🚨SCOOP: A senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence official is the new owner of a historic building overlooking the White House Complex, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered. Located approximately 650 feet northeast of the White House grounds, the 100-year-old Securities Building on 15th Street was purchased on July 21, 2026 for $8.4 million by the Philip Qiu and Family Foundation, filings show. The building’s new owner, Philip Qiu, has held numerous positions within Chinese intelligence and state security arms, according to university records and DCNF translations of Chinese government announcements. Read more from @LenczyckiPhilip below.

EXCL: A Labour MP has been accused of raiding a historic cafe’s fridge on a trip to Normandy to mark the anniversary of D-Day. Amanda Martin is said to have started helping herself to food at the Café Gondrée, the first place liberated by the Allies during the landings in 1944. Portsmouth’s Ms Martin was one of two Labour backbenchers hauled in by Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle after Parliament’s Armed Forces Scheme’s visit last June. Samantha Niblett was also spoken to over her behaviour after missing the ferry over to France and then reportedly clashing with the organisers. Both MPs are understood to insist the respective incidents are “misunderstandings”. Full story