Ousted Tennessee governor linked to 1979 closed cold case murder
KENS-TV - Thu Jun 10, 2021
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee — A former Tennessee governor's administration helped fund a contract murder of a key federal witness decades ago while embroiled in the state's largest political scandal, law enforcement officials announced Wednesday. More»
Third Member of Prestigious FDA Panel Resigns Over Approval of Biogen's Alzheimer's Drug
NBC New York - Thu Jun 10, 2021
Doctor Aaron Kesselheim, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, said the agency's decision on Biogen "was probably the worst drug approval decision in recent US history," according to his resignation letter obtained by CNBC. More»
Cyber Criminals Compromised Congress Weeks Ago
Daily Mail - Tue Jun 8, 2021
At least 60 members of Congress from both parties have been unable to access data for weeks in the latest ransomware attack to strike the United States. More»
Albuquerque Mayor's Race Roiled By DONGCOPTER
Wonkette - Sat Jun 5, 2021
The big political news in New Mexico this week was Tuesday's landslide-isn't-adequate-to-describe-it win by Democratic state Representative Melanie Stansbury in the special election to fill Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's congressional seat. More»
American Legion Organizers Cut Veteran's Microphone for Speaking about Black history
Raw Story - Thu Jun 3, 2021
A 77-year-old veteran Army medic accused organizers of an American Legion Memorial Day event of censoring him on Wednesday, days after his microphone was cut as he attempted to share how the holiday was originally celebrated by Black people who had been enslaved. More»
Arizona wants to use Zyklon B (Hydrogen Cyanide Gas) to execute inmates on death row
Jerusalem Post - Tue Jun 1, 2021
FLORENCE, Arizona - Hydrogen cyanide gas, named by the Third Reich as Zyklon B, was used by the Nazis to kill over a million people in the Holocaust and the state of Arizona now wants to use it in executions. More»
Employee shoots eight dead at rail yard in San Jose before killing himself: Cops find explosive devices throughout building
Daily Mail - Wed May 26, 2021
At least nine people are dead and others injured following a mass shooting at a California light rail yard, the county's sheriff's office said Wednesday. More»
FBI Analyst Charged With Stealing Counterterrorism and Cyber Threat Info
The Hacker News - Mon May 24, 2021
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) indicted an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for illegally removing numerous national security documents and willfully retaining them at her personal residence during a 13-year period from June 2004 to December 2017. More»
Military aircraft crashes in Nevada residential neighborhood near Air Force base
Post Millinial - Mon May 24, 2021
A military aircraft crashed Monday into the backyard of a home near the Nellis Air Force Base in southern Nevada. More»
NC Catholic priest, diagnosed with rare brain disease just last month, dies at age 53
Charlotte Observer` - Mon May 24, 2021
Father Michael Kottar, a Roman Catholic priest who had served in the Diocese of Charlotte for more than 21 years and who revealed earlier this month that a rare brain disease would soon take his life, died on Saturday night in Pickerington, Ohio. More»
Strange Sightings in the Skies Over Montana
KRTV - Sat May 22, 2021
GREAT FALLS — There have been several reports and videos of strange sightings in the skies over Montana in recent days. More»
Cicadas getting ‘high, horny, super-sexed’ from fungus that makes their butts fall off, experts say
NJ.com - Fri May 21, 2021
What’s more terrifying than an army of billions of cicadas waking up from a 17-year underground slumber and blanketing neighborhoods like a biblical plague? Fungus-ridden, speed-fueled, sex-crazed cicadas, probably. More»
Tulsa massacre survivor at 107 years old testifies that the horror of that day never goes away
CNN - Wed May 19, 2021
Viola Fletcher was 7 years old when she witnessed one of worst acts of racial violence the US has ever seen. More»
Arson Suspected In Pacific Palisades Brush Fire That Continues To Burn; Mandatory Evacuations Ordered
KCAL-TV - Sun May 16, 2021
PACIFIC PALISADES, California – Los Angeles Police Department Officials now suspect arson to be the cause of the ongoing Pacific Palisades brush fire, which has burned more than 750-acres and prompted evacuation orders. More»
Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows
NPR - Sat May 15, 2021
Researchers have found just 12 people are responsible for the bulk of the misleading claims and outright lies about COVID-19 vaccines that proliferate on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. More»
Activists and ex-spy said to have plotted to discredit Trump ‘enemies’ in government
New York Times - Fri May 14, 2021
WASHINGTON - A network of conservative activists, aided by a British former spy, mounted a campaign during the Trump administration to discredit perceived enemies of President Donald Trump inside the government, according to documents and people involved in the operations. More»
Biden issues executive order following mounting cyberattacks
Axios - Wed May 12, 2021
President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to improve the country’s cybersecurity following a series of high-profile cyberattacks in both the public and private sectors. More»
Colonial Pipeline Restarts
NPR - Wed May 12, 2021
The Colonial Pipeline shutdown sent motorists across the Southeast scrambling for gas, even as state and federal officials warn against panic-buying and price gouging. More»
3 Current and Former NYPD Cops Arrested on Corruption Charges
NBC New York - Tue May 11, 2021
The FBI and NYPD arrested two current police officers and one retired officer in connection with purported corruption schemes involving everything from tow trucks to heroin trafficking. More»
U.S. judge dismisses NRA bankruptcy in victory for New York
Reuters - Tue May 11, 2021
The National Rifle Association cannot use bankruptcy to reorganize in gun-friendly Texas, a federal judge in Dallas ruled on Tuesday, handing a defeat to the influential firearms rights group that is facing an effort to dissolve it in New York state. More»
U.S. Declares Emergency in 17 States Over Fuel Pipeline Cyber Attack
The Hacker News - Tue May 11, 2021
The ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline's networks has prompted the US Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to issue a regional emergency declaration in 17 states and the District of Columbia (DC). More»
7 people dead in Colorado birthday party shooting
Yahoo News - Sun May 9, 2021
Six adults were killed early Sunday morning when a suspect opened fire at a birthday party in Colorado Springs, Colorado, police said. More»
Officials Find Antidote to Vaccine Hesitancy: Free Beer
Buffalo News - Sun May 9, 2021
The idea of getting vaccinated had been rolling around in the back of Tyler Morsch's mind for weeks. More»
US Pipeline Company Halts Operations After Cyberattack
NBC New York - Sat May 8, 2021
A US energy company says a cyberattack forced it to temporarily halt all operations on a major pipeline that delivers roughly 45% of all fuel consumed on the East Coast. More»
Trump's DOJ secretly obtained phone records of Washington Post reporters
CNN - Sat May 8, 2021
President Donald Trump's Department of Justice secretly obtained phone records of multiple Washington Post reporters, the newspaper reported on Friday. More»
Utah protest against ‘medical tyranny’ includes burning a giant effigy of a vaccine syringe
Salt Lake Tribune - Fri May 7, 2021
A cheering Utah crowd burned an effigy of a giant vaccine syringe in Moroni, according to a May 1 video posted on YouTube. More»
Alabama State Trooper Charged With Child Rape Used Fake FBI Reference
Associated Press - Thu May 6, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — An Alabama state trooper arrested last week on charges he raped an 11-year-old girl had been kicked out of the FBI amid a string of sexual misconduct allegations but was hired by the state agency with the apparent help of a fake bureau letter that scrubbed his record clean. More»
Ethics Chief Slams Cruz’s Warning To ‘Woke’ CEOs As ‘Most Openly Corrupt’ Ever
Huffington Post - Sun May 2, 2021
Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) threat to “woke” CEOs was slammed Sunday as likely the “most openly corrupt” message ever from the Senate, declared Walter Shaub, former head of the Government Office of Ethics. More»
Kansas State Representative Arrested For Kneeing Boy In Crotch While Teaching
Kansas City Star - Sat May 1, 2021
Kansas state Representative Mark Samsel was arrested on charges of misdemeanor battery on Thursday after getting into a physical altercation with a student while substitute teaching in Wellsville. More»
Georgia deputy bragged he'd charge Black people with fake felonies to strip them of voting rights
Raw Story - Thu Apr 29, 2021
According to the Belleville News-Democrat, a former Georgia sheriff's deputy arrested on multiple gun charges bragged in private texts that he would charge Black people with felonies to prevent them from voting. More»