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WATERTOWN, Wis. (AP) — A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying crude oil derailed Sunday and prompted some evacuations in Wisconsin, the second day in a row a freight train derailed in the state.

The eastbound CP train derailed about 2 p.m. in Watertown, in the southeastern part of the state. The railroad said at least 10 cars derailed, and some were leaking.

No fires or injuries were reported. CP was sending teams to the site.   Continue reading “2nd train derails in Wisconsin in 2 days, spills crude oil”

Reuters – by Megan Rowling

Without the right policies to keep the poor safe from extreme weather and rising seas, climate change could drive over 100 million more people into poverty by 2030, the World Bank said on Sunday.

In a report, the bank said ending poverty – one of 17 new U.N. goals adopted in September – would be impossible if global warming and its effects on the poor were not accounted for in development efforts.   Continue reading “World Bank warns climate change could add 100 mln poor by 2030”

Patch – by Ryan Bonner

A 9-year-old girl died after she was attacked by a pit bull in the backyard of a Long Island home Sunday morning.

According to Nassau Police, a 911 call came in at 10:30 a.m. reporting the dog attack at a home on Holland Avenue in Elmont. When two Fifth Precinct officers entered the backyard, they observed a male pit bull attacking the young girl, police said.   Continue reading “9-Year-Old Girl Killed in Pit Bull Attack on Long Island”

CBS Philadelphia – by Mike Dougherty

BUCKS COUNTY, P.A., (CBS) — An autopsy has been completed on the man who was found shot dead inside a Bucks County motel room yesterday, following a barricade situation that lasted several hours.

Authorities say the man, 34-year-old Lloyd Wayne Franklin, was killed by a self inflicted gunshot wound.   Continue reading “Authorities: Man Found Dead Following Standoff Died From Self Inflicted Gunshot Wound”

NBC News

A giant ‘sinkhole’ about 50-feet wide opened up in an IHOP parking lot in Mississippi over the weekend, swallowing at least 14 vehicles, officials said.

At about 7:15 p.m. CT Saturday night, “we received a call of vehicles going through the pavement at the IHOP in Meridian,” Patrol Lieutenant Rita Jack with Meridian Police told NBC News.   Continue reading “Giant ‘Sinkhole’ Swallows Over Dozen Cars at Mississippi International House of Pancakes”

Yahoo News

Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he planned to discuss defence aid with President Barack Obama as he left for his first meeting with the US leader in over a year.

Netanyahu is due to meet Obama on Monday in Washington as the two leaders seek to set aside their testy personal relationship and turn the page after a sharp disagreement over the July nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.   Continue reading “Netanyahu stresses defence aid ahead of Obama meeting”

Statesman

State District Judge Julie Kocurek, the presiding felony judge for Travis County, was shot in the driveway of her West Austin home late Friday, authorities said. Police said the injury is not considered life threatening.

Kocurek was taken to University Medical Center-Brackenridge, where she was joined by several other Travis County judges and her court staff. Her condition initially was considered critical, but shortly after midnight officials said her condition had been upgraded to stable.   Continue reading “Travis County judge Julie Kocurek shot outside home, officials confirm”

Sent to us by the author, Kenneth Anton author of ‘Popsicle Man’ and ‘Cancer Vortex’

There is a growing disconnect between the American people and government whose lying statistics proclaim a recovery while 92 million remain out of work; the Middle Class is disappearing; students are overburdened with debt and the top 0.1% control 90% of the wealth. As times get harder and they will, Americans are demanding the truth. Why waste trillions bombing other countries where the enemy (Al Qaeda and Islamic State) are known CIA creations.   Continue reading “Exposing the Greatest Conspiracy of Modern Times”

Fuel Fix – by Jennifer A. Dlouhy

WASHINGTON — A bid by oil export advocates to tether the trade issue to a federal highway bill has hit a dead end.

Oil producers and their allies in Congress had hoped to use the highway bill as a vehicle for unrelated provisions lifting the 40-year-old ban on U.S. crude exports.   Continue reading “End of the road for oil exports on highway bill”

Breitbart – by Joel B. Pollak

Amnesty activists opposed to Donald Trump and his immigration policies have gone beyond piñatas and have launched a new video featuring children yelling obscene profanities at the Republican frontrunner.

The new video, hosted at deportracism.com, is linked to a campaign to keep Trump off NBC’s Saturday Night Live and features a young boy and girl shouting words like “motherf#@kers,” “f#@k,” and “d#@k,” as well as Spanish profanity. At one point, a boy raises a middle finger to the camera while he holds a sign reading, “Deport this.”   Continue reading “Video–Latino Kids Blast Donald Trump: ‘F*ck you, racist f*ck!’”

Thanks to Enemy of the State.

New York Post – by Bruce Golding

A former FedEx driver plans to sue the city for $10 million after he was allegedly beaten to a pulp by cops furious over the fact that he unwittingly gave directions to the gunman who assassinated two cops last year, his lawyer said Tuesday.   Continue reading “Man says NYPD beat him up for mistakenly helping cop killer”

Fox News

An Illinois police officer whose shooting death in September led to a massive manhunt committed suicide due to personal and professional pressures, investigators announced during a Wednesday morning news conference.

Fox Lake Police Lt. Charles Joseph “Joe” Gliniewicz was stealing and laundering money from the Fox Lake Police Explorer’s program and committed suicide due to the “personal stress from scrutiny of his management,” Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Commander George Filenko said.   Continue reading “Illinois police officer’s shooting death called ‘carefully staged suicide’”

Yahoo News – by NASSER KARIMI

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The slogan “Death to America” is not aimed at the American people, but rather American policies, Iran’s supreme leader said in comments reported on his official website Tuesday.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei discussed the slogan while meeting with Iranian students ahead of the anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979. Militant students stormed the compound and took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.   Continue reading “Iran Ayatollah: ‘Death to America’ refers to US policies”

KHOU 11 News

HOUSTON – Voters have said a resounding no to Houston’s controversial equal rights ordinance.

Prop 1, nicknamed HERO, failed by a margin of 62-percent to 38-percent.

Opponents of the issue branded it “the bathroom ordinance,” playing up the argument that it would allow sexual predators dressed as women to use women’s restrooms. A television ad featured a little girl being cornered by a man in a restroom.   Continue reading “Voters reject Houston Equal Rights Ordinance”

Whale.to – by Alan R Cantwell Jr., M.D.

New Dawn No. 68 (September-October 2001)

Disinformation and Nuclear Fallout
Secret Radiation Experiments
The Atomic Energy Commission
Uranium Mine Workers
Medical Ethics of the Cold War
The President’s Advisory Committee
Keeping Government Secrets
Current Secret Biomedical Experimentation
Does Secret Medical Experimentation Continue?   Continue reading “How scientists secretly used US citizens as guinea pigs during the Cold War”

People – by Steve Helling

Authorities have released the identities of the people killed in Saturday morning’s shooting spree in Colorado Springs, in which the shooter killed three people before he died during a shootout with police.

The first person shot was Andrew Alan Myers, 35, who was riding a bicycle. Witnesses said that he begged for his life before being killed.    Continue reading “Colorado Springs Massacre: Cops Identify Victims and Shooter”

Reuters – by David Dekok

Opening arguments are expected to begin on Tuesday in the murder trial of a Pennsylvania police officer who shot and killed a suspect last February as he lay face down in the snow, immobilized by a Taser charge.

The shooting death of David Kassick, 59, by Officer Lisa Mearkle, 37, was captured on the video camera in her Taser, police say. Her lawyers successfully fought release of the video prior to her trial, saying it could taint potential jurors.   Continue reading “Pennsylvania officer who shot, killed prone suspect heads to trial”

Washington Post – by Michael E. Miller

Across the country, high schools are increasingly confronting a thorny issue: Should transgender students be allowed into the locker room?

And increasingly, the federal government is stepping in to provide an answer: Schools must give trans students full locker room access.

Or else.   Continue reading “Feds say Illinois school district broke law by banning transgender student from girls’ locker room”

Fox News – by Christina Corbin

It might be the world’s most expensive gas station — not to mention a gross misuse of taxpayer money, according to a top government watchdog.

The Department of Defense spent $43 million to build a gas station in Afghanistan that should have cost roughly $500,000, the lead oversight team monitoring U.S. spending in Afghanistan has found. The discovery came as part of a broader investigation into allegations of criminal activity within the DOD’s premiere program to kick-start the Afghan economy.    Continue reading “‘Colossal waste’: DOD slammed for $43M, US-funded gas station in Afghanistan”