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A retired judge has penned an open letter to the Chancellor, urging her to introduce a tax on pointed kitchen knives in the Budget. Former circuit judge Nic Madge is advocating for a tax of approximately £20 on pointed knives to deter consumers from using them, drawing parallels with the charges imposed on plastic bags. …
25-year-old Stephanie Dilyard was fired from 7-Eleven in Oklahoma on Monday for protecting herself with a gun from a 59-year-old male customer who tried to take her life on Thursday. This is outrageous. Shame on 7-Eleven! (fox25news on TT) pic.twitter.com/E5NMTqRlO0 — Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) November 19, 2025 OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (KOKH) — Stephanie …
Why is the VISA process continuing during shutdown??@SecretaryLCD — Cindy (@Cindybinmo) November 8, 2025 Because U.S. visa processing is funded by application fees, not congressional appropriations so it continues even during a government shutdown. h/t dr0id
https://twitter.com/Anc_Aesthetics/status/1960815792712507904 https://twitter.com/Anc_Aesthetics/status/1960838002521071791 View post on imgur.com ⚠️This is absolutely HORRIFIC ⚠️ "DON'T F**KING TOUCH US" Little girls scream at a migrant recording them before brandishing an AXE and a KNIFE to warn him off What is happening to our country? pic.twitter.com/b7WyTtBkdM — Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) August 24, 2025 h/t dr0id
🇬🇧 UK POLICE TASER 92-YEAR-OLD WITH BUTTER KNIFE Police in East Sussex pepper-sprayed and tasered 92-year-old Donald Burgess—who had one leg and was holding a butter knife—inside a care home. Bodycam footage confirms the disturbing encounter. Burgess, confused from a UTI,… pic.twitter.com/HfmpYSYP33 — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 22, 2025
A senior official at the Los Angeles Fire Department made ‘homicidal and suicidal’ threats, strangled and chased her girlfriend with a carving knife, court documents claimed. LAFD assistant chief Kristina ‘Kady’ Kepner then wrote a suicide note after cutting herself according to a 2021 domestic violence restraining order filed by the ex in a Los …
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The Australian government is seeking to exploit two recent knife attacks to relaunch its misinformation bill after it was put on ice late last year over free speech concerns. From X: Australia’s misinformation bill has been reintroduced to parliament. The bill is fundamentally flawed because it is built on the industry code co-written by First …
JUSTI N: A record number of buyers backed out of purchase deals in July due to high costs and economic worries, per Redfin. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) August 30, 2024 Buyers’ Strike Deepens: Pending Home Sales Drop to Record Low Despite Surging Supply & Much Lower Mortgage Rates that Already Price in Massive Rate Cuts Pending …
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Look out for a flood of inventory from the rental car companies as well — What’s The Car Worth? (@WhatsTheCarWrth) July 30, 2024
https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1798308090422673593 A German politician has been stabbed in Mannheim days after a police officer was killed at an anti-Islam rally. The local council candidate, who is a member of the populist AFD party, was attacked with a knife late on Tuesday evening. He sustained injuries and the suspect was arrested by local police. Heinrich Koch …
The city, which is home to one of the largest migrant populations in the UK, has seen a total of 154 stabbing incidents over the past few months, with some postcodes seeing up to ten attacks each. According to statistics provided by the ambulance service, paramedics attend to around 10 stabbing victims every week in …
Formerly thought of as nearly impenetrable, zelensky’s fortified, high ground city Chasov Yar is being consumed by Russian air and ground bombardment, paratroopers, and ground forces. Russian military has overrun the eastern outskirts of the city, and is attacking from the north and south perimeter of the city. It has also taken control of a …
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APennsylvania man attacked and killed his neighbor this week using a knife and a chain saw while wearing a mask and costume like the one from the movie “Scream,” officials said. The man, identified as Zak Moyer, 30, then returned home and watched a movie until police came, according to a criminal complaint from the …
Three people have been wounded in a knife attack at a major train station in Paris, police say. One person suffered serious stomach wounds during the stabbings at the Gare de Lyon on Saturday morning. A suspect is in custody. Police say he is a Malian national who presented an Italian driving licence to officers. …
Shoplifting has surged by 25 per cent in a year with knife and gun crimes, robberies and car thefts also up, new official figures revealed today. There were 365,164 shoplifting cases recorded by police over the 12 months ending June 2023, as well as 50,833 knife offences (up 3%), 77,337 robberies (up 11%) and 400,861 …
by Chris Black You can’t just put brown people in prison. Not after all they’ve been through during the Crusades, and what not. Remix: Despite 34-year-old Berhan S. breaking into the Protestant school in the multicultural Berlin neighborhood of Neukölln and stabbing two little girls, his crime will go unpunished. Instead, the courts have ruled …
by Chris Black Thankfully, the mass killing hasn’t soured the Canadian people on the benefits of diversity. We’re very close to utopia, folks. Just need to push a little harder. We’re almost there. my friend. i leave Toronto. this place very dangerous. before train only have pervert. now train have have danger. people stab and …
