Mail.com

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The horrific shooting of an Anchorage police officer has led to an unexpected break in a series of outdoor deaths that have gone unsolved for months and left people uneasy to use the city’s extensive trail system.

Ballistics tests matched the gun to two double homicides and a single killing last summer that helped set off fears a serial killer was roaming the Anchorage trails, picking off one or two people at a time.   Continue reading “Officer shooting probe gives Alaska police break in 5 cases”

Mail.com

DENVER (AP) — It seemed like a no-brainer: Colorado’s voters were asked to eliminate an archaic and offensive reference to slavery as a punishment for a crime in the state Constitution. But a week after the vote, the poorly-written amendment is on the cusp of failing, and a lack of clarity from lawmakers may be to blame.

Adopted before President Ulysses S. Grant proclaimed Colorado a state in 1876, the constitution declares: “There shall never be in this state either slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime.”   Continue reading “Colorado recount possible on slavery in state Constitution”

US News – by Paul D. Shinkman

Sen. John McCain on Tuesday issued a strongly worded statement warning President-elect Donald Trump not to trust overtures of peace from the Kremlin and to be cautious of supposed attempts to strengthen U.S.-Russian ties.

“With the U.S. presidential transition underway, Vladimir Putin has said in recent days that he wants to improve relations with the United States,” McCain said. “We should place as much faith in such statements as any other made by a former KGB agent who has plunged his country into tyranny, murdered his political opponents, invaded his neighbors, threatened America’s allies, and attempted to undermine America’s elections.”

Continue reading “McCain to Trump: Stop Cozying Up to Russia”

WTVR

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump will begin the process of reshaping America’s trade policy on Day 1 of his administration, according to a memo drafted by his transition team obtained by CNN.

The document lays out the skeleton of Trump’s trade policy for the first 200 days of his presidency, focusing on a set of principles including renegotiating or withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement — a frequent promise Trump made on the campaign trail.   Continue reading “Trump memo reveals transition team’s 200-day blueprint”

KSL – by Pat Reavy and McKenzie Romero

OREM — Five students were stabbed at Mountain View High School on Tuesday morning in an apparent attack by a 16-year-old boy who then turned the knife on himself.

The stabbings happened just before 8 a.m. in the boys locker room in the gymnasium area, according to Orem Police Lt. Craig Martinez. All the victims were boys and were stabbed at least once, suffering wounds to their upper torso or neck, police said.   Continue reading “5 students stabbed in Mountain View High School locker room”

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

After making it a key plank of the Trump/Pence campaign that the public needed to see what was in Hillary Clinton’s emails, it does seem somewhat ironic that VP Elect Mike Pence is now headed to court to protect what’s in some of his emails as governor of Indiana.

The administration is fighting to conceal the contents of an email sent to Gov. Mike Pence by a political ally. That email is being sought by a prominent Democratic labor lawyer who says he wants to expose waste in the Republican administration.  

Continue reading “VP Elect Mike Pence Goes To Court To Keep His Emails Secret”

Rolling Stone – by Jon Freeman

Singer-songwriter Holly Dunn, who enjoyed a string of top 10 country hits such as “Daddy’s Hands” and “You Really Had Me Going” in the late Eighties and early Nineties, has died at 59 following a battle with ovarian cancer. Nashville’s WSMV reports that Dunn was in hospice care in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Holly Suzette Dunn was born August 22nd, 1957, in San Antonio and began performing in high school. Following college at Abilene Christian University, she moved to Nashville to pursue a career, supporting herself by singing demo recordings and joining her songwriter-producer brother Chris Waters (Tim McGraw’s “She Really Had Me Going,” Terri Clark’s “You’re Easy on the Eyes”) as a staff writer for CBS. After Dunn switched publishing companies to MTM, Louise Mandrell had a top 10 hit with Dunn’s song “I’m Not Through Loving You Yet.”   Continue reading “‘Daddy’s Hands’ Singer Holly Dunn Dead at 59”

Anna Von Reitz

For those just now waking up—- the Federal Reserve is not and has never been any part of our government. It is a mostly-foreign private association of banks operating as a criminal cartel on our shores. The Fed was invited here by other criminals impersonating our lawful Congress of the United States more than a century ago. The details of how this happened are presented in our sworn and published affidavit of probable cause, “You Know Something Is Wrong When….An American Affidavit of Probable Cause” and The Creature from Jekyll Island.   Continue reading “Criminals On Our Shores — Banking, the Global Reset, A Sidebar Rumination”

NOLO – by Ilona Bray, J.D.

If you are a green card holder applying for U.S. citizenship through the process known as naturalization, one important question will be whether you have ever been arrested for, charged with, or convicted of a crime. Although not every crime creates an outright bar to receiving U.S. citizenship, some do, while others will raise serious questions about whether you have the necessary good moral character.   Continue reading “Crimes That Will Prevent You From Receiving U.S. Citizenship”

Dissident Voice – by Mina Hamilton

Two days after the election, the New York Times ran a feel-good editorial.  It was called “Being American in the Trump Years.”  The basic message?  Let’s bury our hatchets, all work together and assure a peaceful transfer of power.  Hey, it’s a democracy.  Way down in the text were the words: “Trump owes nothing to the traditional powers in his party — not the Koch brothers, not the leadership in Congress.”

Really?  Trump owes nothing to the Koch brothers?  That’s a statement the veracity of which can’t be tested – unless Donald releases his tax returns (which, of course, is not going to happen).  The assertion also rests on the words of Charles and David Koch and those of Donald Trump.  Not words one can necessarily trust.   Continue reading “Keep Your Eyes on Pence”

ABC News

A new report says cities nationwide are enacting more policies that criminalize homelessness.

The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty said Tuesday many cities have banned living in vehicles, camping in public areas and panhandling.

The center says policies that criminalize homelessness harm communities because they create barriers to employment, housing and education.   Continue reading “Report: Cities Boost Policies to Criminalize Homelessness”

Press TV

Thousands of students across the United States have marched out of their schools to protest against Donald Trump and his election as the 45th American president.

Leaving their classrooms by the hundreds on Monday, the students took to the streets across several cities in California, Maryland and Oregon while carrying anti-Trump signs and flags.   Continue reading “US Students Leave Schools To Join Anti-Trump Protests”