Yahoo News

Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced Friday to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, more than one year after Floyd’s death sparked an international movement against police brutality.

Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill, who presided over Chauvin’s murder trial, handed down a sentence of 270 months for charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s May 25, 2020, death. Chauvin received a credit of 199 days served in prison. A jury convicted him of the charges on April 20. Continue reading “Judge sentences Derek Chauvin to over 22 years for murder of George Floyd”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The Justice Department is suing Georgia over a sweeping new voting law passed by the state’s Republican-led legislature, marking the first major step taken by the Biden administration to interfere with state-level election laws enacted since the 2020 election.

According to the New York Times, this will be one of the highest-profile enforcement actions since 2013, when the Supreme Court neutered the government’s ability to stop states from passing laws viewed as facilitating voter discrimination. Continue reading “Biden Justice Department Suing Georgia Over New Voting Law”

Press TV

Over 30 Iranian and regional websites have been shut down by the US Justice Department for a number of reasons including disinformation. In one fell swoop websites like www.presstv.com were shut down.

Press TV was back online in short order with the presstv.ir domain name.  Continue reading “Seizure of regional websites not free speech”

Yahoo News – USA Today

A Florida high-rise that collapsed early Thursday was determined to be unstable a year ago, according to a researcher at Florida International University.

The building, which was constructed in 1981, has been sinking at an alarming rate since the 1990s, according to a study in 2020 by Shimon Wdowinski, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment. Continue reading “Collapsed Miami condo had been sinking into Earth as early as the 1990s, researchers say”

Fox News

Dozens of rescuers in South Florida are searching for survivors Thursday after an apartment building partially collapsed, killing at least one person, police confirmed. 

Authorities told reporters that they have rescued 35 people from the building so far, with two people rescued from the rubble itself.  Continue reading “Surfside, Miami-Dade building collapse leaves 1 dead, search-and-rescue operation underway”

Fox News

At least six people have been injured after a pedestrian bridge collapsed in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, according to city fire and emergency service officials.

Fox 5 DC reported that the collapse took place at Route 295 between Kenilworth Avenue and Polk Street NE at around 12 p.m.  Continue reading “DC pedestrian bridge collapse injures 6, shuts down traffic”

Fox News

The embattled school board of Virginia’s Loudoun County cut off public comments during a fiery meeting Tuesday as residents traded barbs over new transgender policy proposals.

The meeting followed weeks of protests from district parents who oppose some of the measures, which they have criticized as potential left-wing indoctrination and a violation of parental rights.   Continue reading “Virginia’s Loudoun County School Board silences public comment after raucous meeting, 2 men arrested”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

For weeks Russia has mustered a large fleet and aerial assets in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii in what’s been widely recognized as Russia’s largest Pacific military drills since the end of the Cold War. The Pentagon has closely monitored the somewhat unprecedented exercises which have seen at least 20 warships, submarines, fighter jets, and long-range bombers operating a mere 300 miles off Hawaii’s coast. Continue reading “Russian Warships Practice Sinking Aircraft Carrier 35 Miles Off Hawaii Coast As US Places F22s On Standby”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Key West, FL — A video of an utterly disgusting display of the American police state was published by attorney Ben Crump last year showing a tiny child being frisked, handcuffed, and hauled off to an adult prison for processing. His crime — acting out in school.

Now, a year after the world saw this atrocity unfold, a federal judge ruled that officers did not violate the boy’s rights. Continue reading “Court Rules Cops Did Nothing Wrong Cuffing 8yo Boy, Hauling Him to Adult Prison for Misbehaving”

Fox News

Police in Iowa are on the hunt Monday for an armed suspect who they say fled on foot after shooting a sheriff’s deputy multiple times, leaving him with “serious injuries.”

“As the deputy entered the store he was met by an armed suspect,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release. “The suspect fired multiple times and the deputy was struck by multiple rounds from the armed suspect.”   Continue reading “Sheriff’s deputy shot multiple times by armed suspect, full-blown manhunt underway”

Zero Hedge – by Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has pushed back an emergency meeting on post-vaccination heart inflammation seen in Americans, primarily young people, because of a new federal holiday.

President Joe Biden signed a bill on Thursday making June 19 a new holiday, Juneteenth. Shortly afterwards, the CDC said its June 18 meeting “is being rescheduled due to the observation of the Juneteenth National Independence Day holiday.”
 Continue reading ““Giant Mistake” – CDC Delays Emergency Meeting On Post-Vax Heart Inflammation Due To Juneteenth”

ABC News

Members of a specialized Portland, Oregon, police unit that deals with crowd control have resigned from the assignment en masse a day after a fellow officer was indicted on an assault charge stemming from alleged illegal use of force during a protest last year.

The Portland Police Bureau’s Rapid Response Team, which is primarily responsible for providing public safety at crowd events, consisted of approximately 50 officers, all of whom resigned Wednesday, the bureau announced. The assignment is voluntary and the officers will remain on the force and continue their regular assignments, the bureau said. Continue reading “Entire Portland Police crowd control unit resigns after officer indicted on protest assault charge”

ABC News

ROCKTON, Ill. — An explosion at a chemical plant in northern Illinois sparked massive fires that sent flames and huge plumes of thick black smoke high into the air and debris raining onto the ground Monday morning, prompting evacuations.Emergency crews rushed to the scene of the 7:30 a.m. fire near Rockton, northwest of Chicago, at Chemtool Inc., a company that manufactures lubricants, grease products and other fluids, and is, according to the company, the largest manufacturer of grease in the Americas. Continue reading “Illinois chemical plant explosion, fires prompt evacuations”

Yahoo News

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two trailer loads of small-caliber ammunition bound for the United States were stolen by armed assailants on a highway in Mexico’s most violent state, Guanajuato, the manufacturer said Friday.

A company representative said about 98.5% of the millions of rounds of ammo stolen earlier this week were .22 caliber, which is seldom used by Mexican drug cartels. Continue reading “Millions of rounds of ammunition stolen on Mexican highway”

The New York Post – by Will Feuer

Fraudsters may have plundered as much as half of the unemployment benefits that the US pumped out in a hurry during the pandemic.

Blake Hall, CEO of ID.me, a fraud prevention service, told Axios that the US has lost more than $400 billion to crooked claims. Continue reading “Half of pandemic unemployment money may have been stolen, with 70% of it going out of county: report”

Fox News

A Texas woman was sentenced to three years and four months in federal prison for making false 911 calls regarding her neighbors in January 2019 resulting in a deadly Houston police raid killing both homeowners.

“There’s no question in my mind, Ms. Garcia, in that you wanted something bad to happen,” U.S. Judge George C. Hanks said during the sentencing hearing held by videoconference Tuesday. “You didn’t really care what happened, and respectfully, the court can’t condone that.” Continue reading “Woman sentenced to federal prison over bogus 911 calls resulting in multiple deaths”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Fastly, a major content delivery network, triggered a major internet blackout on Tuesday morning has blamed a software bug.

We first noticed the problem a little after 0600 ET Tuesday when countless websites, including Reddit, Financial Times, PayPal, and other websites, went down.
 Continue reading “How A Fastly Customer “Triggered” Yesterday’s “Broad And Severe” Global Internet Outage”

Yahoo News – Daily Beast

Affordable housing in Ketchum—the Idaho resort community adjacent to billionaire and celebrity playground Sun Valley—has been a problem for decades.

But the situation is becoming so dire in the wake of COVID-19 that city officials are considering an unusual range of quick fixes—including building tent cities and RV parks for the common folk in the ultra-rich mountain town, where the average median home listing price is hovering above $900,000. Continue reading “The Superrich Bought Up This Idaho Town and Regular Folks Now May Have to Live in Tents”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced Monday that it had recovered $2.3 million in cryptocurrency from criminal hackers who compromised a major U.S. pipeline in mid-May that resulted in fuel outages and hoarding across the East Coast for six days.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a seizure warrant on Monday, allowing the DOJ to take action to confiscate a large chunk of the $4.4 million paid by Colonial Pipeline to the DarkSide ransomware operators, who demanded payment in exchange for unlocking their victims’ stolen digital files. Continue reading “Justice Department recovers majority of Colonial Pipeline ransom: ‘We turned the tables on DarkSide’”