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Two bombs have exploded in the Thai resort of Hua Hin, killing one woman and injuring 10 people including foreign tourists, police say.
The bombs were hidden in plant pots spaced 50m (164 ft) apart, and detonated by mobile phones within half an hour of each other, they add. Continue reading “Thailand bombs: Hua Hin resort hit by twin blasts”
The Political Insider – by Kosar
Millions of Americans are tuning in to watch our nation’s young athletes break world records and win Olympic gold in Rio.
The incredible athletes have been amazing, and have made us proud. They have trained for a lifetime, and have become the best. Continue reading “Obama’s Fed Govt Is Doing THIS To Every Medal Winner In Rio”
A mother is suing Chicago Public Schools (CPS) after her 6-year-old daughter was allegedly handcuffed by a security guard and left near the premises’ boiler room under the stairs for more than an hour.
The incident reportedly occurred at Fernwood Elementary School back in March after the child took some candy from the teacher’s desk without permission. Continue reading “Chicago Public Schools sued over alleged handcuffing of 6yo for ‘stealing candy’”
Amal Graafstra wants to make guns safer so that accidental fires can be averted. For this, he has developed a gun whose trigger is activated by a RFID implant in the hand. The magic gun that can be triggered by an owner’s touch was recently demonstrated to Motherboard by Graafstra at his garage in Seatle, Washington. Continue reading “Man build’s world’s first RFID implant-activated smart gun”
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is assisting county fire investigators searching for the cause of Wednesday’s massive Maryland apartment building blaze that killed two, officials said.
The inferno, which was reportedly proceeded by a loud explosion, injured three firefighters and 31 other people, authorities said during a Thursday afternoon news conference. Continue reading “ATF aiding in search for cause of massive Maryland apartment fire”
Each summer, millions of people around the world look to the night sky to watch thousands of “shooting stars” streak across the sky from the annual Perseid meteor shower. Aficionados of shooting stars are in for a treat this year because scientists predict that the 2016 show will be particularly spectacular.
Here are a few things you need to know about the shower: Continue reading “Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Over the Next Few Nights: 10 Things to Know to Catch the Best View”
A NY Times article reveals private equity firms (corporate raiders) have been buying 911 services across the country!
Since the 2008 mortgage crisis, private equity firms have increasingly taken over a wide array of emergency services like 911. They also own two of the biggest ambulance companies in the country, according to the article they own 10 more ambulance companies. Continue reading “Wall Street is buying 911 emergency services and giving homes color-coded threat ratings”
WASHINGTON (AP) — To supporters, zero-tolerance policing has long represented a logical crime-fighting approach: Crack down on minor infractions before they mushroom into more serious and disruptive violence.
But a scathing federal government report on the Baltimore Police Department suggests the costs of that strategy outweigh any reduction in crime. The Justice Department report released Wednesday blames zero-tolerance policing for a legacy of discriminatory law enforcement in which black residents are disproportionately stopped and searched without cause. Continue reading “Justice Dept. report critical of zero-tolerance policing”
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — The officer who shot and killed a 73-year-old retired librarian during a police “shoot/don’t shoot” demonstration in Florida was accused of using excessive force with his police dog and resigned from another police agency in 2013 for failing to satisfactorily complete a field training program.
Officer Lee Coel, 28, was put on administrative leave as the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigates why real ammunition was used by mistake at an event designed to bring police and the public together in the small Gulf Coast city of Punta Gorda. Continue reading “Officer who killed librarian resigned from another agency”
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — Two men who were reportedly killed in combat while fighting the Islamic State group in Syria left suburban Denver neighborhoods for a war zone because of camaraderie and an unshakeable drive to right an injustice, their families said Wednesday.
Jordan MacTaggart, 22, is believed to have been killed Aug. 3 while fighting in a squad that included two Americans and a Swede, and Levi Shirley, 24, was reportedly killed by a land mine July 14. It’s unclear if the two men crossed paths in Colorado or the Middle East, but their parents on Wednesday highlighted similar motivations for why they joined Kurdish forces against ISIS. Continue reading “Families say Colorado men killed fighting ISIS shared traits”
Matthew Spencer Petersen (born 1970)[1] is a member of the United States Federal Election Commission (FEC).
He was nominated to the FEC by President George W. Bush on June 12, 2008, and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on June 24, 2008. He was unanimously elected to serve as the Chairman of the FEC starting in 2010 by his fellow members of the FEC in December 2009. Continue reading “Mad Martist’s Target”
More than two dozen armed Baltimore City school police officers are being assigned to some of the district’s most dangerous buildings more than a year after a state law forced them off campus.
Officers are heading back inside some school buildings, but they won’t be able to openly carry their weapons on campus. The acting chief said it comes at a price. Continue reading “School police allowed back into Baltimore schools without guns”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will keep marijuana on the list of the most dangerous drugs, despite growing popular support for legalization, but will allow more research into its possible medical benefits, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced Thursday.
The DEA said the agency opted not to reclassify marijuana after a lengthy review and consultation with the Health and Human Services Department, which said marijuana “has a high potential for abuse” and “no accepted medical use.” Continue reading “US government won’t reclassify marijuana, allows research”
AT&T will pay $7.75 million to settle an FCC investigation into whether the company added unauthorized cell phone charges to customers’ bills.
According to the FCC, the carrier allowed scammers to charge approximately $9 per month for a sham directory assistance service. Continue reading “AT&T to Pay $7.75M For Phone Bill Scam”
Police have shot dead a suspect in an anti-terror operation in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) confirmed that a suspect was fatally shot in a police operation.
Canadian media said police had raided a property in Strathroy, about 225km (140 miles) south-west of Toronto. Continue reading “Canada police ‘kill suspect in anti-terror operation’”
North Jersey – by NICHOLAS PUGLIESE
BERGENFIELD — A county SWAT team and police raided a house on Levitt Avenue this week and arrested two residents for illegally possessing an assortment of assault rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines, authorities said Wednesday.
Police recovered two AR-15 assault rifles with sliding stocks, a Ruger Mini-30 assault rifle with a folding stock and a Ruger Mini-14 assault rifle, along with four other firearms, a spokeswoman for the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. Police also found three high-capacity ammunition magazines, a large quantity of ammunition and about 45 grams of marijuana in their search of the home on Tuesday, she said. Continue reading “Assault rifles, ammunition are seized in search of Bergenfield home”
Macy’s reported Thursday fiscal second-quarter sales and earnings that topped analysts’ expectations, as shoppers responded to the department store’s steep discounts. Yet with sales still on the decline, the retailer said it will shutter 100 locations to focus on its best-performing stores.
The company’s shares shot more than 14 percent higher in early trading.
Continue reading “Macy’s soars after topping Wall Street estimates, outlining plans to close 100 stores”
The Daily Signal – by Hans von Spakovsky
It looks as if Texas, the Justice Department, and all of the other parties, including the NAACP, involved in the challenge to the state’s voter ID law have worked out an interim settlement—and the district court judge approved the deal today after a telephonic hearing Wednesday morning. That deal is probably about the best deal Texas could expect to get given the circumstances and personalities in the case.
In Veasey v. Abbott, Texas (and the cause of election integrity) suffered a blow three weeks ago when the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the voter ID law violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because it supposedly had a discriminatory effect, despite the fact that there was no evidence that the ID law had diminished turnout in Texas elections. Continue reading “Texas Gets the Best Deal It Could With DOJ on Voter ID for the Election”
ABC News – by Gene Johnson, AP
A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a decision by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to ban ammunition originally designed for AK-47 assault rifles.
The decision by U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour in Seattle came in a lawsuit brought by a Redmond-based arms importer, P.W. Arms Inc., which obtained ATF permits to import more than 100 million rounds of the Russian-made ammunition, known as 7N6. Continue reading “Judge Upholds ATF’s Decision Banning Ammo Designed for AK-47”
Washington’s Blog – by Carl Herman
“It is more correct to say that Truth is God than to say God is truth. …we must speak the Truth.” ~ Gandhi on Truth (and here, pg. 20)
“One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances. Our duty is very simple and plain…. Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding… can be removed.” ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian Opinion (1 October 1903)
Continue reading “Don’t vote for evil; demand arrests of evil”