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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the investigation of the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas (all times local):
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A Las Vegas casino company says the security guard who was shot and wounded by Stephen Paddock and disappeared before he was about to give TV interviews is safe and wants people to respect his privacy. Continue reading “The Latest: Hotel says wounded Vegas security guard is safe”
The FBI records vault released a series of draft statements Monday afternoon authored by former FBI Director James Comey. The drafts are about the conclusion of the criminal investigation into former Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server to host and transmit top secret information. Continue reading “New FBI Documents Further Prove Comey Planned to Exonerate Hillary Before Criminal Investigation Was Complete”
The promoters of crypto currencies have gushingly touted them as the mechanism by which the present central banking cabal and the system of nation states which derive much of their power from it will be brought down and replaced by digital money. Despite their meteoric rise as speculative “assets,” there are fundamental economic reasons why they will never act as a general medium of exchange despite the wild enthusiasm for them by the crypto-currency cultists.
Money – a general medium of exchange – is the most marketable (exchangeable) commodity in an economy. As a good, money is not sought after for its direct use – to satisfy individual wants – but to satisfy wants indirectly through exchange for other goods. Over time, one good becomes money since it possesses qualities superior to all other goods as a money. When gold became demanded not for its “use value,” but for its “exchange value,” it became a general medium of exchange – money. Continue reading “Bitcoin: A Tower of Monetary Babel”
A British man said he hid in the woods for 10 years to escape his wife.
Malcolm Applegate, 62, said he left his wife after she continued to argue with him over his increased work hours as a gardener, The Daily Mail reported.
“For three years it was alright, we got on with one another and the gardening got too much for her,” Applegate said. Continue reading “British man hides in the woods for 10 years to escape wife’s nagging”
Today, the South Korean and U.S. navies kicked off massive combined drills off the coast of the Korean peninsula amid heightened tensions, a training exercise which North Korea has warned may prompt another ballistic missile launch potentially to coincide with the launch of the Chinese 19th Party Congress on October 18. The two allies plan to continue the Maritime Counter Special Operations Exercise (MCSOFEX) through Friday in the East Sea and the Yellow Sea.
As reported over the weekend, the drill involves the U.S. 7th Fleet’s aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) and two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers – the USS Stethem (DDG-63) and the USS Mustin (DDG-89). The carrier strike group will train with South Korean warships and other defense assets, such as the Sejong the Great Aegis ship and P-3 Orion anti-submarine aircraft in the East Sea. Continue reading “US Deploys Special Forces “Decapitation” Team To South Korea”
The Mandalay Bay security guard who disappeared last week moments before he was scheduled to break his silence in television interviews has not been seen since he went to a walk-in health clinic, his union president said.
David Hickey of the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) told reporters Friday that he got a text the night before saying Jesus Campos was taken to a UMC Quick Care facility, though he did not specify where or whom the text came from. Continue reading “Las Vegas guard Jesus Campos vanished after visiting urgent-care clinic, union leader says”
Idaho Statesman – by Cynthia Sewell
The deputies who killed Central Idaho rancher Jack Yantis committed “a deadly response to a fictional non-deadly threat,” Yantis family members say in a new wrongful death lawsuit.
Adams County sheriff’s deputies Brian Wood and Cody Roland shot and killed Yantis on Nov. 1, 2015, while the rancher was attempting to put down his bull that had been severely injured in a car crash. Continue reading “Rancher’s family sues Adams County, two deputies over fatal shooting”
Washington Times – by Stephen Dinan
Two young illegal immigrant “Dreamers” in the U.S. under protection of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals deportation amnesty were caught smuggling illegal immigrants in separate incidents in Texas, authorities announced last week.
The arrests come at a time when Congress is debating what to do about Dreamers, and the arrests could complicate the picture painted of Dreamers as law-abiding standouts who are victims of circumstance. Continue reading “2 Dreamers caught smuggling immigrants into Texas”
After years of undermining the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al Assad, an effort that has seen Israel countenance ISIS training camps near its borders and launch recurring missile strikes on Syrian territory and its army bases while threatening to bomb Assad’s palace, the simmering conflict between the two nations broke out into the open once again overnight. Continue reading “Israeli Fighter Jets Launch Air Strike On Syrian Air Defense Battery Near Damascus”
At least seven people are injured and one person is missing after an oil rig exploded Sunday night in Louisiana.
Kenner Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Kriss Fortunato said that at least seven people were injured and authorities were actively searching for one missing person, The Times-Picayune reported. Continue reading “Louisiana oil rig explodes, at least 7 injured”
A longtime GOP staffer who worked on President Trump’s 2016 campaign and interned for Sen. Marco Rubio in 2011 was discovered dead Tuesday after being shot 13 times in his sleep.
Nick Corvino, 30, of Kissimmee, Fla., was shot in his legs, back and head, the arrest affidavit stated, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
Corvino’s roommate, Scott Waddell, 45, who was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, told deputies he “sometimes has homicidal thoughts about killing young men, but has never acted on them,” Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said. Continue reading “Former Trump campaigner and Rubio intern shot 13 times while sleeping”
In a brash move likely to roil insurance markets, President Donald Trump will “immediately” halt payments to insurers under the Obama-era health care law he has been trying to unravel for months.
The Health and Human Services department made the announcement in a statement late Thursday night. “We will discontinue these payments immediately,” said acting HHS Secretary Eric Hargan and Medicare administrator Seema Verma. Continue reading “Trump to halt subsidies to health insurers”
After multiple failed Republican attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, President Trump is resorting to his pen to achieve some of his health care goals.
On Friday, Mr. Trump signed an executive order intended to make lower-premium plans more widely available. The president has long talked of his desire to make plans available across state lines, something this order will apparently do. The White House views this as an action that will “increase the healthcare choices for millions of Americans, potentially allowing some employers to join together across State lines to offer coverage,” according to a background call before the order’s signing. Continue reading “Trump signs health care executive order”
The Girl Scouts of the USA has issued a blistering rebuke of the Boy Scouts of America‘s decision to begin letting girls into the ranks of its troops.
“The Boy Scouts’ house is on fire,” Girl Scouts told ABC News in a statement today. “Instead of addressing systemic issues of continuing sexual assault, financial mismanagement and deficient programming, BSA’s senior management wants to add an accelerant to the house fire by recruiting girls.” Continue reading “Girl Scouts slam Boy Scouts’ decision to accept girls: ‘The Boy Scouts’ house is on fire’”
Thousands more people were being evacuated as some of the worst wildfires in California’s history swept through wine country, leaving a trail of smoldering destruction and a death toll of at least 23.
Firefighters were locked in a fight with the wind-whipped blazes, but heading into a fourth day of the struggle they appeared no closer to containing them. In fact, the fires that have burned since Sunday in Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Mendocino and Yuba counties are now threatening the towns of Sonoma, Napa, Calistoga and Fairfield. Continue reading “More Flee California Wine Country As Deadly Wildfires Spread”
A new optical illusion is sweeping the web – and it’s just like *that* dress all over again.
Facebook user Nicole Coulthard discovered a screenshot of a sneaker, but no one can decide on what colour it is.
There are two groups of people who think they have the correct answer – some think that the shoe is pink and white, while the other group say it’s grey and aqua. Continue reading “Are these sneakers pink and white, or blue and grey?”
An illegal immigrant accused of beheading his mother in March may have the charges against him dropped, a local television station reported.
Oliver Mauricio Funes-Machado, 18, has been accused of beheading his 35-year-old mother at their home in North Carolina on March 6.
WNCN reported a judge is expected to sign an order that will drop the first degree murder charges against him after he ruled he’s not mentally competent to stand trial. Continue reading “Illegal immigrant accused of beheading mother to have charges dropped, report says”