The House bill to give the US Postal Service $25 billion ahead of the November presidential election is just a “political statement,” White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday. The bill passed by the Democrat-controlled chamber Saturday “has nothing to do with voting,” Meadows said on “Fox News Sunday” and “has everything to do with a political statement.” […]

Marina restaurant owned by former Premier League star Craig Bellamy is destroyed by fire just days after reopening from lockdown as investigation finds blaze was started accidentally The fire that engulfed The Deck, on Penarth Marina, near Cardiff was an accident Craig Bellamy’s restaurant caught fire on Friday but arson has been ruled out Firefighters spent two hours battling the […]

British holidaymakers in Spain are at risk from deadly ‘West Nile’ virus spread by mosquitos, experts say as outbreak kills two in Seville and puts eight in intensive care Outbreak of West Nile virus claimed the lives of two people in Seville, Spain Virus, which is spread by mosquitoes, also put eight in hospital intensive care Today expert in infectious […]

Amsterdam installs sustainable urinals that look like traditional planters in city centre to combat problem of ‘wild peeing’ Amsterdam’s council has had 12 GreenPees installed in city’s tourist hot spots Urinals double as planters, providing an eco-friendly solution to public urination  The innovative design, which saw a 50% reduction in wild peeing, uses less water than normal urinals and urine […]

This Day In History: August 23 Take a look at all of the important historical events that took place on August 23. On this day, Aug. 23 … 2008: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama introduces his choice of running mate, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, before a crowd outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. Also on this day: 1305: […]

THE BBC is set to crackdown on TV licence dodgers following its decision to scrap the free licence for over-75s from August. According to the Daily Mail, the BBC is set to spend around £100million of taxpayers’ cash chasing pensioners failing to cough up. It reports private firm Capita is being paid another £38million to hire 800 new staff to […]

A 15-YEAR-OLD girl has died after an inflatable boat crashed into a buoy near Southampton. Another twelve people who were on board were also taken to hospital after the collision at around 10.10am this morning. The fatal collision occurred in waters in the Marchwood Marina, Netley. The Hampshire Constabulary released a statement on Saturday evening, saying they are currently working […]

£1m lottery winner and his brothers beat car wash boss unconscious with a baseball bat and drove him out of Welsh town over ‘damage to his Audi’  – but is SPARED jail Jacob Hodge stormed the car wash with twin Joshua, 29, and brother Jamie, 31   They attacked the owner Bahroz Saeed at the garage in Caldicot, Gwent  All three […]

COPS were caught on video fatally shooting a black man 11 times as he walked away from them at a gas station. The man was at the station in Lafayette, Louisiana, when someone reported a disturbance to the police, TMZ reported. The woman who captured the video told the outlet that the man appeared to be holding a knife. In […]

Will Gov. Andrew Cuomo allow anything resembling an outside review of New York’s coronavirus nursing-home horrors? The test case is a bipartisan bill from state Sen. Jim Tedisco and Assemblyman Ron Kim. At the height of the pandemic, the state’s March 25 mandate put infected patients among the elderly — who Cuomo has acknowledged are the most vulnerable to the […]