Millions of households and businesses will be paid to cut back their electricity usage between 5pm and 6pm today to prevent blackouts on one of the coldest days of the year amid warnings energy supplies will be ‘tighter than normal’. The National Grid said it would be activating its Demand Flexibility Service (DFS) this evening with 26 major energy suppliers such as British Gas, EDF, Eon and Octopus... 

Las Vegas Judge Melanie Andress-Tobiasson, who was working to expose an underage child sex ring in the city, has been found dead. She was 53. The mother-of-three was reportedly found dead on Friday, according to 8NewsNow, though it is unclear where or how she died. Officials have already declared that the judge committed suicide. Andress-Tobiasson was forced to step down as a Justice of the Peace... 

Serbia and Russia are experiencing rare tensions over the war in nearby Ukraine, with the Serbian government on Tuesday issuing a formal request for Moscow to halt all attempts to recruit Serbs to fight in the Ukraine conflict. The controversy centers on the Wagner private military firm, which has reportedly expanded its recruitment efforts inside Serbia. The St. Petersburg-based mercenary firm reportedly... 

Pro-vaccine Elon Musk has admitted his second Covid-19 booster shot almost killed him Elon Musk took to Twitter late Friday evening to share his personal experience with the Covid shots, explaining he ran into “major side effects.” In a series of tweets, the Twitter CEO said he felt like he “was dying” and that a young cousin of his in “peak health” suffered myocarditis, an inflammation... 

Nuclear bombing of Sweden could be a possible outcome if those in power are serious about their plans for a war in northern Europe. The armed forces are now starting to openly talk about the fact that the Swedish people should be ready for an attack with nuclear weapons. In some sense, we have to count on either being part of the outcome space or being affected by secondary effects. And there I claim... 

President Macron’s retirement and pension reform program has unleashed the expected mass demonstrations, strikes, and likely soon to be riots on the streets of France. The much anticipated reform bill headed through parliament will see the official retirement age rise by two years, from the age of 62 to 64. And just like that, it’s popping off… as French authorities brace for more... 

Google was blasted after users discovered its popular search engine claims men can have periods. On Friday, social media users shot back at the absurd search results, which immediately point users to a website claiming “people of all genders menstruate” when “can men menstruate?” is queried. “Having a period is not a feminine thing, and people of all genders menstruate, including non-binary... 

Longtime Fox News executive Alan Komissaroff died at the age of 47 after suffering a heart attack at his home earlier in the month, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace announced Friday. Komissaroff was a “Fox News original,” having joined the company at its conception in 1996, marking his first job after college. Scott and Wallace announced his death in a memo to colleagues: This... 

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has warned that any attempt to “destroy Russia” by “madmen” trying to impose their values will lead to “the end of the world.” The comments were made by Patriarch Kirill after a religious service marking the Orthodox Christian holiday of Epiphany. According to Patriarch Kirill, “madmen” are stupid enough to believe that Russia, which “has powerful... 

A 27-year-old Syrian national has been arrested after reportedly throwing a teenage girl onto the train tracks at a railway station in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The incident occurred on Sunday, Jan. 8, shortly after 5:15 p.m. at the Altena train station in the Märkisches Kreis district. The 16-year-old schoolgirl disembarked a regional express train traveling to Dortmund... 

In an unprecedented move, the UK government interfered in Scottish lawmaking by using its veto power to prevent the adoption of a contentious new law that would make it simpler for Scots to legally alter their gender. The British government will use section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 to halt the implementation of the gender-identification law that the Scottish parliament passed last month, according... 

Following the mass riots involving migrant youth on New Year’s Eve, German-Iranian author and commentator Behzad Karim Khani is criticizing the debates about the young men of foreign origin, which he says are fueled by historical racism. He asserts that regardless of what Germans think about the riots, migrants are not only going to stay in the country but will eventually “inherit Germany” from... 

The earliest rune stone that has ever been discovered, according to a group of archaeologists from Norway. It is believed that the little, brownish rock, which has been etched with cryptic writings, is about 2,000 years old and dates back to the time of Jesus. The Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, which broke the discovery first this week, stated in a press statement that the up to 2,000-year-old... 

Israel convinced America to assassinate Iranian General Qasem Soleimani by supplying intelligence painting him as an “immediate threat,” former Israeli military intelligence chief Tamir Hayman boasted in an interview with Jewish News this week. From Jewish News, “EXCLUSIVE: Former military chief: Israel convinced US that Soleimani was ‘immediate threat'”: Israel convinced... 

Illegal migration into Europe soared in 2022, reaching the highest levels since the 2016 migrant crisis, according to new data released by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex). Year-end figures published by the agency reflect a stunning 64% increase of illegal migration in 2022 over the prior year. Approximately 330,000 illegal crossings were detected at the external borders of the...