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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on Texas’ tough new “sanctuary cities” law (all times local): 12:40 p.m.
The Mexican government is expressing regret over a new Texas ban on so-called sanctuary cities, saying the law could step on the rights of its citizens who choose to live just across the border. Continue reading “Mexico criticizes new Texas ‘sanctuary city’ law”
HILLSBOROUGH, California — A woman charged in a high-profile murder case is expected to make bail this week in Hillsborough, California. Her bail of $35 million is among the highest in memory, but she’s posting twice that amount as required by law.
The lawyer for defendant Tiffany Li says he’s been told the $35 million is the eighth-highest ever made in the country in state court. Continue reading “California murder suspect posts 8th highest bail in U.S.”
Conservative News Daily – by Rich Mitchell
President Trump held an unannounced meeting with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Wednesday.
The meeting did not appear on his public schedule when it was released and no updates were made prior to reporters learning of it at a press “spray.”
The White House press pool had been ushered into the Oval Office for what was assumed to be a spray of President Trump’s meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. But Trump was instead seated beside former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Continue reading “President holds unannounced meeting with Henry Kissinger”
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The Washington Standard – by Tim Brown
I have always questioned the need for prisons. They are an unjust means of justice. Even more so, those that are for profit utilize the system to make money and push for quotas to be fulfilled by the states. Here is just one recent example of such abuses of prisoners. Ammon Bundy, who became a national household name during the Bundy Ranch siege in 2014 and the protests at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in 2016, was tortured and abused by a guard at CCA in Pahrump Nevada last week. Subsequently, when word got out, the guard was sent home. Continue reading “Torture And Abuse Of Ammon Bundy At For Profit Prison Not Going Unnoticed”
May 8 (UPI) — Asian investments in U.S. shale basins are expected to gain traction in a capital strategy to offset domestic declines at home, analysis finds.
A report published Monday from analysis group Wood Mackenzie finds Asian companies geared toward exploration and production, known as the upstream sector of the energy business, are migrating toward North America. Continue reading “Asian investments may target U.S. shale”
WEB Notes: Over and over again we have said we are not seeing the nations fight against themselves anymore. We hear about NATO doing this or that, yet they are controlled by the globalists. So what fruits do we see? We see Global Powers in conflicts with the nations who are not a part of the globalist agenda, those who are not a part of the global financial system. Putin called for what? “International cooperation in fighting terrorism”. Read it again and again. As many times as it takes to sink in and then read this article from a few years back of world leaders calling for the same. Globalism has been going on for years, it is right in front of your eyes. Open your eyes and ask questions. When you are told the US must fight Syria, North Korea, Iran, etc ask why. Do not accept the stories you hear from the mainstream media without question. That is a grave mistake.
Courthouse News Service – by Joe Harris
ST. LOUIS (CN) — Missouri’s attorney general on Tuesday asked a federal judge to remove a southeast Missouri sheriff from office, four days after an inmate died in the sheriff’s jail, and a month after the sheriff was charged with robbery and assault.
Attorney General Josh Hawley said Tuesday evening that he has asked the court to remove Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson from office. The request, made Tuesday afternoon, was prompted by the death of an inmate in the Mississippi County jail on Friday. Continue reading “Missouri Sheriff Is in Big Trouble, and It Keeps Getting Deeper”
In what may be an attempt to bolster now ex-FBI director James Comey’s oft-derided “Ferguson Effect” claims, the FBI has released a “study” that gathers facts feelings from law enforcement officers around the US and attempts to build a narrative somewhere between “life is unfair” and “there’s a War on Cops.” It’s not a study. It’s an opinion poll with the word “study” appended to it.
In short, the Ferguson Effect theory is this: cops are afraid to do their jobs because they’re undergoing intense scrutiny in the wake of controversial shootings. It’s bullshit, but there are plenty of law enforcement officials willing to stake their reputations on assertions that portray their officers as cowards. Faced with heightened public scrutiny, officers are apparently deciding to do less work than before, supposedly to head off any misrepresentation of their tactics. Continue reading “FBI Releases ‘Study’ Of Law Enforcement’s Persecution Complex”
New York Times – by Eric Lipton and Jesse Drucker
WASHINGTON — It was the first major piece of legislation that President Trump signed into law, and buried on Page 734 was one sentence that brought a potential benefit to the president’s extended family: renewal of a program offering permanent residence in the United States to affluent foreigners investing money in real estate projects here.
Just hours after the appropriations measure was signed on Friday, the company run until January by Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser, Jared Kushner, was urging wealthy Chinese in Beijing to consider investing $500,000 each in a pair of Jersey City luxury apartment towers the family-owned Kushner Companies plans to build. Mr. Kushner was even cited at a marketing presentation by his sister Nicole Meyer, who was on her way to China even before the bill was signed. The project “means a lot to me and my entire family,” she told the prospective investors.
Continue reading “Kushner Family Stands to Gain From Visa Rules in Trump’s First Major Law”
Bloomberg – by Selcan Hacaoglu
Turkey objected strongly to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to arm Kurdish forces in Syria, calling the plan unacceptable and amounting to support for terrorists.
“This issue is a matter of existence or nonexistence for Turkey,” Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli told AHaber television on Wednesday. “It is a matter of survival for Turkey. Everyone should see it this way. We can never accept or allow the existence of terrorist organizations that pose a threat to Turkey’s future.” Continue reading “Turkey Says U.S. Plan to Arm Kurds in Syria Supports Terrorism”
A journalist was arrested on Tuesday and accused of being disruptive while trying to question Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and White House aide Kellyanne Conway in the West Virginia state capitol building.
Dan Heyman of the Public News Service said he was trying to ask if domestic violence was considered a preexisting condition under the GOP health care bill backed by President Donald Trump and passed by the House of Representatives last week. Continue reading “Journalist Arrested For ‘Yelling Questions’ At HHS Secretary Tom Price, Kellyanne Conway”
A Connecticut woman got an unexpected and terrifying knock on her door last week while she was making brownies, as a bear came by to see what she was doing.
“My neighbor across the street just came over in a panic,” one of the resident’s neighbors said to a 911 dispatcher. “She’s a little old lady screaming that a bear got in her back porch and is slamming on her glass door.” Continue reading “Persistent Bear With Taste for Brownies Refuses to Leave Woman’s Home”
Corruption charges are stacking up against Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, who is alleged to have made personal use of government vehicles and his own elderly mother’s health funds in addition to dozens of other offenses.
Tuesday’s 11-count indictment against Williams, 50, mainly drew from two allegations: that he misused a fleet of government cars secured through federal grants as his own and misspent campaign funds on massages, facials and clothing at health spas and a social club in the city, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Continue reading “Philly DA federally indicted for 2nd time in 2 months, now faces 29 charges”
The US Coast Guard has declared part of New York City’s East River a “safety zone” after an unknown amount of oil spewed from a Con Edison substation into the notoriously polluted waterway. A massive cleanup is currently underway.
A statement from Con Edison says a transformer, containing roughly 37,000 gallons of oil, malfunctioned Sunday, releasing “much of the oil” into the station property and the river. Continue reading “‘Catastrophic failure’: Oil spill in NYC East River requires massive cleanup”
MIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) — Farah Larrieux feels like she’s about to be forced out after living and working in the U.S. for more than a decade. Immigration privileges granted to her and many other Haitians after the 2010 earthquake could soon be revoked.
President Donald Trump’s appointees must announce by May 23 whether to continue “temporary protected status” for about 50,000 Haitians legally living and working in the U.S. Without this status, they could suddenly face deportation. Continue reading “Haitians fear wrenching end to post-quake immigration help”
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Somali refugee Mohamoud Saed was elated when he learned that his wife and eight children had completed the lengthy refugee application process that would allow them to join him in the U.S., reuniting the family for the first time in seven years.
But the Saeds never made the trip to the Atlanta suburbs because their travel documents expired during the legal wrangling over President Donald Trump’s executive orders to limit the refugee program and ban travel from several countries, including Somalia. They are now living in a refugee camp in Ethiopia, desperate for a permanent, peaceful home. Continue reading “Far fewer refugees entering US despite travel ban setbacks”
A delegation of American lawmakers flew to India to meet with the Dalai Lama on Tuesday in a bid to draw attention to the plight of Tibet. The move is likely to annoy China and possibly frustrate President Trump’s effort to develop warmer relations with Beijing.
“As we visit His Holiness the Dalai Lama, our bipartisan delegation comes in his spirit of faith and peace. We come on this visit to be inspired by His Holiness and demonstrate our commitment to the Tibetan people, to their faith, their culture and their language,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Continue reading “U.S. Lawmakers Visit Dalai Lama to ‘Demonstrate Commitment to the Tibetan People’”
Independent – by Rachael Revesz
Scientists have discovered the first instance of a deer which eats human remains. The animal was caught mid-feast by a motion-sensitive camera at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility at Texas State University, a 26-acre area where forensic scientists study how human bodies decompose in the wild.
Scientists also monitor how animals interact with the bodies, but the reaction from the white-tailed deer was an unexpected crunch point. Continue reading “Deer caught eating human remains for first time, say scientists”
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) has challenged prime minister Netanyahu to draw the borders of Israel. The association claims that it is not politically motivated by the left or right but believes that every country should draw its borders in order to maintain certainty and in order to establish where Israel is sovereign. Continue reading “ACRI challenges Netanyahu to draw map of Israel”