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SAUGUS (CBS) – An “armed and dangerous intruder” is said to be holed up inside a store at the Square One Mall in Saugus, according to police.
State and local police were called to the mall around 4:30 a.m. for a report of a break-in at the Dick’s Sporting Goods there. Continue reading “Police Close Off Square One Mall In Saugus For ‘Armed And Dangerous Intruder’”
Tehran (AFP) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Monday missiles it fired into Syria had successfully hit Islamic State group targets in retaliation for Tehran attacks claimed by the jihadists earlier this month.
“Based on credible information, the missile operation against Daesh has been successful,” Revolutionary Guards spokesman General Ramezan Sharif said on the elite force’s Sepahnews website, using an Arabic acronym for IS. Continue reading “Iran says its missiles into Syria hit IS targets”
The New Mexico State Police rescued 14 hostages, including a three year old, from a pistachio farm in southern New Mexico Sunday afternoon.
State Police identified the suspect as Caleb Scroggins, 21 from Alamogordo, NM.
Police said they were looking for Scroggins because he was a suspect in a shooting earlier in the day. During a search, police found Scroggin’s vehicle and a chase began. While traveling west, Scroggins failed to yield to northbound traffic on a highway and was t-boned. Scroggins got out of the car, exchanged fire with police, ran into McGinn’s Pistachio Farm store and took 14 hostages. Continue reading “New Mexico authorities rescue 14 hostages in farm standoff”
A Tennessee homeowner held two escaped inmates wanted in the killing of two prison guards at gunpoint Thursday until authorities arrived and made the arrests.
Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Bill Miller said late Thursday that the homeowner caught Donnie Rowe and Ricky Dubose trying to steal his vehicle.
Miller says the escaped Georgia inmates had crashed a car while being chased by law enforcement and fled on foot into woods along Interstate 24 near the rural community of Christiana. Continue reading “Homeowner holds escaped Georgia inmates at gunpoint until arrests”
After nearly three years of warming relations between the United States and Cuba, President Donald Trump has announced that his administration will unravel many of his predecessor’s policies on the communist state.
Speaking from Miami, Florida, Trump announced changes to President Obama’s historic rapprochement with Cuba — fulfilling a promise to the anti-Castro voting bloc he believes helped his campaign clinch the state, but stirring fear among others he could set back business interests and Cuba’s potential for a more prosperous private sector. Continue reading “Trump says he’s ‘canceling’ Obama Cuba deal, unveiling new policies”
The Homeland Security Department announced on Thursday that it would keep in place the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, allowing undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to remain in the country.
The decision breaks a key campaign promise by Trump to “immediately terminate” the DACA program and stands at odds with the president’s vows to crackdown on illegal immigration. Continue reading “Trump breaks campaign promise to deport Dreamers”
Paris, Texas – On Monday, a notice was posted that the Commissioners Court will hold a meeting discussing the possible relocation of the Confederate Monument that is located on the South lawn of the County Courthouse.
The meeting is to take place Friday, June 16, 2017 at 9 a.m. at the Lamar County Courthouse. This meeting is open for the public to attend. Continue reading “Commissioners Court to Discuss Relocating Confederate Monument”
A frequently polarized Senate found common ground Thursday as Republicans and Democrats joined forces to approve a sweeping sanctions bill that punishes longtime adversaries Iran and Russia with an array of financial penalties.
The bipartisan legislation passed overwhelmingly Thursday, 98-2, more than five months after U.S. intelligence agencies determined Moscow had deliberately interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign. Lawmakers have long sought to hit Iran with more sanctions in order to check its ballistic missile program and rebuke Tehran’s continued support for terrorist groups. Continue reading “Senate passes sweeping sanctions bill targeting Iran, Russia”
News of the shooting early yesterday at a Republican congressional baseball practice is dominating the media. But what most missed, was the canceled hearing to loosen certain gun regulations pertaining to silencers and their use during hunting. It was canceled because of the shooting.
A congressional hearing which was scheduled for early Wednesday morning to debate gun legislation has been canceled until further notice in the wake of the shooting. The House Natural Resources Federal Lands Subcommittee spokeswoman Molly Block confirmed the decision to CNN. Continue reading “House Hearing On Gun Regulations Delayed By Shooting”
A terminal at the Port of Charleston in South Carolina will reopen and the safety zone has been lifted, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday, after investigating a threat of a “dirty bomb” on a container ship.
It said the “original reporting source of the threat” had been detained for questioning. Continue reading “U.S. shipping terminal reopens after ‘dirty bomb’ threat”
At least seven people were killed and 59 others were injured in an explosion at the entrance of a kindergarten in eastern China on Thursday, city government said.
The blast struck the school in Fengxian, located in Jiangsu province, at 4:50 p.m. local time, police said. Officials are investigating the incident. Continue reading “Explosion at kindergarten in China kills 7 people, injures 59, government says”
At least one person has died after a very powerful but deep earthquake struck the border between Mexico and Guatemala, sending shockwaves that could be felt by around 12 million people across neighbouring countries.
The US Geological Survey measured the earthquake at magnitude 6.9, and there were reports of landslides, power cuts, damage to homes and injuries across Guatemala and Mexico. Continue reading “Mexico earthquake: Magnitude 6.9 seismic tremor hits Pacific coast at Guatemala border”
USA Today – by Elizabeth Weise, Jon Swartz
SAN FRANCISCO — Police had an unidentified person in custody following an apparently fatal workplace shooting at a UPS facility in the city’s Potrero Hill neighborhood.
Police sealed off streets in the area after the shooting, which took place around 9 a.m. local time. Several people were injured, and what appeared to be two bodies lay in the middle of a street outside the facility, covered with yellow tarps, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Continue reading “Suspect in custody in shooting at San Francisco UPS facility”
WASHINGTON — A 66-year-old Illinois man has been identified as the suspect in the shooting of a congressional baseball practice Wednesday, injuring at least one member of the House of Representatives.
James T. Hodgkinson allegedly opened fire at a field in Alexandria, Virginia, several law enforcement sources told NBC News. More than a dozen GOP lawmakers were there with staff.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and Rep. Roger Williams were shot and multiple congressional aides were also hit by a gunman with a rifle who opened fire at a GOP baseball practice in Virginia Wednesday morning, Fox News confirmed.
The gunman was shot by U.S. Capital Police, apprehended and taken to the hospital, officials said. Sen. Mike Lee told Fox News, however, the gunman was dead.
Continue reading “Steve Scalise, Roger Williams shot in Virginia, aides also hit”
It’s the distance a trained police officer can typically shoot an assailant with accuracy, he says. Next, he points to a door farther down the hallway — a distance still much shorter than the typical hallway at a Shawnee Mission school.
“To expect that I could stop somebody with a pistol from here to there….” He doesn’t finish his sentence.
Douglass cites the rising threat of active shooter situations as the reason why the district’s police department has issued eight semi-automatic rifles to its district resource officers, who have operated separately from municipal police forces since 1972. Continue reading “School district buys semi-automatic rifles. Some parents are angry and scared”
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HeatStreet – by Ian Miles Cheong
Pennsylvania supermarket shooter Randy Stair left behind a trove of material explaining his motivations for gunning down three of his co-workers. In his recorded suicide notes, released just hours before Thursday’s rampage, the 24-year-old talked extensively about his depression and about who he was as a person—a transgender woman who hated men and toxic masculinity.
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A senior Qatari official says Qatar hosted the Taliban militant group based on a request from the United States, whose president, along with a number of Arab regimes, has been pressuring Doha over what they say is its support for extremist groups.
Mutlaq al-Qahtani, a senior counterterrorism adviser to Qatar’s foreign minister, told Al Jazeera on Sunday that Qatar hosted the Taliban “by request by the US government” and as part of Qatar’s “open-door policy, to facilitate talks, to mediate and to bring peace.” Continue reading “Qatar hosted Taliban on US request: Official”
Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten
Australia has no Second Amendment, no Fourth Amendment, no Fifth Amendment, no First Amendment. There is strong tradition and law that searches shall require warrants, and that people will not be forced to testify against themselves.
There are only a few rights actually protected by the Australian Constitution, and they are weakly protected.
In the following story, the information that lead to the searches and arrests came from the United States. It wasn’t about people purchasing anything illegal. It was about solvent traps. From smh.com.au: Continue reading “U.S. Surveillance State Leads to Gun Arrests in Australia”