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A 65-year-old woman was tasered after fleeing then kicking out at a police officer who stopped her over a broken light.
Debra Hamil, from Oklahoma, has been charged after body camera footage showed her resisting arrest during the confrontation in the town of Cashion last month. Continue reading “Woman, 65, tasered by police after fleeing then kicking officer who stopped her over broken light”
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — A gunman described as a disgruntled Walmart employee fatally shot two co-workers and wounded a police officer before he was shot and arrested Tuesday at a Walmart store in northern Mississippi, authorities said.
Southaven Police Chief Macon Moore said the man, whom he did not name, shot a Southaven police officer, who was protected by a bulletproof vest and suffered minor injuries. The chief said a second Southaven officer shot the suspect, who was then taken for surgery to a hospital in neighboring Memphis, Tennessee. Continue reading “2 dead, 2 wounded in shooting at Walmart in Mississippi”
New York Post – by Bernadette Hogan
New York is extending the waiting period to buy guns from three days to 30 days to allow more time for background checks under a law approved Monday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The pro-gun safety law is a response to a rash of shootings across the nation.
The bill originally passed both legislative houses in January. Continue reading “Cuomo approves extending background checks for gun purchases”
Capital One Financial Corp., the fifth-largest U.S. credit-card issuer, said Monday that a hacker accessed the personal information of approximately 106 million card customers and applicants, one of the largest ever data breaches of a big bank.
The announcement came the same day the alleged hacker, Paige A. Thompson, was arrested by federal agents in Seattle. Continue reading “Capital One data breach exposes info of 106M customers, applicants; suspect arrested”
Police say someone got out of a car and opened fire on a 68-year-old man who was approaching a synagogue near Miami.
Miami-Dade police detective Alvaro Zabaleta tells news outlets someone got out of a black Chevrolet Impala around 6:30 p.m. Sunday and shot the man multiple times in the legs near the front door of the Young Israel of Greater Miami Temple. The victim was taken to Aventura Hospital where he underwent surgery and is in stable condition. Continue reading “Police: Man hurt in shooting outside synagogue near Miami”
Santino William Legan has been identified as the 19-year-old suspect accused of killing three people and wounding several others in a mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California, according to CBS News. The shooting Sunday night on the final day of the annual charity event at Christmas Hill Park in Gilroy left three dead, 12 injured and the suspected shooter, Legan, killed by police. Several others were injured in the chaos after shots were fired, but were not shot, authorities said. Continue reading “Gilroy shooter Santino William Legan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know”
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — A man who was seen “pumping a gun” in a busy tourist area in Arkansas was critically wounded in a shootout with police, authorities said.
Hot Springs police said several people called 911 to report a man walking along Bathhouse Row while carrying a long gun and threatening bystanders on Sunday. Officers responded and exchanged gunfire with the man, and one police officer was struck twice, police said. Continue reading “Officer hurt in shootout in popular tourist area in Arkansas”
GILROY, Calif. (AP) — A gunman cut through a fence to avoid security and opened fire at Northern California’s popular Gilroy Garlic Festival, killing three and wounding at least 15 before police fatally shot him as terrified people and performers ran for cover.
Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee said the gunman was armed with a rifle and sneaked in through a fence that borders a parking lot next to a creek. He appeared to randomly target people when he opened fire just after 5:30 p.m. Sunday, the conclusion of the three-day festival that attracts more than 100,000 people to the city known as the “Garlic Capital of the World.” Continue reading “Shooting at California festival kills 3; including boy, 6”
Washington (AFP) – The US military said on Thursday it had arrested 16 Marines on human trafficking and drug-related charges.
The group was taken into custody during a battalion formation at Camp Pendleton, a major Marine base in California about 65 miles (90 kilometers) north of the Mexican border. Continue reading “Sixteen US Marines arrested on human trafficking, drugs charges”
A federal judge in California on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from imposing restrictions on individuals seeking asylum in the United States, just hours after a judge in Washington had decided to let the rule stand while lawsuits play out in court.
The rule, published in the Federal Register last week, required people seeking asylum to apply first in one of the countries they cross on their way to the U.S. — with certain exceptions. It targeted tens of thousands of Central Americans who have crossed Mexico each month trying to enter the U.S. Continue reading “Federal court blocks Trump asylum rules hours after judge ruled to keep restrictions in place”
US President Donald Trump has vetoed three congressional resolutions barring billions of dollars in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which have been committing war crimes in Yemen for over four years.
In veto messages to Congress released by the White House on Wednesday, Trump argued that the bills would “weaken America’s global competitiveness and damage the important relationships we share with our allies and partners.” Continue reading “Trump vetoes trio of congressional bills prohibiting Saudi arms sales”
Attorney General Bill Barr announced Thursday the federal government will be resuming capital punishment.
In the announcement, the U.S. Department of Justice said the decision was made related to “five death-row inmates convicted of murdering, and in some cases torturing and raping, the most vulnerable in our society — children and the elderly.” Continue reading “Federal government resuming executions after 2 decades, names first 5 people to be killed”
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two Democratic U.S. senators will unveil a bill on Thursday to curb climate change by slapping a fee on oil, natural gas and coal and delivering most of the revenues to low- and middle-income Americans, one of the lawmakers said. Continue reading “Senators to unveil carbon tax bill to generate $2.5 trillion in 10 years”
A storm system that brought damaging winds and flash flooding has moved off the East Coast and attention turns to the West, where there is high fire danger, and the Southwest, where monsoon flash flooding possible.
Evacuations and a state of emergency have been declared for the Museum Fire near Flagstaff, Arizona. Continue reading “Dozens of large wildfires burning in West as California feels the heat”
Panorama High School was already on edge after a 10th grader went missing.
Then, six students were detained in February 2018 with no explanation. There were whispers that the missing boy had been murdered, but the campus was in the dark about a possible motive and suspect. Continue reading “How MS-13 gang’s bloody campaign spilled into a San Fernando Valley high school”
OKLAHOMA CITY – A man and his children are hiding and healing after they were attacked by three teens with BB guns Monday afternoon.
A neighbor reported the attack because the family of undocumented immigrants was afraid to go to the authorities themselves. Continue reading “Oklahoma teens chase, fire BB guns at undocumented family”
Of the nearly 2,100 illegal aliens who were wanted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in highly-publicized raids last week, only about 35 were arrested and detained, officials confirmed.
Details of the arrests released by officials this week indicate that 35 illegal aliens out of 2,100 were arrested during last week’s ICE raids. These raids are typically not publicized in any way before they occur, with agents only revealing the number of arrests after they are conducted. Continue reading “Only 35 Out of 2K Illegal Aliens Arrested by ICE in Publicized Raids”
Iran has again rejected the prospect of new negotiations with the White House “under any circumstances,” according to an interview with Supreme Leader Ayotallah Ali Khamenei’s Military Adviser Hossein Dehghan, cited in Al Jazeera.
The Islamic Republic’s top military adviser further warned Iran and its regional allies will target all American bases in the region should the US launch war plans, while reiterating Iran’s ability to block the vital Strait of Hormuz to global oil transit. Everyone must be able to freely transit the Persian Gulf waterway or no one at all, Dehghan warned. Continue reading “Iran’s Military Vows Attack On All Regional US Bases If War Starts”
Syria says at the United Nations that it considers taking back its Israel-occupied Golan Heights through all possible legal instruments to be a priority for the Arab country.
Bashar al-Ja’afari, Damascus’ envoy to the UN made the remarks to a UN Security Council session on Tuesday, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported. Continue reading “Taking back Israel-occupied land a priority, Syria tells UN Security Council”