| A man broke into a woman's house in Alabama with a gun, police say. She countered with a pot of hot grease Posted: 06 Aug 2019 04:19 PM PDT  Larondrick Macklin, 31, was arrested in Alabama after police say he broke into a woman's home with a gun. She defended herself with hot grease.
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| Trump tweet: Nobody blamed Obama for Sandy Hook Posted: 06 Aug 2019 06:17 AM PDT  President Trump responded to the criticism he's been receiving in the wake of the deadly mass shootings over the weekend by quoting "Fox & Friends" co-hosts, who argued former President Barack Obama was not treated as harshly.
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| Pakistan army chief says military will "go to any extent" to support Kashmir cause Posted: 06 Aug 2019 02:52 AM PDT ![Pakistan army chief says military will "go to any extent" to support Kashmir cause]( "Pakistan army chief says military will \"go to any extent\" to support Kashmir cause") Pakistan's army chief said on Tuesday the country's military will "go to any extent" to support people in the contested Kashmir region, after arch rival India revoked special status in its portion of the territory. "Pakistan Army firmly stands by the Kashmiris in their just struggle to the very end," said General Qamar Javed Bajwa after meeting with top commanders in Rawalpindi. India on Monday dropped a constitutional provision for the state of Jammu and Kashmir, which has long been a flashpoint in ties with neighbouring Pakistan, to make its own laws.
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| Suspect arrested in murders of man, nanny found dead at suburban New Jersey home Posted: 05 Aug 2019 01:28 PM PDT  Police have made an arrest in the killings of a man and a live-in nanny who worked with his family in New Jersey.
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| CNN Disputes Matt Gaetz’s Claim the Network Snubbed Him on Gun Talks Posted: 06 Aug 2019 12:11 PM PDT  REUTERSRep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) suggested this week that CNN deliberately tried to silence him in the wake of several mass shootings over the weekend. But the network says Gaetz is deliberately misrepresenting the facts.The Florida Republican made the suggestion Tuesday in response to CNN noting the number of Republicans who were unwilling to appear on the network to discuss gun laws following the shootings. Gaetz, a TV-friendly regular on Fox News and other cable-news programs, responded that he was booked on Erin Burnett on Monday, but the show cancelled on him. Then, he claimed, he was also bumped by Anderson Cooper after getting booked on his primetime CNN program. "I'm ready for the discussion whenever CNN is," he claimed.But in a statement to The Daily Beast, a CNN spokesperson pushed back on Gaetz's claims, saying the congressman's timeline is all out of whack. According to the spokesperson, several shows on the network had in fact declined to book Gaetz last week—before the shootings ever took place. "Wrong Congressman! Your staff pitched you a week ago for an in-studio interview based on your travel to NY. Both shows declined last week, well before the tragic events over the weekend. Those are the facts," the spokesperson said.The absence of Republicans lawmakers appearing on non-Fox News networks in the wake of the shootings in El Paso and Dayton has been a subject of some criticism from Democrats and journalists, who believe the politicians should answer questions about the party's continued opposition to major gun-control measures. Republican Politicians on Fox News Blame Video Games for Latest Mass ShootingsSeveral prominent news hosts like Tapper and Rachel Maddow pointed out that few Republican elected officials had been willing to appear CNN, MSNBC, and other mainstream television outlets in the wake of the shootings that left a combined 31 people dead.Some Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, did sit down for major TV interviews, but with only Fox News. In his Sunday conversation with Fox, the Republican leader blamed violent video games for the mass shootings. Meanwhile, Republican leaders have continued to ignore calls for a serious discussion about possible new gun laws—instead focusing on video games and mental illness."We've always had guns. We've always had evil," Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said during a weekend interview with Fox News. "But what's changed where we see this rash of shooting? And I see a video game industry that teaches young people to kill."Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Father of Parkland shooting victim tells El Paso residents to ‘get mad’ over Walmart massacre: ‘Scream, shout, do something’ Posted: 05 Aug 2019 03:39 PM PDT  The father of the one of the Parkland shooting victims has urged the city of El Paso to "get mad" in the aftermath of the Walmart shooting that left 22 dead, saying: "Get out there, scream, shout, do something."Manuel Oliver and his wife, Patricia, have been travelling the world in the days and months since their 19-year-old son, Joaquin, was killed in the February 2018 school shooting that left 17 students and staff dead, campaigning for gun control.They were in El Paso to unveil a mural that Mr Oliver, an artist whose family was originally from Venezuela, had painted on the walls of an immigration rights organisation. Their son had long been a champion of humane treatment of migrants.On Saturday morning, they heard about the reports of an active shooter at one of the city's Walmart stores, and were again jolted with pain."We are continuing the fight," Mr Oliver said, speaking at a vigil outside the NGO's offices this week, that was also addressed by former congressman Beto O'Rourke. He said in the aftermath of mass shootings, politicians often claimed it was "not the time" to talk about gun control out of respect to relatives of those killed and injured."This is the moment to talk about guns," he said, to large applause. "We know what those families are going through. Their lives will never be the same again, and they're expecting you do do something about it."In a video message posted online, Mr Oliver doubled down on his call for residents of the city "to get mad"."Get out there, scream, shout, do something," he said. "I know how game works. You have to protect your city and your citizens. You've got to get angry, and not take this so easily. You've got to be mad and take action."Over the weekend, the Olivers said their son's memory was now linked to two places that shared a mass shooting outrage."This is unbelievable. I heard that El Paso is considered one of the safest cities in the country. I heard the same story about Parkland. They were on the same list," Ms Oliver told the Associated Press. Her husband said it was a "terrible coincidence".The mural he created features images of crying children inside window bars to create the image of cells along with likenesses of his wife and their son. Last year, he painted a similar piece on fences in Tijuana, Mexico.After the shooting on Saturday, Mr Oliver made an addition to the mural in El Paso, painting the words "El Paso no está solo", or "El Paso is not alone".
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| FBI reviewing Ohio shooter's interest in violent ideology Posted: 06 Aug 2019 03:51 PM PDT  The gunman who killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio, had expressed a desire to commit a mass shooting and showed an interest in violent ideology, investigators said Tuesday as the FBI announced it is opening an investigation. Federal investigators will try to determine what ideologies influenced 24-year-old Connor Betts, who might have helped him or knew in advance of his plan, and why he chose the specific target of Dayton's Oregon entertainment district for the shooting early Sunday, said Special Agent Todd Wickerham, the head of the FBI's Cincinnati field office.
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| Ohio shooting suspect had been suspended from school for making a 'rape list' of girls he wanted to attack Posted: 05 Aug 2019 09:11 AM PDT  The Ohio gunman who killed nine people on Sunday had previously been suspended from school over a "hit list" of classmates and a "rape list" of girls he wanted to sexually assault. Connor Betts, 24, opened fire outside a crowded bar in the early hours of Sunday, injuring dozens and leaving his own sister among the fatalities, before police on patrol in the area shot him dead. It has now emerged that the gunman had a history of violence, leading to questions over how he was able to purchase the fire arms used in the shooting spree. According to high school classmates, Betts was suspended during their junior year at suburban Bellbrook High School after a hit list of those he wanted to kill was found scrawled in a school bathroom. That followed an earlier suspension after Betts came to school with a list of female students he wanted to sexually assault, according to the two classmates, a man and a woman who are both now 24 and did not wish to be identified. "There was a kill list and a rape list, and my name was on the rape list," the female classmate told the Associated Press. Mourners leave flowers and candles at the entrance of Ned Peppers bar in the Oregon District following a memorial service Credit: Scott Olson/Getty A former cheerleader, the woman said she didn't really know Betts and was surprised when a police officer called her cellphone during her freshman year to tell her that her name was included on a list of potential targets. "The officer said he wouldn't be at school for a while," she said. "But after some time passed he was back, walking the halls. They didn't give us any warning that he was returning to school." The school district has not commented on those accounts, only confirming that Betts attended schools in the district. A former principal, Chris Baker, who retired this summer, told the Dayton Daily News "would not dispute that information" but refused to give any further information. However police said there was nothing in the 24-year-old's background that would have prevented him from purchasing the .223-caliber rifle with extended ammunition magazines that he used in Sunday's attack. The discovery of the hit list early in 2012 sparked a police investigation, according to local media reports, but it is not clear whether it led to any further action. Betts had no apparent criminal record as an adult, though if he had been charged as a juvenile that would typically be sealed under state law. "There's nothing in this individual's record that would have precluded him from getting these weapons," Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said on Sunday. The rifle Betts used in the shooting spree was fitted with an extended drum magazine that could hold 100 rounds. The gun was bought legally online from a dealer in Texas and shipped to a local firearms dealer, police said. Betts' sister Megan Betts, 22, was one of the first to be killed. Police said the siblings had arrived in the same vehicle with a third person earlier in the evening, but separated before the rampage. Of the 27 people injured, four remained in serious condition and one person in a critical condition. While Betts, who was 17 at the time, was not named publicly as the author of the list at the time, the former classmates said it was common knowledge within the school he was the culprit. Drew Gainey was among those who went on social media Sunday to say red flags were raised about Betts' behaviour years ago. "There was an incident in high school with this shooter that should have prevented him from ever getting his hands on a weapon. This was a tragedy that was 100% avoidable," he wrote on in a post on Sunday. Brad Howard, who said he was friends with Betts from preschool right until their high school graduation, offered a different assessment. "Connor Betts that I knew was a nice kid. The Connor Betts that I talked to, I always got along with well," he said. Mike Kern, a customer at the gas station where Betts used to work in Bellbrook, said "he was the nicest kid you could imagine". "I never heard him talk about violence, say a racist word, or anything like that," he added. Mr Kern said they sometimes played trivia at a bar near the gas station, and Mr Betts often knew the answers on questions about current events and pop culture. "He was real smart," he said. "He knew all the answers."
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| Did Dayton gunman target his own sister? Idea 'defies believability,' police chief says Posted: 05 Aug 2019 01:55 PM PDT  Ohio officials were reluctant to guess what set 24-year-old Connor Betts on his rampage.
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| UPDATE 1-N.Korea's Kim says missile launches are warning to U.S., S.Korea over drill -KCNA Posted: 06 Aug 2019 02:33 PM PDT ![UPDATE 1-N.Korea's Kim says missile launches are warning to U.S., S.Korea over drill -KCNA]( "UPDATE 1-N.Korea's Kim says missile launches are warning to U.S., S.Korea over drill -KCNA") North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the launch of tactical guided missiles on Tuesday were a warning to the U.S. and South Korea's joint military drills, state media KCNA said on Wednesday. Kim said the military action was "an occasion to send an adequate warning to the joint military drill now underway by the U.S. and south Korean authorities," according to KCNA.
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| Chicago suffers bloody weekend as gun violence leaves seven dead Posted: 05 Aug 2019 02:53 PM PDT  Mass shootings command widespread media coverage, but lost in the national conversations about guns are everyday killings A memorial where 26-year-old Chantell Grant and 35-year-old Andrea Stoudemire were shot and killed on 28 July in the South Side of Chicago. Photograph: Kamil Krzaczyński/AFP/Getty ImagesAs deadly mass shootings devastated communities in Texas and Ohio and reignited calls for lawmakers to act on gun reform, Chicago experienced yet another bloody weekend – suffering the kind of violence that has come to be treated by the nation as almost routine in this city.Seven people were killed and 46 wounded here, including in two multiple shootings on the west side. The first of the shootings, in the Douglas Park neighborhood early on Sunday, left seven wounded; the second, in Lawndale hours later, wounded another seven and killed one."As a city, we have to stand up and do a hell of a lot more than we've done in a very long time," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in an address on the violence over the weekend."There are no adequate words at this point," she said of the violence.Often lost in national conversations about guns are shootings occurring every day in places like Chicago, which has continued to see high levels of violence, mostly affecting its predominantly black and brown south and west sides."In Chicago, it's just another weekend," Father Michael Pfleger, a south side pastor and anti-violence activist, said of the national response to the city's deadly violence. "It gets forgotten and pushed to the side."Where mass shootings tend to command widespread media coverage, Pfleger said, violence in Chicago tends not to make national headlines. In part, he believes it's become an "old story" after years of the city suffering from a devastatingly high murder rate. But it also has to do with the fact that those being affected by the city's scourge of violence are mostly black and brown Chicagoans, he said."Black and brown life being taken by gun violence is not something America has been concerned about for a long time," the St Sabina pastor said."It needs to get the same attention," Pfleger continued. "We have 47 people shot and seven killed. If that happened over in Iraq, that's all anyone would be talking about."To erase everyday violence from the national conversation about gun control is to lose sight of the scope of the problem, according to Kris Brown, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence."We do that at our own peril," Brown told the Guardian. "It's not routine for the people who live in these communities, and it doesn't have to be accepted as normal."As studies have shown, mass shootings like those in Texas and Ohio represent just a fraction of gun deaths in America. Suicides and other homicides account for the majority of firearm-related deaths. "We need to look at gun violence as the public health epidemic it is," Brown said. "We have to change the cultural narrative around guns."Doing so can be challenging, though, given the unwillingness by Republicans to act on commonsense gun reforms."The shootings that occurred this past weekend in Chicago are certainly not taken for granted by the neighborhoods and families that experience them all too often," Rob Nash, chair of the board of directors for the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, said in an email interview. "The only people who have accepted gun violence as being routine are public policymakers who refuse to take action to stop it."Brown said the Brady campaign was continuing to work on changing the national narrative about guns, and Pfleger is organizing a national demonstration in Washington DC, in September in an effort to pressure lawmakers into action. "They're not gonna just do it," Pfleger said of gun reform. "They have to be pushed."
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| Alabama student arrested after threatening shooting, bombing at his high school Posted: 06 Aug 2019 12:02 PM PDT  A teenager was arrested at his Alabama home Tuesday after threatening multipleattacks at Mary G
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| Here's the Story Behind That Controversial 'Backless Seats' Photo Posted: 06 Aug 2019 11:10 AM PDT  EasyJet told TIME that the flight departed with five spare seats
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| Texas police lead black man down street on end of rope Posted: 06 Aug 2019 08:59 AM PDT  A Texas police chief has apologised after officers on horseback were spotted leading a black man through the streets by a rope.Photographs of the arrest in Galveston quickly spread online as social media users compared it to the era of slavery."This is wrong!!!" wrote Erin Toberman, who was the first to share the image on Facebook. "A person should NEVER be roped up and pulled by a horse to go anywhere."Adrienne Bell, a Democrat congressional candidate for the district, called for an investigation, adding: "It is a scene that has invoked anger, disgust, and questions from the community."The uproar resulted in Galveston Police Department issuing a statement to say it had immediately suspended use of the technique.According to the statement, officers arrested the suspect, 43-year-old Donald Neely, for criminal trespass and clipped a line to his handcuffs to "escort" him back to their unit nearby.The department claimed alternative transport was "not immediately available" and that the officers used "a trained technique" that was "considered best practice in certain scenarios such as during crowd control".However it accepted that the technique was incorrectly used in this case.Police chief Vernon Hale said: "First and foremost I must apologise to Mr Neely for this unnecessary embarrassment."I believe our officers showed poor judgement in this instance and could have waited for a transport unit at the location of arrest."My officers did not have any malicious intent at the time of the arrest, but we have immediately changed the policy to prevent the use of this technique and will review all mounted training and procedures for more appropriate methods."Leon Phillips, president for the Galveston Coalition for Justice, told the Houston Chronicle that the photograph reminded him of racist images from the 1920s."All I know is that these are two white police officers on horseback with a black man walking him down the street with a rope tied to the handcuffs, and that doesn't make sense, period," he said."If it was a white man, I guarantee it wouldn't have happened."James Douglas, president of the Houston branch of the civil rights organisation NAACP, agreed the photo showed a lack of respect, adding: "This is 2019 and not 1819."Galveston Police Department said in its statement on Sunday: "We understand the negative perception of this action and believe it is most appropriate to cease the use of this technique."
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| Cyntoia Brown scheduled to leave prison after clemency Posted: 06 Aug 2019 12:29 PM PDT  A woman who said she was a 16-year-old sex-trafficking victim when she killed a man in 2004 is scheduled to be released from prison this week after being granted clemency . Kim Kardashian West, Rihanna and other celebrities had lobbied for Cyntoia Brown's release, and then-Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam agreed in January. The now-31-year-old Brown will remain on parole supervision for 10 years after her release Wednesday, on the condition she does not violate any state or federal laws, holds a job, and participates in regular counseling sessions, Haslam's commutation says.
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| NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, whose wife Gabby Giffords was shot in the head, still owns guns. He says Congress could do a lot more to keep people safe. Posted: 06 Aug 2019 05:36 AM PDT  NASA astronaut Mark Kelly is running for Senate in Arizona. He supports stronger federal background checks and more red-flag laws.
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| Texas police condemned after officers on horseback lead black suspect by rope Posted: 06 Aug 2019 11:20 AM PDT  Police in Texas have apologised after photographs emerged of two white officers on horseback leading a black man down the street by a rope. Donald Neely, 43, had been arrested on suspicion of trespassing in an office building in downtown Galveston, a coastal city of 50,000 people just outside Houston. The officers attached a rope to the handcuffs behind his back, before leading him to a police staging area eight street blocks away. A passerby took photographs which circulated on social media, leading to a widespread backlash against the police department. "This is 2019 and not 1819," said James Douglas, president of the Houston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It was the latest incident to raise tensions over police treatment of black suspects. Prominent alleged abuse and deaths in custody have sparked riots in recent years up and down the US. Melissa Morris, a lawyer for Mr Neely's family, said he was homeless, mentally ill, and suffered from bipolar disorder. She said: "I'm appalled. I believe the way they handled him was disgusting. The family is offended. The family is upset." Galveston's police department said leading a suspect by a rope on horseback was something officers were trained to do. It was an accepted law enforcement technique, and even "best practice" in some situations. However, following fierce criticism, it was announced that the practice would be discontinued. In a statement the police department said: "We understand the negative perception of this action and believe it is most appropriate to cease the use of this technique. "While this technique of using mounted horses to transport a person during an arrest is considered a best practice in certain scenarios, such as during crowd control, the practice was not used correctly in this instance." Vernon Hale, the Galveston Police Chief, said: "First and foremost I must apologise to Mr Neely for this unnecessary embarrassment. "Although this is a trained technique, and best practice in some scenarios, I believe our officers showed poor judgment in this instance, and could have waited for a transport unit at the location of the arrest. "We will review all mounted training and procedures for more appropriate methods." He added that the officers had no "malicious intent" when they led Mr Neely by a rope, and their body cameras were activated at the time. Mr Neely was previously known to the officers. The officers were named by the police department as Officer P. Brosch and Officer A. Smith, but it was not clear if they would face disciplinary action. Mr Neely was accused of trespassing in a building containing offices for companies including investment management firm Merrill Lynch. He was later released on bail. Leon Phillips, president of the Galveston Coalition for Justice, said: "These are two white police officers on horseback, with a black man, walking him down the street with a rope tied to the handcuffs, and that's doesn't make sense, period. "Stay there with him instead of humiliating him, and now you've humiliated the whole city of Galveston. And I do understand this, if it was a white man, I guarantee it would not have happened." The incident will likely put authorities on high alert for a backlash. In 2014 Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, was fatally shot by a white officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri. The officer was not charged and Mr Brown's death led to months of protests, becoming a catalyst for the Black Lives Matter movement. The following year there were protests in Baltimore when Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, died after being injured in a police van. In New York relations between police and the black community have been poisoned by the death of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man, in police custody in 2014. Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who applied a chokehold to Mr Garner, is still on the force amid ongoing calls for him to be fired.
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| Iran unveils three new precision-guided missiles Posted: 06 Aug 2019 02:14 AM PDT  Iran unveiled three precision-guided missiles on Tuesday, with the defence minister saying they show the country is ready to defend itself in the face of US "viciousness and conspiracies". The new line-up of air-to-air missiles dubbed the "Yasin", "Balaban" and a new series of the "Ghaem" were developed jointly by the ministry and Sa Iran, also known as Iran Electronics Industries. Defence Minister Brigadier-General Amir Hatami hailed their launch as "another significant achievement of power and dignity for the Islamic Republic of Iran".
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| After Trump mistakes Toledo for Dayton, mayors of both cities take notice Posted: 05 Aug 2019 11:46 AM PDT  In his first formal comments on two mass shootings, the president mistakenly identified Sunday's killings in Ohio as having occurred in Toledo rather than Dayton. The mistake was not lost on the mayors of both cities.
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| Ohio's Republican Governor Proposes Gun Laws After Dayton Shooting Posted: 06 Aug 2019 12:40 PM PDT  Ohio's Republican Governor Proposes Gun Laws After Dayton Shooting
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| Mexico to pursue legal action after seven citizens killed in El Paso shooting Posted: 04 Aug 2019 07:17 PM PDT  Foreign minister described the shooting as 'an act of terrorism' against Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals in the US Mourners in Ciudad Juárez take part in a vigil after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. Photograph: Stringer/ReutersMexico has promised to explore pursuing terrorism charges in the US legal system over the shooting in El Paso, Texas, which claimed the lives of seven Mexican citizens and left seven more injured.The Mexican foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, also said on Sunday that Mexico would try to take legal action against the person or firm who sold the assault weapon used in Saturday's killings. The country will also pursue the possibility of extraditing the suspect to Mexico, Ebrard said."We consider this an act of terrorism against the Mexican American community and Mexican nationals in the United States," Ebrard told reporters. "Mexico is outraged. But we aren't proposing to meet hate with hate. We will act with reason and according to the law and with firmness."A 21-year-old man is suspected of opening fire in a Walmart store in the US border city on Saturday, killing at least 20 people. Police in El Paso are examining a hate-riddled message on the website 8chan, posted around 20 minutes before Saturday's attack, that stated: "This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas."El Paso is located on the US-Mexico border, opposite the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez. Six of the victims in El Paso were Mexicans and another seven Mexicans were injured, including, Gloria Irma Márquez, a schoolteacher from Ciudad Juárez who crossed the border to shop on Saturday and was killed in the gunfire, according to the newspaper Reforma.Mario de Alba, 45, travelled from Chihuahua state to shop in El Paso. He was shot in the back, according to the Associated Press. His wife, Olivia Mariscal, and 10-year-old daughter Erika were also wounded, but are recovering, according to relatives.The shooting in El Paso was just one of two to rock the United States over the weekend. A gunman opened fire in Dayton, Ohio, in the early hours of Sunday morning, killing at least nine people.The spate of weekend shootings in the United States has caused indignation in Mexico – parts of which the US government warns citizens to avoid due to drug cartel violence.People gather in Juárez, Mexico, on Saturday, in a vigil for the Mexican nationals who were killed in an El Paso shopping-complex shooting. Photograph: Christian Chavez/APBut the shootout also triggered some uncomfortable self-reflection. It comes as Mexico endures waves of violence, including its own murder rate reaching record highs and frequent shootouts which claim multiple victims, but which generate little outrage outside the affected areas or get lost in a crowded news cycle.It also comes as Mexico cracks down on Central American migrants trying to transit the country on the way to the US border – even as it doggedly defends the rights of its own citizens living in the United States."We've told ourselves that story for decades: we're the victims in this [US-Mexico] relationship. And, in many ways, we have been," said Carlos Bravo Regidor, a journalism professor in Mexico City."With this new policy toward [migrating] Central Americans, the tables have turned and now Mexicans are the Americans to Central Americans."The El Paso shootout prompted rare terse words on the US situation from Mexico's foreign policy officials."The intentionality of the attack against the Mexicans and the Latino community in El Paso is frightening. NO to hate speech. NO to xenophobic discourse," tweeted Martha Bárcena, Mexico's ambassador in Washington.The administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly called "Amlo", has pushed for action on the flow of US guns into Mexico, which inevitably end up in the hands of cartel thugs. But Amlo has preferred not provoke Trump, even as Trump has badmouthed Mexico ahead of his re-election campaign and threatened Mexico with tariffs if migration through Mexico was not stopped."We don't want to interfere in the affairs of other countries. We're going to continue sticking to the principles of non-intervention," Amlo told an audience on Sunday."Hugs, not bullets. That's our posture," he added, repeating a campaign slogan from his successful 2018 presidential campaign.
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| India's Ladakh Buddhist enclave jubilant at new status but China angered Posted: 06 Aug 2019 08:07 AM PDT ![India's Ladakh Buddhist enclave jubilant at new status but China angered]( "India's Ladakh Buddhist enclave jubilant at new status but China angered") The Buddhist enclave of Ladakh cheered India's move to hive it off from Jammu and Kashmir state, a change that could spur tourism and help New Delhi counter China's influence in the contested western Himalayas. Beijing, though, criticised the announcement, made on Monday by the Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as part of a wider policy shift that also ended Jammu and Kashmir's right to set its own laws.
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| Prosecutor: Man body-slammed boy after national anthem snub Posted: 06 Aug 2019 04:12 PM PDT  A man is facing an assault charge after Montana authorities say he threw a 13-year-old boy to the ground at a rodeo because the teenager didn't remove his hat when the national anthem was played. Court documents filed by Mineral County Attorney Ellen Donohue said the boy was flown to the hospital for a possible concussion and fractured skull. Curt James Brockway, 39, told a sheriff's deputy that he asked the boy to remove his hat out of respect for the national anthem playing before the start of the county rodeo on Saturday, Donohue wrote in the document describing the alleged attack.
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| Cathay Pacific Says It's Recording Passengers With Onboard CCTV Posted: 06 Aug 2019 12:22 AM PDT  An updated privacy policy the Hong Kong-based airline states CCTV cameras are recording passengers onboard and in airport lounges
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| El Paso, where a gunman reportedly worried about a 'Hispanic invasion of Texas' shot up a Walmart, is one of the country's largest Latino cities Posted: 05 Aug 2019 08:46 AM PDT  The city is home to one of the largest shares of Hispanic people in the US, and more of the city speaks Spanish than English.
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| Epstein Seen With Young Girls as He Shopped for ‘Baby Ranch’ in New Mexico Posted: 06 Aug 2019 02:10 AM PDT  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos Getty/ReutersR. Kelly arrived under escort of U.S. Marshals on Friday at the same small New Jersey airport where Jeffrey Epstein was arrested last month.The singer and the money manager are charged in separate cases with having sex with multiple minors. Both have long been seen in the company of underage girls. And both cases raise the question of why so many people said nothing over the years. Saying something when you see something—the post-9/11 adage about terrorism—should also apply to the sexual abuse of underage girls.Of course, not everybody could be expected to have understood the significance of what they were seeing before Epstein's proclivities became widely known. That included realtor Pat French of Santa Fe, New Mexico.Back in September of 1992, French was on the way to take her tween-turning-teen daughter and a friend to see the first woman to lead the Cherokee tribe, when she stopped at a luxury hotel to drop off some papers to a mega-rich New Yorker who was shopping for a ranch. Send The Daily Beast a TipWhen she rang the doorbell to the suite at the Rancho Encantado that September day in 1992, Jeffrey Epstein was not who answered."There were all these girls," French told The Daily Beast this week. "A little bit older than my daughter. Not much."French made what seemed at the time to be a completely reasonable assumption. "I thought, 'Oh, these must be his daughters and friends he took along on the trip,'" French recalled. She did not know at the time that Epstein had no children.The girls took the papers, which described properties that French thought might interest Epstein. He had told her he was seeking isolation."He wanted really far away from people," French recalled.French proceeded on with her daughter and friends to see Cherokee Principal Chief Wilma Mankiller receive an an award from the International Women's Forum. Mankiller—now deceased, from cancer in 2010—was a leading champion of women's rights as well as Native American rights and human rights in general. Mankiller was taking particular steps to combat the sexual abuse of children in her tribe. French never imagined that the girls she saw back at the plush Rancho Encantado were victims of evil such as Mankiller battled."I had no idea about this man," French later told The Daily Beast.French had no further dealings with Epstein. He chose to buy a ranch through another realtor, Rhonda King, who was also then a representative to the New Mexico state legislature. The purchase of the 10,000-acre Zorro Ranch came with an additional, instant political connection, as Epstein bought it from the realtor's uncle, former Gov. Bruce King. Epstein proceeded to build a 26,700 square foot hacienda-style hilltop mansion, the largest private home in Santa Fe County, perhaps the state. The former governor's brother, New Mexico State treasurer David King, was quoted saying of Epstein, "He's building what you want as a heavenly ranch."Epstein was reported to have bought $600 bedsheets. He was said to have his bread flown in from New York."They do have money," a local builder remarked.But money was still money for Epstein. He sued Santa Fe County in 2000, alleging that he was being overcharged on property taxes because the ranch was worth only $30 million, not the $33 million it had been officially appraised. He demanded a refund of $20,000 he had already paid. The suit was settled for an undisclosed amount. Visitors to the mansion included the leading candidate for governor in 2002, Bill Richardson, who was later quick to say that he was accompanied by his wife. Epstein contributed $50,000 to Richardson's campaign. Epstein kicked in another $50,000 towards Richardson's successful run for reelection in 2006.Gary King, the former governor's son, was running for state attorney general that year and Epstein donated $15,000 to his primary campaign. Epstein also donated $10,000 toward Jim Bacca's campaign to become head of the land commission and $2,000 toward Santa Fe County Sheriff Jim Solano's bid for reelection.In the meantime, Epstein was apparently flying in underage girls as well as fresh bread, usually through Santa Fe when he was using his Gulfstream, or the larger Albuquerque airport when using his Boeing 727. One of his accusers would say that she was raped at the ranch when she was 15.No doubt people at the airports and ranch workers and folks in town saw the girls. But nobody seems to have contacted the authorities even after the news broke in July 2006 that Epstein was being charged in Florida with having sex with underage girls. The following year, Epstein was allowed to plead guilty to just one count of engaging a minor in prostitution. This unconscionable deal allowed him to serve just 13 months of nights and weekends in a private section of the Palm Beach County Jail. A resident of Santa Fe recalled to The Daily Beast that when she went into a local newsstand, the proprietor remarked, "Oh, he always used to come into town with all these girls."Epstein Had His Own Lodge at Interlochen's Prestigious Arts Camp for KidsUpon his release in 2009, Epstein was required by the plea deal to to register as a sex offender. Federal law required him also to register in any other jurisdiction where he maintained a residence, including what his lawyers termed his "vacation home" outside Santa Fe.On July 23, 2010, Epstein received a notice from the New Mexico Department of Public Safety (NMDPS) stating it had been notified by its Florida counterpart that Epstein was a registered sex offender."A convicted sex offender who resides in New Mexico shall register with the county sheriff no later than ten (10) days after establishing residence in this state," the notice said.On August 17, Epstein registered in person with Detective Deborah Anaya at the Santa Fe County Sheriff's office. Anaya afterwards paid a standard visit to the offender's home. What wasn't standard were the offender's conveyances, which she listed as two private jets and two helicopters, along with a fleet of land vehicles.Two days later, on August 19, Epstein received a second notice from NMDPS, which said, "You are not required to register with the state of New Mexico." A NMDPS spokesman later told The Daily Beast, "While in New Mexico we expressly disapprove of such conduct as specific to this case, the determination made when someone must register in New Mexico is a fact-based inquiry. The state conducted a 'translation' on August 11, 2010, regarding Mr. Epstein's 2008 conviction for procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution in the state of Florida, i.e., a comparison of the out-of-state elements of the Florida conviction were compared against New Mexico law. It was determined at that time that because the victim was not under the age of 16, Mr. Epstein does not have a registration requirement in New Mexico."The spokesman did not respond to a query as to how this squared with federal law, which would seem to say that the conviction in Florida required him to register in New Mexico even if the victim was not under 16. The Florida definition of a minor was the operative one in whatever state when it came to registering. The standard letterhead in both NMDPS notices was identical, but in retrospect the words "Bill Richardson, Governor" seem to jump out a little more in the second one. Richardson—a former Energy Secretary in the Clinton administration—was in the final months of his second and final term as New Mexico's governor, but Gary King remained the state attorney general until 2015. He ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2014 and may have imagined nobody would be any the wiser when he accepted $35,000 donated by five shell companies that Epstein had established. The companies—three of which were apparently named after streets in the gated Brooklyn enclave where Epstein was raised—are based in the Virgin Islands. That is where Epstein has two private islands and where numerous people also saw him in the company of apparently underage girls and where he also made numerous political contributions, and even hired a former governor's wife as his office manager.Epstein almost certainly would still be flying girls to New Mexico and the Virgin Islands, along with his residences in Palm Beach and New York and likely Paris had he not been indicted by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office for sex trafficking. He was arrested when he stepped off his Gulfstream at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. Epstein seems to have been abusing girls in New Mexico for at least 27 years. If he was traveling with underage girls after his widely reported conviction, no one should have imagined that he was doing so for any purpose other than should have been immediately reported to the authorities. So many people saw something and said nothing.Epstein apparently imagined people would keep saying nothing and he would remain at liberty. He has long leased grazing rights for 1,244 acres adjoining his Zorro Ranch and he renewed the lease in 2016 so it runs to 2021. He was reported in 2011 to have 39 Angus-cross cows and two bulls. The bulls are apparently for breeding.Epstein seems to have been obsessed with breeding. As The New York Times reported, he talked about using his seed to impregnate a herd of women, whom he seems to have regarded as just cattle at whatever age. He was said to have suggested to scientists that the human race would be improved by having what might in ranch terms be called an Epstein-cross.We can all hope that his line dies in prison along with him. Until then, look for Epstein to seek to curry favor with other inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center by putting money in their commissary accounts the same way he used to contribute to politicians in New Mexico and the Virgin Islands.Out in New Mexico, one of Epstein's more remote neighbors was spared ever encountering him. But the artist Sina Brush did receive an unbidden letter from him not long after he built his mansion. He informed her that he was paying her $25,000 for her refuge of 40 years. The letter did not even ask she was interested in selling. She sent back a polite "no thank you" note despite his rudeness. The modest parcel where Brush lives and works with an aging mare named Billie—"after the kid"—is one place that Epstein could not have bought with all his money. There, Brush enjoys a realm whose magical light and timeless peace have inspired many other artists, including not only Georgia O'Keeffe, but also Gerald Cassidy, Forrest Moses, Woody Gwyn and Fritz Scholde. Here is isolation that can also lead to what is the very best in us."I'm not going anywhere," she told The Daily Beast. "I need this kind of tranquility and beauty."Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| FBI agents are reluctant to pursue white nationalist extremists because they don't want to target Trump's base, former counterterrorism official says Posted: 05 Aug 2019 03:35 AM PDT  One former FBI agent told The Washington Post that he thought political controversies had muted the response to violence by white nationalists.
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| Boy thrown from London's Tate Modern is French tourist visiting UK Posted: 05 Aug 2019 10:13 AM PDT  A six-year-old boy thrown from a tenth-floor viewing platform at London's Tate Modern gallery is a French national who was visiting the British capital with his family, police said Monday. The boy is no longer in a life-threatening condition, according to London's Metropolitan Police, who appealed for further witnesses to the Sunday afternoon incident to come forward. "This is being treated as an isolated event with no distinct or apparent motive," senior investigating officer DCI John Massey said in a statement, adding there was no known link between the victim and the teen arrested.
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| What the Ford Mustang Shelby GT500's 0–100–0-MPH Time Means Posted: 05 Aug 2019 11:00 AM PDT  We place Ford's acceleration and braking claim in context.
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| Mexican man who shielded wife in Texas mass shooting dies Posted: 05 Aug 2019 01:48 PM PDT  A Mexican man who threw himself in front of his wife to shield her from bullets in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, died on Monday, officials and his family said, raising the toll of Mexican nationals killed in one of two weekend mass shootings in the United States to eight. Juan de Dios Velazquez, 77, had moved to El Paso with his wife Estela Nicolasa, 65, from Ciudad Juarez, just across the border in Mexico, six months before they were caught in Saturday's mass shooting at a Walmart store. "He couldn't fight anymore, his heart started to fail," said Idaly Velazquez, a niece who confirmed his passing to Reuters.
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| 4 people found dead in apparent San Antonio murder-suicide Posted: 06 Aug 2019 09:01 AM PDT ![4 people found dead in apparent San Antonio murder-suicide]( "4 people found dead in apparent San Antonio murder-suicide") Emergency personnel responding to a San Antonio house fire found four people dead in an apparent murder-suicide, police said Tuesday. Police spokeswoman Romana Lopez said officers received a report of a family disturbance Monday at a home in southwest San Antonio just south of Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. Responding officers found the house in flames and two bodies in the front yard with gunshot wounds.
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| Mother took Lyft to get rid of dead 4-year old's body Posted: 06 Aug 2019 08:51 AM PDT  Malachi Lawson, a 4-year-old Baltimore boy, was initially reported missing by his mother before he died.
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| Sharks bite three people on the same beach in separate attacks within 24 hours Posted: 06 Aug 2019 03:42 AM PDT  Three people have been bitten by sharks on the same beach in just 24 hours, with two attacks occurring within 30 minutes of each other.Multiple separate attacks were recorded over the weekend at New Smyrna Beach in Florida, an area which has been called the "shark attack capital of the world".A 20-year-old surfer, Emily Comfort, was bitten on her left hand and wrist on Saturday, according to Volusia County Beach Safety, and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.Approximately half an hour later, a 21-year-old surfer named Riley Petrovich was treated for a shark bite on his right foot.He refused transport to a hospital, according to officials.On Sunday, beach officials reported that 51-year-old Peter Bourbeau was bitten by what he described as a 4ft shark while standing in knee-deep water.Mr Bourbeau said he kicked the shark and it swam away.It is not known whether any of the attacks were committed by the same predator.Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Programme for Shark Research at the Florida Museum of Natural History, told CNN that sharks are often drawn to New Smyrna Beach by bait fish which gather nearby."If you like to surf and you surf in this particular spot, the chances are high that you have been within 10ft of a shark," he said."The surfers all know this. They routinely report seeing sharks in the area. While it may be news to the non-surfing community, it is widely-known to scientists and surfers."Shark sightings are relatively common in Volusia County, where there has been 303 unprovoked attacks recorded since 1882, according to research by the Florida Museum of Natural History.That number is the highest for a county in the US.There have been 1,441 confirmed unprovoked shark attacks in the US since 1837 with the majority occurring in Florida (828 attacks), according to the museum.In 2018, the museum reported 16 unprovoked shark attacks in the state, accounting for half of all such attacks in the US last year.
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| From El Paso to Christchurch, a Racist Lie Is Fueling Terrorist Attacks Posted: 04 Aug 2019 06:16 PM PDT  Joel Angel Juarez/GettyIt's the meme behind the massacres. In El Paso this weekend and across the globe this year, white supremacists have left manifestos referencing a racist conspiracy theory to justify slaughtering religious and ethnic minorities.Alleged killers in Christchurch, New Zealand; Poway, California; and El Paso, Texas believed a theory that claims white people are being "replaced" by people of color through mass immigration. Conspiracy theorists often falsely claim this is a deliberate effort by any number of groups demonized on the far right: liberals, Democrats, Jews, Muslims. It's the theory peddled by white-supremacist groups seeking recruits and the torch-bearing marchers in Charlottesville two years ago. It's also a thinly disguised—and often not disguised—talking point from some conservative politicians and pundits, experts say.By leaving these conspiratorial manifestos, white supremacists are trying to add to a long and growing library of terror, and get others to follow their examples."They're also trying to inspire others about the urgency of the moment. In particular with the New Zealand shooter, the Poway shooter, and this guy in El Paso, you see these ideas building on each other," Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, told The Daily Beast."There's no question these people are feeding off each other because they're referencing prior manifestos. In the Poway case and the El Paso case, they both referenced Christchurch."Accused El Paso Walmart Shooter Apparently Posted Racist Manifesto Before AttackIn name alone, the conspiracy theory began in 2011, with the book The Great Replacement by French author Renaud Camus. The anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant text likened the growth of non-white populations to the genocide of white people in European countries. This supposed genocide is nonexistent. White supremacists use it as an excuse for violence anyway. On Aug. 11, 2017, white supremacists led a torch-lit march on the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville. The marchers chanted "You will not replace us," or sometimes "Jews will not replace us," in a callout to the conspiracy theory. The gathering, the first event of the two-day "Unite the Right Rally," was intended as a coming-out moment for America's increasingly visible white-supremacist movement. On the second day, a neo-Nazi drove a car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters, murdering one.The conspiracy theory continued to gain traction with white supremacists. The Christchurch shooter referred to the "replacement" in the title of his manifesto before he allegedly massacred 51 people at a mosque in March—and live-streamed it on Facebook for propaganda. White supremacists online glorified the Christchurch attack. The alleged shooter at a Poway synagogue in April cited the Christchurch manifesto as his motivation for murdering Jews. The alleged shooter at a Walmart in El Paso on Saturday also cited the Christchurch tract as inspiring him to murder Hispanic people.Clint Watts, a former FBI agent and current distinguished research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, said the alleged attackers were mobilizing each other."They all cite each other," Watts told The Daily Beast. "Yesterday's El Paso shooter cited Christchurch. Then he talked about how a month ago, he started to think about an attack. That's really a short time, which makes it even more impossible for law enforcement to get in front of it.Mass Shooting Kills 20 at El Paso Walmart: Gunman 'Started Shooting Everyone, Aisle by Aisle,' Witness SaysWatts likened the attacks to terror campaigns by organized groups like ISIS, which touched off a series of attacks across the world in the summer of 2016, with new violence inspiring new violence."Because of those successful attacks, you'd see a wave of inspired attacks, meaning that there are often one, two, three people already thinking about doing an attack," Watts said. When those people see a violent incident, "they mobilize because they want to get into the media storm. They want to be part of that phenomenon. It becomes a contagion."ISIS terror and white-supremacist terror both require a wide network of online extremists potentially ready to commit violence for the cause. The difference with the current wave of white-supremacist violence, Watts said, is that white supremacists are decentralized and do their organizing through a leaderless online movement, rather than following orders from recognized leaders.Media treatment of ISIS and white-supremacist violence are also different, Watts noted. "What's remarkable is that our response [to white violence] is just, 'Eh, this guy is a bad apple; he's crazy," he said. Sometimes, the white-supremacist rhetoric actually comes from conservative media and politicians, SPLC's Beirich said.These figures are "not always using the term 'Great Replacement,'" she said, but "even from Trump and others, there's a lot of talk about Latinos 'invading' the United States, about the idea that Democrats like immigrants because they're going to vote for the Democratic Party, the idea—which we've heard from Trump, Tucker Carlson, and others—that white people are basically being pushed out of their areas by these new populations."Trump on Twitter has repeatedly described Hispanic immigrants as "invading" the U.S.—the same terminology the alleged El Paso shooter used—and in a campaign speech last year said migration from Central America was "like a war" on America. (Trump condemned white supremacy in an address Monday from the White House.)Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has gone further, promoting explicit white nationalists and writing that "we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies" in a tweet defending a racist Dutch politician's stance on "demographics."Fox New personalities have also invoked similar terms, with pundit Laura Ingraham recently claiming that Democrats support "replacing the current American population, or swamping the current American population, with a new population of people."The line could have belonged in one of the emerging manifestos, according to Beirich."They're not calling it 'white genocide,' per se, but it's the same idea," she said.America Under Attack by White Supremacists Acting Like ISISRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Trump and the GOP are suing California over a law requiring candidates to release tax returns in order to appear on the primary ballot Posted: 06 Aug 2019 11:37 AM PDT  The two lawsuits allege that California's new law is unconstitutional because it adds an extra requirement to run for president.
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| China tells Kyrgyzstan to punish mine attackers Posted: 06 Aug 2019 09:08 AM PDT  China's embassy in Kyrgyzstan Tuesday called on the Central Asian country to punish villagers it said attacked a Chinese-owned mine, leaving more than 20 workers injured. The rare diplomatic rebuke from Beijing followed a skirmish between mine employees and villagers living close to the Solton Sary gold deposit which is licensed to China's Zhong Ji Mining. The embassy said it had informed Kyrgyzstan of its "serious concern" over the incident.
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| Community raises more than $50,000 to keep man with special needs as neighbor Posted: 05 Aug 2019 05:46 PM PDT  Lamar Harris has lost all the relatives who once cared for him. But his Gloucester Township neighbors showed him he still has plenty of family.
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| Man allegedly tries to rob bank in Cleveland, gets caught after leaving a note with his name, address Posted: 05 Aug 2019 01:40 PM PDT  An Ohio man accused of robbing a bank was caught by police last week after hemade a pretty unfortunate mistake
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| 'Good Guys With Guns' Can Rarely Stop Mass Shootings, and Texas and Ohio Show Why Posted: 06 Aug 2019 02:00 PM PDT  Mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso show the NRA's push to relax gun laws hasn't stopped the death toll from gunmen.
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| FBI: California gunman had list of possible targets Posted: 06 Aug 2019 03:57 PM PDT  The FBI has opened a domestic terrorism investigation into the mass shooting at a California food festival after it discovered a "target list" compiled by the gunman whose relatives apologized Tuesday and said they were "horrified" by his actions. The FBI disclosure came during a funeral mass for Keyla Salazar, a 13-year-old middle schooler who was one of three people killed on July 28 by gunman Santino William Legan during the Gilroy Garlic Festival. It was the first of three mass shootings within a week that killed a total of 34 people in Gilroy, Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas.
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| Aden attack exposes splits in Yemen's anti-Houthi alliance Posted: 06 Aug 2019 06:29 AM PDT  Yemen's southern separatists on Tuesday accused an Islamist party of complicity in last week's deadly attack on Aden, the seat of government, exposing rifts in the Saudi-backed coalition battling the Iran-aligned Houthi movement. The separatists and Islamist party are united in their wider war on the Houthis, but have rival agendas for Yemen, and frictions between them over Thursday's attack could destabilize the southern port city that is the coalition's sole stronghold.
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| Iran's Air Force Just Lost a Fighter Jet: U.S. Made F-4 Phantom Just Went Down Posted: 05 Aug 2019 12:22 AM PDT  On Aug. 4, 2019, around 12:30 hrs local time, the F-4E Phantom II inventory of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) became a little smaller after a 61st TFS F-4E crashed near Tangestan beach, north-west of home base 6th Tactical Air Base Bushehr (Iran).Luckily both crew members managed to eject in time and parachuted safely to mother Earth.Their unfortunate Phantom crashed into the Persian Gulf. Regular patrol flights of F-4Es are common in the region, but this crash comes amid tensions in the Gulf region between the US and Iran.Earlier, on Aug. 4, Iran announced it had captured a foreign oil tanker, which, according to their statement, was smuggling fuel to an unnamed Arab state in the region. Possibly, the F-4E was involved in a top cover mission when things went wrong. A spokesman of the IRIAF said the crew of the crashed F-4E reported technical issues before they ejected.
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| Gun control really works. Science has shown time and again that it can prevent mass shootings and save lives. Posted: 06 Aug 2019 08:23 AM PDT  Mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio over the weekend have once again put America's gun violence problem in the spotlight.
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| E. Guinea accused of planning border wall with Cameroon: army sources Posted: 06 Aug 2019 12:19 PM PDT  Yaoundé (AFP) - Equatorial Guinea is planning to build a wall along the border with its neighbour Cameroon, according to sources in the Cameroon army. An army officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Equatorial Guinean soldiers had crossed the Ntem river that forms a natural border between the two countries, and erected milestones in the town of Kye-Ossi on the Cameroonian side. At the weekend, state radio reported that Cameroon army chief, Rene Claude Meka, visited the spot at the end of July to see where the border had been encroached, noting "the expansionist ambitions" of neighbouring Equatorial Guinea.
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