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Damascus (AFP) – The Israeli army overnight carried out air strikes and fired rockets at targets in Syria, causing damage near a military position, the Syrian army said in a statement on Tuesday.
Israel’s army has carried out several attacks on the Syrian army and its ally Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011. Continue reading “Israeli air strikes, rockets hit Syria: Syrian army”
NASHVILLE — President Donald Trump pitched his efforts to help rural America, promoting his tax overhaul law and economic development plans on a visit to Tennessee on Monday. He’s also reserving a seat at the national college football championship game.
Trump became the first president in a quarter-century to address the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. With the trip to Nashville, he unveiled a report the White House says will include proposals to stimulate a segment of the national economy that has lagged behind others. Continue reading “President Trump signs executive order to expand broadband in rural areas”
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Continue reading “Cliven Bundy: Judge protected the government’s wrongdoing from being exposed”
LAS VEGAS — Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, his two sons and a militia member will not face a retrial on charges that they led an armed rebellion against federal agents in 2014.
A federal judge on Monday said the federal prosecutors’ conduct was “outrageous” and “violated due process rights” of the defendants.
U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro dismissed the charges against the four men “with prejudice,” meaning they cannot face trial again. She said a new trial would not be sufficient to address the problems in the case and would provide the prosecution with an unfair advantage going forward. Continue reading “Cliven Bundy to walk free as federal judge dismisses Bundy Ranch standoff case”
An oil tanker that caught fire after colliding with a freighter off China’s east coast is at risk of exploding and sinking, Chinese state media reported Monday, as authorities from three countries struggled to find its 32 missing crew members and contain oil spewing from the blazing wreck.
State broadcaster China Central Television, citing Chinese officials, said none of the 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis who have been missing since the collision late Saturday had been found as of 8 a.m. Monday. Search and cleanup efforts have been hampered by fierce fires and poisonous gases that have engulfed the tanker and surrounding waters, CCTV reported. Continue reading “Oil tanker burning off China’s coast at risk of exploding”
The News Tribune – by Stacia Glenn
Update as of 5:03 a.m.: All schools in the Bethel School District will start two hours late Monday due to the investigation in the area. The district said their bus facility is blocked by the ongoing search for the second suspected burglar.
Update as of 4:43 a.m.: The fallen deputy has been identified as Daniel A. McCartney, 34, of Yelm.
More than a dozen law enforcement officers from various agencies lined up outside St. Joseph Medical Center early Monday as McCartney’s body was brought outside in a coffin draped in a flag and loaded into the Medical Examiner’s van. Continue reading “Pierce County, Washington deputy killed by fleeing burglar is identified; manhunt for gunman underway”
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SHELBURNE, Vt. (AP) — Police say a man in Vermont has used a machete to attack a woman in her 70s as she delivered meals to a motel being used as emergency housing for the homeless. Continue reading “Woman delivering meals to the homeless attacked with machete”
The illegal immigrant and seven-time felon who was acquitted of murder and assault in the 2015 San Francisco fatal shooting of 32-year old Kate Steinle was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday.
Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was credited for time served. He will be on parole for 48 months and will remain in custody to face federal charges. Continue reading “Illegal immigrant who killed Kate Steinle sentenced to time served”
The Justice Department has launched another investigation into allegations the Clinton Foundation used “pay to play” politics while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state, Fox News has confirmed.
Sources close to the investigation told Fox News the probe, led by the U.S. attorney’s office and the FBI in Little Rock, Ark., has been ongoing for months. Fox News has learned that investigators have already conducted multiple interviews associated with the probe. Continue reading “Justice Department investigating Clinton Foundation over ‘pay to play’ allegations”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States announced Thursday it was suspending security assistance to Pakistan for failing to take “decisive action” against Taliban militants targeting U.S. personnel in neighboring Afghanistan.
The State Department’s declaration signaled growing frustration over Pakistan’s cooperation in fighting terrorist networks, but it was not immediately clear how much money and materiel was being withheld. The vague details suggested the primary goal was to substantiate President Donald Trump’s surprising New Year’s Day tweet that accused Pakistan of playing U.S. leaders for “fools.” Continue reading “US suspends security assistance to Pakistan”
WASHINGTON — Sen. Cory Gardner, R.-Colo., on Thursday threatened to block all nominees to Justice Department posts in response to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s decision to end Obama-era policies that let legal marijuana thrive. Gardner also warned that the looming Justice Department announcement would make things harder for 2018 Republican candidates in states where pot is legal.
“It certainly lights up a new challenge for them,” Gardner told Yahoo News in a telephone interview. Continue reading “Republican Sen. Gardner torches Sessions over pot reversal”
Washington’s attorney general sued Motel 6 on Wednesday, alleging the national budget chain disclosed the private information of thousands of its guests to U.S. immigration authorities in violation of the state consumer-protection law.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson said motel employees divulged the names, birth dates, driver’s license numbers, license-plate numbers and room numbers of at least 9,150 guests to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents without a warrant. At least six people were detained on or near motel property during a two-year period. Continue reading “Washington state AG sues Motel 6 over giving ICE info on 9,000 guests”
A retired California sheriff’s deputy was shot twice early Thursday morning after he heard a knock at his front door and went to see who was there, police said.
The former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy, believed to be in his 70s, was at his home in Redondo Beach when the shooting happened around midnight, FOX11 LA reported. He reportedly had heard a knock at the door and saw the shooter through the screen door. Continue reading “Retired California sheriff’s deputy shot while answering door, police say”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to roll back an Obama-era policy that had allowed legal marijuana to thrive without federal intervention, Fox News confirmed Thursday.
The Obama administration back in 2013 announced via a memo from then-Deputy Attorney General James Cole that it would not obstruct states that legalized marijuana, on the condition the drug was not allowed to move to states where it was illegal and it was kept away from children and gangs. Continue reading “Attorney General Sessions to end Obama-era policy that let legal pot flourish”
Police in New Castle, New York, have confirmed a fire at the home of Bill and Hillary Clinton in Chappaqua, a town north of New York City.
Police declined to give further details on the fire at 15 Old House Lane where the Clintons have lived for nearly 20 years after buying it for $1.7 million in 1999.
Scanner reports said it was a bedroom fire and has been extinguished. Continue reading “Fire reported at Bill and Hillary Clinton’s New York house”
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan said California “better hold on tight” after its liberal Democratic governor allowed a sanctuary state law to take effect this week.
Neil Cavuto said that Gov. Jerry Brown claimed the law will protect illegal immigrants living quietly in the shadows of society from law enforcement intent on “yanking them out of there.” Continue reading “‘CA Better Hold On Tight’: ICE Dir Promises Doubling of Officers After ‘Sanctuary’ Law Signed”
President Trump unleashed a scathing statement against his former chief strategist Steve Bannon Wednesday, saying that when Bannon was fired from the White House, “he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.”
The president’s official statement came as criticisms Bannon made about the president surfaced in an upcoming book. In “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by Michael Wolff, Bannon apparently called Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russians “treasonous” and “unpatriotic,” according to the Guardian, which has a copy of the book.
Continue reading “Trump disavows Steve Bannon: “When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind””