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A group of California police officers shot and killed a double amputee on Thursday as he tried to run away from them on his stumps after jumping out of his wheelchair. The three cops from Huntington Park Police Department were filmed firing at least eight shots at Anthony Lowe Jr., a 36-year-old father-of-two. His family say he lost the lower halves of his legs recently after an altercation with police in Texas. Lowe Jr. had just stabbed someone unprovoked, according to the police department, and was trying to run away from two officers on Thursday. First, they tried to Tase...

Disney-Marvel movie star and anti-fossil fuel activist Mark Ruffalo warned Republican candidate for New York governor, Lee Zeldin, to get out of the way of Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul. He based his support on Hochul’s declared opposition to fracking and the construction of new gas power plants, urging Democrats to get the vote out in her name while calling Zeldin “a far right extremist wacko.”

Newsdump Update: President Trump Will Sign Executive Order To Give "Dreamers" Citizenship Path In an interview with NBC's sister Spanish TV network Telemundo President Trump said he is planning to sign an executive order on immigration within the next month that will include a path to citizenship for "Dreamers"...... The Mayor Of One Town Makes A Pitch For Freedom Over Fear Ammon Bundy shared this letter with us sent from the Mayor of Eagar, Arizona to the citizens and it read like this in part...... A Police Shooting In Detroit Triggering New Fresh Protests Friday Night Clash With Police.... The...

Music from South Africa fits the moment we find ourselves in this weekend and so Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba followed by Four Jacks and a Jill who all contributed to the popular music scene in the late 1960's. South Africa was the place where around the turn of the 20th Century the first institutions known as "concentration camps" were established by the once mighty British Empire. According to Wikipedia some 26-thousand white South Africans 14-thousand black South Africans died in these places. Out of that experience embittered whites eventually formed a "Reformed National Party" that came to rule in...

Clips tagged #Swamp SPOOKED: Arkansas judge in Hunter Biden paternity case mysteriously recuses himselfThe judge presiding over Hunter Biden's paternity case abruptly recused himself from the case this week. Lunden Alexis Roberts, 28, filed a paternity suit against Biden alleging he is the father of her infant child in May. On Tuesday, Independence … Iranian militia leader leading Iraq U.S. embassy raid listed as Obama White House guestIranian militia leader Hadi al-Amiri, one of several identified as leading an attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, reportedly visited the White House in 2011 during the presidency of Barack...

UNION CITY — Lower corporate and capital-gains taxes and more immigration visas for skilled workers are the keys to keeping Silicon Valley and America's economy humming into the future, business leaders told Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Thursday. Flanked by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former eBay President and CEO Meg Whitman, the Arizona senator listened to and shot questions back at high-tech executives in a global-competitiveness round-table talk on the production floor at Finelite, a maker of lighting systems for offices and schools. "I'm here to listen and learn, a lot more than I am to be talking to...

Senate GOP uses ANWR to attack gas pricesSTEVENS STUMPS: Oil exploration in Alaska gets senior senator fired up. By ERIKA BOLSTAD ebolstad@adn.com Last Modified: May 2nd, 2008 10:13 AM WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans, continuing a national GOP push to hammer Democrats on gas prices, unveiled a domestic oil exploration plan Thursday that includes a call for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. The Senate Democrats who control the chamber summarily dismissed the idea -- and the others in the Republican proposal. Drilling in ANWR is also opposed by all three of the presidential candidates: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,...

(KAAL) - Minnesota's Governor is wrapping up his campaign trip to Michigan. Pawlenty spent the weekend stumping for Presidential hopeful John McCain for the Republican nomination. Pawlenty hit several town hall meetings saying the Arizona Senator has the character and experience for the job. Pawlenty used his own Midwestern values to make the pitch. "We like straight talk - people who are authentic. We like people who are the real deal,” Pawlenty said. Political experts say Pawlenty's youth and vitality gives McCain a boost with young voters while raising his own profile with republican voters. Pawlenty has repeatedly denied that...

Melting Glacier Reveals Ancient Tree Stumps LiveScience.com Tue Oct 30, 2:15 PM ET Melting glaciers in Western Canada are revealing tree stumps up to 7,000 years old where the region's rivers of ice have retreated to a historic minimum, a geologist said today. Johannes Koch of The College of Wooster in Ohio found the fresh-looking, intact tree stumps beside retreating glaciers in Garibaldi Provincial Park, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) north of Vancouver, British Columbia. Radiocarbon dating of the wood from the stumps revealed the wood was far from fresh—some of it dated back to within a few thousand years...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declined to formally endorse his "great friend" U.S. Sen. John McCain during a press conference at the Port of Los Angeles this morning, but the Republican governor certainly added a political boost to the Arizona senator if he decides to run for president. When a reporter asked if today's event - with a dramatic backdrop of ships unloading and an environmental theme - was an edge toward endorsing McCain, the senator jumped in and joked: "I think it's the endorsement, yes." Schwarzenegger responded: "We are not doing presidential politics here. We are here to talk about the...

STOCKTON - Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday campaigned for two veteran California GOP congressman who find themselves facing unexpected primary challenges as Republicans are seeking to hold onto their majorities in Congress. Cheney spoke at a private luncheon in Sacramento for Rep. John Doolittle of Roseville and during a fundraising dinner in Stockton for Rep. Richard Pombo of Tracy. Pombo, an eight-term congressman, faces the more serious challenge in the June 6 primary election. Pete McCloskey, a 78-year-old war hero and former congressman, has challenged Pombo on his environmental record and by tapping into voter unrest. A moderate, he...

Hillary Clinton stumps for Kerry in South Florida By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Writer U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton toured through South Florida Saturday, urging residents to vote early for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry at rallies for two groups in which she and her husband, former President Clinton, enjoy immense popularity - women and African Americans. At a Women's Early Vote Unity Rally in West Palm Beach, she criticized efforts to reject voter registration applications because some people had forgotten to check a box indicating they are U.S. citizens. She challenged President Bush and Gov. Jeb Bush to make sure...

Berger '67 Lectures on Presidency, Security Mock Election results: Kerry wins with 70 percent October 22, 2004 by Erica Fink Sun Senior Writer "The fact is, that this may be the most consequential vote you'll ever cast," said former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger '67 of the upcoming presidential election. Berger spoke last night in Statler Auditorium on issues he believes to be most pressing for whomever will occupy the Oval Office come January. The first issue Berger addressed was Iraq and the Middle East. "The situation in Iraq is bad and not getting better," Berger said. He went on...

WASHINGTON - One of the staunchest opponents of the war in Iraq (news - web sites) will be making noise inside the Republican National Convention. Rep. Jimmy Duncan of Tennessee will join other conservative Republicans at Madison Square Garden in New York, calling for four more years and preparing to campaign in his conservative Knoxville district on behalf of President Bush (news - web sites). Yet Duncan was one of six House Republicans who voted against authorizing Bush to go to war in Iraq and one of just five who opposed funding military operations there. Others among his Republican colleagues...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney met both support and opposition during a California trip aimed at rallying for Republican congressional candidates. At a Riverside hotel Tuesday, Cheney cheered on U.S. Senate candidate Bill Jones, who is challenging Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer. He said Jones was in lockstep with President Bush on issues of national security, the economy and tax reform, and portrayed Boxer as being out of touch with Californians. Outside the $1,000 per plate dinner that attracted about 200 people to the Mission Inn, several hundred protesters and Bush supporters faced off on opposite street corners....

BOSTON - With Bill Clinton (news - web sites) getting a moment in the spotlight Monday at the opening of the Democratic convention, John Kerry (news - web sites) pressed his case in Florida on why voters should put him the White House in place of President Bush (news - web sites). "We need to push the curve of discovery," Kerry said while meeting with workers at the Kennedy Space Center (news - web sites) at Cape Canaveral. "We need a president who believes in science and who's prepared to invest America's efforts to cure Parkinson's and AIDS (news -...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday night promised 1,200 civic and business leaders to work "like a machine" until two propositions to close California's budget deficit were approved by voters. "You know I'm like a machine. I won't stop talking until we get this done," said Schwarzenegger, standing before a backdrop of images of palm trees at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Schwarzenegger likened Propositions 57 and 58 to treatment for spending addicts. The proposals call for $15 billion in bonds to help balance the state's budget and for a constitutional amendment prohibiting such borrowing in the...

<p>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton took time off from promoting her new book to stump for Sen. Barbara Boxer on Saturday night at a Democratic fundraiser in San Francisco for the party faithful, at which she lashed out at the Bush administration for its ``total abdication to crony capitalism.''</p>

<p>Gov. Gray Davis returned to Silicon Valley on Tuesday to convene a delayed town hall meeting, but this close to the election, the evening was as much a campaign event as a conversation with constituents.</p> <p>The ballroom at Hyatt Rickeys in Palo Alto was packed with union members carrying signs, as well as members of TechNet, which originally invited Davis to speak last month. Before Davis spoke, the union members demonstrated along El Camino Real, outshouting a small, but determined group of supporters of Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon.</p>