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In the wake of the Kathy Griffin severed-head fiasco, and the Central Park play depicting the assassination of President Trump, you’d think that pundits might have the good sense to lay off metaphors invoking the violent death of the president. But today comes law prof Jonathan Turley with yet another sanguinary simile. Appearing on Morning Joe to discuss President Trump’s executive order on travel, Turley suggested that President Trump’s tweets on the subject are undermining his case. Then Turley went there: “it’s like a presidential version of death by cop. Every time you seem to make advances, the president seems...

Miriam Carey (right), is the woman identified in news reports as the suspect in a shooting incident that left Capitol Hill on lockdown for a brief period Thursday afternoon, and has now reportedly been shot dead by police. This photo is from a newsletter announcing her having been hired as a hygenist at a Connecticut periodontics practice. Advanced Periodontics -ibtimes.com A woman with a one year old child unsuccessfully tried to ram her car through the security gates of the White House today. The police and Secret Service pursued the woman, and even though reports say she was not...

CRANDON, Wis. (AP) - A local law enforcement employee went on a shooting rampage early Sunday in remote northern Wisconsin, killing at least five people before authorities fatally shot him, officials said. A dispatcher for the State Patrol who declined to give his full name as a matter of department practice said the suspect is an employee of the Forest County Sheriff's Department and a part-time officer for the Crandon Police Department. County Supervisor Tom Vollmar said five or six people were dead, and a church official said police reported that the gunman killed six people. And Gary Bradley, mayor...

A man fleeing police at speeds in excess of 120 mph was arrested after crashing into two other cars in separate incidents during a midafternoon chase on northbound state Route 163. The 25-year-old suffered injuries in the second collision near Kearny Villa Road and was taken to a hospital. Two other drivers injured in the crashes also were hospitalized. The incident began about 2:30 p.m. in Hillcrest on Vermont Street, where a woman called 911 to report that her boyfriend had threatened to commit suicide by crashing his blue BMW convertible on a freeway. Police spotted him driving away from...

Al-Qa'eda terrorist suspects shot by Saudis By Robin Gedye, Foreign Affairs Writer (Filed: 03/06/2004) Saudi security forces yesterday killed two suspected terrorists linked to the deaths of 22 people in a weekend al-Qa'eda attack in Khobar as further details emerged of how three of the gunmen escaped. The pair died in a gun battle with security forces in a remote mountainous area near Mecca, 700 miles from Khobar, after they threw grenades and fired automatic weapons at pursuing police who had stopped their car at a checkpoint. It was not known whether the two men, one of whom was disguised...

<p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An officer fatally shot the son of one of the Little Rock Nine, the group of blacks who integrated the city's schools in 1957, police said.</p> <p>Police said they were called after neighbors saw Erin Eckford, 26, firing an assault rifle into the air Wednesday night.</p>