From the Trenches World Report

Red Orbit – by Chuck Bednar

A recent measles outbreak that has caused dozens of Somali-Americans living in Minnesota to contract the highly contagious virus has been traced to an anti-vaccination campaign linking the potentially life-saving immunizations to autism, state health officials said on Monday.

According to Live Science, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) revealed Friday that it had confirmed 54 cases of measles in the state. All but three of those cases involved children under the age of 18, and the majority of them had not been vaccinated, they revealed in a report.   Continue reading “Minnesota measles outbreak blamed on anti-vaxxers”

ABC News

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board will spend Tuesday gathering facts about Monday afternoon’s fiery crash of a Learjet just outside New Jersey’s Teterboro airport that killed both people on board.

The cause of the crash is unclear although some details about the event have begun to surface.   Continue reading “What we know about the fiery NJ plane crash that killed 2”

Fox News

The Second Amendment is only 27 words, but Americans have used millions of words arguing over what it means. It guarantees “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” But which people, what arms, and under what circumstances?

Two milestone cases involving the Second Amendment that reached the Supreme Court are District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), declaring an individual has a right to own a firearm, and McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010), affirming the Second Amendment applies to state law.

Now, if the Supreme Court decides to hear it, there may be a third major case in a decade: Peruta v. California.   Continue reading “Second Amendment case Peruta vs. California may be heading to Supreme Court”

CBC News

TransCanada is reassessing whether oil producers in North Dakota and Montana are still interested in shipping crude through its long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline now that they have other new options to ship their product, including the Dakota Access pipeline.

The Calgary-based company’s announcement this month comes with the Keystone XL still needing approval of its proposed route through Nebraska and with the Dakota Access, which was designed to transport about half of North Dakota’s oil production, expected to be fully operational by June.   Continue reading “TransCanada looking at whether U.S. producers still interested in Keystone XL”

Fuel Fix – by Ryan Handy

The Texas Supreme Court ruled late last month that the Railroad Commission of Texas, the state’s oil and gas regulator, does not have exclusive jurisdiction over environmental contamination cases, which can be settled in court.

The decision came from a years’ long dispute between a rancher, Jimmy McAllen, and the Denver-based Forest Oil, which McAllen accused of polluting his property and exposing him to radiation. Forest Oil, now a part of the Houston-based Sabine Oil and Gas Corp., argued that McAllen couldn’t sue the company and seek millions in damages through the court system because only the Railroad Commission has jurisdiction over contamination cases. Forest Oil objected to paying damages in addition to being forced to clean up McAllen’s property.   Continue reading “Texas Supreme Court says landowners can sue over oil and gas contamination”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The US just “executed” 30 Syrian civilians. So what Mr. Israeli should happen to the US? Nothing of course, they are a part of the plan just as Israel is. Globalism my friends, it is alive and well and marching forward rapidly.

An Israeli minister called for the assassination of Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday, saying he “does not have a place in this world.”  Continue reading “Israeli Minister: ‘The Time Has Come’ To Kill Bashar Assad”

Capital Research Center – by Matthew Vadum

With all this talk of Russians allegedly interfering in U.S. elections, it is worth recalling that it wasn’t too long ago that the previous Democrat in the White House betrayed America by working hand in hand with our Communist enemies in mainland China.

As president, Bill Clinton essentially wiped out any strategic advantage the U.S. had by selling advanced U.S. missile technology to our enemy, the People’s Republic of China.  Continue reading “Flashback: Bill Clinton gave China missile technology”

Moon of Alabama

Max Abrams, a professor who works about terrorism, came up with this new definition of “terrorism”:

Nonstate actors who use violence against civilians for a political goal and haven’t been supported by the US.

The highlighted part is “new” to those who have not learned from history and the many occasions of U.S. support for (typically extremely right-wing) terrorist organizations like the “contras” in Nicaragua, OUN fascists in Ukraine or Jihadi Mujahedin in Afghanistan. It can indeed be argued that the U.S. created al-Qaeda as well as the Islamic State (ISIS).  Continue reading “State Department: Renamed Al-Qaeda Not A Terrorist Organization – Can Receive CIA Supplies”

Reuters

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against a New Mexico police officer for arresting a 13-year-old boy who burped repeatedly and disrupted his class, a case that raised questions about police conduct in school settings.

The justices refused to hear an appeal by the boy’s mother of a lower court’s ruling in favor of Albuquerque officer Arthur Acosta that granted him qualified immunity, a legal defense that protects certain public officials from suits as long as they did not violate a clearly established law or constitutional right.   Continue reading “U.S. Supreme Court rejects case involving burping teen”

Fox News

White House officials Monday denounced a Washington Post report that President Trump revealed classified information about ISIS to Russia’s foreign minister and Moscow’s ambassador to the United States during a White House meeting last week.

In a brief statement in front of the White House, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster described the Post’s story as “false.”   Continue reading “White House denies report Trump revealed classified info about ISIS to Russians”

Fox News

There is tangible evidence on the laptop of a former DNC staffer that confirms he was talking to WikiLeaks prior to his murder, a private investigator suggested Monday.

Seth Rich was killed last July in what authorities have called a robbery gone awry.

But Rod Wheeler, a former D.C. homicide detective and Fox News contributor, is leading a parallel investigation into Rich’s murder.   Continue reading “Slain DNC staffer had contact with WikiLeaks, investigator says”

RT

An Ohio police officer is recovering from an accidental overdose after making a drug stop where he accidentally brushed a small amount of powder off his shirt without realizing it was the highly potent opioid synthetic drug, fentanyl.

East Liverpool patrolman Chris Green responded to a traffic stop Friday after two suspected drug dealers were seen performing a drug transaction in a car, according to a police report obtained by WKBN.    Continue reading “Ohio cop overdoses on high-risk painkiller fentanyl after contact during stop”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s refusal to breathe new life into North Carolina’s sweeping voter identification law might be just a temporary victory for civil rights groups. Republican-led states are continuing to enact new voter ID measures and other voting restrictions, and the Supreme Court’s newly reconstituted conservative majority, with the addition of Justice Neil Gorsuch, could make the court less likely to invalidate the laws based on claims under the federal Voting Rights Act or the Constitution.   Continue reading “Supreme Court order unlikely to deter voting restrictions”

Mail.com

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — New South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit the White House next month for a summit with President Donald Trump amid worries over North Korea’s progress in building a nuclear and missile arsenal, Seoul’s presidential office said Tuesday.

The agreement for the leaders to meet in late June followed a meeting in Seoul between Chung Eui-yong, Moon’s foreign policy adviser, and Matt Pottinger, the Asia director on Trump’s National Security Council, Moon’s spokesman Yoon Young-chan said.   Continue reading “New South Korean leader to go to White House summit in June”