The Denver Channel – by Robert Garrison

CLIFTON, Colo. — A Clifton family got a rude awakening early Wednesday morning when several law enforcement officers smashed their way into the wrong home.

Authorities in Mesa County expressed regret Wednesday for serving a search warrant on a home where a family with several children lived. The suspects they were looking for had moved out from the home before the raid.   Continue reading “Mesa County authorities raid wrong home in Clifton; Police apologize, replace windows and carpet”

Mail.com

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A 77-year-old man who shot three people, killing one, at the senior apartment complex where he lived had grown distant recently and had been angry about frequent poker games in the building’s common area, according to people who knew him.

One person died at the Heritage Court Apartments and two others were wounded. Larry Rosenberg, the shooter, killed himself as police closed in on him in a neighborhood about a mile away, Cheyenne police said.   Continue reading “Anger about poker games preceded senior apartment shooting”

Mail.com

BEIRUT (AP) — The United Nations faces “a problem” in shipping humanitarian aid into Syria, the U.N. envoy for the war-torn country said Thursday, pinning the blame on the lack of authorization from Bashar Assad’s government that has even disappointed Russia, the Syrian president’s key backer.

Staffan de Mistura said a U.S.-Russia-brokered cease-fire deal agreed on last week has largely reduced the violence since it came into effect on Monday, but the humanitarian aid flow that was expected to follow has not materialized.   Continue reading “UN has ‘problem’ getting aid to Syria: lack of government OK”

Mail.com

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A former Filipino militiaman testified before the country’s Senate on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was still a city mayor, ordered him and other members of a liquidation squad to kill criminals and opponents in gangland-style assaults that left about 1,000 dead.

Edgar Matobato, 57, told the nationally televised Senate committee hearing that he heard Duterte order some of the killings, and acknowledged that he himself carried out about 50 deadly assaults as an assassin, including a suspected kidnapper fed to a crocodile in 2007 in southern Davao del Sur province.   Continue reading “Witness says Philippine president ordered killings of 1,000”

Oregon Live – by Beth Nakamura

Here’s what you need to know about Wednesday’s developments:

Continue reading “Oregon standoff trial: Wednesday highlights, and what’s next”

Wall Street Journal – by John R Emshwiller

In the wake of a nuclear emergency, the Environmental Protection Agency thinks it would be acceptable for the public to temporarily drink water containing radioactive contamination at up to thousands of times normal federal safety limits.

The agency is proposing this in new drinking-water guidelines for use in the weeks or months after a radiological event, such as a nuclear-power-plant accident or terrorist “dirty” bomb.   Continue reading “EPA Proposes New Water Rules for Nuclear Emergencies”

Washington Post – by Missy Ryan

While Americans savored the last moments of summer this Labor Day weekend, the U.S. military was busy overseas as warplanes conducted strikes in six countries in a flurry of attacks. The bombing runs across Asia, Africa and the Middle East spotlighted the diffuse terrorist threats that have persisted into the final days of the Obama presidency — conflicts that the next president is now certain to inherit.   Continue reading “A reminder of the permanent wars: Dozens of U.S. airstrikes in six countries”

Fox News

House Republicans reached an agreement late Wednesday to avoid a potentially divisive floor vote on impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.

The deal scraps the vote on the so-called “privileged” impeachment resolution that had been expected to take place Thursday. Instead, the House Judiciary Committee will consider Koskinen’s impeachment, with the IRS boss expected to testify sometime next week.   Continue reading “House Republicans reach deal to avoid vote on impeaching IRS commissioner”

MSN

The U.S. government said on Wednesday it has no plans to euthanize a large share of the more than 45,000 wild horses and burros removed from lands mostly in the U.S. West, after an advisory panel’s proposal to kill some of the animals sparked outrage.

U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials said they struggle to find people to adopt the growing number of wild horses and burros, which costs the agency millions annually to maintain in corrals and pasturelands.   Continue reading “After uproar, U.S. government says does not plan to kill wild horses”

Wired

DIGITAL DEVICES AND software programs are complicated. Behind the pointing and clicking on screen are thousands of processes and routines that make everything work. So when malicious software—malware—invades a system, even seemingly small changes to the system can have unpredictable impacts.

That’s why it’s so concerning that the Justice Department is planning a vast expansion of government hacking. Under a new set of rules, the FBI would have the authority to secretly use malware to hack into thousands or hundreds of thousands of computers that belong to innocent third parties and even crime victims. The unintended consequences could be staggering.   Continue reading “The Feds Will Soon Be Able to Legally Hack Almost Anyone”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

As a result of the ongoing “massive” customer fraud scandal at Wells Fargo, which culminated not with prison time for anyone but with a $125 million bonus for the executive who oversaw the criminal practice,  life for CEO John Stumpf, who as reported yesterday lost the top market cap spot for a US bank to JPM, just got more complicated, because not only is he set to testify in Congress in a few days, but as Dow Jones reports the Feds are now involved.   Continue reading “Wells Fargo Probed By Feds Over Sales Tactics”

USA Today – by Greg Gardner and Brent Snavely, Detroit Free Press

DETROIT — Ford Motor said Wednesday it is shifting all of its U.S. small car production to Mexico, a development that drew fresh criticism from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Ford’s declaration came as CEO Mark Fields sought to appeal to investors.

“Over the next two to three years, we will have migrated all of our small car production to Mexico and out of the United States,”   Fields told a meeting in Dearborn, Mich., where the company is based.
Continue reading “Ford moving all production of small cars from U.S. to Mexico”

LifeZette – by Edmund Kozak

Yet another new wave of hacked Democratic National Committee emails has come crashing down on the Clinton campaign, courtesy of WikiLeaks and the hacker Guccifer 2.0.

The new batch of emails appear to contain damaging revelations, including documents that suggest Democrats openly engaged in pay-to-play bargains, awarding important diplomatic positions to high-rolling donors.   Continue reading “DNC Leak Exposes Possible Pay-to-Play and Insider Trading”

MuckRock – by Daniel Welch

Through the Department of Defense’s 1033 program, police departments are eligible to receive secondhand supplies once used by the U.S. military. Among the participating agencies are those hired by public educational institutions – state colleges, universities, and K-12 school districts.

In fact, 141 individual schools or school systems are listed by the Defense Logistics Agency’s July 2016 Inventory as having former military property in their possession. Some of these items are pretty standard, some are frightening to think about, and some are pretty difficult to make sense of. Below are a few of the latter.   Continue reading “The strangest military gear on campus police’s back to school shopping list”

PIX 11

STATEN ISLAND — The NYPD officer who put Eric Garner in a chokehold while arresting him in 2014, leading to Garner’s death at age 43, earned about $120,000 with overtime last year, records show.

Daniel Pantaleo was stripped of his badge and gun and placed on desk duty after putting Garner in a chokehold, ignoring Garner’s repeated pleas that he could not breathe. The incident, which was caught on camera, sparked outrage nationwide and spurred days of protests in the five boroughs and beyond.   Continue reading “Officer who put Eric Garner in fatal chokehold made $120,000 with overtime last year”

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Funzug

Meet Stepan, a domesticated bear who lives with his humans Svetlana and Yuriy Panteleenko in Moscow, Russia. The Panteleenkos adopted Stepan when he was just a 3-month-old orphaned cub. He was found by hunters in a forest all alone and in a very bad condition, so Svetlana and Yuriy decided to give him a home.   Continue reading “Russian Couple Adopted An Orphaned Bear 23 Years Ago, And They Still Live Together”

douglas_r-_oberhelman_ceoDouglas R. Oberhelman (born February 25, 1953)[6] is an American businessman. He is the CEO of Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria, Illinois.

Preferred Method: The Way of Rachel

Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) from Olympia, Washington, was an American activist and diarist.[1][2] She was a member of the pro-Palestinian group called the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).[3] She was killed by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) armored bulldozer in a combat zone in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, under contested circumstances[2][4] during the height of the second Palestinian intifada.[5]