Yahoo News

CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his crew were arrested while broadcasting live on air Friday morning from the scene of the overnight protests in Minneapolis.

Jimenez was reporting on the network’s “New Day” a little after 6 a.m. ET when he was approached by state troopers in riot gear. Jimenez identified himself as a reporter with CNN and repeatedly offered to move locations at the officers’ request, but they interrupted him to inform him he was being arrested. Continue reading “Police arrest CNN reporter during live broadcast of Minneapolis riots”

Fox News

Protests in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd took a dramatic turn for the worse Wednesday night as city police responded to stores in the city being looted and burned as well as a deadly shooting at a protest location.

Multiple reports indicated that Mayor Jacob Frey reached out to Gov. Tim Walz to deploy the National Guard to the city. The mayor’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News seeking comment.  Continue reading “Deadly shooting near George Floyd protest as looting, arson grip Minneapolis”

Fox News

A Florida man in his 70s fatally shot a home intruder who busted through the glass front door and began attacking his wife on Tuesday, investigators said.

Deputies arrived at the Panama City home around 6:05 a.m. and found 31-year-old Nathan Jerrell Edwards laying on the floor dead and a handgun on the counter, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said. Continue reading “Florida man shoots, kills home intruder who was attacking his wife, police say”

Fox 8

MINNEAPOLIS — About 24 hours after George Floyd’s death, hundreds packed the streets of Minneapolis, many gathering at the intersection where Floyd was pinned to the ground by police officers shortly before he died.  Continue reading “Police spray tear gas as hundreds protest after George Floyd’s arrest, death in Minneapolis”

Conservative Review – by Daniel Horowitz

Most people are more likely to wind up six feet under because of almost anything else under the sun other than COVID-19.

The CDC just came out with a report that should be earth-shattering to the narrative of the political class, yet it will go into the thick pile of vital data and information about the virus that is not getting out to the public. Continue reading “The CDC confirms remarkably low coronavirus death rate”

Fox News

A shooting Wednesday night at the Westgate Entertainment District in Glendale, Ariz., prompted a massive police response and a complete lockdown of the area.

Authorities said that one suspect is in custody and three people were struck by gunfire. Glendale police told the public to stay out of the area while they investigate. Continue reading “Shooting reported at Arizona shopping center, suspect in custody”

The Hill

The Oregon Supreme Court overruled a judge’s order stopping the governor’s statewide coronavirus restrictions late Monday.

State Supreme Court Presiding Justice Thomas A. Balmer granted the state’s emergency motion to hold the lower court’s injunction designating the state coronavirus restrictions “null and void,” Oregon Live reported. Balmer ruled the hold will remain in place until the higher court reviews the state’s petition to dismiss the lower judge’s ruling.  Continue reading “Oregon Supreme Court overrules judge’s order halting coronavirus restrictions”

Yahoo News

EDENVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Rapidly rising water overtook dams and forced the evacuation of about 10,000 people in central Michigan, where the governor said one downtown could be “under approximately 9 feet of water” by Wednesday. Continue reading “Thousands evacuated as river dams break in central Michigan”

Fox News

A New Jersey gym owner  said on Monday that after three months of complying with the Garden State’s stay-at-home order to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, residents and business owners are “sick and tired” of their rights being “trampled.” Continue reading “NJ gym opens in defiance of governor’s lockdown: ‘We will not stand down’”

Yahoo News

Eleven firefighters were injured in a large explosion at a warehouse in Los Angeles, the city’s fire department has said.

Fire crews were called to the building, which is used by a hash oil manufacturer, after a fire had been reported. Continue reading “LA explosion: Huge blast at hash oil warehouse injures 11 firefighters”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Remember when Jeff Bezos agreed to buy the Washington Post back in 2013 for a paltry ~$250 million?

Well, nearly 10 years later, Facebook has reportedly agreed to pay ~$400 million for Giphy, described by Axios as “a popular platform for animated images”. The deal comes as the Trump Administration DoJ cranks up anti-trust scrutiny of tech titans.  Continue reading “Facebook Buys Giphy For $400 Million As Tech Giant Pledges To Banish All “Hateful Memes””

ABC News

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced he was officially reopening his California electric car plant in defiance of local government lockdown orders amid the coronavirus pandemic.  Continue reading “Elon Musk defies local pandemic lockdown orders to reopen California Tesla plant”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Since President Trump pulled the US out of the JCPOA (better known as “the Iran nuclear deal”), Iran has suffered one embarrassing mishap after the next. Earlier this year, the IRGC accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger airliner filled with young Iranian students. The fact that the regime ineptly lied about the shoot-down, before finally coming clean in the face of overwhelming evidence, only compounded the embarrassment.  Continue reading “19 Killed & 40 Missing Or Wounded After Iranian Destroyer Mistakenly Fires On Own Warship”

Yahoo News

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Oglala Sioux Tribe leaders have rejected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s demand that they remove checkpoints meant to regulate traffic through their reservation, set up to prevent the spread of coronavirus on tribal land. Continue reading “South Dakota Governor Demands Tribe Leaders Remove Checkpoints Set Up to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19”

Yahoo News

DALLAS (AP) — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday got his hair cut at a Dallas salon that became a rallying cry for conservative protests against coronavirus lockdown orders in Texas after the owner refused to shut down and ultimately went to jail. Continue reading “Ted Cruz gets haircut at salon whose owner flouted orders”

Daily Wire – by James Barrett

A GoFundMe account for Shelley Luther, who made national headlines after she was sentenced to 7 days in jail after refusing to tell a court she was “selfish” for reopening her salon despite an ongoing stay-at-home order, has now been officially closed to new donations after racking up a stunning $500,110 in just a few days.
 Continue reading “GoFundMe For Dallas Salon Owner Raises Massive Money”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Today’s jobs report was, as expected and as previously discussed, absolutely horrific, although as Bank of America points out there was one silver lining which Larry Kudlow quickly latched on to: with 72% of jobs lost being reflected as temporary layoffs, workers should be able to be more seamlessly rehired as the economy reopens. However, the longer this pandemic goes on, the more likely that what was temporary becomes permanent, and as we pointed out in a previous post, even baseline cases see unemployment not returning back to normal until 2022 or later.  Continue reading “A Tragic Record: For The First Time Ever, More Than Half Of The US Population Is Not Working”

Fox News

A father and son were arrested and charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a man whose shooting death in February has sparked protests, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) announced Thursday night. Continue reading “Ahmaud Arbery case: Georgia father and son arrested, charged with murder”