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A woman who, along with three friends, was sprayed at with acid while on holiday in Marseille, has posted a message of forgiveness on Facebook for her attacker.
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Former 'Ars Technica' Technology Editor Peter Bright Peter Bright, 38, a reporter and Technology Editor for Ars Technica ( who’s s...
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WASHINGTON - The Secret Service sought to bolster its protection of the White House with surveillance aircraft and a Blackhawk helicopter carrying a "fast rope" commando team after crowds protesting the police killing of George Floyd knocked down temporary barricades and one man got onto the complex grounds in late May, according to newly obtained government correspondence.
That breach - combined with the throngs of protesters that converged outside the White House the night of May 29 - prompted agents to rush President Donald Trump to a reinforced bunker and spurred a deeper concern about the White House's vulnerability.
In a letter a week later, the Secret Service asked U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide aircraft that could be used in a rapid-response helicopter operation, the records show.
Customs and Border Protection ultimately provided the agency with live information from a surveillance plane, but the Secret Service determined that the helicopter was not necessary, according to administration officials familiar with the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions.
Washington is the latest example of cities where CBP deployed surveillance aircraft in the skies in recent months to monitor demonstrations. In Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed, a Predator drone was dispatched May 29. The agency's role has drawn sharp criticism from Democrats and others who say such tactics infringe on privacy and free-speech rights.
In a June 5 letter, a top Secret Service official asked CBP for use of a Blackhawk helicopter equipped with special "fast ropes." The agency proposed the aircraft could be used to rapidly drop six tactical agents for emergency missions, to help officers under threat and to descend on crowds from overhead, according to government records.
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Further proof that AOC thinks she's above you.
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"Congrats, Randi Weingarten!"
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From the New York Times: The headline in Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when the newspaper served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.” The
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President Donald Trump achieved his goal when he labeled North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un "Rocket Man" in front of the United Nations, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday. Trump had first tried out the nickname in a Saturday tweet. After rave reviews, he included it in his address on Tuesday, saying "Rocket Man is on a suicide mission." During Haley's appearance on Good Morning America, tsk-tsking host George Stephanopoulos asked Haley whether it was "appropriate" for Trump to use the nickname in his speech. "Well I'll tell you, George, it worked," Haley said. "I was talking to a president of an African country yesterday and he actually cited 'Rocket Man' back to me … Look, This is a way of getting people to talk about him, but every other international community now is referring to him as 'Rocket Man,'" she said. Stephanopoulos said the speech ruffled some feathers, particularly when Trump said the U.S. would "totally destroy" North Korea in the event of war and asked Haley to
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Two Muslim men — an activist turned Shariah mortgage seller and an Islamic cleric who sold his Islamic seal of approval on such mortgages — were acquitted on Friday of a dozen criminal …
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The enormous surge in gun sales during a year of pandemic lockdowns and riots will not dissuade Democrats from pursuing gun control.
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci on Tuesday defended "modest" collaboration with scientists in Wuhan, China on studying bat coronaviruses while asserting that the agency did not allocate the money to do "gain of function" research.
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Bill Maher has hit multiple home runs in recent weeks. He's not woke. He's not for organized mayhem, which is what happens when you push stuff like defunding the police.
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The Transportation Security Administration has issued a classified warning about a potential attack by the Islamic State today against a target in the United States.
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Lavrov Finds Opening In Trump Speech. Russia Blames Obama Administration For Bad Relations.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo publicly blamed Iran for the “blatant assault” on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman Thursday. “In a press conference Thursday afternoon, Pompeo said the U.S. had come to the conclusion based on intelligence, the type of weapons used and the sophistication of the assaults,” reports Fox News. “He …
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John Thompson, a Black man who was friends with Philando Castile, won the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) nomination for the 67a District (St. Paul) seat for the Minnesota State House on Tuesday. On Saturday Thompson terrorized a group of white children in a residential neighborhood in the Minneapolis suburb of Hugo, using a sound system to…
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New findings reported Tuesday in a University of Louisville study challenge what has been the prevailing belief that mask mandates are necessary to slow the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
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The study, which is based both on desk research and multiple waves of qualitative primary research,
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Officials managing the Department of Veteran's Affairs Caribbean Healthcare System this month began threatening employees who leak information to outsiders with a $20,000 fine while also pressuring the Office of the Inspector General to identify workers who previously leaked documents showing evidence of widespread wrongdoing in the facility.
Announcements of the threatened fine say nothing about the right of federal workers who become aware of workplace wrongdoing to report it to superiors, to the inspector general of their department or agency, or to Congress.
As discussed in this morning's service chiefs meeting with the director, this is the statement that should be included on all pertinent documents, an April 22 email to the facility's managers said.
'These documents or records, or information contained herein, which resulted from [program name], are confidential and privileged under the provisions of 38 USC 5705 and its implementing regulations. This material cannot be disclosed to anyone without authorization so provided for by that law...Note: This statute provides for fines up to $20,000 for unauthorized disclosures.'
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Good news for college men: You’re welcome again on campus. On Friday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ripped up the Obama administration’s one-sided rules on how colleges and universities handle ac…
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Kids cartoon ‘My Little Pony’ unveiled a lesbian pony couple in its upcoming episode in the final season which will air Saturday. The lesbian ponies are named “Aunt Holiday” and “Auntie Lofty” and will be introduced as caretakers of the young pony, “Scootaloo.” In 2017, the cartoon’s writer Michael Vogel confirmed the ponies were a …
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During Kamala Harris’s tenure as San Francisco’s chief prosecutor she failed to prosecute any of the sexual abuse claims brought against pedophile priests in the city, while at the same time receiving “large, unprecedented” donations from high-level officials in the Catholic Church.During Har
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On Wednesday, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) issued a directive for police pursuing people on foot. Fox News noted of the policy, “Officers must be in 'continual communication' with the subject, and 'position themselves in such a way to reduce the opportunity for a foot chase.' The officers must also 'ask themselves of the need to apprehend the subject is worth the risk to responding officers, the public, or the subject.'"
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Sen. John Cornyn introduced legislation expanding security for Supreme Court justices.
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Yesterday I gave you my thoughts on the Conservatives. Today it’s UKIP’s turn. The reasons for not wanting to vote UKIP seem to me fairly obvious. Either you’re a stupid lefty or you’re in a Tory/Labour marginal and you only
