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Chicago’s strictest-in-the-nation law banning gun sales within the city is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday, saying the ban went “too far.”
The judge delayed the effect of the ruling to give the city time to file a response to the decision, Bloomberg reported. Continue reading “Chicago’s Ban On Gun Sales Ruled Unconstitutional By Federal Judge”
The Verge – by Russell Brandom
The Federal Bureau of Investigation may have bigger things to worry about than law enforcement. Foreign Policy is reporting a change in the bureau’s latest fact sheet, in which the agency’s primary mission has changed from “law enforcement” to “national security.” It’s in keeping with the bureau’s post-9/11 duties as the nation’s primary domestic counterterrorism agency, but the timing has many FBI-watchers scratching their heads. What’s changed in the last year to make the bureau shift away from law enforcement? Continue reading “The FBI drops ‘law enforcement’ from its mission statement”
BOILING SPRING LAKES, NC (WECT) – Emergency crews responded to the scene of an officer involved shooting at a home in Boiling Spring Lakes Sunday afternoon.
The State Bureau of Investigation has been called to the incident at the request of District Attorney Jon David, according to a spokesperson for the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office. She said sheriff’s deputies were assisting BSL police with the initial response to a home on President Drive. Continue reading “Family says officers shot and killed son”
WHTM 27 News – by Katie Mae Bassler and Megan Healey
GREENCASTLE, Pa. (WHTM) – Update: Police believe a fatal shooting on Interstate 81 involving a driver in a small pickup truck was a random act.
On Saturday, state police reported that a pickup truck driver ran 28-year-old Timothy Davison off the road on Interstate 81, then got out of the truck and shot him several times. Davison later died at York Hospital. Continue reading “FBI now involved in search for shooter in I-81 road rage murder”
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Natural News – by Ethan A. Huff, Feb 14, 2011
While most of the country has been focused on the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), the murder of Judge John McCarthy Roll, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, remains largely and strangely missing from most of the mainstream press coverage of this event. Continue reading “Was Judge John Roll the actual target of the Giffords shooting?”
A fully armed Royal Navy warship was scrambled to challenge a missile-carrying Russian vessel in the waters off Britain just days before Christmas, defence sources revealed last night.
In a calculated test of Britain’s reduced naval capacity in the North Sea, the Russian warship came within 30 miles of the coast.
It was detected nearing Scotland, but the only ship the Royal Navy had available to respond after Ministry of Defence cuts was in Portsmouth, resulting in a delay of 24 hours until it was in position. Continue reading “Battle stations! Navy scrambles destroyer to challenge Russian warship off British coast”
The dream of many Americans is to get out of the hustle and bustle of the daily city grind. And what better dream to have then to move your family outside of city limits to the countryside so that you can grow your own food, produce your own electricity with solar power, and live outside the purview of an ever expanding government apparatus? Continue reading “Gov SWAT Teams Target “Rugged Individuals” Who Grow Their Own Food, Produce Their Own Electricity”
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Breitbart – by SPYRIDON MITSOTAKIS
Bill de Blasio is not the only red coming to power in New York City. He will also be joined by a “progressive” majority City Council. Here is a sampling of three of those he will be working with:
—Melissa Mark-Viverito, top contender for City Council Speaker, went down to Bolivia to campaign for that nation’s marxist dictator, Evo Morales, in 2009. Records of the infamous red narco-terrorist organization FARC show that ties between that organization and Morales stretch all the way back to at least 2003, with meetings organized in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela between senior FARC operatives and Morales. That was two years before Morales’s Chavez-bought “election” in 2005, and the collaboration continues unabated. Continue reading “NYC Painted Red”
Yahoo News – by STEPHEN BRAUN and KIMBERLY DOZIER
WASHINGTON (AP) — A secretive U.S. spy court has ruled again that the National Security Agency can keep collecting every American’s telephone records every day, in the midst of dueling decisions in two other federal courts about whether the surveillance program is constitutional.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Friday renewed the NSA phone collection program, said Shawn Turner, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Such periodic requests are somewhat formulaic but required since the program started in 2006. Continue reading “US spy court: NSA to keep collecting phone records”
Washington Post – by BRIAN FUNG
“Has the NSA spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other elected officials?”
That’s the question Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) put to the National Security Agency’s chief in a bluntly worded letter Friday. It seems, however, that the agency cannot categorically say no.
Sanders didn’t use the word “spy” lightly. He was careful to define his terms, indicating he meant the collection of phone records from personal as well as official telephones, “content from Web sites visited or e-mails sent,” and data that companies collect but don’t release to the public. Continue reading “The NSA refuses to deny spying on members of Congress”
ABC News – by ROD McGUIRK Associated Press
A U.S. Coast Guard heavy icebreaker will leave Australia for Antarctica on Sunday to rescue more than 120 crew members aboard two icebreakers trapped in pack ice near the frozen continent’s eastern edge, officials said.
The 122-meter (399-foot) cutter, the Polar Star, is responding to a Jan. 3 request from Australia, Russia and China to assist the Russian and Chinese ships because “there is sufficient concern that the vessels may not be able to free themselves from the ice,” the Coast Guard said in a statement. Continue reading “US Icebreaker to Rescue 2 Ships in Antarctica”
New York Times – by EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS and ASHLEY SOUTHALL
A single-engine plane made an emergency landing on the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx on Saturday afternoon, officials said. No one was seriously injured.
The plane landed in the northbound lane of the expressway around 3:20 p.m. near East 233rd Street, fire officials said.
The plane, which had flown from Danbury, Conn., on a tour of the Statue of Liberty, landed in the northbound lane around 3:20 p.m. near East 233rd Street, officials said. The pilot and his two women passengers were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with minor injuries. Continue reading “Small Plane Makes Emergency Landing on Bronx Highway”
Recent misconduct investigations of deputies of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department included rape, smuggling heroin into jail, stealing money from a narcotics arrest and misuse of a department helicopter, an oversight report details.
The Office of Independent Review’s new report on misconduct investigations pertaining to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) outlined administrative discipline cases resolved through Sept. 30, 2013. The Office of Independent Review (OIR) is a civilian oversight body charged with monitoring LASD’s internal investigations. Continue reading “LA Sheriff’s Department misconduct includes rape, drug smuggling, kidnapping – report”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said the grassroots in America will “overwhelm” the federal government and President Barack Obama’s administration by signing up for his class action lawsuit against Obama himself over the National Security Agency (NSA) spying on American citizens. Continue reading “Rand Paul: ‘Overwhelm the Government’ with Class-Action Suit against Obama’s NSA”
Washington (AFP) – The US government said Friday it has lodged an appeal against a judge’s ruling that the National Security Agency’s “almost Orwellian”bulk collection of telephone records is illegal.
Separately, spy chief James Clapper revealed that a secret court had renewed the NSA’s authority to gather call “metadata,” despite the controversy triggered when the program came to light. Continue reading “US challenges ruling on ‘Orwellian’ NSA snooping”
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