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<p>SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Scottsdale police have determined an ousted school board president with an electronic dossier on parents he clashed with will not be charged with a crime.</p><p>Police spokesman Sgt. Kevin Quon said in a statement Thursday that investigators did not find anything in the Google Drive on Jann-Michael Greenburg’s computer that rose to the level of criminal conduct.</p>

The expansion of digital record keeping by police departments across the U.S. in the 1990s ushered in the era of data-driven policing. Huge metropolises like New York City crunched reams of crime and arrest data to find and target “hot spots” for extra policing. Researchers at the time found that this reduced crime without necessarily displacing it to other parts of the city—although some of the tactics used, such as stop-and-frisk, were ultimately criticized by a federal judge, among others, as civil rights abuses. The next development in data-informed policing was ripped from the pages of science fiction: software that...

Hillary Clinton is not not saying that a very carnivorous character in her political thriller “State of Terror” is based on a very recent former president. Canadian journalist Elizabeth Renzetti tweeted a rave review of Clinton’s book — which was co-written by mystery writer Louise Penny — Tuesday. In her tweet, she zeroed in on the character of President Eric Dunn, who Renzetti described as “a hulking moron whose breath smells of meat.”

At the end of the day, senators care more about protecting themselves and their colleagues from unpredictable, inconvenient floor votes than they do about passing legislation.Official Washington’s conventional wisdom about the Senate filibuster is a fairy tale. It is utterly unmoored from the choices being made by individual senators, party caucuses, and the body as a whole. Every person who has ever told you that the mean, nasty, outdated legislative filibuster is the source of Senate gridlock and the obstacle to common-sense legislating in Congress has either swallowed, or is peddling, a lie. In an op-ed in the Washington Post...

Scientists say they now know why AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine may cause blood clots. AstraZeneca’s clinical trials last year and its subsequent vaccine rollout earlier this year were clouded by rare, but sometimes deadly, blood clots. After one participant in the clinical trials experienced neurological symptoms, countries around the world put their AstraZeneca trials on pause. Then, when two Austrians experienced blood clotting after vaccination, the European Union temporarily suspended the use of the vaccine. Although the vaccine is now widely used around the world, including in Canada, India, and throughout Europe, the United States has not approved it. In a...

SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. – A Sumter County woman was arrested Monday for casting more than one ballot in an election, deputies said. Joan Halstead, 72, turned herself in at the Sumter County Detention Center in Bushnell and advised deputies that she had an active warrant for the charge, according to the arrest affidavit. Deputies said they confirmed Halstead’s warrant for the felony fraud charge, arrested her, and gave her a $2,000 bond. According to Sumter County voting records, Halstead has been a registered Republican voter since June 2020. The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office does not specify which election Halstead cast...

In a wide-ranging video interview with WND, the vaccine researcher who invented the messenger RNA technology behind the Pfizer and Moderna shots explained why he opposes universal vaccination for the COVID-19 virus and why he's been willing to risk the reputation he's cultivated over three decades and weather the scorn of the government and health-care establishment. Dr. Robert Malone cited the evidence for his concerns about the vaccines, the mandates and policies he believes are causing serious harm, particularly to children, but he also offered insight on his personal journey during the pandemic that has rocked the world. Unknown to...

Given the enormity of the public and private investment in US higher education, of course we should evaluate its effectiveness. But, how? It is claimed that over 200 higher education institutions administer the one-size-fits-all Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA). When administered pre-post—that is, near the beginning and then again near the end of a student’s program—the difference in scores on equivalent forms of the same test (i.e., the “gain score”) represents how much students have learned in that program. Or does it? Everyone knows that any one test cannot be valid in all contexts. Administering an advanced calculus exam to kindergarteners...

Scientists believe they have found "the trigger" that leads to extremely rare blood clots after the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. The team - in Cardiff and the US - have shown in exquisite detail how a protein in the blood is attracted to a key component of the vaccine. They think this kicks off a chain reaction, involving the immune system, that can culminate in dangerous clots. The vaccine is thought to have saved about a million lives from Covid. However, concerns about rare blood clots shaped how the vaccine has been used around the world including an alternative being offered...

The Labor Department on Friday will report on the number of jobs created in November in what will be the last reading of this important economic measure in 2021. By all accounts, it should be a good number with estimates above October’s 531,000 jobs. On Thursday, the department reported that unemployment claims filings were 222,000 last week, while the four-week moving average of 238,750 was at the lowest level since March 2020. A day earlier, private payroll firm ADP’s monthly survey showed 534,000 jobs had been created in November.

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine, perhaps more than any other COVID shot, knows what it is to be bullied... Tweets, memes, and listicles dragged it... The underdog dose, the “second class” shot, the nation’s vaccine-a non grata, seemed as good as dead... It’s still early, but [immunologist] Collier thinks the dynamics might look a bit different for people who got a single dose of J&J. Her recent work shows that their antibody levels start significantly lower than mRNA recipients’, but that eight months out from vaccination, the numbers have stayed stable, and have, perhaps, even gone up.

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On this date in 1948, Sam Shockley and Miran Edgar Thompson were gassed at San Quentin Prison for the failed prison break that led to the Battle of Alcatraz. One of the bloodiest events to mar the history of that storied penal island, the “battle” began as an attempt by prisoners to break out of C and D Blocks and seize an an imminent afternoon prison ferry. And like many prison breaks, preparations at once diligent, desperate, and ingenious were foiled by mischance … leaving only a hopeless, deadly shootout. The revolt, which is narrated blow by blow here, began...

Conservative author and radio host Dana Loesch backed Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s U.S. Senate campaign Thursday, touting his record on conservative issues. Loesch, who grew up near the St. Louis region, said her home state would benefit from sending Schmitt and his platform to Capitol Hill. “Eric Schmitt is a conservative fighter who knows what’s at stake for our country,” Loesch said in a statement. “Most importantly, he’s a conservative fighter who knows how to win as we’ve seen in his actions as Missouri’s attorney general and throughout his public service. Whether it’s fighting to protect our southern border from...

Dr. Vladimir Zelenko MD of https://zstacklife.com/alex/ joins The Alex Jones Show to break down the modern day child sacrifice we face as forced COVID injections are pushed on kids.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is tracking enough indicators and warnings surrounding Russian military activity near Ukraine to trigger "a lot of concern" and Russian rhetoric appears increasingly strident, the top U.S. military officer said late on Thursday. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declined to speculate about the kinds of options the United States might consider in the event of a Russian invasion. But Milley, in some of his most extensive remarks on the crisis, stressed the importance of Ukraine's sovereignty to Washington and to the NATO alliance. "There's significant national security interests of...

A woman charged with reckless assault in the third degree after she drove her car through a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City last year has rejected a plea deal in favor of a trial she hopes will vindicate her of wrongdoing. Kathleen Casillo, 53, who appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday, has claimed protesters surrounded her car and called her a “white privilege bitch” and started banging on the vehicle. Casillo told police she panicked and accidentally hit the gas pedal.

Joe Biden's policies since he took office have allowed inflation to surge in the United States, with gasoline prices up by more than a dollar a gallon across wide regions, food more costly and even consumer items demanding higher prices because of those increases in transportation costs. Now a new poll from Gallup confirms what consumers already know all too well: it's causing hardship for them. The poll revealed that Biden's inflation is causing "hardship" for nearly half of the nation's population – 45% to be exact. And it hits hardest at those who can least afford it, the poll...

There have been over 1,100 shooting in Democrat-run Portland, Oregon, thus far in 2021. The Times UK notes Portland has also seen a record number of homicides, 80 so far this year, and nearly three fourths of those homicides were firearm-related. The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) lists 1,080 shootings in the city January 1, 2021, through October 31, 2021, alone. The newspaper points out the shootings and record homicide numbers come as police “are quitting their jobs and worried residents are seeking to leave the city.” On April 4, 2021, Oregon Live observed that officers were leaving the PPB “in...

VIDEOCould this be what happens when a supposedly democratic nation lacks a Second Amendment?