ABC News

Authorities in Houston have released additional surveillance video and images from their investigation into the brazen fatal shooting of the onetime doctor to former President George H.W. Bush.

Cardiologist Mark Hausknecht, 65, was killed June 20 in a residential neighborhood as he rode his bicycle in broad daylight. The shooter was also riding a bike when he rode past the doctor and “turned and fired two shots,” police said during a news conference later that day.   Continue reading “New surveillance video, images released in slaying of President George H.W. Bush’s former doctor”

Press TV

An Israeli news magazine has sacked a veteran cartoonist for depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and lawmakers with his Likud party as pig characters from George Orwell’s Animal Farm to criticize the regime over the adoption of a highly discriminatory law.

Cartoonist Avi Katz of the Jerusalem Report took a selfie taken by the Likud lawmakers with the premier after the Israeli parliament (Knesset) passed the “Jewish nation-state” law last week, drawing the politicians in the photo with pigs’ heads.   Continue reading “Israeli magazine fires cartoonist for depicting PM, lawmakers as pigs”

Daily Kos – by Walter Einenkel

“I need somebody to come through here please, ASAP. Now. There’s about eight people in a van, and they’ve been in the store for about an hour. They keep going back and forth to the bathrooms by my back door.” That’s the 911 call—obtained by WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News—from a Subway employee on a family of 6, Felicia and Othniel Dobson and their four children, ages 8, 12, 13, and 19. The family had stopped at the Subway in Coweta County, Georgia, on their trip back from South Georgia to their home state of North Carolina. They had been attending a grandparent’s birthday party for the weekend.  Continue reading “Subway employee calls police on two parents and their four kids eating dinner”

MSN

Anthony Bourdain did not have narcotics in his body when he died this month, a French judicial official said.

Mr. Bourdain, a New York chef, author and television correspondent whose death shook fans across the world, was found dead on June 8 in a hotel bathroom in Kaysersberg, a small village in the Alsace region of France.   Continue reading “Anthony Bourdain Had No Narcotics in His System When He Died, French Official Says”

National Vanguard – by Dr. William L. Pierce

WHAT’S SAID to be the most expensive motion picture ever made was released a few weeks ago and has been earning record money at the box office. The film, of course, is Titanic, and it’s about the sinking of the ocean liner RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912, with the loss of 1,513 lives, after the ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. There are many superlatives in the film. The Titanic was the largest ship ever built at the time. It also was the most luxurious ship, intended to provide high-speed trans-Atlantic transportation in comfort for the rich and pampered. The implication of the film is that the sinking of the Titanic was the greatest maritime disaster of all time. Continue reading “The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff”

Axios – by Mike Allen

Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, gave me a candid insider’s look at how social networks purposely hook and potentially hurt our brains.

Be smart: Parker’s I-was-there account provides priceless perspective in the rising debate about the power and effects of the social networks, which now have scale and reach unknown in human history. He’s worried enough that he’s sounding the alarm.

Continue reading “Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology”

It’s no wonder that an estimated 200,000 Puerto Ricans have fled to Florida.

Miami New Times

For weeks, Donald Trump gleefully boasted about the job his administration had done in helping Puerto Rico weather the monstrous Hurricane Maria, particularly noting that only 16 people had supposedly been killed. “Look at a real catastrophe like Katrina and… you look at what happened here,” Trump said of the death toll in New Orleans while visiting San Juan in October. “Sixteen people [dead] versus in the thousands. You can be very proud of all of your people and all of our people working together.”  Continue reading “Hurricane Maria Killed More Than 1,000 in Puerto Rico, New Study Suggests”

I’d like to be on this jury, so sad.

Raw Story – by Brad Reed

26-year-old Tennessee woman has been arrested after she shot a homeless man who asked her to move her Porsche, Nashville metro detectives allege.

The Tennessean reports that 54-year-old homeless man Gerald Melton was critically injured this week when he was shot twice by Katie Quackenbush, who was driving a Porsche SUV near the area where he was trying to sleep.   Continue reading “Nashville woman shot homeless man who asked her to move her Porsche — then left him to die: police”