[St. Louis Post-Dispatch] ST. LOUIS • Two suspects were in custody Friday night in a shooting that left two officers and a woman who was doing laundry wounded.
The officers, a man and a woman, were attacked in the 800 block of Dickson Street and then drove themselves to near 14th Street and Cass Avenue, where they called for help, officials said. They were in stable condition at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
The officers, members of the gang squad, were "ambushed" by two people they recognized and wanted to question, acting Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole said at a press conference Friday night.. He said the two fired on the officers with an assault-style rifle and a handgun. One officer was apparently able to fire one or two shots in return before the officers sped away, O’Toole said.
[PJ] "Basically everything people have been looking for in the so-called Russia investigation is actually here in the more or less uncovered Imran Awan investigation," political commentator Mark Steyn argued on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight Wednesday evening.
He brought up the latest shoe to drop in the growing scandal, which was broken this week by Luke Rosiak in The Daily Caller, as a prime example.
"This guy [Imran Awan] had his access to House email withdrawn because he was a security risk, yet he still had a House email," said Steyn incredulously.
"This story is malodorous to a degree that nothing surrounding Trump's involvement in the Miss Universe Pageant in St. Petersburg ... is at all ... and nobody's interested in it!" he continued.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz in recent weeks has defended her decision to keep Awan -- a suspect in a criminal investigation -- on as an employee even after he was arrested by claiming that he is a victim of anti-Islamic bigotry.
"He's a civil-rights martyr," Carlson remarked sarcastically.
"He's been accused of browsing while Muslim," Steyn snarked in reply.
"She [Wasserman Schultz] has already attempted to intimidate and obstruct the investigation," said Steyn, referring to her threat last May that there would "be consequences" if U.S. Capitol Police Chief Matthew R. Verderosa did not return her laptop.
"As you know, she demanded the return of her laptop from the policeman investigating this.....it's on camera and it's the interference with a police investigation that everyone's accusing Trump of doing with James Comey and all those guys!" Steyn exclaimed. "So everything they've been ... sniffing around Trump for with the Russia investigation ... is staring them in the face with this thing!"
"Man, if we ever get a Republican-controlled Congress, maybe they'll investigate it," Carlson piped in, sarcastically again.
Steyn ended the segment with a humorous riff on Hillary Clinton's book tour which, according to a press release, promises to be "surprisingly funny."
"I thought election night was surprisingly funny," Steyn deadpanned.
He joked that there are scores of "Saudi princes and Sudanese warlords" who are upset with Clinton only charging North Americans $2400 to meet her.
"That's bargain-basement prices for a meet and greet," he said. Speaking for the Saudis and Sudanese, he added, "I had to pay four million dollars to the Clinton Foundation and sit through a speech on diarrhea in Africa from Chelsea [Clinton] before I could get a meet and greet with Hillary Clinton."
[Wash Times] Thousands of Dreamers have used a loophole in federal law to get on a full pathway to citizenship, top congressional Republicans revealed Friday, citing government data withheld by the Obama administration but provided by the Trump administration.
The Dreamers were all part of DACA, the legally questionable amnesty program that’s under scrutiny right now as President Trump decides whether to scrap the Obama-era amnesty.
The House and Senate Judiciary Committees revealed that more than 45,000 DACA recipients were approved for "advance parole," which is permission to leave and reenter the U.S. despite not being in permanent legal status here.
But under a quirk of law, those granted advance parole can then ask to adjust their status and gain legal residence -- and eventually citizenship -- as long as they have a qualifying relationship.
The Obama administration had seemed intent on keeping the data secret, refusing to answer requests from Congress. The Trump administration complied.
According to the data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, as of Aug. 21, 45,447 DACA recipients had been approved for advance parole.
[Mil.com] SAVANNAH, Ga. -- A young woman charged with leaking classified U.S. documents has asked a federal judge to rule that comments she made to FBI agents before her arrest can't be used as evidence.
Reality Winner, a former Air Force linguist who held a top-secret security clearance, worked as a government contractor in Augusta, Georgia, until she was charged with copying a classified report and mailing it to an online news organization.
The criminal complaint filed June 5 in U.S. District Court says Winner admitted to leaking the documents when she was questioned by FBI agents serving a search warrant at her apartment.
Winner's defense attorneys filed a court motion Tuesday asking the judge to suppress any comments she made to the FBI in that interview because agents never read Winner her Miranda rights.
Though she had not yet been formally arrested, Winner's attorneys said, she had every reason to believe she was in custody as she was questioned in a room of her apartment by two agents standing in front of the door.
"Winner was never told she was free to leave, nor was she advised as to her arrest status," Winner's attorneys wrote. "Indeed, when she specifically asked whether she was under arrest, the agents told her they did not know the answer to that 'yet.'"
Prosecutors had not filed any reply to the defense motion Wednesday, and there was no ruling from the judge.
Meanwhile, U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian K. Epps agreed during a status hearing Wednesday to postpone Winner's trial, which had been scheduled to start in October.
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Miranda rights are read at your arraignment. This has been the case since, forever. They have nothing, otherwise they wouldn't be trying to use this pathetic defense. She's going to prison for a long time.
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She's going to prison for a long time.
I only wish she could have adjoining cells with Snowden and Manning.
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I was told that at ADX Florence (Supermax), Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber), Terry Nichols (OK City bomb), and Eric Rudolph (Atlanta Park bomb) are all in the same pod and usually have breakfast and their coffee breaks together.
You have to wonder what they talk about...
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[IMAGES.DAWN] Next week, model Kendall Jenner will be named Fashion Icon of the Decade, but ten years ago, she was 11 years old...
On September 8 Jenner will receive the honour at New York Fashion Week handed out by the fashion website Daily Front Row. Jenner is one of the models of the moment, along with sisters Bella and Gigi Hadid, and currently has 83 million followers on her Instagram.
Social media was lit with (savage) comments on the news - not everyone thinks the 21-year-old deserves the award.
Back off, all you h8ters -- don't condemn the lady just 'cause she's efficient.
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[Al Jazeera] Kenyans have rushed to social media to express their views on a Supreme Court decision nullifying the result of the August 8 presidential election that declared President Uhuru Kenyatta the winner.
The court on Friday ordered on a new presidential election to be held within 60 days, saying that the electoral board committed "irregularities and illegalities" during the vote.
Voters of opposition leader Raila Odinga have filled the streets of the capital, Nairobi, cheering their support for the court's decision
At the time of publication, #SupremeCourtDecides and #ElectionsKE2017 were the most popular Twitter hashtags in Kenya.
Many social media users tweeting on the issue said that the court's judgment was a victory for Kenyan democracy.
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[Al Jazeera] The only foreigner to come forward and give evidence in a high-profile South Sudan trial where army troops are accused of gang rape and murder in a hotel rampage a year ago is urging other survivors to speak up.
The trial is a key test of accountability in a civil war-torn country where few accused of atrocities ever face justice. Twelve South Sudanese soldiers are accused of gang-raping five foreigners, killing a local journalist while forcing survivors to watch, and looting the Terrain Hotel compound in the capital, Juba.
"Men have an equal or greater responsibility to come forward," the Italian woman told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named after testifying last week. "Men don't face the same risk of sexual violence and they can stand up against these crimes." She spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
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[Al Jazeera] Pressuring North Korea over its nuclear missile programme is "misguided and futile", Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... says, arguing that only dialogue without preconditions can resolve the crisis. If it was Vladivostok or Khabarovsk being threatened it would be a different story. Blagoveshchensk, maybe not.
The Korean Peninsula was "balancing on the brink of a large-scale conflict", Putin wrote in an article to be published on Friday before a summit of BRICS economies to be held in China on Sunday.
"Russia believes that the policy of putting pressure on Pyongyang to stop its nuclear missile programme is misguided and futile," he wrote in the article sent to media in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - the BRICS member states.
"The region's problems should only be settled through a direct dialogue of all the parties concerned without any preconditions. Provocations, pressure and militarist and insulting rhetoric are a dead-end road."
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talk, as previous administrations have tried have proven to be futile and misguided. If pressure is also futile and misguided, the only remaining response that is not futile and misguided is physical force.
Putin apparently is telling us to get on to it and destroy the nuclear and missile sites.
If not now, when?
Is it that Putin does not trust the NKs either?
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Sounds like Putin doesn't trust tbe US to ac, is scared of going against them and is happy to ride on Russia's apparent position of neutrality.
[DAWN] The body of a 10-year-old boy who was allegedly kidnapped, raped and murdered was found on a street in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Friday morning, officials said.
The body of the minor, which was found on the street outside City Courts, was sent to Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) for a post-mortem examination, the officials said.
City Courts police official Muhammad Yasir claimed that unknown suspects had killed the boy elsewhere and later wrapped his body in cloth and disposed off it in the area. He said the suspect appeared to be around 10-years-old, and his identity could not be ascertained immediately.
CHK police surgeon Dr Qarar Ahmed Abbasi told Dawn that the boy had been raped before he was murdered. He added that the minor appeared to have been strangled to death, as there were marks around his neck.
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[BBC] It is 250 years since America's Mason-Dixon Line was completed. Hailed as a groundbreaking technical achievement, it came to symbolise the border between the Civil War North and South, separating free Pennsylvania from slave-owning Maryland. But who were the two British men who created it?
"It was the equivalent of the moon landings today," according to Mason-Dixon Line expert David Thaler.
Baker's son Charles Mason and lapsed Quaker Jeremiah Dixon were established scientists when commissioned to settle a land dispute in the pre-revolutionary America of 1763.
For 80 years the Calvert family of Maryland and the Penns of Pennsylvania had been locked in a bloody dispute over the boundary between the two colonies they had been granted by the English Crown.
"The stakes were very high," said Mr Thaler, trustee of the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore and an expert on the Mason-Dixon project.
"There was about 4,000 sq miles of territory that was in dispute and nobody knew who to pay taxes to. Warfare regularly broke out along the border."
"Full four score long years have we battled,
The Penns versus Calverts, well nettled,
But finally sweet order
Prevails at the border,
The science assuredly settled!"
Cheap shot, indeed, given the bit in the article where they explain that the best science of the time was off by a bit compared to modern methods. And if course, the troubles later did not occur at the border, but further in on both sides. The sweet order of the border remains to this day. ;-)
[BBC] An American man has been sentenced to two years in jail for illegally helping China develop its nuclear power programme.
Szuhsiung Ho, aka Allen Ho, helped Chinese efforts to develop nuclear power for almost 20 years, said the US Department of Justice.
Ho was prosecuted because he did not obtain explicit permission to share "sensitive" nuclear technologies.
He was also fined $20,000 (£15,500) for breaking the US tech transfer rules.
Ho, who was born in Taiwan but became a naturalised US citizen, worked as a senior engineer for China's largest nuclear power company and also lead a Delaware-based company called Energy Technology International.
The DoJ said Ho aided China by recruiting engineers and other experts to advise it on faster ways to design and build components for some types of nuclear reactors.
The intellectual and engineering aid he helped funnel toward China helped it reduce costs and cut development time for novel reactor types, said the Justice department.
It also helped with work China was carrying out on fuel assembly systems and sensors to monitor power plant cores.
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.
[Wash Times] Thousands of Dreamers have used a loophole in federal law to get on a full pathway to citizenship, top congressional Republicans revealed Friday, citing government data withheld by the Obama administration but provided by the Trump administration.
[IMAGES.DAWN] Next week, model Kendall Jenner will be named Fashion Icon of the Decade, but ten years ago, she was 11 years old...
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
