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Few falls from grace have been quite so swift
Even for those of us who are not well disposed towards the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, it is hard not to wish — occasionally — that they might catch a break. Yet apart from Harry’s well-judged and unostentatious appearance at the coronation, things have gone from bad to worse over the past six months for the couple. Tetchy High Court appearances; continuing estrangement with the British royal family; and now the apparently total collapse of their wider media ambitions. Few falls from grace have been quite so swift.

Earth’s tilt has changed by 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) between 1993 and 2010 because of the amount of groundwater humans have pumped from the planet’s interior.
In that period, humans removed 2,150 gigatons of water from natural reservoirs in the planet’s crust. If such an amount was poured into the global ocean, its surface would rise by 0.24 inches (6 millimeters). A new study has now revealed that displacing such an enormous amount of water has had an effect on the axis around which the planet spins.
h/t Mauser

What’s being removed from school libraries is material entirely inappropriate for students. Don’t believe me? Pornographic examples below.
The Left has been collectively hyperventilating about “book bans” for months. No one should be surprised that liberals are redefining the word “ban” in an effort to stigmatize conservative politicians leading the movement for parental rights in education. But some moderate Republicans have also signaled that they, too, buy into the idea that restricting content based on age-appropriateness constitutes a “book ban.”

When a man who’d been sleeping rough walked into a police station near Heathrow Airport, it would lead to the UK’s first prosecution of human trafficking for organ removal. The BBC has been given unprecedented access to the Metropolitan Police team that investigated this historic case.
Daniel was about to get the fright of his life.
He was sitting in a consulting room at the Royal Free hospital in London, speaking to doctors with his limited English.
The 21-year-old street trader from Lagos, Nigeria, had come to the UK days earlier for what he had been told was a “life-changing opportunity”. He thought he was going to get a better job.

While anti-Israel activism on US campuses has increased over the past two years, no one seems interested in what is happening on the campuses of Palestinian universities in the West Bank. Students are being arrested and tortured by the security forces of the Palestinian Authority (PA). The activists leading the anti-Israel campaigns in the US appear so blinded by their hatred for Israel that they are unwilling to help the Palestinians whom they so profess to care about by commenting that the PA security forces are cracking down on Palestinian university students. Even if the anti-Israel activists are made aware that Palestinian students living under the PA are being hauled off and tortured by their own leaders, they are not likely to speak out because there is no way to blame Israel or hold it responsible.

A Chicago woman who was arrested for murder after allegedly ordering her 14-year-old son to shoot a man dead in a fast-food eatery was freed Monday after prosecutors dropped the charges against her and the teen.
Carlishia Hood, 35, and her son had both been charged with first-degree murder last week for the June 18 shooting death of Jeremy Brown, 32, at the hot dog joint Maxwell Street Express, CBS Chicago reported.

One of the review bodies investigating the federal government’s approach to foreign interference says the government has provided it with only a “limited” number of cabinet confidence documents.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed last month to waive cabinet confidence so that two federal agencies — the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) and the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) — can read the confidential documents David Johnston, the government’s former special rapporteur on foreign interference, reviewed as he produced his report on foreign interference.

A U.S. battery maker backed by the Biden administration relies on technology from a Chinese Communist Party-led company, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of Chinese media reports.
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded KORE Power, a U.S.-based battery firm, an $850 million loan in early June to construct its “KOREPlex” battery-cell production facility in Arizona. DOE billed the loan as part of the administration’s efforts to “onshore [electric vehicle] supply chains.” However, KOREPlex will rely on technology from the firm’s long-time Chinese manufacturing partner, Do-Flouride New Materials (DFD), DOE Loan Programs Office (LPO) Director Jigar Shah said in an interview Wednesday.

On Vancouver Island, there has been a higher-than-average number of wildfires, and so far all 46 have been human-caused.
“On the Island, we haven’t had any natural caused fires, all 46 have been human-caused,” said Jade Richardson, fire information officer with the Coastal Fire Centre.
For the mainland portion of the Coastal Fire Centre, there has been one natural-caused fire, and 31 human-caused as well.
An English professor who worked at Pennsylvania State University is suing the college on claims that they racially discriminated against him and other white staff.
Zack De Piero, 40, served as an assistant professor of English and Composition at Penn State-Abington from 2018 to 2022.
During this time he claims he was forced to grade ‘hispanic and black’ students differently and was subject to exercises centered on critical race theory where white staff were made to feel ‘terrible.’

A new examination conducted by Reuters has found that of the six living US presidents, five are descendants of slaveholders. 45th President of the United States Donald Trump was found to not have slaveholder ancestors.
h/t Mauser

Despite a growing backlash against the bizarre left turn the nation has taken the Catholic Church still has its struggles. On Saturday, the anniversary of the Dobbs decision, the Incarnation Catholic Church in College Park, Fla., was severely damaged by a fire. The blaze started around 11:30 Saturday night.

In the end, Toronto’s mayoral election never came down to a left versus right fight. Former NDP MP Olivia Chow won 37 per cent of the vote, squeaking out a victory over second-place finisher Ana Bailão — a candidate so dully centrist, it took a former mayor best known for being boring to breathe life into her campaign.

Kamala Harris entered the record books Monday when an NBC News poll revealed she is the most unpopular vice president in history.
The poll showed 49 percent of registered voters have a negative view of the 58-year-old compared to 32 percent in the positive.