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“When you’re feeling dizzy, sit your ass down,” Richie told the crowd.

“When you’re feeling dizzy, sit your ass down,” Richie told the crowd.

"Yellowstone" co-creator Taylor Sheridan warned Joe Rogan that anti-Trump politicians defying rule of law under Trump sets a dangerous precedent.

According to the lawsuit, the girl began using Snapchat in 2021, when she was 11, without her parents’ knowledge.

EU Commissioner Claims That Ukraine Is Gaining The Upper Hand On The Battlefield, In the Air, And At Sea

Via Remix News,

Ukraine is gaining the upper hand on the battlefield, in the air and at sea, while Ukrainian drones have stopped Russia’s ground advance and are causing serious disruptions to Russian logistics, EU Commissioner for Defense and Space Policy Andrius Kubilius said on Tuesday in Brussels.

In his speech launching the European defense and security summit, the commissioner pointed out that Ukrainian drones can paralyze the supply of the Russian army up to 300 kilometers from the front lines.

According to the EU commissioner, Ukraine is no longer just a beneficiary of international subsidies, but also contributes to the protection of other countries.

Kubilius said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is reacting to Ukrainian successes with increasingly desperate attacks. He cited last week’s attack on the Kyiv monastery as an example, which he called an attack on culture, religion and civilization.

According to the commissioner, Russia continues to pose a threat to Europe’s security, and Moscow may be able to test NATO’s Article 5, which establishes collective defense. At the same time, he emphasized that Ukraine’s successes do not mean the end of the war, nor do they mean that Russia is weak.

As he said, Russia is still able to produce weapons and drones in large quantities, so Europe must prepare to strengthen its own defense capabilities.

According to Kubilius, the United States is increasingly encouraging Europe to take greater responsibility for its own security. He emphasized: “Europe must be prepared for the fact that some capabilities of the American forces may be regrouped in other regions, so European defense capacities must be urgently strengthened.”

Kubilius warned that without replenishing American strategic capabilities, Europe’s defenses and deterrent power could be weakened.

“If European countries do not fill these gaps in ability, it could be an open invitation for Russia to test the West’s resolve,” he said.

He added that the necessary resources for this can be available primarily at the national level. He reminded that based on their commitments to NATO, the member states can spend a total of around €7 trillion for defense purposes over the next ten years.

At the same time, the Commissioner stressed the need for these resources to be utilized in a coordinated manner and within a European framework.

He also emphasized that the EU should integrate Ukraine within the framework of a future defense union.

“It would be difficult to understand if we Europeans did not see it as a vital interest to integrate Ukraine’s military power into the European defence system,” he said.

He also noted that the European Commission is expected to present the first proposals for the further integration of the European defense market as early as next week, which include a detailed analysis and ideas for further steps.

Kubilius added that even this year they will propose amendments to defense procurement rules and other market regulations.

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Tyler Durden Thu, 06/25/2026 - 05:00

Air Canada passengers on board a flight that was forced to make an emergency landing at Boston Logan airport after its pilot suffered an apparent seizure said they started praying as the plane unexpectedly swerved before touching down, horrified witnesses said.

India's Imports Of Russian Oil Set For New Record High

India is set to import a record-high volume of Russian crude in June as the Hormuz crisis and the U.S. waivers on Russia’s barrels have pushed the world’s third-largest crude importer to gorge on Moscow’s oil again, OilPrice reported.

India has imported 2.6 million barrels per day (bpd) of Russian crude oil so far in June, according to preliminary vessel-tracking data from commodity analytics firm Kpler cited by Indian media.

So far this month, Russian crude has accounted for as much as 53.5% of all Indian oil imports, per the data.   

Russian crude now makes up HALF of India’s oil imports in June!
India is importing 2.66 million barrels per day of Russian oil — which is nearly 40% higher than May.
This has strengthened Russia’s position as India’s largest oil supplier.
Key Points:
• Russian oil share has… pic.twitter.com/A5zWie3U4B

— Dr. Rakesh Bansal (@iamrakeshbansal) June 22, 2026

India’s full-month imports of Russian crude are set for a record-high of 2.35 million bpd in June for any month ever, Kpler has estimated. This would exceed the previous record of 2.2 million bpd from May 2023. 

Going forward, Russian crude will remain a key source of supply for India even if the U.S. does not extend the waiver for Russian crude already loaded on tankers, analysts say. Which is odd because when viewed from the other side, the picture is a mirror image: as shown in the chart below, Russian crude oil exports to India have reportedly plunged to just 555kb/d in the last week, the lowest volume in 4 years.

In other words, there is a disconnect in the data. 

In any case, last week, as it announced the memorandum of understanding with Iran, the U.S. quietly let the waiver on Russian oil sales expire without renewing it.

“India’s imports remained strong through June, supported by continued discounts and steady refinery demand,” Sumit Ritolia, manager, modelling and refining at Kpler, told Financial Express.

“Regardless of whether the US waiver is extended, we expect India’s imports of Russian crude to remain robust, even if not at record-high levels.”

India turned en masse to Russian oil in 2022, when the U.S. and the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow due to the invasion of Ukraine. Four years later, India is a major buyer of Russia’s crude, and Russia is India’s single-largest oil supplier.

As supply from the Middle East crashes, India is also buying growing volumes of crude from West African producers Nigeria and Angola, as well as from South American producers Brazil and Venezuela.

Tyler Durden Thu, 06/25/2026 - 04:15

Rather than comment on what impact this could have on the broader Democratic Party, Blunt Rochester celebrated the wins as a whole.

A Liberian oil tanker made its way out of the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday despite threats to shipping from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and using a new route close to Oman’s shore that has been promoted by a UN maritime agency.

Rockstar's sixth game in the franchise is set to be the biggest game release of the year.

Kimmel suggested that Kirk’s suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, was a member of the "MAGA gang."

London's West End To Be Blanketed With AI Facial Recognition Cameras

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,

In the latest dystopian lunge toward a total surveillance state, the London Metropolitan Police has confirmed plans to deploy static live facial recognition cameras in the West End, including Soho and areas around major theatres and retail spots, with installation targeted for the end of this year.

Six additional areas are slated for rollout in 2027. The fixed cameras, mounted on lampposts and street furniture, will operate continuously and can be repositioned based on shifting crime patterns.

Privacy campaigners warn the move creates "digital police lineups" for innocent theatregoers and shoppers in one of Britain's busiest tourist zones, escalating a technology already used to scan millions of faces.

Police expand live facial recognition to one of Britain's most touristic areas and key crime hotspothttps://t.co/cp14lziQ1C

— GB News (@GBNEWS) June 23, 2026

The expansion fits a clear pattern of UK authorities layering physical biometric surveillance onto existing efforts to shape online narratives, restrict speech, and monitor public discourse under pretexts of safety and disinformation control.

During a six-month pilot in South London earlier this year, static cameras scanned approximately 470,000 faces, resulting in over 170 arrests, and they claim recording just one false alert. Police claim that non-matches have their biometric data deleted immediately.

Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley described the technology as "one of the most revolutionary technology advances in policing in recent years," adding "Public confidence in this is clear - around 80 per cent of Londoners support its use.

Rowley also stated the force wants "to build on our success by introducing this capability to the West End and Soho by December. The use of static cameras will help us continue cutting crime in high-footfall areas in central London."

Policing Minister Sarah Jones has backed nationwide expansion with record investment. Dee Corsi of the New West End Company welcomed a potential West End pilot, saying it offers "a significant opportunity" to tackle crime and boost public confidence.

Millions face having their faces scanned as Met Police expand the use of facial recognition to London's West End https://t.co/f8oCnM6y25

— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) June 23, 2026

Critics see something far more intrusive. Big Brother Watch's Silkie Carlo called the fixed-camera expansion "an alarming escalation of an intrusive technology which has already scanned the faces of millions of innocent Londoners."

She further stated: "Forcing people to enter a digital police lineup in the capital's busiest and most popular destinations is an affront to the idea that you should not have to identify yourself to the police if you have done nothing wrong. To see a play, you must now pay with your privacy."

?Breaking: Met Police to expand Orwellian FIXED live facial recognition cameras into London's West End by Christmas & six other areas in 2027

"Expanding the use of live facial recognition to static cameras is an alarming escalation of an intrusive technology which has already... pic.twitter.com/pSaMkJCh3D

— Big Brother Watch (@BigBrotherWatch) June 23, 2026

Jack Coulson, Head of Advocacy at Big Brother Watch, echoed the concern: "Legislation to regulate the police's use of facial recognition is expected in the Autumn. Yet the police are rushing ahead with AI monitoring of the public under their own rules. We are calling on the Met to stop this experiment until, at least, Parliament has spoken. Policing by consent is a cultural inheritance we must protect. Permanent biometric surveillance of the public square is incompatible with that ideal."

??The Government is expanding the use of Orwellian facial recognition surveillance

Here's why YOU should be worried & join the fight to #StopFacialRecognition

??Take action: https://t.co/KIFHRGsYLj pic.twitter.com/qz6a3G4EF9

— Big Brother Watch (@BigBrotherWatch) June 13, 2026

Liberty director Akiko Hart described the West End move as a "major escalation" and urged the Met to pause expansion until proper legal safeguards exist. A joint civil society push, including Article 19 and Big Brother Watch, has already written to the Home Office demanding future facial recognition laws protect privacy rather than enable unchecked state power.

?Stop the uncontrolled use of facial recognition

Together with leading rights groups, we've just delivered this message to the @ukhomeoffice calling on the Government to rein in this Orwellian tech

Read the joint statement??https://t.co/SueHOsuwcH pic.twitter.com/KydCl6e7rW

— Big Brother Watch (@BigBrotherWatch) June 10, 2026

Previous deployments underscore the rapid creep. Big Brother Watch highlighted live facial recognition operations in Waltham Forest and Islington in mid-June, labeling them an "enormous expansion of the surveillance state" that sets a dangerous precedent.

??Police are deploying Orwellian live facial recognition in #WalthamForest and #Islington today.

This tech is an enormous expansion of the surveillance state & it sets a dangerous precedent worldwide.

Sign our petition to #StopFacialRecognition??https://t.co/9do8SIF81t

— Big Brother Watch (@BigBrotherWatch) June 18, 2026

Earlier warnings detailed government moves to broaden the technology's use nationwide and documented cases of innocent people wrongly targeted, including shoppers ejected from stores via facial recognition systems.

??An innocent man was WRONGLY kicked out of a Sainsbury's shop using facial recognition

This dangerously authoritarian surveillance is a threat to our privacy and freedoms — it has no place on the streets of Britain.#StopFacialRecognition pic.twitter.com/ACnmZE8GrB

— Big Brother Watch (@BigBrotherWatch) June 19, 2026

This street-level biometric dragnet does not exist in isolation. It forms part of a wider architecture of control.

The facial recognition technology is presented as essential because root problems - including crime linked to failed integration and lax border policies - remain unaddressed. London's West End, long a symbol of British openness and culture, now risks becoming a permanent testing ground for mass biometric monitoring of ordinary citizens who have committed no offense.

Permanent AI enhanced surveillance infrastructure in public spaces undermines the principle that the state must justify intrusion, not assume it. Real security comes from competent policing, secure borders, and addressing the policy failures that create high-crime environments in the first place - not from turning every street corner into a digital checkpoint.

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Tyler Durden Thu, 06/25/2026 - 03:30

Frightened travelers ran for their lives inside a Venezuelan airport moments before the building's ceiling partially collapsed as two powerful earthquakes decimated the South American country.

Bev is a domineering, bullying, entitled woman in her late 50s. She has two "friends" in the entire facility

Once the flames were extinguished and the house was deemed safe by fire personnel, investigators — along with K-9 units and Missouri State Fire Marshals — thoroughly searched the burned property but were unable to find Sanchez-Munoz.

Albanian PM Pooh-Poohs 'Pink Flamingo' Protesters Opposing Jared Kushner Resorts

After weeks of daily protests, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is digging in to defend two luxury resort projects backed by Jared Kushner's investment company that have resulted in thousands of people protesting in the streets of the capital Tirana and on the southern coast, where one of the resorts is slated to be built. 

Protesters opposed to two planned resorts in ecologically sensitive areas, in Tirana, on June 12.Photographer: Atdhe Mulla/Bloomberg

The opposition has dubbed itself the "Flamingo Revolution" due to the impact on a protected wetland home to flamingoes, seals, and sea turtle nesting sites - with protesters hoisting inflatable pink birds and signs opposing the projects.The demonstrations began late last month as site preparations began on the Zuvernec peninsula - while Kushner's wife, Ivanka Trump, went on a podcast and discussed plans to develop the island of Sazan. 

The resort development he champions is the brainchild of Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, who described falling in love with Albania a few years ago while visiting on a boat. Rama met them on that trip and found ​them to be "very nice, humble...humanly good people."

Now, ​Kushner's investment firm Affinity Partners is ⁠involved in the €1.4 billion ($1.6 billion) project near the Vjosa-Narta protected area, and another one on nearby Sazan Island.

Together the projects are worth up to €5 billion, Rama said. -Reuters

According to Rama, the protesters are not engaging in genuine demonstrations - rather, it's "political theater," he told Bloomberg on Tuesday - claiming that the protests are backed by "an enormous digital amplification ecosystem that is clearly not organic," and has blamed Iran and others due to the fact that Albania is home to 3,000 members of an exiled Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama (REUTERS/Florion Goga)

"Neither a loud minority, joined by every opposition force, nor a wave of digitally amplified outrage fueled by the global fascination with the Trump name attached to what I believe is an extraordinary opportunity for Albania (and further amplified by the interference of malign foreign actors) will divert us from implementing our Albania 2030 Vision," he told the outlet. 

Abandoned former military housing on Sazan island, Albania.Photographer: Atdhe Mulla/Bloomberg

"Our standard is clear: law, science, transparency and European obligations - not hysteria," Rama told Bloomberg. "We are opening the country, protecting its natural assets, attracting serious investment and moving steadily toward EU membership."

Tyler Durden Thu, 06/25/2026 - 02:45

Restaurant workers told deputies she became angry about the wait time for her order and told staff members to meet her in the parking lot.

A look at the winners and losers of the first round of the NBA draft:

Bailey Zimmerman faces a felony criminal damage charge and a misdemeanor after his stay at Sandia Resort and Casino.

Bailey Zimmerman faces a felony criminal damage charge and a misdemeanor after his stay at Sandia Resort and Casino.