From the Trenches World Report

New York Times – by Vivian Yee

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Yemen’s Houthi rebels carried out multiple drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities on Tuesday, a day after Saudi Arabia said two of its oil tankers had been damaged in an act of sabotage, ratcheting up tensions in the region.

A Houthi spokesman, Mohammed Abdul Salam, claimed responsibility for the drone strikes on Twitter, saying that they were a response to Saudi “aggression” and “genocide” in Yemen.  Continue reading “Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Attack Saudi Oil Facilities, Escalating Tensions in Gulf”

Weather Channel

Continue reading “Severe Weather to Return to Plains Friday Into Early Next Week With Tornadoes, Hail, Damaging Winds, Flooding Rain”

ABC News

President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed a New York Times report that the administration is reviewing a plan to send as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East if Iran attacked U.S. forces as “fake news.”

But even as the president sought to brush off the report, he added that he would “send a hell of lot more” troops if he did have to respond to a military attack from Iran.  Continue reading “Trump dismisses report administration reviewing plan to send 120K troops to Middle East amid Iran tensions”

KQED

San Francisco supervisors voted 8 to 1 Tuesday to ban the use of facial recognition software by police and other city departments, becoming the first U.S. city to outlaw a rapidly developing technology that has alarmed privacy and civil liberties advocates.

The ban is part of broader legislation that requires city departments to establish use policies and obtain board approval for surveillance technology they want to purchase or are using at present. Several other local governments require departments to disclose and seek approval for surveillance technology. Continue reading “San Francisco Bans Police, Municipal Use of Facial Recognition Technology”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

Hundreds of African migrants gathered on the Mexican side of the bridge that separates Laredo, Texas, from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, on Monday.

A large group of African migrants gathered on the south side of the Laredo Port of Entry to protest U.S. immigration policies that are keeping them from entering the U.S. to claim asylum, KGNS reported. The group claims that “not enough is being done” to help them get asylum into the U.S.  Continue reading “Hundreds of African Migrants Protest for Entry at Texas Border Bridge”

Daniel Everette Hale Superseding Indictment for Leaking Secrets to The Intercept, May 13, 2019

Breitbart – by Bob Price

More than 100 people are now facing federal charges in connection with an alleged sham marriage scheme. Investigators arrested dozens named in a 206-count indictment.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas obtained a 206-count indictment from a federal grand jury alleging that organizers charged between $50,000 and $70,000 to arrange fake marriages between a foreign national and a U.S. citizen in order to obtain legal immigration status, KHOU reported. By Monday morning, investigators placed 50 people behind bars.  Continue reading “100 Charged in Texas Fake Marriage Immigration Scheme, Says U.S. Attorney”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

U.S. Border Patrol officials are now using air transportation to move migrants from overcrowded processing centers to lesser-impacted facilities, particularly from the Rio Grande Valley Sector.

On Friday, officials in the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector began flying migrants from McAllen, Texas, to Del Rio, Texas, the Washington Post reported. The flights are operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) but the migrants remain in the custody of Border Patrol.  Continue reading “Border Patrol Flies Migrants from South Texas to Reduce Overcrowding”

CNBC

DUBAI — Oil prices rose sharply Tuesday morning on reports of a drone attack at oil pumping stations in Saudi Arabia.

The incident is an “act of terrorism,” Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said according to the Saudi state news agency SPA, describing attacks on two oil pumping stations near Riyadh for the country’s East-West pipeline carried out with bomb-laden drones.  Continue reading “Oil prices jump as Saudi energy minister reports drone ‘terrorism’ against pipeline infrastructure”

Breitbart – by Dr. Susan Berry

The father of the alleged juvenile transgender STEM School shooter is reportedly an illegal alien and serial felon,  jailed for domestic violence and deported twice back to Mexico.

According to the Daily Mail, Jose Evis Quintana, 33, father of Maya McKinney, 16, was jailed for 15 months for domestic violence against Maya’s mother, Morgan Lynn McKinney, and for “menacing with a weapon.”  Continue reading “Report: Father of Transgender STEM School Shooting Suspect Is Alleged Serial Felon and Illegal Alien”

Reuters

Emmy-winning actor Tim Conway, who brought an endearing, free-wheeling goofiness to skits on “The Carol Burnett Show” that cracked up his cast mates as well as the audience, died on Tuesday at the age of 85, his publicist said.

Publicist Howard Bragman said Conway died in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday morning. Prior to his death, he had suffered complications from normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) and had no signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s, Bragman said.  Continue reading “U.S. actor Tim Conway of ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ dies at age 85: publicist”

Sputnik

US officials said Monday that initial assessments of an incident over the weekend in which four oil tankers were damaged by explosions in Emirati waters point to Iranian involvement.

Four oil tankers — two Saudi, one Emirati and one Norwegian — off the coast of the Fujairah, in the United Arab Emirates, suffered on Sunday what the UAE Foreign Ministry called “sabotage operations.” The explosion blew a five-to-10 foot hole in each ship near or just below the water line, a US military team told AP Monday.  Continue reading “US Officials Claim Iran or Iranian Proxies Damaged Ships in UAE Waters – Report”

Hartford Courant – by Nicholas Rondinone

Continue reading “Indictment: As anthrax, bomb threats surfaced in Connecticut, suspected white supremacist also mailed President Trump a death threat”

Conservative Review – by Daniel Horowitz

What happens when our government takes down its interior checkpoints north of the border in New Mexico? Well, the cartels, with the drug and human smuggling, are “kicking our butts,” according to one local official.

In an interview with CR, Couy Griffin, the chairman of the Otero County, New Mexico, county commission, explained how our government has exposed his county, and by extension, the rest of the nation, to unprecedented criminal activity from the Mexican cartels. In his view, by taking down the two secondary Border Patrol checkpoints in his county in order to focus on more processing of illegal immigrants, the federal government is missing the point.  Continue reading “Cartels ‘kicking our butts’ in New Mexico, as state left without checkpoints”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

As a result of a new plan to cut power on high wind days during wildfire season, millions of Californians could wind up unprepared and in darkness, according to Bloomberg.

Now bankrupt PG&E proposed the precautionary plan after a transmission line that snapped in windy weather likely started last year‘s Camp Fire – the deadliest wildfire in state history. The plan addresses the problem of wildfires, but creates another one in the process: blindsiding Californians with days of blackouts.   Continue reading “Millions Of Californians Will “Plunge Into Darkness” As PG&E Commits To Cut Power During Wildfire Season”

American Mirror – by Victor Skinner

An armed group of citizen patriots patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border in New Mexico have vowed to continue operations to assist Border Patrol despite an eviction from their previous camp.

Jim Benvie, spokesman for the newly formed Guardian Patriots, told the Las Cruces Sun News numerous “volunteer patriots” continue to patrol sections of the New Mexico border and work in conjunction with Border Patrol officials, though they’ve moved to a new location on private property.  Continue reading “Armed patriots vow continued patrols as monthly border crossings reach 100,000”