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BRYAN, Tex. (KBTX)- Texas lawmakers have passed a bill that will allow DNA samples to be taken during felony arrests. That sample will then be put in a national DNA database and run against existing unsolved crimes.
The Department of Public Safety estimates that obtaining DNA samples during intake would expand the database to more than 40,000 defendants per year. Continue reading “Texas lawmakers pass bill that will expand DNA database”
A pro-Palestine activist was led away by police after intimidating Jewish counter-protesters outside a shop selling Israeli goods. The man screams in the face of the individual twice before police intervened. Continue reading “Police move pro-Palestine screaming at Jewish counter-protestors”
Britain has the potential to be ‘even greater’ following the ‘triumph of democracy’ brought about by Brexit, according to the US National Security Advisor.
Former UN ambassador John Bolton claimed leaving the European Union would allow the nation to become a ‘strong and independent country’ and also help NATO be ‘more effective’. Continue reading “Brexit was a ‘triumph of democracy’ and Britain will emerge from it as a bigger”
These shocking pictures from downtown Los Angeles capture the growing problem it faces with trash and rodents in a desperate city also trying to contain a typhoid fever outbreak linked to worsening sanitary conditions.
A decision to not cap the total amount of property that homeless people can keep on Skid Row was announced last Wednesday and it sparked fury among some officials who say it will ‘only perpetuate the public health crisis that already exists’ there. Continue reading “Pictures from downtown LA capture the problem it faces with trash as it tries and rodents”
Damascus (AFP) – The Syrian army’s anti-aircraft defence was activated Sunday against “enemy missiles” fired from Israel at “positions” in southwest Damascus, the official SANA news agency quoted a military source as saying.
“At dawn Sunday, enemy air targets arrived from the occupied Golan”, the military source said. “Our air defence blocked and shot down these enemy missiles which targeted our positions in southwest Damascus.” Continue reading “Syrian air defence fires at ‘enemy missiles’ in Damascus: state media”
Texas Monthly – by Christian Wallace
The horizon was thick with iron derricks. All around us, pumpjacks were scattered across the muddy fields like an army of giant iron grasshoppers. They bowed their bulky heads and lifted rich extractions from the earth: a record 3.5 million barrels of crude every day. In fact, half of the U.S. drilling rigs in operation that day were boring holes in the surrounding mesquite-studded pastures. Continue reading “The Permian Basin Is Booming With Oil. But at What Cost to West Texans?”
A bill would have closed a notorious loophole that lets Texas police departments hide records of jail deaths. But it failed to pass the Texas legislature, thanks to fierce opposition from one of the most powerful police unions in the state.
Texas enacted a statute in 1997 exempting records of police investigations that didn’t end in a conviction from the state’s public record law. The aim was to protect the privacy of innocent suspects, but police departments soon figured out they could also use it to withhold information on deaths in police custody, since you don’t convict a suspect who’s dead. Continue reading “Texas Police Union Kills Effort To Close State’s ‘Dead Suspect Loophole’”
GROVE CITY, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s health authority on Friday ordered a newly opened hospital outside Columbus to immediately flush and disinfect its water lines and take other steps to protect the public’s health after seven patients were diagnosed with potentially fatal Legionnaires’ disease.
The Ohio Department of Health said in a statement that the first Mount Carmel Grove City patient diagnosed with Legionnaires’, a severe form of pneumonia, was admitted to the 200-bed hospital April 29, the day after it opened. The statement described state Health Director Amy Acton’s adjudication order as a rare event. Continue reading “7 patients at new Ohio hospital diagnosed with Legionnaires’”
LAKEWOOD, Wis. (AP) — Word of the arrest — via a friend’s text message — hit Wayne Sankey like a thunderbolt.
“I said, ‘You gotta be kidding me,'” Sankey recalled. “And then I told the wife and she couldn’t believe it. ‘There’s no way,’ she said. ‘Ray down the road?'” Continue reading “Arrest in 43-year-old murder case stuns Wisconsin town”
Hundreds of thousands of activists are preparing to paralyse London with mass demonstrations during Donald Trump’s state visit next week.
More than 20,000 police officers will be deployed at 20 separate events planned across the country in a security operation expected to cost about £18million. Continue reading “Protesters vow to paralyse London during the President’s visit with marches, a rude robot and THAT blimp”
Breitbart – by Charlie Spiering
Barack Obama asserted that the United States was founded on inequality, despite the Constitution enshrining equality into the law.
Obama said:
You know Brazil just thinks the United States was founded on inequality and we have to admit that even though the United States has a Constitution that says, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,’ At that time not only were blacks excluded, but women were excluded, and people who didn’t own property were excluded.
Continue reading “Barack Obama: The United States Was ‘Founded on Inequality’”
The Trump administration will implement a new policy Friday asking most applicants for U.S. visas to provide information on their use of social media, a U.S. Department of State official tells Hill.TV
Most visa applicants, including temporary visitors, will be required to list their social media identifiers in a drop down menu along with other personal information. Continue reading “Trump administration to ask most US visa applicants for social media information”
Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden released his education plan Tuesday and one of the main goals is to “defeat the National Rifle Association.”
Included in this goal is renewing the 1994 “assault weapons” ban.
Biden claims that defeating the NRA is a way to make schools “safer.” His plan pushes for “rational gun laws” instead of armed teachers, and pledges to institute gun control laws that will ensure students do not have to worry about gun violence. Continue reading “Joe Biden’s Education Plan: Defeat NRA, Ban ‘Assault Weapons’”
New York Times – by Jesse McKinley
ALBANY — Marijuana has gone mainstream, casino gambling is everywhere and sports wagering is spreading. Could prostitution be next?
Lawmakers across the country are beginning to reconsider how to handle prostitution, as calls for decriminalization are slowly gaining momentum. Continue reading “Could Prostitution Be Next to Be Decriminalized?”