UK - A major new survey launched on the heels of the General Election has revealed that the majority of older people in Britain today feel overlooked in many areas of everyday life, with more than a third believing that being old is like being cancelled. This rises to nearly half (43 per cent) for older women over the age of 75, with almost a third of older men (32 per cent) of the same age believing this to be the case. The sense of isolation leads to increased loneliness for hundreds of thousands of elderly people across the country.

WALES - Wales will roll back its default 20mph speed limit this autumn after ministers admitted “errors were made” when the scheme was introduced. Ken Skates, the Welsh transport minister, told the devolved Senedd parliament that guidance would allow local authorities to begin raising the speed limit back to 30mph on certain roads from September — a year after the policy came into force. Wales is the only UK nation to have reduced the default speed limit in built-up areas but it faced a significant backlash from the public, with widespread vandalism of new signs. A petition to reverse the policy attracted almost half a million signatures.

USA - Assassination attempts aren't new in US politics but there has been a sharp rise in violent discourse in recent years, says Peter Sheridan. This is the moment that could change the course of American history. Bloody but unbowed, head held high and pumping his fist in the air seconds after escaping an assassin’s bullets on Saturday, former president Donald Trump faced the stunned and shaken crowd at his campaign rally in Pennsylvania and shouted: “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

USA - “A veteran of the sniper team with the world’s longest confirmed kill refuses to believe untrained gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks was so easily able to shoot former President Donald Trump — saying even “a seventh-grader” would know the rooftop he climbed onto was “the most obvious” place to check. “I’m very familiar with the layout of these types of things and what the job should be,” retired sniper Dallas Alexander said in an Instagram post Sunday of the previous day’s attempted assassination at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “And yesterday what happened, I have no doubts in my mind that the shooter had help from somewhere within an agency, an organization, or the government,” Alexander stated firmly.

USA - America’s liberal-dominated media and “progressive” ruling elites have finally woken up to the reality of President Biden’s rapid mental and physical decline. They are now in a huge state of panic as the November presidential election looms large on the horizon. At the same time, America’s allies are witnessing a rapidly unfolding White House train wreck on the international stage, one that is immensely damaging to the standing and image of the world’s superpower.

ISRAEL - Forty-six thousand Israeli businesses have been forced to close due to the ongoing war and its devastating impact on the economy, Hebrew-language newspaper Maariv reported on July 10, describing Israel as a "country in collapse." "This is a very high number that encompasses many sectors. About 77 percent of the businesses that have closed since the beginning of the war, roughly 35,000, are small businesses with up to five employees, and are the most vulnerable in the economy," said Yoel Amir, CEO of CofaceBdi, an Israeli information services and credit risk management firm to Maariv.

UK - O'Bryan Grandison, who served as a British police officer during the London 2012 games, has warned that France could face a wave of protests this summer. A former cop has issued a stark warning that the Paris Olympics could be “hijacked” by protestors this summer. O’Bryan Grandison, a former police officer who served during the 2012 London Olympic Games, believes that the recent political demonstrations surrounding the French elections could incite further marches, potentially disrupting the highly anticipated sporting event. With the Olympic Games set to commence on July 24 running until August 11 across 15 different venues, it is expected that more than 16 million tourists will be in Paris this July.

GERMANY - The German Defense Ministry has drawn up contingency plans for a potential military conflict with Russia, Der Spiegel and Bild have claimed, having seen the alleged document. The plan reportedly envisages Germany serving as a key transit state for NATO troops, with its population and civil services being expected to assist foreign military personnel. Last month, the German government officially updated its wartime guidelines for the first time since 1989, to include such measures as mandatory conscription and forcing manufacturers to produce war goods.

TONGA - Tonga volcano contributed to global warming, not cow farts or Taylor Swift's private jet. The massive 2022 eruption of the underwater volcano in Tonga, known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, catapulted plumes of soot, water vapor, and sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, leading to what some are saying is the driving force behind the most recent warming event on Earth. Meanwhile, the 'green' cult, their climate alarmist friends, including Greta and Al Gore, and their allies in the leftist corporate media, relentlessly push the fossil fuels and cow farts narratives to explain the so-called global warming crisis.

USA - This was a miracle. God intervened and protected President Trump. President Trump told former White House physician Dr Ronny Jackson that a last millisecond head tilt saved his life after a gunman opened fire on him from an elevated position at his Pennsylvania rally. Trump told Dr Jackson that he turned his head to the right to look at a chart on illegal immigration statistics when a bullet grazed his ear. “That chart that I was going over saved my life,” Trump said to Ronny Jackson by phone just hours after the attempted assassination, according to The New York Times. “The border patrol saved my life,” he said. “If I hadn’t pointed at that chart and turned my head to look at it, that bullet would have hit me right in the head.”

USA - Former Navy Seal and Blackwater founder Erik Prince gave a detailed assessment of yesterday's Secret Service debacle in the wake of a failed assassination attempt on former President Trump. "Hopefully after the tragedy yesterday in Butler PA we can all recognize that unaccountable bloated bureaucracies continue to fail us as Americans," Prince posted to X. The fact that USSS allowed a rifle armed shooter within 150yds to a preplanned event is either malice or massive incompetence. Clearly there was adequate uncontrolled dead space for a shooter to move into position and take multiple aimed shots. Watching the newsreel one can hear how proximate the shooter is by the very short time lapse between the crack of arriving bullet (supersonic) to the boom of muzzle blast (sonic).

USA - The people that guard our leaders are supposed to be the most highly trained security personnel in the world. So how could something like this have happened? As I mentioned in a previous article, I have been trying to put the pieces together. To me, it appears that we either just witnessed incompetence on an epic scale or something more insidious was going on out there. The American people deserve answers, and hopefully we will get them. There is no way that this shooting would have happened the way that it did if competent people were running the show. I have been digging into what many of the experts have been saying about this incident, and there is so much that just doesn’t make sense. So I have compiled a list of 10 burning questions that every American should be asking about the Trump shooting…

USA - The trigger in the gun was pulled by many hands! The media tried to assassinate Trump. The press was and is merciless. They have mocked him and attacked, slandered and defamed him, but they have not taken him out. The Democrats have tried to assassinate Trump. They called him illegitimate, they called him a tyrant... Women of a certain ilk have tried to assassinate him. Oh, the sordid sex tales. Rape in a dressing room in Bergdorf Goodmans! Have you ever shopped there? It is literally impossible. Staff watch those rooms like hawks. The police would have been immediately called and the falsely accused Trump might have been hauled out in handcuffs. But the event would surely not have gone unnoticed at the time.

USA - With around 270,000 homes and businesses still without power in the Houston area almost a week after Hurricane Beryl hit Texas, Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday said he’s demanding an investigation into the response of the utility that serves the area as well as answers about its preparations for upcoming storms. “Power companies along the Gulf Coast must be prepared to deal with hurricanes, to state the obvious,” Abbott said at his first news conference about Beryl since returning to the state from an economic development trip to Asia. While CenterPoint Energy has restored power to about 2 million customers since the storm hit on July 8, the slow pace of recovery has put the utility, which provides electricity to the nation’s fourth-largest city, under mounting scrutiny over whether it was sufficiently prepared for the storm that left people without air conditioning in the searing summer heat.

UK - Teachers in the UK have reportedly been told to present the history of the British Empire similarly to the horrors of Nazi Germany. So-called “anti-racist” guidance said to be offered to teachers in the UK has argued that both Nazi Germany and the British Empire should be presented as powers that “committed atrocities” and that teachers should refrain from offering students information about the historical goods done by the Empire. According to The Telegraph, the guidance produced by “The Key” school support organisation stated that schools should “teach colonialism as ‘invading and exploiting’ other countries, and present the British Empire as you would other global powers that committed atrocities, eg Nazi Germany”.