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Thursday, May 21, 2026
11 minutes ago
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UK

Reform UK Slams Bradford Rivals for ‘Grubby Alliance.’

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party has assumed minority leadership of Bradford Council, but the Conservative Party has helped block them from taking control of key posts, empowering the far-left Green Party instead.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Nigel Farage’s Reform UK became the largest party on Bradford Council following local elections earlier this month, securing 28 seats, but fell short of an outright majority. Reform Councillor Stephen Place was elected leader of the council on Tuesday, but opposition parties, including the notionally center-right Conservatives (Tories), abstained from voting for him, and subsequently blocked Reform’s attempts to secure key committee positions.
📺 DETAIL: Reform UK accused the Conservatives of forming a “backroom pact” with the far-left Green Party and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party to deny them influence on council committees. The council remains under minority control, with no party or coalition of parties holding overall control to enact a particular agenda.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “The Conservative group on Bradford Council has entered into a grubby backroom pact with the Green Party and Labour in a desperate attempt to block Reform UK from positions on the council’s committees. As part of this unholy alliance, the Green Party was handed control of the Staffing Committee and the Regulatory & Appeals Committee, while also securing deputy chair positions on the Licensing Committee and the Regeneration & Environmental Overview and Scrutiny Committee. Every single Reform UK nomination was blocked by the Conservative-Green alliance.” – Reform UK statement issued on Wednesday
🎯 IMPACT: The situation in Bradford underlines the issues faced by Reform, the major winner in municipal elections across England earlier this month, in areas where it has made a significant breakthrough but lacks an outright majority. The Conservatives, despite positioning themselves as a center-right party, seem unwilling to ally with Reform to implement right-leaning policies, instead preferring to align with leftist parties to hamstring their populist-nationalist rivals. Commenting on the Conservatives behavior in Bradford, Reform UK Deputy Leader and Member of Parliament (MP) Richard Tice commented, “The Conservatives have done it again. In their desperation to stop Reform, they are now crawling into coalition with the Green Party to seize power in local councils.”
📺 FLASHBACK: The Conservatives previously teamed up with the Green Party to force Reform out of leadership on Worcestershire County Council, causing significant backlash.

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Nigel Farage's Reform Party has assumed minority leadership of Bradford Council, but the Conservative Party has helped block them from taking control of key posts, empowering the far-left Green Party instead.

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53 minutes ago
Crime
News
UK

Far-Left Journo Admits to Stalking Politician.

A British freelance journalist has pleaded guilty to stalking former Chancellor George Osborne and his wife, Thea Rogers, in a case regarding false allegations and harassment.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: A British journalist has admitted to stalking former Chancellor of the Exchequer (Treasury Secretary) George Osborne and his wife for more than a year.
📺 DETAIL: Lydia Suffield, a 29-year-old freelance journalist from Liverpool, England, has admitted to two counts of stalking George Osborne, former Conservative Party finance minister, and his wife, Thea Rogers. Suffield allegedly sent harassing emails and Instagram messages to the couple, and made false referrals to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), a charity dedicated to tackling child abuse. According to prosecutors, Suffield stalked the former Chancellor and his wife for more than a year between June 8, 2022, and July 5, 2023. Furthermore, Suffield is accused of making baseless allegations of drug abuse, contacting the family, friends, and colleagues of Osborne and Rogers, and even sending a gift to the couple’s young children. After initially denying two more serious charges of stalking to cause harm and distress, Suffield pleaded guilty to two lesser offenses of stalking in court on Thursday. While the more serious charges are not being pursued by the prosecution, they will remain on file.
🎯 IMPACT: Suffield is scheduled for sentencing on July 3, 2026. She has been granted bail on the condition that she does not contact Osborne or Rogers. Osborne served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016 during the premiership of former Prime Minister David Cameron. Osborne supported the failed campaign to keep Britain in the European Union (EU) back in 2016 and left frontline politics in 2017. The case raises questions about the security of former high-profile politicians. There are similar issues in the United States, where, back in June 2024, it was revealed that Democrat activists were stalking conservative Supreme Court justices. Specifically, far-left activist Lauren Windsor posed as a Catholic conservative to stalk and record Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife at an event in Washington, D.C.

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2 hours ago
Health
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Ex-CDC Chief Says Ebola Could Be Significant Pandemic.

Former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Robert Redfield has warned that this month’s Ebola outbreak in Africa could escalate into a significant pandemic.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Experts have warned that the current Ebola outbreak could turn into significant pandemic as the disease spreads to several East African countries.
📰 DETAIL: On Wednesday, Robert Redfield, former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), warned that this month’s Ebola outbreak in Africa could become a “very significant pandemic“ and a threat to global health. The warning follows news that the disease has likely spread to several East African countries, specifically Tanzania, South Sudan, and Rwanda. The vast majority of Ebola cases are caused by the Bundibugyo virus, which is historically concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, countries in Central and East Africa, respectively. There are 536 suspected cases and 134 suspected deaths from Ebola across the two countries. The former director also noted that experts were slow to recognize the outbreak, contributing to its rapid spread. “Normally when we have these Ebola outbreaks, and I had three of them when I was CDC director, all of which were in the DRC, normally we recognize them when we have five, ten cases, you know, at most… This one really wasn’t picked up until there was over 100 cases,” noted the former director.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “I suspect this is going to become a very significant pandemic, probably going to leak into Tanzania, leak into Southern Sudan, maybe leak into Rwanda.” – Robert Redfield
🎯 IMPACT: May’s Ebola outbreak is the 17th to occur in the region within the past 50 years. The most recent outbreak ended in December last year. Nevertheless, the former director emphasized that it has the potential to become “very disruptive” and move “very rapidly“ from country to country. Due to the rising number of cases and deaths, the U.S. State Department announced new travel advice on Thursday, including “enhanced public health screening” for U.S.-bound individuals who have visited the affected countries within 21 days of arrival. The enhanced screening will be carried out by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the CDC. In late April, President Donald J. Trump signed a narrowly-approved bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) minus CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The bill was signed to end a 76-day partial shutdown of the federal government. Republicans are reportedly developing an alternate funding bill for the agencies, which will be crucial in ensuring proper health screening.

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Former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Robert Redfield has warned that this month's Ebola outbreak in Africa could escalate into a significant pandemic.

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3 hours ago
Economy
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Fox Poll Has Warning Sign for Trump on Economy.

Voters are growing more downbeat about the economy and President Trump’s performance on major issues.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Polling by Fox News shows public sentiment on President Donald J. Trump’s economy is souring, with 77 percent of voters now describing the economy as being in bad shape, up from 73 percent last month and 71 percent a year ago. Only 23 percent view it positively, the lowest share in more than a year. Trump’s overall economic approval rating now sits at 29 percent, down from 34 percent in April. Inflation is his weakest area, with approval at only 24 percent—a drop from 35 percent in January. Even Republicans give Trump’s economic performance majority disapproval, at 51 percent, while among independents and Democrats, disapproval stands at 85 percent and 96 percent, respectively.
📰 DETAIL: Cost of living remains voters’ dominant economic concern, cited by 58 percent as their top worry—an increase from 50 percent in February. The poll indicates a significant decline in support among several of Trump’s key demographics, including non-MAGA Republicans, white voters, and rural voters. Disapproval of Trump’s economic management has risen, with 71 percent expressing dissatisfaction, up from 66 percent the previous month and 56 percent a year earlier, driven by a seven-point rise in disapproval among Republicans. There is a significant split inside the Republican coalition, with non-MAGA Republicans giving Trump’s economic performance just 36 percent approval—closer to independents’ rating of 18 percent than to MAGA Republicans’ 74 percent.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “Make no mistake; it’s all about affordability. Independents jumped ship in 2025, and now non-MAGA Republicans and other core constituencies are wavering.” – Republican pollster Daron Shaw.
🎯 IMPACT: The decline in approval ratings could diminish Trump’s influence within the Republican Party and his ability to rally support for future economic initiatives in Congress, especially as the November midterms grow nearer.
📈 DATA: The survey, conducted from May 15-18, included 1,002 registered voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

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4 hours ago
Crime
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Somali Daycare Owner Hit with Federal Charges over $4.6 Million Fraud Scheme.

Fahima Egeh Mahamud, already implicated in a major fraud scandal, has been charged with additional federal offenses for allegedly misappropriating millions meant for children’s meals.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Fahima Egeh Mahamud, a Somali-background woman already linked to the $250 million Feeding Our Future scandal, faces new federal charges for allegedly pocketing an additional $4.6 million through a separate daycare subsidy fraud scheme.
📰 DETAIL: Mahamud, owner of Future Leaders Early Learning Center in south Minneapolis, was charged on May 20 with wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Federal prosecutors claim she submitted over $826,000 in false meal reimbursement claims to Feeding Our Future in 2021, while serving only a fraction of the meals reported. Investigators allege she used fake meal count sheets, fabricated child rosters, and inflated invoices to justify the payments. Mahamud is also accused of filing more than 13,000 claims with Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program without collecting required co-payments, resulting in roughly $4.6 million in improper reimbursements. Prosecutors say the funds were diverted for personal enrichment, including real estate purchases and transfers to affiliated businesses. Court records show Mahamud abruptly closed her center on February 10, 2026. Shortly after, she booked a trip to Britain.
🎯 IMPACT: The charges provide yet another example of a member of the Minnesota Somali community being indicted over fraud linked to child care, with some claiming the overall fraud may be in the billions of dollars.

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Fahima Egeh Mahamud, already implicated in a major fraud scandal, has been charged with additional federal offenses for allegedly misappropriating millions meant for children's meals.

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4 hours ago
Crime
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Migrant Crime Networks Are Operating Through Vape Stores, Barber Shops.

The British government is having to launch a major task force to tackle money laundering, illegal employment, and organized crime tied to vape stores and other dubious high street businesses.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: The British government has unveiled a £30 million (~$40m) initiative to combat organized crime linked to high street businesses, particularly vape stores, barber shops, and mini-marts. The crackdown will involve raids, closures, and cash seizures targeting operations tied to money laundering, tax evasion, and illegal immigration and employment.
📺 DETAIL: The task force will consist of 75 officers from various British police forces and the National Crime Agency (NCA), roughly equivalent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The Trading Standards departments, which enforce consumer protection regulations, will receive £6 million (~$8m) to enhance enforcement and identify fraudulent businesses, following incidents in which unlicensed vape shops selling unregulated vapes have caused fires and burned down historic buildings. The NCA estimates that £1 billion of the £12 billion in criminal cash generated annually in the United Kingdom is laundered through such establishments.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “This criminal activity makes our communities less safe and less prosperous. It undermines legitimate business, deprives public services of tax revenues, and fuels a range of predicate offenses such as the drugs trade, illicit goods, trafficking, and organized immigration crime.” – Sal Melki, Deputy Director of Illicit Finance at the NCA
🎯 IMPACT: The initiative marks a significant shift in government policy, which has been accused of taking insufficient action against the huge number of vape stores, Turkish barber shops, phone repair stores, and so on, often staffed and owned by immigrant and immigrant-background individuals, that have proliferated across Britain in recent years. Critics have long complained that many are clearly fronts for organized criminals, existing in close proximity in numbers grossly out of proportion to the public demand for them. Vape stores, in particular, are also emerging as hubs for grooming and sexual predation.
📺 FLASHBACK: Reform Party leader Nigel Farage has been highlighting this issue for years, saying last year, “It’s money laundering, it’s a way of funneling large amounts of cash through, declare some of it to the taxman, and of course, the drugs trade is all cash.”

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5 hours ago
Immigration
News
UK

UK Immigration Remains Over 800,000 a Year.

Britain’s Labour Party government is promoting new statistics showing net immigration fell in 2025, but gross immigration remains extremely high at over 800,000, and polling reveals most Britons believe it has increased.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Britain’s Labour Party government is touting a fall in long-term net immigration to 171,000 in provisional Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures for 2025, released on Thursday. However, this is partly a result of the number of British nationals leaving the country standing at almost 250,000 for the year, with gross immigration of non-European Union (EU) nationals remaining historically high at 627,000. Polling by British Future shows only 16 percent of Britons believe immigration is going down, while 49 percent believe it is increasing.
📺 DETAIL: Gross immigration for 2025 is estimated at 813,000. This is comprised of 627,000 non-EU migrants, 76,000 EU migrants, and 110,000 returning British citizens. Meanwhile, 278,000 non-EU nationals, 118,000 EU nationals, and 246,000 British nationals left the country. Notably, the statistics are provisional, with the ONS revising its provisional 2024 estimates for gross immigration up to over a million in the same report.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “246,000 Brits left last year. Net, 136,000 went. A city the size of Watford. Many are entrepreneurs, investors, small businesspeople. It’s the Starmer Exodus. Reform will Bring Brits Back.” – Robert Jenrick, Member of Parliament (MP) for Nigel Farage’s Reform Party
📺 FLASHBACK: Net immigration quintupled under former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as a result of his Conservative Party government greatly decreasing the requirements to migrate to Britain following the COVID-19 pandemic. While the current influx is down significantly from this “Boriswave” period, annual arrivals remain near their highest levels in Britain’s history, particularly in gross terms.

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Britain's Labour Party government is promoting new statistics showing net immigration fell in 2025, but gross immigration remains extremely high at over 800,000, and polling reveals most Britons believe it has increased.

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19 hours ago
News
Politics

State Dept Settles $1.5 Billion Lawsuit Over Biden Funding Palestinian Terrorists.

The billion-dollar settlement ensures the State Department will adhere to the Taylor Force Act, which prevents the United States from sending financial aid to the Palestinian Authority’s Martyrs Fund.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: The State Department has settled a lawsuit regarding $1.5 billion dollars of taxpayer money given to the Palestinian Authority under the former Biden government.
📺 DETAIL: Filed in December 2022 by Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), the parents of Taylor Force, and terror survivor Sarri Singer, the Biden government was accused of “unlawfully laundering U.S. taxpayer funds through non-governmental organizations to directly benefit the Palestinian Authority” in circumvention of the Taylor Force Act 2018, a law passed under President Donald J. Trump which prevents the United States from giving financial aid to the Palestinian Authority until it dissolves its Martyrs Fund. Critics have long argued that the fund incentivizes terrorism as it provides money to the families of those killed in attacks on Israelis. The law is named after Taylor Force, an American Army veteran murdered by a Palestinian terrorist while in Jaffa, Israel, in early 2016. “When President Trump signed the Taylor Force Act into law in 2018, the United States made clear it would not tolerate or reward terrorism—yet Joe Biden’s decision to ignore that law put American lives at risk,” said Rep. Jackson about the case. The settlement was secured by America First Legal, a non-profit public interest organization founded by Stephen Miller, the current White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “As a victim of terrorism and a survivor of a Hamas bus bombing, I have lived with the painful reality that the person who carried out the attack against me is not only honored, but that his family receives monthly payments… This settlement brings a level of accountability and helps ensure that the U.S. is not contributing, even indirectly, to incentivizing terror.” – Sarri Singer, a survivor of a Hamas bus bombing
🎯 IMPACT: The State Department will abide by the Taylor Force Act 2018 for the next 10 years. The Palestinian Authority’s Martyrs Fund, referred to by critics as a “Pay to Slay” scheme, will be impacted by the State Department’s renewed commitment to the act as the U.S. ceases financial aid.

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The billion-dollar settlement ensures the State Department will adhere to the Taylor Force Act, which prevents the United States from sending financial aid to the Palestinian Authority's Martyrs Fund.

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20 hours ago
Corruption
Lawfare
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Ex-Prosecutor Charged With Stealing Trump Case Documents Authored by Jack Smith.

A former federal prosecutor is facing charges after allegedly stealing part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report into the Department of Justice’s failed case against President Trump.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: A former federal prosecutor has been indicted for allegedly stealing a section of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his now-defunct criminal case against President Donald J. Trump.
📺 DETAIL: Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, a former federal prosecutor, has been accused of stealing a sealed portion of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the Department of Justice’s defunct criminal case against President Donald J. Trump. In the four-count indictment, she is accused of saving a section of the report on her government-provided computer under the file name “Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf” and emailing the files from her DOJ account to her personal account in December 2025. At the time of the alleged crime, Lineberger was working as a managing Assistant U.S. Attorney in Fort Pierce, Florida. The report was part of the now defunct-case alleging that President Trump retained classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. The case against the President was dismissed by Aileen Cannon, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Cannon ruled that Jack Smith’s appointment violated the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution. After the President’s comeback election in 2024, the DOJ abandoned its attempt to appeal the ruling, citing policy against pursuing the prosecution of sitting presidents.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “This afternoon, a former managing assistant U.S. Attorney who supported Jack Smith’s politicized investigation of President Trump has been charged with stealing the confidential investigation documents… This FBI will not hesitate to bring to account those who violated the trust of the American public in an investigation that should’ve never been brought to begin with.” – FBI Director Kash Patel
🎯 IMPACT: The charges against Lineberger, which include theft of government property and altering public records, validate concerns over officials’ handling of sensitive government materials. The indictment is likely to cast further doubt on the impartiality of the DOJ’s now-defunct case against President Trump. In February, it was revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), under former President Joe Biden, subpoenaed the phone records of President Trump’s staff and allies. “It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records—along with those of now White House chief of staff Susie Wiles—using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight,” said FBI Director Patel at the time.

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21 hours ago
Crime
News

FBI Reports Biggest Drop in Violent Crime Since 1937.

Preliminary FBI data shows a historic 9.3 percent drop in violent crime in 2025, marking the largest decrease in nearly 90 years.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Violent crime in the United States fell sharply in 2025, posting the largest annual decline in nearly 90 years, according to preliminary Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data released this week. The report found that overall violent crime dropped about 9.3 percent, while murders and non-negligent manslaughter fell by more than 18 percent.
📺 DETAIL: Aggravated assaults declined by over seven percent, rapes dropped roughly 7.6 percent, and property crime decreased an estimated 12.4 percent. FBI Director Kash Patel credited internal reforms implemented over the past 14 months under President Donald J. Trump’s administration, saying the bureau would continue efforts to “Back the Blue” and build on the crime reductions. The data was compiled through the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program using submissions from more than 17,000 law enforcement agencies representing about 96 percent of the U.S. population. FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division Assistant Director Tim Ferguson said the early release reflects the bureau’s commitment to transparency while allowing time for additional review before the final report is issued later in 2026. Overall, the FBI estimates roughly 1.1 million fewer violent crimes occurred in 2025 compared to the previous year.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “The 2025 crime data in this report shows the single largest decrease in violent crime and murder since 1937 – as well as huge decreases across the board in terms of aggravated assault, rape, and robbery. Over the last 14 months, we made major transformations at the FBI, and these results show those changes are working.” – FBI Director Kash Patel
🎯 IMPACT: The significant reduction in violent crime is a major boost for law enforcement and public safety, with the data suggesting that reforms within the FBI and its collaboration with local agencies are yielding tangible results.

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