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BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WECT) – A spokesperson for the Brunswick Nuclear Plant says a unit at the facility remains in shutdown mode, while officials work through “detailed process/procedures to fully understand this event and make the needed repairs to return the unit to service.”
An alert triggered at the facility around 1:30 p.m. Sunday due to damage in an electrical panel. Continue reading “Unit at Brunswick Nuclear Plant remains in shutdown”
Swine flu has killed 183 people in Ukraine this winter and is spreading rapidly across eastern Europe and the Middle East. At least 107 people have died in Russia after contracting the disease, 18 in Armenia and 10 in Georgia, according to government figures.
In the Middle East, 112 deaths from the virus have been reported in Iran and there are unconfirmed reports of dozens more deaths in areas of Syria and Iraq occupied by Islamic State. Continue reading “Swine flu spreading across eastern Europe and Middle East”
A wide swath of public officials are calling for change in response to a Daily News and ProPublica investigation about the NYPD’s use of an obscure type of lawsuit to boot hundreds of people from homes. The cases are happening almost exclusively in minority neighborhoods.
Several city council members said they were considering amendments and other reforms to safeguard abuses. Continue reading “Officials Outraged After ‘Shocking’ Report on NYPD Kicking People Out of Homes”
On Sunday in his weekly column Ron Paul discussed a recommendation by the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
The recommendation calls mental health screening of all Americans. “The task force wants to force health insurance companies to pay for the screening. Basic economics, as well as the Obamacare disaster, should have shown this task force that government health insurance mandates harm Americans,” writes Paul. Continue reading “Mandatory Mental Illness Screening And The Drive To Confiscate Firearms”
A protest in Paris against Turkey’s deadly military operation in the town of Cizre turned violent leaving seven police officers wounded and 17 pro-Kurdish activists detained. Similar rallies took place in some other European cities.
The demonstrations followed media reports that Turkish forces killed about 60 people in the basement of a building in the southeastern Kurdish town of Cizre. Continue reading “7 policemen injured, 17 people arrested during pro-Kurdish rally in Paris”
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A terse letter from Andrew Clyde’s credit card-processing company explained it was discontinuing his corporate account because his Georgia firearms business “no longer met our underwriting guidelines.” In a panic, Clyde called three other companies, which denied him, too.
After hearing from Clyde and others in the gun business who reported similar treatment, the industry’s trade association launched efforts in several Republican-led Legislatures over the past year seeking to restrict discrimination by financial institutions. Continue reading “Legislatures consider special protections for gun industry”
MIAMI (AP) — Federal transportation officials might soon be looking into a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that ran into high winds and rough seas in the Atlantic Ocean over the weekend.
Sen. Bill Nelson has called for the National Transportation Safety Board to investigate the voyage that forced frightened passengers into their cabins overnight Sunday as their belongings flew about, waves rose as high as 30 feet, and winds howled outside. Continue reading “US senator calls for investigation of cruise ship in storm”
Huffington Post – by Christian Farias
A federal appeals court on Monday ruled it is not unconstitutional for law enforcement to set up a camera on a public utility pole and record a suspect’s moves for 10 weeks straight.
Such warrantless recording is permitted, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit said, because people have “no reasonable expectation of privacy in video footage recorded by a camera that was located on top of a public utility pole and that captured the same views enjoyed by passersby on public roads.” Continue reading “Cops Recording Your Every Move For 10 Weeks Doesn’t Violate The Constitution”
A serious development in Russia today as President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s Southern Military District to Combat Readiness near Turkey’s Border. Put bluntly, Russia is preparing for war.
“In accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, President Vladimir Putin, today from five o’clock in the morning the troops of the Southern Military District, the individual components of Airborne Troops and military transport aircraft are on alert, Complete. ” said General of the Army Sergei Shoigu. Continue reading “Russia Mobilizes Troops Toward Border with Turkey: “Combat Alert””
A young man wandering around a Texas neighborhood in the nude was shot and killed by a police officer after he allegedly charged the cop.
The 18-year-old suspect, who was black, became the subject of several posts on a neighborhood Facebook page before an Austin police officer confronted the man 10 miles northeast of the city’s downtown. Continue reading “Naked man, 18, shot and killed by Texas cop after residents see him running around neighborhood”
Kentucky Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul argued that the Confederate flag should be “in a museum” and is “inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery” on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Kuhner Report” on Boston’s WRKO. Continue reading “Rand: Confederate Flag A Symbol of Slavery, ‘Put It In a Museum’”
A Florida family of three is thankful to be alive after two police officers opened fire on the wrong home early Saturday morning. Continue reading “Oops: Police Offer No Explanation After Officers Nearly Kill Entire Family”