Share5 arrested,1 injured in chaotic protest outside Burlingame Republican Convention | 30 April 2016 | Protesters against Republican frontrunner clashed with his supporters outside the state Republican convention in Burlingame. The Republican frontrunner Donald Trump was forced to leave his motorcade to cut through a fence into a back entrance. "It felt like I was crossing the border," Trump said. The chaos lead police in riot gear to make arrests. In all, police made five arrests Friday.
ShareSupreme Court: Texas voter ID law to remain | 29 April 2016 | The Supreme Court on Friday allowed a controversial Texas voter ID law to remain in effect for now, turning away an emergency motion from opponents of the law who say it is one of the most strict in the country. A federal appeals court is set to hear a challenge to the law at the end of May. In their one-page order, the justices made clear they recognize the "time constraints" that exist because of the upcoming election and advised the parties that if the appeals court has not ruled by the end of July, the civil rights groups who brought the challenge could return to the Supreme Court to seek relief.
ShareJoint Chiefs of Staff chair acknowledges US troops are fighting in combat operations in Iraq | 28 April 2016 | While the White House maintains that U.S. troops supporting the fight against Islamic State militants are not in a combat role, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff acknowledged Thursday that troops are fighting and dying in combat operations in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter about the status of operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Afghanistan, or ISIS, also known as ISIL [also known as I-CIA-SIS], Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford answered a line of questions from Alaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan about the March 19 death of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin due to indirect fire at a small outpost in northern Iraq.
ShareTrump white powder scare: Envelope filled with mystery substance is mailed to Trump's campaign office forcing six people into isolation --Five Trump staffers and a police officer are being evaluated after an envelope of suspicious white powder was mailed to Trump Tower | 28 April 2016 | Hazmat teams and emergency crews surrounded Trump Tower this evening after an envelope of suspicious white powder was mailed to Donald Trump. Six people, including a police officer, were isolated after an intern at the Tower in New York opened the envelope at just after 8pm on Thursday. They alerted security after they discovered a mysterious white powder inside. The letter had been addressed to Donald Trump at Trump Tower, officials say.
ShareBrother of San Bernardino shooter arrested with two others | 29 April1 2016 | Three people linked to the couple [allegedly] responsible for December's mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, were arrested on Thursday on conspiracy, marriage fraud and other charges unrelated to the massacre, U.S. prosecutors said. The trio included Syed Raheel Farook, whose brother Syed Rizwan Farook and sister-in-law, Pakistan-born Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people in a rampage authorities have said was inspired by Islamist militants. All three pleaded not guilty and will be released on bond, Los Angeles U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Thom Mrozek said.
ShareWorld's fastest jet MiG-31 intercepts US spy plane near Russia's Far East | 28 April 2016 | A Russian Air Force MiG-31 jet intercepted a US spy plane near Kamchatka in Russia's Far East last week, flying within 15 meters of the aircraft. Washington downplayed the incident, saying it was carried out in a "safe and professional" manner. The MiG-31 (NATO code name Foxhound) is a Soviet-design supersonic interceptor, the world's fastest aircraft in service today. It got to within 15 meters of a US surveillance plane, which was flying in international airspace near the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
ShareFrench Assembly adopts resolution calling to end anti-Russian sanctions imposed by EU | 28 April 2016 | French MPs have voted in favor of a resolution to lift the EU-imposed sanctions initially slapped on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine and the reunification with Crimea. The document is non-binding. Fifty-five members of the French National Assembly have supported the resolution calling on the government not to extend the sanctions imposed on Russia by the EU. Forty-four voted against and two abstained.
ShareJohn Boehner: Ted Cruz is 'Lucifer in the flesh' | 28 April 2016 | John Boehner excoriated his former Capitol Hill colleague and GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz during a talk at Stanford University, labeling Cruz as "Lucifer in the flesh" Boehner, who retired as speaker of the House last fall, laid out his opinion on the presidential race in a talk at the university. Cruz did not fare well. "I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life," Boehner said, according to the Stanford Daily...If Trump is the Republican nominee, Boehner said, he would vote for him. However, if Cruz won the nod, he would not support him, Boehner said.
ShareTed Cruz to Name Carly Fiorina as His Running Mate | 27 April 2016 | Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, desperate to alter the course of a presidential primary fight in which Donald J. Trump is closing in on victory, will announce Wednesday afternoon that Carly Fiorina will be his running mate if he wins the Republican nomination, two campaign advisers confirmed. The move, a day after Mr. Trump scored unexpectedly wide victory margins in sweeping five East Coast states, amounts to the grandest diversionary ploy a presidential candidate can stage -- or at least the grandest one available to a candidate trailing by more than 400 delegates who failed to win more than 25 percent of the vote in any state on Tuesday.
ShareMichigan official suggested gaming water tests to 'bump out' lead results | 27 April 2016 | A Michigan environmental official suggested a technician collecting samples for a suburban Detroit private water system "bump...out" a test result that found very high levels of lead by testing more homes, according to a 2008 email reviewed by the Guardian. Doing so could avert a "lead public notice", the email reasoned, which would alert residents of dangerously high levels in their water.
ShareSuspect in Paris attacks extradited to France from Belgium | 27 April 2016 | Salah Abdeslam, suspected of playing a major part in November's attacks in Paris by Islamist militants in which 130 people were killed, has been extradited to France from Belgium, prosecutors in both countries said on Wednesday. Abdeslam, 26, was Europe's most wanted fugitive until his capture in Brussels on March 18 after a four-month manhunt. He was due to appear before French judges later on Wednesday.
ShareGerman nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, operator says | 27 April 2016 | A nuclear power plant in Germany has been found to be infected with computer viruses, but they appear not to have posed a threat to the facility's operations [?!?] because it is isolated from the Internet, the station's operator said on Tuesday. The Gundremmingen plant, located about 120 km (75 miles) northwest of Munich, is run by the German utility RWE. The viruses, which include "W32.Ramnit" and "Conficker", were discovered at Gundremmingen's B unit in a computer system retrofitted in 2008 with data visualization software associated with equipment for moving nuclear fuel rods, RWE said. Malware was also found on 18 removable data drives, mainly USB sticks, in office computers maintained separately from the plant's operating systems.
ShareOfficials for Hanford Nuclear Reservation trying to determine if second giant tank containing radioactive waste from production of plutonium for nuclear weapons is leaking | 26 April 2016 | (WA) Officials for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are trying to determine if a second giant underground tank containing radioactive waste from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons is leaking, the U.S. Department of Energy revealed on Tuesday. Air monitors attached to an aging tank known as AY-101 recently found radiation at higher than normal background levels, the agency said. A video inspection of the underground tank found no evidence that radioactive waste had leaked from the primary tank into the space between the two walls, Hanford officials said. A Hanford watchdog group on Tuesday contended the higher radiation found by the air monitors was evidence of a leak in a second tank.
ShareCIA doesn't have to disclose info on drone killings, appeals court rules | 25 April 2016 | A federal appeals court has rejected a freedom of information lawsuit brought about by the American Civil Liberties Union, ruling that the government doesn't have to disclose the victims of CIA "targeted killings" by drones. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit last week upheld a lower court's 2013 dismissal of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The request, made by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), was filed in an attempt to obtain records on the use of military drones, such as intended targets, locations, and how many people died from the strikes.
ShareChris Van Hollen and Katie McGinty Win Senate Primary Races | 26 April 2016 | Two establishment Democrats - Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Katie McGinty, a former chief of staff to the governor of Pennsylvania - won key Senate primaries on Tuesday, ending a contentious primary season in both states. In Baltimore, The Associated Press declared another favorite of the party establishment, State Senator Catherine E. Pugh, the winner out of a crowded field of mayoral candidates, with the victor in this heavily Democratic city almost certain to prevail in November...In Pennsylvania, Ms. McGinty will face Senator Patrick J. Toomey, a vulnerable Republican, in one of the races that could help determine control of the Senate.
ShareTrump: 'I consider myself the presumptive nominee, absolutely' | 26 April 2016 | Donald Trump declared himself the "presumptive nominee" in a victory speech from Trump Tower on Tuesday night, after dominating five Republican presidential-primary contests. Shortly after the polls closed on Tuesday evening, several networks projected that the candidate would sweep through the day's five primary contests. He won primaries in Connecticut, Maryland, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Pennsylvania..."I consider myself the presumptive nominee, absolutely," Trump said during a speech and press conference at Trump Tower in New York City. He said later: "As far as I'm concerned, it's over."
ShareMan fleeing robbery jumps fence near White House: Secret Service | 26 April 2016 | A man fleeing a nearby robbery jumped the fence of a building next to the White House on Tuesday afternoon and was taken into custody by the Secret Service, the agency said in a statement. The incident prompted a 20-minute lockdown of the White House, a Secret Service official said. The unidentified man jumped the west fence of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is on the White House campus and sits just west of the executive mansion, the agency's statement said.
ShareClinton wins Connecticut primary | 26 Apr 2016 | Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is projected to win the Connecticut primary. Fox News and NBC News called the race around 10:30 p.m. EDT. Polls closed at 8 p.m. The win will give Clinton the majority of the state's 55 pledged delegates, expanding her lead and inching her closer to the nomination.
ShareAnti-Trump protester pepper-sprays five people, including two little girls, during demonstration in Anaheim | 26 April 2016 | Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump clashed Tuesday outside City Hall [in Orange County], and five people, including two little girls, were pepper-sprayed by a demonstrator during the heated confrontation, police said...At one point, an opponent unleashed a hand-held pepper-spray device on the pro-Trump crowd. Five people, including two girls ages 8 and 11, were exposed to the eye-stinging spray, police Sgt. Daron Wyatt said. Three were treated at the scene by paramedics.
ShareHillary Clinton Wins Three States, Bernie Sanders Takes Rhode Island --Results from Connecticut's primary are still being tallied | 26 April 2016 | Hillary Clinton swept to primary victories over rival Sen. Bernie Sanders in Pennsylvania and Maryland Tuesday night, winning the two largest prizes of the evening and also capturing Delaware...Meanwhile, Mr. Sanders pulled off a win in Rhode Island, and results in Connecticut were still being tallied into the evening, with preliminary results there suggesting a close race. A new poll shows Mr. Sanders is the most popular person in the race in either party among young voters.
ShareDonald Trump Sweeps 5 States; Hillary Clinton Takes 4 | 26 April 2016 | Donald J. Trump crushed his Republican opponents in Pennsylvania, Maryland and three other states on Tuesday, a sweep that put him considerably closer to capturing the party's presidential nomination outright, while Hillary Clinton won Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland and Delaware and was battling to amass enough delegates to claim the Democratic nomination as early as mid-May. Mr. Trump's success intensified the aura of inevitability around his bid to lead the Republicans, and created urgent new challenges for his rivals. More significant, it increased his chances of avoiding a fight on the floor of the party's convention in July and of claiming the nomination on the delegates' first ballot.
ShareSanders wins Democratic primary in Rhode Island | 26 April 2016 | Bernie Sanders has won the Democratic presidential primary in Rhode Island, offering the Vermont senator modest gains in the race against front-runner Hillary Clinton. Sanders's win Tuesday blocks a potential sweep of the day's five races by Clinton, who has already won three out of the five contests.
ShareGOP Primary Results: Trump Projected to Sweep All 5 States in 'Acela Primary' | 26 April 2016 | Voters headed to the polls in five states today for the "Acela primary." ABC News projects Donald Trump will win the Connecticut, Maryland and Pennsylvania GOP primaries, based on exit poll data analysis. ABC News projects Trump will also win the Rhode Island and Delaware GOP primaries, based on vote analysis.
Share'Your system failed to tackle our attacks. Now we will crush you again': Pro-ISIS hackers post 'kill list' of US government department employees --'Kill list' of 43 people linked to various US government departments | 26 April 2016 | A pro-ISIS [I-CIA-SIS] hackers group who call themselves United Cyber Caliphate distributed a 'kill list' Monday that appears to include dozens of U.S. government personnel. The post appeared on social network site Telegram, one of the main applications it uses to disseminate propaganda. The list, obtained by Vocativ, features 43 names of people linked to the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the departments of defense, energy, commerce and health and services.
ShareHillary Clinton Wins Pennsylvania's Democratic Primary | 26 Apr 2016 | Hillary Clinton beat Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary, nabbing the biggest prize in Tuesday's elections and further widening her delegate lead over Sanders. She also won Tuesday's primary contests in Delaware and Maryland.
ShareHillary Clinton wins 4 states; Bernie Sanders wins Rhode Island --April 26 primaries live updates, results | 26 Apr 2016 | Update (April 26, 7:45 p.m. PT): Big night for Clinton --Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has won the Connecticut primary, the Associated Press reports. With 84 percent of precincts reporting, she won 50.3 percent of the vote to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders's 47.9 percent. Clinton had a big night, winning four of five contests. As a result, the window of opportunity has all but slammed shut on Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders's underdog bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
ShareProtesters break into Finnish-Russian nuclear site| 26 Apr 2016 | Anti-nuclear protesters broke in to a construction site on Tuesday for a nuclear reactor to be supplied by Russia's state-owned nuclear firm Rosatom, choosing the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster for their demonstration. Police estimated that close to 50 protesters gathered near the Fennovoima site in northern Finland and around 40 were detained. One group broke in to the site while others lay down on the road leading to the site's entrance, police said.
Share54 arrests made in HB2 protest as lawmakers convene | 26 Apr 2016 | A total of 54 protesters were arrested Monday evening, as some interrupted lawmakers when the short session convened Monday. Protesters inside the House chamber started shouting as state lawmakers tried to adjourn Monday night, less than 30 minutes after they reconvened for this year's short session.
ShareDHS agents accompany Brookfield, CT, detectives to travel to Maine to arrest Adam Lanza's former psychiatrist [Wow! I wonder what this guy did or wouldn't do?] | 22 April 2016 | A former psychiatrist who treated Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza when he was a teenager was arrested this week and charged with sexual assault after police say he carried on a sexual relationship with a former patient. Brookfield detectives traveled to Paul Fox's residence in Peaks Island, Maine, to take him into custody Wednesday with the assistance of Homeland Security Agents, police said. Police said the relationship occurred between October 2010 and October 2011...Fox told detectives in a Dec. 17, 2012, telephone interview that he had destroyed any records he had of his treatment of Lanza but recalled last seeing him when Lanza was about 15.
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