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The cop who saved lives by taking down an Islamist terrorist almost 10 years ago still can't be identified for legal reasons, and could go to prison if he speaks out about what happened. On December 15-16 2014, Man Horon Monis held 18 hostages in the Lindt Cafe on Martin Place in Sydney in a 16-hour standoff with police. Monis was armed with a pump shotgun, which he used to kill cafe manager Tori Johnson, and said he had a bomb in his backpack. The man who can only be referred to as Officer A, was part of the Tactical...

Complete title: Phil Bredesen’s Staff Says He Is Lying About Kavanaugh Vote: “It’s a political move.” & “We don’t say that out of these walls.” Project Veritas Action Fund has released a second undercover video from campaigns during this 2018 election season. This report exposes Tennessee staffers from Phil Bredesen’s U.S. Senate campaign revealing his willingness to court moderate voters through deceit. This was especially evidenced by Bredesen’s recent statement suggesting he would, if he was already in the Senate, vote to confirm now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Whoever heard of spending $500,000 of American citizens' tax money to build a parking lot for a private business? Whoever heard of a supposedly conservative congressman perpetrating and defending such an abuse? And whoever heard of a businessman so brazen as to defend such crass patronage as being "the American system"? Well, Kentuckians have heard it all now, thanks to U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers. The Somerset Republican has amassed such power as one of the U.S. House's appropriations "cardinals" that even the blatant misuse of public funds for a private parking lot slides quietly past all the paper tigers who...

Leaders upbeat on Renaissance financing Johnson, Brooks take message to Albany, travel to D.C. today By Yancey Roy Albany bureau (February 25, 2004) — ALBANY— Rochester-area leaders emerged from an almost hourlong, closed-door meeting with state officials Tuesday, saying they made progress in obtaining funds for the proposed Renaissance Square in Rochester. “This is just the top of the first inning,” said Rochester Mayor William A. Johnson Jr. He and Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks met with Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick, Rensselaer County, his top staff and the Rochester-area Senate delegation. Brooks described the meeting as an educational...

Construction: As military families migrate to better quarters at Fort Meade and elsewhere, local authorities strain to educate an influx of children. Army wife Christine Talbert was speechless when she first visited her family's new living quarters at Fort Meade in September.

Greenhouse Gas Might Green Up The Desert; Weizmann Institute Study Suggests That Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Might Cause Forests To Spread Into Dry Environments Rehovot, Israel ? May 8, 2003 ? Missing: around 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas charged with global warming. Every year, industry releases about 22 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. And every year, when scientists measure the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it doesn?t add up ? about half goes missing. Figuring in the amount that could be soaked up by oceans, some 7 billion tons...