Yet another violent attack in the U.K. involving a migrant suspect has occurred, this time leaving an American woman dead.

Irish police and emergency services responded on Tuesday to a rented home in the southwestern town of Killarney, where the bloody body of 43-year-old New York native Jamey Carney had been discovered by her 13-year-old daughter.

‘Do not use this to become bigoted or racist or prejudiced in any way.’

Following a postmortem examination by state pathologist Linda Mulligan, police launched a murder investigation into Carney’s death — an investigation aided by the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Garda National Immigration Bureau.

While Carney suffered a brutal assault and significant head injuries, Mulligan concluded that suffocation was the ultimate cause of death, reported the Irish Times. Carney had moved to Ireland with her daughter in 2021.

Early in their investigation, authorities determined that “a person of interest” had “left the jurisdiction in the early hours of Tuesday 7th July prior to the body of the deceased female being discovered.”

The suspect, who has been identified as 28-year-old Ahmad Al-Saqar, is believed to have successfully boarded a flight at Dublin Airport bound for Istanbul, Turkey, just prior to the discovery of the body.

Irish police are reportedly working with Europol and Interpol in hopes of establishing whether Al-Saqar is still in Turkey or has traveled to another Middle Eastern location.

RELATED: Not again: British cops arrest another white victim of violence rather than minority assailant suspects

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Al-Saqar, who features in Carney’s profile picture on Facebook, is originally from Jordan and apparently has contacts in Syria and Turkey. He reportedly launched an asylum bid in Ireland after arriving there in 2024.

According to Extra.ie, while asylum-seekers must surrender their passports to the International Protection Office at the time of making their applications, Irish authorities gave Al-Saqar his passport back because he had been granted subsidiary protection — status given to someone who doesn’t qualify as a refugee but would supposedly face “serious” harm if sent back to his home country.

A police source told the Irish Times that the suspect was not only known to Carney but regularly stayed at her home. Their apparent 18-month romantic relationship complicates the investigation because if ultimately questioned, he could explain away his DNA on the premises.

According to the Irish Sun, Carney and Al-Saqar are believed to have met at an anti-war protest. Carney had “Free Palestine” and “Fk Ice” in her Facebook bio.

In a recent social media post, Al-Saqar reportedly referred to the American mother as “my bride and my princess.”

Al-Saqar was seen with Carney on Sunday and Monday, reported the Irish Independent.

The U.S. State Department told Newsweek that the agency has provided consular assistance to Carney’s family.

“The Trump administration has no higher priority than the safety and security of Americans,” said a State Department spokesperson. “We offer our sincerest condolences to the family and loved ones on their loss.”

A big concern for the Irish police is presently the possibility of American political figures on the right “stirring tensions in the Republic,” reported the Times.

This concern was echoed by Ryan Fox, a cousin of Carney, who told Irish state media that he didn’t want her death to become “some kind of martyrdom or some kind of political cause.”

“Do not use this to become bigoted or racist or prejudiced in any way. Bad people are in every group, and it is not the people who look like them who deserve to be blamed,” said Fox.

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Friday is the final day of the preliminary hearing to determine whether there is enough probable cause to bind Tyler Robinson over for trial in the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Thursday, day four, was an absolute bombshell for the prosecution, as Lance Twiggs, Robinson’s trans-identifying gay lover, admitted that the individual seen on surveillance footage did “look like Tyler Robinson.”

Twiggs also told the court that the day after Kirk’s murder, Robinson returned to their apartment, cried, “and said he wishes he hadn’t done it.”

Tune in for Day 5 below:

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Mark Zuckerberg has spent over 20 years building the Facebook brand, but it could all come to an end in one fell swoop.

Parent company Meta used words like “outlandish” and argued there was no historical precedent for its proposed punishment in recent legal filings for a lawsuit that could completely wipe out the company.

‘A sanction of that size has no analog in the history of consumer protection enforcement.’

Twenty-nine states are currently engaged in a lawsuit against Meta that accuses the company of violating child privacy laws that bar the collection of data from underage users.

The online company is facing court battles from almost every cardinal direction, but four particular states are threatening Meta with penalties of $1.4 trillion, which nearly equals its entire valuation; according to Yahoo Finance, Meta’s market cap is $1.48 trillion.

Meta responded to the sum in documents from the case in California, saying the “sheer magnitude” of the demands from the attorneys general “offends constitutional and ethical limits.”

“In just a single one of their ‘Remedy Chart’ calculations, the AGs seek over one trillion dollars in penalties and disgorgement, and they then layer on various other double-counting charts,” Meta wrote.

The massive sum comes from the AGs in California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey, who reportedly came up with the figure by estimating every under-13 user in each state that could have been affected by Meta’s policies.

“Each of these charts applies the maximum statutory penalty to every teen and purported under-13 user and every monthly instance of time spent at certain arbitrarily-selected thresholds,” Meta claimed.

Meta argued, “A sanction of that size has no analog in the history of consumer protection enforcement. Indeed, the Federal Trade Commission recently described a ‘$1 billion penalty’ as ‘the largest ever in a case involving an FTC rule violation.”

RELATED: New Senate bill punishes chilling of online speech — if it passes

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Meta further argued that the demands made were in “gross disproportion” to the alleged violations, and are “unsubstantiated” and “outlandish.”

The defense went on, calling the trillion-dollar figure a “construct of lawyers” that counts the same individuals “many times over.”

The aforementioned jurisdictions are also looking to pin claims of misleading the public on Meta, which they say “prioritized profits over the safety of kids.”

A spokesperson for the California attorney general’s office told the New York Post that Meta helped fuel the mental health crisis that is “impacting a generation of American children.”

“The California Department of Justice looks forward to holding Meta fully accountable at trial in August,” the spokesperson added. The two sides will meet in court on August 18 in Oakland, California.

RELATED: Meta had 17-STRIKE policy for sex traffickers, ex-employee says

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Another parallel claim Meta is battling accuses the company of being aware of the harm its platforms can cause.

A former employee alleged that Meta stopped internal research that would have shown that ceasing use of Facebook saw users become less depressed or anxious. Blaze News reported on this portion of the lawsuit in November, which allegedly included a study called Project Mercury.

Project Mercury was allegedly initiated in 2019 to “explore the impact” of Meta apps and how they can affect “polarization, news consumption, well-being, and daily social interactions.”

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Taylor Sheridan is the undisputed king of modern TV.

“Yellowstone.” “Tulsa King.” “Landman.” “Dutton Ranch.” “The Madison.” “1923.”

What, is Willy gender fluid this time around?

He’s prolific and popular, drawing the biggest names to his shows. Think Billy Bob Thornton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, and Kevin Costner.

He just can’t buy himself an Emmy. The mega-producer got shut out, again, this week while Stephen Colbert’s canceled “Late Show” earned a record nine nominations. Could it have something to do with Sheridan’s embrace of heartland stories and Colbert’s failed war against a certain president?

Forget about it, Taylor. It’s Hollywood town …

‘Moana’ lost at sea

Let’s give Dwayne Johnson credit. He’s no Rachel Zegler (or Milly Alcock, for that matter). Those stars hurt their respective films (“Snow White” and “Supergirl”) with their disastrous press interviews.

Johnson knows better. He’s generally positive, and after he stepped on a banana peel by endorsing Joe Biden, Johnson announced he’s steering clear of politics.

Smart.

Yet his newest Disney venture, a live-action “Moana,” looks like another blockbuster dud. The film could earn as little as $40 million in its opening weekend, a fine haul for most movies but not an expensive Disney romp.

We can smell what the Rock is cooking, and it might be another “Baywatch” …

#OscarsSoWhat?

Are we heading toward #OscarsSoWhite: the sequel? A new report reveals interesting data points regarding “representation” within the industry. Never mind that said diversity measures never include Christians, conservatives, or gasp, Christian conservatives.

We’ll set that on a shelf for now.

Those Emmy nominations indicate diminishing DEI. TheWrap.com reports that “representation for actors of color at the 2026 Emmys continued to decline sharply, with only 18 performers from Asian, black. and Latino communities represented among the 91 nominees.”

That’s down from last year, when 24 of the 92 nominees were “POCs.”

How do we even know this? It’s simple: Entertainment news outlets like far-left TheWrap.com pore over every award nomination list looking for the slightest insinuation of bias.

Kevin Sorbo, canceled by the industry for being a Christian conservative, couldn’t be reached for comment …

RELATED: ‘Landman’: Is Taylor Sheridan’s gritty oil drama the last honest show about America?

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Save the whale

What’s the one word that sets a movie lover’s teeth on edge? “Reimagining.” Yes, it’s happening, again, and the victim this time is a poor, innocent whale.

“Free Willy,” the 1993 charmer, is heading back to captivity. And naturally, the folks behind the project aren’t settling for a mere “remake” … or even “reboot.”

No, they used the other “R” word, or at least the Hollywood Reporter used it twice in the story tied to the new version of the classic, feel-good flick. What, is Willy gender fluid this time around?

Why change what isn’t broken? The original film spawned two sequels and an animated series. Now, this.

Keiko the whale deserves better.

‘Ghostbusters’ helmer gets ‘Detention’

“Bridesmaids” director Paul Feig is directing his first horror movie.

Or second, if you count his “Ghostbusters” reboot. That high-profile flop may have been light on scares — or laughs, for that matter — but it was certainly a nightmare for Sony. As well as for anyone who managed to sit through it.

Should we expect another cinematic atrocity?

His recent action-comedy “Jackpot” would seem to suggest we should. That Prime Video original went bust as one of the worst movies of 2024.

Or any year, really.

But let’s not forget that Feig has fought his way out of director’s jail before — by helming “A Simple Favor” and its 2025 straight-to-video sequel, plus last year’s surprise hit “The Housemaid” with Sydney Sweeney.

Now, Feig is teaming with horror maven Jason Blum to direct “Detention.” Literally nothing is known about the project for now — except that Feig expects to go “darker” than ever before.

Let’s hope that refers to the story — and the mood of innocent moviegoers after wasting two hours …

Sheen settles

We wouldn’t call this “winning.” Not even close.

Troubled actor Charlie Sheen has agreed to pay ex-wife Brooke Mueller $500,000 in back child support. The move means the former couple won’t have to litigate the matter in court. That’s probably wise, but skimping out on child support is terrible, period.

Sheen has seemingly cleaned up his life, apologized for his manic “tiger blood” phase, and opened up via his 2025 autobiography “The Book of Sheen.”

Let’s hope this ends up being one of the last vestiges of his chaotic bad-boy phase.

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Singer Olivia Rodrigo says her upcoming all-female music festival is dedicated to “advancing and advocating for women and girls.”

Strangely, this seems to mostly translate to donating money to pro-abortion and race-based advocacy groups.

‘I’ve had a dream of doing this festival for years.’

Dream theater

Rodrigo made headlines more than two years ago when she partnered with a national abortion network to give out emergency contraceptives — the morning-after pill — to concert attendees on her tour. After the story made the rounds, Rodrigo’s publicity team put a stop to it and asked the group to cease handing out its packages that included two boxes of the pills and promotional codes that linked to an abortion fund.

Now, the 23-year-old has taken things a step further by hosting her own music festival to promote “meaningful change.”

“Truly never felt more excited to share a piece of news with you all,” Rodrigo wrote on X. “I’ve had a dream of doing this festival for years and i am so ecstatic its finally coming true!!”

The singer noted that “100 percent of the net proceeds will go to charities dedicated to advancing and advocating for women and girls.”

These organizations include abortion clinic Planned Parenthood as well as several other abortion advocacy groups.

Other partners featured are the Center for Reproductive Rights and the National Institute for Reproductive Health, which says it is invested in the “fight” to “expand access to abortion and contraception and advance health equity.”

RELATED: Abortion promoters told to stop handing out morning-after pills at Olivia Rodrigo concerts due to the presence of children

Immigrant song

Race-centric advocacy groups are also getting support, including the Black Mamas Matter Alliance and the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health.

Another partner, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, notes that while it supports domestic workers, the women they back are “mostly women of color [and] immigrants” as well as “mothers and low-wage workers.”

The company also has a directive dedicated to “black domestic workers,” with the title “We Dream in Black.”

The upcoming music festival takes place in August in Irvine, California, featuring artists like Doechii, Chappell Roan, and Sarah McLachlan and Stevie Nicks as special guests.

Outlet Young Hollywood described the festival as a way to “bring women together,” while creating a “safe and welcoming space” that will support “queer and female communities by donating profits to charities focused on social justice and helping women.”

RELATED: ‘I’m really excited’: Pop star Olivia Rodrigo gives out morning-after pills at concerts for ‘reproductive health freedom’

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Vaxxin’ and relaxin’

In 2021, Rodrigo visited President Joe Biden at the White House to promote COVID-19 vaccination among American youth, with the president claiming it was of the utmost importance for those ages 16 to 25 to get vaccinated.

At the time, Rodrigo said she was “beyond honored and humbled” to “help spread the message about the importance of youth vaccinations.”

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More than 75 years after Joseph McCarthy delivered one of his most controversial warnings, BlazeTV host Steve Deace believes history is proving him right.

In a 1950 speech, McCarthy drew a distinction between everyday Democratic voters and what he described as a small faction of communist-influenced operatives steering the party from within.

“There are definitely two groups of Democrats as of today,” McCarthy began. “Number one, there are the millions of loyal Americans who have voted the Democrat tickets. Individuals who are just as loyal, who hate communism just as much and love America just as much as the average Republican.”

“On the other hand, there is that small, closely knit group of administration Democrats who are now the complete prisoners and under the complete domination of the bureaucratic communistic Frankenstein, which they themselves have created,” he continued.

“To call them Democrats is an insult to the millions of loyal American Democrats. They shouldn’t be called Democrats.They should be referred to properly as the Commie-crat Party,” he added.

“Joseph McCarthy wasn’t wrong. He was just early,” Deace says after listening to McCarthy’s warning.

“Absolutely, he was right. And essentially what he’s saying in that clip is that not all Democrats are communists, but all communists are Democrats, which is something that for the last 15, 20 years that you’ve been on the air, Steve, you could have said every day that ends in ‘y’ and twice on Sundays,” Aaron McIntire agrees.

“I don’t really know how much clearer it could be at this point, because … not only are they out of the shadows, they are loud and proud about it at this point,” he says, pointing out that they call themselves “socialists” to soften what they stand for.

“They want to call themselves ‘those who stand in solidarity’ like that moron from New York said, ‘Solidarity means abolishing ICE,’” he continues, adding, “They want to cloak themselves in a lot of euphemisms, but at the heart of it, they are communists. So he was right on the money, just ahead of his time.”

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Eight months after federal officials destroyed more than 300 ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, British Columbia, the property remains under quarantine, with owners saying they still have no clear timeline for when they’ll be allowed to reopen.

Katie Pasitney, daughter of farm co-owner Karen Espersen, says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has prevented the family from cleaning up the property while citing an ongoing “fallow period,” intended to allow any remaining H5N1 virus in the environment to naturally become inactive, as the reason the quarantine remains in place.

‘They continue down this anti-science avenue, which is destroying the credibility of the CFIA internationally.’

No reprieve

The ongoing restrictions come months after the CFIA ordered the destruction of the farm’s ostriches following an outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza. The owners fought the order through the courts, ultimately losing their final appeal when the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear the case. The CFIA has maintained that culling infected poultry is required under Canada’s disease-control protocols to limit the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza.

Pasitney recently joined former Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz for an interview to discuss the continuing fallout from the cull and what she says are unanswered questions about the government’s handling of the farm.

‘The Ostrich Con’

Following the cull, CBC news program “The Fifth Estate” approached Pasitney about participating in a documentary on the controversy surrounding Universal Ostrich Farms. She says she and her mother initially declined but ultimately agreed after producers indicated the program would proceed with or without them.

“We have nothing to hide,” Pasitney says she thought at the time. “We have everything to show, and we’re going to answer the hard questions.”

It wasn’t until the documentary aired that Pasitney learned the CBC had titled it “The Ostrich Con.” She says the title immediately told her how the broadcaster had chosen to frame the story.

“The only con that was happening here was the Canadian Food Inspection Agency … trying to blindfold the public, saying, ‘This is a virus, this is a virus,'” she said. “We were not the con.”

Pasitney says she was also disappointed that key portions of her interview did not appear in the finished program.

She says CBC reporter Mark Kelley asked whether she was embarrassed to seek support from Americans, including U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“I said, ‘If our country would have listened, and we would have had any true leadership that would have taken the time to understand what we were trying to fight for, I wouldn’t have had to go out of country,'” she said.

Her response, she says, did not make the final cut.

Ongoing damage

Pasitney says the most frustrating aspect of the ordeal is that the CFIA has not returned to conduct further testing while continuing to prevent the family from restoring the property.

“They have not been on our farm since [the cull],” she said. “There has been no more testing.”

If the agency believes the virus remains a concern, she argues, it should be testing the soil, water, and surrounding environment rather than simply extending the quarantine.

Pasitney says the impact extends far beyond the financial loss of the birds.

“When your animals are destroyed and the damage is done, it doesn’t just end in our fields, and it doesn’t end in our barns, and it doesn’t end in our pastures. It follows into our homes,” she said, calling it “generational trauma.”

She worries the episode has permanently damaged public confidence in government institutions.

“The generations that are watching this are learning not to trust our government,” she said. “They’re learning not to trust our RCMP.”

RELATED: Massacre at Universal Ostrich Farms: Canada kills hundreds of birds despite no evidence of avian flu

Universal Ostrich Farms

‘The antithesis of science’

Ritz, who served as Canada’s agriculture minister under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper from 2007 to 2015, said he finds the continuing quarantine difficult to justify.

“The whole mandate of CFIA is one based on science. It is to support food safety and trade corridors,” he said.

He argued that the agency has moved well beyond that mission in its handling of Universal Ostrich Farms, later describing what he called the “egregious behavior” of CFIA “thugs.”

“I can’t, for the life of me, understand the powers that be allowing this to happen,” he said. “We’ve got a rogue element within CFIA. There’s still some really good people there.”

Ritz said he knows current CFIA President Dr. Harpreet Kochhar from his time in government and pledged to contact him regarding the ongoing quarantine.

He also questioned the agency’s use of a “fallow period” while simultaneously preventing the farm from cleaning the property.

“What you guys wanted to do was clean up … and actually extend that containment,” Ritz told Pasitney during the interview.

“They’re not allowing you to do that. That, to me, is the … antithesis of science.”

‘No containment’

Ritz also questioned the agency’s public statements regarding the disposal of the birds.

“There’s no containment,” he said. “We saw that when they hauled the birds away. There was no containment. They sat in yards in Surrey and rotted on the spot. It was just heartbreaking to see that go on. And they continue down this anti-science avenue, which is destroying the credibility of CFIA internationally.”

The CFIA did not respond to written questions asking when the quarantine will be lifted, what scientific criteria must be met before it ends, and why the agency did not remove spent cartridges, blood-soaked hay, and other debris that remained on the property following the cull.

For Pasitney, however, the central question remains unanswered.

Eight months after the cull, she says her family members are still waiting to learn when they will be allowed to begin putting the farm — and their lives — back together.

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Rupert Lowe, the Restore Britain leader who unveiled the stomach-churning “Rape Gang Inquiry Report” last month, spoke to podcaster Joe Rogan in an interview released on Wednesday about the mass rape of young white girls in the United Kingdom by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs.

Lowe also highlighted the U.K.’s problem with parallel Islamic legal systems operating in the U.K. and their apparent tolerance by British authorities who are sensitive to the “Muslim bloc vote.”

‘They will all be banned on day one.’

Afzal Khan, a Pakistan-born Labour member of parliament who previously served as parliamentary chair for the Labour Muslim Network, melted down publicly over this illuminating interview.

Rather than engage with Lowe’s commentary, Khan sought the regulation and possible punishment of his colleague’s free speech by submitting a complaint to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, which is responsible for investigating alleged breaches of House of Commons Code of Conduct and Registers.

Khan wrote in a Thursday letter to Commissioner Daniel Greenberg that “on 8th July, Rupert Lowe MP appeared on ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ podcast, in which he claimed that parallel Sharia courts are tolerated within the U.K. judicial system. This is not only a flagrant lie but is deeply inflammatory and fuels Islamophobia.”

RELATED: ‘Rape of Britain’ ignored because of the Muslim vote, UK lawmaker tells Joe Rogan

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While the British government officially rejects the idea that Sharia law and Sharia councils have any legal authority in the isles, lawmakers have for years expressed concerns that the councils are forming a parallel legal system.

According to a 2019 parliamentary brief, Sharia courts have existed in the United Kingdom since the 1980s. By 2012, there were at least 30 major Sharia courts in England. According to a 2018 independent review commissioned by the Home Office, the number of Sharia courts in England and Wales is as high as 85.

The 2018 review found that many Muslims couples were not civilly registering their marriages with the appropriate authorities and were therefore reliant on this parallel legal system for resolving marital disputes and securing religious divorces.

The report also found that these Islamic courts engaged in discriminatory practices and that some of the councils inappropriately questioned women, pressured individuals into making financial concessions to obtain a divorce, and in some cases failed to refer domestic violence or child abuse to the police or real courts.

Despite identifying various problems with the parallel legal system, the report effectively recommended tolerance, stating, “We consider the closure of Sharia councils is not a viable option.”

Khan — who recognized in his letter that Sharia councils exist in the U.K. and that they adjudicate religious divorces and “may also give verdicts on other aspects of day-to-day life for Muslims” — made clear that he resents more than just Lowe’s remarks about the Sharia court system.

The Pakistani native complained to the commissioner that the “Rape Gang Inquiry Report” commissioned by Lowe claimed “that ‘Muslim’ gangs are to blame for child sexual abuse in Britain” and “that ‘at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture’ primarily by Pakistani Muslim men since mass immigration began in the 1950s.”

Khan suggested that such claims were unfounded and were “Islamophobic.”

RELATED: ‘Beyond evil’: Nightmarish report reveals full scale of mass Islamic rapes of ‘250,000’ white British girls

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After leaning on an Al Jazeera commentator’s characterization of Lowe as a neo-Nazi, Khan returned to the matter at hand, claiming that Lowe’s appearance on Rogan’s podcast was “extremely problematic” — especially since Rogan previously “failed to counter [Vice President JD] Vance’s ‘sort of joke’ that the U.K. is heading towards being ‘the first Islamist country with nuclear weapons.'”

‘These are barbaric, medieval and backward Islamic practices that have no place in our country.’

Khan closed his complaint by suggesting his Oxford-born colleague’s “words and actions create a hostile working environment, particularly for Muslim MPs,” and that Lowe’s supposed “rampant racism” warrants an investigation.

Lowe responded to Khan on Friday by sardonically thanking Khan for reporting him to the parliamentary authorities over his appearance on Rogan’s show, the rape gang inquiry, and his criticism of Sharia courts, the burqa, and halal slaughter.

The Englishman claimed that “these are barbaric, medieval and backward Islamic practices that have no place in our country. When Restore Britain gains power, they will all be banned on day one. It will be glorious.”

In addition to forwarding the report and Restore Britain’s mass deportation plan to Khan, Lowe told the Pakistani native, “If you have an issue with my politics — please come directly to me for an adult discussion, rather than running to the authorities in an attempt to censor my views which are held by a large majority of the British complaint.”

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A former high school counselor in North Carolina is facing serious charges after she allegedly sent sexual content to multiple teens, police said.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that 37-year-old Lesli Bryant turned herself in to authorities at the magistrate’s office on July 2, one day after she was charged with two counts of indecent liberties with students and one count of sexual exploitation of a minor.

‘It is a felony under NC law for a school employee to engage in sexual activities with a student.’

North Carolina law states that indecent liberties with students is a felony charge:

If a defendant, who is a teacher, school administrator, student teacher, school safety officer, or coach, at any age, or who is other school personnel and is at least four years older than the victim, takes indecent liberties with a victim who is a student, at any time during or after the time the defendant and victim were present together in the same school but before the victim ceases to be a student, the defendant is guilty of a Class G felony, unless the conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing for greater punishment.

A Class G felony is punishable by 10 to 31 months in prison.

Bryant posted a $50,000 secured bond.

WRAL-TV reported that a judge ordered her to have no contact with two alleged victims and to be restricted from entering Orange County Schools property.

The sheriff’s office noted that Bryant resigned from her counselor job at Orange High School on June 12.

A school system spokesperson told the Raleigh News & Observer that Bryant resigned after the district suspended her with pay.

Bryant is not listed in the staff directory for Orange High School or on the website for Orange County Schools.

Police said, “After school administrators notified a school resource officer of allegations of misconduct by Bryant with multiple students, deputies opened an investigation.”

The Raleigh News & Observer obtained the police report that said a teacher notified school administrators about “a possible student-teacher relationship” after a student informed them that Bryant was sending nude photos to another student.

The assistant principal of Orange High School alerted a school resource officer of the allegations on June 4, according to police.

WRAL obtained the arrest warrant stating that Bryant was using the Snapchat app to send nude photos and videos with sexual content.

Bryant, of Hillsborough, asked three teens to send her nude photos of themselves, court documents stated.

The Raleigh News & Observer reported that Bryant at least once allegedly convinced a minor student to send her a nude photo of himself.

A sheriff’s deputy wrote in a supplemental report obtained by the Raleigh News & Observer, “During the process of examining the Snapchat search warrants, it was observed that Lesli had distributed illicit material to at least three different males outside of the victims discussed in this case.”

The officer added, “It should be noted that of these males in question, they appeared to be younger adult males.”

“The situation created by these events brought to light that Lesli was abusing her position within the school to create inappropriate relationships with both current and former students,” according to the supplemental report.

Prosecutors said the alleged incidents began in November 2025 and were as recent as April 2026, and the involved teens were ages 17 and 18 at the time.

RELATED: Video allegedly shows female HS teacher wearing ‘Jesus Loves You’ shirt while having sex with student: Warrants

The North Carolina School Boards Association previously released a guide titled: “Boundary Invasions and Sexual Grooming: What Every School Employee Must Know About Avoiding Inappropriate Staff-Student Relationships.”

“It is a felony under N.C. law for a school employee to engage in sexual activities with a student,” the guide warns. “Consent is not a defense.”

“Sexual misconduct/sexual harassment is a violation of the Code of Ethics and the Standards of Professional Conduct for North Carolina Educators,” the guide reads.

The guide also points out that federal law forbids school systems from assisting any school employee who is convicted of sexual misconduct with a minor in finding another job.

The New York Post reported that Bryant is married with two children.

Police said the investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Orange County Sheriff’s Office investigator C. Tapp at 919-245-2964.

Bryant is scheduled to appear in court on July 20.

Neither the Orange County Sheriff’s Office nor Orange County Schools immediately responded to Blaze News‘ requests for comment.

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The battle over digital money is one of the most important financial fights happening in Washington today — and chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Michael Selig is sounding the alarm.

“We saw the crackdown under the Biden administration, all the de-banking and the attacks really on the crypto industry, and Bitcoin’s continued to survive and thrive. And of course, it’s been volatile, but it’s held up as a decentralized currency,” Selig tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck.

“It’s something that is censorship-resistant, something that the government can’t confiscate,” he adds.

“Are we passing anything that’s saying that cryptocurrency can never become a central bank digital currency? Are you concerned about that at all?” Glenn asks.

“I’m very concerned about central bank digital currencies, and we in the Trump administration have been very clear that that’s not going to happen under our watch,” Selig answers, noting that the president even put out an executive order in January of last year that prohibits central bank digital currencies.

“We put out a report that I was part of on the president’s working group on digital assets that specifically states that it is a policy of this administration to prevent a central bank digital currency from coming to fruition,” he explains.

“But of course, the prior administration was pushing that, and we had to withdraw some of their actions on them,” he adds.

“Is there anybody in Congress — I mean, is there any way to get this passed before this president leaves office?” Glenn asks.

“Well, that’s our concern,” Selig says. “We want things to be future-proof. We need to make sure that a central bank digital currency is never possible, and legislation is the most important and future-proof thing in Washington.”

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Over the Fourth of July weekend, a soccer coach was killed in Minneapolis, a young man was shot and left fighting for his life, and a 300-person gathering broke into gunfire in northeast Minneapolis two hours after police had already broken it up once, according to police.

Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher says it all traces back to a Somali gang problem that barely existed three years ago and now spans the metro.

‘Great kids.’

The numbers are stark. According to Fletcher, there have been 14 Somali homicides and more than 100 gang-related shootings in the last two years, across roughly a dozen gangs. One Minneapolis officer told Fletcher 20% of Minneapolis homicides are now tied to Somali gangs.

Fletcher is careful to scope it though: Out of roughly 100,000 Somalis in Minnesota, only about 300 young people are actually involved in gangs, and 97% of Somali youth are, in his words, “great kids.” But he warns that 300 could grow to 900 without intervention.

Investigators say it isn’t drug turf or cash driving the gang growth — the gangs haven’t moved into heavy trafficking. It’s status, flexed for an audience — stunts at graduations and the State Fair, posted on social media, with weapons increasingly fitted with switches that make them fully automatic. Kids as young as 12 are reportedly out until 1 or 2 a.m. with no one tracking where they are.

“It’s all about showboating. It’s all about ego for 99% of it,” said Benjamin Seidl, an investigator with the sheriff’s office.

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The July 4 weekend itself, which police call their busiest weekend of the year, was unusually violent even by Minneapolis standards — one dead, four injured overnight Saturday into Sunday. Alpha News counted a half-dozen more shootings and assaults within hours, plus fatal violence in the suburbs.

Minneapolis City Council Member Jamal Osman — “the first Somali-American council vice president in Minneapolis history,” according to his bio — said he was “dismayed and deeply disappointed” by Fletcher’s remarks, arguing Somali youth deserve investment and dignity, not a talking point. Fletcher, who’s worked in the Somali community since 2010, has stood by the message.

A community meeting is scheduled for July 21 at the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office patrol station in Arden Hills.

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