it is that the marketplace of ideas – not the mandates of government functionaries or partisan prosecutors – determines the scope of public debate,” the court filings explain.
“Countless millions believe, as President Trump consistently has and currently does, that fraud and irregularities pervaded the 2020 Presidential Election. As the indictment itself alleges, President Trump gave voice to these concerns and demanded that politicians in a position to restore integrity to our elections not just talk about the problem, but investigate and resolve it… The First Amendment embraces and encourages exactly this kind of behavior,” they add.
Trump’s lawyers also make the point that the former president has already been acquitted of similar charges in a Senate trial, arguing the DOJ prosecution falls foul of legal protections against double jeopardy.
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Donald Trump's lawyers have moved to have the Jan 6 indictments brought against him by Jack Smith for Joe Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissed, arguing they violate the U.S. Constitution by criminalizing "core political speech" protected by the First Amendment.
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