Townhall – by Katie Pavlich

Michael Bloomberg’s gun control lobby Mom’s Demand Action and Everytown has officially endorsed anti-gun extremist Hillary Clinton for president.

“Today, I’m proud to announce that Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund are endorsing Hillary Clinton for president of the United States,” Mom’s Demand Founder Shannon Watts declared in an email Friday. “Last week, the NRA named Hillary Clinton as their biggest threat. And we couldn’t agree more. Hillary Clinton wears her ‘F’ rating from the NRA as a badge of honor, and has shown that she is the only candidate who has the conviction to take on the NRA’s extremist worldview of guns everywhere, for anyone, no questions asked. We want to make the 2016 election a historic victory for gun safety — and prove once and for all that it is a winning political issue.”    Continue reading “Bloomberg’s Gun Control Lobby Endorses Hillary Clinton; NRA Responds”

Ammoland

NEWTOWN, Conn – -(Ammoland.com)-  Editors Note: [The National Shooting Sports Foundation has issued the following statement regarding the recent admission by “Under The Gun” producer Stephanie Soechtig that she appears to have violated multiple Federal Gun Laws.]

Journalists and filmmakers investigating what they see as shortcomings in laws are not absolved of their responsibility both to gain the requisite understanding of how those laws work and to abide by them.   Continue reading “National Shooting Sports Foundation Calls for ATF Investigation Of ‘Under the Gun’”

The Weather Channel

Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a state of disaster across 31 counties in the Lone Star State as a severe storm parked itself over the region, causing flash flooding. Heavy rain was falling at a rate of up to 3 inches per hour, said weather.com meteorologist Jonathan Erdman.

According to the National Weather Service, up to 4 feet of rapidly flowing water has already been reported in some parts of the city.   Continue reading “State of Disaster Declared in 31 Texas Counties Amidst Severe Flooding”

The Weather Channel

It seems that there is no rest for the rain-weary over parts of Texas. Several significant rain events have produced flooding across the region in recent months and more rain is on the way.

Another round of heavy rain inundated the Lone Star State over the past several days, resulting in even more flooding. After a brief break, more significant rain is expected again this week.   Continue reading “More Locally Heavy Rain For Flood-Weary Texas This Week”

AOL

One Oregon family’s viral Facebook post begging for justice for their abused son has people raising serious questions about the legal system.

Alicia Quinney and her boyfriend, Joshua Marbury, went on a date back in March, leaving their 1-year-old son Jacob in the care of a family friend, KATU reported.

But upon returning home, the couple discovered Jacob was distraught, crying alone in his room, while the unnamed man who was supposed to be taking care of him was asleep on the couch.   Continue reading “Parents outraged that babysitter may not face charges for allegedly beating their 1-year-old”

WBT

(NEW YORK) — A controversial plan to sell your organs legally is gaining momentum.

Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) has proposed a program that offers financial incentives to those who donate kidneys. A plan that may help 100,000 Americans who are on a waitlist anxiously awaiting a new kidney, when every day at least 12 people die in the U.S. because there are not enough donors.  Continue reading “New Program Offers Cash Incentives for Kidney Donations”

Gothamist – by Miranda Katz

In March, a video was posted to YouTube showing NYPD macing a man and then restraining him in what the uploader described as a “body bag,” zipping it all the way over the arrested man’s head. The bag, which we learned is called an EDP bag (but sometimes referred to as a “burrito”), is used to restrain people who are emotionally disturbed, and there don’t appear to be any guidelines for the NYPD specifying EDP usage. The New York Times has a piece out today on the restraining devices, and reports that they were used 122 times between January 1st and April 20th in 2016. That comes out to more than once a day.

The man restrained in the bag in the video posted in March allegedly failed to pay his subway fare, the Times reports, and he’s said to have became violent when officers tried to arrest him, flailing his arms, kicking, and spitting. He allegedly struck one officer in the head with his elbow and injured another. He now faces charges for felony assault, among others—but his lawyer, Andrew Miller, says that’s completely backwards.
Continue reading “NYPD Used ‘Body Bags’ To Make 122 Arrests In 110 Days”

New York Post – by Michael Goodwin

Mark the date, remember the moment. The corruption eruption in New York is reaching new heights — and depths.

From City Hall to Albany, the sewer runneth over. It is no longer adequate to talk of a few bad apples. We are suffering through a bumper crop of rottenness.

In normal times, the fall of Sheldon Silver, sentenced yesterday to 12 years in federal prison, would be drama enough. Yet the former Democratic leader of the Assembly is joined in infamy by Dean Skelos, the former Republican leader of the state Senate, whose sentencing comes up next week on the con- man calendar.   Continue reading “NY is a corruption-filled cesspool — and we have ourselves to blame”

BBC News

A Russian jet fighter that intercepted a US Air Force reconnaissance plane on Friday did so in an “unsafe and unprofessional manner” over the Baltic Sea, the Pentagon has said.

It says the fighter performed a barrel roll plane over the American plane.

It is the second incident in the Baltic this month in which the US has accused Russian planes of flying aggressively.   Continue reading “US accuses Russia over Baltic jet manoeuvre”

NY Daily News – by CHRISTINA CARREGA-WOODBY

A nine-year veteran with the NYPD may lose his job after a Brooklyn judge on Friday found him guilty of “gratuitously” stomping on the head of a suspect during an arrest.

Officer Joel Edouard “let down his fellow officers by losing his composure in an admittedly difficult situation,” said Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Alan Marrus.   Continue reading “NYPD officer Joel Edouard found guilty in brutal Brooklyn stomp attack, faces up to year in prison and could lose job”

Cincinnati.com

ON THE PIKE/ADAMS COUNTY LINE — Tears well in Leonard Manley’s eyes with nearly every mention of his slain daughter and her three murdered children.

But they never spill onto his cheek.

Manley, a man who doesn’t have much but his family, is too proud for that.   Continue reading “‘Ain’t got no revenge in our hearts,’ Pike Co. family says”

AOL

William Shakespeare is to blame for one of the most highly-invasive species living in the United States.

Back in late 19th century, a Bronx-based drug manufacturer Eugene Schieffelin decided he wanted to introduce every avian species in the Bard’s literature to the United States. To star, he released 60 European starlings, which were imported from England, into New York City’s Central Park in 1890. The following year, he added another 40 to the wild.   Continue reading “13 invasive species wreaking havoc in the United States”

NY Daily News – by VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS, REUVEN BLAU

A Brooklyn volunteer safety patrol member was charged Monday with bribing cops with $6,000 in cash and other goodies to expedite gun permit requests, and three officers were transferred out of the licensing unit as part of the far-reaching NYPD corruption probe.

Shaya (Alex) Lichtenstein, 44, was so cozy with cops in the License Division that he’d spent nearly every day inside the office in police headquarters since 2014, federal court papers say.   Continue reading “NYPD probe ensnares man offering to expedite gun permits”

CBS News – by Sharyn Alfonsi

The following script is from “Hacking Your Phone” which aired on April 17, 2016. Sharyn Alfonsi is the correspondent. Howard L. Rosenberg and Julie Holstein, producers.

A lot of modern life is interconnected through the Internet of things — a global empire of billions of devices and machines. Automobile navigation systems. Smart TVs. Thermostats. Telephone networks. Home security systems. Online banking. Almost everything you can imagine is linked to the world wide web. And the emperor of it all is the smartphone. You’ve probably been warned to be careful about what you say and do on your phone, but after you see what we found, you won’t need to be warned again.
Continue reading “60 Minutes: Hacking Your Phone”

Wall Street Journal – by Robert Lee Hotz

Laptops and organizer apps make pen and paper seem antique, but handwriting appears to focus classroom attention and boost learning in a way that typing notes on a keyboard does not, new studies suggest.

Students who took handwritten notes generally outperformed students who typed their notes via computer, researchers at Princeton University and the University of California at Los Angeles found. Compared with those who type their notes, people who write them out in longhand appear to learn better, retain information longer, and more readily grasp new ideas, according to experiments by other researchers who also compared note-taking techniques.   Continue reading “Can Handwriting Make You Smarter?”

Luhud

Robert Borrelli said he wonders every day why Brendan Cronin shot at him and Joseph Felice at a Pelham intersection two years ago.

Cronin will have plenty of time to ponder that question in state prison. The former NYPD officer was given a nine-year sentence today for drunkenly firing at least 14 bullets at the two New Rochelle men who were driving home from a recreational hockey game, injuring one of them.   Continue reading “Ex-NYPD officer ‘sorry,’ given prison in Pelham shooting”

New York Daily News

The NYPD got an order kicking a family of four out of their Queens apartment by telling a judge it was a drug den — but the dealers had moved out seven months earlier.

A lawsuit to be filed in Brooklyn Federal Court on Tuesday details an egregious case of the NYPD’s use of the nuisance abatement law — a controversial tool in which cops are able to get a temporary order barring people from their homes without first giving them the opportunity to appear before a judge.   Continue reading “NYPD kicks wrong family out of their home in nuisance case, seeking drug dealers who left 7 months earlier”