A Russian pilot deliberately tried to shoot down a British Royal Air Force spy plane in 2022, according to a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66798508" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the BBC.
On September 29, a Russian SU-27 fighter jet deliberately fired two missiles at an RAF surveillance plane carrying 30 crew members &#8212; both of which never hit, according to the report. The update contradicts the previous explanation in which Russia brushed off the incident as a “technical malfunction” &#8212; an official narrative that the British Ministry of Defense went along with at the time.
The British plane &#8212; a Boeing RC-135 Rivet Joint &#8212; encountered two Russian SU-27 fighter jets while flying a surveillance mission in international airspace over the Black Sea. The RAF plane was able to intercept communications from the Russians, in which they reportedly discovered one of the pilots had believed he was given the all-clear from the station on the ground to take the British plane down.
The BBC report cited a Western source saying the ground station’s message was essentially &#8220;you have the target,” prompting the pilot to take that as an all-clear to fire &#8212; which he did. The pilot successfully launched an air-to-air missile, but it failed to lock on target, the report notes &#8212; not a “technical malfunction,” but a miss. He released a second missile, which fell from the wing likely as a result of a malfunction or aborted launch, the outlet notes.
The other Russian pilot did not interpret the message that same way and reportedly swore and argued with the other pilot after releasing the first missile. The British Ministry of Defense is not releasing the details of intercepted communications, the BBC reports.
The Russian government claimed the near-miss was due to a “technical malfunction,” and the narrative was at least publicly accepted by the British, roughly three weeks after the fact. &#8220;We do not consider this incident to constitute a deliberate escalation on the part of the Russians, and our analysis concurs that it was due to a malfunction,” then-Minister of Defense Ben Wallace said in a letter to Parliament, calling the incident a &#8220;potentially dangerous engagement.”
Jack Teixeira, the alleged Pentagon leaker, reportedly <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/09/leaked-documents-surveillance-plane-rivet-joint/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaked</a> a document in April that called the incident a “near-shoot down of UK RJ.” Two U.S. officials <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/world/europe/russian-jet-british-spy-plane.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Times at the time that the incident was more serious than the public had been led to believe, with one of them calling it “really, really scary.”
“A significant proportion of the content of these reports is untrue, manipulated, or both,” a British official told the Times in April regarding the leaked document. “We strongly caution against anybody taking the veracity of these claims at face value and would also advise them to take time to question the source and purpose of such leaks.”
According to the British outlet, there are a few reasons why the British government would want to keep the details of the close encounter secret. For one, they note that they likely wouldn’t want to reveal the extent of its intelligence-gathering capabilities, including intercepting communications. Or, the outlet speculates, Britain &#8212; a NATO member &#8212; simply wanted to avoid a major escalation.
A spokesperson for the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense told the BBC its goal has “always been to protect the safety of our operations, avoid unnecessary escalation and inform the public and international community.&#8221;
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Today, British fighter jets armed with air-to-air missiles escort the surveillance flights over the Black Sea.
In March, a Russian fighter jet forced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/russia-honors-pilots-who-harassed-collided-with-u-s-drone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">down</a> a $32 million U.S. MQ-9 Reaper spy drone after dumping fuel on it and colliding with its propeller. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milly said at the time, “Incidents happen,” adding that the U.S. does “not seek armed conflict with Russia and I believe at this point we should investigate this incident and move on from there.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/royal-family" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson</a>, who is divorced from Prince Andrew, revealed the final words <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/queen-elizabeth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queen Elizabeth II</a> said to her before her passing in September 2022. 
Ferguson was discussing her battle with breast cancer during the August 30 episode of her <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-13-luck-chance-meetings-and-a-well-earned-break/id1687827196?i=1000626261204" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a>, “Tea Talks With the Duchess &amp; Sarah.”
The 63-year-old royal family member said fighting cancer has helped her “wake up” and embrace who she really is, regardless of outside opinions.
“It’s the last thing that the queen said to me: ‘Just be yourself, Sarah,&#8217;” Ferguson said. 
“And she saw it,” the Duchess of York continued. “She just got so annoyed when I wasn’t being myself. And that’s probably when I got into all the pickles. But now I am myself, and I’m just so lucky to be able to be myself.”
Ferguson was married to disgraced royal Prince Andrew from from 1986 to 1996 and shares daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie with him. Her relationship with the queen was complicated over the years, especially following the infamous “toe-sucking scandal” in 1992. That’s when paparazzi captured photos of the duchess canoodling on a boat with a business associate while on holiday in the South of France.
As Queen Elizabeth II abhorred negative publicity, she referred to this incident and others from that year as her &#8220;annus horribilis&#8221; (horrible year). 
It’s unclear when the queen allegedly made these remarks to Fergie, but a previous <a href="http://go.nypost.com/?id=93051X1547088&amp;isjs=1&amp;jv=15.4.2-stackpath&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2023%2F08%2F31%2Fsarah-ferguson-reveals-queens-touching-final-words-to-her-before-death%2F&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Farticle%2Flunches-chats-and-laughter-her-last-weeks-were-full-of-fun-t0kc6h6k9&amp;xs=1&amp;xtz=240&amp;xuuid=bd449c80f508b12a5b95581dc8f3b648&amp;xcust=xid%3Afr1693570698132deh&amp;xjsf=other_click__contextmenu%20%5B2%5D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Times of London said the queen was in good spirits the weekend before her passing.
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“It was a fantastic visit,” The Right Rev. Iain Greenshields said of dining with Her Majesty at Balmoral at the time. “Her memory was absolutely amazing, and she was really full of fun.”
“It came as a great shock to me when I heard she was gravely ill because she was in amazingly good form over the weekend … It was only a few days ago, I can’t believe it,” he continued.
Queen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96 after a record-breaking reign of 70 years. It was the longest of any monarch in British history and longest verified reign of any female head of state in history.

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A British nurse convicted last week of murdering seven infants between 2015 and 2016 and attempting to murder six more has been sentenced to life in prison.
The 33-year-old nurse, who will not be named per Daily Wire policy, became the United Kingdom’s worst serial killer of babies in recent times after she was convicted in 14 out of the 22 counts she faced, People Magazine <a href="https://people.com/crime/lucy-letby-nurse-found-guilty-murdering-infants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. On Monday, she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The nurse didn’t appear for sentencing, which has led some to call for changes in law to ensure that a guilty person is present for their sentencing hearing, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/21/uk/lucy-letby-nurse-sentence-intl-gbr/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. During sentencing, Justice James Goss explained that the nurse deserved life in prison because her crimes were “a cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder involving the smallest and most vulnerable of children.”
He spoke as if the nurse were in the courtroom and ordered his remarks and all victim impact statements to be sent to the convicted serial killer.
“There was a deep malevolence bordering on sadism. During the course of this trial you have coldly denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing. You have no remorse. There are no mitigating factors,” he said, according to CNN.
Following sentencing, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak denounced the nurse for not appearing at her hearing.
“I think it’s cowardly that people who commit such horrendous crimes do not face their victims and hear first hand the impact that their crimes have had on them and their families and loved ones,” he said. “We are looking and have been at changing the law to make sure that that happens and that’s something that we’ll bring forward in due course.”
The nurse’s trial took ten months to complete at Manchester Crown Court, with the 11-person jury failing to reach verdicts on six additional counts of attempted murder. She was also found not guilty on two counts of attempted murder.
The woman, who worked as a nurse in the neonatal ward of the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, England, would inject air into babies’ blood and stomachs, overfeed them with milk, physically assault them, and poison them with insulin, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/uk/lucy-letby-nurse-guilty-gbr-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Seven babies died as a result of the nurse’s acts, leading to seven guilty convictions for murder. She was also found guilty on seven counts of attempted murder relating to six additional babies, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in <a href="https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/lucy-letby-found-guilty-baby-murders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a> on Friday.
During a police investigation, authorities found handwritten notes in the nurse’s home, including one that read, “I am evil I did this.”
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During the trial, which started last October, jurors were told that doctors at the hospital where the nurse worked began noticing an unusually high number of babies dying or unexpectedly collapsing. After finding no medical explanation, the hospital called the police.
“[The nurse] sought to deceive her colleagues and pass off the harm she caused as nothing more than a worsening of each baby’s existing vulnerability,” Pascale Jones, the senior crown prosecutor, said in a statement. “In her hands, innocuous substances like air, milk, fluids – or medication like insulin – would become lethal. She perverted her learning and weaponized her craft to inflict harm, grief and death.”
At trial, prosecutors introduced evidence showing that the babies were perfectly healthy before being attacked. For those who recovered from the nurse’s attempts to kill them, their recovery was too rapid for the harm to have been natural. Investigators also found falsified medical documents from the nurse attempting to hide her involvement in the deaths, including altering time reports to make it appear as though they occurred when she was not there.
Text messages and social media activity also coincided with the attacks, some of which seemed to live blog the events. This activity, according to CPS, showed the nurse had an “intrusive curiosity about the parents of babies she had harmed.”

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A British nurse has been convicted of murdering seven infants between 2015 and 2016 – and attempting to murder six more.
The 33-year-old nurse, who will not be named per Daily Wire policy, became the United Kingdom’s worst serial killer of babies in recent times after she was convicted in 14 out of the 22 counts she faced, People Magazine <a href="https://people.com/crime/lucy-letby-nurse-found-guilty-murdering-infants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The trial took 10 months to complete at Manchester Crown Court, with the 11-person jury failing to reach verdicts on six additional counts of attempted murder. She was also found not guilty on two counts of attempted murder.
The woman, who worked as a nurse in the neonatal ward of the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, England, would inject air into babies’ blood and stomachs, overfeed them with milk, physically assault them, and poison them with insulin, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/uk/lucy-letby-nurse-guilty-gbr-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Seven babies died as a result of the nurse&#8217;s acts, leading to seven guilty convictions for murder. She was also found guilty on seven counts of attempted murder relating to six additional babies, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in <a href="https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/lucy-letby-found-guilty-baby-murders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a> on Friday.
During a police investigation, authorities found handwritten notes in the nurse&#8217;s home, including one that read, “I am evil I did this.”
During the trial, which started last October, jurors were told that doctors at the hospital where the nurse worked began noticing an unusually high number of babies dying or unexpectedly collapsing. After finding no medical explanation, the hospital called the police.
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“[The nurse] sought to deceive her colleagues and pass off the harm she caused as nothing more than a worsening of each baby’s existing vulnerability,” Pascale Jones, the senior crown prosecutor, said in a statement. “In her hands, innocuous substances like air, milk, fluids &#8211; or medication like insulin &#8211; would become lethal. She perverted her learning and weaponized her craft to inflict harm, grief and death.”
At trial, prosecutors introduced evidence showing that prior to being attacked, the babies were perfectly healthy, and for those who recovered from the nurse&#8217;s attempts to kill them, their recovery was too rapid for the harm to have been natural. Investigators also found falsified medical documents from the nurse attempting to hide her involvement in the deaths, including change time reports to make it appear as though they occurred when she was not there.
Text messages and social media activity also coincided with the attacks, some of which seemed to live blog the events. This activity, according to CPS, showed the nurse had an “intrusive curiosity about the parents of babies she had harmed.”
“To the families of the victims &#8211; I hope your unimaginable suffering is eased in some way by the verdicts. Our thoughts remain with you,&#8221; Chief Crow Prosecutor Jonathan Storer said in a statement. “Our prosecution team and police investigators have my respect and gratitude. These convictions could not have happened without their dedication to securing justice.”

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A 16-year-old British girl with autism was taken into custody earlier this week after saying a police officer looked like a lesbian. 
The girl’s mother uploaded a video to TikTok showing seven West Yorkshire Police officers entering their home and dragging the autistic girl away for a “homophobic public order offense.” Police had initially driven the girl home after her sister alerted them because she was concerned the autistic girl was acting in “unsafe ways.” Upon arriving at her home, the teenager reportedly made a comment about one of the female officers escorting her.
“She said ‘I think she’s a lesbian like nanna Julie,&#8217;” the girl’s mother said, <a href="https://reduxx.info/uk-autistic-teen-girl-brutally-arrested-by-police-for-homophobic-remark/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Reduxx. “I just felt a jolt on my back… the officer had launched herself in my home at me and Amanda. She was grabbing her.” 
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She told Reduxx that her child was in custody for 20 hours despite not knowing what the charges were.
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The mother, who goes by Nikita Snow on social media, said her daughter ran and hid under the stairs and began apologizing to the officer, but the female officer insisted that the teenager would be placed under arrest. 
“She’s getting arrested,” she said. “Another unit’s coming, don’t worry … I’m telling you another unit is coming, she is going to get arrested tonight.”
“She’s got autism, can you just stand there please? She’s in a cupboard, she can’t go anywhere,” Snow said. “You’re going to remove her for what? Because she said the word lesbian? Her nana is a lesbian, she’s married to a woman. She’s not homophobic!”
Footage of the incident showed the West Yorkshire police taking the girl out of the house as Snow tells them that she suffers from scoliosis. The girl then fell to the ground and grabbed her shoulder as police attempted to take her into custody. 
She “was never read her rights, was not cautioned, and the police woman did not have a warrant and was not invited inside [my home],” according to Snow, who said police kept her daughter in custody for 20 hours. The young girl was finally released &#8220;pending further inquiries and advice from the Crown Prosecution Service,&#8221; police said.
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U.K. <a href="https://www.cps.gov.uk/publication/public-statement-prosecuting-homophobic-biphobic-and-transphobic-hate-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a> defines a homophobic hate crime as &#8220;Any incident/crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards a person because of their sexual orientation or transgender identity or perceived sexual orientation or transgender identity by the victim or any other person.&#8221;
The West Yorkshire Police <a href="https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/statement-social-media-video-leeds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> that the video posted on social media “only provides a very limited snapshot of the circumstances of this incident.” The department said it would review the bodycams of the officers and “ask that people avoid reaching any conclusions about it solely on the basis of the social media video.”
The police statement said the teenager appeared to be intoxicated and was “putting herself at risk.” The statement acknowledged that she was arrested “on suspicion of a homophobic public order offense.”
“West Yorkshire Police takes its responsibilities around the welfare of young people taken into custody and around neurodiversity very seriously,” the statement continued. “We also maintain that our officers and staff should not have to face abuse while working to keep our communities safe.”

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British <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">actress</a> Amanda Abbington deleted her X account after being attacked by the outrage mob for being a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transphobe</a>.” 
The 49-year-old “Sherlock” star was facing intense scrutiny after it was announced that she was cast in the upcoming season of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.K.</a>-based reality competition show “Strictly Come Dancing,” which is similar to “Dancing with the Stars.”
Critics accused Abbington of being a “TERF” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) and transphobe for expressing her objections to a &#8220;12-year-old&#8221; participating in a drag performance that was sexually suggestive, according to the actress. 
The actress deleted her X account and addressed fans via Instagram, saying she believed drag was “brilliant” and “an art form.” 
She also said that while she believes drag &#8220;absolutely has a place in the entertainment industry,&#8221; she does not support minors performing in a &#8220;sexualized&#8221; manner.
Abbington specifically addressed critics who threatened to boycott “Strictly Come Dancing” because she would be on it. 
&#8220;I’m sorry if you feel like you would boycott &#8216;Strictly&#8217; for a tweet I made about a drag show,&#8221; she said, insisting that her criticism didn’t extend to trans-identified adults or drag performers. “I am not a transphobic person, I am a firm supporter of the legitimate trans community. I always have been,” she added.
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&#8220;I think they have been infiltrated by some people who want to cause damage and want to cause trouble and pit people off of each other and cause as much harm as possible. But I would support any trans person who is feeling persecuted or not listened to or not seen,&#8221; Abbington said.
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&#8220;I&#8217;m not a hateful person,&#8221; she insisted. Abbington explained that she left X because she didn&#8217;t &#8220;like it over there anymore.&#8221;
&#8220;What we need to do now more than ever is just make sure that everybody is looking after each other,&#8221; the actress said. &#8220;It’s f***ing toxic out there. It’s horrible.&#8221;
Abbington also alluded to comments she made in 2020 about women not having penises. She had previously apologized for those comments and she did “research” and was “better informed” on the matter. 
&#8220;I&#8217;ve said stupid things and instantly regret them. Everybody&#8217;s learning,&#8221; she said in the most recent video. 
&#8220;I am an ally of the LGBTQ community,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Everybody does stupid things but it&#8217;s what you do after that is important and how you address them. I&#8217;m not transphobic &#8230; I think there&#8217;s a place for everybody as long as we&#8217;re aware of each other and we look after each other and don&#8217;t go for each other in a hateful way. So I&#8217;m sorry.&#8221;

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The U.K. Defense Ministry intended to send a batch of emails to the Pentagon, but a typo led to the emails being sent to the government of Mali, which maintains close ties to Moscow. 
British officials mistakenly left out the “i” in the Pentagon’s domain name “.mil,” sending the military emails to Mali, which uses the domain name “.ml,” the Times U.K. <a href="https://archive.ph/yZFB5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. This is the second time this month that emails intended for the Pentagon have been mistakenly sent to Mali because of the same typing error. Millions of emails, including ones with sensitive information, that were intended for the Pentagon were sent to Mali earlier this month, according to a Financial Times <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ab62af67-ed2a-42d0-87eb-c762ac163cf0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a>. 
“We have opened an investigation after a small number of emails were mistakenly forwarded to an incorrect email domain,” a spokesman for the Defense Ministry said, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-investigates-after-mali-gets-defence-emails-meant-pentagon-2023-07-28/?taid=64c38269e6cfe30001c44171&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Reuters. 
Most of the emails sent to the Mali government contained harmless information such as the dates of when Defense Ministry and Foreign Ministry employees were on vacation, but the Times reported that some of the emails mistakenly sent to the Russian ally from the British government contained detailed information on British research into hypersonic missiles — a claim the U.K. denied.
“This report misleadingly claims state secrets were sent to Mali’s email domain. We assess fewer than 20 routine emails were sent to an incorrect domain &amp; are confident there was no breach of operational security or disclosure of technical data,” the ministry <a href="https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1684858941480615937" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Friday. “An investigation is ongoing. Emails of this kind are not classified at secret or above.”
The problem arising from the similar domain names between the Pentagon and the Mali government has been an issue for a decade, according to Johannes Zuurbier, a Dutch internet entrepreneur who had a contract giving him control of Mali’s domain for the past 10 years. Since January, Zuurbier has been keeping track of misdirected emails that have gone to the “.ml” site, and held nearly 117,000 misdirected emails before control of the domain reverted back to Mali on Monday, The Financial Times reported.
“This risk is real and could be exploited by adversaries of the US,” Zuurbier wrote to the U.S. in early July. 
The Mali government was one of six African countries promised free grain by Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week, the Times U.K. reported. Colonel Assimi Goïta, who rules the country, has relied on the Russian mercenary group Wagner to help him maintain control in the unstable Western African nation.
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“Any future mistypes could be seen by the Malian government and the only way to prevent a security leak is to warn people about the dangers of using ‘ml,’” Zuurbier said. “Mali can share whatever sensitive material they receive with any adversaries of the US from now on.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-spacey-discusses-his-image-in-wake-of-sexual-abuse-scandals-in-10-years-it-wont-mean-anything" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Spacey</a> was acquitted on all nine charges in his sexual assault trial in the United Kingdom.
In a courtroom on Wednesday, the 64-year-old actor reportedly wept after Justice Mark Wall told the Hollywood star that he was cleared of all charges and concluded that the &#8220;defendant may be discharged,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/kevin-spacey-uk-trial-verdict-not-guilty-1235543727/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.
After exiting the courtroom, Spacey spoke to the press and thanked his legal team, the jury, and the court staff.
&#8220;I imagine that many of you can understand that there is a lot for me to process after what has happened today, but I would like to say that I&#8217;m enormously grateful to the jury for having taken the time to examine all of the evidence and all of the facts carefully before they reached their decision and I am humbled by the outcome today,&#8221; Spacey said, per <a href="https://people.com/kevin-spacey-uk-sexual-assault-trial-verdict-7556772?hid=4f90b78dc31e627328d98338e1fa49d03b364abc&amp;did=9790540-20230726&amp;utm_campaign=ppl-breakingnews_relationship-builder&amp;utm_source=ppl&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=072623&amp;lctg=4f90b78dc31e627328d98338e1fa49d03b364abc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People</a> magazine.
&#8220;I also want to thank the staff inside this courthouse, the security and all those who took care of us every single day, my legal team, Evan Lowenstein and Lucy for being here every day,&#8221; he added.
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Spacey previously pleaded not guilty to 9 counts stemming from allegations that he had sexually assaulted four men between 2004 and 2013 in London, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/actor-kevin-spacey-acquitted-all-nine-sexual-offence-charges-london-trial-2023-07-26/?taid=64c1317bbbd95200010df6dc&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> noted. The allegations ranged from unwanted touching to aggressive fondling to, in one case, performing oral sex on an unconscious actor.
The &#8220;House of Cards&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-spacey-must-pay-tens-of-millions-of-dollars-to-house-of-cards-producers-after-alleged-sexual-misconduct-on-set" target="_blank" rel="noopener">star</a> originally faced 12 charges when the trial started in June, People Magazine noted. During the trial, an indecent assault charge was added. However, all four indecent assault charges were later dropped due to a &#8220;legal technicality.&#8221;
Spacey denied all allegations against him, labeling two of them consensual and another a &#8220;clumsy pass.&#8221;
&#8220;While I am disappointed with [the Crown Prosecution Service&#8217;s] decision to move forward, I will voluntarily appear in the U.K. as soon as can be arranged and defend myself against these charges, which I am confident will prove my innocence,&#8221; Spacey said on <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/kevin-spacey-voluntarily-court-sexual-assault-charges-85056782" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Good Morning America</a> when the charges were announced.
Spacey was one of the most prominent figures accused of sexual misconduct during the start of the #MeToo era.  In November 2017, he was fired from the Netflix series &#8220;House of Cards&#8221; following a string of sexual assault and misconduct allegations against him.
One such accusation came from &#8220;Star Trek: Discovery&#8221; star Anthony Rapp, who accused Spacey of making a sexual advance toward him at a party in 1986, when Rapp was 14. Spacey denies the allegations. Rapp brought a civil lawsuit against Spacey but lost the case in 2022 when the actor was found not liable for battery, People noted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-spacey-pleads-not-guilty-in-uk-sexual-assault-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Spacey Pleads Not Guilty In UK Sexual Assault Case</a>

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An amusement park in the United Kingdom said it would no longer participate in Pride events after children witnessed an explicit drag performance by a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/drag-queens-debate-matt-walshs-famous-query-what-is-a-woman-on-tim-pools-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drag queen</a> named Crystal.
The owner of Adventure Island in Southend on Sea, Essex, has &#8220;humbly&#8221; apologized to his loyal customers for hiring the performer that left parents &#8220;horrified,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12310799/EXCLUSIVE-Family-theme-park-apologises-drag-queen-act-left-parents-horrified-Boss-confirms-not-future-Pride-celebrations-Ru-Pauls-Drag-Race-UK-star-used-angle-grinder-crotch-show.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a> reported.
In a statement to the outlet, Philip Miller, executive chairman of Adventure Island, said there had been &#8220;confusion&#8221; as to &#8220;what we would allow or not.&#8221;
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&#8220;The grinding act was most definitely a nonstarter as we are ostensibly a family park and that is just not family entertainment,&#8221; Miller&#8217;s statement added.
&#8220;Rest assured we will not be rebooking this act or participate in any future PRIDE celebrations it&#8217;s just not for us, we tried to be inclusive but it has backfired on us.&#8221;
The apology comes after footage of an &#8220;all ages family friendly&#8221; drag show on Saturday surfaced online.
The video shows Crystal, who performed on the first season of the BBC&#8217;s Ru Paul&#8217;s Drag Race, scantily clad wearing fishnet tights, a leotard and high heels reportedly &#8220;wielding an angle grinder.&#8221;
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The drag queen, performing to the tune of the Scissor Sisters&#8217; hit Filthy/Gorgeous, can be seen making pelvic thrusting motions with his hips. According to the Daily Mail, Crystal &#8220;ran his hand up and down the angle grinder&#8221; then strikes it against his metal plate fixed to his crotch and made sparks fly.
One mother-of-two told the Daily Mail she loved the place, but would not return after seeing the clip.
&#8220;I won&#8217;t be going back and I won&#8217;t be taking my kids there,&#8221; she reportedly told the outlet.
&#8220;That is a line you don&#8217;t cross,&#8221; she added. &#8220;That tells me everything you need to know about how they value children.&#8221;
The drag queen in the video rejected the idea that his performance was inappropriate, telling the outlet, &#8220;My act is no different to what you might see on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent, from Lady Gaga on MTV, or from a street performer in Covent Garden.&#8221;
&#8220;This is deemed &#8216;sexual&#8217; solely because I was performing in drag,'&#8221; Crystal added, noting it was his third year booked at the park for its Pride events.

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One of the U.K.’s largest banks <a href="https://talk.tv/news/23195/metro-bank-refuses-to-open-account-for-gender-critical-parents-nigel-farage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused</a> to open an account with a conservative parent group because of its stances on gender ideology, the group claims.
Metro Bank, Britain’s seventh largest bank, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12264723/Metro-Bank-blocks-gender-critical-parents-opening-account-signing-Stonewall-scheme.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">would not</a> open a business account for <a href="https://ourduty.group/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Our Duty</a>, an international network of over 2,000 parents that advocates against gender transitions for minors, according to the organization’s founder Keith Jordan.
“The content of your website conflicts with the culture and ideas we are pushing,” a Metro Bank employee <a href="https://twitter.com/OurDutyGrp/status/1676183710620590083" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly</a> told the organization. “The bank has staff networks for diversity and inclusion including for LGBTQ staff.”
“The bank was making it patently clear that they consider only one worldview to be valid. If it were truly a champion of diversity and inclusion, it would accept our diverse views and be keen to include us,&#8221; the organization responded. “It seems that Our Duty is the latest casualty in the LGBTQ+ staff networks&#8217; war on differing views.”
On top of the bank&#8217;s reported refusal to open a business account with Our Duty, Jordan said that their existing &#8220;community account&#8221; with Metro Bank is “under review.” The bank told Jordan via email that Our Duty&#8217;s account violated guidelines that forbid community account holders from being &#8220;linked to, or influenc[ing] political policies or legislations,&#8221; The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/03/most-high-street-banks-signed-up-stonewall-diversity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Last month, the bank of 2.5 million customers joined the Stonewall <a href="https://www.stonewall.org.uk/join-diversity-champions-programme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diversity Champion Program</a>, a controversial scheme that promotes left-wing LGBTQ agenda items in the workplace. In 2021, the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59232736" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left</a> the program over concerns that the publication could not be neutral in public debates due to its affiliation with Stonewall.
Metro Bank’s alleged denial comes amid <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12262157/Equalities-chief-fathers-rights-charity-UKIP-councillor-claim-bank-accounts-shut.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> of British banks shutting the accounts of people based on their political or moral views, including an equalities commissioner, fathers’ rights charity, and UKIP councilor.
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) recently shut down the account of Scotland’s Equality and Human Rights Commissioner Dr. Lesley Sawers, who works on women’s and LGBT issues. Sawers’ husband claimed RBS told him that she has “a mark against her name.”
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The CEO of Families Needs Fathers, an organization that helps children maintain relationships with both parents after a divorce, told the Daily Mail that HSBC shut down their account in April “without any warning.”
Former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage <a href="https://talk.tv/news/23072/what-is-the-real-reason-coutts-closed-nigel-farages-bank-account" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that Coutts bank closed his accounts and that nine other banks refused to open accounts with him because of his political views.
The British government is currently <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12258933/Rishi-Sunak-issues-warning-banks-blacklisting-customers-controversial-views.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigating</a> banks for shutting down accounts because of their customers’ views on politics, Brexit, and gender ideology. However, the issue of banks retaliating against its customers for their political views is not limited to the U.K.
According to the Daily Mail, a whistleblower from Santander — an American bank — said that the bank is on a “really toxic path” and has been “policing the political views of their customers.” He also said that LGBT activists pressured the company to close the account of a customer who told the company that “banks shouldn’t support political causes” in reaction to Pride flags at one of Santander’s branches.
In 2022, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau worked with banks to freeze the accounts of those who protested his COVID mandates. According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/world/americas/justin-trudeau-emergencies-act-canada.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>, Canadian police officers exchanged protesters’ personal information with banks, and insurance companies were required to revoke coverage for vehicles used in protests.

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The Russian Navy is “likely” training combat dolphins to intercept enemy divers in the Black Sea, according to the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence">U.K. Ministry of Defence</a>.
The information came in an “<a href="https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1672118745991397376/photo/3">Intelligence Update</a>” from the ministry on Friday, which revealed imagery around the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s main naval base at Sevastopol, Crimea.
“Russia has trained animals for a range of missions, but the ones housed in Sevastopol harbour are highly likely intended to counter enemy divers,” the statement said.
The intelligence gathered by the U.K. showed nets, booms, and marine mammal pens used to defend the base and train dolphins for military purposes. The ministry’s post stated,“This includes at least four layers of nets and booms across the harbour entrance. In recent weeks, these defences have highly likely also been augmented by an increased number of trained marine mammals.”
The U.S. Naval Institute (USNI) reviewed the imagery and <a href="https://news.usni.org/2022/04/27/trained-russian-navy-dolphins-are-protecting-black-sea-naval-base-satellite-photos-show">confirmed</a> the intelligence, concluding that Russia moved the two dolphin pens to Sevastopol in February. According to the USNI, the dolphins could “be tasked with counter-diver operations” and “prevent Ukrainian special operations forces from infiltrating the harbor underwater to sabotage warships.”
The Sevastopol base is the Russian Navy’s most important naval base in Crimea and stores many high value Russian ships. The base is seen as especially vulnerable to Ukrainian sabotage since it is out of range of Ukrainian missiles.
“Imagery shows a near doubling of floating mammal pens in the harbour which highly likely contain bottle-nosed dolphins,” the statement continued. The suspected dolphin training comes alongside heightened security in Sevastopol following Ukrainian drone strikes in April, according to <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/world/2023/06/26/russia-dolphins-ukraine-war-uk/70356695007/">The Tennessean</a>. 
Bottle-nosed dolphins can detect underwater mines and enemy swimmers using echolocation — sounds the dolphin emits and then bounce back to the dolphin. According to the <a href="https://www.niwcpacific.navy.mil/marine-mammal-program/">Naval Information Warfare Center</a>, dolphins have the most sophisticated sonar known to science. 
Russia has previously used Beluga whales and seals in the Arctic Ocean for naval surveillance missions. A Beluga whale made <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56956365">headlines</a> in 2021 when it appeared on the coast of Norway when it appeared to be used for Russian intelligence. Locals nicknamed the whale “Hvaldimir” and freed the whale from its camera-bearing harness.
This isn’t the first time dolphins have been used in a military context. The U.S. studied and trained dolphins and beluga whales to improve their own sonar technology and improve their vessels’ speed, according to “<a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/whales/etc/navycron.html">A Whale of Business</a>,” a PBS’ episode of “Frontline.”
The Marine Mammal Program (MMP), starting in 1960, “also trained dolphins, beluga whales, sea lions and other marine mammals to perform various underwater tasks, including delivering equipment to divers underwater, locating and retrieving lost objects, guarding boats and submarines, and doing underwater surveillance using a camera held in their mouths.”
According to PBS, the MMP had over 100 dolphins and operated with an $8 million budget in the 1980s, playing a key surveillance role in the Cold War. 
The U.S. Navy used bottlenose dolphins in the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars to patrol waters, alert guards, and tag enemy swimmers with a tracking device so American troops could capture or neutralize the swimmer. Though the Navy denies it, the episode claims that dolphins were also trained to shoot enemy swimmers.

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Hikers in southern California found human remains over the weekend in the area where British star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/room-with-a-view-actor-julian-sands-reported-missing-on-icy-california-mountain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julian Sands</a> went missing in January.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff&#8217;s Department released a <a href="https://local.nixle.com/alert/10161741/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on Saturday saying, &#8220;Civilian hikers contacted the Fontana Sheriff&#8217;s Station after they discovered human remains in the Mt. Baldy wilderness.&#8221;
&#8220;The decedent was transported to the Coroner&#8217;s Office, pending positive identification,&#8221; it added. &#8220;Identification should be completed next week at which time we will update this press release.&#8221;
The news comes after Sands&#8217; family released a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/julian-sands-missing-california-mountains-search-1dd3af640f752394e5d8fe11a26006bd">statement</a> on Friday thanking the sheriff&#8217;s office for resuming the search after &#8220;extreme alpine conditions&#8221; had hampered efforts over the last few months.
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&#8220;We continue to hold Julian in our hearts with bright memories of him as a wonderful father, husband, explorer, lover of the natural world and the arts, and as an original and collaborative performer,&#8221; the statement from his family read.
Last week, the sheriff&#8217;s department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/search-resumes-for-british-actor-julian-sands-after-extreme-alpine-conditions-hampered-efforts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it &#8220;continued ongoing search efforts in the Mount Baldy wilderness&#8221; for the missing hiker.
&#8220;Unfortunately, Mr. Sands was not located,&#8221; it added. &#8220;Saturday&#8217;s search included over 80 Search and Rescue volunteers, deputies, and staff. Their efforts were supported by two helicopters and drone crews. Aviation resources inserted search teams into remote areas across Mount Baldy and conducted aerial search and assessments efforts. Additionally, drone crews searched areas inaccessible to ground crews.&#8221;
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&#8220;Despite the recent warmer weather, portions of the mountain remain inaccessible due to extreme alpine conditions,&#8221; the release added. &#8220;Multiple areas include steep terrain and ravines, which still have 10 plus feet of ice and snow.&#8221;
The release concluded that since January, when the &#8220;Room With a View&#8221; star went missing after going for a hike, the agency had conducted eight ground and air searches for Sands, and efforts have included more than 500 volunteer searcher hours.
The sheriff&#8217;s office said Sands&#8217; missing person&#8217;s case remains active.

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