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Shot… ThinkProgress reporter Elham Khatami noticed in a now-deleted tweet that President Donald Trump didn’t say that Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock should be treated as an enemy combatant and sent to Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba for interrogation: Chaser… Who wants to tell her?

The issue that has torn this city’s public safety services in two once again figured in a major felony case. Disclosure of confidential informants is so repugnant to police and fire department officials they will sacrifice entire blocks of prosecution in order to preserve the sacrosanct status of snitches. The policy is so ingrained it has caused a complete shakeup in the structure of upper leadership – the replacement of the Chiefs of Police and Fire Departments – and the ouster of seasoned investigators who won’t budge on the issue, one way or the other. All that bitter history came...

Kevin Spacey Accused of Groping Filmmaker Tony Montana, Sexually Harassing Young Actors at London TheaterFollowing allegations that Kevin Spacey made a sexual advance toward an underage actor in 1986, more accusations of misconduct have surfaced. Filmmaker Tony Montana tells Radar Online that Spacey groped him in 2003 while the two were at a bar in Los Angeles. “I went up to order a drink and Kevin came up to me and put his arm around me,” Montana says. “He was telling me to come with him, to leave the bar. He put his hand on my crotch forcefully and grabbed...

These reporters are standing right next to each other, pretending they are going a remote broadcast. Skip to 1:11 and look at the backgroud. Same people same car. Haha! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dffL0TzI4zI

Mexican actor Roberto Cavazos, who performed in several plays at London’s Old Vic theater when Kevin Spacey was artistic director there from 2004 to 2015, has accused the House of Cards star of sexual harassment. “I myself had a couple of unpleasant encounters with Spacey that were on the edge of being considered assault,” Cavazos wrote in a recent Facebook post. “It seems the only requirement was to be a male under the age of 30 for Mr. Spacey to feel free to touch us.” The 35-year-old actor, said, “there are a lot of us who have a ‘Kevin Spacey...

In 1986, Jimmie Durham, a young conceptual artist who had spent much of the 1970s as an activist with the American Indian Movement, was asked by the Kenkeleba Gallery in the East Village to do a self-portrait as part of a group show. It’s a full body outline of “him” in canvas, hanging flat — perhaps, creepily, like a flayed skin — with a painted mask for a face, shells for ears, beads for eyes, braided animal-fur hair teasing out his “Indianness,” and a Day-Glo yellow-and-red cast of a penis jutting out, with comic exoticism. The body is covered in...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah nurse who was arrested for refusing to let a police officer draw blood from an unconscious patient settled Tuesday with Salt Lake City and the university that runs the hospital for $500,000.

A retired senior judge from Houston who is acting as judge in a pending Twin Peaks trial Tuesday appointed three Houston area private attorneys to act as special prosecutors in the case. Retired senior Judge Douglas Shaver named attorneys Brian M. Roberts, Brian Benken and Feroz Merchant to serve as prosecutors for the state’s case against Matthew Clendennen, a Hewitt man charged and indicted in the Twin Peaks shooting case. Clendennen is among 154 defendants indicted in connection with the May 17, 2015 gunfight that broke out between rival biker gangs and police outside the Twin Peaks restaurant, which left...

BISBEE — The dining the room at the Copper Queen Hotel is like taking a step into another era. A grand chandelier from the early 1900s hangs in the center of the long, rectangle room and an antique-style phonograph plays old jazz in the background — the effect is transporting visitors back to what the hotel used to be in the beginning of the 20th century. Steven Reed, the general manager of the Copper Queen, said hotel staff wanted to capture the essence of the early 1900s in one dining room experience and restore the art-nouveau atmosphere the Copper Queen...

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — IMPD had to save two women from a mouse on Monday night. The neighbors overheard the girls screaming from inside the house and called the cops. That's when IMPD showed up to find Macy Gillogly and her twin sister, Hannah, freaking out about a mouse. Macy posted the video of the officer on his hands and knees searching for the mouse. Macy's mom, Jan Harmon Gillogly, said she was thankful the officers were there to help.

How is the truck attack a cowardly act? I have absolutely no defense for the murderer and think he should be summarily tried and executed. However, really, how was his attack cowardly? He ran over people knowing what the consequences were going to be and jumped out with useless "guns" knowing he would be shot. How is that cowardly? Takes a lot of guts (no pun intended at all), if you ask me. When law enforcement should be saying we are going to kick asses and take names, all they can say is that this was a "cowardly act". Looks...

How the CIA 'found' Hitler alive in Colombia in 1954: Agency was told about man with a VERY familiar face who lived in an ex-SS community where he was called The Fuhrer and given Nazi salutes, declassified files show Declassified CIA report details claims about a man claiming to be Hitler living in Colombia in the 1950sPhillip Citroen, a former SS officer, told agents a man called Adolf Schuttlemayer was living in the town of Tunja, 85 miles north of Bogota, among a group of former Nazis in 1954Citroen said the men called Schuttlemayer The Fuhrer, gave him Nazi...

On Oct. 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his now world-famous 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. Luther’s complaints about the Roman Catholic practice of selling indulgences (the forgiving of sins) launched the Protestant Reformation, forever altering the cultural, political, religious and artistic landscape of Europe and the world. As we approach the five-hundredth anniversary of this earth-shaking event, there’s no better place to explore Luther and the Reformation than his native Germany.

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"Capitalism Dies in Ignorance"-Jonah KyleMy new quote is dedicated to the anti-homage of Jeff Bezos, lead candidate to become the post-Constitutional overlord of what used to be America, is a proven cronyist who clearly sees the endgame of a soft coup that destroys America and capitalism. I don't normally comment on private business, but Amazon.com is starting to morph into suppressing conservative and even moderate American principles. Disclosure: I do have an Amazon account, though I have not used it for purchase the past couple of years, so my browsers had been logging into them automatically for that time. This...

The state has rested its case in the first Twin Peaks shooting trial of Dallas Bandido Jake Carrizal.

Fox News’s Tucker Carlson said Monday that he received a cease and desist letter from Tony Podesta’s lawyer over his reporting on the Podesta Group. Not only does the threatening letter demand Carlson stop discussing reports about the group but that they also retract and delete all previous reporting as well. This, Carlson said, was an effort to “use fear to control press coverage.” “Podesta isn’t just complaining about us, he’s threatening us,” Carlson said on his show Monday. The letter, he continued, “demands that the show ‘immediately cease and desist disseminating false and misleading reports about Mr. Podesta and...

It is starting to seem possible that the trial of Dallas Bandido Christopher Jacob Carrizal may end not with a dramatic bang but a whimper: Which is to say not with a verdict but with a dismissal after the prosecution fails to make its case even before the defense offers a word of rebuttal. Monday started with a whimper. Dallas attorney Clint Broden wanted to hold a pretrial hearing on behalf of his client Matthew Clendennen. Broden plans to call District Attorney Abelino Reyna to testify at Clendennen’s trial because Reyna is the man who ordered Clendennen’s arrest. So Broden...

The Royal Canadian Mint is investigating how a sealed, "pure gold" wafer with proper mint stampings may in fact be a fake. The one-ounce gold piece, which was supposed to be 99.99 per cent pure, was purchased by an Ottawa jeweller on Oct. 18 at a Royal Bank of Canada branch. Yet tests of the bar show it may contain no gold at all. When neither the mint nor RBC would take the bar back, jeweller Samuel Tang contacted CBC news.

Since McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna has voluntarily disqualified himself and his office from prosecuting a pending Twin Peaks case, a new prosecutor must be appointed in his place, but who might that be? Reyna recused himself, and therefore the rest of his office, from prosecuting the state’s case against Matthew Clendennen last week after Clendennen’s lawyer successfully argued Reyna would be called as a witness in his case and under state law, would be prohibited from acting as an attorney in the same case. Clendennen, of Hewitt, is charged in connection with the May 17, 2015 shootout at...