THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - ‘Skilled Worker’ Scam: Vape Shops, Kebab Stores Sponsoring Migrant Visas.
The UK government is reviewing the use of Skilled Worker visas by vape shops and other small businesses amid fears of exploitation by criminal networks.
The UK government is reviewing the use of Skilled Worker visas by vape shops and other small businesses amid fears of exploitation by criminal networks. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The UK Home Office has initiated a review into the issuance of Skilled Worker visas to vape shops and other small businesses, amid concerns that these licenses are being exploited by criminal networks. DETAIL: Official records reveal that 79 vape shops hold sponsorship licenses under the Skilled Worker visa scheme, a program originally intended for highly skilled workers. This has raised questions about the legitimacy of these businesses’ need for foreign skilled labor, especially as reports suggest that some may be fronts for criminal activities. KEY…Open
ABCNEWS - WATCH: Baker's kids help business explode on social media
ABC News' Danny New talks to a baker in Seattle who is going viral for letting his kids narrate his baking videos.
NYTIMES (Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas, Ian Stewart and Colby Smith) - How Local Police Are Working for ICE, and an Unusual Data Center Dispute
Plus, the gym is the new first date.
NPR (Christie Thompson) - 'Rejected': How federal prisons stonewall grievances and deny care for years
People who go to prison keep one important right — to file a grievance over their treatment: from abuse to denied medical care. But in the vast majority of cases, those efforts go nowhere, according to an analysis of federal data by The Marshall Project and NPR.
REDSTATE (Brad Essex) - THE ESSEX FILES: MLB Exposes Aggressive Double Standard by Warning Christian Players Over Bible Verse
REDSTATE (RedState Guest Editorial) - California’s Primary Elections Again Show the Need for Election Reform AND a Strategy to Win
AXIOS (Josephine Walker) - Sewer socialism is flowing through America's cities
America's cities are seeing a socialism surge, but it's not the post-Cold War boogeyman that schoolchildren were warned about. The big picture: It's called sewer socialism, and is the cornerstone for policies from New York's Zohran Mamdami , Seattle's Katie Wilson and Washington D.C. mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George . - Sewer socialism focuses on expanding government programs for the public good, like affordable housing, child care and public transportation. - The three Democratic socialists are among those seeking to reboot the movement pioneered by Milwaukee, Wisconsin politicians in the 1900s when they expanded sewage systems and built the first municipally sponsored public housing project in the U.S. Zoom in: Longtime…
NYTIMES (Alexis Soloski and Blaise Cepis) - Matthew Rhys, of ‘Widow’s Bay,’ Is on a Boat. Barely.
The star of this seafaring horror-comedy, which wraps up Season 1 on Wednesday, also spends his downtime on the water.
NYTIMES (Julie Bosman) - Illinois Town Loses a Prison, Leaving Residents Worried About Jobs
Lincoln, Ill., where Abraham Lincoln once worked in the local courthouse, has lost two colleges, a bottle factory and now a state prison.