CNN

While North Korea keeps firing literal and figurative salvos, the world has responded with harsher sanctions — ones that the Philippines has put into effect by detaining a ship from the reclusive East Asian nation.

The Philippine government has impounded a North Korean freighter, the Jin Teng, in Subic Bay and plans to deport its crew, presidential spokesman Manuel Quezon III said in a radio interview, according to the official Philippines News Agency.   Continue reading “North Korea ship impounded in Philippines as part of fresh sanctions”

CBS News – by Reena Flores

On the Republican debate stage Thursday night, Republican front-runner Donald Trump declared he was “changing” his stance on immigration, and on a separate question, he admitted he talked about immigration during an off-the-record portion of an editorial board discussion with the New York Times in January.

“I am changing it and softening the position” on visas for skilled immigrant workers, Trump said in Detroit. He added that it was because “we need talented people in this country.”   Continue reading “Donald Trump refuses to release NY Times transcript, softens on immigration”

ABC News

The Los Angeles Police Department is conducting tests on a knife found at O.J. Simpson’s old property after they recovered it from a retired LAPD officer within the past month, the department said.

“The story as it’s told to us,” Andrew Neiman of the Los Angeles Police Department said at a news conference today, was that a retired LAPD officer, who left the force in the late 1990s, “was working in the area of the Rockingham estate and he claimed an individual” who said he was a construction worker gave him that knife, Neiman said.   Continue reading “Knife Found at OJ Simpson Property Handed Over to LAPD in Past Month, Department Says”

KCRG 9 News

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal authorities rounded up 12 people in five states on Thursday, bringing to 19 the number of defendants facing conspiracy, assault and threats charges in a 2014 armed standoff over grazing cattle on U.S. land near renegade cattleman Cliven Bundy’s ranch in southern Nevada.

Arrests of alleged co-conspirators in Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Oklahoma and New Hampshire came after a federal grand jury in Las Vegas expanded an indictment already filed against Bundy. It also names two adult Bundy sons and five other men already in federal custody following the end of a nearly six-week armed occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon.   Continue reading “Bundy, 18 Others Indicited in 2014 Ranch Standoff”

Cleveland.com – by Olivia Perkins

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Ohio lost 112,500 jobs in 2015 resulting from the United States’ trade deficit with countries that are part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.

That places Ohio sixth, in terms of the percentage of jobs lost to trade with TPP countries, among the 50 states and the District of Columbia ranked in the report released Thursday by the liberal Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The lost jobs represent nearly 2.2 percent of employment in Ohio, according to the analysis.   Continue reading “Ohio lost 112,500 jobs due to trade with TPP countries”

ABC News

A federal attorney argued Wednesday that officials in two Arizona and Utah cities routinely took orders from the leaders of a polygamous sect about who to appoint to government jobs in the communities where people were sometimes arrested on trumped-up charges after they left the church.

“How did we get to this in the United States of America?” Justice Department attorney Sean Keveney asked jurors during his closing argument at the civil rights trial involving Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah.   Continue reading “Jury Deliberations Start at Trial Against 2 Polygamous Towns”

Washington Post – by Adam Goldman

The Justice Department has granted immunity to a former State Department staffer, who worked on Hillary Clinton’s private email server, as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information, according to a senior law enforcement official.

The official said the FBI had secured the cooperation of Bryan Pagliano, who worked on Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign before setting up the server in her New York home in 2009.   Continue reading “Justice Dept. grants immunity to staffer who set up Clinton email server”

UPI – by Elizabeth Shim

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 2 (UPI) — North Korea‘s foreign minister took center stage Tuesday to file a strong protest at the United Nations Human Rights Council, in response to U.N. resolutions that have condemned its rights record.

Ri Su Yong said Pyongyang will “never, ever be bound” by U.N. resolutions, describing such resolutions as “proof of partiality and double standards,” Voice of America reported.   Continue reading “North Korea envoy slams U.S. on gun control”

Yahoo News

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Aubrey McClendon, a brash risk-taker who led Chesapeake Energy Corp to become one of the world’s biggest natural gas producers, died in a single-car crash on Wednesday one day after being charged with breaking federal antitrust laws, police said. He was 56.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced that McClendon had been indicted for allegedly colluding to rig bids for oil and gas acreage while he was at Chesapeake, a central player in the U.S. fracking revolution of the past decade. He denied the charges.   Continue reading “Energy CEO McClendon dies in Oklahoma car crash, a day after indictment”

AJC.com – by Dan Chapman

Pipeline giant Kinder Morgan’s plans to lay 210 miles of petroleum pipes across East Georgia were thwarted Tuesday when a Fulton County judge ruled the Texas company can’t use eminent domain to take property from unwilling landowners.

Superior Court Judge Kimberly Adams upheld a Georgia agency’s surprising May 2015 decision denying Kinder Morgan a certificate of “public convenience and necessity,” a permit which allows the pipeline builder to secure its route. Adams, in her ruling, said the decision by Georgia’s transportation commissioner is “supported by substantial evidence and must be affirmed.”   Continue reading “Judge denies east Georgia Palmetto pipeline”

ABC News

The Latest on a freight train derailment in western New York (all times local):

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Authorities say dozens of homes have been evacuated after 16 cars on a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous liquids derailed in far southwestern New York.   Continue reading “50-Plus Homes Evacuated After Train Derailment”

Fox News

SAN FRANCISCO –  Two Northern California sheriff’s deputies and a former colleague were charged Tuesday with involvement in setting up jail inmates fights to gamble on them.

Former San Francisco Sheriff’s deputy Scott Neu was charged with eight felonies and nine misdemeanors, including assault by an officer and criminal threats. Deputy Eugene Jones, 45, was charged with two felony counts of assault by an officer and three related misdemeanor counts.   Continue reading “2 California sheriff’s deputies charged with organizing inmate fight club”

Sent to us by the author, Robert Quinn

In eight years I have written approx.forty letters denouncing Barack Obama’s illegitimate takeover of the Office of President of the United States. Copies of each letter were sent to most everyone mentioned within the letters and to all on my e-mail list. Initially,I expected to find Obama eligible,but, to my surprize, from day one evidence surfaced showing he used deception,lying,limited fraudulent documents, even silence to hide his ineligibility from the eyes of America. By his efforts he displayed his true colors, which, to no surprize, did not include red, white, or blue!   Continue reading “Presidential Eligibility Requirements”

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Here is the earliest image I can find on this server, and it looks like a satellite in a polar orbit scanned something across a narrow strip… why would there be a definite East-West orientation, as opposed to a random “emission” correlated to the actual fault lines?  Continue reading “Is West Coast CO “Release” actually a side-effect of Directed Energy Weapon Deployment?”

ABC News

States could no longer require labeling of genetically modified foods under legislation approved by a Senate panel.

The Senate Agriculture Committee voted 14-6 Tuesday to prevent the labeling on packages of foods that include genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Vermont is set to require such labels this summer, and other states are considering similar laws.   Continue reading “Labels on Genetically Modified Foods? Not So Fast”

USA Today – by Greg Toppo

The police shooting of a 24-year-old man south of downtown Raleigh, N.C., early Monday afternoon generated a tense, impromptu protest of more than 100 people and questions about excessive use of police force.

Police Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown said the shooting took place shortly after noon as officers tried to arrest a man on a felony drug charge. She said one of her officers was chasing the man when the man was shot and killed, The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported.   Continue reading “Raleigh police kill fleeing drug suspect”

Apple Insider – by Mikey Campbell

In his ruling, New York Magistrate Judge James Orenstein decided the government lacks legal authority to force Apple, or indeed any company, to break its own digital security protocols. Echoing Apple’s arguments against Department of Justice overtures in the high-profile San Bernardino attack investigation, today’s decision noted the “unreasonable burden” in inventing, coding and distributing a purposely vulnerable operating system in hopes of cracking existing device security.    Continue reading “Federal judge rules Apple cannot be forced to aid in NY iPhone unlocking, cites ‘unreasonable burden’”

Fox News

A gunman burst into a the lunch room of an Ohio high school Monday morning and opened fire, wounding four students before officials caught him and put him in custody, investigators confirmed.

The shooting unfolded at Madison High School in Butler County. Investigators say the suspect is student-age but they’re not certain whether he attended that school. They did not name him.   Continue reading “Shooting in Ohio high school lunch room wounds 4 students”

Maryland Reporter – by Rachel Bluth

Deer season may be over in Maryland, but lobbying season is well underway in Annapolis.

Hunters and gun enthusiasts have held signs this week around the State House, protesting two bills that were debated in the House of Delegates Judiciary Committee Friday.   Continue reading “Maryland hunters protest new gun control measures”