Yahoo News

(Reuters) – The Trump administration lost a court bid on Thursday aimed at striking down California’s “sanctuary” statutes that prevent local law enforcement from helping the U.S. government’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco largely affirmed a July ruling from a lower court, which had found the California laws do not conflict with federal immigration rules.  Continue reading “U.S. court upholds most of California’s ‘sanctuary’ migrant laws”

Daily Mail

An Arizona cop faces criminal charges of assault for allegedly hitting a suspected shoplifter more than 100 times after reportedly catching him trying to steal pants from Walmart.

Officer Tim Baiardi, a 19-year veteran with the Phoenix Police Department, allegedly assaulted homeless man Roger Moran, 22, after he resisted arrest on December 8, 2018.  Continue reading “Arizona police officer faces assault charges after he ‘punched and kneed a suspected shoplifter more than 100 times’ while arresting him for allegedly stealing pants”

Press TV

Google has blocked Press TV and Hispan TV’s access to their official accounts on the technology company’s platforms, including YouTube and Gmail, without prior notice, citing “violation of policies”.

“Your Google Account was disabled and can’t be restored because it was used in a way that violates Google’s policies,” Google said in a message that appears after Press TV tries to log into its account. Continue reading “Google ‘disables’ Press TV’s YouTube account without prior warning”

KMTR – by Kelsey Christensen

EUGENE, Ore. – State lawmakers are looking to expand in-state tuition.

If it’s voted into law, SB 859 would allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition for public Oregon graduate programs if they:  Continue reading “Bill would offer in-state tuition to undocumented students at Oregon graduate schools”

Blacklisted News

A new report has found that 26 states now either restrict or outright prohibit towns and cities from building their own broadband networks. Quite often the laws are directly written by the telecom sector, and in some instances ban towns and cities from building their own broadband networks—even if the local ISP refuses to provide service. Continue reading “Report: 26 States Now Ban or Restrict Community Broadband”

Middle East Monitor

Israeli occupation authorities refused to issue travel permits for hundreds of Palestinian Christians from Gaza who planned to visit holy sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem during Passover, Safa news agency reported yesterday.

Reporting Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Safa said that Israel allowed only 200 Christians from Gaza, who are over 55 years old, to travel to Jordan only and did not issue permits for those wishing to visit the Church of Nativity in occupied Bethlehem or the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in occupied Jerusalem.  Continue reading “Israel bans Gaza Christians from going to Jerusalem, Bethlehem for Easter”

Washington Times

The Trump administration is proposing a new rule to try to block some 32,000 illegal immigrant-led families from claiming public housing assistance, saying it’s unfair to hundreds of thousands of Americans who are stuck on waiting lists.

Housing and Urban Development notified Congress Wednesday of the new rule, kicking off a schedule of publication and notice and comment that could have the plan finalized later this summer.  Continue reading “HUD moves to cancel illegal immigrants’ public housing access”

Business Insider – by Rob Price

Facebook harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their knowledge or consent when they opened their accounts.

Since May 2016, the social-networking company has collected the contact lists of 1.5 million users new to the social network, Business Insider can reveal. The Silicon Valley company said the contact data was “unintentionally uploaded to Facebook,” and it is now deleting them.  Continue reading “Facebook says it ‘unintentionally uploaded’ 1.5 million people’s email contacts without their consent”

Right of the Right

A New Mexico cafe owner is closing shop following backlash to a Facebook post full of “antisemitic” comments about Israel’s brutal treatment of the Palestinians, and his jewish landlord’s alleged shady business dealings:  Continue reading “Jews Force NM Restaurant Owner Out of Business for ‘Antisemitic’ Facebook Posts”

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Daily Mail

Hundreds of asylum seekers surrendered to an armed militia of New Mexico citizens last night, after trying to cross the U.S. border.

A group of 300 men, women and children gave themselves up to the ‘United Constitutional Patriots’, a gang of vigilantes who claim to be made up of veterans and former police officers, who then handed them over to border officials.    Continue reading “More than 300 asylum seekers surrender to armed militia of ‘New Mexico residents, veterans and ex-cops’, after crossing the US border”

RT

Sixty doctors and other medical professionals across seven US states are facing federal charges for illegal opioid sales, in what prosecutors say is the biggest pill bust in American history.

The doctors gave out more than 350,000 prescriptions for 32 million pills – which could provide a dose of opioids to “every man, woman and child,” in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and West Virginia, according to Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski.  Continue reading “MILLIONS of pills: 60 doctors & pharmacists caught up in largest federal opioid bust in US history”

AmmoLand – by Dean Weingarten

Australia -(Ammoland.com)- The most famous firearms manufacturer in Australia is the Lithgow Small Arms Factory. On the grounds of the existing factory site is the Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum. The Museum is independently owned and operated, primarily by volunteers, as an independent trust on behalf of the City of Lithgow. Just a few weeks ago, the museum learned that 70 percent of its collection is at risk of being destroyed because of a thoughtless change in firearms law passed in 2017, specifically aimed at museums. Museums were not contacted about the change in the law. They had no input about it. From lithgowsafmuseum.org.au:  Continue reading “Australian Museums’ Guns face Destruction”

Common Dreams – by Andrea Germanos

Continuing his call to musicians to boycott an upcoming international song competition, rock legend Roger Waters on Wednesday urged Madonna not to perform at a Tel Aviv contest.

The venue at issue is the Eurovision Song Contest, which takes place mid-May. Madonna’s press team confirmed this month that she’d be performing. But in so doing, according to Waters, Madonna would be ignoring the Israeli occupation’s deprivation of Palestinians’ human rights.  Continue reading “Roger Waters to Madonna: Don’t Normalize Violations of Palestinians’ Rights With Performance in Tel Aviv”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Forth Worth, TX — An off duty Nacogdoches police officer was working security for an apartment complex this month when he approached a group of women and began attacking them. Dramatic video of the incident has sparked controversy as the woman claim they were doing nothing wrong when officer Josh Anders approached them without identifying himself as a cop and began attacking them.

Anders claims he approached the group of bikini clad black women last Wednesday due to ongoing issues with criminal activity. Apparently he thought a bunch of young women in bikinis were trying to rob the place. However, many of the women lived there and had every right to be where they were.  Continue reading “Off-Duty Cop Randomly Starts Beating Women in Bikinis as They Try to Stop Him”