Новости за 17.08.2019

(CNN) A social media rivalry between two Dallas rappers escalated into a shooting that left a 9-year-old girl dead days before school started, police said. East Dallas resident Brandoniya Bennet was struck by a bullet in the head Wednesday as she sat on a couch after getting her nails done for the first day of […]

(Western Journal) Lawyers for late financier Jeffrey Epstein are not happy with the autopsy conclusion of the New York City medical examiner’s office and have issued a challenge demanding answers and accountability. The chief medical examiner concluded that Epstein hung himself in his own jail cell, ending his life. Several question marks still hover over […]

(NBC News) When former Coast Guardsman Amanda Wolfe went to the emergency room because her appendix was about to burst in September 2016, she figured her insurance would cover the cost. She had two kinds of insurance — a private plan she paid for and her Veterans Affairs benefits. The emergency appendectomy went well and […]

(Time) Acrid gun smoke clouded the sunny entrance of a Texas church on a recent Sunday. Seven men wearing heavy vests and carrying pistols loaded with blanks ran toward the sound of the shots, stopping at the end of a long hallway. As one peeked into the foyer, the “bad guy” raised the muzzle of […]

(KUT News) A coordinated ransomware attack has affected at least 20 local government entities in Texas, the Texas Department of Information Resources said. It would not release information about which local governments have been affected. The department said the Texas Division of Emergency Management is coordinating support from other state agencies through the Texas State […]

(The Oregonian) Hundreds of right-wing activists and those protesting their presence and message converged Saturday morning near the Morrison Bridge in Tom McCall Waterfront Park as long-planned opposing demonstrations got underway — but many appeared to leave after a couple of hours. Police formed a physical barricade beneath the bridge to separate the rival groups, […]

(London Independent) The latest night of demonstrations in Hong Kong appeared to come to an early end as protesters melted into crowds of weekend shoppers and tourists after verbally sparring with police for over an hour. Protesters had gathered at 6pm on Saturday outside of Mong Kok police station, the site of frequent clashes in […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has revealed the results of its latest test of swarms of robots, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. No longer science fiction, the U.S. government has been conducting tests of those technologies, and DARPA revealed that Fort Benning, Georgia, was the latest scene of an “operation.” Its program is called […]

A federal judge has ruled that a university’s strategy to give funds generated by mandatory student fees to groups and messages its officials favored is unconstitutional and has to change. The ruling comes in the case Nathan Apodaca and Students for Life against California State University-San Marcos. “Public universities should encourage all students to participate […]

(ABC News) U.S. Customs and Border Protection computers are “back up and running” after an outage that snarled international arrivals, causing long lines at airports for travelers trying to enter the country. Major airports around the country said Friday afternoon that their customs systems were impacted, including John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, LAX […]

(KABC) Actor Peter Fonda, a member of one of Hollywood’s most iconic families who was best known for the 1960s counterculture classic “Easy Rider,” has died at age 79, his publicist has confirmed. Fonda helped to write and produce the 1969 biker film and starred in it with Dennis Hopper. It instantly became a lasting […]

(The Blaze) Despite a surveillance video showing a violent assault on a woman outside her San Francisco apartment, a judge has released the suspect and unleashed a torrent of outrage. Paneez Kosarian told ABC 7 News that she was trying to walk home when the man grabbed her and tried to drag her from the […]

A federal court in California that already has ruled the state’s “large-capacity magazine” ban violates the Second Amendment is being asked to review the state’s prohibition on so-called “assault weapons.” A lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on behalf of James Miller, Patrick Russ, Ryan Peterson and […]

Yale President Ezra Stiles addressed Connecticut’s General Assembly, May 8, 1783, regarding General George Washington being chosen to command the Continental Army: “The memorable battle of Bunker Hill. (June 17, 1775) … convinced us … that Americans both would and could fight with great effect. Whereupon Congress put at the head of this spirited army, […]

China apparently isn’t happy with the work President Trump has been doing to rebuild America’s defense, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. It was one of the few areas cited in China’s newest Defense White Paper, this year called “China’s National Defense in the New Era.” The Federation of American Scientists noted such a report doesn’t […]

A Christian realtor in Virginia who was banned by the state Real Estate Board from using Bible verses on her business cards and web pages is suing the regulators. Hadassah Carter, represented by the American Center for Law and Justice, put the Bible verse John 3:16 on her real estate website and included phrases such […]

An LGBT activist who lost a years-long fight in British courts over his demand that a Christian baker create a cake promoting same-sex marriage contends the ruling violates his “human rights.” And he wants the European Court of Human Rights to rule. It was the U.K. Supreme Court that ruled Ashers bakery had a right […]

A California agency is refusing to approve a family’s permit to build a swimming pool on its property unless it allows public beach access, even though the shoreline is nearly one mile away and the pool wouldn’t impact access. The Pacific Legal Foundation says the California Coastal Commission is trying to make an example of […]

Stefan Halper is a Cambridge professor who was neck-deep in the beginnings of the Russia-collusion investigation that was weaponized against the Trump campaign and administration. He’s suspected of having met with several Trump campaign aides as an FBI informant while the Obama administration was spying on the Trump campaign. Now, in a motion to dismiss […]