Mail.com

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A recent college graduate who has been accused of four slayings that terrorized a Tampa neighborhood had “no apparent motive” and used the same gun to kill innocent people near bus stops, the police chief said Wednesday.

The crack in the case that has lasted 51 days occurred when the suspect, 24-year-old Howell Emanuel Donaldson, brought a loaded gun to his job at a McDonald’s and asked a co-worker to hold it, authorities said.   Continue reading “Tampa police: Suspect in 4 slayings used same gun”

Salt Lake Tribune – by Thomas Burr

Washington • President Donald Trump will fly into Utah on Monday to announce that he’ll shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, sources familiar with the trip confirmed to The Salt Lake Tribune.

Trump will travel to Salt Lake City, where he’ll explain why he’s changing the boundaries of the two monuments, the sources said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the trip.   Continue reading “Trump will shrink Bears Ears during Utah visit Monday, when five tribes promise to sue him”

Business Insider – by Michelle Mark

A former South Carolina police officer who faces sentencing next week for fatally shooting an unarmed black man is citing recent testimony from Attorney General Jeff Sessions as an example of how a person’s apparently evolving memories are attributable to stress, not lies.

Michael Slager pleaded guilty last May to committing federal civil rights violations when he fired eight rounds into the back of 50-year-old Walter Scott as the South Carolina man fled a traffic stop in April 2015. Scott’s death attracted national attention after a bystander’s video of the incident went viral, inflaming the ongoing debate over racial bias and excessive force in policing.   Continue reading “The ex-cop who killed Walter Scott is using his ‘Swiss cheese memory’ as a defense — and citing Jeff Sessions’ own memory lapses as an example”

The Intercept – by Zaid Jilani

EVERY SUNDAY, LIKE clockwork, activists Adele Maclean and Marlon Kautz distribute food to the homeless at a public park in Atlanta. But when they went out to deliver food the Sunday before Thanksgiving, taking part in a longtime American holiday season tradition, local police ticketed them for violating a county ordinance that requires a food distribution permit.

Atlanta is in Georgia’s Fulton County, which has long had a policy on the books that requires organizations that distribute food to obtain a permit before doing so. Local authorities have in the past turned a blind eye, according to groups that feed the homeless in different parts of the city. Last week, however, that changed.   Continue reading “Atlanta Police Suddenly Enforce Old Law And Hand Out Tickets To People Feeding The Homeless”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Sure it can Kimmie, sure it can. Earlier this year these guys could not get a missile off the ground, then their missiles were bent. Fast forward a few months and now the backwards nation can deliver a nuclear missile via ICBM to the US with a bow on it just in time for Christmas! It gets better and better all the time. For those who have forgotten, there is one nation and one nation alone who has ever used a nuclear bomb and it was the US. Of course the fear mongers would have you believe everyone wants to blow up the US with a nuclear tipped missile…
Continue reading “New Missile Test Shows North Korea Capable Of Hitting All Of US Mainland”

Yahoo News – by Kevin R. James

Choosing to deter North Korea is to engage in a gamble: you avoid the costs of a preventive war today when North Korea is relatively weak, but you run the risk of an accidental nuclear war later when North Korea is vastly more powerful. Using plausible estimates of the probability of accidental nuclear war derived from the U.S.-Soviet experience during the Cold War, I find that gambling on deterrence will lead to 7.5 million U.S.-South Korean-Japanese deaths on average (under optimistic assumptions) while a preventive war now will lead to 1.4 million deaths (under pessimistic assumptions). So, not only is deterrence a gamble, it is a reckless and foolish one.  Preventive war is the wise and prudent response to North Korea’s nuclear threat.   Continue reading “Holy Propaganda Bat Man – North Korea: Why War Is the Only Option Now”

NBC News

Matt Lauer, the anchor of “Today” for two decades, was fired by NBC News after a detailed complaint about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.

“Today” co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb announced Lauer’s firing Wednesday, telling viewers at the top of the show that they were processing his departure but didn’t yet know all of the details.   Continue reading “NBC News fires ‘Today’ anchor Matt Lauer after sexual misconduct review”

The Organic Prepper

Despite warnings to from the international community to stop, North Korea tested the most powerful ICBM to date last night. The hermit kingdom launched yet another Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) which splashed down in the sea off the coast of Japan.

Kim Jong Un issued a handwritten order for the launch that said:

 “I order a test launch. Carry out on Nov 29 at dawn. Fire it bravely for the Party and the motherland!”

Continue reading “North Korea Launched Another ICBM and Here’s What We Learned”

Fox News

A federal jury found Ahmed Abu Khattala guilty Tuesday on just four of 18 charges related to the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, precluding him from facing the death penalty.

Khattala, 46, was convicted of two counts of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, one count of maliciously destroying U.S. property and placing lives in danger, and one count of using and carrying a semiautomatic weapon during the attack. He faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison for the firearms offense and could still receive a life sentence.   Continue reading “Benghazi suspect convicted on four lesser counts, does not face death penalty”

Nextrush Free

Tuesday’s activities at the third Bunkerville Standoff trial in Las Vegas started with US District Judge Gloria Navarro and the prosecution and defense lawyers in the courtroom.

The hearing they were holding was to discuss motions related to the trial.

A juror’s summons to another court delayed the jury from being present for the trial itself to continue.   Continue reading “Bunkerville Standoff: Lawyers Argue Before Judge, Jury Delayed By Juror’s Court Summons, BLM Agent Cross Examined”

Yahoo News – by Kate Sheridan, Newsweek

Commercial bone treats can be hazardous to a dog’s health, the Food and Drug Administration has warned—and sometimes they can even be lethal. The agency updated their website this month to include new reports of illnesses and deaths associated with these processed bone treats.

Nearly 70 dogs have gotten sick from processed and packaged bones and 15 have died, according to the FDA’s website. That figure is nearly double the last reported death toll linked with the treats; a 2015 version of the page indicated that eight dogs had died. Dogs have vomited, choked and had stomach issues after chewing on them, according to the agency. Some bones have also looked moldy or have splintered when a dog began to chew.  Continue reading “These Dog Bones Are Deadly, FDA Warns”

Yahoo News

RENO, Nevada (AP) — A gunman with a hostage opened fire from the eighth floor of a luxury high-rise condominium in Nevada onto the streets below, authorities said. No injuries were reported.

The man died Tuesday after a SWAT team descended on him while he was barricaded at the Montage, Reno police Deputy Chief Tom Robinson told reporters. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he was killed by police gunfire or his own. No one else, including the hostage, was hurt.   Continue reading “Nevada high-rise suspected gunman dead, hostage safe”

Daily Mail

A surgeon accused of burning his initials onto patients’ livers will face trial for actual bodily harm.

Consultant Simon Bramhall, 53, is charged with branding one man and one woman’s livers with ‘SB’ during transplant surgery in 2013.

The alleged incidents took place while he worked at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where he was a liver, spleen and pancreatic surgeon for 12 years.  Continue reading “Transplant surgeon accused of branding his initials on patients’ livers”

New York Daily News – by Glenn Blain

ALBANY — A city Human Resources Administration worker and his wife were charged Tuesday with stealing more than $225,000 in government welfare benefits.

State investigators said Omar Jaata, a 42-year-old Bronx resident and an HRA employee since 2010, used his position to create multiple bogus accounts and obtain nearly $143,000 in food stamp benefits.   Continue reading “HRA worker, his wife busted for swiping more than $225G in welfare benefits”

The Hill – by Brett Samuels

The Trump administration announced Tuesday that the United States and Canada will co-host a meeting focused on finding a non-military solution to the situation in North Korea after Pyongyang fired its latest ballistic missile.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced the international meeting in a statement after the ballistic missile launch, saying that diplomatic options with North Korea “remain viable and open, for now.”   Continue reading “US, Canada to hold global meeting after North Korean missile launch”

Bloomberg – by Thomas Mulier

A Swiss maker of hamburger buns for McDonald’s Corp. said it’s struggling to run a Chicago bakery after it lost a third of its workers in a clampdown on 800 immigrants without sufficient documentation.

About 35 percent of the workers at Cloverhill Bakery had to be replaced, according to Zurich-based Aryzta AG. The company, which makes baked goods for fast-food chains and supermarkets, said the employees were supplied by a job-placement agency that faced federal audits earlier this year.   Continue reading “Chicago Immigration Raid Leaves Swiss Baker Scrambling to Restaff”