[Business Insider] British police say they have finally found the source of the deadly nerve agent that killed a woman and left her partner fighting for his life in Amesbury, England: A bottle.
Earlier this month Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley were hospitalised after falling ill in Amesbury, and investigators determined they had been exposed to Novichok, a Russian-made poison. Sturgess, 44, died in hospital on Sunday, and police have opened a murder investigation. Rowley has since regained consciousness.
The incident came months after the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, also with Novichok, prompting fears that Sturgess and Rowley had been exposed to some of the left-over poison.
The Metropolitan Police found a "small bottle" at Rowley's house on Wednesday. Following tests, "scientists have now confirmed to us that the substance contained within the bottle is Novichok," it announced on Friday.
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Who are Rowley and Sturgess? Why would they have Novichok? How would they obtain It? Seems like those are questions the forensics people have to answer.
[telegraph] Boris Johnson would make “a great prime minister” because “he’s got what it takes”, Donald Trump has said just days after the former foreign secretary quit Theresa May’s Cabinet.
The US President said he was “very saddened” to see Mr Johnson leave the Government because he is “a very talented guy” for whom “I have a lot of respect”.
However Mr Johnson’s successor as Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was doing “a terrible job” and was failing the capital over terrorism and crime, he said.
[Telegraph]
Donald Trump has warned Theresa May that a soft Brexit will “kill” the chance of a trade deal with the US, in comments that hugely undermine her attempts to win support for her Chequers deal.
They can't afford to produce it or other bleeding edge weapons systems either. Think Tesla trying to produce electric cars without endless funds from the Silicon Valley carbon religious billionaires.
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The Russians haven't cancelled it. While the Russians are pissing their pants bragging that the SU-57 is too good, they are delaying production because the aircraft is not ready for prime time. Stealth, engines, radar, stealth, other sensors, software are all deficient and will take years to develop. Sorry Vlad, you are not Chinese and not allowed access to every American secret.
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The Russians have been having a *LOT* of problems getting any of their Late Soviet-era weapon systems to mass production status. If it works they are broke. If it is complicated, like electronics or jet turbines, they just find quality control almost impossible.
We mostly have corruption on steroids...
[BBC] The remains of a distinguished Spitfire RAF pilot were found by a metal detectorist 75 years after he was killed in a mid-air crash.
Sqn Ldr Daniel Cremin, 25, died in 1942 when his plane came down over Cornwall.
Mark Cremin, said a sealed coffin of his father's remains was sent to his family and buried in Wiltshire but it "may have just been sandbags".
Sqn Ldr Cremin's bones have now been interred in his original grave after being discovered last year.
Following the discovery of his remains an inquest will be held. It is due to open on Monday in Truro.
Sqn Ldr Cremin was an Australian pilot who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his bravery during the siege of Habbaniya in Iraq, shortly before he died.
He served in the Middle East before being transferred to 66 Squadron.
On 24 March 1942, he was on operational training over Cornwall when his Spitfire collided with another Spitfire flown by Australian, Sergeant William Norman. Both men were killed.
Had to change the article's title. The attack was in Whittier, a LA suburb
[DailyCaller] A California man who allegedly attacked his wife with a chainsaw is an illegal alien who has been deported at least 11 times since 2005, immigration officials confirmed Friday.
Alejandro Alvarez Villegas, 32, was arrested Thursday in Chula Vista, California, a suburb of San Diego, on allegations that he tried to kill his wife with a chainsaw in front of their three children.
Alvarez has a long record of being deported and returning to the U.S., according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
"Department of Homeland Security databases indicate Mr. Alvarez-Villegas is a serial immigration violator who has been removed from the United States 11 times since 2005," an ICE spokesperson said, according to NBC7 News in San Diego.
The incident began Wednesday, when police in the Los Angeles suburb of Whittier responded to a domestic violence call and found Alvarez's wife inside their home with chest wounds caused by a chainsaw. The next day, Chula Vista police pulled over Alvarez in an SUV that had been reported stolen in Los Angeles.
Alvarez allegedly tried to ram a police car during the traffic stop, but officers were able to arrest him without any injuries, Chula Vista Police Lt. Kenny Heinz said, according to NBC7.
Immigration officials have lodged a retained for Alvarez with the Whittier jail, where he is being held on suspicion of attempted murder, child endangerment, hit and run, and grand theft auto, the Los Angeles Times reported. (RELATED: Suspect In DUI Death Of Colts Player Is Twice-Deported Illegal Immigrant)
Alvarez's wife was transported to a local trauma center for surgery. She is expected to survive.
The couple's children, ages 10, 8 and 5, were not hurt and have been placed into protective custody.
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Al wondered, "So, why can't I mix in
With folks in la tierra de Nixon?
My valley girl drawl? Naw.
Or maybe this chainsaw
Is causing some cultural friction?"
[Politico] House conservatives are preparing a new push to oust Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, according to three conservative Capitol Hill sources ‐ putting the finishing touches on an impeachment filing even as Rosenstein announced the indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers for interfering in the 2016 election.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, in fact, had the impeachment document on the floor of the House at the very moment that Rosenstein spoke to reporters and TV cameras Friday.
Conservative GOP lawmakers have been plotting to remove Rosenstein for weeks, accusing him of slow-walking their probe of FBI agents they’ve accused of bias against President Donald Trump.
Democrats contend Republicans’ fixation on Rosenstein is really an effort to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller, who reports to Rosenstein and has been making inroads in his investigation of the Russian election interference plot. Mueller’s probe has entangled members of Trump’s inner circle and Trump has increasingly assailed it as a politically motivated "witch hunt" as it’s presented greater danger to him and his allies.
Conservative sources say they could file the impeachment document as soon as Monday, as Meadows and Freedom Caucus founder Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) look to build Republican support in the House. One source cautioned, however, that the timing was still fluid.
h/t Instapundit
An interesting news story ran in Thursday’s USA Today. "Baltimore police stopped noticing crime after Freddie Gray's death," read the headline. "A wave of killings followed."
What I found most interesting about it, though, was not the facts that were reported but rather that anyone should have found them surprising. "Just before a wave of violence turned Baltimore into the nation’s deadliest big city," the story begins, "a curious thing happened to its police force: officers suddenly seemed to stop noticing crime." I'm sure the war on thought crime intensified.
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.
[Politico] House conservatives are preparing a new push to oust Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, according to three conservative Capitol Hill sources ‐ putting the finishing touches on an impeachment filing even as Rosenstein announced the indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers for interfering in the 2016 election.
