Frustrated with British MPs' inability to pass Brexit, the majority of the public now believes they should not have a say at all and let PM Boris Johnson handle the vexing issue single-handedly.

Fifty-four percent of British adults believe that Johnson should be allowed to stay true to his promise and deliver Brexit in time, by October 31, even if he has to suspend Parliament to complete this herculean task.

The idea of "proroguing" Parliament has been floated as an antidote to what is feared as a disastrous scenario - the UK crashing out of the EU with no deal. Some believe that this is precisely where the UK is heading, with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accusing Johnson of plotting an "unprecedented, unconstitutional and anti-democratic abuse of power" by mulling snap elections "days after" the Brexit deadline.

The change of guard at the helm of the Conservative Party appears to have boosted its fraying numbers. The ComRes opinion poll, commissioned by the Daily Telegraph, shows the Tories have gained six points compared to the last poll, and are now leading with 31 percent, as Labour trails with 27 percent, the biggest gap between the two parties so far this year.

Is it possible prosecutors have lost track of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's alleged co-conspirator in his pedophile ring? For the past few weeks, rumors have circulated that she's 400 pounds and living in Florida, or that she's living the high life in London or the Continent, but according to the Washington Post, authorities are having a hard time locating her. Those who know her say that it's possible she is as much of a Houdini as Epstein. Both of them liked having secrets, and the way those secrets kept people off balance. "Jeffrey always wanted to give the impression that he was an international man of mystery — 'I control everyone and everything, I collect people, I own people, I can damage people,'" says an ex-girlfriend.

As part of Epstein's original plea deal, negotiated with Alexander Acosta, the others implicated were also given immunity from prosecution, which is partly why victims like Virginia Roberts Giuffre pursued her and others in civil courts. But Epstein's death has not stopped the current investigation. "We remain committed to standing for you," Geoffrey Berman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, wrote in a statement after Epstein's death, "and our investigation of the conduct charged in the Indictment — which included a conspiracy count — remains ongoing." There were rumors on Monday afternoon that indictments of five people were imminent.

The nature of the relationship between Epstein and Maxwell, the favorite daughter of embezzling press baron Robert Maxwell, who died when he fell or was pushed from his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, is not well known. Multiple victims claim she was both part of the sex trafficking ring, often bringing girls to Epstein, and a sexual participant. But Epstein told of-age women he courted that Maxwell was a former girlfriend fallen on hard times, and that he had taken it upon himself to maintain her position in society. "Ghislaine floated in and out of the house with the keys, and even though Jeffrey told me they didn't have a sexual relationship, she'd drop under her breath that she was sleeping in his bed from time to time," says an ex-girlfriend. Another woman in Maxwell's orbit says she used to joke about keeping herself rail thin because Epstein liked thin girls. Maxwell, whose father was Jewish, liked to shock. "She said, 'I do it the way Nazis did it with the Jews, the Auschwitz diet. I just don't eat.'"

The uncle of a 2-month-old boy whose parents were killed in the El Paso mass shooting on Friday defended a photo that shows first lady Melania Trump holding the baby while President Donald Trump smiles and gives a thumbs-up gesture.

The photo, released Thursday on Twitter by the first lady's office, drew backlash from some who thought it reflected a lack of empathy and politicized the shootings.

Tito Anchondo, the uncle of baby Paul Anchondo, told The Associated Press on Friday that Trump "was just there to give his condolences and he was just being a human being." He previously told NPR that he and his brother were Trump supporters.

Some say Jerusalem police's harassment of Isawiyah's residents was inspired by a now infamous documentary series shot there; but there might be another reason.

On Sunday, the Obeid family wanted to arrange a meal in memory of their son, who was killed by Jerusalem District police, to mark the conclusion of the traditional 40 days of mourning. Mohammed Obeid, 21, had worked in the dining room of a company in the city's Har Hotzvim high-tech park. Police officers claimed that he had thrown firecrackers at them near his home, and therefore shot him at close range, killing him.

On the morning of the memorial event, a police intelligence officer phoned Samir Obeid, the bereaved father, to talk about the planned commemoration. According to Obeid, the officer told him that it wasn't a memorial but a demonstration, and warned him not to hold it, whereupon Obeid invited the officer to the meal, saying, "Your intelligence unit is apparently short of money. It's not a protest, but a memorial." In the evening, when the mourners arrived for the meal, which was held outside, they saw police observing them from the hill overlooking the Obeids' house.

None of this surprised anyone in Isawiyah, a Palestinian village at the foot of Mt. Scopus that Israel annexed to Jerusalem following the Six-Day War. During the past two months, many residents, terrified of the police, have been afraid to leave home. Parents are sending their children to stay with relatives to keep them out of trouble; every trip in the car is liable to end with a bizarre but extremely costly traffic ticket; checkpoints are frequently placed at the village's two main entrances; everyone who leaves or enters is scrutinized; and law enforcement operations take place virtually every day.

An image of three people gazing at a powerful explosion mushrooming in the distance is too good not to be used in a story about a mysterious rocket engine failure that sparked speculation about a Russian doomsday weapon.

An explosion during a rocket engine test in Russia last week, which claimed five lives and apparently caused small radiation spikes detected in a nearby city, has sent the media rumor mill into overdrive. While Russian officials are reluctant to offer much detail about what was tested, except that some radioactive material was involved, speculation suggests it was Russia's lauded nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, or Skyfall, as NATO chose to designate it.

Speculation aside, covering this story poses a certain challenge: which picture to take to run with the story. After all, it all happened in the middle of nowhere, and hence no visuals are available. AP opted for a photo of a Russian family looking from a hill at a city as a large glowing mushroom billows into the sky.

Michael McFaul says he can say whatever he wants on Twitter because it's an American platform. Yeah, the very same Twitter that 'shadowbans,' silences alternative media, and hosts fake Russian bots that meddle in US elections.

The former US ambassador in Russia lauded Twitter as a supposed champion of the First Amendment to fend off his critics. Apparently, some Russians didn't like McFaul's cheering of recent opposition protests in Moscow, so he offered them an indignant and somewhat patronizing rebuke.

"HeyRussians, writing here on an AMERICAN platform, I have a constitutional right to say whatever I want about American or Russian politics," he tweeted. "No one is forcing you to read what I say. Stop with the demands for censorship. Russian 'sovereignty' does not extend to Twitter."

An elderly couple in Tamil Nadu bravely fought armed robbers with plastic chairs and slippers after the two miscreants entered their home last Sunday.

The incident, which took place on Sunday, was captured on CCTV cameras at the couple's home in Kalyanipuram.

In the video, which has gone viral on social media, 70-year-old Shanmugavel, sitting in the porch of his house, reaches out to pick a paper. This is when a masked man comes from behind and puts a piece of cloth around the neck of the man in an attempt to strangulate him.

An unsuspecting Shanmugavel fights off the machete-wielding man with the cloth still around his neck. As he struggles, shouts and kicks the man, his wife comes out running. This is when another intruder is seen in the CCTV footage.

And then begins the valiant fight.

Did Jeffrey Epstein commit suicide or was he murdered? This is a question that is being debated by millions of Americans right now, and without a doubt this is the biggest story of this news cycle. Unfortunately, the mainstream media is already dropping the ball. Instead of going wherever the evidence leads them, there already seems to be a tremendous effort to marginalize any explanations for his death other than "suicide". And it may turn out that "suicide" is where the evidence takes us, but while things are unclear we should not be afraid to ask the hard questions.

The following are 7 unanswered questions about Jeffrey Epstein's death that the mainstream media needs to be talking about...

Correctional officers who worked in a special unit inside the New York City jail that housed Jeffrey Epstein -- before his apparent suicide -- had worked extreme overtime shifts to compensate for staffing shortages, according to reports Sunday.

The Associated Press cited an unnamed source in a Sunday report that said the Metropolitan Correctional Center's Special Housing Unit was staffed with a single guard working a fifth straight day of overtime and another who was working mandatory overtime.

Epstein, 66, was found unconscious in his cell Saturday. He later was pronounced dead from an apparent suicide, raising questions as to how the wealthy financier might have been able to kill himself under the nose of staff in the high-security facility.

The correctional center did not immediately return Fox News' requests for comment.

A bombshell new Opinium poll has exposed how there is massively more public support for finally leaving the European Union on 31st October without a deal than cancelling Brexit. Remoaners once again exposed as a shrinking fringe amplified by Remainstream media.

The poll, carried out days ago, asked voters: "If Boris Johnson is unable to make changes to the Withdrawal Agreement that enables it to pass the House of Commons before October 31st, which of the following should he do?"

46% want to see a No Deal Brexit delivered at the end of October, whilst only 29% would want to see the UK's EU exit cancelled. That's a 17-point lead for a WTO Brexit compared to overturning the referendum result.