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Orville Almon, the lawyer representing the Route 91 music festival and Jason Aldean, the singer onstage when the Las Vegas shooting began, has been found dead. He was 66.
Almon, a prominent Nashville attorney, opened his private practice Almon Law in 2010 where he represented musicians and entertainment industry organizations during battles with the law. Continue reading “Lawyer For Las Vegas Music Festival and Jason Aldean, Found Dead”
Stephen Paddock’s girlfriend may be hiding something from investigators who are trying to piece together the motive behind the Las Vegas massacre, the city’s sheriff suggested in a wide-ranging interview with a local television station.
Marilou Danley, who is still a person of interest in the case, has told authorities that she never knew the attack was coming. Sheriff Joseph Lombardo, in his first TV appearance in nearly three weeks, told KLAS that investigators he’s spoken to believe this assessment is accurate. But he added that something appears to be off about the manner in which Paddock amassed his arsenal of weapons. Continue reading “Las Vegas shooting: Paddock’s girlfriend may be hiding something, sheriff suggests”
The world’s most popular digital currency is on a record-breaking marathon. Bitcoin has again attained a new record, jumping over the US$7,000 barrier.
The cryptocurrency has gained nearly 15 percent in just four days. Bitcoin was trading at $7,341.84 at 12:00pm GMT on Thursday with more than 3.8 billion trading volume in the past 24 hours, according to the industry website Coinmarketcap.com. Bitcoin’s market value is now $122 billion of the overall cryptocurrencies market cap of $191 billion. Continue reading “Bitcoin skyrockets into stratosphere smashing $7,000 level”
At a time when the US national debt stands at just over $20 trillion, American taxpayers find themselves stuck with a massive maintenance bill to keep the nation’s nuclear arsenal operational over the next three decades.
The modernization of US nuclear forces will carry a price tag estimated at $1.2 trillion from 2017 until 2046, accordingto the US Congress Budget Office (CBO) report.
That planned modernization would increase the total costs of maintaining the current number of nuclear weapons and delivery system by 50 percent over normal operating costs, according to the CBO. Continue reading “US nuclear arsenal upgrade to exceed $1trillion”
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s registered child sex offenders will now have to use passports identifying them for their past crimes when traveling overseas. The State Department said Wednesday it would begin revoking passports of registered child sex offenders and will require them to apply for a new one that carries a “unique identifier” of their status. Those applying for a passport for the first time will not be issued one without the identifier, which will be a notice printed inside the back cover of the passport book that reads: “The bearer was convicted of a sex offense against a minor, and is a covered sex offender pursuant to (U.S. law).”
The department said in a statement posted to its travel.state.gov website that registered child sex offenders will no longer be issued smaller travel documents known as passport cards because they do not have enough room to fit the notice. Continue reading “Child sex offenders to be named as such in US passports”
WASHINGTON (AP) — With fanfare and a White House kickoff, House Republicans unfurled a broad tax-overhaul plan Thursday that would touch virtually all Americans and the economy’s every corner, mingling sharply lower rates for corporations and reduced personal taxes for many with fewer deductions for home-buyers and families with steep medical bills.
The measure, which would be the most extensive rewrite of the nation’s tax code in three decades, is the product of a party that faces increasing pressure to produce a marquee legislative victory of some sort before next year’s elections. GOP leaders touted the plan as a sparkplug for the economy and a boon to the middle class and christened it the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Continue reading “Big GOP tax bill would cut rates _ but also popular breaks”
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to develop technology that scans the faces of travelers as they enter and leave the US. The difficult part? The agency wants to do it without anyone needing to get out of their cars.
First spotted by Nextgov, DHS has posted a public notice calling on technology companies to submit proposals for the system by January 2018. The agency is hosting an “industry day” in Silicon Valley on November 14th to give businesses more information about what it is they’re looking for exactly. Continue reading “US Homeland Security Wants Facial Recognition to Identify People in Moving Cars”
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The latest in a growing number of Israeli airstrikes against Syrian territory appears to have been one of the most ambitious yet, striking deep into the Homs Province, near the Lebanese border and destroying what was said to be a weapons depot for the Syrian military.
The attack destroyed the site, and provoked retaliatory fire from Syrian air defense, who fired a number of surface-to-air missiles at the Israeli warplanes. Israeli officials say none of their planes were hit in the incident. Continue reading “Israel Attacks Syria’s Homs Province, Syria Fires Anti-Aircraft Missiles”
Epoch Times – by Joshua Phillip
A new documentary exposes the far-left extremist group Antifa and its ties to communist revolutionary groups in the United States. It shows that the group of masked, black-clad protesters known for using violence and intimidation to silence conservatives may have an agenda pushed from behind the scenes.
The 37-minute documentary, “America Under Siege: Antifa,” was released on Sept. 25 by the Capital Research Center and Cohesion Films. According to the film’s writer and conservative author Trevor Loudon, the mainstream media has largely framed Antifa as a group of kids burning off steam, but with a bit of research, “we knew that wasn’t the case.” Continue reading “Antifa Tied to Communist Revolutionary Groups, Shows Documentary”
The ‘War on Terror’ has cost US taxpayers at least $1.46 trillion since September 11, 2001, the Department of Defense’s cost of war report has revealed.
The 74-page DoD dossier was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists’ Secrecy News. It breaks down the cost of the US’s various conflicts and reveals the ongoing war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq account for the greatest chunk of change.
Operation Enduring Freedom (the name given to the ‘War on Terror’ between 2001 and 2014), Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq War) and Operation New Dawn (past operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011) made up the biggest expense. They cost a combined $1.315 trillion. Continue reading “$250mn each day for 16yrs: The staggering cost of ‘War on Terror’”
Deposed Catalonian President Carles Puigdemont is now under a European arrest warrant following a ruling in the Spanish courts. Acting on a request from the state prosecutor, the country’s high court also ordered that nine secessionist leaders be jailed.
The prosecutor’s office asked Judge Carmen Lamela to jail Catalonian Vice-President Oriol Junqueras and eight other officials charged with rebellion, sedition and embezzlement of public funds, while the probe is ongoing. Continue reading “European arrest warrant issued for deposed Catalonian President Puigdemont – report”
The GOP released the “talking point” highlights of the republican tax plan which, as previewed earlier this morning, will keep the 20% corporate tax cut as permanent, and which allegedly will assure that a family of 4 making $59,000 will get a $1,182 tax cut.
As discussed previously, the bill keeps a top rate of 39.6% for the highest-earners and doubles the standard deduction for middle class families. It expands the child tax credit to $1,600 from $1,000 and will not make any changes to the 401(k) plans. The bill also “makes no changes to the popular retirement savings options that Americans have today — including 401(k)’s and Individual Retirement Accounts, or I.R.A.s. Americans will be able to continuing making both traditional, pretax contributions and ‘Roth’ contributions in the way that works best for them.”
Continue reading “GOP Tax Plan “Talking Point” Highlights Released”
THORNTON – The man suspected of shooting and killing three people inside a Thornton Walmart on Wednesday evening has been taken into custody, Thornton police announced Thursday morning.
The lone gunman, who Thornton police say was 47-year-old Scott Ostrem, reportedly walked into the Walmart “nonchalantly” and opened fire randomly on a group of people near the cash registers, according to a spokesperson for the Thornton Police Department. The three who were killed were the only ones shot. Continue reading “Suspect in triple homicide at Thornton Walmart now in custody”
Yahoo News – by Sven Gustafson, Autoblog
Hennessy Special Vehicles is unveiling its much-awaited Venom F5 hypercar today at the SEMA Show (along with a cool new video that fans of early Aerosmith will dig, below), and the beast dubbed “America’s Hypercar” is making big promises. Hennessey teased the stunner a couple weeks ago, saying its intent was to take on the Bugatti Chiron for the title of world’s fastest car. Continue reading “301 mph, 1,600 hp: Hennessey Venom F5 details emerge”
The emergence of driverless vehicles has been all but a certainty for years now. Several signs have signaled the growing popularity of autonomy, and the trucking industry has seen many of these signs first-hand.
From company mergers that involve self-driving startups to test runs and actual deliveries via driverless vehicles, there are plenty of indicators of autonomy’s prominence. Now the American Trucking Associations is taking another huge step in ushering this technology into the truck driving industry. Continue reading “ATA Issues Autonomous Truck Guidelines, An Industry First”