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Fox 12 Oregon – by Brenna Kelly
PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) – A farmer in northwest Portland is upset after a Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputy shot and killed his goat when it escaped Sunday morning.
It’s a short walk from Matt Minnick’s farm to the stretch of fencing at the end of his property.
“This is the fence that the developers put in and that was one of the holes,” Minnick told FOX 12. Continue reading “Portland farmer upset after Washington Co. deputy shot and killed his goat”
Popular Mechanics – by Kyle Mizokami
The handgun chosen to be the U.S. Army’s next generation handgun can fire if dropped while loaded. Tests conducted by gun bloggers has confirmed the gun will fire if dropped at a particular angle. The testing followed a multi-million dollar lawsuit by a Connecticut police officer who alleges he was injured after his Sig 320 handgun went off, critically injuring him.
The Sig Sauer P320 was declared the winner of the U.S. Army’s Modular Handgun System competition in January 2017. The P320, redesignated the M17 for Army and Air Force use, was picked to replace the Beretta M9 handgun, in use since the 1980s. The Army will issue the M17 to officers, aircrews, weapons crews, medics, and special operations forces. The M17 is chambered in 9-millimeter Parabellum and has a magazine capacity of 17 rounds. Continue reading “New Handgun Chosen by U.S. Army Goes Off If Dropped”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of the Interior said on Monday it has rescinded an Obama-era rule that reformed how energy companies value sales of oil, gas and coal extracted from federal and tribal land to protect taxpayers because it caused “confusion and uncertainty” for energy companies.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said the department’s newly formed royalty policy committee would propose alternatives to the rule and “remain committed to collecting every dollar due.” Continue reading “U.S. Interior Department rescinds coal valuation rule”
CLINTON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a 39-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of a western Missouri police officer during a traffic stop, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said Monday.
Clinton police officer Gary Michael, 37, who had been on the force less than a year, died late Sunday near Clinton, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) southeast of Kansas City, Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Bill Lowe said. The traffic stop involved a registration violation, Lowe said. Continue reading “Missouri officer killed during traffic stop, man sought”
Yahoo News – by Chris Kenning and Joseph Ax
CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Chicago will sue the Trump administration on Monday over threats to withhold public safety grant money from so-called sanctuary cities, escalating a pushback against a federal immigration crackdown, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on Sunday.
The federal lawsuit comes less than two weeks after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the U.S. Justice Department would bar cities from a certain grant program unless they allow immigration authorities unlimited access to local jails and provide 48 hours’ notice before releasing anyone wanted for immigration violations. Continue reading “Chicago to sue Trump administration over sanctuary city funding threat”
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A suspicious package that smelled like ammonia sickened several people at an IRS building in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday, federal authorities said.
Local officials said about 10 people reported being ill, including vomiting and nausea, after the package arrived at the sprawling building’s mailroom Friday morning. Continue reading “Suspicious package sent to IRS building in Kansas City”
On the surface the July jobs report was solid, with 209K jobs added, more than the expected, as the recent auto sector slowdown appears to skip the labor market (for now), with Trump quick to take credit for the report. Continue reading “The Amazon Effect: Part Time Jobs Soar By 393K, Full Time Jobs Slide”
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Educate Yourself – by Ken Adachi
I talked on the phone today to a woman who’s being victimized as a Targeted Individual after filing for divorce from her husband, who came from a wealthy banking family. Among other injustices she has suffered, she told me that when her brother attempted to send her $8,000 in cash by FedEx to help her in May of 2016, it was stolen from her by Homeland Security. Continue reading “Sen. Charles Grassley Betrays His Conservative Constituency by Sponsoring SB. 1241, Latest ‘Asset Forfeiture’ Scheme to Rob Citizens of Their Cash, Freedom and Privacy”
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury to investigate Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The move is seen as a sign the investigation into election interference and possible collusion with the Trump campaign is heating up and entering a new phase. Reuters also reported that grand jury subpoenas have been issued in connection with the meeting Donald Trump Jr. had with a Russian lawyer and others last year. Continue reading “Mueller reportedly impanels grand jury in Russia probe”
New York federal prosecutors subpoenaed Kushner Companies, the real estate development company owned by the family of President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, over its use of a visa program that offers green cards to wealthy foreign investors.
The subpoena was received by Kushner Companies in May, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, and regards the company’s use of the EB-5 visa program to finance a development in Jersey City, N.J., called One Journal Square. Continue reading “Kushner Companies subpoenaed over use of visa program: report”
The Justice Department unveiled a new unit Wednesday to tackle the national opioid epidemic and announced that it is dispatching a dozen federal prosecutors to hard hit states like West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio to combat the crisis.
“If you are a doctor illegally prescribing opioids for profit or a pharmacist letting these pills walk out the door and onto our streets based on prescriptions you know were obtained under false pretenses, we are coming after you,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said. “We will reverse these devastating trends with every tool we have.” Continue reading “DOJ Unveils New ‘Opioid Fraud And Abuse’ Unit To Combat Crisis”
A woman is dead, a man is missing and seven are in the hospital after an explosion caused a school building to collapse in Minneapolis today, the Minneapolis Police Department said.
The explosion set the building at Minnehaha Academy on fire and the flames were further fed by a ruptured gas line, according to police. The fire has since been put out, police said. Continue reading “1 dead, 1 missing after school building collapse in Minneapolis”
Several recent media reports on tight labor markets may have been entirely wrong. New numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest that the construction labor market is not as tight as these news outlets might want us to believe.
According to a report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research by Brian Dew and Kevin Cashman, several figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics seriously bring into question the claim that there is a construction labor shortage. Numerous media reports have stoked this belief, such as a recent report from the Dallas News, which claimed that the lack of available labor is amongst the biggest concerns of homebuilders in the state of Texas. Continue reading “Reality Check: No Sign of a Construction Labor Shortage”
After nearly four hours of public comment and debate, Burien city council members delayed a vote on a petition to repeal the city’s sanctuary status.
A standing-room only crowd showed up for Monday’s special called meeting at Burien City Hall. People both for and against the city’s sanctuary city ordinance wanted to voice their concerns to council members. Continue reading “Burien, Washington city council delays vote on sanctuary city repeal effort”
What is not reported in this article is that Salvador Diaz-Garcia is a DACA recipient.
A 19-year-old woman was bludgeoned and sexually assaulted in the gym of her Burien apartment complex last month, causing serious injuries to her face and head.
The 23-year-old man charged with her assault is also said to have grabbed a teenage girl’s buttocks and stared at girls at the pool shortly before the attack. Continue reading “Woman bludgeoned, raped at Burien, Washington apartment complex by Dreamer”
Republican Sens. David Perdue (Ga.) and Tom Cotton (Ark.) plan to introduce legislation at the White House Wednesday calling for a new skills-based immigration system, the Washington Examiner reportedTuesday.
According to the report, the plan would reduce the overall level of legal immigration into the country.
Continue reading “Two GOP senators plan to propose skills-based immigration bill: report”
Defense Department investigators have discovered “potential security risks” in a Pentagon program that has enrolled more than 10,000 foreign-born individuals into the U.S. armed forces since 2009, Fox News has learned exclusively, with sources on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon expressing alarm over “foreign infiltration” and enrollees now unaccounted for.
After more than a year of investigation, the Pentagon’s inspector general recently issued a report – its contents still classified but its existence disclosed here for the first time – identifying serious problems with Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI), a DOD program that provides immigrants and non-immigrant aliens with an expedited path to citizenship in exchange for military service. Continue reading “Pentagon investigators find ‘security risks’ in government’s immigrant recruitment program, ‘infiltration’ feared”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration slapped financial sanctions on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday after a weekend election that gave the South American country’s ruling party virtually unlimited powers.
The sanctions freeze any assets Maduro may have in U.S. jurisdictions and bar Americans from doing business with him. They were outlined in a brief notice by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control ahead of a White House announcement from President Donald Trump’s national security adviser H.R. McMaster and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Continue reading “US hits Venezuelan president with financial sanctions”
Authorities in Alabama were still on the hunt for one inmate Monday morning after a dozen prisoners, including two incarcerated on attempted murder charges, escaped from a jail the day before.
Brady Andrew Kilpatrick, 24, is still being sought. Kilpatrick is in jail on drug charges.
Authorities were able to recapture the other 11 inmates and return them to the jail. Christopher Micheal Smith, 19, was the latest inmate taken into custody, at 4:21 a.m., the Walker County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on Facebook. Continue reading “Alabama jail break prisoner still on the run after 11 others caught”
PORTLAND, Ore. — A man accused of breaking into a 65-year-old woman’s home, sexually assaulting her and stealing her car was arrested after allegedly assaulting another woman and running from police.
Sergio Jose Martinez, 31, was caught July 24 after officers chased him through a neighborhood.
According to court documents filed in March 2017, Martinez has a history of illegal entry into the United States. He has been a transient in the Portland area for more than a year and has been deported 20 times. Continue reading “ICE not alerted when sex assault suspect released from jail in 2016, official says”