From the Trenches World Report

Reason – by C.J. Ciaramella

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’”

AOL

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’”

AOL

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”

Daily Mail

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 Hill

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”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

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?”

ABC News

Twelve people are dead, including the suspected gunman, after a shooting occurred at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center on Friday afternoon, according to police.

Six additional victims were taken to the hospital with injuries, Virginia Beach Police Chief James Cervera told reporters during a press conference Friday evening. An emergency services spokesperson would not comment on the condition of the injured victims.  Continue reading “12 dead in Virginia Beach shooting, including suspect: Police”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

Poor people have a right to migrate to the United States, and migrants should not be stopped by force, according to a letter from Mexico’s president to U.S. President Donald Trump.

President López Obrador’s May 30 letter, provided by the Wall Street Journal, claimed a migrant’s “right for justice,” saying:  Continue reading “Mexico’s President to Donald Trump: America Is for Migrants”

Investment Watch – by DCG

Washington State has some strict gun control laws. Presidential candidate demorat Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bunch more of new laws on May 7 saying, “Our state is a leader on #gunsafety but more work is needed to protect our students & the people of WA. That’s why today I am so happy to sign bills that ban untraceable ghost guns, keep guns away from our most vulnerable Washingtonians & improve gun safety overall.”  Continue reading “How’s that gun control working in Washington State since new laws were passed?”

Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

According to sources in Texas US Border Patrol Agents have apprehended illegal aliens crossing into the US from Congo.

There currently is a deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo.  Continue reading “EBOLA CONCERNS in Texas after Illegals from Congo Cross Border into US”