From the Trenches World Report
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AM New York – by Vincent Barone
Congestion pricing is coming to New York City.
State politicians announced an agreement shortly after midnight on Sunday to approve the tolling policy for Manhattan as part of a broader package of funding and reforms to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority stuffed into the state’s $175 billion budget. The key details of the plan — including the price of the tolls — will be worked out on a future date. Continue reading “Congestion pricing is coming to NYC”
A federal judge in Alaska has ruled an executive order by President Donald Trump allowing offshore oil drilling of tens of millions of acres in the Arctic Ocean is “unlawful and invalid.”
The ruling on Friday from US District Court Judge Sharon Gleason means a drilling ban for much of the Arctic Ocean off of Alaska will go back into effect. Continue reading “Judge rules Trump executive order allowing offshore drilling in Arctic Ocean unlawful”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving defiantly to kick-start the long-stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline, President Donald Trump on Friday issued a new presidential permit for the project — two years after he first approved it and more than a decade after it was first proposed.
Trump said the permit issued Friday replaces one granted in March 2017. The order is intended to speed up development of the controversial pipeline, which would ship crude oil from tar sands in western Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Continue reading “Trump issues new permit for stalled Keystone XL pipeline”
In a shocking announcement Tuesday morning, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office said it will not be prosecuting Jussie Smollett, who was previously accused of faking an anti-black, anti-gay hate crime in Chicago in order to drum up publicity for his role on the TV drama “Empire.”
Fox News has learned the judge granted a nolle pros, which essentially means that the case has been dropped and that he will no longer be prosecuted for the alleged crime. Continue reading “Jussie Smollett charges dropped, actor won’t be prosecuted on charges he faked attack”
A man from Freetown, Mass., was arrested on Monday night for keeping an 86-inch flat-screen TV that was mailed to his home by mistake, according to Boston 25 News.
Nick Memmo, 35, told the outlet what occurred at his home the night of his arrest: “They surrounded the house and knocked on the door with flashlights coming through all the windows. They told me to come outside then handcuffed me.” Continue reading “Man arrested for keeping an 86-inch flat-screen TV that was mailed to his home by mistake”
Strategic Culture – by Philip M. Giraldi
There is a saying attributed to the French banker Nathan Rothschild that “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.” Conservative opinion in the United States has long suspected that Rothschild was right and there have been frequent calls to audit the Federal Reserve Bank based on the presumption that it has not always acted in support of the actual interests of the American people. That such an assessment is almost certainly correct might be presumed based on the 2008 economic crash in which the government bailed out the banks, which had through their malfeasance caused the disaster, and left individual Americans who had lost everything to face the consequences. Continue reading “Goodbye to the Internet: Interference by Governments Is Already Here”
A newly unearthed batch of heavily redacted, classified emails from Hillary Clinton’s personal email server revealed that the former secretary of state discussed establishing a “private, 100% off-the-record” back channel to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and that one of her top aides warned her that she was in “danger” of being “savaged by Jewish organizations, in the Jewish press and among the phalanx of neoconservative media” as a result of political machinations by “Bibi and the Jewish leadership.” Continue reading “Clinton, in newly revealed emails, discussed classified foreign policy matters, secretive ‘private’ comms channel with Israel”
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — David Lunsford is an avid gun owner with a firing range on his Texas spread. With bump stocks about to be banned by the U.S. government, he grudgingly decided to sell off his and let someone else figure out what to do with them.
“If I get caught with one, I’m a felon, and it seems like to me that’s entrapment in the biggest way. I bought that thing legally with my hard-earned money,” said the 60-year-old Lunsford, who has at one time owned six AR-15 rifles that he built from kits, as well as a World War II German submachine gun. Continue reading “The bump stock ban is just days away. What will owners do?”
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A detective says a Salvadoran immigrant charged with four Nevada murders told police he robbed and killed his elderly victims during a 10-day rampage in January because he needed money to buy methamphetamine.
The detective told the grand jury, which indicted Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman in Reno last week, the 20-year-old who is living in the U.S. illegally broke into tears and repeatedly called himself an “idiot” before confessing to the murders during an interrogation hours after his arrest in Carson City on Jan. 19. Continue reading “Police say immigrant suspect killed for drugs”
KITTITAS COUNTY, Washington – A Kittitas County Sheriff’s Deputy was shot and killed and another officer was injured after a driver they were pursuing got out of the car and began shooting, the sheriff’s office said.
The deputy and Kittitas police officer attempted to stop a vehicle they had received a complaint about Tuesday night, the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The vehicle failed to stop, which resulted in a pursuit, authorities said. Continue reading “Washington state officer shot and killed while pursuing driver”
WASHINGTON – Undocumented immigrants who use false Social Security numbers to get jobs would be easier to prosecute under a case the Supreme Court agreed to hear Monday.
The justices will hear Kansas’ appeal of a lower court’s decision that the federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over such cases – a ruling the Trump administration agrees should be overturned. Continue reading “Supreme Court to decide if states can prosecute undocumented immigrants for identity theft”
Bearing Arms – by Tom Knighton
An Oregon bill wanted to impose draconian restrictions on gun owners. For example, it would limit round capacity to just five rounds. That would have made most revolvers illegal.
As progressive as Oregon is, it sounded like something lawmakers would consider. Amazingly, better sense prevailed. Continue reading “Oregon Lawmakers Effectively Kill Ridiculous Gun Control Bill”
AUGUSTA (WGME) — Gun control advocates along with law enforcement officials and medical professionals will hold a news conference Tuesday afternoon in Augusta to urge Maine lawmakers to pass a “red flag bill” this session.
The bill LD 1312 would create a new kind of court order known as an “Extreme Risk Protection Order,” which temporarily restricts a person’s access to firearms when they pose a danger to themselves or others. Continue reading “Gun control advocates to urge Maine lawmakers to pass ‘red flag’bill”
A petrochemical fire at a Deer Park plant could burn for two more days, officials said Monday morning, one day after the fire broke out.
Emergency crews, including the Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office, have been trying to control the fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Company, which erupted about 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Continue reading “Deer Park plant fire could last two more days; shelter-in-place lifted”
NEW YORK (AP) — A man wanted in the 1999 shooting of an off-duty New York Police Department officer who later died from his injuries was arrested in Florida almost two decades after the incident, and the head of the NYPD on Sunday offered his thanks to fellow law enforcement for their perseverance.
Local television stations in Jacksonville, Florida, reported Lester Pearson, 43, was taken into custody Friday morning in connection to the death of officer Vincent Ling. Continue reading “Suspect in 1999 shooting of NYPD officer arrested in Florida”
One person was killed, a Montana Highway Patrol trooper was in critical condition and two others were hospitalized after a shooting spree in Missoula and Evaro that resulted in the arrest of one suspect.
Trooper Wade Palmer, who was flown Friday afternoon to Salt Lake City for treatment, was shot in his patrol car after he found the suspect’s car near the Evaro Bar and Casino early Friday morning.
Less than a day after a terrorist attack at two mosques that left 49 people dead and several fighting for their lives, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she will change gun laws of the country, with the prime minister noting that the New Zealand government is now looking at banning semi-automatic weapons.
“While the nation grapples with a form of grief and anger that we have not experienced before, we are seeking answers,” Ardern said during a Saturday morning news conference in Wellington, cited by Bloomberg. “I can tell you one thing right now, our guns laws will change.” Continue reading “New Zealand To Change Gun Laws After Mosque Shooting”
Update: 6 a.m.
The Montana Highway Patrol posted on its Facebook page that a trooper was among those shot:
OFFICER DOWN: A Montana Highway Patrol Trooper was shot early this morning during an incident with a male suspect who is currently at large in the Evaro area. The trooper has been transported and is currently hospitalized with injuries sustained as a result of the incident. Continue reading “Montana trooper shot, manhunt continues in Missoula area shootings”
Senate Republicans joined their Democratic colleagues on Thursday in voting to block President Trump’s border emergency declaration — a move that will prompt the president’s first-ever veto.
The president made his intentions crystal clear, tweeting “VETO!” moments after the resolution cleared Congress. The White House said Trump likely would issue the veto Friday. Continue reading “Senate votes to block Trump’s border emergency declaration, in bipartisan rebuke teeing up veto”
(Reuters) – Families of schoolchildren gunned down in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre can sue Remington Outdoor Co Inc, a Connecticut court ruled on Thursday, in a setback for gun makers long shielded from liability in mass shootings.
In a 4-3 ruling widely expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, Connecticut’s highest court found the lawsuit could proceed based on a state law protecting consumers against fraudulent marketing. Continue reading “Families can sue gun maker for Sandy Hook school massacre: court”