Harriet Alexander
@harrietalexander.bsky.social
Senior Features Writer, DailyMail.com
What's going on in Puerto Rico? "I'll be very interested to see what facilities they construct around the runways. That'll tell you something about the scale of their plans..." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Secret base that experts say proves Trump is preparing for invasion
Military analysts do not think that this is an accident. 'The United States is trying to make sure it has sufficient infrastructure,' said Mark Montgomery, a retired rear admiral.
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Mexico's president presses charges against man who groped & tried to kiss her: “If I do not report the crime, what condition will all Mexican women be left in? If they do this to the president, what will happen to all of the young women in our country?” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum pressing charges in groping incident
Mexico’s first female president said she is pressing charges against her assailant, sending a message in a country where harassment of women is common.
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My misconceptions about the #Louvre heist, dispelled by founder of the FBI's art crime task force, were that a) the jewels would already be cut; b) it was done to order; and c) the museum would be the toughest place to hit... Read the full story: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
The Louvre thieves' grave mistake will lead investigators to jewels
Two suspects have been arrested in connection to the October 19 theft of crown jewels from the Paris museum.
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How the mafia lures high rollers to their illegal poker games - and then has them exactly where they need them... Fascinating talking to a former Gambino gambling boss about the logistics of the scheme, which has now snared NBA superstars www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nba/ar...
I was the mob's hitman. I know the secrets of the NBA betting scandal
John Alite, right-hand-man to notorious mobster John Gotti Jr, turned on the background music in the palatial New York hotel suite for the monthly poker night.
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Went into a maximum security prison in North Carolina to speak to the real-life "Roofman", played by Channing Tatum in the new film. He's got quite the story... Read all about it! www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...
Channing Tatum's woke blockbuster 'Roofman' makes 'sociopath' a hero
In an exclusive prison interview with the Daily Mail, serial offender Jeffrey Manchester, played by Channing Tatum in the movie, 'Roofman,' insists he is not dangerous.
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Tony Blair's biographer John Rentoul on his role in the Gaza peace plan: “I thought he would have given up on all this by now. But he hasn’t given up on the idea that he can solve things that no one else can.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Tony Blair has never quit the Middle East. Now, he could run Gaza.
Blair is a key player in planning for the rebuilding and governance of the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is finally signed.
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Great news for @ejeancarroll.bsky.social, whose $83m judgement against Trump has been upheld. She told me in July: 'Money is not important to me. Personally, I couldn't care less about it, so I'm going to give the cash to everything he hates, like women's rights' www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Interview with E Jean Carroll from hovel she shares with her cat
Carroll, 81, who sued Trump twice, once for sexual abuse and again for defamation, was awarded $5 million in May 2023 and an additional $83 million in January 2024.
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Zuckerberg full of smiles sitting next to Donald Trump at the WH tech dinner last night. I've been looking for the @dailymail.co.uk into the Meta chief's new project, and experts warned there is very little to be enthusiastic about... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
How Mark Zuckerberg's plan is 'going to lead to the end of humanity'
Mark Zuckerberg positively beamed as he gazed into the future. Hurtling towards us, he said, is 'a new era of personal empowerment.' But experts are sounding the alarm.
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Melania Trump’s letter to Vladimir Putin last week was unusual, but not unprecedented for a First Lady. I’ve been asking what it means for her, and her future plans… mol.im/a/15024877
The Melania Trump rumor that is 'the talk of the White House'
Statuesque, sphinxlike and decked out in Dior, First Lady Melania Trump would often rather not do the talking.
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US approval for Israel's military action in Gaza reaches record low of 32% news.gallup.com/poll/692948/...
32% in U.S. Back Israel's Military Action in Gaza, a New Low
Americans' approval of Israel's military action in Gaza has fallen to a new low, along with the worst opinions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to date.
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Incredibly powerful reporting on the impact of ICE raids on a meat processing plant in Nebraska: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now?
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Six years after his controversial Epstein opinion, famed forensic pathologist Dr Michael Baden is as confident as ever that he made the right call. 'I think we both realized that this was not typical for suicide,' Baden told the Daily Mail. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Truth about the 'missing minute' in Epstein prison footage
The brother of Jeffrey Epstein, Mark Epstein, contracted Dr Baden as an independent analyst to observe the autopsy of the convicted pedophile and accused sex trafficker.
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Fascinating #Wimbledon story in @observeruk.bsky.social - beautifully told. I had no idea about any of this... observer.co.uk/style/featur...
Wimbledon’s expansion meets its match | The Observer
The club’s expansion has its challengers, among them a centenarian determined to save the park
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Rusty Hierholzer, who spent 20 years as Kerr County sheriff, warned a decade ago of the need for better alarm systems, similar to tsunami sirens. 'Unfortunately, people don't realize that we are in flash flood alley,' he told me... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Texas sheriff who predicted floods says lives could have been saved
'Nobody saw this coming,' declared the head of Kerr County's government, depicting the disaster as an unpredictable tragedy. But one retired Texas sheriff knew that was not entirely true.
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Stat of the day from @observeruk.bsky.social: Yale Budget Lab calculates that a (since amended) version of the Big Beautiful bill would hand an average of $119,000 to someone making more than $3.3m. Median earners would get a $760 tax cut. The poorest would lose about $560.
“People with experience in the world of intelligence, even those that can’t stomach Trump, are advising caution, and an even rarer trait in this political-media climate: patience.” - excellent analysis by @juliaioffe.bsky.social: well worth your time puck.news/were-irans-n...
The Truth About Obliterategate
The president rushed to declare his Iran strikes a TKO without waiting for a full assessment; his critics rushed to declare that he was wrong. The reality is that the full picture will take time to em...
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Stat of the day (h/t Gothamist): Mamdani won 30% of primary election districts that Trump won in 2024. Hillside & College Point in Queens; Tottenville on Staten Island; Bath Beach in South Brooklyn. Swung for Mamdani despite onslaught of pro-Cuomo ads, funded by one of Trump's wealthiest backers.
Prelim report by Defense Intelligence Agency finds US strikes left centrifuges 'intact' and did not destroy stockpile of enriched uranium, CNN reports. WH says 'alleged assessment is flat-out wrong', was leaked to CNN by 'an anonymous, low-level loser'. www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/p...
Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say | CNN Politics
The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an e...
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Good news klaxon: This is a great story. Bravo, Bike New York... gothamist.com/news/for-the...
For formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, Citi Bike’s growth is a job opportunity
A nonprofit-run workforce development program is helping to give people with criminal records a second chance.
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For all of us wondering how long the Trump-Musk love-in would last: we have our answer... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Musk blasts Trump's spending bill for 'undermining' DOGE
The world's richest man switched out his MAGA cap and black blazer for an 'Occupy Mars ' t-shirt as he returned to his roots to launch a SpaceX Starship on Tuesday night.
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Stat of the day re: Trump's ban on international students at Harvard - Around 44% of US unicorn companies — startups valued at $1 billion or more — are founded or cofounded by immigrants (h/t @axios.com) 90 from India. 52 from Israel. 42 from Canada. 31 from the UK. 27 from China.
Already hooked on my colleague Isabelle Stanley’s brilliant podcast, Pipeline, which details a terrifying tragedy in Trinidad and Tobago, and the subsequent shocking coverup. New episodes out every Thursday… www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Bezos's pivot to Trump was 'as dramatic as any we've seen in corporate America' - an obsequious and calculated capitulation. Was Tuesday the beginning of the end? Or has the storm subsided? And will Trump be on the armada sailing into Venice next month? www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Cardinal Farrell, chosen by Francis to be his camerlengo, is running the Vatican right now - when clear-eyed judgement & a strong moral compass are most needed. From 2000-2006 he was deputy to Theodore McCarrick, but insists he never heard any rumors. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Vatican sex abuse whistleblower blasts American cardinal
As the red ribbons were tied around the papal bedroom door, actor John Lithgow's character in the Oscar-nominated movie Conclave looked as if he had the weight of the world on his shoulders.
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Ahead of the last conclave, in February 2013, I went to Ghana to speak to childhood friends of Cardinal Peter Turkson, who many thought may be the first African pope. Many still think he might... www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Vr...
Cardinal Turkson 'the right person' for Pope
YouTube video by The Telegraph
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A mystery 125yrs in the making: how did the captain of the Titanic die? Did James Cameron get it right? Or were initial reports of the Briton’s suicide correct? A new books claims to have finally found the answer… mol.im/a/14615593
New book uncovers chilling accounts of the Titanic Captain's death
Millions of movie-goers have watched Captain Edward John Smith die a hero. But is that the truth? A new book from Dan E. Parkes details eyewitness accounts of the ill-fated Titanic and its commander.
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Story of the day: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
What the feds have done to my emotional support tigers has outraged me
Exotic animal owner Karl Mitchell has a prescription that states his seven Bengal tigers are his emotional support animals, so when the feds took them from him, he was left furious.
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Stat of the day: at least a third of people released from Rikers were back on the island within a year. (Full report into efforts to close the prison complex by the court-mandated date of August 2027 here. TLDR: May not close until 2030) council.nyc.gov/press/wp-con...
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In news that will surprise no one in this city of $15 sandwiches: Nationwide, the number of lunches bought from restaurants and other establishments fell 3% in 2024 from yr before - fewer than were purchased at the height of the pandemic work-from-home era www.wsj.com/business/mor...
Your New Lunch Habit Is Hurting the Economy
More people are bringing lunch to work and restaurants are selling fewer lunches than they did in 2020
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