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An Ohio police officer was in critical condition Sunday, hours after he was allegedly shot by an accused arsonist while the officer was serving a warrant, authorities said.
The suspected gunman, Lincoln Rutledge, allegedly opened fire on SWAT officers who were serving a felony arrest warrant around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, officials told FOX28. Continue reading “Ohio officer in critical condition after being shot serving warrant”
A US federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered Apple to help the FBI unlock an iPhone in a gang case, court documents unsealed Friday revealed — opening a new front in the government’s battle with the high-tech giant over encryption.
The Justice Department is also pressing Apple to help crack a phone in a New York drug case, in more evidence that the showdown is far from over, despite the abrupt end to another challenge linked to the San Bernardino mass shooting. Continue reading “US pushes Apple on iPhone access in two more cases”
In a growing trend across the U.S., Colorado is moving toward burying the term “illegal alien.”
The state House of Representatives voted in favor of stopping use of the controversial term in favor of undocumented person or foreign national, according to the Denver Post.
The force behind the measure, Rep. Steve Lebsock, says “illegal alien” is simply “outdated and hurtful language.” Continue reading “Colorado House of Representatives passes bill dropping use of ‘illegal alien’”
AUSTIN – A 17-year-old man is in police custody in the death of a University of Texas student and police are planning to pursue charges against him Friday, KVUE’s Tony Plohetski has learned.
Ploehtski reported that multiple law enforcement sources have confirmed the development in the case of who killed 19-year-old Haruka Weiser, a freshman at UT. The sources would not identify the teen because he has not been charged. Continue reading “Suspect arrested in UT student’s murder”
Less than a week after opening applications April 1, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced petitions for H-1B visas has exceeded the 85,000 allotted by law. This is the fourth year in a row the cap was surpassed in less than a week, meaning workers will face a lottery for the visas, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The cap includes “65,000 visas for the general category and 20,000 for the advanced degree exemption,” according to a USCIS news release. Continue reading “H-1B Visa Cap Reached in Less than a Week”
A Florida mother is outraged after her 12-year-old daughter came home with an assignment she was given in her seventh grade Spanish class.
Regina Stiles posted on her Facebook page a form that asked students “How much privilege do you have?” Continue reading “Mom Furious Over ‘Privilege’ Survey Teacher Gave 7th-Grader”
Business Insider – by David Armstrong
The dozen packages were shipped from China to mail centers and residences in Southern California.
One box was labeled as a “Hole Puncher.”
In fact, it was a quarter-ton pill press, which federal investigators allege was destined for a suburban Los Angeles drug lab. Continue reading “Chinese suppliers have been flooding the US and Canada with a deadly drug”
A sophisticated ring of money launderers — with an array of pop cultural nicknames like “Tony Montana,” “Pitbull” and “Neymar” — has been busted on charges of sending untold millions in illegal cocaine profits to Colombia using nearly a dozen businesses in Miami-Dade.
In a news conference scheduled for Thursday, Miami-Dade prosecutors will announce arrest warrants for 22 people believed to have worked in a scheme that included the suspected chief money launderer for the Mexican drug cartel headed by notorious kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Continue reading “Miami drug money-laundering ring involving ‘El Chapo’ cartel snares 22”
A private college in Arizona is charging students a fee to fund a scholarship for illegal immigrants, a controversial move supporters say gives a hand to those who need it but anti-illegal immigration advocates call irresponsible.
Prescott College is tacking a $30 annual fee onto its $28,000 annual tuition to establish an annual scholarship for “undocumented” students, as part of a policy first proposed by students and faculty from the undergraduate and Social Justice and Human Rights Master of Arts divisions. While students can opt out of paying the fee, if they do nothing it will be automatically imposed. Backers say it helps reverse what they call Arizona’s reputation as a “national example of discriminatory politics.” Continue reading “Arizona college imposes mandatory fee to fund scholarship for illegal immigrants”
Even now, they say ‘if he comes into custody’, why is not already in custody, with a guard on the hospital room door?
Via Dallas News:
A 33-year-old who officials say is in the country illegally may face criminal charges after crashing into a volunteer firefighter’s car in Lavon last week, killing him and two children.
Continue reading “Previously Deported Illegal Alien Without License Faces Charges In Crash That Killed Firefighter And His Two Children”
The legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s actions on immigration gained the support 43 Republican senators who argue that the president overstepped his constitutional authority in unilaterally expanding programs for millions of undocumented immigrations.
Led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the senators filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case of United States v. Texas on Monday – a lawsuit with 26 states challenging Obama’s actions. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments later this month with a rule possibly coming in June. Continue reading “43 senators join challenge against Obama’s executive actions on immigration”
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Market Skeptics – by Eric deCarbonnel
After months of work, the video series on the Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund is finally finished!
Why you should watch these five videos: Continue reading “The ESF and its History (Part 1-5)”
(DETROIT) Ford said today it will invest $1.6 billion to build a new plant in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, that will be manufacturing small cars by 2018, making it the latest automaker to expand its presence there.
Ford said construction of the new plant will begin this summer. It expects to begin producing cars there in 2018. Ford’s investment in Mexico will create more than 2,800 jobs by 2020, delivering a blow to the UAW, which pushed for higher wages in its contract talks with the automaker last year, and prompted a swift reaction from the union. Continue reading “Ford to invest $1.6 billion for new plant in Mexico”
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Victoria Gardens Apartments (formerly) Blue Diamond Apartments
Dummy Corporation, Whispering Brook Acquisitions
333 Whispering Brook Drive
Louisville, Kentucky 40229
To Whom This May Concern:
I am a former tenant of these private, for-profit, multi-family apartments where I, too, alike, hundreds of other past, present, and shall be future, low-income, tenants, are unsuspectingly being exposed to these airborne, molds, black molds T-2 mycotoxins, and infectious, bio-hazardous, bacteria’s fungi’s. Continue reading “City Government corruptions, organized crimes, defrauding HUD of millions of federal, low-income, People’s, funds”
A key section of the Keystone pipeline has been shut down due to an oil spill in South Dakota, TransCanada said on Monday.
TransCanada (TRP), which operates the pipeline, reported a spill of about 187 gallons of crude oil to the Coast Guard’s National Response Center on Saturday afternoon.
Continue reading “Keystone pipeline springs leak in South Dakota”
The parents of a woman who was shot and killed Sunday by Auburn police say they hoped to get her to a hospital, but “instead the police ended up putting a bullet in her.”
Melissa Boarts, 36, died Sunday afternoon after police said they fired on her as she charged at them with an unidentified weapon. Continue reading “Woman shot to death by Auburn police sought help but officers ‘put a bullet in her,’ parents say”
The first migrants deported from Greek islands under a disputed EU-Turkey deal were shipped back to Turkey on Monday in a drive to shut down the main route used by more than a million people fleeing war and poverty to reach Europe in the last year.
Under a pact criticized by refugee agencies and human rights campaigners, Ankara will take back all migrants and refugees who cross the Aegean to enter Greece illegally, including Syrians. Continue reading “Migrants sent back from Greece arrive in Turkey under EU deal”
The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld the method all states use to draw their legislative districts, rejecting a conservative challenge that could have given more clout to white, rural voters.
The eight justices rebuffed a case spearheaded by a conservative legal activist brought against the state of Texas over the manner in which it carved out voting districts for its state Senate, based on a count of every resident rather than just eligible voters. Continue reading “Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge in voting rights case”
A massive, anonymous leak of financial documents from a Panamanian law firm has revealed an extensive worldwide network of offshore “shell” companies — including ones with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin — that allow the wealthy to hide their assets from taxes and, in some cases, to launder billions in cash, a German newspaper alleges.
The documents, combed through in the past year by dozens of journalists worldwide, show links to 72 current or former heads of state, including dictators accused oflooting their own countries. Continue reading “Massive leak reveals money rings of global leaders”