From the Trenches World Report

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California ammo buyers are making a run on gun shops ahead of a new state law, which on July 1 will require buyers of bullets to show identification and undergo a background check to screen out felons and people with illegal firearms.

In a state with the toughest gun laws in the nation, Gov. Gavin Newsom and some other leaders see restricting ammunition sales as a necessary next step in reducing gun tragedies.  Continue reading “Gun Owners Stockpile Ammo Before New California Background Check Law Begins”

Jerusalem Post

Joining the race to secure Israeli automotive technology, the Ford Motor Company opened a new research center in the heart of Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

The Ford Research Center, the company said, will assist its global Research and Advanced Engineering team, and identify local technologies and start-up companies to support Ford’s automotive and mobility businesses.  Continue reading “Joining Israeli innovation race, Ford opens Tel Aviv research hub”

Sputnik

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – President Donald Trump has ordered US regulators to streamline and accelerate the process for approving genetically engineered agricultural products, the White House said in a press release.

“Today, President Trump is signing an executive order directing Federal agencies to streamline the agricultural biotechnology regulatory processes,” the release said on Tuesday.  Continue reading “Trump Signs Executive Order to Accelerate Approval of GMO Crops”

Commercial Appeal

A fatal police shooting led to a violent confrontation between officers and community members in Memphis’ Frayser neighborhood Wednesday night after a man was killed in a shooting involving U.S. Marshals.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation identified the man as 20-year-old Brandon Webber on Thursday morning.  Continue reading “Man killed in Frayser police shooting identified as 20-year-old Brandon Webber”

Weather Channel

Skygazers near Amarillo, Texas, were treated to the breathtaking sight of a cumulonimbus “mushroom” cloud associated with a thunderstorm southeast of the city Tuesday evening.

A cumulonimbus cloud is a towering, vertical cloud containing a thunderstorm, formed from water vapor forced upward by powerful upper-air currents.  Continue reading “Cumulonimbus ‘Mushroom’ Cloud Hovers in the Sky Near Amarillo, Texas”

Milne News

Candi CdeBaca on June 5th became the fourth Denver City Council candidate in 32 years — and the second in this election — to unseat an incumbent council member, knocking off District 9 Councilman Albus Brooks in a runoff race.

CdeBaca will represent one of the busiest parts of Denver, a north-central district including Five Points, Lower Downtown, Globeville, Elyria, Swansea, Whittier, River North, Auraria, Cole, Clayton, City Park and City Park West.  Continue reading “Denver City Council winner is excited to usher in communism by any means necessary”

Cincinnati.com

The Cincinnati police officer who shot an 11-year-old girl with a stun gun in a Kroger shoplifting incident has successfully appealed his seven-day suspension.

An arbitrator handling the case brought by the Fraternal Order of Police, which represented Officer Kevin Brown, against the City of Cincinnati found that the policy in place during the August incident allowed officers to use a stun gun on children as young as 7. The arbitrator found Brown did not use excessive force.  Continue reading “CPD cop shot child with a stun gun at Kroger. It wasn’t excessive force, arbitrator finds”

DW

US President Donald Trump welcomed Polish President Andrzej Duda to the White House on Wednesday. The visit, Duda’s second within a year, was ostensibly to deal with two issues: Poland’s desire for an expanded US military presence and the US’ desire to sell natural gas to Poland. During the meeting, Trump also touched on the possibility of sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 project and warned Germany not to be dependent on Russian energy.  Continue reading “Trump to send more troops to Poland”

Fox News

Two oil tankers were damaged in a suspected attack off the Gulf of Oman early Thursday, prompting the rescue of dozens of crew members.

The U.S. Navy’s Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet told Reuters it was assisting two tankers in the Gulf of Oman after receiving two distress calls. Details of the incident were unclear, but one of the operators made an unconfirmed report that a torpedo had hit its ship, Reuters reported.  Continue reading “2 oil tankers damaged in suspected attack in the Gulf of Oman, crew evacuated”

NBC News

Several law enforcement officers in Memphis were injured during a protest that began after federal officials killed a man they were attempting to arrest Wednesday, officials said.

A driver wanted on multiple felony warrants attempted to ram law enforcement vehicles when officers with a regional U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force attempted to arrest him in Memphis’ Frayser community about 7 p.m., Tennessee Bureau of Investigation public information officer Keli McAlister said. The man, who has not been publicly identified, then got out of the vehicle with a weapon, McAlister said.  Continue reading “Dozens of officers injured during protest in Memphis after task force kills man”

Yahoo News

The opioid crisis has ravaged through the U.S., taking hundreds of thousands of lives and costing the country an estimated $37 billion.

Nearly 400,000 people died from an opioid overdose between 1999 and 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the number of overdose deaths tied to opioids was six times higher in 2017 than it was eight years prior. An average of 130 Americans died every day of an opioid overdose in 2017, according to CDC data.  Continue reading “How an American billionaire predicted — and then profited from — the U.S. opioid epidemic”

RT

Bitcoin evangelist John McAfee has threatened to “bury” the US government if they keep harassing him over unpaid taxes, promising to leak a huge trove of files proving corruption throughout Washington and its allies.

“I’ve collected files on corruption in governments. For the first time, I’m naming names and specifics,” McAfee warned in a string of tweets stretching back to Sunday. Vowing to release over 31 terabytes of “incriminating data” to the press if arrested or otherwise “disappeared,” he posted the names of a “corrupt CIA agent and two Bahamian officials” along with claims they’d taken bribes and been involved with drug trafficking, apparently to show he was not bluffing.  Continue reading “‘I’ll f***ing bury you!’ McAfee vows to expose corrupt US officials & CIA agents if ‘disappeared’”