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I’m A Celebrity was thrown into total chaos as the campmates were joined by an unwelcome visitor overnight. During Monday’s (December 2) episode of the ITV hit reality show, Maura was unimpressed as she watched a mouse climbing over the kitchen utensils and dishes. Things took a turn as the mouse went on to run under her bed and as expected the former Love Island star, 34, squealed and said: “I’m not really up for a Trial at this time of the night!” Discovering some fruit from dinner was left out, Tulisa was not happy as she went on to say: “Camp maintenance should be putting everything back in the trunk. They gotta step it up!” Meanwhile, Melvin was oblivious to what happened the night before and it was clear that had a better night's sleep compared to his fellow campmates as he exclaimed: “I feel like a new man to be honest!” Viewers watching at home were quick to rush straight to social media as they shared their reaction to the moment. One viewer wrote: “if i saw those mice id be OUT of the jungle so fast #ImACeleb.” Another joked: “I’m not up for a trial at this time of night #ImACeleb.” A third commented: “The mice?? I'd actually break down, because what do you mean mice are running all over my things? #ImACeleb.” (sic) Another pointed out: “How is a camp maintenance job to put dishes away. Surely you just do that after washing up #imaceleb.” Meanwhile one added: “If I saw mice running around I would scream too.” (sic) Plus, that morning Dean was the second celebrity to leave I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! As he said his goodbyes, the campmates were feeling reflective and surprised at Dean’s departure. Oti said: “He just brought us all together, he was the life of the camp.” A shocked Danny said: “I thought he was final four, final three!” Feeling the loss of his energy in camp, Tulisa reflected: “You can definitely feel that Dean has left the camp. It's almost a little bit too chilled out, dare I say. Didn’t think I’d ever see the day that I’d be waiting for some musical theatre in the morning!” Richard joked: “Who's going to not fetch our water now?!” Ant and Dec announced the result of the eviction vote, which was between the Radio 1 DJ and Irish retired boxer Barry McGuigan, during Sunday night’s episode. At the time, the Northern Ireland DJ said he was happy enough to be going home and he had lived the experience to the full. On Monday morning in an interview with ITV's Good Morning Britain he said: "I did it for my mum to make her proud." I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! continues tomorrow night at 9pm on ITV and ITVX. I’m A Celebrity...Unpacked airs live on ITV2 every night directly after the ITV1 show.BACK in May, President Biden issued a pointed tweet. Writing on the platform now known as X, the post read simply: “No one is above the law”. The comment was about his predecessor in the Oval Office — President Trump . The former (and future) President was undergoing a set of trials at the time, which Trump’s supporters believe to be entirely politically motivated. Joe Biden and the Democrat party machine set prosecutors after Trump in multiple states, all the time in search of a crime . As is the way of prosecutors in the US, if they look for a crime they will find one. Sure as anything. Read More on Opinion But wow, how six months seems able to change things. Enriched themselves Because yesterday President Biden announced, on the way out of office, that he is going to pardon his son, Hunter, of every charge that he has faced to date , as well as any charges that might still be brought. This is in spite of him swearing in the past that he would do no such thing. The specific charges that Hunter Biden was awaiting sentence for related to tax evasion and ownership of a gun which he had lied about on purchase. Most read in The Sun He is now going to be pardoned of these charges. But it is the pardoning of him for other potential charges which rankles many Americans most. Thanks to the investigative work of Miranda Devine, the New York Post and others, it has been clear for years that the Biden family — mainly his brother James and son Hunter — have been running a business off the person they called “the big guy”. For years members of the family enriched themselves thanks to their closeness to the man who was Vice President before he became President. Most notoriously, Hunter sat on the board of an energy company in Ukraine called Burisma . The company paid him millions of dollars to sit on their board. Despite Hunter having precisely zero knowledge or expertise in gas. Or in anything much. But Hunter Biden’s exploits finally came to a head in 2020 when a laptop he left at a repair shop found its way into the hands of the New York Post. Drug of choice Hunter was a drug addict at the time. His chosen drug of choice appeared to be crack. And perhaps it was for this reason that he dropped his computer off at a repair shop then never picked it up. Before the Trump-Biden election in 2020, the story of the “laptop from hell” was published. It showed a lot of things. Some of the media that did pick up the story focused on Hunter’s bizarre behaviour. He was so self-destructive that he seems to have been in the habit of taking photos of himself smoking illegal drugs and having sex with prostitutes. This was salacious stuff. Salacious stuff But much more important — and what got buried — was the influence-peddling. The laptop had thousands of emails and other messages to and from Hunter that showed the way in which he and other members of the Biden family were making money by using their famous relative. This showed a seriously corrupt family. But the story was literally suppressed. The New York Post had its Twitter and other social media pages locked. This was pre- Elon Musk Twitter. Other media pretended that the whole story was what the Americans call “a nothing-burger”. Worse still, there was an organised attempt to discredit the story. More than 50 former US intelligence agents signed a letter claiming that the story bore the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation. This was during the time when the Democrats were obsessed with the idea that Russia had somehow got Trump into the White House . They had spent four years saying “Russia Russia Russia”, despite never producing any evidence. In fact, the real election interference was by those US intelligence sources. It was they who colluded to suppress the Hunter Biden story. It was they who decided without even having seen the contents of the laptop that it was a tool to push the election Trump’s way. Crack-smoking During the years since it is those intelligence agents and others who showed that they were not just wrong, but part of a cover-up. It was a disgraceful piece of interference — on the free Press and on a US election. Hunter Biden knew that what he had already been charged with would hover over him. And he knew — as did his father — that there was every chance that charges much more serious than crack-smoking would come to light. The Democrats weaponised the justice system against Trump. And pretended that nobody was above the law. READ MORE SUN STORIES Now they are heading out of office, we learn that things are quite otherwise. It turns out that some people can be above the law. But your surname has to be “Biden”.
LeBron James and Anthony Davis might not be the only former top overall picks on the Los Angeles Lakers’ roster for long. Lakers writer Anthony Irwin of ClutchPoints reported Friday that the team has had internal discussions about adding veteran guard Markelle Fultz. The 26-year-old Fultz remains an unsigned free agent after spending the last five NBA seasons with the Orlando Magic. Fultz was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft by the Philadelphia 76ers (over later lottery picks such as Jayson Tatum, De’Aaron Fox, Lauri Markkanen, Donovan Mitchell, and Bam Adebayo). But he is universally seen as a bust, having averaged just 7.7 points per game on 41.4 percent shooting for the 76ers before being traded less than two years after he was drafted. Fultz’s Philly tenure was also marred by an ugly and bizarre saga with his jump-shooting form . The former University of Washington star Fultz did manage to rebuild his reputation some though in a lower-stress environment in Orlando, posting 14.0 points, 5.7 assists, and 1.5 steals per game in the 2022-23 campaign. With the Lakers getting next to nothing from their backup point guard Gabe Vincent, Fultz could have some appeal for them. But it could require much more ( such as a trade for this rumored target ) for the Lakers to turn around their mediocre 13-11 season. This article first appeared on Larry Brown Sports and was syndicated with permission.
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Zonta Club of the Pikes Peak Area has participated in the international organization’s annual initiative, “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence” for years. This year, the 35 members of the local club have gone big, said President Lisa Rice. The organization that helps women and girls succeed with various projects and scholarships considered buying a billboard to raise awareness about the worldwide issue of violence against women, in homes and public places. “We started with a billboard and ended with advertising on 12 bus benches and bus shelters to reach more people in Colorado Springs and get the message out,” Rice said. The message this year, and since 1991 when the campaign originated at the Women’s Global Leadership Institute coordinated by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, is that violence against women and girls needs to be prevented and stopped. Local chapters do their part in different ways, Rice said. In addition to the bus stop promotion, the Pikes Peak Area chapter will raise awareness through social media and resource materials, she said. The campaign begins Monday and concludes on Dec. 10, however the bus stop messaging will continue through December, Rice said. The club paid $3,500 for the advertising and still has $1,500 to go toward the project. Donations can be made at zontapikespeak.org . About one in three women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime, according to the World Health Organization. And on a typical day, there are more than 20,000 phone calls placed to domestic violence hotlines nationwide, as per data from the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Domestic-violence hotlines see increases as the holidays approach, Rice said, likely because the time of year is stressful for many families. “We do feel like it’s having an impact locally because we hear from people, ‘Thank you for sharing resources and books so I can learn more’ and ‘Thank you for putting up signs,’” Rice said of the upcoming campaign. Zonta Club also provides scholarships totaling $8,000 to $12,000 annually in general areas of study as well as business, aerospace and technology. Resources are available to anyone needing immediate assistance and more information: • National domestic violence crisis line: (800) 799-7233 • TESSA of Colorado Springs’ emergency hotline: (719) 633-3819 • Kingdom Builders Family Life Center in Colorado Springs: (719) 247-8190Jacqueline Jossa says 'cannot cope' as she comes down with nasty bugCelebrity osteopath admits spying on female university students as they got undressed in halls of residence
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has promised to as soon as he gets into office to make good on campaign promises aiming and redefining what it means to be American. But any efforts to halt the policy would face steep legal hurdles. Birthright citizenship means anyone born in the United States automatically becomes an American citizen. It’s been in place for decades and applies to children born to someone in the country illegally or in the U.S. on a tourist or student visa who plans to return to their home country. It’s not the practice of every country, and Trump and his supporters have argued that the system is being abused and that there should be tougher standards for becoming an American citizen. But others say this is a right enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, it would be extremely difficult to overturn and even if it’s possible, it’s a bad idea. Here’s a look at birthright citizenship, what Trump has said about it and the prospects for ending it: During an interview Sunday on Trump said he “absolutely” planned to halt birthright citizenship once in office. “We’re going to end that because it’s ridiculous,” he said. Trump and other opponents of birthright citizenship have argued that it creates an incentive for people to come to the U.S. illegally or take part in pregnant women enter the U.S. specifically to give birth so their children can have citizenship before returning to their home countries. “Simply crossing the border and having a child should not entitle anyone to citizenship,” said Eric Ruark, director of research for NumbersUSA, which argues for reducing immigration. The organization supports changes that would require at least one parent to be a permanent legal resident or a U.S. citizen for their children to automatically get citizenship. Others have argued that ending birthright citizenship would profoundly damage the country. “One of our big benefits is that people born here are citizens, are not an illegal underclass. There’s better assimilation and integration of immigrants and their children because of birthright citizenship,” said Alex Nowrasteh, vice president for economic and social policy studies at the pro-immigration Cato Institute. In 2019, the Migration Policy Institute estimated that 5.5 million children under age 18 lived with at least one parent in the country illegally in 2019, representing 7% of the U.S. child population. The vast majority of those children were U.S. citizens. The nonpartisan think tank said during Trump’s campaign for president in 2015 that the number of people in the country illegally would “balloon” if birthright citizenship were repealed, creating “a self-perpetuating class that would be excluded from social membership for generations.” In the aftermath of the Civil War, Congress ratified the 14th Amendment in July 1868. That amendment assured citizenship for all, including Black people. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” the 14th Amendment says. “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” But the 14th Amendment didn’t always translate to everyone being afforded birthright citizenship. For example, it wasn’t until 1924 that Congress finally granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. A key case in the history of birthright citizenship came in 1898, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Wong Kim Ark, born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrants, was a U.S. citizen because he was born in the states. The federal government had tried to deny him reentry into the county after a trip abroad on grounds he wasn’t a citizen under the Chinese Exclusion Act. But some have argued that the 1898 case clearly applied to children born of parents who are both legal immigrants to America but that it’s less clear whether it applies to children born to parents without legal status or, for example, who come for a short-term like a tourist visa. “That is the leading case on this. In fact, it’s the only case on this,” said Andrew Arthur, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports immigration restrictions. “It’s a lot more of an open legal question than most people think.” Some proponents of immigration restrictions have argued the words “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the 14th Amendment allows the U.S. to deny citizenship to babies born to those in the country illegally. Trump himself used that language in his 2023 announcement that he would aim to end birthright citizenship if reelected. Trump wasn’t clear in his Sunday interview how he aims to end birthright citizenship. Asked how he could get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action, Trump said: “Well, we’re going to have to get it changed. We’ll maybe have to go back to the people. But we have to end it.” Pressed further on whether he’d use an executive order, Trump said “if we can, through executive action.” He gave a lot more details in a . In it, he said he would issue an executive order the first day of his presidency, making it clear that federal agencies “require that at least one parent be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident for their future children to become automatic U.S. citizens.” Trump wrote that the executive order would make clear that children of people in the U.S. illegally “should not be issued passports, Social Security numbers, or be eligible for certain taxpayer funded welfare benefits.” This would almost certainly end up in litigation. Nowrasteh from the Cato Institute said the law is clear that birthright citizenship can’t be ended by executive order but that Trump may be inclined to take a shot anyway through the courts. “I don’t take his statements very seriously. He has been saying things like this for almost a decade,” Nowrasteh said. “He didn’t do anything to further this agenda when he was president before. The law and judges are near uniformly opposed to his legal theory that the children of illegal immigrants born in the United States are not citizens.” Trump could steer Congress to pass a law to end birthright citizenship but would still face a legal challenge that it violates the Constitution.
