2 dead, 15 injured in Kansas City nightclub shootingA shooting outside of a nightclub late Sunday in Kansas City left two dead and more than a dozen injured, police reported early Monday. ….. Read More.UPI – United States | United States NewsMon, January 20, 20201 hour ago
Hawaii shooting: 2 officers killed, 3 people including suspect missingA man shot and killed two police officers responding to an emergency call Sunday in an upscale Honolulu neighborhood before setting his home on fire that spread to several others, authorities said. ….. Read More.UPI – United States | United States NewsMon, January 20, 20209 hours ago
2 dead, 5 wounded in shooting at San Antonio clubAn argument between customers at a Texas music venue erupted into a shooting Sunday, leaving at least two people dead and five others wounded, authorities said. ….. Read More.UPI – United States | United States NewsSun, January 19, 202010 hours ago
The Atlantic Politics Daily: The Contractors Fighting America’s WarsIt’s Friday, January 17. In today’s newsletter: The American war machine runs on contractors. Plus: Can Andrew Yang make the leap from “$1,000-a-month guy” to “Situation Room guy?”*« TODAY IN POLITICS »(Mike Segar / Reuters)The American war machine runs on contractors. In 1991, at the time of the Persian Gulf war, one in 50 people fighting the war was an American civilian contractor; that proportion crept to one in 10 by 1996, during Bosnia, according to a 2002 New York Times story.The latest figures from last fall show that that ratio is now nearly 1 to 1. And that’s just American contractors. Kathy Gilsinan tells their story. Mike Jabbar never met his replacement. But when Nawres Hamid died in a rocket attack on a military base in Iraq after Christmas, Jabbar saw photos of the wreckage and recognized the American flag he…
Trucker’s Cameras Capture His Own Murder, Suspect In CustodyA truck driver is dead, shot to death by a man who was caught on film. Now, the suspect is in custody thanks to the driver’s in-cab cameras. According to Sheriff’s Office in Shelby County, Tennessee, 30-year-old truck driver Dajuantae Stuart was shot to death in the cab of his truck. His body was found on January 8th on the shoulder of I-269 in Shelby County. SCSO Captain Anthony Buckner told reporters for WREG that the investigation wasn’t looking good until detectives discovered that the in-cab cameras had recorded and stored footage of the murder. “I don’t know where this case would be if it were not for the video footage,” Buckner told reporters. WREG reports that the video footage shows the suspect, 27-year-old James Huddleston, enter the truck while Stuart was in the sleeper. It appears that Huddleston shot Stuart once…
Ahead of Richmond Rally, Apple and Google Are Letting Nazis Use This App to CoordinateNeo-nazi and fascist groups have been posting antisemitic and racist messages and calls for violence on the encrypted messaging app Telegram in advance of a massive gun rally in Richmond, Virgina on Monday that far-right extremists are expected to attend and that officials fear might turn violent. The companies have stood idle as extremist groups have taken advantage.“If you are not ready to leave your family, friends and daily life and get violent then you need to sit the fuck down,” read a message posted by one account with over a thousand followers that has pushed a new civil war. “Virginia is less than a week away and it will decide the fate and the rate for this year.” Another account with thousands of followers has been posting compressed files of “reading material” in the lead…