Five
people have been shot dead and several more injured by a gunman at
the offices of Capital Gazette, a newspaper in the Maryland capital
of Annapolis. The attacker seemed to have targeted the paper
deliberately, police said.
“There
are several people who have died,” Anne Arundel County executive
Steven Schuh told reporters on Thursday afternoon. “The shooter is
in custody and being interrogated.”
“We
do have fatalities and we do have serious injuries,” acting police
chief Bill Krampf said. He confirmed later that five people have
died, and three were injured.
The
shooting was a “targeted attack” and the suspect’s “intent
was to cause harm,” Krampf said at a press conference Thursday
evening. He said that threats that “indicated violence” were sent
to the Gazette this morning via social media, and that the newspaper
itself seemed to be the target rather than a specific employee.
Annapolis Shooting Suspect Identified As 38-Year-Old Jarrod Ramos
Active Shooter Drill in Annapolis
The City of Annapolis Police and Fire Departments held an active shooter drill Friday morning at St. Mary's High School
Powerful
“swing vote” Justice announces his imminent departure, clearing
way for President Trump to add conservative Justice to the Court
Supreme
Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will retire from the highest U.S.
court, giving President Donald Trump another chance to fundamentally
reshape the top of the judiciary.
In
a letter to Trump dated Wednesday, Kennedy said he would step down.
“For
a member of the legal profession, it is the highest of honors to
serve on this Court,” he wrote. “Please permit me by this letter
to express my profound gratitude for having had the privilege to seek
in each case how best to know, interpret and defend the Constitution
and the laws that must always conform to its mandates and promises.
The
president’s first nominee to the court, conservative Justice Neil
Gorsuch, has already had an enormous effect on U.S. policy in rulings
this week related to Trump’s ban on travel from certain countries,
abortion and labor unions.
Rep.
Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has canceled weekend events in Alabama and
Texas due to a “very serious death threat,” according to a
statement reported by CNN Thursday.
The
threat follows Waters’ controversial call to protesters to confront
members of the Trump administration in public over their support for
the president’s zero tolerance policy against immigrants.
Waters’
statement says she received an increased number of hate calls and
death threats after President Donald Trump attacked her on Twitter
Monday and in a series of other comments
Rosenstein Refuses To Discuss Whether Obama Spied On Trump Campaign
Facing
a grilling during the House Committee on the Judiciary hearing this
morning, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
refused to say whether or not any member of the Obama administration
tried to undermine President Donald Trump’s campaign leading
up to the 2016 presidential election.
House Passes Measure To Force DOJ Documents While Rosenstein Grilled In Heated Testimony
"Finish It The Hell Up": Gowdy Slams Rosenstein Over Never-Ending Russia Probe
A
visibly frustrated Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) unleashed on Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Chris Wray during
Congressional testimony on Thursday, lashing out at FBI agent Peter
Strzok's bias against Donald Trump while investigating him - before
telling Rosenstein that the ongoing Russia investigation is tearing
the country apart.
The
Capitol Police charged approximately 575 people with unlawfully
demonstrating in the atrium of the Hart Senate Building. They are
being processed on the scene and then released.
More
than a thousand female protesters, joined by Democratic senators,
marched two miles down Pennsylvania Avenue to protest the Trump
Administration's family detention and separation policies, and
demanded the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ABC
reports. The walk ended in the Hart Senate building, where Capitol
Police arrested many of them in response to an act of civil
disobedience.
Chanting
"WE CARE" and "ABOLISH ICE," the protesters are
demanding Congress act to end Trump's policies that criminalize and
detain undocumented immigrants and separate detained families. ICE is
a common acronym for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
agency.
Day
1 did not go according to plan...
The
EU Council has cancelled the press conference at
the end of Day 1 of the summit and in a
very diplomatic statement,
make it clear, it's Italy's fault...
The European Council this afternoon had an exchange of views with EP President Tajani and NATO Secretary-General as well as discussions on security and defence, jobs, growth and competitiveness, innovation and digital and other issues such as enlargement, MH-17 and MFF.
As one Member reserved their position on the entire conclusions, no conclusions have been agreed at this stage.
For this reason, the press conference by the EU institutional representatives has been cancelled and will instead take place tomorrow after the end of the Euro Summit.
They’ve
even got video equipment on hand to record the incident so that it
can be spread as part of their propaganda
The
White Helmets are preparing a provocation with the use of chemical
substances in Syria’s Idlib Governorate, Major-General Alexey
Tsygankov, Chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the
Opposing Sides, said on Wednesday.
“The
Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing sides in Syria has
received a telephone call from residents of Idlib province, who said
the White Helmets organization is preparing a provocation. They said
a convoy of six cars bearing the White Helmets logo had arrived in
the city of Idlib on Sunday, along with a truck loaded with personal
protective equipment, containers with liquid, video equipment and
seven missiles. After their arrival, four persons unknown to local
residents wearing special clothes and protective gear began equipping
the missiles’ heads with the liquid and powder they brought along
with them,” he said.
The
senator from Hawaii said that his state aims to have “the most
powerful combination of missile interceptors and radar systems
anywhere.”
A
billion dollar antiballistic radar system is being planned for
development in Hawaii in order to counter nuclear ICBM threats from
somewhere. Even though, at the present moment, there aren’t any
threatening postures from nations with ICBM tech, the need to spend
1$ billion on detecting and combatting those ICBMs is apparently
greater than ever before, at least according to some congressmen.
The
oil market is on fire once again. On Thursday, crude spiked above $74
a barrel for the first time since late 2014.
The
13% surge over the past week has been driven by a confluence of
bullish factors that will make American drivers cringe when they fill
up their gas tanks.
•
Saudi Arabia agreed last
week to go all in with production. Investors are betting the OPEC
leader has little room to respond to a future crisis.
•
A major oil producer in
Canada suffered a power outage, disrupting the flow of crude to the
United States.
•
And President Trump
stepped up his crackdown on Iran, the world's fifth biggest oil
producer. The State Department is now insisting that other countries
stop importing Iranian oil -- or face sanctions from Washington.
The
end result: US crude jumped another 1.5% on Thursday and topped $74 a
barrel.
All
hell broke out on the otherwise sleepy downtown area of Lexington,
Virginia, on Tuesday, thanks to the firestorm surrounding the owner
of the Red Hen restaurant turning away Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her
family on Saturday night. The restaurant is closed on Sunday and
Monday, so Tuesday dinner service was the first time the restaurant
would have normally been open since the controversy broke.
The
Red Hen had planned to open at 5:00 p.m. as scheduled, however after
both protesters and supporters of the business began showing up hours
earlier in the afternoon, the restaurant remained dark throughout the
evening. Initially, the Washington Post reports that it was just two
men holding Trump banners and a confederate flag, but eventually the
crowd grew so thick that police were forced to actually close off the
street.
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