Reason – by Jacob Sullum

On Monday evening in Houston, a dozen armed men broke into the home of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, a middle-aged couple who had lived in the house at 7815 Harding Street for at least two decades. The first man through the door, who was armed with a shotgun, used it to kill one of the couple’s dogs. Tuttle responded to the home invasion by grabbing a revolver and shooting the man with the shotgun, who collapsed on a sofa in the living room. As Nicholas tried to disarm the intruder, his accomplices shot her. Tuttle returned fire, and by the end of the shootout he and his wife were both dead. Four of the assailants were hit by gunfire, while a fifth injured his knee.   Continue reading “The Cops Were the Aggressors in This Week’s Deadly Houston Drug Raid”

AZ Central – by Dani Coble

U.S. Border Patrol cameras captured images of 123 undocumented migrants surrendering to agents after they crossed the border near Yuma on Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said Wednesday.

The group of migrants surrendered to agents after crossing vehicle barriers, the agency said in a post on its Arizona Twitter account Wednesday.   Continue reading “Video shows 123 migrants surrendering to Border Patrol agents in Arizona”

Yahoo News

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy revealed on Wednesday that it secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from South Carolina to a nuclear security site in Nevada months ago despite the state’s protests.

The Justice Department notified a federal judge in Reno that the government trucked in the radioactive material to store at the site 70 miles (113 kilometers) north of Las Vegas before Nevada first asked a court to block the move in November.   Continue reading “US secretly shipped plutonium from South Carolina to Nevada”

WGN 9 News

CHICAGO — The extreme drop in temperatures can be quite dangerous, and potentially life-threatening, especially for the city’s most vulnerable population.

Volunteers from Chi Gives Back were near Roosevelt Road and Des Plaines Avenue Monday evening to provide food, blankets and propane tanks to people in need.  Continue reading “Volunteers help homeless prepare for dangerously cold temps”

ABC News

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) –A group of narcotics officers came under fire while trying to serve a search warrant in southeast Houston late Monday afternoon.

Rhogena Nicholas, 58, and her husband Dennis Tuttle, 59, have been identified as the two suspects who were killed at the house in the 7800 block of Harding.   Continue reading “What we know about the husband and wife killed in officer-involved shooting in SE Houston”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

During a Monday White House press briefing national security adviser John Bolton was photographed carrying a notepad — presumably as he was fresh out of a national security meeting — and one of the things which appears to be handwritten on the pad is “5,000 troops to Colombia”.

The contents of the notepad were spotted almost immediately by multiple journalists online after an NBC news release featuring the AP photo was published. More precisely the full contents appear to read:   Continue reading ““5,000 Troops To Colombia” To Quell Venezuela Crisis? John Bolton Flashes Notepad Contents At Briefing”

CBS News

HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM) – Houston Police confirm to CBS 11 a total of five Houston Police officers were shot Monday afternoon reportedly while serving a narcotics warrant.

Houston Police Officers Union President Joe Gambaldi tweeted, “We currently have 5 officers shot, all on their way to the hospital. One is being life flighted. On the way to the hospital, will update when I can.”   Continue reading “5 Police Officers Shot In Houston”

Fox News

A gun-wielding good Samaritan brought a harrowing road rage incident to a safe end, reportedly stopping a driver who’d been racing through Massachusetts — with a 65-year-old man clinging to the hood of his SUV.

An unidentified person ordered Mark Fitzgerald, 37, at gunpoint out of his SUV, allowing Richard Kamrowski to climb down from the car unscathed, police said.   Continue reading “Massachusetts man, 65, clings to hood of SUV on turnpike in suspected road-rage incident”

Yahoo News

A missing 3-year-old boy who was found alive after enduring two days of heavy rain and freezing temperatures says it was a bear who kept him safe and warm.

Authorities from the FBI and U.S. Marines professional search teams joined up with volunteers to search for Casey Hathaway when he vanished from outside his grandmother’s house in North Carolina on Tuesday afternoon.   Continue reading “3-year-old boy lost in freezing forest for two days says bear kept him safe”

Yahoo News

A St. Louis police officer was charged with manslaughter Friday for allegedly shooting a colleague as the two played Russian Roulette, authorities said.

Officer Nathaniel Hendren, 29, shot Officer Katlyn Alix, 24, in his apartment in the city’s Carondelet neighborhood early Thursday in the presence of a third officer, police said.

Hendren was charged with involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action, police said. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.   Continue reading “St. Louis cop charged in Russian Roulette shooting death of fellow officer, police say”

ABC News

Police are searching for an “armed and dangerous” 21-year-old man from Louisiana who they believe fatally shot his girlfriend, her father and her brother before driving 25 miles in a stolen pickup truck and killing both his parents in their trailer home. Authorities said Saturday evening he may be out of state now.

Dakota Theriot is wanted on multiple counts of first-degree murder, home invasion and weapons charges after the killing spree that began in Livingston Parish — just east of the state capital, Baton Rouge — and ended in Ascension Parish. Authorities said that deputies arrived at his parents’ home in time to interview his dying father, who identified his son as the shooter.   Continue reading “Gulf Coast manhunt on for suspect accused of killing his parents, girlfriend, 2 others”

ABC News

Two people, including an 82-year-old man, were shot dead by a gunman at a bar and a home near Penn State University Thursday night, police said.

The shooter first killed a man and injured two others at the P.J. Harrigan’s bar about two miles from campus, according to State College Police Chief John Gardner.   Continue reading “Gunman kills 2 at bar and home near Penn State University: Police”

Yahoo News

(Bloomberg) — The Trump administration is considering taking steps to limit the ability of states to block interstate gas pipelines and other energy projects, according to three people familiar with the deliberations.

The effort, possibly through an executive order, is aimed chiefly at states in the Northeast U.S., where opposition to pipeline projects has helped prevent abundant shale gas in Pennsylvania and Ohio from reaching consumers in New York and other cities.   Continue reading “Trump Eyes Action to Limit States’ Powers to Block Pipelines”

Vox – by Alex Ward

The words former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone heard just before his arrest early Friday morning: “FBI. Open the door.”

We know this because CNN obtained exclusive footage of FBI agents surrounding Stone’s home, knocking on his door, and eventually arresting him.   Continue reading “See the moment Roger Stone was arrested by the FBI”

Yahoo News

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Two U.S.-Mexico meetings have been held to work out details of a new plan to return across the shared border migrants seeking U.S. asylum, but Mexico will not accept anybody facing a credible threat back home, a Mexico Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

In a major policy change, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration said on Dec. 20 it would send non-Mexican migrants who cross the U.S. southern border back to wait in Mexico while their U.S. asylum requests are processed.   Continue reading “Mexico says will not accept return of at-risk U.S. asylum seekers”

Breitbart – by John Binder

A proposal to give green cards — and thus eventual United States citizenship — to at least 700,000 illegal aliens could trigger a “chain migration” of more than four million foreign nationals arriving in the country.

As Breitbart News reported, White House adviser Jared Kushner and a handful of Republican Senators have reportedly floated the idea to secure a fifth of border wall funding by giving green cards to the roughly 700,000 illegal aliens enrolled in President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.   Continue reading “Green Cards for DACA Illegal Aliens Could Trigger Chain Migration of 4M Foreign Nationals”

New York Post – by Kaja Whitehouse

The US Supreme Court said it will hear its biggest gun rights case in nearly decade — one that seeks to undercut New York City rules sharply limiting gun owners from carrying firearms outside of their homes.

The high court on Tuesday said it will take up the appeal of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. vs. New York City, which is being fought by three city handgun owners and the National Rifle Association’s NY affiliate.   Continue reading “Supreme Court to hear New York gun control case that aims to restrict firearm transportation”

The State, AP

SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico’s Democrat-led Legislature and allied governor are pushing to increase oversight of firearms sales and place new limitations on gun possession and ownership, as a slate of gun-safety bills comes up for discussion in the Statehouse.   Continue reading “New Mexico bills, governor test appetite for gun control”

Yahoo News

Five people were killed when a gunman opened fire in a SunTrust Bank in Sebring, Florida, on Wednesday, police said.

The 21-year-old suspect, Zephen Xaver, barricaded himself inside before later surrendering to authorities, police said.   Continue reading “5 dead in shooting at Florida bank, suspect in custody: Police”

ABC News

The back and forth between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump over when and where the State of the Union will be delivered — if at all — came to a conclusion, if temporary, late Wednesday night. Trump will not give a speech until after the partial government shutdown is over.

The president tweeted the news in a two-part missive just before midnight, saying, “As the Shutdown was going on, Nancy Pelosi asked me to give the State of the Union Address. I agreed. She then changed her mind because of the Shutdown, suggesting a later date. This is her prerogative – I will do the Address when the Shutdown is over.”   Continue reading “Trump says he will not give State of the Union until after shutdown ends”