Yahoo News

LACEY, Wash. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland, Oregon, last week after a caravan of Donald Trump backers rode through downtown was killed Thursday as investigators moved in to arrest him, the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday.

The man, Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, was killed as a federal task force attempted to apprehend him near Lacey, Washington, about 120 miles (193 kilometers) north of Portland. Reinoehl was the prime suspect in the killing of 39-year-old Aaron “Jay” Danielson, who was shot in the chest Saturday night, a senior Justice Department official told The Associated Press. Continue reading “Federal task force kills Portland shooting suspect at arrest”

Tampa Bay Times

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened.

What he actually built was a system to continuously monitor and harass Pasco County residents, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found.  Continue reading “Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens.”

RT

Amazon has rolled out a whole-building version of its Alexa AI voice assistant for landlords, billing ‘Alexa for Residential’ as extending smart-home functionality to renters – tenants’ consent apparently not required.

The e-commerce giant announced Alexa for Residential on Thursday, describing it as a feature “that makes having an Alexa-enabled home accessible for anyone, regardless of whether they rent or own their home.” Tenants can link up their own Amazon account, but if they don’t have one, no problem – they’ll be placed on the building’s system. Continue reading “Not interested in bringing Alexa into your house? That’s OK, Amazon’s working with your LANDLORD now”

The Mind Unleashed – by John Vibes

This week, a federal appeals court ruled that the NSA’s controversial spying program was illegal – the same program Edward Snowden released details about to journalists in 2013. The landmark ruling even added that the spying program may have been unconstitutional.  Continue reading “Judge Rules NSA Spying Program Revealed By Snowden Was Illegal, Useless Against Terrorists”

JNS

More than 600 Jewish groups signed a full-page New York Times ad in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

“We are Jewish organizations and synagogues from across the racial and political spectrum; from different streams of Judaism; whose members trace their lineage from countries around the world,” state the groups in the Friday ad. Continue reading “600-plus Jewish groups sign full-page ad supporting Black Lives Matter”

CBS News

Washington — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said clinical trials on a coronavirus vaccine could be stopped early if they provide positive results that show it is safe and effective.

In an interview with Kaiser Health News published Tuesday, Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said a Data and Safety Monitoring Board, which is composed of research experts that review data from clinical trials, has the power to end the trials early. Continue reading “Fauci says coronavirus vaccine trials could be stopped early if they produce good results”

Daily Mail

A pregnant woman has been arrested in her own home over a Facebook post allegedly inciting anti-lockdown protest in Victoria.

Zoe Buhler, 28, was handcuffed in her lounge room in front of her children and partner on Wednesday afternoon and charged with incitement.

Continue reading “Pregnant mum is arrested and handcuffed in front of her two children over a Facebook post about lockdown”

The Tap Newswire

The Department of Defense, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, have partnered with a Silicon Valley company, Profusa, to implement a technology which could control our minds and bodies. What may seem like science fiction, is in fact happening in real-time.

A permanent chip made of an advanced material called hydrogel irreversibly ties humans to the Internet “cloud.” The chip, about the size of a grain of rice, provides feedback to a database on changes in body chemistry and other biometrics. The company says technology will be used to detect COVID in the general population, before symptoms show. Continue reading “FDA Nears Approval of Injectable Biochip Implants for COVID Detection, Linked to Computers”

Fox 11

LOS ANGELES – The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating after an American Airlines pilot reported seeing a mystery person in a jetpack flying high above Los Angeles, right in the path of incoming jets at Los Angeles International Airport Sunday evening.

“The FBI is aware of the reports by pilots on Sunday and is working to determine what occurred,” a spokesperson told FOX 11 on Tuesday. Continue reading “FBI investigating pilot’s report of ‘guy in jetpack’ flying 3,000 feet in air near planes at LAX”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Superior, AZ — When a person is charged by police and there is no bystander video evidence, it is that person’s word against the officer’s. In nearly all cases, courts will take the officer’s word over the alleged criminal and as a result, countless innocent people have done time in prison. Police also maintain control over body camera footage and as Aaron Maughan’s case illustrates, if police claim the footage was lost, it is up to you to find it.

In 2017, Maughan admitted to eluding police and was taken into police custody while being 100 percent compliant. The fact that he complied with the officer’s orders however, was no defense against his subsequent torture. Continue reading “Police Claimed They ‘Lost’ Video of Officers Torturing Handcuffed Man with a Taser But That Was a Lie”

ABC 7

CHICAGO (WLS) — A federal intelligence alert obtained by the ABC7 I-Team has gone out to Chicago-area law enforcement with an ominous warning: nearly three dozen cold-blooded street gangs “have formed a pact to ‘shoot on-sight any cop that has a weapon drawn on any subject in public’.”

The “situational information report” from FBI officials in Chicago dated August 26, 2020, states “members of these gang factions have been actively searching for, and filming, police officers in performance of their official duties. The purpose of which is to catch on film an officer drawing his/her weapon on any subject and the subsequent ‘shoot on-site’ of said officer, in order to garner national media attention.” Continue reading “FBI-Chicago warns that gang cabal may be targeting CPD officers”

Washington Post – by Jaclyn Peiser

As 5,000 students prepared for move-in day at the University of Arizona this week, the school warned they would be tested periodically for the coronavirus. One test, though, doesn’t involve a nose swab. The university is regularly screening the sewage from each dorm, searching for traces of the virus.

On Thursday, officials said the technique worked — and possibly prevented a sizable outbreak on campus. When a wastewater sample from one dorm came back positive this week, the school quickly tested all 311 people who live and work there and found two asymptomatic students who tested positive. They were quickly quarantined.

Continue reading “The University of Arizona says it caught a dorm’s covid-19 outbreak before it started. Its secret weapon: Poop.”

Yahoo News

Months after Minneapolis and St. Paul sustained millions of dollars in property damage during protests and riots demanding justice for George Floyd, the Twin Cities have been dealt another financial blow: the skyrocketing cost of demolition.

Days after George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee onto his neck for at least eight minutes, rioters tore through Minneapolis and St. Paul, causing millions of dollars in damage to more than 1,500 locations. Continue reading “Minneapolis, St. Paul face new obstacle after riots: Sky-high demolition costs”