The UK's largest newspaper, The Sun, with a daily print run of 1.7 million, has delivered a harsh indictment on its front cover today on continuing to allow European central planners and global bankers to run the UK by edict. UK citizens will vote on June 23 on whether to leave the European Union, a vote called Brexit, short for British Exit. The UK's Guardian newspaper is reporting that two ICM polls, one conducted online and one by telephone, showed 53 percent support for leaving versus 47 percent for remaining in the EU.

The message should serve as a sharp warning to Americans, who have allowed their central bank, the Federal Reserve, to march to the beat of the Wall Street bankers' edicts while achieving catastrophic results for the country and its citizens. Since the Wall Street crash of 2008, enabled by the formation of trillions of dollars in dicey derivatives and a mountain of subprime debt while the Federal Reserve kept its blinders securely in place, the U.S. national debt has doubled to $19 trillion while the Fed's balance sheet has ballooned from $800 billion to $4.5 trillion through endless rounds of sopping up the toxic waste (called "Quantitative Easing" or QE to pretty it up).

Perhaps America needs a national referendum on a FedExit. That dialogue was supposed to have begun in the U.S. Senate back in 2014, starting with stripping the central bank of its power to supervise Wall Street bank holding companies because it had clearly demonstrated itself to be not just a captured regulator but pure putty in the hands of the Wall Street banks. (See here, here, here and here.) The dialogue ended abruptly, as most things do in the U.S., with no explanation as to why to the American people.

After responding to an active shooting situation and hostage situation at a Walmart in Amarillo, Texas, police report that the shooter has been killed by a SWAT team and that all hostages are safe.

According to Officer Jeb Hilton, speaking to NBC News, an armed individual took one hostage inside the store. The incident is being investigated as a case of workplace violence.

Police evacuated people from the building and asked people to stay away from the scene.

A massive fire has erupted in Orlando, Florida - a city still rattled by Sunday's mass shooting at a gay nightclub.

Construction materials caught fire on International Drive, just north of Walt Disney World, reported Orlando's My News 13, citing the Orlando fire department.

Sadiq Khan, London's first Muslim mayor, announced Monday that "body shaming" advertisements will no longer be allowed in London's public transport.

"As the father of two teenage girls, I am extremely concerned about this kind of advertising which can demean people, particularly women, and make them ashamed of their bodies. It is high time it came to an end," Khan said.

A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a White House-supported effort to make internet service providers treat all web traffic equally, delivering a major defeat to cable and telephone companies.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 vote, affirmed the FCC's latest net neutrality rules, which consumer groups and President Barack Obama have backed as essential to preventing broadband providers from blocking or degrading internet traffic.The telecom industry and Republicans have heavily criticized the rules as burdensome and unnecessary regulation, with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz once labeling it "Obamacare for the Internet."

AT&T immediately announced it would appeal the ruling, saying it's always expected the issue to be decided by the Supreme Court. Several industry trade groups are expected to join the effort.

The court decision marks a victory for FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, who led the agency's Democratic majority in approving the rules in February 2015 over the objections of the agency's two GOP commissioners. The rules apply utility-style regulation originally written for telephone companies to both land-based and wireless Internet services.

For Dolly Parton's latest tour, the security procedures include not just the usual pat-downs and bag checks at the door, but also two dogs trained to sniff out bombs and firearms wherever the singer performs.

"There are certain artists," said Steve Martin, Ms. Parton's longtime agent, "who take security very seriously."

Precautions like these, once rare, are becoming more common as the concert business adjusts to a new reality in which the threat of violence must be met through heightened security screening.

After the weekend attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., additional security procedures like dogs and metal detectors are likely to become more common at events around the country, executives and artists' representatives say, making the experience of going to a concert more like waiting in line at the airport.

At least 40 people, including 29 officers, were injured as protesters against France's highly unpopular proposed labor law clashed with police in Paris. Police made 58 arrests and deployed tear gas and water cannons against the demonstrators.

Twenty-nine officers and 11 rioters have been injured during clashes in the heart of the French capital, police said.

Security forces deployed six water cannons to calm the demonstrators, at least 58 of whom were detained.

An active shooter situation is unfolding at a Walmart in Amarillo, Texas, local police say. The shooter is believed to have hostages, according to local reports.

The Amarillo Police Department has evacuated the west side of the store, according to KVII.

There have not been any confirmed gunshot victims inside the store, Amarillo PD said.

The City of Amarillo says police and fire crews are on the scene of a reported active shooter incident at a Walmart store on Interstate 27.

There are no confirmed reports of injuries, but there are reports of a hostage situation with an armed suspect still inside the store.

Police are asking people to stay clear of the area.

A Turkish Islamic professor has sparked a massive controversy by comparing people who do not pray to "animals." The comments aired on a Turkish state TV program celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

"Let me put it straight, the verse of the Koran says... animals do not perform prayers and those who do not perform prayers are animals," Mustafa Askar, a professor at Ankara University's Faculty of Theology, said during a program celebrating a month of religious fasting for Ramadan on Turkey's state-run TRT television channel.

TRT television aired Askar's claims that human bodies were made for prayer over the weekend. "Human beings were created to be prayer ergonomic," he said.