Yahoo News – by Michael Tarm

CHICAGO (AP) — Dennis Hastert, the Republican who for eight years presided over the House and was second in the line of succession to the presidency, was sentenced Wednesday to more than a year in prison in the hush-money case that included accusations he sexually abused teenagers while coaching high school wrestling.

Judge Thomas M. Durkin also ordered Hastert to undergo sex-offender treatment, spend two years on supervised release after 15 months behind bars and pay a $250,000 fine to a crime victims’ fund.   Continue reading “Former House speaker sentenced to more than a year in prison”

Daily Mail

  • Minerva Carcano spoke to the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee
  • Her United Methodist Church has ‘failed to discourage illegal immigrants’
  • Receives at least $7.6million in three years to help unaccompanied children
  • Bishop claims the U.S. has ‘undermined’ countries and left them in poverty

A bishop whose church has been accused of ‘aiding and abetting’ illegal immigrants has claimed America is ‘raping’ other countries.    Continue reading “Methodist bishop whose church ‘aids’ illegal immigrants claims US is ‘raping Central America and leaving societies in shambles’”

AlJazeera

The UN Security Council has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that the annexed Golan Heights in Syria would “forever” remain under Israeli control.

The 15-member council agreed on Tuesday that the status of the Golan, which Israel seized from Syria in 1967, “remains unchanged,” Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi, who holds this month’s council presidency said.   Continue reading “UN rejects Israel’s claim over Syria’s Golan Heights”

Charlotte Observer – by Michael Gordon

A Kings Mountain “medicine man” faces federal firearms and tax-evasion charges after an FBI raid on his home uncovered an underground bunker containing dozens of weapons, drugs, large supplies of food and water, suspected materials for an explosive device – and a still.

Six years ago, Reuben DeHaan filed papers in Cleveland County renouncing his U.S. citizenship and challenging government authority, even as he built a murky business marketing “natural healing” services and remedies that earned gross receipts of more than $2.7 million during a recent six-year period.   Continue reading “Federal raid uncovers dozens of guns and still in ‘medicine man’s’ bunker”

CBS News

Investigators have interviewed more than 60 people in their ongoing manhunt for whoever killed eight members of an Ohio family, reports CBS News correspondent David Begnaud.

It’s been four days since the bodies were found, but no one is under arrest.

Isaiah Jones said he was detained at gunpoint during a traffic stop and released after being questioned for six hours.   Continue reading “Is a Mexican drug cartel behind execution-style murder of Ohio family?”

Oregon Live – by Maxine Bernstein

Ammon Bundy’s lawyers intend to argue that the federal government doesn’t have the authority to prosecute protesters who took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, claiming that the federal government lacks control of the land.

The U.S. Constitution granted “very limited powers” to the federal government, and that once Oregon became a state, the federal government lost a right to own land inside the state’s borders, his attorney Lissa Casey wrote in a court motion filed late Friday.   Continue reading “Ammon Bundy to challenge authority of feds to prosecute Oregon standoff defendants”

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Yahoo News

At first blush, it sounds like your typical sports celebrity meet and greet. Avi Herman, 10, and his brother, Jonah, 7, were waiting patiently for Odell Beckham, Jr. to arrive. Before the New York Giants wide receiver came, there was a football clinic where a few NFL coaches gave throwing pointers to the some 100 kids gathered around. After about two hours, Beckham—he, of the now-iconic meme catch—finally showed up and was promptly mobbed, by both children and their parents alike. The NFL pro then spent the next two hours signing footballs and posing for photos with his fans. Both got signed footballs, baseball caps and jerseys.   Continue reading “Passover for the rich: Inside the lavish getaways where you might run into Odell Beckham, Jr.”

ABC News

Most of the 32 cases of fireworks believed to have been stolen in transit have now been recovered thanks to a tip, officials said Saturday, although no arrests have been made in the case.

A senior law enforcement official said Friday 32 cases of commercial grade fireworks were reported missing and were believed to be stolen from a CSX train shipment that originated inChicago and ended in Detroit. The train went through Ohio, where officials believe the fireworks may have been stolen. The explosive material was discovered missing Thursday and was reported to authorities.   Continue reading “Most Fireworks Recovered After Apparent Theft From Train”

ABC News

Authorities say four federal agents suffered non-life-threatening injuries after being shot while trying to make an arrest at a Kansas motel.

Police say two U.S. marshals and an FBI agent were shot and suffered non-life-threatening injuries Saturday night in Topeka. A fourth federal agent also suffered the same injuries, but it was not immediately clear to which agency the officer is assigned. All four were taken to hospitals.   Continue reading “4 Federal Agents Injured During Shootout at Kansas Motel”

Yahoo News

LAS VEGAS (AP) — There won’t be a federal trial next month in Las Vegas for rancher Cliven Bundy and 18 other defendants in an armed confrontation with government officers two years ago.

In a written ruling issued following a two-hour hearing in a courtroom crowded with defendants, attorneys, U.S. marshals and audience members, U.S. Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen essentially called a May 2 trial date unrealistic.   Continue reading “No May court date for federal Bundy standoff case in Nevada”

WCPO

PEEBLES, Ohio — A “murderer or murderers” massacred eight members of a Pike County family in a series of targeted, “execution-style” killings, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said Friday.

And, as tips poured in throughout the day, DeWine and Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader cautioned it may take a while to find the killer or killers, refuting reports that a “person of interest” was in custody.   Continue reading “Ohio attorney general: 8 dead, including teen, in Pike County family massacre”

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More and more independent research and studies are indicating that BT corn and GMO crops resistant to Monsanto’s best selling herbicide ‘Roundup’ are toxic to both the environment and human’s health.

Although biotech companies and their financial beneficiaries have shamefully been spending millions of dollars lobbying to hide and promote GMOs under the so called label of ‘Natural’, more and more independent researchers, scientists and health advocates are warning the public about the hidden dangers of GMOs and chemicals used in planting GE crops.    Continue reading “Recent studies find Monsanto’s Bt corn toxic to humans”

Roll Call – by Niels Lesniewski

Recognizing the possibility of a contested convention in Cleveland this summer, Republicans are considering an electronic system to capture votes on what could be a contentious set of procedural motions leading up to nominating a presidential candidate.

The Republican National Committee agreed Thursday not to change the rules of the convention at this point, but is exploring changes to the way that delegate votes are recorded.  The idea of electronic voting is gaining steam now because in a disputed floor fight, voice votes may not cut it.   Continue reading “Is Electronic Voting Coming to the GOP Convention?”

Fox 2 Now

Pike County, Ohio – Authorities are investigating “multiple fatalities” in Pike County, Ohio, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office said Friday morning.

A local pastor told WCPO that two adults and five children were shot to death.

The Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) tells FOX 8 News that there are bodies at multiple locations on Union Hill Road in Peebles, Ohio.   Continue reading “Multiple adults and children reported killed in Ohio shooting”

Yahoo News

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 170 countries are lining up to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change Friday as the landmark deal takes a key step toward entering into force years ahead of schedule.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry joins dozens of world leaders for a signing ceremony that is expected to set a record for international diplomacy: Never have so many countries signed an agreement on the first available day. States that don’t sign Friday have a year to do so.   Continue reading “More than 170 states set to sign landmark climate agreement”

CNS News – by Melanie Hunter

Laura Wilkerson, whose son Josh was brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant after school, told a House Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee on Tuesday that she blames Congress for her son’s murder.

“I did not put my kid in harm’s way when he went to school that day. You did. Every one of you is elected by an American. It is time for you to stand in the gap for Americans. I’m so tired of being up here and going over the same thing. You’re elected by Americans. Do something. It is your job,” said Wilkerson.
Continue reading “Mother of Teen Murdered by Illegal Immigrant Tells Congress: ‘Do Something – It Is Your Job’”

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NGA is a super-secret agency who has been utilizing SPY SATELLITES for the past 45 years to spy on Americans. It’s a fact. This information is then transmitted to the CIA, DARPA, NAVEL INTELLIGENCE, FBI, et al.

This agency was employed to spy on the Branch Davidians months before the seige at Waco, Tx.   Continue reading “Has anyone ever heard of the “National Geospacial-Intelligence Agency?”

AP

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Workers are making emergency repairs to a broken sewer line that’s spewing about 1 million gallons of wastewater per day into a Mississippi River tributary in Memphis, an official said Wednesday.

This is the third sewage spill in Memphis in the past three weeks.   Continue reading “3rd sewage line breaks in Memphis, spills waste into river”