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20-year-old Lucas Gerhard, who faces up to 20 years in prison for posting a picture of his rifle on social media, was denied his motion to dismiss charges on June 11 in a Chippewa County court in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.Big League Politics broke the story earlier this year of how Gerhard was banned from continuing his studies at Lake Superior State University dorm and charged with making terroristic threats because he posted an image that triggered a far-left student on campus. Because the student was scared by a picture of a firearm with text making fun of liberal snowflakes, Gerhard is...

BELLINZONA, Switzerland - A court acquitted seven men Wednesday of providing logistical support to a Saudi terror cell in the first Swiss trial of alleged al-Qaida associates. The accused were among 10 people arrested in Switzerland in early 2004 in connection with attacks the previous year on foreigners' residential compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that killed 35 people. Swiss authorities had said the men — Yemenis, a Somali and an Iraqi — did not appear to be directly linked to the attack but alleged that they provided logistical support for future attacks. Prosecutors argued that two of the men —...

Amman — The State Security Court on Monday handed down 15-year prison sentences to several defendants in two high- profile felony cases that went to trial last year. In one case, the court sentenced three men to death in the trial of 12 Jordanians and an Egyptian national accused of conspiracy to commit “terrorist acts” in Jordan, AFP reported. But the presiding judge of the military tribunal immediately reduced the death sentence against Jordanian nationals Bilal Khreissat, Jaafar Awad and Jamal Moghrabi to 15 years of hard labour, an AFP correspondent reported. Three other Jordanian men were given each a...