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Independent MP Rupert Lowe: Unvetted illegal migration “Absolutely mental”

@RupertLowe10 I’ve just been attacked by both Polanski [Green Party] and Corbyn [Former Labour leader] over my calls to implement a hostile environment for illegal migrants what a duo. @ZackPolanski says I should be ‘absolutely condemned’, calling it ‘nasty’ and ‘cruel’. @jeremycorbyn says it’s ‘utterly repulsive’. Okay lads, if you say so. I am very much of the view that allowing hundreds of thousands of unvetted young men from cultures that actively hate women, and us, to roam our streets is absolutely mental. Do I think that placing unchecked Eritrean and Afghan men in communities all around the country.

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Iran in crisis as major drought forces regime to cut off water to Tehran, consider evacuation

Iran is set to turn off the water in several regions, including Tehran as the country falls into the grips of its worst drought in decades. The Islamic Republic announced it would be shutting off its water supply on Saturday night due to the mounting crisis which will see the capital dry up with officials contemplating evacuating it, Haaretz reported. “We are forced to cut off water supply to citizens on some evenings so that reservoirs can refill,” Energy Minister Abbas Alibadi said on state television Saturday.

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Democrats are winning the shutdown politics. Can they stop now?

After the 2013 government shutdown ended, Republican leaders made clear they had only been humoring Sen. Ted Cruz and his plot to defund Obamacare. “It was not a smart play. It had no chance of success,” then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said. Then-House Speaker John Boehner initially said the GOP had “fought the good fight.” But he would later say the plan “never had a chance” and even called the Texas senator “Lucifer in the flesh.” This is how shutdowns generally go. The side seeking a concession fights what they view as “the good fight,” and then they.

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Hundreds of juveniles fight, cause mayhem a DC crime hotspot, Guard, Federal Task Force respond

Police said the group, which increased in size “to several hundred juveniles” at about 8 p. m., was initially peaceful Over 100 juveniles on Halloween night in Washington, D. C., fought and caused mayhem in one of the city’s most notorious problem zones for such behavior, according to a news report Saturday. A video that captured chaos appears to show National Guard members chasing after young people in the Navy Yard neighborhood, where this summer similar situations resulted, at least in part, in President Trump sending National Guard members to the nation’s capital. The D. C. Metropolitan Police Department, the city’s police department, reportedly responded.

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Trees are emitting a ‘vomit’-like stench across California

The smell wafted through the air in the October sunshine. At least one Harvard scientist has likened it to “rancid butter and vomit,” while Jennifer Iida, a spokesperson for Sacramento’s Department of General Services, called it downright “pungent and unpleasant.” It was the sweet aroma of two 75-year-old ginkgo trees in California State Capitol Park, and it’s gotten so bad, officials have taken matters into their own hands, surrounding the trees with metal barriers affixed with zip-tied and laminated signs to ward the public away. As the Sacramento Bee first reported, the issue isn’t just the odor. It’s the slip.

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Ohio refugees will lose their SNAP benefits next month under Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Upcoming changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will soon restrict which Ohioans are eligible for benefits. The One Big Beautiful Bill, which President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, changes “non-citizen eligibility for SNAP.” Only U. S. citizens, green card holders who have gone through a five-year waiting period, and some Haitian and Cuban nationals with special status will be eligible for SNAP. This means refugees, people who have been granted asylum and human trafficking survivors will all lose their benefits, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service.

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