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A Florida couple have been arrested after allegedly presenting fake COVID vaccination cards to airport staff when they arrived for a vacation in Hawaii.  Enzo Dalmazzo, 43, and Daniela Dalmazzo, 31, were arrested on August 11 - shortly after they arrived in Honolulu with their two children. Hawaii state law requires visitors to either provide proof of vaccination or proof of a negative COVID test taken no more than 72 hours before arriving in the state. The couple allegedly gave officials vaccination cards for themselves and their two children. But a TSA agent became suspicious about the children's vaccination cards because they would have been too young to get the shot. One was born in 2016 and the other was born in 2017, while COVID vaccines have not yet been approved for children under the age of 12. 'The screener at the airport when they came through noticed an anomaly about the age of the children and the vaccines,' Special Agent Joe Logan with the Hawaii Attorney Gene

The rapid collapse of Afghanistan's armed forces may have surprised President Biden but dozens of reports from a federal watchdog revealed how the U.S. bungled efforts to shore up the country. From millions spent on military planes left rotting at Kabul's international airport to the billions of dollars wasted trying and failing to eradicate the country's opium crops, the dispatches from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction Illustrated the fraud and abuse that derailed a $145 billion effort.    'If the goal was to rebuild and leave behind a country that could sustain itself and pose little threat to U.S. national security interests, the overall picture in Afghanistan is bleak,' John Sopko concluded in his most report published this week.  For nine years he has detailed the flaws and frauds in U.S. reconstruction efforts. And in more than 50 appearances before Congress he has set out some bewildering examples of botched projects.  This year he

Family doctors now pocket £100,000 a year on average after wages soared even though millions of patients are struggling to get appointments. GP earnings have risen by 11 per cent in the past four years, figures show. During that period, patients have faced growing waiting lists and hundreds of practices have closed. Family doctors now pocket £100,000 a year on average after wages soared even though millions of patients are struggling to get appointments Only around half of appointments are now in-person, with the rest online or by phone, despite warnings from experts that the shift to 'Zoom medicine' means doctors risk missing vital signs and symptoms, leading to a delay in diagnosis of deadly conditions such as cancer. But in May there was a backlash from GP leaders after NHS England sent a letter to GP practices stating that patients must be offered face-to-face appointments if they demand them.  NHS figures show that in 2019-20 the average GP in England earned £100,700 befor

Nicole Poole Franklin, 43,  was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday on federal hate crimes charges A white Iowa woman who drove her SUV into two children in 2019 because of their race was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday on federal hate crimes charges. Nicole Poole Franklin, 43, had already been sentenced to up to 25 years, including a mandatory minimum of 17 1/2, on state attempted murder charges in the December 9, 2019, attacks in Des Moines. In a separate federal proceeding, US District Judge Stephanie Rose sentenced Poole Franklin to 304 months in prison, or 25 years and four months.  Poole Franklin pleaded guilty to two federal hate crimes charges in May. The sentence will run concurrently with the state punishment but ensure she will be incarcerated for longer, since the federal system does not have parole. Prosecutors asked for a 27-year sentence in a filing last week, saying Poole Franklin targeted a 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl because of their race and

They have been a traditional part of a trip to the resort's beaches for more than a century. But now Bournemouth has stopped renting out deckchairs to holidaymakers on the seafront – in case thugs grab them to use as weapons in Mods and Rockers-style brawls. The council's 3,500 distinctive yellow and blue canvas chairs have been mothballed for the season at an estimated cost in lost rental of £200,000. One officer said the decision was taken following a wave of anti-social behaviour on the seafront last summer – though hardly on the scale of the battles between Mods and Rockers seen in resorts such as Brighton in the Sixties. Vikki Slade, a Liberal Democrat member on Tory-run Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, raised the issue after residents remarked on the lack of deckchairs and sun loungers this year. She says she was told it was to stop a recurrence of scenes in June and July last year, when the resort was overrun with visitors eager for a day out following the ea

One of Britney Spears' housekeepers has accused the singer of battery, claiming that she slapped a phone out of the staffer's hands during a heated argument over pet care. As TMZ first reported, the alleged altercation at Spears' California home Monday, resulted in a complaint filed with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office. In an email to DailyMail.com on Thursday, Spears' attorney, Mathew Rosengart, vehemently denied any wrongdoing on the part of his client. Britney Spears' housekeeper made a battery complaint against her, accusing the singer of slapping a phone out of her hands. The incident took place during an argument over the care of one of Spears' dogs. The singer is seen playing with her pet Maltese in 2019, right  Spears, 39, allegedly confronted her staffer about her dog's well-being after a visit to the vet The alleged altercation took place inside Spears' California home Monday  'This is sensational tabloid fodder -- nothing more th

Road bosses came under fire last night for pressing ahead with an ‘offensive’ rebrand that reportedly cost up to £7million. Highways England announced its name will change to National Highways with immediate effect.  It comes just six years after its last multi-million pound rebranding, when its name changed from Highways Agency to Highways England. The name change, which is understood to have been forced on the quango’s leadership by the Department for Transport, has bemused observers.  Highways England announced its name will change to National Highways with immediate effect (file photo of the M3 smart motorway near Camberley in Surrey) The roads agency tweeted on Thursday evening: 'Today we have become National Highways. With Nick Harris as our new CEO, we will continue to deliver the Government's £27 billion investment programme for the Strategic Road Network' The inclusion of the word ‘National’ is also said to have provoked anger among officials in Wales.  Last year i

Dominic  Raab's job was hanging by a thread last night as it emerged the crucial phone call that was delegated to a junior minister never took place. Tory MPs yesterday joined a ferocious backlash against the Foreign Secretary over his failure to intervene while on holiday to help airlift translators out of Afghanistan. The Mail revealed yesterday that Mr Raab had been advised by officials to interrupt his luxury trip to Crete on Friday to urgently contact his Afghan counterpart. The Foreign Secretary, however, failed to make the call and it was 'delegated' to the duty Foreign Office minister Lord Goldsmith. It was thought the telephone conversation had then taken place the following day. But in an explosive development last night it emerged the call had never actually taken place. The Foreign Office admitted that as the Afghan regime collapsed, it had proved impossible to rearrange.   The revelation will intensify the pressure on Mr Raab, who yesterday faced a clamour to