Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Under the auspices of “protecting clients from criminal activity,” JPMorgan Chase has decided to impose withdrawal limits on certain ATM transactions. As WSJ reports, following the bank’s ATM modification to enable $100-bills to be dispensed with no limit, some customers started pulling out tens of thousands of dollars at a time. This apparent bank run has prompted Jamie Dimon to cap ATM withdrawals at $1,000 per card daily for non-customers.   Continue reading “Was There A Run On The Bank? JPM Caps Some ATM Withdrawals”

Fox News

Portly North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, whose hostile actions have brought crippling international sanctions to his impoverished nation, has a new message for the Hermit Kingdom’s starving masses: Get ready to eat plant roots.

Kim, whose weight the South Korean government estimates has ballooned to nearly 300 pounds, signaled through state media that the nation could be headed for another famine like the one that killed an estimated 3.5 million people in the 1990s.     Continue reading “North Korea warns of new famine as Kim’s weight, belligerence balloon”

Fox Carolina

RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) –

Police sources confirm that a Virginia State Police Trooper is dead after a shooting at the Greyhound station on North Boulevard on Thursday. The shooter is also dead.

Other sources say that six people, including one other trooper, were shot around 2:45 p.m.   Continue reading “State Police trooper among 2 dead after shooting at Greyhound station”

New York Times

Joshua Bunn was a rifleman in one of the bloodiest valleys in Afghanistan, where his infantry unit killed hundreds of enemy fighters and lost more comrades than any other battalion in the Marine Corps in 2009.

“We were so far out in Taliban country we rarely got resupply,” Mr. Bunn, 27, said in an interview from his apartment in Jonesboro, Ark. “We just got rockets and small-arms fire every day.”   Continue reading “Report Finds Sharp Increase in Veterans Denied V.A. Benefits”

RT

A security officer at a nuclear site was killed in the Belgian city of Charleroi two days after the terror attacks in Brussels, local newspaper Derniere Heure reported, citing police sources. The paper added that the man’s security pass was stolen.

Charleroi is located 50 km from the Belgian capital.

The guard, identified as Didier Prospero, was walking his dog when he was shot dead in the early evening on Thursday, the paper said.   Continue reading “Guard at ‘terror target’ Belgian nuclear site killed, access badge stolen – media”

Independent Journal Review

In 2015, The Hill reported on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sending a letter to then-Department of Justice Secretary Eric Holder. In it, he demanded answers on what he saw as wrongheaded Veterans Administration (VA) regulations barring some veterans from owning guns.   Continue reading “Check Out the Crazy Reason the VA Is Stopping Some Veterans from Owning Guns”

The Free Beacon – by Stephen Gutowski

A pair of Republican senators sent a letter to the head of Veterans Affairs last Wednesday demanding answers for the department’s practice of adding hundreds of thousands of veterans to the federal government’s list of people barred from purchasing firearms.

The letter, first reported by The Hill, was sent to VA Secretary Robert McDonald by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Sen. Johnny Isakson (R., Ga.). It questions the standards used by the agency to determine which veterans are deemed incompetent and, therefore, unable to own a firearm. The standards have led to the agency adding more than 257,000 vets to the FBI’s background check system as prohibited purchasers. That amounts to more than 99 percent of the total number of people identified in the system as “mentally defective.”   Continue reading “Republicans Rebuke VA’s Anti-Gun Policies”

ABC Au

Five Mexican states have been put on alert after a truck carrying a container of potentially dangerous radioactive material was stolen, the Interior Ministry says.

The National Co-ordination of Civil Protection issued the warning after a company in the central state of Queretaro reported that a ute carrying radioactive iridium-192 had been stolen.   Continue reading “Mexico issues alert after theft of radioactive material”

WUSA9

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) — Not one but two Marines were brutally attacked on February 12 in two unrelated incidents.

One attack happened at a McDonald’s when two teenagers assaulted and robbed a veteran Marine.

A second Marine, 35-year-old Michael Schroeder, was left for dead after a being attacked in Northwest D.C. that same day, according to his family.   Continue reading “2nd Marine attacked, left for dead in DC”

BizPac Review – by Michael Dorstewitz

President Barack Obama was caught in another lie, this one involving his former secretary of state’s email scandals.

The New York Times reported Saturday that the president had emailed Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton at least 18 times to her private, non-secure server while she serves as secretary of state:   Continue reading “Why is nobody nailing Obama for this HUGE bald-faced lie he was just caught in?”

WFAA 8 – by Sonia Azad

DALLAS – Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed and are studying a drug derived from a tree in South America’s rain forests.

“The tree is beautiful,” said Dr. David Boothman, associate director for translational research at UT Southwestern Medical Center.   Continue reading “UT Southwestern docs using South American tree to fight tumors”

CNN

Up to 85 million people are in the path of a worsening winter storm that’s iced up much of the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic.

Snow is coming down, but when the storm goes into the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday morning, it will supercharge, CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers said.

“The fuse was just lit,” Myers said. Once it gets to the Gulf Stream, “that’s when the firecracker goes off.”   Continue reading “Blizzard strikes East Coast; motorists stranded for hours in Kentucky”

LA Times – by Paige St. John

Southern California Gas Co.’s effort to plug its leaking natural gas well involves higher stakes than simply stopping the fumes that have sickened many residents of Porter Ranch.

The company also is trying to avoid a blowout, which state regulators said is now a significant concern after a seventh attempt to plug the well created more precarious conditions at the site.   Continue reading “Efforts to plug Porter Ranch-area gas leak worsened blowout risk, regulators say”

Fox News

It’s Florida Sheriff Grady Judd’s duty to protect the citizens of Polk County — but he figures it’s their job, too.

One of a growing number of rural and big-city law enforcement officials who openly encourages responsible gun ownership, Judd believes guns allow citizens to defend themselves when police cannot.   Continue reading “Growing number of police chiefs, sheriffs join call to arms”

Mobi Health News – by Jonah Comstock

Redwood City, California-based Proteus Digital Health announced its first US healthcare provider customer, Barton Health, which will prescribe the company’s Proteus Discover to patients. The company says this is the first time its technology has been implemented outside of a clinical trial setting in the US.

Barton Health, a health system in Lake Tahoe, California, will use the medication adherence platform, which includes Proteus’s FDA-cleared ingestible sensor, in populations with uncontrolled and co-morbid hypertension. Implementation for other chronic conditions will follow if the first use case goes well.   Continue reading “California hospital becomes first in US to prescribe ingestible sensors from Proteus”