Court Denies SBF's Last-Ditch Effort To Toss Conviction, Leaving Trump As His Only Hope

Texas Investigating Islamic Tribunal For Allegedly Operating Sharia Law Court Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday an investigation into a Dallas-based group accused of operating as a sharia law court. Protester David Wright (L) speaks with counterprotester Vincent Simon, a Muslim, as Melissa Yassini holds a sign across the street from a mosque in Richardson, Texas, on Dec. 12, 2015. LM Otero/AP Photo ​In a press release, Paxton said he requested documents from the group, known as the Islamic Tribunal, regarding...

Why, Oh Why Do They Do This? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Viral footage circulating online shows a British man methodically working his way along the streets of his own city with a wheeled bin and litter picker, clearing the rubbish left by others. He is not being paid and not making a political point. He is simply trying to prevent the area from descending into a tip. Remarkably, as he works, foreign shopkeepers and residents repeatedly emerge from their premises to instruct him to clear the mess outside...

Massive Oil Slick Spotted Off Iran's Kharg Island, Cause Unknown  An apparent large oil spill spanning dozens of square miles of sea has been spotted off of Iran's main oil hub of Kharg Island, according to open source satellite imagery and reporting in both the NY Times and Reuters on Friday. The reports cite images from Copernicus's Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-3 satellites taken from monitoring May 6 through 8 which show a huge grey-and-white slick extending out to the west of Kharg Island. Image source: Soar "The slick appears visually consistent with oil," said Leon Moreland,...