🐣 🇬🇧 📊 The share of babies born to migrant parents reached 40% for the first time last year, new figures show

Demographic changes come as overall number of births falls to lowest since 1976

📎 The Telegraph

🇺🇸⚡️ — A former senior CIA officer with top-secret clearance, David Rush, has been charged with theft of public money after investigators found roughly 300 gold bars worth over $40 million hidden in his home, along with about $2 million in cash and 35 luxury watches, mostly Rolexes, NBC News reports.

Rush claimed the funds and gold bars were needed for “work-related expenses,” including foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold requested between November and March. Investigators say only part of the requested assets were found in storage near his office, while the rest was kept at his home for personal gain.

Rush was also accused of lying about his background for nearly two decades, falsely claiming degrees from Clemson University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, training at the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, working as a Navy pilot, and serving as a thesis adviser at the Air Force Institute of Technology.

The case began after a CIA internal investigation uncovered possible legal violations and was referred by CIA Director John Ratcliffe for criminal investigation.

⚖️ 🇺🇸 🗳 A judge has ruled that corporations can vote in some Delaware elections.

Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz said the town of Fenwick Island was not diluting human votes by allowing companies ​and other legal entities that own property to cast votes in municipal elections.

These "legal entities" and corporations make up about 12% of registered voters in the town.

In total Delaware has far more ​corporations chartered in the state than residents.

Judge Karsnitz rejected the constitutional arguments of the ACLU, including the claim that "entity" or corporate voting dilutes the political power of living people.

"Delaware, home to more corporations than people, is a fitting place for reality to outpace satire. The state constitutional provisions expressly enshrining corporate personhood reflect Delaware’s budgetary reliance on the billions in fees it raises annually from the more than 2 million business entities chartered there."

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/corporations-have-the-right-to-vote-in-delaware-town-judge-says

📎 More Perfect Union

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — A U.S. official told CBS News that the ceasefire with Iran is still considered to be holding following tonight's strikes.

🇰🇼⚠️ — Air Raid Sirens in Kuwait
https://x.com/AlArabiya_Brk/status/2059822927495708951

🇰🇼 — Mobile alert sent to Kuwaitis warning to stay indoors, away from windows.

It is possible Kuwaiti authorities have detected a missile/drone attack by Iran or the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.

🇰🇼 — Reports of an explosion in Kuwait. Separately, local Kuwaitis report feeling "vibrations".

🇮🇷❌🇰🇼 — Minutes ago, at least one ballistic missile was launched from Khuzestan Province, Iran, likely towards Kuwait.