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Woke Boston mayor goes on fever-pitched hunt to track down and threaten business owners renting parking spots to ICE agents in her city: ‘This is unhinged’
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has clashed publicly with the US Department of Homeland Security after urging local business owners not to rent parking spaces to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The row began after a federal procurement notice showed ICE seeking 249 consecutive parking spaces in the city’s central business district, prompting Wu to write…
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Real estate expert’s brutal takedown of Anthony Albanese after he declared his controversial tax changes were fixing the property market: ‘The housing crisis is going brilliantly’
Real estate commentator Tom Panos has publicly criticised Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for claiming his government’s housing tax reforms are working, arguing the data tells a different story. Albanese had shared a video insisting that changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax were easing competition for first-home buyers and boosting new housing supply,…
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Judge slaps down Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid for release as he trashes ‘new evidence’ claims in Epstein case
US District Judge Paul Engelmayer has rejected a self-filed petition from Ghislaine Maxwell seeking to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year sentence, ruling that her “new evidence” claims were meritless and, where relevant, actually reinforced the case against her rather than undermining it. The decision closes off another legal avenue for Maxwell, who remains…
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Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago
Microsoft’s Windows XP reached its 25th anniversary of being released to manufacturing on 24 August 2001, marking the moment the company finally merged its consumer and business operating system lines under the Windows NT codebase. XP replaced Windows ME for home users and Windows 2000 for professionals, offering far greater stability than its predecessors along…
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The lens in Wyze’s new $40 indoor camera retracts for privacy
Wyze has launched a new pan-and-tilt indoor security camera, the Indoor Cam Pan, priced at $39.98, with a lens that can retract fully into the camera body for privacy. The device rotates a full 360 degrees and its lens tilts up to 103 degrees, disappearing from view when not in use so it cannot record…
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Danish PM rejects plastic surgeon’s offer to ‘fix’ her nose as she shares screengrabs of his message and declares: ‘I’m happy with my body’
Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has publicly rejected an unsolicited offer from a male plastic surgeon who messaged her on Instagram offering to “fix” a mark on her nose. She shared a screenshot of the exchange, telling him she was happy with her body and did not need a male plastic surgeon’s opinion on her…
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Funeral held for one of five teenage boys who died in head-on crash after driving wrong way down Irish motorway
The funeral of 17-year-old Jack Kennedy was held today in Athy, County Kildare, marking the last of five funerals for teenage boys killed in a wrong-way motorway crash in the Republic of Ireland. Jack, along with Joey Carthy (15), Alex McCarthy (16), Kamil Pustkowski (17) and Jeremy O’Brien (18), died after the car they were…
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Canada plots tariff hit-back as Hounslow fire suspect charged with murder
Ottawa readies retaliatory trade measures against Trump’s US, a man faces murder and arson charges after a fatal Hounslow blaze, and NHS data shows record antidepressant prescribing across England.
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Freak storms spark flooding chaos in Spanish tourist town with motorists swept down streets
Freak storms brought flash flooding and huge hailstones to the Spanish port city of Tarragona and the surrounding region, sweeping people and vehicles down streets turned into rivers and causing widespread damage. The extreme weather also struck other parts of the country, forcing organisers to cancel a stage of the Vuelta a España cycling race…
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Mother of girl, nine, ‘murdered by her father’ on industrial estate sobs as she joins farewell procession for her daughter
The mother of nine-year-old Minnie Merriman, who was allegedly murdered by her father, broke down in tears as she joined a farewell procession for her daughter in Arbroath, Angus. Laurie Merriman was seen sobbing and holding a bunny toy bearing Minnie’s name as she pressed her head against the van carrying her daughter’s body, before…