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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The U.S. Department of Defense has admitted that U.S. troops stationed in the Middle East have shockingly faced 13 attacks within the past week alone. Forces in Iraq experienced ten assaults, while those stationed in Syria were subjected to three under Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden. These attacks, employing one-way drones and rockets, reportedly all bear the hallmark of Iran, according to Pentagon officials.
On October 18th, the al Asad base in Iraq located west of Baghdad was targeted by two drones. Coalition forces managed to destroy one and damaged the other, resulting in minor injuries and some damage to the base. Gen. Pat Ryder stated that an early warning system in place at the base detected an additional threat that unfortunately led to a fatal heart attack in a civilian contractor during the precautions.
The USS Carney intercepted four land-based cruise missiles and 15 drones from Houthi forces in the northern Red Sea on October 19th. Other attacks took place at multiple sites including the Al-Harir air base, the Al Tanf Garrison in Syria, and near Baghdad International Airport. Reports indicate minor damages, four injuries to U.S. service members who have returned to duty, and no casualties. However, conflicting reports from Central Command (CENTCOM) points to a lower estimate of eight attacks, leaving the details surrounding the remaining five attacks unaccounted for.
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The U.S. Department of Defense has admitted that U.S. troops stationed in the Middle East have shockingly faced 13 attacks within the past week alone. Forces in Iraq experienced ten assaults, while those stationed in Syria were subjected to three under Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden. These attacks, employing one-way drones and rockets, reportedly all bear the hallmark of Iran, according to Pentagon officials.
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A large majority of New York voters blame Joe Biden for the escalating migrant crisis, with 84 percent of respondents characterizing the situation as a serious problem, and 57 percent declaring it as a “very” serious issue. Only 12 percent of those surveyed believe the issue is not severe. The study further unveils that Biden’s handling of the migrant surge is disapproved by 64 percent of voters, while only 29 percent gave their approval.
New York has seen an influx of tens of thousands of migrants, hurting Biden’s popularity in the traditionally Democrat-leaning state. Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg stressed Democrats, Republicans, independents, men, women, upstaters, downstaters, black people, white people, Latinos, Catholics, Jews, and Protestants all regard the crisis as a serious issue.
Sixty-four percent of voters agree that New York should work to “slow the flow” of migrants from the border, as opposed to the 29 percent who believe the state should welcome and help assimilate them. Additionally, 54 percent of voters surveyed regarded migration as more of a burden than a benefit.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who used to push “sanctuary” policies and celebrated when Biden halted border wall construction, now says the migrant crisis “will destroy” the Big Apple if it continues.
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A large majority of New York voters blame Joe Biden for the escalating migrant crisis, with 84 percent of respondents characterizing the situation as a serious problem, and 57 percent declaring it as a “very” serious issue. Only 12 percent of those surveyed believe the issue is not severe. The study further unveils that Biden's handling of the migrant surge is disapproved by 64 percent of voters, while only 29 percent gave their approval.
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