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New York Post
5 days ago
- Sport
- New York Post
Baseball won't win any converts with this nonsense like this
American sports fans, long played for stupid, have been decades ahead of the curve. Or, is it a sweeper? We've been bombarded with artificial intelligence since WAR was good for absolutely nuthin'. Good gawd, say it again, y'all! This past week began with two-time drug cheat, shameless liar and ESPN and Fox fan- and sport-degrading failed audience bait Alex Rodriguez, on Fox, demanding of the latest ill-prepared, somnolent Yankees, 'Where is the accountability?' Advertisement That's Al Capone denying his bootleg booze to bar owners who haven't paid their taxes. On Sunday on YES, Michael Kay reported that the weekend Yanks at Marlins series had drawn exceptionally well. Fine. But then he added, 'This is why teams like interleague games.'
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Business Standard
27-07-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
One nation, one KYC: Sebi shows the way, other regulators should follow
Other regulators should follow Sebi's lead in explicitly stating that once a client completes KYC with one intermediary, they shouldn't have to repeat the process with another Harsh Roongta Listen to This Article It wasn't a shootout or a sting operation that brought down Al Capone. It was a ledger. In The Untouchables (1987), a bespectacled accountant in Eliot Ness's squad suggests prosecuting Capone not for bootlegging or murder, but for failing to file tax returns. Ness (played by Kevin Costner) initially scoffs—Capone had outmanoeuvred every case by eliminating witnesses. But the money trail didn't lie. Records of undeclared income led to Capone's 1932 conviction for tax evasion and over a decade in prison. (Al Capone was a real-life American mafia boss active in the 1920s and 1930s.) That's the power of a
Daily Mirror
27-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
'I explored city full of infamous crime scenes, landmarks and mobster hangouts'
The Windy City has iconic pizza, ties to blockbuster films and an infamous history of crime and mob funerals - and British Airways offers direct flights With its blockbuster movie skyline, fabulous food options and notorious crime history, Chicago has plenty to enthrall curious city-breakers. And there's every type of tour led by clued-up locals to whisk time-pressed travellers straight to the best bits. Fancy sampling the best deep-dish Chicago pizza? Want to see the church where mob funerals took place? How about gazing at one of the world's most diverse and shapeshifting skylines while cruising the Chicago River? Be it by bike, bus, boat or on foot, there are routes carefully crafted by experts and insiders to let the Windy City blow visitors away with the stories of the people who put it on the map. USA travel warning for Brits as major change to tourism visas set to take force Abandoned 'ghost town in the sky' with 1,050m high rollercoaster and creepy empty saloons Chicago is one giant eating adventure with endless famous foods to tick off. With limited time to seek out the prize picks, I took the Tacos and Tequila street-food tour of Pilsen, one of Chicago's most colourful and culturally rich neighbourhoods. The three-hour tour, run by Chicago Food Tours Company and led by a local guide, spreads out across 1.5 miles taking in the very best Mexican drinks and dishes. For £60 you'll get to make your own tamales – spicy fillings wrapped in corn dough – sample steak tacos, Mexican pork and the most irresistible churros dipped in icing sugar and chocolate, all while admiring the many murals inspired by Mexican culture in the neighbourhood. You'll also get the all-important lowdown on the best spots to sip margarita cocktails. My kind of town… I also couldn't resist delving into its dark underworld with Chicago Crime Tours. The two-hour, £30, bus tour takes you to some of the most infamous crime scenes, landmarks and mobster hangouts, including the site of the Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929. Plus you'll get to hear the true crime stories of Al Capone, The Untouchables, Frank 'The Enforcer' Nitti, and the Prohibition era along the way. If you fancy seeing the sights on two wheels, as well as loading up on food and drink, book on to the Bikes, Bites and Brews tour with Bobby's Bike Hire. Working up an appetite is not a problem on this four-and-a-half-hour tour which stretches through the popular neighbourhoods of Streeterville, the Gold Coast, Lake View, Wrigleyville and Lincoln Park. Between riding through the very bike-friendly streets, you'll stop off for Chicago's signature deep-dish pizza at Lou Malnati's. Lou got his start in the 1940s working in Chicago's first deep-dish pizzeria. He then took his pizza expertise to Lincolnwood, a northern suburb of Chicago, where he and his wife Jean opened the first Lou Malnati's Pizzeria in 1971. Hot dogs Chicago-style at Wrigleyville Dogs are served with seven toppings of yellow mustard, chopped white onions, sweet pickle relish, usually neon green, tomato slices, dill pickle spear, pickled sport peppers and celery salt and come with – shock-horror – no ketchup! The tour also took in some of the finest cupcakes in the area at Molly's – try the creme brulee or blueberry cheesecake ones. It then finished with samples of the very refreshing and Chicago-brewed Goose Island beer. After 13 miles on two wheels, I felt like I'd earned every mouthful. Cruising the Chicago River has to be the most chilled way to take in the city. Chicago's First Lady Architecture Cruise is a 90-minute boat tour with commentary from knowledgeable guides. You'll hear compelling accounts of Chicago's architectural styles from Art Deco masterpieces and hulking Brutalist buildings to sleek glass towers, and of the legendary figures who designed them. Sailing all three branches of the Chicago River, you'll get to see dozens of the buildings including the neo-gothic Tribune Tower and the 65-storey cylindrical towers of Brutalist Marina City. You also get to learn about the Chicago fire of 1871 and how the city rose, quite literally, from the ashes. Sitting on the shores of Lake Michigan, America's third biggest city looks spectacular from every angle. But you can have your own Ferris Bueller moment enjoying the view from The Willis Tower observation deck, Skydeck. Sitting on the 103rd floor, and 1,353ft above ground level, for £23 you are whisked to the top to take in the vista which spans 50 miles across four states – native Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan, on a clear day. Don't despair if it's cloudy. As the locals say: if you don't like the weather in Chicago, wait an hour. For some extra guidance, download the CityPass app – it lists all the top attractions and you can buy tickets and keep them all in one place too. Meanwhile, spectator sports in Chicago, including American football, basketball, baseball and ice hockey, provide a thrilling way to see the city and mingle with their fan base. If you're just flying in for a few days, you'll want a hotel close to the action. I stayed at the L7 Lotte Hotel, a brand new Korean-inspired hotel overlooking the Chicago River in downtown Loop, so very convenient for the Magnificent Mile district, Millennium Park, Art Institute of Chicago and Navy Pier. In the bedrooms, sage walls set off contemporary artworks, funky retro headboards and lamps. Some rooms come with built-in window seats to admire the views – all have all-natural Apotheke toiletries, Nespresso machines and access to the 24-hour fitness centre. The hotel is also home to Perilla, a Korean steak restaurant, renowned for its theatrical table-side grills performed by chefs, which make for a truly memorable meal. Chicago has a long history of performing close-up magic at restaurant tables and behind bars, with a few jokes and tall tales thrown in while the drinks flow. At the Chicago Magic Lounge, you can experience this easy-going style of trickery, becoming part of the fun yourself entering through a secret laundry side-door to the part-speakeasy, part-magic theatre. Decorated in Art Deco style, with velvet curtains and gold trims, the bar serves up everything from classic highballs to cocktails like the Magic Bean Martini and How Houdini Died, while magicians perform miracles using coins, cards and anything the audience might have on them. Fast, funny, and utterly absorbing, it's an evening that will leave you spellbound and wondering. Chicago may be considered America's second city, but the appeal of the place that gave the world the skyscraper continues to soar. Book the holiday
Spectator
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Spectator
The pointlessness of ‘smashing the gangs'
'Smash the gangs' is the fascinating slogan that Keir Starmer's government has settled on for tackling illegal migration. What is the government going to do to stop the hundreds – sometimes thousands – of people sailing across the Channel and coming into England each day? 'We will smash the gangs,' they say. The slogan is interesting for reasons beyond the tough-guy rhetoric. For it suggests, of course, that it is people-smuggling gangs that are the main problem. Perhaps our government sees them as being like press gangs back in the day, roaming around northern France, waylaying passing migrants and forcing them on to rubber dinghies to begin a new life in Britain. Or perhaps they see them as being like Al Capone's or some other mobster's gang: impossible to know how to snare until law enforcement, ever vigilant, finally catches the syndicate slipping up and visibly breaking the law. While the eunuchs at Westminster continue this game, the results of their failure get felt elsewhere. Take Epping in Essex. Until recently, The Bell Hotel in Epping was simply a three-star hotel with a pleasant-looking breakfast buffet. Today it is a 'migrant hotel' – one of the many hotels in this country that taxpayers in our munificence have decided to block-book. Not for ourselves, of course – if you have always worked hard, played by the rules and paid your taxes then you will have to book and pay for your own hotel room should you wish to visit Epping. But if you are a victim of the smuggling gangs then a long stay at a three-star hotel will be yours as part of the welcome package. All part of that brilliant and tough plan to 'smash the gangs'. Unfortunately The Bell has become a bit of an epicentre in recent days. That is because one of the many recent arrivals in the area – bussed in so as to disperse illegal migrants across the country – allegedly did something he shouldn't have. Specifically, a 38-year-old African asylum seeker has been charged with three counts of sexual assault. One of the charges relates to the assault of a young girl on Epping High Road. The man is accused of carrying out his alleged crimes a matter of days after arriving in this country illegally. The residents of Epping weren't thrilled to hear about this. They were particularly incensed that the authorities decided to house a lot of unaccompanied male migrants close to a school. So at the weekend hundreds turned out to protest about migrants being put up at hotels in their area. I don't know quite what such people are expected to do. On the one hand we feel great societal opprobrium over the sexual abuse of children. Yet our society simultaneously has an attitude of near-sanctification towards anyone who can claim to be an asylum seeker. They too must be regarded as victims who are so deserving of our sympathies that the rest of us should pay for them to be put up in hotels until such a time as their asylum claims can be adjudged. Or until the Home Office system loses sight of them. Whichever happens first. So there are competing values at play. The citizenry of Epping just suffered from this values show-down and decided that they were in favour of their daughters not being molested on the high street more than they were in favour of hosting illegal migrants. Some even held signs saying things like 'Send them home!' and chanted 'Protect our kids'. But no sooner had these locals turned out to protest than a number of 'anti-racism' groups turned up to protest them. These always-available activists materialised with their ready-made signs that said things like 'Refugees welcome' and 'Stop the far right'. It cannot be the case that men and women who object to foreign alleged sex offenders being put up in their hotels at the taxpayer's expense should be deemed 'anti-immigrant'. Nor can it be that parents who object to our porous borders letting in people who wait barely a week before they apparently start assaulting the locals should all be deemed 'far right'. But that is where we are. GB News contributor Adam Brooks is a local and was reporting from the scene on Sunday. As he said of the first protestors: 'These are worried mothers, worried children, there's grandmothers, fathers, uncles, grandads, and we've got an anti-racism lot that have turned up. I just cannot believe that an anti-racism mob would turn up against something like this.' Nor could a number of other locals, who proceeded to address the interlopers in unflattering terms. And for once it must be noted that the police proceeded to do a sensible thing. The 'anti-racism' protestors were escorted out of the area. On the principle that one should congratulate people when they do something right as well as castigate them when they do something wrong, the Essex constabulary should be commended. Of course, there is the obligatory duty to state that not every illegal migrant is a potential sex offender. But even if every single one proved to be a legitimate asylum seeker, doctors and dentists to a man, all immediately ready to join the NHS workforce (as the pro-migration lobby would have us believe), how long would it take for them to repay what they have already cost this country? Or to put it another way: how long will it be until the citizens of Epping feel so much benefit from the illegal crossings that they are willing to overlook the odd sex crime? Anyone know? The people-smuggling gangs are a mere fraction of the problem.
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump Curses as White House Faith Office Lunch Takes Bizarre Turn
Things got a bit awkward during the White House Faith Office luncheon on Monday. Not only did President Donald Trump curse in front of faith leaders—calling Biden-era indictments against him 'bulls--t'—he raged that he he had been investigated more than the gangster Al Capone, bragged he has 'always made money,' and incorrectly claimed gas prices are the lowest they have been in 50 years. Those topics did not appear to be part of Trump's prepared remarks. As he addressed assembled religious business leaders from the podium, he looked down occasionally at his speech but went off on tangents as he worked his way through the text. 'I've ended the radical left war on faith, and we're once again protecting religious freedom instead of destroying it, and God is once again welcomed back into our public square,' Trump said, clearly part of his prepared remarks. Trump, 79, compared himself to Capone moments later. He characterized the notorious gangster, believed to have murdered over 200 people, as 'great.' 'I was under investigation more than the late, great, Alphonse Capone,' Trump said. 'Think of it. Al Capone would kill people for dinner. If he left the room and he didn't like him, he'd have him shot, killed, buried under a building someplace, as part of the foundation of a building. They're all over the place, and I said I had more time under investigation than the legendary Alphonse Capone, or probably anybody else.' Trump then misremembered that he had been indicted four times in 2023, not five. 'The one thing I did that was very helpful, I was indicted five times. Indicted, that wasn't a word that was in—my father's looking down, my mother's looking down, that my son's not supposed to be indicted,' he said. 'I think I got indicted five times, impeached two times. All bulls--t, right? Terrible stuff.' The luncheon crowd, comprising 60 CEOs and business leaders who donate to faith-aligned charities, did not appear to mind the president's meandering, as they clapped and cheered throughout his speech as he rambled. 'Gas prices have reached the lowest level in five decades,' Trump remarked at one point. 'Actually, it's going to be, we're going to see some really good numbers where, you know, drill, baby drill, drill, baby drill. I've got to make sure that people can afford to produce the gas. ... 'But the gas has gotten to the lowest level in decades, and you're seeing $1.99 $1.98. I saw $1.95 at certain states, not California, because every time it goes down, they add taxes onto it,' Trump rambled. 'All they do is they keep adding taxes. Terrible governor, doesn't know what he's doing. He may be, he may be a candidate, but if you, if you go by success, you can't have him be a candidate.' Fox News reported that the White House luncheon is the 'first event of its kind.' The White House Faith Office was created by executive order in February. Trump grew up in a Reformed Church but rarely attends services as an adult. He has made a habit of name-dropping God since entering politics a decade ago, and he won the presidency in 2016 off the backs of Evangelical voters who later became his MAGA base.
