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Dallas Morning News – by Todd J Gillman
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Ken Paxton today accused the state of Delaware of swiping up to $400 million in unclaimed checks that rightfully belong to Texas and the 48 other states.
Texas’ share, he said, would be about $10 million. Continue reading “Texas AG Ken Paxton unveils 21-state lawsuit accusing Delaware of swiping $400M in unclaimed checks”
All Self Sustained – by Allen B. West
President Barack Hussein Obama, on behalf of true Americans, I want to inform you that we will not follow your unconstitutional executive order.
We the American people have no other recourse than to resort to civil disobedience. We have no representatives in Washington DC who will stand and the Supreme Court has failed us as well. Continue reading “President Obama, before you try that gun grab, I have a WARNING for you… So help me God.”
AT&T and Cricket Wireless customers are reporting widespread service outages in the Houston area and throughout the country, according to reports on social media.
The outage seemingly began at some point on Friday afternoon. Continue reading “AT&T, Cricket customers report widespread wireless outages”
Protesters told the Associated Press that they were waiting in a line to buy food at cheap prices, when some government supporters cut through.
A protester called Jose Lopez said he and several others, who were neither government supporters nor opposition members, marched through Caracas’ main thouroughfare, chanting, “No more talk. We want food.” Continue reading “Venezuela police fire tear gas at protesters demanding food”
SMYRNA, TN (WSMV) – A Blue Angels airplane has crashed at or near the Smyrna-Rutherford County Airport, airport authority confirmed.
The Blue Angels had been practicing on Thursday ahead of this weekend’s Great Tennessee Airshow in Smyrna. They flew over downtown Nashville on Thursday morning.
Few details are available on the crash at this time. Continue reading “Blue Angels jet crashes in Smyrna, TN”
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) A Thunderbird crashed outside Colorado Springs just after the performance Thursday.
11 News is told the pilot was able to eject from the aircraft. Sources say the pilot was uninjured, but 11 News is still working to confirm this information. Continue reading “Pilot ejects after Thunderbird crashes”
First is the river gage.
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=HGX&gage=RMOT2
Closed roads and main highways
https://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1528/2615974/Fort-Bend-County-Road-Closures
The River crested yesterday and coming back up again. Continue reading “Here is a update from Fort Bend County where I live, I am fine”
The man suspected in an apparent murder-suicide on the UCLA campus had a “kill list,” and a second victim named on that list has been found dead in Minnesota, Los Angeles Police Department Charlie Beck revealed to KTLA on Thursday.
Mainak Sarkar, a resident of Minnesota, is believed to have fatally shot UCLA Professor William Klug on the university’s Westwood campus before turning the gun on himself Wednesday, according to LAPD. Continue reading “Woman on UCLA Murder-Suicide Suspect’s ‘Kill List’ Found Shot to Death in Minnesota: LAPD Chief Beck”
BRUSSELS – Facebook (FB.O), Twitter (TWTR.N), Google’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube and Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Tuesday agreed to an EU code of conduct to tackle online hate speech within 24 hours in Europe.
EU governments have been trying in recent months to get social platforms to crack down on rising online racism following the refugee crisis and terror attacks, with some even threatening action against the companies. Continue reading “Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Microsoft back EU hate speech rules”
I live in the county that is going to have significant flooding so far the flood map doesn’t show water here but some 3 miles to the sw at four corners south of my area in mission bend there will be backed up water.
This will be the same type flood that happened in 1957. In 1957 a survey plane from Dow Chemical flew and did a area wide flood survey and on a large tropo map of the flooded areas and hope they can get the map and read it so they can get a better handle on what’s coming.. I worked the 1998 flood and the water will be 4 foot higher than when I was with the EMO. There is going to be wide spread flooding down here.
Continue reading “Anticipated Severe Brazos River Flooding Memorial Day Weekend”
French finance officials have raided the Paris offices of US internet giant Google as part of a tax fraud investigation.
Reports say about 100 tax officials entered Google’s offices in central Paris early in the morning.
Police sources confirmed the raid. Google said: “We comply with French law and are co-operating fully with the authorities to answer their questions.” Continue reading “Google’s Paris HQ raided in tax probe”
Police in riot gear and mounted patrol units faced off against a violent crowd of protesters outside a Donald Trump campaign event in Albuquerque Tuesday night.
Hours after Trump and some 4,000 of his supporters left the Albuquerque Convention Center, approximately 100 demonstrators remained in downtown. Smoke grenades were used in an effort to disperse the crowd, while protesters threw rocks, plastic bottles, burning T-shirts and other items at officers. Continue reading “Protests turn violent outside Trump New Mexico event”
SuperStation 95 – by Paul Sperry
Newly uncovered e-mails have reopened the “Fast and Furious” case, exposing the anatomy of a cover-up by an administration that promised to be the most transparent in history.The deadly-but-forgotten government gun-running scandal known as “Fast and Furious” has lain dormant for years, thanks to White House stonewalling and media compliance.
A federal judge forced the release of more than 20,000 pages of emails and memos previously locked up under President Obama’s phony executive-privilege claim. A preliminary review shows top Obama officials deliberately obstructing congressional probes into the border gun-running operation. Continue reading “E-mails Prove DOJ “Fast and Furious” Program was Undertaken to “gin-up a crisis to crackdown on Americans’ guns””
People fear robots are becoming too human, but, in reality, robots are becoming a little more bug-like every day.
A team of Harvard University researchers proved this axiom when they found the solution to extending tiny robot flight is by mimicking the way small bugs alight on walls and ceilings. Continue reading “New robot bee may soon be a spy’s secret weapon”
The Daily Signal – by Melissa Quinn
For the last few years, opponents of civil forfeiture have been calling on Congress to make it more difficult for law enforcement to take property, cash, and vehicles from innocent Americans through a process known as civil asset forfeiture.
Now, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers on Capitol Hill is taking action. Continue reading “Lawmakers Introduce Bill Making it Harder for Police to Take Innocent Americans’ Property”
More than half the Democrats in the Senate, including many of President Barack Obama’s strongest supporters, signed a letter to him on Wednesday urging him to move more quickly to admit Syrian refugees into the United States.
Despite Obama’s pledge to admit 10,000 of the people fleeing Syria’s civil war in the year ending this September, only 1,736 have been allowed into the country so far. In contrast, more than 6,000 have been admitted from Myanmar and more than 5,000 have been admitted from Iraq. Continue reading “Many Senate Democrats frustrated with slow U.S. Syrian refugee admissions”