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Bloomberg – by Len Bracken, Rossella Brevetti and Angela Greiling Keane

A dozen Pacific-rim nations agreed to an historic pact that would cut trade barriers on items ranging from cars to rice, setting up a potentially contentious ratification vote before a skeptical U.S. Congress.

After a week of final talks in Atlanta, an agreement was announced Monday on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a pact more than five years in the making designed to boost commerce among nations that produce 40 percent of global economic output.   Continue reading “TPP: Pacific-Rim Nations Led by U.S. Agree to Historic Trade Deal”

Daily Caller – by Eric Owens

Students at a Wyoming high school took matters into their own hands last week by festooning themselves in the colors of the American flag after the principal and an assistant principal canceled “America Pride Day” over concerns that some immigrant students could feel sad and left out.

The scene of the red, white and blue brouhaha was Jackson Hole High School in Jackson, Wyo., reports the Jackson Hole News&Guide.   Continue reading “High School Students Revolt After Principal CANCELS ‘AMERICA PRIDE DAY’”

Reuters – by Krista Hughes

A dozen Pacific nations closed in on a sweeping free trade pact on Sunday in Atlanta after a breakthrough over how long a monopoly pharmaceutical companies should be given on new biotech drugs.

The issue has pitted the United States, which has argued for longer protections, against Australia and five other delegations who say such measures would strain national healthcare budgets and keep life-saving medicines from patients who cannot afford them.   Continue reading “After five years of negotiations, Pacific trade talks near deal”

Seattle PI – by Jennifer Peltz

NEW YORK (AP) — The removal of a stove may have led to a gas leak that caused an explosion and fire that ripped through a three-story building in Brooklyn, killing a woman inside and injuring three passers-by, authorities said.

Firefighters received a call at about 1 p.m. Saturday reporting an explosion at a building in the Borough Park neighborhood. Emergency crews found the entire front of the building blown into the street.   Continue reading “New York City explosion kills 1, hurts 3; gas leak suspected”

New York Times

The father of a 26-year-old gunman who killed nine people and then himself in a shooting rampage at a community college in Roseburg, Ore., said on Saturday that the massacre would not have happened if his son had not been allowed to purchase more than a dozen guns.

“How on earth could he compile 13 guns?” Ian Mercer, the father of Christopher Harper-Mercer, said in an interview with CNN at his home in Torrance, Calif. He said he had no idea that his son owned any firearms, adding, “How was he able to compile that kind of arsenal?”   Continue reading “Oregon Gunman’s Father Dismayed by Lack of Gun Legislation”

Reuters

The U.S. military on Saturday acknowledged it may have bombed a hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz in an air strike that killed at least nine people and wounded 37.

The incident could renew concerns about the use of U.S. air power in Afghanistan, a controversial issue in America’s longest war. Former President Hamid Karzai fell out with his backers in Washington over the number of civilians killed by bombs.   Continue reading “Nine dead at Afghan hospital after U.S. air strike”

The Onion

WASHINGTON—Researchers at the Urban Institute published a study Friday confirming that a sharp increase in gun sales nationwide would be the most concrete result of the impassioned pro-gun-control speech that President Obama delivered following yesterday’s mass shooting in Oregon.   Continue reading “Report: Increase In Gun Sales To Be Most Concrete Result Of Obama’s Pro-Gun-Control Speech”

Senator Blumenthal

This morning at the Hartford Legislative Office Building, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced new legislation that would bar gun sales until background checks are complete. Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty (D-5), Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe and Connecticut gun safety advocates also joined in the call for legislative action to end the dangerous practice of default sales if checks are pending beyond 72 hours.   Continue reading “No Check, No Gun: Blumenthal, Murphy Introduce Legislation Barring Gun Sales Until Background Checks Are Complete”

ABC News

The student and Army veteran who witnesses say charged the shooter at a community college in Oregon is alert and awake at the hospital as he recovers.

Chris Mintz, 30, was shot seven times during the Thursday rampage, but he says his main concern is about the others who were injured.

“I just hope that everyone else is OK,” he told ABC News this morning.   Continue reading “‘Hero’ Umpqua Community College Student Chris Mintz Speaks After Being Shot 7 Times”

In January 2013, a month after the Sandy Hook hoax, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin wrote a letter to Biden to request that the Obama administration not push for tighter gun restrictions and to let officials know that if stricter laws passed, he would not enforce them.   Continue reading “Douglas County Oregon Sheriff John Hanlin’s anti-gun control letter”

IB Times

Chris Harper Mercer, 26, has been identified as the shooter responsible for taking the lives of at least 10 people at a community college in southwest Oregon earlier Thursday, law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS News. Law enforcement officers shot and killed Mercer in an exchange of gunfire later Thursday afternoon.   Continue reading “Who Is Chris Harper Mercer? Oregon’s Alleged Umqua Community College Shooter Identified, Police Say”

People – by Hillary Shenfeld

Exactly one month after Fox Lake, Illinois, police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was shot and killed while on duty, investigators for the first time have revealed where the gunshots came from: Gliniewicz’s own weapon.

At a Thursday press conference, authorities also disclosed for the first time that there was an apparent struggle at the scene of the shooting, which occurred Sept. 1 in a swampy, remote area in Fox Lake. Cops continue to investigate the shooting as a homicide, George Filenko, commander of the Lake County Major Crime Task Force, said Thursday, but have not ruled out other possibilities.    Continue reading “Illinois Cop Whose Death Sparked Massive Manhunt Killed with His Own Gun, Say Investigators”

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C-Net – by Chris Matyszczyk

I suspect a few of you are looking forward to being robots.

Who wouldn’t be fascinated by the idea of becoming someone other than themselves? We do get so tired of being the same dull soul every day.

What kind of robots will we be? Happily, I can provide an answer. For living inside my head all day have been the words of Google’s director of engineering, Ray Kurzweil.   Continue reading “Google exec: With robots in our brains, we’ll be godlike”

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Knifeista

Our community of fellow preppers is always trying to assess the best tools out there for surviving under almost any circumstances, which is why tool reviews and comparisons are some of the most popular features of our website. Unlike what other people think, preppers aren’t constantly stressed about being prepared for disaster striking, and fretting about it. On the contrary: a good prepper or survivalist expert is actually more relaxed about the possibility of bad times coming, precisely because he (or she) has done his (her) homework and knows how to tackle what may be coming.   Continue reading “The Prepper’s Checklist: Pocket Items You Need beyond a Good Knife”

Update: NBC News

A gunman was in custody after he killed seven to 10 people and injured about 20 others Thursday at a community college in southwest Oregon, authorities said.

It wasn’t immediately known whether the gunman was dead or alive as authorities said simply that he was in custody after the shootings at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, which was called in at 10:38 a.m. (1:38 p.m. ET), officials said.   Continue reading “Deputies Respond to Active Shooter at Umpqua Community College”

AP – by Mead Gruver

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday blocked new nationwide regulations for oil and gas drilling on federal lands from taking effect while a lawsuit moves ahead, pointing to a law that prohibits the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating hydraulic fracturing.

Just because the EPA lacks authority to regulate fracking doesn’t mean the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has leeway to do so, U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl wrote. “In the absence of a statute conferring authority, an administrative agency has none,” he wrote.   Continue reading “Judge blocks federal oil, gas drilling rules pending lawsuit”

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Dr. James P. Wickstrom

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Fox News

Russian warplanes began bombarding Syrian opposition targets in the war-torn nation’s north Wednesday, following a terse meeting at which a Russian general asked Pentagon officials to clear out of Syrian air space and was rebuffed, Fox News has learned.

A U.S. official said Russian airstrikes targeted fighters in the vicinity of Homs, located roughly 60 miles east of a Russian naval facility in Tartus, and were carried out by a “couple” of Russian bombers. The strikes hit targets in Homs and Hama, but there is no presence of ISIS in those areas, a senior U.S. defense official said. These planes are hitting areas where Free Syrian Army and other anti-Assad groups are located, the official said.   Continue reading “Russia launches airstrikes in northern Syria, senior military official says”