The Wait Is Over: Mueller Report Delivered To AG Barr; No Further Indictments Planned…
House Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Schumer say Barr must not give the White House a sneak preview of the Mueller report and that it must not interfere in what parts of it are made public...
March 22, 2019
Barr has told congressional leaders he is "reviewing the report and anticipate that [he] may be in a position to advise [them] of the special counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend." Meanwhile, Mueller has indicated that there are no further indictments expected.
Parkland shooting survivor Sydney Aiello takes her own life…
March 22, 2019
Sydney's mother, Cara Aiello, told CBS Miami her daughter struggled with survivor's guilt and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in the year following the tragedy. And while she reportedly never asked for help, she struggled to attend college classes because she was scared of being in a classroom
Judge throws out Deerfield’s assault weapons ban…
March 22, 2019
A Lake County Circuit Court judge ruled Friday that the village of Deerfield overstepped its authority last year when it enacted a ban on assault weapons five years after the Illinois legislature declared such regulations the exclusive power of the state.
Judge Luis Berrones issued a permanent injunction blocking the village from enforcing its ordinance. In the ruling, Berrones wrote that the plaintiff gun owners have “a clearly ascertainable right to not be subjected to a preempted and unenforceable ordinance” that prohibits possession of assault weapons, imposes financial penalties for keeping them and allows their property to be confiscated.
Trump administration expands penalty relief for Americans who underpaid taxes…
March 22, 2019
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is waiving the underpayment penalty for more Americans who may have unintentionally underpaid their 2018 tax liabilities.
The Department of Treasury announced on Friday that it was lowering the withholding underpayment threshold to 80 percent – meaning people whose total withholding and estimated tax payments for 2018 are equal to or greater than 80 percent of their taxes owed will not be penalized.
Research: Google Search Bias Flipped Seats for Democrats in Midterms…
March 22, 2019
New research from psychologist and search engine expert Dr. Robert Epstein shows that biased Google searches had a measurable impact on the 2018 midterm elections, pushing tens of thousands of votes towards the Democrat candidates in three key congressional races, and potentially millions more in races across the country.
The study, from Epstein and a team at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT), analyzed Google searches related to three highly competitive congressional races in Southern California. In all three races, the Democrat won — and Epstein’s research suggests that Google search bias may have tipped them over the edge.Michael Jackson’s fixer returns: why Anthony Pellicano has Hollywood running scared…
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March 22, 2019
It was he who handled Jackson’s negotiations with Evan Chandler, who accused the King of Pop of sexually abusing his 13-year-old son Jordan “Jordy” Chandler in 1993 – accusations Pellicano later labelled “an extortion attempt”. Indeed, Pellicano knows everything about everyone... When he was arrested in 2002, FBI agents found more than 150,000 pages of transcriptions taken from covert recordings. Many powerful men have reason to be afraid of what they contain.
“For 30 years, I’ve been a sin eater for the rich and famous,” Pellicano said in 2003 on being jailed for crimes ranging from possession of plastic explosives and hand grenades, to wiretapping, racketeering, protection, intimidation, witness tampering and evidence destruction. “I just ate one sin too many.”
Defense Health Agency joins a growing list of defense agencies moving their data to the cloud…
March 22, 2019
Amazon Web Services will now host DHA’s Armed Forces Billing and Collection Utilization Solution in GovCloud U.S. West region, a cluster of data centers built specifically to host some of the government’s most sensitive data.
DHA joins the Army, U.S. Transportation Command and other defense agencies moving increasingly large—and sometimes highly sensitive—data sets to commercial clouds.
Sam Adams dedicating new beer to Ruth Bader Ginsburg…
March 22, 2019
"When There Are Nine," a Belgian Bruit IPA, will be unveiled March 29 at the Samuel Adams Tap Room in Boston. The name of the beer is in reference to Ginsburg's famous response to the question "When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?" the company said in an online invitation to the unveiling.
"We wanted to name it Brut Bader Ginsburg, but our legal team, uh, dissented," the company wrote.
Democrat Secretary of state rejects petition seeking gun law repeal…
March 22, 2019
Citing an arcane and rarely used provision of the state constitution, Republican leaders in the House of Representatives had called for a statewide referendum on Senate Bill 8. The measure, which the governor signed into law March 8, requires a gun buyer undergo a background check when purchasing a firearm from another person.
But in a letter to House Minority Leader Jim Townsend on Thursday, the secretary of state said this is not the sort of law that voters can repeal through a public vote.
The constitution states that “the people reserve the power to disapprove, suspend and annul any law enacted by the Legislature.” Toulouse Oliver, though, said this provision does not apply to “laws providing for the preservation of the public peace, health or safety.”
Bannon descends on Rome, sowing chaos…
March 22, 2019
If Trump can last the next six months, “and that’s a big if,” Bannon said, he will win bigger than in 2016.
Bannon, who has been spending much of his time lately in Europe, promoting an alliance of populist right-wing parties, was in Japan less than two weeks ago, praising Prime Minister Shinzō Abe as “Trump before Trump” before jetting off to Cincinnati, then Detroit, to rally support for privately funding the Great Mexican Wall, with attendees nearly outnumbered by protesters outside. Two days ago, he was in Washington, D.C., along with the son of visiting Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, partying with conservatives at the Trump International Hotel. And here he was in Rome, speaking before a group of around 150 journalists at the 17th century Biblioteca Angelica, a gorgeous high-ceilinged building lined with a million old books.
Watch As Canadian Lawmaker Accuses Trudeau Of Being A “Fake Feminist”…
March 22, 2019
China has cloned its best police dog. Now it wants to mass-produce more…
March 22, 2019
Beijing-based Sinogene Biotechnology Company and the Yunnan Agricultural University this week announced the successful cloning of the police sniffer dog in question. The clone, named Kunxun, is already three months old. It is the first step in a plan aimed at “volume production” of similarly cloned police dogs that would presumably lead to reduced training times. The work is supported by the Ministry of Public Security.
Kunxun will now go through the necessary drug detection, crowd control, and evidence searching training. At around 10 months old, the dog will then graduate to the level of official police dog. Training of a police dog usually takes around five years to complete, a report claims. Police dogs are always a risky investment, since there is no guarantee that a dog will take to the work as hoped for. By cloning a successful police dog the idea is that some of this risk may be mitigated.
The Newest Opioid Lawsuit Is Going Right After the Sackler Family…
March 22, 2019
An enormous federal lawsuit out of New York is the latest and most brazen attempt to explicitly tie the billionaire Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma, to the opioid crisis. It accuses them of knowingly misleading the public about the addictiveness of their drugs, as well as turning a blind eye to doctors who were accused of prescribing dangerously high doses or diverting their supply to the black market.
This week, a coalition of over 500 cities, counties, and Native American tribes sued eight members of the Sackler family in the southern district of New York, the Guardian reported.
Boeing Faces First Order Cancellation for 737 MAX Since Crash…
March 22, 2019
Indonesia’s flag airline is cancelling its orders for the Boeing Max 737 jet, the first carrier to publicly do so after the aircraft was involved in two crashes in less than five months.
Garuda Indonesia informed Boeing on March 14 that it wished to cancel its remaining order for 49 Max jets. The two sides plan to meet on March 28 for “further discussion,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
4chan 17-Year-Old Has Been Arrested After Online Threat Shut Down All Charlottesville Schools For Two Days In A Row…
March 22, 2019
The unidentified teen has been charged with threats to commit serious bodily harm and harassment by computer.
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All city schools were closed for two days as a precautionary measure, keeping more than 4,300 students out of classrooms.
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The threat was reportedly posted by a 4chan user claiming to be a Charlottesville High School student. The user threatened to carry out an "ethnic cleansing" at the school on Thursday and urged all the white students at the school to stay home.Montreal priest stabbed during mass at St. Joseph’s Oratory…
March 22, 2019
The mass was being livestreamed by the Catholic television network Sel+Lumiere TV, which airs the religious ceremony daily, when the stabbing occurred. The footage was quickly removed from the website following the attack.
In the video, a man wearing a dark winter coat and a light-coloured baseball cap pulled out a large knife and walked in front of the altar. The footage shows the suspect run up the steps towards the priest.
Grou attempted to run away as the attacker knocked over a candle. The video shows the man quickly catch up to the priest and push him to the ground before he appears to stab him once.
UK denies asylum to Iranian convert to Christianity, saying the religion is not ‘peaceful’…
March 22, 2019
The Iranian national, who claimed asylum in 2016, was told passages in the Bible were “inconsistent” with his claim to have converted to Christianity after discovering it was a “peaceful” faith.
The refusal letter from the department states the book of Revelations – the final book of the Bible – is “filled with imagery of revenge, destruction, death and violence”, and cites six excerpts from it. It then states: “These examples are inconsistent with your claim that you converted to Christianity after discovering it is a ‘peaceful’ religion, as opposed to Islam which contains violence, rage and revenge.”
Germany arrests 10 for planning car and gun attack…
March 22, 2019
According to the initial investigation, the accused were planning to use a vehicle and firearms to kill as many "unbelievers" as possible. They had rented a large vehicle and made contact with weapons' dealers and started to raise funds.
During the raids, police found and seized over €20,000 ($22,500) in cash, several knives, small quantities of narcotics, a variety of documents and electronic data storage equipment.
The charges include funding terrorism and conspiring to commit a crime. The accused are due to appear before a judge at the District Court of Frankfurt on Friday afternoon.
Trump talks the Fed, McCain in exclusive interview with Maria Bartiromo…
March 22, 2019
New conservative/nationalist Dutch party comes in first place in provincial elections…
March 22, 2019