[FoxNews] Maryland delegate Kathleen Dumais had introduced the legislation -- her ninth time trying to pass a bill that changes the law surrounding custody rights for rape victims.
"After nine years, Maryland can do better," Maryland State Sen. Cheryl Kagan told Fox News.
Delegate David Moon, a Democrat, told Fox News on Friday that the bill failed because the session timed out -- not for lack of support.
Moon and two others on the panel -- State Sen. William Smith Jr., a Democrat, and Delegate Brett Wilson, a Republican -- were original co-sponsors of the legislation.
But Maryland State Sen. Michael Hough, a Republican on the panel, said he thinks the bill "got tanked on purpose."
"Democratic leadership scheduled the conference to meet at 11 p.m., an hour before the session was to end," Hough told Fox News. "This bill has been floating around for almost 10 years."
Hough, who has always supported the bill, noted a provision within it he said presents legal hurdles. The legislation calls for the termination of parental rights for "alleged rapists," he said.
"If it just dealt with convicted rapists, it would be cut-and-dried," Hough said. "Because it's about alleged rapists, there’s a lot of legal challenges."
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Her legislation allows punishment in advance of the verdict? I'm surprised Hough supports it, when he knows the problem.
Maybe we're missing something here--you can't trust reporters to understand legal issues--or much of anything.
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"Constructed" -v- "Experienced" poses a problem.
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Blossom Unains5562, there is a general problem with the formatting buttons. Fred has been informed.
I did my best for your articles, but I'm afraid we can't add any images for the duration. Thank you for your patience while Fred hunts down the glitch.
[FoxNews] A Michigan doctor and his wife were arrested and charged Friday morning for allegedly conspiring to perform female genital mutilation on minors, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Dr. Fakhruddin Attar and his wife, Farida Attar, were arrested just one week after officials arrested another Michigan-based doctor, Jumama Nagarwala, for performing FGM. Nagarwala is an emergency room doctor in Detroit.
The Attars allegedly arranged and assisted Nagarwala in performing FGM out of a medical clinic that Dr. Attar owns in Livonia, Mich. Attar's wife works at the clinic as office manager. The three are believed to be the first people charged under a federal law that criminalizes female genital mutilation (FGM).
This wasn't a priority under President Obama, it appears.
According to the criminal complaint, some of Attar’s victims, ranging from ages 6 to 8, are believed to have traveled interstate to have the procedure performed.
Female genital mutilation is prevalent in some majority Muslim countries and is sometimes called “cleansing” by its practitioners. It involves the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, often performed without anesthesia. It is designed to ensure females remain virgins until marriage.
According to a 2013 census by the Population Reference Bureau, approximately 500,000 women and girls in the United States have undergone the procedure or are at risk of the procedure.
How many of them underwent the procedure here?
In 2015, the issue of female genital mutilation received a wave of attention after Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt made a personal pledge of $100,000 to stop the brutal practice, after meeting Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an internationally known women’s rights advocate who suffered the barbaric practice at the age of 5.
Attar and his wife were scheduled to appear in Detroit federal court Friday afternoon.
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Personally, I think a good part of the male half of Muslim "reasoning" on this issue is they are so homophobic that they have the clitoris removed because it looks like a little penis.
[American Thinker] On April 15, Jackson County, Missouri, prosecutors charged James R. Green Jr., 52, with six counts of second-degree statutory sodomy. Green was a teacher and coach at a middle school in the suburban North Kansas City School District. Green’s victim was a sixteen-year-old boy. It appears likely that Green was abusing other boys over a period of at least twelve years in at least two different school districts, and Green’s crime is not the half of it.
I learned about this crime for one reason. In January, I became editor of a new, nonprofit, online publication -- Sentinelksmo.org -- designed to counter the disinformation spread by the overwhelmingly liberal media in Missouri and Kansas. Over the years, people have approached me with stories about regional abuses, and I had an easier time placing those stories nationally than locally. In these two deeply red states, there was no media outlet of consequence halfway friendly to conservative causes. Now there is, the Sentinel.
Our partner in this project, the Kansas Policy Institute, hoped to correct the relentlessly dishonest reporting on Kansas taxes and state spending in general and the Sam Brownback administration in particular. As a resident of Missouri, I wanted to cover both states on a wide range of issues, including sex, crime, and education. To do this I had to track the local media and, in doing so, I hit the trifecta when I stumbled upon the article about Green. The story was covered by the local media, but barely.
Without digging too hard, I discovered that Green was the sixth employee, all male, busted on sex charges with underage students in the last thirteen months in this one suburban school district. At least five of those employees were arrested. The reporting on the sixth was too sketchy to determine. Four of the interactions were heterosexual, two homosexual.
In the same week Green was arrested, a campus supervisor at a high school in the North Kansas City District was charged with sending messages of a sexual nature to two female students, one fourteen and one fifteen. His was one of three cases at that same suburban school. In January 2017, the principal was arrested for having sex with students twenty years prior, and in August 2016 the band director was dismissed for sending sexual texts to students.
In November 2016, a teacher pleaded guilty to second-degree statutory sodomy with a female middle school student and was sentenced in December to seven years in prison. And in March 2016, a high school gym teacher was charged with sending pornography and sexting messages to two teenage students.
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Historically, in Missouri and elsewhere, public schools were uniquely allowed to handle their own sex cases internally. In these two deeply red states, there was no media outlet of consequence halfway friendly to conservative causes. Now there is, the Sentinel. The reason for the silence is not hard to understand. The media and the teachers unions share an allegiance to the Democratic Party. The Star goes out of its way to protect the unions, and the unions have gone out of their way to protect the teachers, including the sexual predators.
[Twitchy] Forced ejections have consequences? A bit of news from PR-challenged United: United Continental says CEO Oscar Munoz will not become chairman of the company next year, as previously planned.
[FoxNews] The nation’s largest Muslim advocacy organization has been hit with charges of union busting amid a row with a labor union attempting to organize its Washington, D.C., staff.
The Maryland-based Service Employees International Union Local 500 filed a charge of unfair labor practices against the Council on American-Islamic Relations -- alleging that the Islamic civil rights group denied union organizers access to the workplace, made threatening and coercive statements to workers ahead of a planned organizing vote and fired at least three employees for attempting to organize workers.
The charges -- which delayed the scheduled Monday workplace organizing vote by CAIR’s staff scheduled -- were filed with the National Labor Relations Board, the United States main federal labor law enforcement agency. The filings were posted on the NLRB’s website, but the actual complaint from the SEIU Local 500 has not been made public.
A spokesman for SEIU Local 500 told Fox News that the filing and the delay of the vote on Monday was necessary because of the atmosphere of “intimidation and fear” at CAIR.
“The vote was postponed because there is so much union busting going on over there that it is impossible to have a fair election,” said SEIU Local 500 spokesman Christopher Honey. “The whole things seems totally antithetical to what they do with their work at CAIR.”
In a statement provided to Fox News, CAIR called the charges leveled against the organization “meritless” and said it “strongly supports the organized labor movement.” The communications director at CAIR, Ibrahim Hooper, did not answer Fox News’ question of whether or not the organization supported its own workers unionizing and instead referred back to CAIR’s statement.
“CAIR has remained neutral throughout this process and respects the free choice of employees,” the statement said. “We look forward to the election going forward as soon as possible.”
CAIR was formed in 1994 under the auspices of working to promote social, legal and political activism among Muslims in America. Over the years the group has had to fend off numerous charges that it is pursuing an Islamist agenda.
While SEIU Local 500 asserts that they filed charges and delayed the vote because of intimidation tactics on the part of CAIR management, Hooper implied that the union wanted a delay because they didn’t have enough votes to actually unionize. If successful, SEIU Local 500 would represent between 17 and 20 non-management employees at CAIR’s Washington D.C. office.
SEIU Local 500 attests that last October they begin the push to unionize after being approached by CAIR employees who told the union they had a majority of employees in support of going that route.
“We went in with the majority of cards on our side,” Honey said.
CAIR has argued to the NLRB that it is a religious organization and exempt from the National Labor Relations Act. But earlier this month, a regional administrator at the NLRD disagreed when ruling that CAIR was "more akin to a secular civil rights group" and therefore its workers were free to unionize – a ruling that CAIR has so far rejected.
[DailyMail] A shocking video has emerged showing an American Airlines employee challenging a passenger to a fight after allegedly hitting a woman with a stroller on a domestic flight.
The upsetting footage, filmed shortly before Flight 591 departed from San Francisco on Friday afternoon, shows the airline employee goading a passenger and saying, 'hit me'.
The clip was uploaded by passenger Surain Adyanthaya, who explained he started filming after the flight attendant 'violently took a stroller from a lady with her baby on my flight, hitting her and just missing the baby'.
Adyanthaya went on to explain: 'They just in-voluntarily escorted the mother and her kids off the flight and let the flight attendant back on, who tried to fight other passengers. The mom asked for an apology and the AA official declined.'
In the video, a woman is seen standing at the front of the airplane as she is holding a child in her arms.
[Heraldnet] A psychologist predicted last year that Kathryn St. Clare would be back to hoarding cats if she didn’t receive proper mental health treatment.
The former Lake Stevens woman, who was convicted last year of animal cruelty for collecting 111 cats in a recreational trailer, was arrested Monday in a small Oregon town for investigation of animal neglect. A police officer allegedly found 41 live cats and a dead one in St. Clare's car. Gives new meaning to puss* in the back seat
The officer noted that the car reeked of cat urine and feces.
St. Clare, 58, also was wanted on Snohomish County warrants. She failed to appear for a hearing in April 2016 to determine how much she would be ordered to pay Snohomish County for costs associated with investigating St. Clare two years earlier.
There also were concerns that St. Clare wasn't following through with mental health treatment, and prosecutors had received word that she might be hoarding cats again, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Michael Boska said Tuesday.
St. Clare's case highlighted the complexities facing the criminal justice system when dealing with people living with mental illness.
Snohomish County Superior Court Judge George Bowden raised questions about why St. Clare ended up in front of a jury instead of in a county-funded program billed as a way to divert some mentally ill people out of the courts.
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Actually, the main facility is the brown building to the left, and the one in the design is the new switchgear installation. Supposedly (I'm told) there was equipment in the main building in use from 1902 (as in pre SF earthquake).
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Wouldn't be surprised, ed.
It IS PG&E after all.
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[DailyMail] - Outrage in South Africa as white Rachel Dolezal insists she is 'authentic black'
- American race-faker makes first visit to the African continent to promote book
- Tells audience in apartheid-hit nation 'I still identify as black, maybe trans-black'
- The 39-year-old mother of three was 'exposed' as white by her own parents
- Host Bishop Clyde Ramalaine backed her comparing herself to Caitlyn Jenner
The poor dear just can't get any traction as she loses the zeitgeist.
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Just remember its the Left pushing the notion that there is 'no truth' and it all starts to make sense of the drivel that comes out of their mouths. When you are your own god, you make your own world.
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Bishop Romulan, please insist she stay on! A few months touring the townships might result in a cure for your 'trans black' affliction. That is, if you're not mistaken for a white person and murdered first.
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Raj, I know you were being facetious but I think you're right. GREAT!! Let's import all those insane proggies to Africa or wherever else they'll be properly cared for.
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Can't she just go get a regular job and be part of normal society?
The problem is that she is a career academic teaching black history at the university level. Back in the old days she could have done that as a white woman, but times have changed.
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FWIW, back in the late 60's/early 70's, some US blacks decided to go back to their "ancestral homeland," expecting to be welcomed by their "fellow blacks." Surprise--the locals thought of them as (rich) Americans; they certainly weren't of any of the local tribes.
I can easily imagine South Africans who actually remember apartheid reacting to Rachel.
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[Independent] An arms company that sold missiles to the Gaddafi regime in Libya is a "role model" for the sort of business Britain will be engaged in after Brexit, the Defence Secretary has said.
Sir Michael Fallon said MBDA is "strengthening the reputation of this country" with its work and that it is "a role model for the kind of partnerships we’ll be seeking" once the UK has left the EU.
In 2007 MBDA signed a contract to provide £200 million worth of missiles and military communications equipment to Colonel Gaddafi’s regime in Libya. The dictator was deposed in 2011 during a brutal civil war during which he was accused of bombing his own citizens.
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Strange how the defense of the Island results in the arming of the world. Am I missing something, or is Sir Michael financial portfolio the central issue ?
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An arms company that sold missiles to the Gaddafi regime in Libya is a "role model" for the sort of business Britain will be engaged in after Brexit, the Defence Secretary has said.
Not to be confused with an administration that was trying to use AQ to transship arms to Syrian rebels in Syria from Libya.
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Now remember, these people are not arms merchants. Neither are Dassault in France (Mirages and Rafales) or ThyssenKrupp in German (basically, U-boats for the world). Only Russians are arms merchants.
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Venezuela says it has not seized a General Motors plant in the country for state use. "We didn't expropriate!" Non non!
Venezuela's economic minister, Ramon Lobo, tweeted Thursday night, sharing photos of a meeting with GM workers at the plant. "It's ummm ...something else"
Venezuelan officials said the plant is actually under "embargada." In other words, GM's assets in the country are frozen, but authorities emphasize that the plant should continue production. Chavista Commies don't understand how things work
But GM isn't changing tack. The automaker told CNNMoney Friday it stands by its statement on Wednesday, saying Venezuelan authorities had seized its car assembly plant in the country.
GM shut down operations there because of the alleged illegal seizure, putting 2,678 workers out of work.
Venezuela said it took the action to resolve a long-running dispute involving GM going back to 2000. But officials want the plant to continue production while GM's assets in Venezuela are frozen.
What's unclear is how the plant could forge ahead with production given that GM says it has ceased operations.
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Yep, just move manufacturing off shore. That's the ticket to profits!
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What's unclear is how the plant could forge ahead with production given that GM says it has ceased operations.
That can't afford to import cardboard to make toilet paper rolls so how are they going to talk someone into shipping them electronics on *cough* trust of being paid.
[LI] I’ve chronicled China’s opposition to the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), the U.S. missile-defense system in South Korea. The Chinese government has denied retaliating against the system, but one American cybersecurity firm told The Wall Street Journal that it found evidence that Beijing has used hackers to target THAAD.
The firm FireEye discovered that "two cyberespionage groups that the firm linked to Beijing’s military and intelligence agencies have launched a variety of attacks against South Korea’s government, military, defense companies and a big conglomerate."
FireEye admitted that Chinese hackers often target South Korea, but their activity has grown since South Korea announced the deployment of THAAD. WSJ continued:
One of the two hacker groups, which FireEye dubbed Tonto Team, is tied to China’s military and based out of the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, where North Korean hackers are also known to be active, said Mr. [John] Hultquist, a former senior U.S. intelligence analyst. FireEye believes the other, known as APT10, may be linked to other Chinese military or intelligence units.
The two hacking groups with alleged ties to Beijing have been joined by other so-called hacktivists--patriotic Chinese hackers acting independently of the government and using names like the "Panda Intelligence Bureau" and the "Denounce Lotte Group," Mr. Hultquist said.
South Korea’s Lotte Group has become a particular focus of Chinese ire after the conglomerate approved a land swap this year that allowed the government to deploy a Thaad battery on a company golf course.
Last month, just after the land swap was approved, a Lotte duty-free shopping website was crippled by a denial-of-service attack, said a company spokeswoman, who added that its Chinese website had been disrupted with a virus in February. She declined to comment on its source.
Hultquist explained to WSJ that the hackers use "web-based intrusions" in order to gain access into the systems. This means they lure "people to click on weaponized email attachments or compromised websites." In other words, phishing.
Russia’s Kaspersky Lab ZAO also noticed more attacks on South Korea from hackers using malware "developed by Chinese speakers in February." Park Seong-su, a senior global researcher with the company, said those the firm observed also used "spear-phishing emails armed with malware hidden in documents related to national security."
South Korea Response
Last month, the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that hackers targeted its website "in a denial-of-service attack-one in which a flood of hacker-directed computers cripple a website-that originated in China."
The spokesman said that officials took "prompt defensive measure" to make sure the attacks did not cause any harm. Officials have also started an "emergency service system" to fight off the Chinese hackers.
However, the government did not offer more details. The spokesman also did not name the firm the government used to track down the hackers or if the hackers meant to target THAAD.
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In my opinion, any hope of China supporting a 'one Korea' effort is delusional. We appear to have forgotten what took place in Nov of 1950:
On Nov. 25-26, 1950, the Chinese Army entered the Korean War in earnest with a violent attack against the American and United Nations forces in North Korea. The 300,000-man Chinese offensive caught the U.N. forces off guard, largely because of U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's belief that China would not openly enter the war, and vastly expanded the conflict.
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"All I know is the THAAD was streaming Netflix off the internet and then...the screen went blank"
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The Chinese like their chauvinistic history. Appeals to their tribal nature. Remind them that the North was once a largely a quasi-Chinese owned and operated Kingdom. Silla, today much of South Korea, not so much, far more autonomous.
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Hildebeest and Obummer got all butt hurt about Russian hacking during the election but the fact is the Chinese have been trying to hack everything on the Internet and then some for years. Obama's policy was to cozy up with the Chinese and pretend nothing was happening. Hopefully the Trump administration can be more realistic.
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[SFGate] For the grand finale to its founder's 105th birthday party this weekend, North Korea celebrated with rousing military music punctuated by a not-so-subtle warning for the United States and San Francisco in particular.
The martial music concert was part of the "Day of the Sun" festivities honoring late founding father Kim Il Sung. As the uniformed brass band and choir played performed enthusiastically to an audience of clapping soldiers, a propaganda video showing missiles being launched was shown on a large overhead screen.
Eventually the nukes found their target, San Francisco, and exploded in massive fiery eruptions, engulfing the city in flames. The audience appeared to applaud San Francisco's destruction, primitive CGI production values notwithstanding. Maybe STRATCOM can re-purpose the projectile to Berkeley, CA?
[WSJ] American retailers are closing stores at a record pace this year as they feel the fallout from decades of overbuilding and the rise of online shopping.
Just this past week, women’s apparel chain Bebe Stores Inc. said it would close its remaining 170 shops and sell only online, while teen retailer Rue21 Inc. announced plans to close about 400 of its 1,100 locations.
"There is no reason to believe that this will abate at any point in the foreseeable future," said Mark Cohen, the director of retail studies for Columbia Business School and a former executive at Sears Canada Inc. and other department stores.
Through April 6, closings have been announced for 2,880 retail locations this year, including hundreds of locations being shut by national chains such as Payless ShoeSource Inc. and RadioShack Corp. That is more than twice as many closings as announced during the same period last year, according to Credit Suisse.
Based on the pace so far, the brokerage estimates retailers will close more than 8,600 locations this year, which would eclipse the number of closings during the 2008 recession.
At least 10 retailers, including apparel seller Limited Stores Co., electronics chain Hhgregg Inc. and sporting-goods chain Gander Mountain Co., have filed for bankruptcy protection so far this year. That compares with nine retailers that declared bankruptcy, with at least $50 million liabilities, for all of 2016.
The seeds of the industry’s current turmoil date back nearly three decades, when retailers, in the throes of a consumer-buying spree and flush with easy money, rushed to open new stores. The land grab wasn’t unlike the housing boom that was also under way at that time.
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It is sad to watch the effects of evolving business models but as long as we can keep the progs from interfering, we will see new ways of doing business.
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Years of overbuilding and the rise of online shopping have come to a head; malls as ‘energy suckers’
Some malls are crime centers and dangerous places. Many mall stores also have an active internet business.
Energy suckers reads like the WSJ and the author are progs. New models of doing business do emerge so long as the progs don't tax and regulate them to death. At one time the businesses were all in center city and then they moved to the suburbs--now many are moving back to center city as some downtowns become gentrified.
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Those online dressing rooms leave a lot to be desired.
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Tried to buy half a dozen pairs of socks from Amazon a few months ago. They screwed up and sent me the wrong kind. I had to pay $12 to send them back before I could get my money refunded. Kinda soured me on the online shopping experience.
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This is the non existent back side of the recession that we haven't been having.
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Tried to buy half a dozen pairs of socks from Amazon a few months ago. They screwed up and sent me the wrong kind. I had to pay $12 to send them back before I could get my money refunded. Kinda soured me on the online shopping experience.
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As I grew older I discovered how exciting trips to the mail box and post office had become. Amazon returns, oh well, just more excitement.
...and he is merely a greedy, evil man. So now we know.
[AlAhram] Police commandos on Friday nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a German-Russian suspect behind a kaboom on Borussia Dortmund's team bus, prosecutors said, indicating the motive was financial and not terror-related.
They said the man, identified only as 28-year-old Sergej W., was hoping to profit from a drop in the football team's share price as a result of the attack.
Three bombs went off in a hedge alongside the team bus on April 11, minutes after it left the squad's hotel heading for a Champions League quarter-final match at home against Monaco.
The blast shattered the bus windows, and Spanish international Marc Bartra, 26, was maimed, forcing him to undergo surgery for a broken wrist.
"The accused is suspected of having carried out the attack on the team bus of Borussia Dortmund on April 11," prosecutors said after the elite GSG 9 police unit arrested him around dawn in Tuebingen, south of Stuttgart in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg.
"He is charged with attempted murder, setting off kabooms and causing serious physical injury," they said in a statement.
He was staying in the same hotel as the team, with a view of the attack scene, and had bought so-called put options on the team's shares on the day of the attack, they said.
These 15,000 options could have been sold at a pre-determined price by June 17, with a sharp fall in the share price promising a high profit.
"A significant drop in the price could have been expected if, as a result of the attack, players had been seriously injured or even killed," the prosecutors said.
Sergej. W had allegedly taken out a loan on April 3 to pay for the put options and bought them online from the IP address of the Hotel L'Arrivee, where the team would be staying.
He had reserved the room in mid-March for the periods April 9-13 and 16-20 -- coinciding with the team's two scheduled matches against Monaco, though it was not yet clear at the time which one would be held in Dortmund.
He hoped to earn as much as 3.9 million euros ($4.2 million), the Bild newspaper reported.
The team's share price has fallen by about 5.5 percent on the Deutsche Boerse since the attack, and closed at 5.36 euros on Thursday.
An Iraqi man was taken into custody over a suspected Islamist link, but was cleared of involvement in the attack.
Similarly, a purported claim of responsibility stating a far-right motive sent to German media bore "contradictions and inconsistencies", prosecutors said, adding that there was "no indication that it was sent by the perpetrator".
The investigation has involved several hundred coppers.
[Daily Caller] The Texas House of Representatives unanimously passed a measure Thursday prohibiting state-run operations to invest in anti-Israel businesses, according to a report from Forward.
Its approval follows the passage of a similar bill that was overwhelmingly approved by the state Senate last month. Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign a bill that combines policies from both bills.
Pro-Israel groups are commending Texas politicians for their efforts to pass the measure.
"The relationship between the Jewish state and the Lone Star State is built upon shared values, including a rock-solid commitment to standing up for liberty -- especially when it is threatened by radical Islamic extremism," Pastor John Hagee, the founder of Christians United For Israel, said in a statement.
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From the Jewish Telegraph Agency story referenced in the article:
Texas would be the 20th state with laws or executive orders banning state business with BDS-compliant companies.
And despite all the fussing, none of them forbid companies to engage in BDS; they only forbid government agencies of state in question to buy goods or services from them, so freedom of speech is not impacted.
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Re the first comment TW, you have to know that if you did anything to impact their rights, they'd come at you with the entire ACLU /SPLC combined arms cabinet.
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[Variety] Caitlyn Jenner will be interviewed by Tucker Carlson Monday, the Fox News host’s first night in Bill O’Reilly’s old timeslot.
Jenner will appear on the 8 p.m. ET telecast of "Tucker Carlson Tonight." The Olympian and "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star will discuss President Donald Trump and the current divide in American politics.
Fox News on Wednesday announced that Carlson would move from 9 p.m. to 8 p.m., taking over the primetime lead-off spot from "The O’Reilly Factor." The network officially parted ways with O’Reilly this week amid a sexual harassment controversy.
O’Reilly had been critical of Jenner after the Olympic gold medalist, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, came out as as a transgender woman in 2015. "Pardon me for this, but from the waist down, he is a ’he,’" O’Reilly said on his Fox News show at the time -- claiming that Jenner would not be a woman without having gender reassignment surgery.
Jenner, who underwent reassignment surgery in January, has been making the media rounds recently to promote her new book, "The Secrets of My Life," released Wednesday by Grand Central Publishing. She will appear Friday on ABC’s "20/20" in an interview with Diane Sawyer, who conducted the first major television interview with Jenner after the athlete’s coming out in 2015. Needless to say, I won't be watching this segment.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[American Thinker] On April 15, Jackson County, Missouri, prosecutors charged James R. Green Jr., 52, with six counts of second-degree statutory sodomy. Green was a teacher and coach at a middle school in the suburban North Kansas City School District. Green’s victim was a sixteen-year-old boy. It appears likely that Green was abusing other boys over a period of at least twelve years in at least two different school districts, and Green’s crime is not the half of it.
[Heraldnet] A psychologist predicted last year that Kathryn St. Clare would be back to hoarding cats if she didn’t receive proper mental health treatment.
[DailyMail] 
[Independent] An arms company that sold missiles to the Gaddafi regime in Libya is a "role model" for the sort of business Britain will be engaged in after Brexit, the Defence Secretary has said.
Venezuela says it has not seized a General Motors plant in the country for state use. "We didn't expropriate!"
