An ISIS terrorist who was part of a beheading gang dubbed The Beatles has had his bid to move to a comfortable British jail refused.
El Shafee Elsheikh – known as Jihadi Ringo – is currently serving life in a high-security US prison after he was convicted of hostage-taking and conspiring to murder in 2022.
The 38-year-old had applied to move back to his ‘home country’ Britain so he could be closer to family and friends – despite his citizenship being revoked in 2018.
The Vatican has said it raised the “need to work tirelessly in favour of peace” in talks with the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who is in Rome on a trip widely regarded as an effort to ease tensions after Donald Trump’s repeated criticisms of Pope Leo.
Amid unprecedented strain on relations between the Holy See and Washington, Rubio was received by the pope on Thursday at the Apostolic Palace, before holding a series of meetings with Vatican officials
Vatican video showed the first north American pope shaking hands with his guest and addressing him formally as “Mr Secretary”, to which Rubio, a Catholic, responded: “Great to see you.”
Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump’s White House press secretary, has given birth to a baby girl just days after delaying her maternity leave following the recent assassination attempt on the US president’s life.
Ms Leavitt was due to start her maternity leave on April 24. But it was postponed after the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner on April 25. Ms Leavitt and other senior members of the administration were in attendance alongside Mr Trump.
The Trump administration has accused Europe of being an “incubator” for terrorism fuelled by mass migration, in a new counter-terrorism strategy unveiled on Wednesday.
The strategy also focuses on rooting out “violent left-wing extremists” including “radically pro-transgender” groups, as Trump’s conservative administration steps up its political attacks on opponents.
It also further places drug cartels in the Americas at the centre of counter-terrorism efforts.
Most of the media has framed the Minnesota fraud scandal in the Somali community as a simple story of greed. And although greed certainly played a role, the scandal revealed much more about how diverse communities navigate American status hierarchies. In fact, few episodes capture the underlying dynamic more clearly than the convergence of the aspirational lifestyles of the Somali perpetrators — who gravitated toward the symbols of prestige they saw modeled around them — and the public posture of figures like U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (MN‑D), who speak the language of redistribution while living a life of unmistakable privilege.
OTTAWA — Recently, Prime Minister Carney has publicly attacked and imploded every aspect of Canada’s historic relationship with the United States of America.
Unfortunately, Mark Carney’s incipient anti-American persona is a paradigm that the Liberal era has imposed upon all of Canada, and not merely the latest outpouring of Carney’s own personal vanity.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has claimed that Europe has “gotten the message” from President Donald Trump, who has vowed consequences for the disloyalty displayed by supposed allies during the conflict with the Islamist Iranian regime.
America’s population is approaching 350 million by its 250th anniversary, but bigger isn’t always better. The trouble is that America’s population growth is being driven by mass migration.
One of President Trump’s underreported achievements was slowing the growth of the population by reducing migration. The pandemic by contrast led to a crisis in which migration exceeded excess births by 244,622 to 148,043. By 2023, there had been a 4.5 million increase in the foreign born population. The migration surge was eventually recorded as the largest in American history with the foreign born population exceeding 15% of the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security tried to obtain a Canadian man’s location information, activity logs, and other identifying information from Google after he criticized the Trump administration online following the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis early this year.
Lawyers for the man, who has not been named, are alarmed in part because they say that the man has not entered the United States in more than a decade. “I don’t know what the government knows about our client’s residence, but it’s clear that the government isn’t stopping to find out,” says Michael Perloff, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia who is representing the man in a lawsuit against Markwayne Mullin, the secretary of DHS, over the summons. The lawsuit alleges that DHS violated the customs law that gives the agency the power to request records from businesses and other parties.
I hope it was Avi Lewis or Chairman Chow!
Meanwhile Canada has a whole data base dedicated to crushing dissent.
💥Imagine this: One post about an MP gets flagged. The PPS quietly pulls your name and full social-media history from its database. Under Bill C-70 and existing MOUs, it’s handed to CSIS as a “threat assessment.” That then triggers a Bill C-22 ministerial order, forcing your ISP… pic.twitter.com/0iQccApUeA
— Wiretap Media (@WiretapMediaCa) May 4, 2026
Last week’s announcement of the withdrawal of around 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany—followed by Donald Trump’s warning that there will be “many more”—has shaken Europe’s strategic landscape at a particularly sensitive moment.
Not only because of the scale but because of the transatlantic context: direct political friction between Washington and Berlin, war in the Middle East, and a NATO that is once again questioning itself.
Germany remains the main U.S. military hub in Europe, with more than 36,000 personnel, key infrastructure such as Ramstein and Stuttgart, and a central logistical role for operations across three theaters—Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The announced withdrawal affects only a fraction, but the message Washington intends to send carries greater weight.
Europe will not submit to a more “brutal world”, and can instead be the base from which a new international order can be rebuilt, Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, has said.
Carney was speaking as the first non-European leader to attend a meeting of the European Political Community, which opened on Monday amid high tensions in the strait of Hormuz and renewed doubts about the US commitment to Nato.
“We don’t think that we’re destined to submit to a more transactional, insular and brutal world, and gatherings such as these point to a better way forward,” he said.
President Donald Trump threatened last week to withdraw troops from Italy. The threat followed his public accusation that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni “lacked courage” after she defended Pope Leo XIV against Trump’s attacks, and refused to allow U.S. warplanes to transit Italian airspace for strikes on Iran. These two leaders began 2025 as close allies. That now seems like a long time ago.
President Trump has made no secret of his disdain for our NATO allies. In the past month or so, he has called them “cowards” and NATO a “paper tiger.” But, as I have written elsewhere, his notion that we should just get out of NATO is blocked by both the NATO Treaty and by a specific U.S. law that requires either a resolution passed by both houses of Congress or a two-thirds vote of the Senate. Neither is going to happen.
Mr. Trump, as commander-in-chief, has constitutional authority to remove troops from the nations that have refused us the use of our bases to attack Iran. The United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, and Germany have all refused use of our bases there or use of their airspace or both.
History has a way of offering its lessons time and again.
During the Second World War, the United States learned a costly lesson about the vulnerability of its oil tankers to enemy action. Today, the world is being offered the same lesson at the Strait of Hormuz, and we need to heed it.
When America entered World War II, nearly all of its petroleum products meant for the Northeast were put aboard ocean-going tankers leaving Gulf Coast refineries and then traveling the Atlantic alongside the eastern seaboard.
The Elitist Media continue to provide aid and comfort to Cuba’s communist regime ahead of a potential action by the United States. This time, it’s Trump-deranged ABC News performing crisis communications for a brutal regime on its last legs.
Watch as correspondent Matt Rivers whitewashes the regime, hypes its May Day anti-American march, and propagates the idea that the energy embargo is the source of Cuba’s ills…
