A 31-year-old police officer in Ohio was fatally shot responding to a domestic dispute during the weekend. Girard officer Justin Leo was shot Saturday night, WFMJ reports. Police were sent to a home around 10 p.m. regarding “a domestic situation involving a firearm,” Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) Special Agent James Ciotti said in a press conference. […]
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Jimmy Carter Volunteers To Go To North Korea For Trump
NEW YORK- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said he would be willing to travel to North Korea on behalf of the Trump administration to help diffuse rising tensions, The New York Times reported on its website on Sunday. “I would go, yes,” Carter, 93, told the Times when he was asked in an interview at […]
American Deaths Due IED’s Continue To Rise In Afghanistan
The number of U.S. service members killed as a result of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan is rising, Foreign Policy reported Friday. From the beginning of April to the end of June of this year, IEDs killed or injured 3,043 people in 1,143 separate incidents in Afghanistan, according to internal slides obtained from the Department of Defense by FP. […]
Trump To De-Classify JFK Assassination Files
President Trump announced on Twitter that he will allow the release of thousands of classified documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy after years of delays. The unexpected move means the trove of never-before-seen documents are set to be released by the National Archives by Oct. 26. Subject to the receipt of further […]
Serial Killer Operating In Florida Community
Police in Tampa, Fla. believe the killing of a 20-year-old autistic man Thursday night is linked to two other suspicious deaths in the same neighborhood. Anthony Taino Naiboa’s family said he was taking a bus home from work and had gotten off at the wrong stop in the Seminole Heights neighborhood. They said he was […]
Senate Passes $4 Trillion Budget, Eyes Tax Reform Next
The Senate on Thursday passed a Republican budget resolution that would pave the way to use a special procedural rule to consider tax reform later this year. The $4 trillion budget blueprint passed 51-49, with all Democrats and one Republican, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, voting against it, saying the budget “simply didn’t measure up […]
Judge Refuses To Throw Out ‘Sheriff Joe’s’ Guilty Verdict Ruling
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton issued an order Thursday shutting down requests by the sheriff’s attorneys to have the facts behind the conviction thrown out after the pardon. Bolton said in the order that Trump’s pardon was an “executive prerogative of mercy, not of judicial recordkeeping,” according to Politico. “The pardon undoubtedly spared Defendant from any punishment that […]
George Bush Slams Trump In Latest Speech
You might say George W. Bush wants to make America great again. In remarks Thursday, he criticized the kind of politics, sentiment and populism that led to President Trump’s rise and election — though he never named Trump explicitly. “Bigotry seems emboldened,” Bush said in New York at a forum put on by the George […]
North Korea Threatens United States With Unimaginable Nuclear Attack
North Korea is warning that the United States will face an “unimaginable” nuclear strike for conducting ongoing joint naval drills with the South Korean military on the Korean peninsula. “The U.S. is running amok by introducing under our nose the targets we have set as primary ones,” the state-controlled news agency KCNA warned Thursday, Newsweek reported. “The U.S. should expect that […]
White House Does Not Dispute Fallen Soldier Family’s Claims
Under pressure over President Donald Trump’s reported handling of a call with the widow of an Army sergeant killed in action, the White House on Wednesday did not dispute details that have emerged about Trump saying the soldier “knew what he was signing up for” when he joined the military. Trump reportedly said this to […]
Trump Gives His Administration A “10” For Puerto Rico Aid
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday gave his administration a “10” for its response to Puerto Rico’s hurricane devastation, despite the widespread lack of electricity and drinkable water across the storm-ravaged island. Asked by reporters how he would grade the federal government’s efforts after Hurricane Irma thrashed the island, Trump declared “I give ourselves […]
Family Of Fallen Soldier Says Trump Disrespected Them
The mother of an Army sergeant killed in Niger said Wednesday that President Donald Trump, in a call offering condolences, showed “disrespect” to the soldier’s loved ones as they drove to the airport to meet his body. Trump, engulfed in controversy over the appropriate way for presidents to show compassion for slain soldiers, strongly disputed […]