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Big shoes to fill as House Speaker Bercow’s successor elected by UK lawmakers UK MPs have voted Labour's Lindsay Hoyle to be the new Speaker of the House of Commons, replacing John Bercow – the former iconic chair of parliamentary proceedings – in one of their final acts before the general election. Bercow, who gained international notoriety during his tenure as speaker, will be a hard act to follow for Hoyle, considering the amount of feathers he’s ruffled in the chamber over the last 10 years. Speakers must be politically impartial and so with the snap general election fast approaching, the new speaker – if elected by their constituents – will have to resign from their party before officially taking on the role. Also on...

‘No public benefit’: Scottish regulator blasts charity whose Integrity Initiative project was outed as anti-Russia psy-op The NGO behind the Integrity Initiative – a project that claimed to fight “disinformation” but in reality appeared to be more of a covert British influence op – has been blasted by a new report for providing no “public benefit.” The Integrity Initiative (II) claimed to be a tool aimed at educating policymakers on the dangers of fake news and disinformation. Yet, according to multiple rounds of documents released in 2018 by hacktivists calling themselves Anonymous, II operated Europe-wide anti-Russia influence campaigns, planting anti-Kremlin influencers in government, academia, media and the military. The Integrity Initiative was...

'What race are you guys?': Buffalo Wild Wings employees fired after asking party to move to appease racist regulars Two managers at a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in a Chicago suburb were fired after asking a group of multiracial customers to change tables, in order to appease two “racist” customers who regularly visit. Buffalo Wild Wings in Naperville, Illinois fired a service manager and shift manager that were working at the time of the incident, following a complaint made by Mary Vahl on Facebook. According to the post, Vahl’s husband was asked “What race are you guys?” when they showed up with a party of 18 last week. The host then explained that their group was seated at a table near two "regular customers" who were known racists. The Vahls’ ...

Comedian John Oliver mocks Trump’s sales of ‘witch hunt’ merch… after #Resistance did the same thing HBO’s John Oliver had a good laugh mocking President Donald Trump’s anti-impeachment merchandise, but has he forgotten the cringe-inducing ‘Mueller Time’ shirts the #Resistance was hawking a few months ago? Oliver, a former Daily Show correspondent, had nothing but derision for Trump’s ‘witch hunt’ t-shirts, pointing out that in a typical witch hunt, it isn’t the witches – here depicted as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler, and House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff – doing the hunting. Also on rt.com ‘Thank God for Deep State’, ex-CIA boss says. Still think it’s a con...

House Intelligence Committee releases first transcripts in Trump impeachment probe (READ THEM HERE) Formerly secret interviews with former US Ambassadors Marie Yovanovitch and State Department adviser Michael McKinley have been made public by the House, as part of the Democrats’ impeachment probe of President Donald Trump. House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff (D-California) released the transcripts of the interviews on Monday, under the rules of House Resolution 660. Adopted by the House last week, over the objections of all the Republicans and two Democrats, the resolution retroactively authorized the impeachment probe three committees had been conducting, and put Schiff in charge of it. Also on rt.com ...

Report on Russian ‘threat’ to UK shelved until after election, prompting outrage and cries of 'coverup' A report which allegedly puts to bed the notion that Russia meddled in Brexit won't be published before the upcoming general election, sparking outrage from those convinced Moscow swayed the vote, despite evidence to the contrary. Downing Street has blocked the publication of the 50-page report from the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), which probed allegations that Russia interfered with the 2016 Brexit referendum. The report was sent to the government on October 17 and was due to be published on Monday. No. 10 said it would not approve publication of the document before Parliament was dissolved on Tuesday evening, which effectively mean...

What a butte! Curiosity beams back hauntingly beautiful PHOTOS of barren Martian wasteland NASA’s Curiosity rover is the sole surviving mobile visitor to Mars, and the probe has beamed back a cache of images that capture just how isolated, eerie and melancholy the vista is on the Red Planet’s surface. While NASA’s stationary InSight lander continues to take seismic data from the interior of Mars, Curiosity is left to roam barren and wind-swept wastes of the Central Butte in the Gale Crater after Opportunity was shut down in the wake of a massive dust storm. © (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Recentl...

Biden takes aim at Trump with ‘former president’ jibe, shoots self in foot instead Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden tried his hand at biting insults, warning President Donald Trump that “in one year” he’d be dubbed “Former President Donald Trump.” His jab was met with less applause than bemusement. The former vice president lobbed his barb at Trump on the president’s home territory – Twitter – on Sunday, seemingly motivated by Trump’s tendency to pin disparaging nicknames on his opponents (‘Shifty Schiff’, anyone?). In one year, we will give Trump a nickname of his own: Former President Donald Trump.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 3, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js But it didn’t land with the finality he mig...