CBS News

Law enforcement officials at the White House criticized President Obama in a private meeting in response to the Dallas shooting on Monday, saying he isn’t expressing enough support for police.

The president countered, saying the lawmen were forgetting his past statements. The meeting was also attended by Vice President Joe Biden, who spoke with CBS News about the armor-piercing bullets that were used by the sniper to penetrate the officer’s vests.   Continue reading “Biden sets sights on restricting sale of armor-piercing bullets”

Fox News

DEVELOPING: Police arrested five people for allegedly shooting at officers in Washington, D.C., early Tuesday, officials said. No injuries were reported.

The group allegedly fired at police to avoid arrest, not as part of a targeted attack on cops, a police official told The Washington Post.   Continue reading “Police arrest 5 people suspected of firing shots at Washington D.C. officers”

Fox News

An inmate snatched a deputy’s gun inside a southwestern Michigan courthouse and killed two bailiffs while he was handcuffed, investigators said Tuesday giving new details into the shooting.

Officers killed the inmate, 45-year-old Larry Gordon, soon afterwards, Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey told reporters. He said Gordon got into a fight with the deputy while being escorted from a cell for a courtroom appearance at the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Joseph.   Continue reading “Michigan gunman who killed 2 bailiffs faced multiple felony charges”

Fox 17

WASHINGTON, DC (CNN) — A majority of Americans say they disagree with the FBI’s decision not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, according to a new poll.

A Washington Post/ABC News poll, released Monday, found that 56% of American adults disapprove of the FBI’s decision, while 35% said they approved. But a majority — 58% — also said the issue would not affect their vote in the 2016 presidential election.   Continue reading “Poll: Majority disagree with not charging Hillary Clinton”

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

Illegal immigrant households tapping into the federal food stamp program are receiving $1.4 billion to $2.1 billion a year despite their ineligibility, according to a new analysis of the Agriculture Department program.

And rules guiding who can get food stamps favor households with illegal immigrants over all-U.S. citizen homes, according to the detailed report from the Center for Immigration Studies released Monday morning.   Continue reading “Poor illegal immigrants get food stamps denied to poor U.S. citizens”

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Business Insider

ATLANTA (AP) — Police agencies across the U.S. are on edge and on guard after receiving threats and calls for violence against them on social media in the aftermath of the killings of two black men and the sniper attack that left five officers dead in Dallas. Some departments ordered officers to pair up or more generally said they were heightening security.   Continue reading “Police agencies on edge, on guard amid heightened threats”

Fox 17

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has approved legislation that for the first time would require food packages nationwide to carry labels listing genetically modified ingredients.

Thursday’s vote was 63-30 for the bipartisan measure. The measure’s fate is uncertain in the House, which has voted to make the labeling voluntary.   Continue reading “Senate backs bill to label genetically modified food”

ABC 13

HOUSTON (KTRK) — Houston police say two officers shot and killed a man they say was armed on Houston’s south side early this morning.

Police says the officers involved were wearing body cameras and they each fired multiple shots.   Continue reading “HPD Says Officers Shot, Killed Gunman On Houston’s South Side”

ABC News

The U.S. Capitol building is on lockdown, with police barring people from entering.

The Senate seargant at arms issued a lockdown alert for the building and visitor center, saying police activity has been reported. Capitol office buildings are open.

Capitol police say they are searching for an individual but offered no details.   Continue reading “US Capitol on Lockdown, Police Searching for Individual”

Mediaite – by JD Durkin

At a press conference Friday morning to update members of the media on the tragic events that unfolded in Dallas last night, police chief David Brown identified some of the rhetoric used by one of the snipers during conversations with law enforcement.

During a standoff at El Centro College in Downtown Dallas, a suspect engaged in gunfire with police, before being taken out by a bomb robot that law enforcement sent in to end the situation.   Continue reading “Dallas Police Chief Reveals Chilling Details About Sniper: He ‘Wanted to Kill White People’”

Activist Post – by Catherine Frompovich

If everyone, who is so enthralled with technology, would wake up to what really is going on in cyberspace utilizing computer networks to surveil and undermine your personal space and rights, especially what’s going on with Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating platform, we could take back our inherent God-given power of self-determination and keep our blest rights of privacy and informed consent!

Dr Katherine Albrecht, a technology security expert, discusses what YOU – and probably most folks – don’t know about Windows 10, plus how your personal space IS being invaded by Microsoft, Google, etc. who save the data you generate and send it to law enforcement, academic researchers, and marketers!  Did you know that?   Continue reading “Microwave Technology: The “GIFT” That Keeps Sharing – Your Information, That Is!”

Washington Free Beacon – by Lachlan Markay, November 6, 2015

As the nation’s chief diplomat, Hillary Clinton was responsible for ascertaining whether information in her possession was classified and acknowledged that “negligent handling” of that information could jeopardize national security, according to a copy of an agreement she signed upon taking the job.

A day after assuming office as secretary of state, Clinton signed a Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement that laid out criminal penalties for “any unauthorized disclosure” of classified information.   Continue reading “Clinton Signed NDA Laying Out Criminal Penalties for Mishandling of Classified Info”

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CNS News – by Alex Grubbs

Washington, D.C. has the highest rate of transgender-identifying residents in the country, according to a recently released study by the The Williams Institute, which is associated with the University of California/Los Angeles School of Law.

Of the estimated 1.4 million transgender-identifying individuals in the United States, about 14,550 – or 2.77 percent of the total – reside in D.C., according to the think tank, which specializes in “sexual orientation and gender identity law”.   Continue reading “D.C. Has Highest Transgender Identification Rate in Nation”

Wall Street Journal – by Peter Nicholas and Colleen McCain Nelson

WASHINGTON—Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday that she is closing the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information while she was secretary of state, officially ending the yearlong legal drama that had threatened the presumptive Democratic nominee’s bid for the presidency.

The nation’s top law-enforcement official said in a statement that she had met with Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey and the career prosecutors and agents who had investigated Mrs. Clinton’s use of a personal email server while she was the State Department’s top official. “I received and accepted their unanimous recommendation that the thorough, yearlong investigation be closed and that no charges be brought against any individuals within the scope of the investigation,” she said.   Continue reading “Hillary Clinton Email Investigation Closed by Attorney General”

Washington Post – by Dan Lamothe

A Marine Corps officer who has been locked in a legal battle with his service after self-reporting that he improperly disseminated classified information will use Hillary Clinton’s email case to fight his involuntary separation from the service, his lawyer said.

Maj. Jason Brezler’s case has been tied up in federal court since he sued the service in December 2014. He became a cause celebre among some members of Congress, Marine generals and military veterans after he sent a classified message using an unclassified Yahoo email account to warn fellow Marines in southern Afghanistan about a potentially corrupt Afghan police chief. A servant of that police official killed three Marines and severely wounded a fourth 17 days later, on Aug. 10, 2012, opening fire with a Kalashnikov rifle in an insider attack.   Continue reading “Marine’s defense for disseminating classified information will cite Hillary Clinton’s case”

Miami Herald – by Charles Rabin

There was an auction at Marlins Park on Wednesday. The items on the block weren’t high-priced baseball players but the finely tuned, spectacularly expensive automotive fleet of a notorious Miami drug kingpin.

By Wednesday morning, a shiny black 2006 Ferrari Enzo was likely on its way out of town, having already received a bid of more than $1.9 million. And the number was climbing.   Continue reading “Feds auction high-end cars seized from drug lord”