Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) sent a letter to the British ambassador to the United States on Friday asking the government of the United Kingdom to stop Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, from weighing in on the 2020 presidential election.
&#8220;I am writing to express concern with Their Royal Highness The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their continued interference in the United States presidential election,&#8221; Smith began.
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Prince Harry and Megan Markle are using foreign titles to campaign against President Trump and interfere with our election. Today, I asked the British Government to put a stop to it. 
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&mdash; Rep. Jason Smith (@RepJasonSmith) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJasonSmith/status/1314597066178547714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;As you know, the British Royal Family has long observed a policy of strict neutrality in regard to political matters,&#8221; Smith continued. &#8220;I am therefore concerned by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex&#8217;s recent comments regarding the United States Presidential Election, especially given international conversations surrounding foreign interference in our elections and the Duke&#8217;s status as a guest of the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;Last month, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex recorded a joint broadcast urging American citizens to register to vote and to, &#8216;reject hate speech, misinformation, and online registry.&#8217; The Duchess of Sussex, whose political opinions are thinly disguised and widely reported, went so far as to label the 2020 election the, &#8216;most important election of our lifetime.&#8217; These actions represent a serious breach of the British Royal Family&#8217;s policy of political neutrality and an inappropriate act of domestic interference by one of our closest allies.&#8221;
&#8220;Additionally, while I understand the Duke and Duchess no longer utilize the style of His or Her Royal Highness, they nevertheless retain these prefixes and remain known as The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. It is also my understanding that the Royal Family has stated these comments were made in a personal capacity of Her Majesty the Queen, given with the advice and consent of her government, prevent the Duke and Duchess of Sussex from separating comments made in a personal capacity from their official position within the British Royal Family.&#8221;
Smith went so far as to demand that Queen Elizabeth even consider stripping Harry and Meghan of their royal titles if they refuse to stop offering their opinion on American politics.
President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-torches-meghan-markle-i-wish-a-lot-of-luck-to-harry-because-hes-gonna-need-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">has hit at the duke and duchess recently</a>, offering his condolences to Prince Harry for being married to Markle.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-torches-meghan-markle-i-wish-a-lot-of-luck-to-harry-because-hes-gonna-need-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire reported</a>:
<blockquote>&#8220;Prince Harry and Meghan Markle chimed in on the U.S. election and essentially encouraged people to vote for Joe Biden,&#8221; a reporter said to Trump. &#8220;I want to get your reaction to that.&#8221;
Trump responded, &#8220;I’m not a fan of hers and I would say this, and she probably has heard that, but I wish a lot of luck to Harry … because he’s going to need it.&#8221;
Markle, who despises the president, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8763835/PIERS-MORGAN-Queen-no-option-strip-Harry-Meghan-royal-titles.html">said</a> in the video that Trump was asked about: “We’re just six weeks out from Election Day and today is National Voter Registration Day. Every four years we are told the same thing, that this is the most important election of our lifetime. But this one is. When we vote, our values are put into action and our voices are heard. Your voice is a reminder that you matter, because you do, and you deserve to be heard.”</blockquote>
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Reporter: &quot;Prince Harry and Meghan Markle chimed in on the U.S. election and essentially encouraging people to vote for Joe Biden. I wanted to get your reaction to that.&quot;
Trump: &quot;I&#39;m not a fan of hers&#8230;I wish a lot of luck to Harry because he&#39;s going to need it.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/AqO0ORI1jB">pic.twitter.com/AqO0ORI1jB</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1308897338132492288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Break quarantine, pay money &#8212; a lot of money.
That&#8217;s what the United Kingdom&#8217;s government wants. Top officials have announced a plan to fine people up to 10,000 pounds ($13,000) if they refuse an order to self-isolate, Stars and Stripes <a href="https://www.stripes.com/news/europe/uk-to-fine-quarantine-breakers-up-to-13-000-1.645804">reports</a>.
The new rule orders all residents to undergo quarantine if they test positive for COVID-19 &#8212; or even if they are traced to have had contact with someone who tests positive. The rule takes effect Sept. 28.
&#8220;The government will help those on lower incomes who face a loss of earnings as a result of self-isolating with a one-time support payment of $633,&#8221; Stars reports.
The new move comes as COVID-19 cases are rising in the U.K., hitting 4,422 one day last week, the highest since early May.
Health minister Matt Hancock on Sunday said Britain is at a tipping point on COVID-19 and warned that a second national lockdown could be imposed. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is calling the new spike in cases a &#8220;second wave,&#8221; and officials across Britain have enacted stricter lockdown measures.
“The nation faces a tipping point and we have a choice,” Hancock <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-hancock/britain-is-at-covid-19-tipping-point-health-minister-says-idUSKCN26B092">told</a> Sky News. “The choice is either that everybody follows the rules &#8230; or we will have to take more measures.”
Said Johnson: “People who choose to ignore the rules will face significant fines.&#8221;
“We need to do all we can to control the spread of this virus, to prevent the most vulnerable people from becoming infected, and to protect the NHS and save lives. And while most people are doing their absolute level best to comply with the rules, I don’t want to see a situation where people don’t feel they are financially able to self-isolate,&#8221; the prime minister said.
Rules on social gatherings are tightening across the country, and several cities and regions in Britain have had  &#8220;local lockdowns: imposed, limiting &#8220;even more strictly when, where, and how many people can meet up socially,&#8221; Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-hancock/britain-is-at-covid-19-tipping-point-health-minister-says-idUSKCN26B092">reported</a>.
Other nations have enacted strict rules after COVID-19 cases began to rise. Melbourne, Australia, underwent a near-total lockdown for six weeks, which ended Sept. 13. The rules:
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<li>Only one person from a household is allowed to shop per day.</li>
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Some U.S. cities have also enacted steep fines for violating COVID-19 regulations.
West Hollywood, California, in July, began fining residents for not wearing masks. For a first offense, there’s a $250 fine plus $50 processing fee, the sheriff’s department said in a statement. The second offense brings a $1,000 fine, the third a $2,000 fine — and for a fourth offense, a whopping $5,000 fine.
The sheriff’s department said they simply had no other choice but to implement fines. “Our last option was to conduct enforcement by issuing an Administrative Citation, but the risk to community health is too great,” the statement said.
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On Thursday, the United States and the United Kingdom condemned a recent Russian satellite test in space. The alleged &#8220;space weapon&#8221; was fired from a Russian Kosmos 2543 satellite last week.
The Russian test featured the release of an object from Kosmos 2543 that moved &#8220;faster than its parent satellite,&#8221; signaling that &#8220;the projectile may be more insidious than just another inspector satellite,&#8221; <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/23/21335506/russia-anti-satellite-weapon-test-kosmos-2543">The Verge</a> reported. The test &#8220;stands out as different from all the other rendezvous and proximity operations that have been going on,&#8221; said Brian Weeden, director of program planning for the Secure World Foundation.
&#8220;The Russian satellite system used to conduct this on-orbit weapons test is the same satellite system that we raised concerns about earlier this year, when Russia maneuvered near a U.S. government satellite,&#8221; said General Jay Raymond, U.S. Space Force chief of space operations, <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/23/russian-satellite-test-launch-threatens-peaceful-use-space-13030268/">Metro</a> reported. &#8220;This is further evidence of Russia’s continuing efforts to develop and test space-based systems, and consistent with the Kremlin’s published military doctrine to employ weapons that hold U.S. and allied space assets at risk.&#8221;
Dr. Christopher Ford, the U.S. assistant secretary of state, echoed, “This event highlights Russia’s hypocritical advocacy of outer space arms control, with which Moscow aims to restrict the capabilities of the United States while clearly having no intention of halting its own counterspace program.”
U.S. Space Command also <a href="https://www.barrons.com/news/us-accuses-russia-of-firing-anti-satellite-weapon-in-space-01595547908?refsec=afp-news">issued a statement</a> on the test of the alleged weapon. &#8220;Last week&#8217;s test is another example that the threats to U.S. and Allied space systems are real, serious and increasing,&#8221; the statement reads. &#8220;Russia&#8217;s development and testing of orbital weapons highlights the importance of establishing the U.S. Space Force as a new branch of the armed forces and the U.S. Space Command as the nation&#8217;s unified combatant command for space. It is a shared interest and responsibility of all spacefaring nations to create the conditions for a safe, stable, and operationally sustainable space environment.&#8221;
Air Vice Marshal Harvey Smyth, who assumed the new post of Director Space, U.K., in the Ministry of Defense in February, said in response to the test, &#8220;We are concerned by the manner in which Russia tested one of its satellites by launching a projectile with the characteristics of a weapon. Actions of this kind threaten the peaceful use of space and risk causing debris that could pose a threat to satellites and the space systems on which the world depends. We call on Russia to avoid any further such testing. We also urge Russia to continue to work constructively with the UK and other partners to encourage responsible behaviour in space.”
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“The threat against space is regretfully real, our adversaries are weaponizing space and we are deeply vulnerable in the West from those types of actions because we rely so much on space assets,” U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told the House of Commons on Thursday.
&#8220;This is using a satellite as a space weapon,&#8221; one source from U.K. defense told the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8553793/Putin-tests-anti-satellite-weapon-space-UK-say-Russia-threatened-peace-space.html">Daily Mail</a>. &#8220;It is a step in the direction of turning space into a new frontline.&#8221;
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The British government announced early on Tuesday that it was banning Chinese-state telecommunications company Huawei from its high-speed 5G telecommunications network.
&#8220;The new U.S. measures restrict Huawei&#8217;s ability to produce important products using U.S. technology or software,&#8221; Media Secretary Oliver Dowden told the House of Commons. &#8220;The National Cyber Security Center has reviewed the consequences of the U.S.&#8217;s actions. The NCSC has not reported to ministers that they have significantly changed their security assessment of Huawei&#8217;s presence in the U.K.&#8217;s 5G network.&#8221;
&#8220;Given the uncertainty that this creates around Huawei&#8217;s supply chain, the U.K. can no longer be confident it will be able to guarantee the security of future Huawei 5G equipment effected by the change in U.S. foreign direct product roles,&#8221; Dowden said. &#8220;To manage this risk, they have now issued new advice on the issue of Huawei in U.K. telecomms networks.&#8221;
&#8220;So, this morning, the prime minister chaired a meeting of the national security council,&#8221; Dowden continued. &#8220;Attendees at that meeting took full account of the National Cyber Security Center&#8217;s advice, together with the implications for U.K. industry, and wider geostrategic considerations. The government agrees with the National Cyber Security Center&#8217;s advice, the best way to secure out networks is for operators to stop using new [inaudible] Huawei equipment to build the U.K.&#8217;s future 5G networks.&#8221;
&#8220;So, to be clear, from the end of this year, telecomms operators must not buy any 5G equipment from Huawei, and once the telecomms security bill is passed, it will be illegal for them to do so,&#8221; Dowden added.
&#8220;In addition to intense pressure from Washington, the Chinese crackdown in Hong Kong and Beijing’s lack of transparency on the origins of the coronavirus have added to concerns in Western capitals about using Chinese technology,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/britain-to-bar-huawei-from-its-5g-wireless-networks-part-of-a-growing-shift-away-from-the-chinese-tech-giant/2020/07/13/44f6afee-c448-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html">reported</a>. &#8220;Britain said it will phase out over the next seven years the small amount of Huawei 5G equipment installed in recent months.&#8221;
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&quot;The best way to secure our networks is for operators to stop using new affected Huawei equipment to build the UK&#39;s future 5G networks&quot;
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The news came as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-pompeo-sends-communist-china-strong-message-on-their-claims-in-south-china-sea">delivered</a> a blow to the Chinese Communist Party at the start of the week, informing the totalitarian nation that its claims in the South China Sea were “completely unlawful.”
In a speech from earlier this year, Attorney General William Barr said that China&#8217;s rapid advancement in trying to dominate the 5G market was the greatest national security threat that the U.S. faced. Partial <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ag-barr-highlights-greatest-threat-to-u-s-should-vastly-outweigh-all-other-priorities">remarks</a> delivered by Barr in February below:
<blockquote>5G technology lies at the center of the technological and industrial world that is taking shape. In essence, communications networks are not just for communications anymore. They are evolving into the central nervous system of the next generation of internet, called the “Industrial Internet,” and the next generation of industrial systems that will depend on that infrastructure. China has built up a lead in 5G, capturing 40 percent of the global 5G infrastructure market. For the first time in history, the United States is not leading the next technology era.
Much of the discussion on the dangers of allowing China to establish dominance in 5G has been focused on the immediate security concern of using communications networks that China can monitor and surveil. That is, in fact, a monumental danger. For that reason alone, we should mobilize to surmount China’s drive to dominate 5G. But the stakes are far higher than this.
It has been estimated that the Industrial Internet powered by 5G could generate new economic opportunities of $23 trillion by 2025. If China establishes sole dominance over 5G, it will be able to dominate the opportunities arising from a stunning range of emerging technologies that will be dependent on, and interwoven with the 5G platform.
From a national security standpoint, if the Industrial Internet becomes dependent on Chinese technology, China would have the ability to shut countries off from technology and equipment upon which their consumers and industry depend. The power the United States has today to use economic sanctions would pale by comparison to the unprecedented economic leverage we would be surrendering into the hands of China.
It is important to understand how 5G will enable a revolution in industrial processes.  Some Americans think that all we are talking about here is analogous to the shift from 3G to 4G in our wireless networks.  But we are talking about a change that is far more fundamental than merely increasing download speeds for movies and websites.
The move from 3G to 4G meant moving from download speeds of about one Mbps up to speeds of about 20 Mbps.  This increase made it possible to move the storage of data and some modest processing power off of devices and into “the cloud.”  Even this modest evolution of the wireless business spawned wide new fields of innovation, applications, and businesses.  Because the United States was the country that developed 4G, we were the country that captured most of the economic opportunity that flowed from that technology.
The jump to 5G is a quantum leap beyond this.  We are now talking about multi-Gigabits per second peak rates for both download and upload.  These fiber-like speeds, coupled with placing “Edge Computing” facilities closer to the users, means 5G is capable of extremely low latency – under 10 milliseconds.  With this capacity, the tiniest devices can have virtually instantaneous interconnectivity, and access infinite computing power.  With these characteristics, 5G becomes a real time, precise command and control system.
Devices of all kinds – some “smart,” some sensors collecting and transmitting data, and some actuators carrying out remote commands – can be dispersed and embedded in business and industrial equipment across a wide array of businesses, such as transportation, energy, finance, healthcare, agriculture, heavy construction, and so forth.  5G provides the command-and-control function for managing industrial processes.
As the world of 5G unfolds, we will be seeing not just smart homes, but smart farms, smart factories, smart heavy construction, smart transportation systems, and so forth.  And a host of new emerging technologies, in addition to AI, will become interwoven with and dependent upon 5G and the Industrial Internet, including for example: robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage, and quantum computing.
China has stolen a march and is now leading in 5G. 5G is an infrastructure business. It relies on a Radio Access Network (RAN).  China has two of the leading RAN infrastructure suppliers: Hwawei and ZTE.  Together, they have already captured 40 percent of the market, and are aggressively pursuing the balance.
Huawei is now the leading supplier on every continent, except North America.  The United States does not have an equipment supplier.  China’s principal competitors are the Finish firm, Nokia (with a 17 percent share) and the Swedish firm Ericsson (with a 14 percent share).
The Chinese are using every lever of power to expand their 5G market share around the globe. It is estimated that the total market for 5G infrastructure is $76 billion.  China is offering over $100 billion in incentives to finance customers’ purchases of its equipment.  This means that the Chinese can offer customers to build their 5G networks for no money down.
In an infrastructure business like 5G, scale is critical. The business requires huge investments in R &amp; D, as well as very high capital costs.  The larger a company’s market share, the better it can afford these costs.  Competitors facing a shrinking addressable market find it harder to sustain the levels of investment required to stay competitive.
Chinese companies start with the advantage of the largest domestic market, giving them instant scale, and as they add to this around the world, they will be able to invest more in their technology.
The more China gains ground as a supplier of 5G infrastructure, the more it will gain ground in all the constituent technologies that undergird 5G infrastructure.
5G rests on a stack of technologies, including semiconductors, fiber optics, and rare earth and materials.  China has moved to domesticate all these elements so it will not be dependent on foreign suppliers.
Semiconductors provide a good example of the ripple effect of Chinese leadership in 5G. China now consumes over half of the world’s semiconductors.  China has now started to replace U.S. semiconductors with its own.  Its scale in this field will permit it to make the investments needed close the current quality gap.  As China builds its scale in the semiconductor industry, it will place substantial pressure on alternative suppliers.  And, of course, semiconductors are indispensable to a wide range of technology and industries apart from 5G.
China’s success in 5G infrastructure is also translating into advantages in a range of new technologies associated with 5G.  AI is a good example.  As China captures more and more of the data generated by 5G, its AI products become better.
Within the next five years, 5G global territory and application dominance will be determined.
The question is whether, within this window, the United States and our allies can mount sufficient competition to Huawei to retain and capture enough market share to sustain the kind of long-term and robust competitive position necessary to avoid surrendering dominance to the Chinese.
The time is very short.  We and our allies have to act quickly.  While much has to be done, it is imperative to make two decisions right away.
First, we have to deploy the spectrum necessary for a robust 5G system in the U.S.  This is the mid-band spectrum called the “C-band.”
The FCC has been working hard to get the C-band spectrum out into the market through an auction.  It is critical to get this done within the next few months.  Even then, the U.S. will need 400,000 base stations to cover the nation.  This could take a decade or more to build out.
Recently, there have been interesting proposals to jump-start U.S.  5G by also making available L-band spectrum for use in tandem with the C-band.  By using the L-band for uplink, we could dramatically reduce the number of base stations required to complete national coverage.  It has been suggested that this could cut the time for U.S. 5G deployment from a decade to 18 months, and save approximately $80 million.  While some technical issues about using the L-band are being debated, it is imperative that the FCC resolves this question.
The bottom line is that we have to move decisively to auction the C-band spectrum, and bring to resolution the issues over L-band.  Our economic future is at stake.  We have to bear in mind that, given the narrow window we face, the risk of losing the 5G struggle with China should vastly outweigh all other considerations.
Second, we have to make a decision on the “horse” we are going to ride in this race.  Who is the 5G equipment supplier, or suppliers, that we will rely on to compete against Huawei around the globe, win contracts from operators, and blunt Huawei’s drive to domination?
It’s all very well to tell our friends and allies that they shouldn’t install Huawei, but whose infrastructure are they going to install?
If we and our allies – and other countries that do not want to put their economic fate in China’s hands – are not going to install Huawei’s infrastructure, we have to have a market-ready alternative today.
What is the customer looking for after all?  What is the operator looking for in moving from 4G to 5G?  It is a one-time decision.  It is a big decision.  You cannot afford to make a mistake, you need to know you are buying a reliable system that will perform, because you don’t have the luxury of tearing it out down the road.  And, you need a system that will allow you to seamlessly migrate your installed 4G base to 5G.  You need to know that your supplier has staying power – they are not here today and gone tomorrow.  They will be there for the long-haul.  Those are the products that are necessary to win contracts today.
There are only two companies that can compete with Huawei right now as 5G infrastructure suppliers: Nokia and Ericsson.  They have quality, reliable products that can guarantee performance.  They have proven successful in managing customers’ migration from 4G to 5G.  The main concern about these suppliers is that they have neither Huawei’s scale nor the backing of a powerful country with a large market, like China.
Some propose that these concerns could be met by the United States aligning itself with Nokia and/or Ericsson through American ownership of a controlling stake, either directly or through a consortium of private American and allied companies.  Putting our large market and financial muscle behind one or both of these firms would make it a more formidable competitor and eliminate concerns over its staying power.  We and our closest allies certainly need to be actively considering this approach.
Recently, there has been some talk about trying to develop an Open RAN approach, which aims to force open the RAN into its components and have those components to be developed by U.S. and western innovators.  The problem is that this is just pie in the sky.  This approach is completely untested, and would take many years to get off the ground, and would not be ready for prime time for a decade, if ever.
What we need today is a product that can win contracts right now – a proven infrastructure that network operators will make a long-term commitment to today.  In other words, we need a product that can blunt and turnaround Huawei’s momentum currently.
As a dictatorship, China can marshal an all-of-nation approach – the government, private companies, and academia acting together as one. &#8230;
If we are going to maintain our technological leadership, our economic strength, and ultimately our national security, we need the public and private sectors to work together and come shoulder to shoulder.
To our private sector friends, I would say that appeasing the PRC may come with short-term benefits, but I urge you to question the longstanding assumption that promises of market access are worth the steep costs. The PRC’s ultimate goal is to replace you with a Chinese company.
University and think-tank colleagues, do not allow the theft of technology under the guise of academic freedom. Do not allow the PRC to dictate your research or pressure you into ignoring diverse voices on controversial topics. Consider whether any sacrifice of academic integrity or freedom is worth the tradeoff.
To our allies, we applaud your efforts to stand up to China’s economic power. But we must do more, and act collectively.  Let us not forget our collective economic influence and power.
Throughout history, free societies have faced regimented adversaries.  At critical junctures, they have achieved the unity and purpose necessary to prevail, not because they have been compelled to do so, but because they freely chose to do so. We must make that choice today.
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The British government announced early on Tuesday that it was banning Chinese-state telecommunications company Huawei from its high-speed 5G

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UPDATE: Thames Valley Police state that the incident was a &#8220;terrorist incident.&#8221;
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🚨| UPDATE- Murder investigation Reading<a href="https://twitter.com/TerrorismPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TerrorismPolice</a> can now confirm that the stabbing incident that happened in Reading last night has now been declared a terrorist incident.
We continue to work together with Counter Terrorism Policing SE.
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&#8220;Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, Senior National Coordinator for the Counter Terrorism Policing network, has this morning declared the incident a terrorist incident, and CTPSE will be taking over the investigation,&#8221; Thames Valley Police <a href="https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-valley/news/2020/june/15-06-2020/update-murder-investigation---reading/">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;A 25-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of murder last night, remains in police custody at this time.&#8221;
Chief Constable John Campbell of Thames Valley Police said: “I am deeply saddened by the events of last night. This was a truly tragic incident and the thoughts of Thames Valley Police are with all those who have been affected. Incidents of this nature are very rare, though I know that will be of little comfort to those involved and understand the concern that this incident will have caused amongst our local community.  We will be working closely with our partners over the coming days and weeks to support the Reading community during this time, as well as with CTPSE as they progress their investigation.”
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Law enforcement officials and paramedics responded to a &#8220;serious incident&#8221; late on Saturday afternoon in the British town of Reading where there were reportedly multiple victims that sustained serious injures.
The Thames Valley Police said that they were investigating the incident and that they have already arrested a man who was on scene.
The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/20/reading-stabbing-three-dead-two-hospital-attack-forbury-gardens/">reported</a> that a source indicated that three people have died from the incident and two were transferred to a near by emergency room.
&#8220;Security sources have told the BBC a man arrested at the scene is thought to be Libyan,&#8221; the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-53123975">reported</a>. &#8220;Counter terrorism officers are at the scene, but the motive for the attack has not yet been confirmed.&#8221;
&#8220;A number of people sustained injuries and were taken to hospital,&#8221; the Thames Valley Police added. &#8220;A police cordon is in place in Forbury Gardens as officers investigate. We are asking the public to avoid the area at this time.&#8221;
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A number of people sustained injuries and were taken to hospital.
A police cordon is in place in Forbury Gardens as officers investigate. 
We are asking the public to avoid the area at this time.
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&#8220;Deeply concerned to hear reports of an incident in Reading,&#8221; UK Home Secretary Priti Patel said. &#8220;My thoughts are with everyone involved, including police and emergency responders at the scene.&#8221;
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted: &#8220;My thoughts are with all of those affected by the appalling incident in Reading and my thanks to the emergency services on the scene.&#8221;
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Police Responding To ‘Serious Incident’ In U.K., Multiple People Reportedly Stabbed

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Even as American cities are struggling with whether to release coronavirus-related restrictions altogether, now that most major cities have seen thousand-individual protest that, in most cases, flouted social distancing recommendations and defied shelter-in-place orders, the United Kingdom is continuing to crack down on interpersonal contact, hoping to stop the spread of COVID-19 in its tracks.
<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-sex-lockdown-illegal-093127804.html">According to Yahoo News UK</a>, on Monday, a new set of provisions went into effect criminalizing gatherings of two or more between persons of different households, effectively declaring sex between two people who do not live together illegal.
&#8220;At 11:30 am on Monday, a change to the law was introduced that bans two people from different households in England gathering in an indoor, private place during the coronavirus lockdown,&#8221; the outlet reported, adding that the new amendment to the government&#8217;s &#8220;Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) Bill&#8221; bans any &#8220;gathering which takes place in a public or private place indoors, and consists of two or more persons,&#8221; where there is no &#8220;reasonable excuse.&#8221;
The bill adds that &#8220;No person may, without reasonable excuse, stay overnight at any place other than the place where they are living.”
&#8220;An exception has not been made for couples who do not live together, meaning that they can spend time together outdoors but not inside,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-sex-lockdown-law-couples-indoors-england-a9542171.html">U.K.&#8217;s Independent added</a>. &#8220;People who have sex outside can be punished under pre-existing laws on outraging public decency and indecent exposure.&#8221;
Previously, the government prohibited all unnecessary and unreasonable travel, making this change something of a loosening overall. But, at the same time, the bill closes a loophole that left only visitors criminally liable for breaking the coronavirus lockdown and not their hosts.
That loophole caused a number of high profile issues in recent weeks.
Neil Ferguson, the U.K.&#8217;s coronavirus advisor whose Imperial model predicted millions of deaths from the novel coronavirus if strict restrictions were not put into place, was forced to resign from his position after it was revealed that he broke his own recommended lockdown to visit with his &#8220;married lover,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/uk/neil-ferguson-imperial-coronavirus-sage-gbr-intl/index.html">per CNN</a>. And last week, one of Prime Minister Boris Johnson&#8217;s top advisors caused a nationwide scandal after he admitted to breaking his boss&#8217;s lockdown to visit family hundreds of miles from his home.
Many legal experts were left speechless by the new rule.
“I can’t believe I’m about to tweet this,&#8221; one human rights lawyer posted to social media. “From tomorrow sex between two (or more) people in a private place who do not live in the same household is a ‘gathering’ between 2 or more people and is therefore illegal.”
In a later interview with the Independent, he added that the amendment “effectively restricted ordinary contact by people in relationships who do not live together,&#8221; and called the measure &#8220;a significant restriction on our rights to privacy and family life, even though it may be justified by the severity of the public health risk.&#8221;
Fortunately for lovers who simply cannot be apart, the punishment for leaving home is minimal. Violators face a $125 fine. If the fine is paid within 14 days, it&#8217;s lowered to $75. Police have also said they do not intend to go into private homes to enforce the amendment.
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U.K. Cracks Down, Declares Sex With Individuals From Outside Your Household ‘Illegal’ Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

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United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson is once again embroiled in controversy after one of his senior aides, Dominic Cummings, was discovered to have broken the PM&#8217;s lockdown order just days after it went into effect, traveling &#8220;260 miles from London to Durham, northern England in March,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/26/dominic-cummings-uk-faces-political-crisis-as-scotland-minister-quits.html">according to CNBC</a>.
Cummings has refused to step down, but the furor and frustration is so great that a &#8220;junior minister in Boris Johnson&#8217;s government resigned on Tuesday,&#8221; because he could not, in good conscience, defend the lockdown measures to his constituents, after the senior advisor&#8217;s actions.
Politicians on both sides of the pond have openly flouted lockdown rules. Most recently, in the U.S., Michigan&#8217;s Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer fell under scrutiny after a marina owner in the northern part of the state claimed her husband demanded his boat be put into the water at the couple&#8217;s vacation home, even though Whitmer had stressed, repeatedly, to Michigan residents, to avoid travel and stay home over the Memorial Day holiday.
Illinois governor, J.B. Prizker&#8217;s wife and children traveled to the family &#8220;horse estate&#8221; in Florida to wait out the shelter-in-place restrictions and only recently returned to Illinois &#8212; but then, only for a short time, decamping to Wisconsin, to another of the Pritzker&#8217;s horse estates.
Neither Michigan nor Illinois had strict lockdown measures that absolutely prevented travel, though both governors stressed the importance of avoiding movement in order to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. In the U.K., PM Johnson had instituted a strict set of regulations barring travel for all but &#8220;exceptional&#8221; situations &#8212; and Cummings still apparently flouted the rule.
&#8220;In a press conference,&#8221; CNBC reports, &#8220;Cummings said his trip to family in Durham was within the scope of the restrictions because he needed to seek child care in case he and his wife fell ill. This, he argued, was one of the &#8216;exceptional circumstances&#8217; allowed under the government’s lockdown measures.&#8221;
At the time Cummings took his road trip, his wife was showing symptoms of COVID-19, lending some creedence to his excuse, but he failed to expain why the only option was travel.
In a bid to protect the Prime Minister, Cummings admitted that he did not inform Johnson of his plans or discuss his travel, which he says was &#8220;arguably&#8221; a mistake. Cummings says he does not intend to resign his position, regardless.
Minister Douglas Ross, who resigned on Tuesday, told media that he felt Cummings took advantage of his position.
“I have constituents who didn’t get to say goodbye to loved ones; families who could not mourn together; people who didn’t visit sick relatives because they followed the guidance of the government,” he said in a statement. “I cannot in good faith tell them they were all wrong and one senior advisor to the government was right.”
Johnson&#8217;s office said only that, “The prime minister would like to thank Douglas Ross for his service to government and regrets his decision to stand down as parliamentary under secretary of state for Scotland.”
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U.K. Government In Uproar As Senior Advisor To PM Who Defied Lockdown Orders Refuses To Step Down

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The British Isles have a new plan to stem the spread of COVID-19: Require all international travelers except those from Ireland to quarantine for 14 days upon arriving in the United Kingdom.
The CEO of Ryanair thinks that&#8217;s a terrible plan.
“It’s idiotic and it’s unimplementable,” Michael O’Leary said Monday on BBC’s “Today” radio program.
&#8220;This government is telling you that you can&#8217;t fly unless you isolate for 14 days, yet you can go on the London Underground and you don&#8217;t have to isolate for 14 days,” O&#8217;Leary said, according to the <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/18/travel-restrictions-live-britons-will-ignore-two-week-quarantine/">Daily Telegraph</a>. “They&#8217;re making this stuff up as they go along, and none of it has any basis in science.&#8221;
O’Leary said it would be more effective to require “everybody” to wear masks to stem the spread of the virus.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week outlined the plan, saying incoming air travelers will be asked to give officials the address of where they will be isolating for their first 14 days. Violating the rule will bring hefty fines.
O’Leary also ripped the plan to block middle seats on airplanes, calling the plan “kind of an idiotic idea that doesn’t achieve anything anyway,” he told the <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ddb067bd-c54d-49cd-be1c-bda77f8b8527" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Financial Times</a>.
The plan has been enacted in some U.S. states, including Hawaii.
Last week, a tourist from New York was arrested in Hawaii after he allegedly violated state regulations that require travelers to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival.
Tarique Peters, 23, of the Bronx, arrived in Honolulu last Monday. He then posted photographs on Instagram photos showing himself sunbathing at the beach and carrying a surfboard, state officials said.
“He allegedly left his hotel room the day he arrived and traveled many places using public transportation. Authorities became aware of his social media posts from citizens who saw posts of him — on the beach with a surfboard, sunbathing, and walking around Waikiki at night,&#8221; said a news release from the Hawaii COVID-19 Joint Information Center. &#8220;This morning agents were able to confirm with hotel personnel that had seen Peters leave his room and the premises on numerous occasions this week,&#8221; the statement said.
&#8220;Agents from the state attorney general’s office arrested him Friday morning. Hotel staff told the agents they saw Peters leave his room and the hotel numerous times,&#8221; The <a href="https://apnews.com/2f4aec2d064ab28d9e9bc883151478bf">Associated Press</a> reported.
&#8220;Travelers in quarantine aren’t allowed to leave hotel rooms or residences for any reason except medical emergencies. Hotel guests don’t receive housekeeping services and must arrange for food to be delivered to them,&#8221; the AP said. Peters was booked, and his bail was set at $4,000.
Peters was charged with &#8220;unsworn falsification to authority.&#8221;
Hawaii now requires tourists to list their contact and lodging information, and all visitors must sign an agreement that they will spend the next 14 days in self-quarantine. &#8220;By signing the legal document, they acknowledge they understand violating the order is a criminal offense and they are subject to a $5,000 fine and/or a year imprisonment,&#8221; according to the state&#8217;s department of transportation.  The state&#8217;s mandatory quarantine runs through the end of June, Gov. David Ige said last week.
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The British Isles have a new plan to stem the spread of COVID-19: Require all international travelers except those from Ireland to quarantine for 14 days

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The United Kingdom&#8217;s Prince Harry is at the center of another firestorm, this time over whether British media have exaggerated the severity of the country&#8217;s coronavirus pandemic.
U.K. health officials erupted over the weekend after Prince Harry, who escaped the U.K. and now lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife, former actress Meghan Markle, and one year old son, told a podcast that the situation in Britain is &#8220;better than we are led to believe through ­certain corners of the media,&#8221; <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/lifestyleroyals/row-as-prince-harry-claims-uks-coronavirus-crisis-is-better-than-we-are-led-to-believe-by-the-media-unqualified-dukes-comments-are-branded-outrageous-by-health-experts-who-say-he-is-deserting-his-country-in-its-hour-of-need/ar-BB12SyR0">according to the Daily Mail</a>.
&#8220;I think what has happened especially in the UK is the very best of the human spirit and it&#8217;s proving that things are better than we are led to believe through certain corners of the media,&#8221; Harry told the &#8220;Declassified&#8221; podcast.
&#8220;Certainly when you&#8217;re in isolation it can be very worrying when you&#8217;re sitting there and the only information you&#8217;re getting is from certain news channels, but then if you&#8217;re out and about and you&#8217;re on the right platforms you can really sense this human spirit coming to the forefront,&#8221; he added.
Health officials, including one former advisor to the U.K.&#8217;s government, called the remarks &#8220;outrageous,&#8221; particularly given that members of Prince Harry&#8217;s own family &#8212; his father Prince Charles &#8212; was struck with COVID-19.
The head of the U.K.&#8217;s  National Care Association complained that Prince Harry &#8220;hasn&#8217;t seen all the evidence,&#8221; and although there are heartwarming stories of people enduring coronavirus-related lockdowns, raising money for the U.K.&#8217;s National Health Service, and even miraculously recovering from the virus, the effects of the disease are devastating, both on patients and health care workers.
Others interpreted Prince Harry&#8217;s words less as an attack on the NHS and health care workers and more of an attack on the press &#8212; part of a war he and his wife, Meghan, are waging against certain members of the British media.
On Monday, Harry and Meghan announced, in an extended statement emailed directly to members of the press, that they would no longer speak to at least four of the U.K.&#8217;s largest media outlets, including the Daily Mail, over concerns about reporting quality.
&#8220;The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have watched people they know — as well as complete strangers — have their lives completely pulled apart for no good reason, other than the fact that salacious gossip boosts advertising revenue,&#8221; they said in their letter.
The pair have long claimed they are the victims of a sustained attack from the media that threatens to infringe on their right to privacy, though the targeted outlets seem to among those most critical of the pair, who divorced themselves from the British Royal Family back in February. Monday&#8217;s announcement served to reiterate that they plan to carefully manage their public relations.
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U.K. Doctors ERUPT After Prince Harry Declares Coronavirus Crisis Is ‘Better Than We Are Led To Believe’

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United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson returned home from the hospital on Easter Sunday morning, and revealed in a video, posted to social media, just how close he came to losing his life to the novel coronavirus.
&#8220;It is hard to find the words to express my debt to the NHS for saving my life,&#8221; Johnson said on Twitter. &#8220;It could have gone either way.&#8221;
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Johnson revealed that, when he was rushed to the intensive care unit of a local hospital late last week, he was likely near death and, without the dedicated attention of nurses and doctors, he may have been one of the U.K.&#8217;s many victims of coronavirus.
&#8220;Mr Johnson, 55, was taken to London&#8217;s St Thomas&#8217; Hospital on Sunday &#8211; 10 days after testing positive for Covid-19,&#8221; the BBC reported Sunday morning. &#8220;He had three nights in intensive care before returning to a ward on Thursday.&#8221;
Johnson was lucky enough to avoid being placed on a ventilator, according to reports from last week, and received oxygen treatment instead, while being closely monitored by hospital staff for any changes in his condition.
In the Twitter video, Johnson says he witnessed the &#8220;personal courage&#8221; of everyone from nurses and doctors to hospital attendants and custodians who, he said, &#8220;kept putting themselves in harm&#8217;s way, kept rising this deadly virus.&#8221; He went on to name a dozen of his caretakers whom he credits with saving his life.
He also thanked Britons who are staying home to &#8220;flatten the curve,&#8221; telling them that, &#8220;I want you to know that this Easter Sunday, I do believe your efforts are worth it.&#8221;
&#8220;I thank you because so many millions and millions of people across this country have been doing the right thing, millions going through the hardship of self-isolation faithfully, patiently, and with thought and care for others as well as themselves,&#8221; Johnson said.
&#8220;Together we will overcome this challenge, as we have overcome so many challenges in the past,&#8221; he added.
Johnson&#8217;s fiance released her own statement on social media Sunday, revealing that, &#8220;[t]here were times last week that were very dark indeed. My heart goes out to all those in similar situations, worried sick about their loved ones.&#8221;
The Prime Minister&#8217;s office told the BBC Sunday that Johnson is still recovering and that it may be some time before he returns to work. Instead, he will spend the next few weeks recovering at his country home.
&#8220;On the advice of his medical team, the PM will not be immediately returning to work. He wishes to thank everybody at St Thomas&#8217; for the brilliant care he has received,&#8221; Number Ten Downing Street, the PM&#8217;s official residence, said in a statement. &#8220;All of his thoughts are with those affected by this illness.&#8221;
Fox News reports that the U.K. has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
&#8220;Figures later Sunday are expected to show that over 10,000 people in the U.K. have died after testing positive for coronavirus,&#8221; the outlet reported. &#8220;On Saturday, Britain reported 917 new coronavirus-related deaths.&#8221;

U.K. PM Boris Johnson Thanks Hospitals For Saving His Life In Easter Video: ‘It Could Have Gone Either Way’

United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson returned home from the hospital on Easter Sunday morning, and revealed in a video, posted to social media,

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English soccer star Kyle Walker is among the ranks of countless other celebrities who have been actively encouraging the public to practice social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.
Amidst Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s <a href="http://nytimes.com/2020/03/24/world/europe/britain-coronavirus-lockdown.html">call</a> for the country to self-quarantine at home for the next three weeks, the Manchester City star asked his Twitter followers to stay home and avoid physically visiting loved ones, and opt for virtual check-ins instead.
“On a serious note though, please everyone stay home, look after one another through this difficult time and check in on loved ones but don’t visit them,” tweeted Walker in late-March.
But according to a new report, Walker wasn’t exactly following social-distancing guidelines himself.
In an interview with <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/11329263/kyle-walker-sex-party-hookers-coronavirus-lockdown/">The Sun</a>, 21-year-old escort Louise McNamara said that she and another escort visited Walker at his lavish apartment for a late-night session with him and one of his friends.
“I didn’t know who he was at the time,” said McNamara, who told the news agency that she was first alerted to the soccer star’s identity by the other escort during a smoke break on the balcony.
McNamara claimed that she took “a few photos of him” in his underwear, and that the two men paid the equivalent of over $2,500 dollars for the three-hour session.
“Kyle really should know better,” said McNamara. “On the one hand, he’s inviting strangers round to his house for sex, and the next day he’s lecturing everyone on the need to stay safe.”
The news agency reports that the following day, Walker was once again urging the public to adhere to social distancing protocols: “It’s been tough, but first and foremost, we have to think about other people’s health and protecting the elderly and family members that can spread it.”
In a statement to The Sun, Walker apologized for unspecified actions, and for advocating in favor of public health policies he was not following himself. The soccer star did not deny holding the sex party.
“There are heroes out there making a vital difference to society at the moment, and I have been keen to help support and highlight their amazing sacrifices and life-saving work over the past week. My actions are in direct contrast to what I should have been doing regarding the lockdown,” said Walker.
According to <a href="https://www.offtheball.com/soccer/manchester-city-issue-statement-alleged-kyle-walker-lockdown-sex-party-995249">Off The Ball</a>, Manchester City also released a statement announcing that they would start an “internal disciplinary procedure” shortly.
“Footballers are global role models, and our staff and players have been working to support the incredible efforts of the NHS and other key workers in fighting the effects of the COVID-19 Coronavirus, in any way we can. Kyle’s actions in this matter have directly contravened these efforts,” said the statement.
“We are disappointed to hear the allegations, note Kyle’s swift statement and apology, and will be conducting an internal disciplinary procedure in the coming days,” continued the statement.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/world/europe/coronavirus-queen-elizabeth-speech.html">The New York Times</a>, Queen Elizabeth addressed the nation for the fourth time in her 68-year reign, encouraging the public to remain strong in a time of great disruption.
“I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge,” said the queen, “and those who come after us will say that the Britons of this generation were as strong as any. That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humored resolve, and of fellow-feeling still characterize this country.”
<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/04/05/queen-elizabeth-rare-and-historic-coronavirus-address/2950200001/">USA Today</a> reports that Queen Elizabeth last issued a similar address after the death of her mother in 2002.

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to the hospital on Sunday after continuing to experience symptoms from the coronavirus after testing positive 10 days ago.
A spokesperson for Johnson <a href="https://www.axios.com/boris-johnson-hospital-coronavirus-9928d983-45cf-4b12-88b2-f28ee1d62342.html">said</a> in a statement, &#8220;On the advice of his doctor, the Prime Minister has tonight been admitted to hospital for tests.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a precautionary step, as the Prime Minister continues to have persistent symptoms of coronavirus ten days after testing positive for the virus,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;The Prime Minister thanks NHS staff for all of their incredible hard work and urges the public to continue to follow the Government’s advice to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.&#8221;
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BREAKING: British Prime Minister <a href="https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BorisJohnson</a> admitted to hospital tonight for tests due to persistent <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> symptoms 10 days after testing positive. Worrying development &#8211; he&#39;s looked worse each time we&#39;ve seen him, poor guy. Wish him well. <a href="https://t.co/NiDPAHb5JU">pic.twitter.com/NiDPAHb5JU</a>
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The news of Johnson&#8217;s hospitalization comes as the U.K. has continued to deal with a growing outbreak of the coronavirus, which originated in China, in their country.
A Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker reported on Sunday that the U.K. had over 48,000 cases of the coronavirus and nearly 5,000 deaths.
Carrie Symonds, Johnson&#8217;s pregnant fiancée, has reportedly been recovering from symptoms of coronavirus.
&#8220;I’ve spent the past week in bed with the main symptoms of Coronavirus,&#8221; Symonds tweeted on Saturday. &#8220;I haven’t needed to be tested and, after seven days of rest, I feel stronger and I’m on the mend.&#8221;
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I’ve spent the past week in bed with the main symptoms of Coronavirus. I haven’t needed to be tested and, after seven days of rest, I feel stronger and I’m on the mend.
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Bloomberg News reported last week that U.S. intelligence officials confirmed to President Donald Trump that communist China was lying about the extent of the outbreak that originated in their country.
“China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete,” Bloomberg News <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-concealed-extent-of-virus-outbreak-u-s-intelligence-says">reported</a>, according to three U.S. officials that it spoke to. “Two of the officials said the report concludes that China’s numbers are fake.”
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/chinas-deadly-coronavirus-lie-co-conspirator-the-world-health-organization/">highlighted</a> China&#8217;s lies and cover-up of the outbreak:
<blockquote>The fog of war obscures much about the novel coronavirus pandemic. But two facts seem absolutely certain. First, China’s Communist authorities have lied, concealed and misled about the origins of the epidemic and the toll of the virus in China. Second, the World Health Organization has acted as Beijing’s handmaid.
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Independent Chinese journalists have detailed the Wuhan coverup: They report that a Chinese lab isolated and identified the strange new virus last December — but that the authorities ­ordered it to stop its work, get rid of its specimens and keep quiet. It took almost another month for the government to acknowledge that a SARS-like contagion, spread by human contact, was exploding in Hubei province.
When the late Dr. Li Wenliang, the heroic whistleblower, tried to warn the public about the coronavirus, he was detained, charged with “spreading false rumors” and accused of “seriously disrupting social order.” All discussion about the virus is now censored.</blockquote>
An analysis from The Washington Post <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-evidence-coming-out-of-wuhan-suggests-real-death-toll-over-40000">estimated</a> that based on &#8220;evidence,&#8221; the real outbreak numbers out of Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the outbreak, was 16 times higher than what China reported.
Despite its drastic measures to stop the spread of the virus, China has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-begins-mass-quarantines-again-after-failing-to-stop-coronavirus">failed</a> to contain it and is now dealing with another outbreak in its country and recently had to quarantine a county of more than 600,000 people.
This report has been updated to include additional information.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Admitted To Hospital Over Coronavirus

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to the hospital on Sunday after continuing to experience symptoms from the coronavirus after testing

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The United Kingdom&#8217;s government, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is reportedly &#8220;furious&#8221; with China, and has pledged a &#8220;reckoning&#8221; for the country&#8217;s &#8220;disinformation campaign,&#8221; which U.K. officials believe downplayed the number of Chinese coronavirus cases by &#8220;15 to 40&#8221; times.
<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-boris-johnsons-government-reportedly-furious-with-china-2020-3">Business Insider reports</a> that Johnson&#8217;s government is the first to suggest that China could face economic consequences for the coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
&#8220;UK government officials are accusing China of spreading disinformation about the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in its borders,&#8221; the outlet says, adding that officials believe China&#8217;s reported number of coronavirus cases &#8212; just over 81,000 &#8212; is far too low, and that the real number of cases could be &#8220;15 to 40 times&#8221; official Chinese reports.
In the United States, a battle has raged in &#8220;woker&#8221; circles over whether it is appropriate to refer to the novel coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, as a &#8220;Chinese&#8221; virus, a &#8220;Wuhan&#8221; virus, or the &#8220;Chinese coronavirus.&#8221; But certain officials in the United Kingom say China&#8217;s involvement in the global pandemic should be front and center, especially as the world deals with an incredible economic fallout from lockdowns and other measures designed to curb the spread of the disease.
&#8220;It was the case … [that] the first case of coronavirus in China was established in December of last year, but it was also the case that some of the reporting from China was not clear about the scale, the nature, the infectiousness of this,&#8221; the U.K.&#8217;s Minister for the Cabinet Office Michael Gove told the BBC late last week.
&#8220;It is going to be back to the diplomatic drawing board after this,&#8221; a Johnson administration official, who declined to give a name, <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/wuhan-deaths-03272020182846.html">told Radio Free Asia</a>. &#8220;Rethink is an understatement.&#8221;
&#8220;There has to be a reckoning when this is over,&#8221; another said. A third added, &#8220;the anger goes right to the top,&#8221; suggesting that Johnson himself is making plans to alter official policy towards China in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Last month, the U.K. announced that Chinese telecommunications company Huawei would be given a role in developing the nation&#8217;s 5G mobile phone network &#8212; an agreement that shocked the world, given China&#8217;s penchant for widespread espionage and its lack of concern for privacy. That agreement, though, could be first on the chopping block after the coronavirus smoke clears, per BI.
&#8220;We&#8217;re allowing companies like Huawei not just into our economy, but to be a crucial part of our infrastructure. This needs to be reviewed urgently, as does any strategically important infrastructure that relies on Chinese supply chains,&#8221; a British cabinet minister reportedly told the British weekly, Mail on Sunday.
China has tried to ingratiate itself to a suffering Europe by offering Chinese-made medical supplies, including masks, personal protective equipment, and even coronavirus tests to struggling countries like Italy, France, and Spain. But, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52092395">the BBC reports</a>, thousands of Chinese-made tests have proven unreliable, and hundreds of thousands of masks and other pieces of PPE are now on their way back to China after countries like the Netherlands discovered the masks lacked filters and did not fit properly.

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U.K.’s Boris Johnson ‘Furious’ With China, Says There Could Be A ‘Reckoning’ For China’s Coronavirus ‘Disinformation Campaign’

The United Kingdom&#039;s government, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is reportedly &quot;furious&quot; with China, and has pledged a &quot;reckoning&quot; for the country&#039;s

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In an interview with BBC radio on Monday, the United Kingdom&#8217;s leading epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who headed up the <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf">Imperial College study</a> that significantly influenced the British government&#8217;s COVID-19 response, presented two positive messages: his team believes the epidemic is &#8220;just about slowing in the UK&#8221; after the country implemented social distancing measures, and an antibody test that will show who has developed immunity to the virus will likely be available sooner than previously expected.
“We think the epidemic is just about slowing in the UK right now,” Ferguson told BBC radio Monday, as reported by <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-epidemic/uk-epidemic-is-slowing-and-antibody-test-could-be-ready-in-days-top-epidemiologist-says-idUSKBN21H0SA">Reuters</a>.
&#8220;Ferguson said a third or even 40% of people do not get any symptoms. He said perhaps 2% to 3% of the United Kingdom’s population had been infected,&#8221; Reuters reports. &#8220;But Ferguson cautioned that the data was not good enough to make firm extrapolations.&#8221;
The epidemiologist said that the COVID-19 antibody tests, which will provide the crucial information of who has already contracted the virus and developed immunity, are in the final stages of validation and will hopefully be ready in &#8220;days rather than weeks,&#8221; the news agency reported.
As reported by <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/29/germany-will-issue-coronavirus-antibody-certificates-allow-quarantined/">The Telegraph</a> on Sunday, German researchers plan to introduce coronavirus &#8220;immunity certificates&#8221; for those who take antibody tests and are confirmed to have had the virus, healed and developed antibodies to combat it. Those with &#8220;immunity certificates&#8221; would be allowed to &#8220;transition into post-lockdown life.&#8221;
The much-cited <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf">Imperial College study</a>, which was headed up by Ferguson, presented dire potential consequences of allowing the virus to spread without action in the U.K., projecting as many as half-a-million coronavirus-related deaths in the country if the virus was allowed to go unchecked.
After initially taking a more hands-off approach to the pandemic, shortly after the release of the study, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed strict social-distancing measures. With those measures in place, Ferguson explained last week, their model projects that <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238578-uk-has-enough-intensive-care-units-for-coronavirus-expert-predicts/">20,000 or fewer</a> people will die as a result of the virus.
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The latest data from U.K. health officials is that a little over 1,200 patients in the U.K. have died thus far after testing positive for the virus. Nearly 130,000 people have been tested for the virus in the U.K., of which around 108,000 (over 80%) have tested negative. A little under 20,000 have tested positive.
Reuters also notes that along with working on the antibody test, the U.K. has begun to employ antigen tests for healthcare workers to allow them to determine if they have been infected or are safe to work, as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/frontline-nhs-staff-first-to-receive-new-covid-19-antigen-tests">The Guardian</a> reported Friday.
&#8220;Michael Gove – standing in for the prime minister at the daily briefing after Boris Johnson was diagnosed with Covid-19 – said the testing was being trialled immediately, and that hundreds were expected to be able to access the tests over the weekend,&#8221; The Guardian reported. &#8220;The country would see a &#8216;dramatic&#8217; increase in testing next week, he added.&#8221;
&#8220;Increasing our testing capacity is absolutely crucial in our response to and our fight against coronavirus,&#8221; Gove said. &#8220;This is a particular priority for those who work in the health and social care sector and are working so hard to keep us all safe.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/british-pathologist-heres-why-covid-19s-death-rate-may-be-lower-than-we-feared">British Pathologist: Why COVID-19’s Death Rate May Be Lower Than We Feared</a>
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UK’s Top Expert: Epidemic ‘Just About Slowing,’ Antibody Test May Be Ready In ‘Days Rather Than Weeks’

In an interview with BBC radio on Monday, the United Kingdom&#039;s leading epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who headed up the Imperial College study that

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced in a video statement posted on social media Friday that he has tested positive for coronavirus.
The 55-year-old Conservative Party leader announced in the video that after developing mild symptoms over the last 24 hours, including &#8220;a temperature and a persistent cough,&#8221; he tested positive for COVID-19. His plan now is to work from home and self-isolate, as he encouraged others to do to continue to &#8220;protect&#8221; the National Health Service (NHS) from being overwhelmed.
&#8220;Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus,&#8221; Johnson wrote in a tweet that includes the video statement. &#8220;I am now self-isolating, but I will continue to lead the government’s response via video-conference as we fight this virus. Together we will beat this.&#8221;
&#8220;Hi, folks, I want to bring you up to to speed on something that is happening today, which is that I developed mild symptoms of coronavirus — that is to say, a temperature and a persistent cough,&#8221; Johnson announced in the video (below). &#8220;And on the advice of the chief medical officer, I have taken the test and it has come out positive.&#8221;
&#8220;So, I am working from home and self-isolating, and that&#8217;s entirely the right thing to do,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But, be in no doubt that I can continue, thanks to the wizardry of modern technology, to communicate with all my top team to lead the national fight-back against coronavirus.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to thank everybody involved and, of course, our amazing NHS staff,&#8221; Johnson stressed. &#8220;It was very moving to join last night in that national clap for the NHS,&#8221; he said in reference to a celebration of national healthcare workers Thursday.
&#8220;But it&#8217;s not just the NHS, it&#8217;s our police, our social care workers, our teachers, everybody who works in schools, and DWP staff,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Amazing national effort by the public services, but also by every member of the British public volunteering. Incredible response. 600,000 people volunteered to take part in a great national effort to protect people from the consequences of coronavirus.&#8221;
Johnson concluded the statement by encouraging the nation that if they &#8220;stay at home and protect the NHS,&#8221; they will &#8220;beat&#8221; the epidemic and &#8220;bounce back.&#8221;
&#8220;We will get through it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And the way we will get through it is, of course, by applying the measures that you&#8217;ve heard so much about. And the more effectively we all comply with those measures, the faster our country will come through this epidemic and the faster we&#8217;ll bounce back. Thank you to everybody who is doing what I&#8217;m doing and working from home to stop the spread of the virus from household to household. That&#8217;s the way we&#8217;re going to win, we&#8217;re going to beat it, and we&#8217;re going to beat it together. Stay at home and protect the NHS and save lives.&#8221;
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Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus.
I am now self-isolating, but I will continue to lead the government’s response via video-conference as we fight this virus.
Together we will beat this. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StayHomeSaveLives?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StayHomeSaveLives</a> <a href="https://t.co/9Te6aFP0Ri">pic.twitter.com/9Te6aFP0Ri</a>
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Johnson&#8217;s optimistic message follows updated forecasts by British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, one of the co-authors of the highly influential Imperial College London coronavirus model, which initially predicted that if no action were taken to curb the spread of the virus, some 500,000 people would die in the U.K. and 2.2 million would die in the U.S. With social distancing measures, like those taken by the British and American governments, Ferguson&#8217;s updated potential death toll in the U.K. has now been downgraded to <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238578-uk-has-enough-intensive-care-units-for-coronavirus-expert-predicts/">20,000 or fewer</a>.

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced in a video statement posted on social media Friday that he has tested positive for coronavirus. The

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered his fellow citizens to stay home and only travel outside when necessary, making the United Kingdom the latest country to embrace lockdown efforts to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
According to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52014472">BBC</a>, Johnson limited all public gatherings in Britain to just two people while advising residents to leave their homes once a day for exercise and to travel only when &#8220;absolutely necessary,&#8221; to get groceries or needed medication. All non-essential businesses (bars, in-dining restaurants, etc.) have been closed until further notice.
Should people ignore these orders, police have been given the power to disperse gatherings and issue fines. In three weeks time, the government will consider a relaxation on rules in effect. Johnson made the announcement after a weekend where people were seen crowding the beaches, parks, markets, and other areas of Britain.
&#8220;To put it simply, if too many people become seriously unwell at one time, the NHS will be unable to handle it &#8211; meaning more people are likely to die, not just from coronavirus but from other illnesses as well,&#8221; Boris Johnson said.
Though Health Secretary Matt Hancock said employers should see to it that employees can work from home, he ultimately stated,  &#8220;I want to be absolutely clear, when people absolutely can not work from home they can still go to work &#8211; indeed it&#8217;s important that they do to keep the country running.&#8221;
Here are the new guidelines, as outlined by the BBC:
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<li class="story-body__list-item">Shopping for basic necessities such as food and medicine. Shopping trips should be as infrequent as possible</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">One form of exercise a day such as a run, walk or cycle. This should be done alone or only with people you live with</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">Any medical need, or to provide care or to help a vulnerable person. This includes moving children under the age of 18 between their parents&#8217; homes, where applicable. Key workers or those with children identified as vulnerable can continue to take their children to school</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">Travelling to and from work, but only where work absolutely cannot be done from home</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">Even when following the above guidance, people should minimise the amount of time spent out of their homes and should keep two metres (6ft) away from people they do not live with.</li>
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Boris Johnson <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/mar/12/trumps-travel-ban-wont-have-much-impact-on-spread-of-coronavirus-says-rishi-sunak-live-news">has previously said the pandemic</a> could be the “worst public health crisis for a generation,” warning that citizens could lose loved ones as a result.
“This is the worst public crisis for a generation, some people compare it to seasonal flu, alas that is not right,” Johnson told reporters at an emergency COBRA meeting of top Cabinet officials. “Owing to the lack of immunity, this disease is more dangerous, and it’s going to spread further.”
“I must level with the British public, many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time,” he added.
Last week, the royal family <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/queen-elizabeth-moves-up-easter-holiday-cancels-royal-events-amid-coronavirus-concerns">also announced</a> that Queen Elizabeth would be moving up her planned Easter holiday a full week so that she could leave Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle. Though the queen canceled large events, she will still be granting audience to specific people. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is expected to take over many of the Queen&#8217;s public duties in her absence as Prince Charles is also in the most vulnerable age bracket for the disease.
“As a sensible precaution and for practical reasons in the current circumstances, a number of changes are being made to The Queen’s diary,” the royal family announced on its <a href="https://www.royal.uk/announcement-regarding-changes-queens-diary" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">website</a> last Tuesday. “Audiences due to take place this week at Buckingham Palace will go ahead as planned. These include receiving the Prime Minister, the Commanding Officer of HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH and the Bishop of Hereford. Future Audiences will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, in line with the appropriate advice.”

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Boris Johnson Locks Down U.K.: Britons ‘Must Stay Home’

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The United Kingdom&#8217;s National Health Service (NHS) announced Tuesday that, under new rules for the agency coming in April, medical care providers can refuse to give non-critical care to patients who are &#8220;racist,&#8221; sexist,&#8221; &#8220;homophobic,&#8221; or are otherwise insulting and aggressive towards hospital staff.
Right now, the NHS can refuse to treat anyone who are &#8220;aggressive&#8221; or &#8220;violent&#8221; out of concern for the well-being of health care workers, but the new rules, set to take effect in April of 2020, expand who the NHS can turn away &#8212; though it&#8217;s not entirely clear how the NHS would know a possible patient was &#8220;racist,&#8221; sexist,&#8221; or &#8220;homophobic,&#8221; or whether there are procedures in place to separate the truly mentally ill from the merely problematic.
Sky News reports that much of the decision may be made by front-line hospital workers: &#8220;these protections will extend to any harassment, bullying or discrimination, including homophobic, sexist or racist remarks.&#8221;
The UK&#8217;s Health Secretary Matt Hancock, a conservative serving under Prime Minister Boris Johnson, told NHS employees that &#8220;no act of violence or abuse is minor,&#8221; in a statement made earlier this week and that &#8220;[b]eing assaulted or abused is not part of the job.&#8221;
The NHS already allows medical workers to refuse to treat patients who are aggressive or violent and, theoretically, this rule would simply extend that allowance to cover those patients who are overtly insulting to staff, perhaps indicating that they do not want treatment from a woman or someone with specific religious garb, if what ails that patient is non life-threatening.
Hancock&#8217;s statement, though, seems to indicate that staff will make value judgements about patients even in emergency situations.
&#8220;Far too often I hear stories that the people you are trying to help lash out. I&#8217;ve seen it for myself in A&amp;Es, on night shifts, and on ambulances,&#8221; Hancock said, referring to UK hospitals&#8217; &#8220;accidents and emergency&#8221; departments, the equivalent of American ERs and EDs. Hancock added that he is &#8220;horrified that any member of the public would abuse or physically assault a member of our NHS staff but it happens too often.&#8221;
While the rule poses a host of problems, including who might be placed in charge of determining what behavior is considered racist, sexist, and homophobic, and what might constitute verbal harassment or abuse, the biggest concern appears to be for the mentally ill, who may seek treatment, even for non life-threatening ailments, but be unable to control their behavior. If they are labeled &#8220;abusive,&#8221; &#8220;aggressive,&#8221; or &#8220;harmful,&#8221; they will be turned away from medical care.
According to a study taken by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman last year, Sky News says, the issue is already a problem for the NHS: &#8220;one in five mental health patients do not feel safe in NHS care,&#8221; the study reported, and &#8220;[m]ore than half of people with mental health problems in England also said their treatment was delayed, while 42% said they were diagnosed too late.&#8221;
Johnson&#8217;s government is trying to get a handle, overall, on problem &#8212; specifically financial problems &#8212; that are threatening the longevity of the UK&#8217;s national health service, and the new rules are part of a plan to help stabilize the system, but they make come too little too late. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/health-42572110">According to the BBC</a>, the NHS&#8217;s budget has exploded and 30% of Britain&#8217;s domestic spending now goes to public health.

Report: U.K.’s National Health Service Can Refuse To Treat ‘Racist,’ ‘Sexist,’ And ‘Homophobic’ Patients Under New Rules

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A rash of knife attacks by recently released terrorists has put Britain on edge and serves as a reminder that the United States needs to do more itself to prepare for the imminent release from prison of convicted terrorists. In order to avoid the current problems of the British government, which is rushing to pass emergency legislation, American lawmakers should take advantage of our federalist system to bring state and local resources to play in tracking released terrorists.
The British government is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/02/streatham-attacker-was-released-terror-offender-sudesh-amman">struggling to address</a> the threat from dozens of convicted jihadi terrorists who are due to be released within months. Britain has seen several high-profile attacks from freed terrorists who received early release before serving even half their sentences.
Earlier this month, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/03/wave-jihadi-terrorists-due-freed-early-release-within-months/">20-year old Sudesh Amman</a> strapped on a fake explosive vest before launching a knife attack on Streatham High Road in London. Despite being under direct police surveillance during the attack, the jihadist critically wounded one person. Amman had previously been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for multiple terrorism offenses in November 2018 <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-46592539">related to distributing Islamic State propaganda</a>.
The attack methodology of a fake suicide bomb vest and knives directly mirrored that of Usman Khan, another convicted terrorist, who in November 2019 <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50653191">killed two people</a> on London Bridge. Prior to the attack, authorities had considered Khan <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50653191">a model</a> rehabilitated prisoner. Khan was attending a deradicalization conference minutes before he launched his attack.
Official data show that the British government has reconvicted <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/12/six-terrorists-freed-from-jail-committed-further-terror-act-figures-reveal">an additional six British jihadi terrorists</a> released from prison between 2013 and 2019.
This newest wave of attacks is a reminder that the U.S. also faces a risk from previously convicted terrorists who are released; various “rehabilitation” schemes are highly suspect.
Aimen Dean, a former al-Qaeda member who later spied for Britain’s MI6, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/al-qaeda-spied-mi6-know-deradicalisation-doesnt-work/">told The Telegraph</a>, “there is no such thing as a rehabilitated jihadist.” Morton Storm, a Danish former al-Qaeda member who later helped to betray terrorist leader Anwar al-Awlaki to the CIA, agrees. Rehabilitation efforts, he says, ignore that jihadis are not confused or mentally ill, <a href="https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/joseph-perticone/denmark-aims-rehabilitate-not-punish-returning-jihadists">but are adherents of an ideology</a> to which they are committed. “[D]eradicalizing the jihadists doesn’t work, because they’re religiously motivated,” Storm told the Associated Press in 2017, in response to a Danish rehabilitation program.
Nearly two decades after 9/11, even high-level terrorist leaders facing long sentences are becoming eligible for parole and may even complete their full sentences. While there is very little information available on recidivism rates among convicted terrorists, the recidivism rate of jihadist fighters released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility was nearly 17% in 2018, with another 13% also suspected of returning to active terrorism.
In 2017, a National Counterterrorism Center <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/the-troubling-us-post-prison-experiment-to-rehabilitate-an-isis-supporter">report noted,</a> “more than 90 homegrown violent extremists incarcerated in the U.S. who are due to be released in the next five years will probably re-engage in terrorist activity.”
In order to address this challenge, U.S. federal, state, and local law enforcement need tools in order to prepare for released terrorists. One such tool would be a terrorism registry, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/america-needs-a-national-terrorist-registry-to-keep-us-safe">which would provide law enforcement</a> the ability to track the location of former terrorists in the same way police and the public can keep tabs on sex offenders — with legal sanction for failure to register. Louisiana successfully passed the first terrorism offender registry law in 2019, and several states have expressed interest in following suit.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/america-needs-a-national-terrorist-registry-to-keep-us-safe">A nation-wide network</a> has also been proposed by Patrick Dunleavy, a specialist on terrorist activity in the prison system. Realistically, such a proposal requires both federal assistance with information-sharing, as well as state laws to establish the registries and allow state authorities to enforce them.
A nationwide system of state terrorism registries would also take advantage of American federalism, utilizing state and local law enforcement to help prevent federal counterterrorism agents from being overwhelmed with keeping tabs on prior offenders.
Public registries protect and empower the individual citizen without need for government controls. The Department of Justice maintains a <a href="https://www.nsopw.gov/">public sex offender registry</a>, which private companies often use as a database for <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsp.android.h&amp;hl=en">websites and apps that alert citizens</a> about rapists, stalkers, and molesters living in their neighborhoods.
Pseudoscience models of rehabilitation treat convicted terrorists as emotionally stunted unfortunates rather than committed ideologues willing to use violence for a political purpose. This has proven to be a disaster. Instead, the U.S. should implement a registry system for terrorists, bringing state and local law enforcement resources, as well as private enterprise, to bear and improving communication and cooperation for law enforcement in order to ensure that terrorist re-offenders do not slip through the net.
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Kyle Shideler is the Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy.

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SHIDELER: Stop Releasing Jihadists From Prison

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The United Kingdom now says it will end an &#8220;early release&#8221; program in place for individuals convicted of &#8220;terror offenses&#8221; after two people were wounded in a second attack committed by someone granted leniency under the early release rules.
According to <a href="https://apnews.com/bee3f1d416f1de836ba26fa04f025f4f">the Associated Press</a>, the UK has been employing a rule which allows those convicted of planning terror attacks to serve a fraction of their prison sentence before being automatically paroled without a hearing. The rule, introduced ten years ago by the Labour Party, is meant to show mercy to those who may have been targeted for radicalization and to keep terror cells from recruiting in prisons. In the last decade, around 70 people have walked free because of the rule.
Sunday, Sudesh Amman, one of the parolees, &#8220;strapped on a fake bomb and stabbed two people on a busy street before being shot dead by police,&#8221; per the AP. It was the second such attack by a former prisoner in less than six months.
Amman was sentenced to just three years for &#8220;publishing graphic terrorist videos online and had stockpiled instructions on bomb making and knife attacks,&#8221; but got out of jail after only around 18 months &#8212; half his sentence. In November, Usman Khan killed two people near the London Bridge while out on conditional release.
Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the British Parliament on Monday that he will propose a slate of new rules, curbing the state&#8217;s ability to allow terror offenders to walk free.
&#8220;We cannot have the situation, as we saw tragically in yesterday&#8217;s case, where an offender &#8211; a known risk to innocent members of the public &#8211; is released early by automatic process of law without any oversight by the Parole Board,&#8221; Buckland said in a speech Monday morning.
The new rules would ensure that terror prisoners serve at least two thirds of their sentence before being considered for early parole. And instead of an automatic release, each prisoner will have to demonstrate rehabilitation.  Because, Buckland added, this is &#8220;an unprecedented situation of severe gravity,&#8221; the rule will apply to the approximately 200 prisoners currently serving time on terror-related charges.
&#8216;This is a liberal country, it is a tolerant country,″ Prime Minister Boris Johnson added in his own interview. “But I think the idea of automatic early release for people who obviously continue to pose a threat to the public has come to the end of its useful life.”
&#8220;Now that I am prime minister I&#8217;m going to take steps to make sure that people are not released early when they commit&#8230; serious sexual, violent or terrorist offences,&#8221; <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50618744">he told the BBC</a>. &#8220;I absolutely deplore the that fact that this man was out on the streets&#8230;and we are going to take action against it.&#8221;
The new slate of rules will likely include measures requiring that law enforcement officials closely monitor those convicted on terrorism charges and then released for a certain period of time.
“We are going to have to accept that we have to be much more skeptical and robust about dealing with the risk of harm,″ one expert told the AP. “We may need to accept that there are certain people who are so dangerous they must be kept in prison indefinitely.”
Leftists in the UK were unhappy at the news. Labour Party leaders blamed law enforcement &#8220;budget cuts&#8221; for the rise in terrorist activities, not the early release program, and a &#8220;human rights activist&#8221; <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51364047">told the BBC that the new rules</a> present &#8220;civil rights concerns.&#8221;
&#8220;From last month&#8217;s knee-jerk lie detector proposal, to today&#8217;s threat to break the law by changing people&#8217;s sentences retrospectively, continuing to introduce measures without review or evidence is dangerous and will create more problems than it solves,&#8221; he said.

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Finally: UK Will End ‘Early Release’ Program For Convicted Terrorists After Latest Attack

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The royal exit of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is predictably causing heartache within Prince Harry&#8217;s immediate family.
Earlier this month, Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle announced their intentions to relinquish their royal duties and work to become financially independent. The decision has left brother Prince William and wife Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, &#8220;reeling.&#8221;
&#8220;According to royal expert Katie Nicholl, William and Kate are only just coming to terms with the new makeup of the royal family,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/meghan-markle-prince-harry-megxit-william-kate-middleton-reeling">Fox News</a> reported Friday.
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Prince William and Kate &#8220;are still reeling from the news, coming to terms with the reality of this situation,&#8221; the royal expert said.
“The past week must have been incredibly hard. With William busy performing royal duties, he&#8217;s not got his brother by his side right now and his father, Prince Charles, has returned to Scotland,&#8221; Nicholl added.
As a consequence of Harry and Meghan&#8217;s decision to split off from the royal institution, Prince William and Kate have been left with intensified media scrutiny and more responsibility.
The warm public reception of the the couple has helped with the change, Nicholl previously told OK! “The warm reception William and Kate received has given them a huge boost,” the expert said. “They&#8217;ve stuck to the tried-and-tested approach, promoting a united royal family and it&#8217;s a success.”
Two weeks ago, according to a report from <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prince-william-on-harry-and-meghan-crisis-i-ve-put-my-arm-around-my-brother-all-our-lives-i-can-t-do-it-any-more-75822g7sq">The Sunday Times</a> (U.K.), Prince William was left devastated by the news of his brother&#8217;s departure.
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“As the Queen called emergency peace talks tomorrow at Sandringham to end the Windsors’ civil war, The Sunday Times can reveal that Prince William has said he feels sorrow that he and Prince Harry are now ‘separate entities’ and expressed hope that they might pull together again in future,” the outlet reported.
“I’ve put my arm around my brother all our lives and I can’t do that any more; we’re separate entities,” Prince William <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prince-william-responds-to-harry-and-meghans-royal-split-ive-put-my-arm-around-my-brother-i-cant-do-that-anymore">told</a> a friend.
“I’m sad about that. All we can do, and all I can do, is try and support them and hope that the time comes when we’re all singing from the same page. I want everyone to play on the team,” Prince William reportedly said.
“After many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution,” Harry and Meghan said in the bombshell joint statement announcing their plans to abandon their royal duties.
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“We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the royal family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support her majesty the queen,” the couple added.
On Sunday, Harry, for the first time publicly, addressed his split, telling a room full of supporters of the Sentebale charity in London that he and his wife Meghan Markle had “no other option” than to break away. According to the 35-year-old, he tried to “support” Queen Elizabeth II, his grandmother, without receiving public funds, but that situation was undoable.

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Kate Middleton ‘Reeling’ In Wake Of Harry And Meghan’s Royal Split

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