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KAUBER, West Bank (Reuters) – The Israeli military on Tuesday demolished the family home of a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank who killed an Israeli in a Jewish settlement a month ago and was shot dead in the attack.
Footage distributed by the military showed an armoured bulldozer tearing into the one-storey structure in the village of Kauber, north of the Palestinian city of Ramallah. Continue reading “Israel demolishes family home of Palestinian attacker”
NEW YORK (AP) — The Kushner family real estate company was fined $210,000 by New York City regulators on Monday following an Associated Press investigation earlier this year that showed it routinely filed false documents with the city claiming it had no rent-regulated tenants in its buildings when, in fact, it had hundreds.
Separately, a watchdog group said Monday that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has engaged in the same practice, perhaps in a more brazen way, by telling the city that buildings he owned were empty, though tax records showed they were filled with tenants, many rent-regulated. Continue reading “Kushner Cos. fined $210K by New York for false documents”
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Gun control advocates, including one of the survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting and the parents of one of the victims, are marching 50 miles (80 kilometers) across Massachusetts this week to the headquarters of gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson as part of a youth-led push for stricter gun laws.
About 40 students and supporters set off from downtown Worcester in central Massachusetts on Thursday morning holding signs denouncing gun violence and chanting slogans criticizing gun makers and the National Rifle Association. They’re destined for Smith & Wesson’s headquarters in Springfield, where they’ll hold a large demonstration Sunday. Continue reading “Gun control activists marching 50 miles to Smith & Wesson HQ”
Truth About Guns – by Dean Weingarten
In 2016, anti-Second Amendment zealot Michael Bloomberg was able to place Question 1 on the ballot in Nevada. The ballot initiative passed and mandated universal background checks in the state, covering even private party firearms sales.
Supporters of the Bloomberg initiative laid out over $18 million in support of the measure, outspending the opposition three to one. And that total doesn’t include money spent to put the initiative on the ballot. Despite the huge cash outlay, the measure only narrowly passed 558,631 for to 548,732 against. Continue reading “Nevada Universal Background Check Proponents Lose Case in Court”
An illegal immigrant from Mexico stands accused of killing college student Mollie Tibbetts and dumping her body in an Iowa cornfield — after he allegedly accosted her during a July 18 jog and she threatened to call police.
Cristhian Bathena Rivera, 24, was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday in Tibbetts’ death, officials confirmed. Continue reading “Mollie Tibbetts murder suspect ID’d as Cristhian Rivera, 24, living in US illegally”
Federal investigators found San Jose tech giant Cisco discriminated against American workers by favoring visa-carrying foreign nationals, according to a new report.
The U.S. Department of Labor concluded that Cisco “secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring U.S. citizens for certain jobs and paid the visa holders at a lower rate than their American counterparts,” legal-news website Bloomberg Law reported Monday, citing unnamed sources said to be familiar with the probe. Continue reading “H-1B visa-reliant Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring U.S. citizens’: report”
The destruction of a Confederate statue in the heart of North Carolina’s flagship university by hundreds of protesters on Monday night was “unlawful and dangerous,” university leaders said.
Carol L. Folt, chancellor of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, condemned the actions of a crowd of protestors who took down the memorial known as “Silent Sam,” which was erected in 1913. Continue reading “UNC calls out protesters’ ‘unlawful and dangerous’ actions after Silent Sam statue taken down”
A California Senate committee and an assembly committee passed a total of seven new gun control bills during the past week.
The majority of the bills expand gun controls that are already in place.
The Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) reported on the seven gun control bills: Continue reading “CA Legislative Committees Pass Seven Gun Control Bills”
MISSOURI CITY, TX (KTRK/CNN) – A man and woman died after an early morning shooting at a Texas plant.
Police say the female shooter worked at The Ben E. Keith Food Distribution Plant in the Metro Houston area.
About 2:30 Monday morning police say the woman walked into the warehouse area and began shooting. Continue reading “Female worker shoots and kills manager at a food distribution center”
Dramatic video shows a 70-year-old man and his son trying to drive through a wildfire in Glacier National Park in Montana.
Justin Bilton posted the video online earlier this week after their miraculous escape, ABCFoxMontana reports. On YouTube he titled the video, “That time we drove through hell in Glacier National Park (Howe Ridge).” Continue reading “Father, son speed through ‘hell’ to escape Montana wildfire”
Wisconsin technology firm Three Square Market has injected 80 employees with their own brand of RFID microchips over the last year, and according to MIT Technology Review, “they love it.”
The implant, which is about the size of a grain of rice, utilizes Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, also found in credit cards, debit cards, key fobs, and smartphones. This technology is considered “passive,” meaning the microchip stores data that can be read by other devices but cannot read data themselves. Continue reading “Wisconsin Company Injecting RFID Microchips Into Hands Of Employees”
A demonstration in support of Second Amendment gun rights drew left-wing counter-protesters Saturday in Seattle, forcing dozens of police to keep the two sides separated. Continue reading “‘Liberty or Death’ gun-rights rally draws counter-protesters, forcing police to keep the peace”
A Phoenix police officer was in critical condition Thursday night after being shot during a traffic stop, officials said.
The suspect who fired also was shot when the officer returned gunfire, said Phoenix police Sgt. Mercedes Fortune.
The shooting took place about 8 p.m. at Cave Creek and Cactus roads, Fortune said. Continue reading “Phoenix police officer in critical condition after being shot”
Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, died Thursday at her Detroit home, the Associated Press reports, surrounded by family and friends. She had been battling various undisclosed illnesses for years, and, in recent weeks, was receiving hospice care. Franklin was 76.
As news of her declining health spread over the past few days, visitors including Stevie Wonder and the Rev. Jesse Jackson reportedly paid their respects at her bedside. Beyoncé and Jay-Z dedicated their Monday concert in the Motor City to Franklin, declaring the iconic singer. “We love you,” Beyoncé said, adding a word of thanks for “the beautiful music.” Continue reading “Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul and ‘greatest singer of all time,’ dies at 76”
TAOS, N.M. (AP) — A judge’s decision to allow the release of an extended family accused of child abuse at a ramshackle desert compound in New Mexico prompted a political uproar Tuesday by prominent Republican lawmakers.
The controversy was stoked even further when court officials condemned threats of violence made against the judge who issued the ruling and evacuated several administrative court offices as a precaution. Continue reading “ICE takes into custody defendant in New Mexico compound case”
Connecticut police have made an arrest in connection with more than three dozen overdose cases at a New Haven park.
First responders found about 40 people who appeared to have overdosed on the New Haven Green on Wednesday, with 25 of those overdoses occurring within a three-hour span in the morning and some four to six at a time, officials said. Continue reading “Police make arrest after 40 people overdose at Connecticut park”
A Phoenix father is accused of beating a man to death after being told the man had tried to forcibly enter a bathroom stall occupied by his teenage daughter.
A police report published by KPHO/KTVK of Phoenix says the incident happened on Aug. 2 after Melvin Harris, 40, drove to a convenience store to pick up his daughter and two friends. Continue reading “Arizona Dad ‘Killed Man Who Tried to Enter Daughter’s Bathroom Stall’: Police Report”
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal authorities say a Mississippi sheriff gave protection for years to a drug dealer who robbed other dealers and kicked back stolen money and drug profits to the lawman.
The illegal partnership began about 15 years ago when Tallahatchie County Sheriff William Brewer — who resigned Tuesday — began helping a then-teenage drug dealer, federal officials allege in a sworn statement . Continue reading “FBI: Sheriff was bribed to shelter drug dealer for 15 years”
The Fundamental Option – by Dr. Eowyn
What I had feared and expected finally happened.
Minutes ago upon waking up this morning, I discovered that WordPress has unilaterally and without warning shut down Fellowship of the Minds for alleged violations of “Terms of Service”. Continue reading “WordPress shuts down Fellowship of the Minds”
Just hours after being arrested and released on bail for allegedly assaulting his wife, a Utah man stole a plane and crashed it into his own home where his wife was staying, police said.
The man, 47-year-old Duane Youd, did not survive the crash Monday, officials stated.
Flames engulfed the house in the city of Payson after the crash and ensuing fire at 2:30 a.m. Continue reading “Hours after domestic violence arrest, husband crashes stolen plane into his own home where wife was staying”