Weather Channel

Thousands of homes are taking on water and hundreds of people are trapped and stranded in rising floodwaters across the Houston metro after Harvey dumped more than 20″ of rain. The death toll from Harvey has risen to at least 3 as hundreds of water rescues are underway across the area.

“There is life-threatening, catastrophic flooding happening now in Southeast Harris County,” Jeff Lindner of the Harris County Flood Control District told The Weather Channel.

Lindner said water had overtopped Interstate 10, that there had been more than 400 water rescues overnight in the Houston area and that hundreds more were stranded in cars across roadways in the area.   Continue reading “Catastrophic Flooding Happening Now in Houston as Harvey’s Death Toll Rises to 3”

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Washington Post – by David Weigel

A year-long legal battle over the Democratic National Committee’s handling of the 2016 presidential primary came to an end Friday, with a federal judge in Florida dismissing a class-action suit brought by supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

“To the extent Plaintiffs wish to air their general grievances with the DNC or its candidate selection process, their redress is through the ballot box, the DNC’s internal workings, or their right of free speech — not through the judiciary,” Judge William Zloch, a Reagan appointee, wrote in his dismissal. “To the extent Plaintiffs have asserted specific causes of action grounded in specific factual allegations, it is this Court’s emphatic duty to measure Plaintiffs’ pleadings against existing legal standards. Having done so . . . the Court finds that the named Plaintiffs have not presented a case that is cognizable in federal court.”  Continue reading “Florida judge dismisses fraud lawsuit against DNC”

Yahoo News

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte was photographed and fingerprinted Friday, days after a judge ordered him to be booked after pleading guilty to assaulting a reporter on the eve of the special election that put him in office.

Gallatin County Attorney Marty Lambert declined Friday to release the mug shot that Democrats would likely use against him during the 2018 election cycle. Lambert’s practice is not to release mug shots without a judge’s order. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports it filed an application in District Court Friday asking a judge to release it.   Continue reading “Montana congressman booked after assault conviction”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned former sheriff Joe Arpaio, the retired Arizona lawman who was convicted for intentionally disobeying a judge’s order in an immigration case.

The White House said the 85-year-old ex-sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County was a “worthy candidate” for a presidential pardon.

The action came several days after Trump, at a rally in downtown Phoenix, strongly hinted that he intended to issue a pardon.   Continue reading “Trump pardons ex-sheriff convicted of defying judge’s order”

Herald and News – by Stephen Floyd

CHILOQUIN, OREGON — The impending cancellation of the Upper Klamath Basin Comprehensive Agreement (UKBCA) could affect municipal water in Chiloquin, with city officials planning to meet next week to discuss their options.

The Klamath Tribes has exercised its right to end the agreement and the decision is awaiting ratification from the U.S. Department of Interior.

Tribal Chairman Don Gentry has said the UKBCA was dependent upon the now-dissolved Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement. Without the KBRA, parties in the UKBCA have been unable to reach a consensus.   Continue reading “Chiloquin water could be vulnerable to water call”

Fox News – by Hollie McKay

It seems California lawmakers’ efforts to force rifle owners to register their personal details, or resort to cumbersome reloading or giving up their arms altogether, may have missed the mark.

Although months behind schedule, the State of California’s Department of Justice (DOJ) this week opened up its online registration for gun owners to enroll their bullet-button toting AR-15 rifles – now deemed to be “assault weapons” – in line with a controversial set of sweeping gun control laws signed into state law last year.   Continue reading “How California gun owners are legally keeping their AR-15 rifles”

Post and Courier

Charleston police say one person has been killed and another has been rushed to the hospital, as hostages remain  trapped inside Virginia’s on King restaurant with an “active shooter.”

King Street is currently closed between Calhoun and Morris Streets. Hostage negotiators are the scene along with medics and SWAT.

Employees working in the area near Virginia’s On King, a Southern cuisine restaurant, said they were on lockdown as authorities swarmed the area. Several people have said the active shooter situation appears to have started within Virginia’s.    Continue reading “Charleston, SC police: One dead, one injured and hostages still trapped with ‘active shooter’ in Virginia’s restaurant”

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The Voice of Idaho – by Vicky Davis

On August 21, 2017, Donald Trump gave an address on U.S. Policy in Afghanistan AND South Asia.  After 17 years of being in Afghanistan, he said the U.S. needs to go back in and stay in there until the country is under control.  Then he pandered to the soldiers.. telling them how great they are for their sacrifice.   I wonder … do they really know what they are fighting for?   They are fighting to serve the wealthy and oppress the poor.

The target country is NOT Afghanistan… it’s Pakistan – and possibly India.   And the objective is a G– D— road with police state surveillance, command and control technology – just like the NAFTA Superhighway.   The so-called “terrorists” they will be fighting will be the Pakistani’s who live on the corridor routes who will have their property stolen from them just like our government has done to people on our corridor routes – people like Cliven Bundy, the Hammonds, David Koresh and others I can’t name – but that I know exist.   There is no doubt that Trump will get a couple of golf courses out of it at the transportation hubs (inland ports).
Continue reading “Dying for Global Systems of Technocratic Tyranny”

Times of Israel – by Alexander Fulbright

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with senior White House adviser Jared Kushner on Thursday as part of a US bid to find ways to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Speaking alongside Kushner before the start of their meeting at IDF Headquarters in the Kirya compound in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu said he believed peace was “within our reach.”

“We have a lot of things to talk about. How to advance peace, stability and security in our region — prosperity too — and I think all of them are within our reach,” he said.  Continue reading “Netanyahu meets Kushner as part of US peace push”

SF Gate – by Ken Ritter, AP

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The top federal prosecutor in Nevada vowed a third trial Wednesday for two men accused of armed assault on a federal officer in a 2014 standoff that stopped a cattle roundup near the ranch of states’ rights figure Cliven Bundy.

“There’s no question about us proceeding forward. Just so the record’s clear,” Acting U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre told Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro a day after a jury acquitted two defendants of all 10 charges but failed to reach verdicts on four charges against Eric Parker and two counts against Scott Drexler.   Continue reading “Prosecutor vows 3rd trial for 2 in Bundy ranch standoff case”

Fox News

Several thousand paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division are expected to arrive in Afghanistan in the coming weeks, a U.S. defense official told Fox News Tuesday.

The official refused to be more specific about the timetable because the orders had not yet been signed. Gen. Joseph Votel, the top U.S commander for the Middle East, earlier told reporters in Saudi Arabia that the deployments could take days or a few weeks.

“What’s most important for us now is to get some capabilities in to have an impact on the current fighting season,” said Votel, who spent last weekend in Afghanistan.   Continue reading “Thousands of US paratroopers expected to arrive in Afghanistan soon”

USA Today – by Alan Gomez

SAN DIEGO — A federal judge said Tuesday he was preparing to order the Trump administration to return the first known DREAMer it deported back to the United States to make his case for staying.

U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel said he needs to hear first-hand from Juan Manuel Montes, 23, to rule on the undocumented immigrant’s claim that he was deported illegally by border agents.   Continue reading “Judge prepared to order first DREAMer deported under Trump back to U.S. to make his case”

Breitbart – by Lucas Nolan

PayPal reinstated the accounts of both Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative following outrage from supporters over their suspensions.

Breitbart previously reported on Jihad Watch’s suspension and the founder of the website, Robert Spencer, calling for a boycott of PayPal if they continued to “bow to leftism.” Many Jihad Watch supporters took to Twitter to express their anger over the website’s suspension.  Continue reading “PayPal Restores Jihad Watch and AFDI Accounts Following Backlash from Supporters”

Fox News

In the wake of the events in Charlottesville, Va., ESPN decided to pull one of its announcers from calling a University of Virginia football game — because his name is Robert Lee.

Lee, an Asian-American sportscaster who started with the network in 2016, was moved to a different game “simply because of the coincidence of his name,” ESPN said, referencing the Confederate general Robert E. Lee.   Continue reading “ESPN pulls Asian-American announcer from Virginia football game because he has a Confederate general’s name”

ABC News 2

Demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, interrupted and blasted City Council members during their first meeting since violent clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters.

Attendees at the packed meeting said they were upset that an August 12 “Unite the Right” rally was allowed to happen.

Demonstrators stood on the dais and unfurled a large banner that read, “BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS.” The meeting was briefly suspended.   Continue reading “Protests erupt at Charlottesville city council meeting”

Yahoo News

The sad and sorry story surrounding the case of a 2012 high school rape in Steubenville, Ohio, continued Monday when the father of one of the football players convicted in that crime, ambushed and shot a local judge, before being killed. The son of that judge is a former local prosecutor who reportedly worked on the early stages of the rape case.

Nathaniel Richmond was pronounced dead after being shot, according to Jefferson County district attorney Jane Hanlin. The shooting took place outside the Jefferson County Courthouse in downtown Steubenville, an old coal town on the Ohio River along the eastern edge of the state. Richmond opened fire on Common Pleas Judge Joseph Bruzzese as the judge arrived for work early Monday morning.   Continue reading “Ambush, shooting of judge linked to football rape case”