Miami Herald – by Julie K Brown

Federal prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been sexually abused by wealthy New York hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

While the decision marks a victory for crime victims, the federal judge, Kenneth A. Marra, stopped short of overturning Epstein’s plea deal, or issuing an order resolving the case. He instead gave federal prosecutors 15 days to confer with Epstein’s victims and their attorneys to come up with a settlement. The victims did not seek money or damages as part of the suit.   Continue reading “Federal prosecutors broke law in Jeffrey Epstein case, judge rules”

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South China Morning Post – by He Huifeng

Millions of Chinese individuals and businesses have been labelled as untrustworthy on an official blacklist banning them from any number of activities, including accessing financial markets or travelling by air or train, as the use of the government’s social credit system accelerates.

The annual blacklist is part of a broader effort to boost “trustworthiness” in Chinese society and is an extension of China’s social credit system, which is expected to give each of its 1.4 billion citizens a personal score.   Continue reading “China’s social credit system shows its teeth, banning millions from taking flights, trains”

FEE – by Jon Miltimore

Via the Detroit Free Press:

Police and prosecutors would be prohibited from seizing cash and property from people accused of a crime until they are convicted on the charges under a bill passed in the state Senate on Wednesday. Continue reading “Michigan Seeks to Ban Police from Seizing Property from People Who Have Not Been Convicted of Crimes”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Body cam footage released February 20, 2019, shows a suspect shoot at a Napa County Sheriff’s deputy only to be killed as a result.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the shooting occurred on February 17, 2019, as Napa County Sheriff’s deputy Riley Jarecki checked on a parked car. Forty-three-year-old Javier Hernandez Morales was sitting in the driver’s seat when Jarecki approached and asked if she could check the vehicle.   Continue reading “Suspect Shoots at Deputy from Point-Blank Range, Gets Killed”

Daily Mail

Just 26 billionaires now own as much wealth as the poorest 3.8billion people – half the world’s population – combined, according to Oxfam.

A new report by the charity says the 26 richest men and women in the world control a combined £1.1trillion – equal to everything owned by the bottom 50 per cent of all people.   Continue reading “Who are the world’s richest people?”

RT

The Earth’s atmosphere is much bigger than previously thought, extending far beyond the Moon, a team of scientists have revealed. The amazing discovery was made thanks to data that has been sitting unexamined for over 20 years.

We now know that the atmosphere surrounding our planet stretches 630,000km (391,464 miles) away and is 50 times the diameter of Earth, thanks to the discovery and analysis of decades-old data by scientists at Russia’s Space Research Institute.   Continue reading “Staggering discovery reveals moon lies INSIDE Earth’s atmosphere”

Fox News

Forget 5G. President Donald Trump wants the U.S. to be a leader in 6G – a technology that is nowhere near ready for prime time.

Trump took to Twitter on Thursday morning to say that he would like 5G, a technology that allows for faster data speed transfers over telecom networks from companies like AT&T and Verizon, to be in the U.S. “as soon as possible.”   Continue reading “‘We want 6G!’ Trump takes aim at US tech firms”

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

America’s foreign-born population has reached its highest level in over 100 years, driven by immigrants from Latin America, according to new Census Bureau data.

What’s more, the Pew Research Center has found that most Latinos feel the percentage of foreigners in the United States is just about right, though 14 percent said America needs more.   Continue reading “Census: Highest immigrant population in 100 years, over half Latinos”

My Sun Coast

SARASOTA (WWSB) – Community members took their concerns to the Sarasota City Commission on Wednesday after they say they witnessed an incident of police brutality in Newtown.

Video shows Sarasota Police conducting a traffic stop on Sunday, February 17. A crowd quickly gathers around officers as several of them force a man to the ground and attempt to restrain him.

Continue reading “Family says police used excessive force on 40-year-old man with mental disabilities”

KUTV – by McKenzie Stauffer

(KUTV) — Two men, including a former St. George police lieutenant, were arrested during an undercover human trafficking investigation, according to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.

On February 14, undercover detectives were posing as prostitutes while establishing a relationship with a suspect on social media.   Continue reading “Former St. George police lieutenant, Utah man arrested in human trafficking sting”

AP News

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The State Land Office says this month’s oil and natural gas lease sale has netted more than $35 million.

Officials say that includes the largest open bid sale in the agency’s history, with numerous tracts in southeastern New Mexico closing at more than $12 million.   Continue reading “New Mexico oil and gas lease sale nets $35 million”

MassPrivateI

Who needs Big Brother to spy on you in your home when Siri and Google will do it for them?

Two recent stories prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that smart device surveillance is real.

According to Mac Rumors, Apple recently applied for a facial recognition and 3D hand gesture patent for their new Homepod 2 smart speaker.   Continue reading “Apple’s Homepod 2 and Google’s Nest Guard take spying on your family to the next level”

Daily Star – by Matt Drake

President Donald Trump has signed the Rapid DNA Act into law which means the police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime.

The law, which was signed in 2017 and comes into effect this year, will require several states to connect Rapid DNA machines to Codis – the national DNA database controlled by the FBI.   Continue reading “FBI plotting to keep DNA of ENTIRE population on file to create ‘nation of suspects’”

WSMV

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) – A Vanderbilt University police department officer is in custody after crashing her car early Tuesday morning.

Police say that Lakisha Renee Chandler crashed her car in front of a business at 203 2nd Ave. North around 2:19 a.m. Continue reading “Vanderbilt police officer arrested for DUI after crashing car near downtown”

Mint Press News – by Stephanie Savell

In September 2001, the Bush administration launched the “Global War on Terror.” Though “global” has long since been dropped from the name, as it turns out, they weren’t kidding.

When I first set out to map all the places in the world where the United States is still fighting terrorism so many years later, I didn’t think it would be that hard to do. This was before the 2017 incident in Niger in which four American soldiers were killed on a counterterror mission and Americans were given an inkling of how far-reaching the war on terrorism might really be. Continue reading “Now in 80 Countries, The American War on Terror Couldn’t Be More Global”