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Wall Street Journal
4 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
A Ruinous ‘Summer of Rage'
Mike Gonzalez's op-ed 'George Floyd's Death Almost Consumed America in Revolution' (May 24) evokes what Portlanders suffered during 100 days of Antifa and Black Lives Matter riotous mayhem. But it isn't over. Encouraged by a feckless city government that tolerated lawlessness, Portland's fiery summer of love spawned revolutionary harm still felt today. In 2020 Portland lost its former pleasant appeal and entered a doom loop cycle. It has one of the lowest office occupancy rates in the country. Skyscrapers are for sale at a fraction of their previous value. Many buildings remain boarded up and tents clutter sidewalks, while their drug-addled occupants wander around like zombies threatening bystanders. Regular pedestrian traffic has plummeted. Victimized businesses have left with few replacements in sight. All this in a city once called 'America's most liveable.'
The Sun
5 days ago
- General
- The Sun
Robert Jenrick becomes ‘bobby on the beat' as he confronts fare-dodgers on the Tube to highlight lawlessness in London
TOP Tory Robert Jenrick is a 'bobby on the beat' as he confronts fare-dodgers on the Tube. The Shadow Justice Secretary filmed himself collaring yobs who jumped barriers to highlight brazen lawlessness in London. 5 5 Marching up to freeloaders, he demands: 'Do you want to go back and pay like everybody else?' During the confrontations he is threatened and told to 'f*** off'. Mr Jenrick said: ' Sadiq Khan is driving a proud city into the ground. 'He's not acting. So, I did.' His video, viewed nearly five million times, sparked Transport for London to say 'fare evasion is unacceptable'. Last month, The Sun revealed that Jenrick had been caught plotting to unite the Tories and Reform UK in a leaked tape. The Tory MP warned that a divided Right would gift Labour a second term, vowing he's 'not prepared' to let Keir Starmer 'sail in through the middle.' The comments have fuelled fresh speculation that Mr Jenrick – who narrowly lost the leadership contest to Kemi Badenoch – could be positioning himself for another tilt at the top job. It came despite public denials from both Ms Badenoch and Reform boss Nigel Farage that any deal is on the table before the election. Keir Starmer must IGNORE judges demanding Britain gives up Chagos Islands, top Tory blasts 5 5 5
Washington Post
23-05-2025
- Washington Post
New Orleans' jail system was troubled decades before 10 inmates made an audacious escape
NEW ORLEANS — In the city that care forgot, the party had made its way into the prison. More than a decade before the recent New Orleans jailbreak , the city's lawless lockup went viral in a series of videos showing inmates chugging Budweiser, snorting drugs, gambling with handfuls of cash and ejecting bullets from a handgun.
New York Times
23-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Judges Keep Calling Trump's Actions Illegal, but Undoing Them Is Hard
President Trump has suffered a string of court losses in recent days, as federal judges ruled that his administration broke the law on a number of matters, including firing officials, shutting down organizations and deporting migrants. But if the decisions all point in the same direction — Mr. Trump and his team have acted lawlessly in egregious ways, judges emphatically said — the real-world consequences may vary. That is because even assuming all those rulings were to be upheld on appeal, some of Mr. Trump's actions would be easier to undo than others. And the slow pace of litigation means the judiciary is often many steps behind and in some cases, unable to catch up. Still, courts serve as a rare check on Mr. Trump, who has steamrolled constraints inside the executive branch, enjoys broad immunity for his official acts because of a 2024 Supreme Court ruling and, as a matter of political reality, has little reason to fear impeachment or even serious oversight inquiries by the Republican-controlled Congress. The Trump administration has responded, as it often does to court losses, by lobbing insults — calling one such ruling a 'rogue judge's attempt to impede on the separation of powers' and another the act of 'an unelected judge with a political ax to grind.' In an interview with the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, Vice President JD Vance declared, 'I know this is inflammatory, but I think you are seeing an effort by the courts to quite literally overturn the will of the American people.' The denunciations make clear that appeals are inevitable, so the story is not yet over. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Times
15-05-2025
- Times
The best home locks, doorbells and alarms to deter burglars
'It feels a bit lawless at the moment,' Jenny*, a homeowner living in an east London terrace with her partner and two children, says. There has been a spike in burglaries in her neighbourhood recently. 'Our neighbours were burgled during the day with no repercussions for the burglars, despite images of the offenders and addresses known of where they live,' she says. Just 4.3 per cent of residential burglary offences were assigned a charge/summons in England and Wales in 2023-24 (a slight increase compared with 3.9 per cent the previous year), according to the Office for National Statistics. Almost three quarters (73.3 per cent) of cases were closed owing to no suspect being identified. Burglary rates have dipped to record lows in recent years, with
