| 'This is a target list': Joaquin Castro facing backlash for tweeting the names of Texas Trump donors Posted: 06 Aug 2019 05:19 PM PDT  Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh called on Joaquin Castro to delete the tweet and apologize, and for his brother's 2020 campaign to disavow the list.
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| El Paso shopper, recently arrived from Mexico, took a bullet for his wife Posted: 04 Aug 2019 09:04 PM PDT  Juan de Dios Velazquez had only moved to El Paso, Texas, with his wife Estela Nicolasa from Ciudad Juarez, just across the border in Mexico, six months before they were caught in Saturday's mass shooting at a Walmart store. Juan de Dios, 77, and Estela, 65, were about to enter the store to buy groceries, just like any normal day, when shots rang out, according to their niece Norma Ramos. "He was arriving at the store when he was shot at close range and the bullet passed through him and hit my aunt Estela," Ramos told Reuters in a phone interview from Ciudad Juarez, where she lives.
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| A hero grandmother persuaded her 19-year-old grandson to check into a hospital when she learned he was planning a mass shooting Posted: 05 Aug 2019 10:12 AM PDT  The US Attorney's Office of the Northern District of Texas announced on Friday that William Patrick Williams, from Lubbock, Texas, had been arrested.
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| Shep Smith Soberly Notes We’ll Soon Offer More ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ for Another Mass Shooting Posted: 05 Aug 2019 01:30 PM PDT  Fox NewsFox News anchor Shepard Smith began his Monday afternoon news broadcast by observing that all the offerings of "thoughts and prayers" in the wake of two horrific mass shootings over the weekend will be tossed out "soon yet again" after another similar tragedy occurs in the near future."Yet again in America," Smith soberly noted. "Yet again in America, innocent families are slumped to their knees in grief living an unimaginable weight, to retrieve the bullet-riddled bodies of their children. Yet again in America, we search our souls for answers, beg our leaders for solutions that thus far have not come."Explaining that, per one measurement, the massacres in El Paso and Dayton brought the number of American mass shootings this year to 251, the Fox News anchor said this was a "uniquely American" problem before describing the scenes at both shootings.Smith went on to highlight several other notorious public mass shootings, pointing out that this has now become "sadly routine" in this country."After all, the Gilroy Garlic Festival was just last week," Smith emotionally declared. "Remember that? Remember the details of that one? They do in Gilroy. Or Las Vegas or the Pulse nightclub. The synagogue in Pittsburgh. The Sikh temple in Wisconsin. The Baptist church in Texas. The Bible study in Charleston."Telling viewers that they may remember some of the details of some of these events, Smith explained that the survivors will say that they "never forget.""You can't forget ever," he said, adding: "Each time we hear kids cry, parents pray and politicians promise. Then it happens yet again in America."After noting that these most recent survivors will remember the gory moments of the shootings, Smith then concluded by suggesting that nothing will likely change in this nation."Now, gun laws," he said. "Regulations. Background checks. Soft targets. Body armor. Death penalty. Mental health. Time for action. I promise. Thoughts and prayers. We hear you. We heard you last time. And the time before that. We will likely do it all soon yet again in America."Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Boy thrown from London's Tate Modern is French tourist visiting UK Posted: 05 Aug 2019 10:13 AM PDT  A six-year-old boy thrown from a tenth-floor viewing platform at London's Tate Modern gallery is a French national who was visiting the British capital with his family, police said Monday. The boy is no longer in a life-threatening condition, according to London's Metropolitan Police, who appealed for further witnesses to the Sunday afternoon incident to come forward. "This is being treated as an isolated event with no distinct or apparent motive," senior investigating officer DCI John Massey said in a statement, adding there was no known link between the victim and the teen arrested.
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| An Ohio state lawmaker blamed everything from gay marriage and drag queens to marijuana for 2 recent mass shootings Posted: 05 Aug 2019 11:20 AM PDT  State Rep. Candace Keller of Ohio blamed mass shootings on drag queens, recreational marijuana, video games, and President Barack Obama.
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| Alabama student arrested after threatening shooting, bombing at his high school Posted: 06 Aug 2019 12:02 PM PDT  A teenager was arrested at his Alabama home Tuesday after threatening multipleattacks at Mary G
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| Suspect arrested in murders of man, nanny found dead at suburban New Jersey home Posted: 05 Aug 2019 01:28 PM PDT  Police have made an arrest in the killings of a man and a live-in nanny who worked with his family in New Jersey.
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| Trump tweet: Nobody blamed Obama for Sandy Hook Posted: 06 Aug 2019 06:17 AM PDT  President Trump responded to the criticism he's been receiving in the wake of the deadly mass shootings over the weekend by quoting "Fox & Friends" co-hosts, who argued former President Barack Obama was not treated as harshly.
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| One inmate killed and five others hospitalized after clash between white and black federal prisoners Posted: 05 Aug 2019 12:45 PM PDT  One inmate was killed and five others were injured in a violent clash between black and white inmates at a Florida federal prison.
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| Ohio shooting suspect had been suspended from school for making a 'rape list' of girls he wanted to attack Posted: 05 Aug 2019 09:11 AM PDT  The Ohio gunman who killed nine people on Sunday had previously been suspended from school over a "hit list" of classmates and a "rape list" of girls he wanted to sexually assault. Connor Betts, 24, opened fire outside a crowded bar in the early hours of Sunday, injuring dozens and leaving his own sister among the fatalities, before police on patrol in the area shot him dead. It has now emerged that the gunman had a history of violence, leading to questions over how he was able to purchase the fire arms used in the shooting spree. According to high school classmates, Betts was suspended during their junior year at suburban Bellbrook High School after a hit list of those he wanted to kill was found scrawled in a school bathroom. That followed an earlier suspension after Betts came to school with a list of female students he wanted to sexually assault, according to the two classmates, a man and a woman who are both now 24 and did not wish to be identified. "There was a kill list and a rape list, and my name was on the rape list," the female classmate told the Associated Press. Mourners leave flowers and candles at the entrance of Ned Peppers bar in the Oregon District following a memorial service Credit: Scott Olson/Getty A former cheerleader, the woman said she didn't really know Betts and was surprised when a police officer called her cellphone during her freshman year to tell her that her name was included on a list of potential targets. "The officer said he wouldn't be at school for a while," she said. "But after some time passed he was back, walking the halls. They didn't give us any warning that he was returning to school." The school district has not commented on those accounts, only confirming that Betts attended schools in the district. A former principal, Chris Baker, who retired this summer, told the Dayton Daily News "would not dispute that information" but refused to give any further information. However police said there was nothing in the 24-year-old's background that would have prevented him from purchasing the .223-caliber rifle with extended ammunition magazines that he used in Sunday's attack. The discovery of the hit list early in 2012 sparked a police investigation, according to local media reports, but it is not clear whether it led to any further action. Betts had no apparent criminal record as an adult, though if he had been charged as a juvenile that would typically be sealed under state law. "There's nothing in this individual's record that would have precluded him from getting these weapons," Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said on Sunday. The rifle Betts used in the shooting spree was fitted with an extended drum magazine that could hold 100 rounds. The gun was bought legally online from a dealer in Texas and shipped to a local firearms dealer, police said. Betts' sister Megan Betts, 22, was one of the first to be killed. Police said the siblings had arrived in the same vehicle with a third person earlier in the evening, but separated before the rampage. Of the 27 people injured, four remained in serious condition and one person in a critical condition. While Betts, who was 17 at the time, was not named publicly as the author of the list at the time, the former classmates said it was common knowledge within the school he was the culprit. Drew Gainey was among those who went on social media Sunday to say red flags were raised about Betts' behaviour years ago. "There was an incident in high school with this shooter that should have prevented him from ever getting his hands on a weapon. This was a tragedy that was 100% avoidable," he wrote on in a post on Sunday. Brad Howard, who said he was friends with Betts from preschool right until their high school graduation, offered a different assessment. "Connor Betts that I knew was a nice kid. The Connor Betts that I talked to, I always got along with well," he said. Mike Kern, a customer at the gas station where Betts used to work in Bellbrook, said "he was the nicest kid you could imagine". "I never heard him talk about violence, say a racist word, or anything like that," he added. Mr Kern said they sometimes played trivia at a bar near the gas station, and Mr Betts often knew the answers on questions about current events and pop culture. "He was real smart," he said. "He knew all the answers."
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| Here's the Story Behind That Controversial 'Backless Seats' Photo Posted: 06 Aug 2019 11:10 AM PDT  EasyJet told TIME that the flight departed with five spare seats
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| FBI reviewing Ohio shooter's interest in violent ideology Posted: 06 Aug 2019 05:58 PM PDT |
| Iran unveils three new precision-guided missiles Posted: 06 Aug 2019 02:14 AM PDT  Iran unveiled three precision-guided missiles on Tuesday, with the defence minister saying they show the country is ready to defend itself in the face of US "viciousness and conspiracies". The new line-up of air-to-air missiles dubbed the "Yasin", "Balaban" and a new series of the "Ghaem" were developed jointly by the ministry and Sa Iran, also known as Iran Electronics Industries. Defence Minister Brigadier-General Amir Hatami hailed their launch as "another significant achievement of power and dignity for the Islamic Republic of Iran".
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| What the Ford Mustang Shelby GT500's 0–100–0-MPH Time Means Posted: 05 Aug 2019 11:00 AM PDT  We place Ford's acceleration and braking claim in context.
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| Biden leads Democrats as minorities favor most electable candidate vs Trump: Reuters/Ipsos poll Posted: 06 Aug 2019 03:04 AM PDT  Joe Biden maintained his lead for the Democratic presidential nomination as minorities gravitated toward the former vice president and his top rival, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, in search of the safest bets for beating President Donald Trump in 2020, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. The Aug. 1-5 public opinion poll, released on Tuesday, showed that 22% of Democrats and independents would vote for Biden, a level that is unchanged from a similar poll that ran last month. Another 18% said they supported Sanders, up 2 percentage points from the July poll.
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| Texas police condemned after officers on horseback lead black suspect by rope Posted: 06 Aug 2019 11:20 AM PDT  Police in Texas have apologised after photographs emerged of two white officers on horseback leading a black man down the street by a rope. Donald Neely, 43, had been arrested on suspicion of trespassing in an office building in downtown Galveston, a coastal city of 50,000 people just outside Houston. The officers attached a rope to the handcuffs behind his back, before leading him to a police staging area eight street blocks away. A passerby took photographs which circulated on social media, leading to a widespread backlash against the police department. "This is 2019 and not 1819," said James Douglas, president of the Houston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It was the latest incident to raise tensions over police treatment of black suspects. Prominent alleged abuse and deaths in custody have sparked riots in recent years up and down the US. Melissa Morris, a lawyer for Mr Neely's family, said he was homeless, mentally ill, and suffered from bipolar disorder. She said: "I'm appalled. I believe the way they handled him was disgusting. The family is offended. The family is upset." Galveston's police department said leading a suspect by a rope on horseback was something officers were trained to do. It was an accepted law enforcement technique, and even "best practice" in some situations. However, following fierce criticism, it was announced that the practice would be discontinued. In a statement the police department said: "We understand the negative perception of this action and believe it is most appropriate to cease the use of this technique. "While this technique of using mounted horses to transport a person during an arrest is considered a best practice in certain scenarios, such as during crowd control, the practice was not used correctly in this instance." Vernon Hale, the Galveston Police Chief, said: "First and foremost I must apologise to Mr Neely for this unnecessary embarrassment. "Although this is a trained technique, and best practice in some scenarios, I believe our officers showed poor judgment in this instance, and could have waited for a transport unit at the location of the arrest. "We will review all mounted training and procedures for more appropriate methods." He added that the officers had no "malicious intent" when they led Mr Neely by a rope, and their body cameras were activated at the time. Mr Neely was previously known to the officers. The officers were named by the police department as Officer P. Brosch and Officer A. Smith, but it was not clear if they would face disciplinary action. Mr Neely was accused of trespassing in a building containing offices for companies including investment management firm Merrill Lynch. He was later released on bail. Leon Phillips, president of the Galveston Coalition for Justice, said: "These are two white police officers on horseback, with a black man, walking him down the street with a rope tied to the handcuffs, and that's doesn't make sense, period. "Stay there with him instead of humiliating him, and now you've humiliated the whole city of Galveston. And I do understand this, if it was a white man, I guarantee it would not have happened." The incident will likely put authorities on high alert for a backlash. In 2014 Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, was fatally shot by a white officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri. The officer was not charged and Mr Brown's death led to months of protests, becoming a catalyst for the Black Lives Matter movement. The following year there were protests in Baltimore when Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, died after being injured in a police van. In New York relations between police and the black community have been poisoned by the death of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man, in police custody in 2014. Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who applied a chokehold to Mr Garner, is still on the force amid ongoing calls for him to be fired.
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| Cathay Pacific Says It's Recording Passengers With Onboard CCTV Posted: 06 Aug 2019 12:22 AM PDT  An updated privacy policy the Hong Kong-based airline states CCTV cameras are recording passengers onboard and in airport lounges
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| Prosecutor: Man body-slammed boy after national anthem snub Posted: 06 Aug 2019 04:12 PM PDT  A man is facing an assault charge after Montana authorities say he threw a 13-year-old boy to the ground at a rodeo because the teenager didn't remove his hat when the national anthem was played. Court documents filed by Mineral County Attorney Ellen Donohue said the boy was flown to the hospital for a possible concussion and fractured skull. Curt James Brockway, 39, told a sheriff's deputy that he asked the boy to remove his hat out of respect for the national anthem playing before the start of the county rodeo on Saturday, Donohue wrote in the document describing the alleged attack.
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| Here's why the pilot of Enola Gay had no regrets about dropping the first atom bomb Posted: 06 Aug 2019 06:57 AM PDT  On August 6, 1945, US bomber the Enola Gay launched the world's first nuclear attack, dropping an atom bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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| Epstein Seen With Young Girls as He Shopped for ‘Baby Ranch’ in New Mexico Posted: 06 Aug 2019 02:10 AM PDT  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos Getty/ReutersR. Kelly arrived under escort of U.S. Marshals on Friday at the same small New Jersey airport where Jeffrey Epstein was arrested last month.The singer and the money manager are charged in separate cases with having sex with multiple minors. Both have long been seen in the company of underage girls. And both cases raise the question of why so many people said nothing over the years. Saying something when you see something—the post-9/11 adage about terrorism—should also apply to the sexual abuse of underage girls.Of course, not everybody could be expected to have understood the significance of what they were seeing before Epstein's proclivities became widely known. That included realtor Pat French of Santa Fe, New Mexico.Back in September of 1992, French was on the way to take her tween-turning-teen daughter and a friend to see the first woman to lead the Cherokee tribe, when she stopped at a luxury hotel to drop off some papers to a mega-rich New Yorker who was shopping for a ranch. Send The Daily Beast a TipWhen she rang the doorbell to the suite at the Rancho Encantado that September day in 1992, Jeffrey Epstein was not who answered."There were all these girls," French told The Daily Beast this week. "A little bit older than my daughter. Not much."French made what seemed at the time to be a completely reasonable assumption. "I thought, 'Oh, these must be his daughters and friends he took along on the trip,'" French recalled. She did not know at the time that Epstein had no children.The girls took the papers, which described properties that French thought might interest Epstein. He had told her he was seeking isolation."He wanted really far away from people," French recalled.French proceeded on with her daughter and friends to see Cherokee Principal Chief Wilma Mankiller receive an an award from the International Women's Forum. Mankiller—now deceased, from cancer in 2010—was a leading champion of women's rights as well as Native American rights and human rights in general. Mankiller was taking particular steps to combat the sexual abuse of children in her tribe. French never imagined that the girls she saw back at the plush Rancho Encantado were victims of evil such as Mankiller battled."I had no idea about this man," French later told The Daily Beast.French had no further dealings with Epstein. He chose to buy a ranch through another realtor, Rhonda King, who was also then a representative to the New Mexico state legislature. The purchase of the 10,000-acre Zorro Ranch came with an additional, instant political connection, as Epstein bought it from the realtor's uncle, former Gov. Bruce King. Epstein proceeded to build a 26,700 square foot hacienda-style hilltop mansion, the largest private home in Santa Fe County, perhaps the state. The former governor's brother, New Mexico State treasurer David King, was quoted saying of Epstein, "He's building what you want as a heavenly ranch."Epstein was reported to have bought $600 bedsheets. He was said to have his bread flown in from New York."They do have money," a local builder remarked.But money was still money for Epstein. He sued Santa Fe County in 2000, alleging that he was being overcharged on property taxes because the ranch was worth only $30 million, not the $33 million it had been officially appraised. He demanded a refund of $20,000 he had already paid. The suit was settled for an undisclosed amount. Visitors to the mansion included the leading candidate for governor in 2002, Bill Richardson, who was later quick to say that he was accompanied by his wife. Epstein contributed $50,000 to Richardson's campaign. Epstein kicked in another $50,000 towards Richardson's successful run for reelection in 2006.Gary King, the former governor's son, was running for state attorney general that year and Epstein donated $15,000 to his primary campaign. Epstein also donated $10,000 toward Jim Bacca's campaign to become head of the land commission and $2,000 toward Santa Fe County Sheriff Jim Solano's bid for reelection.In the meantime, Epstein was apparently flying in underage girls as well as fresh bread, usually through Santa Fe when he was using his Gulfstream, or the larger Albuquerque airport when using his Boeing 727. One of his accusers would say that she was raped at the ranch when she was 15.No doubt people at the airports and ranch workers and folks in town saw the girls. But nobody seems to have contacted the authorities even after the news broke in July 2006 that Epstein was being charged in Florida with having sex with underage girls. The following year, Epstein was allowed to plead guilty to just one count of engaging a minor in prostitution. This unconscionable deal allowed him to serve just 13 months of nights and weekends in a private section of the Palm Beach County Jail. A resident of Santa Fe recalled to The Daily Beast that when she went into a local newsstand, the proprietor remarked, "Oh, he always used to come into town with all these girls."Epstein Had His Own Lodge at Interlochen's Prestigious Arts Camp for KidsUpon his release in 2009, Epstein was required by the plea deal to to register as a sex offender. Federal law required him also to register in any other jurisdiction where he maintained a residence, including what his lawyers termed his "vacation home" outside Santa Fe.On July 23, 2010, Epstein received a notice from the New Mexico Department of Public Safety (NMDPS) stating it had been notified by its Florida counterpart that Epstein was a registered sex offender."A convicted sex offender who resides in New Mexico shall register with the county sheriff no later than ten (10) days after establishing residence in this state," the notice said.On August 17, Epstein registered in person with Detective Deborah Anaya at the Santa Fe County Sheriff's office. Anaya afterwards paid a standard visit to the offender's home. What wasn't standard were the offender's conveyances, which she listed as two private jets and two helicopters, along with a fleet of land vehicles.Two days later, on August 19, Epstein received a second notice from NMDPS, which said, "You are not required to register with the state of New Mexico." A NMDPS spokesman later told The Daily Beast, "While in New Mexico we expressly disapprove of such conduct as specific to this case, the determination made when someone must register in New Mexico is a fact-based inquiry. The state conducted a 'translation' on August 11, 2010, regarding Mr. Epstein's 2008 conviction for procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution in the state of Florida, i.e., a comparison of the out-of-state elements of the Florida conviction were compared against New Mexico law. It was determined at that time that because the victim was not under the age of 16, Mr. Epstein does not have a registration requirement in New Mexico."The spokesman did not respond to a query as to how this squared with federal law, which would seem to say that the conviction in Florida required him to register in New Mexico even if the victim was not under 16. The Florida definition of a minor was the operative one in whatever state when it came to registering. The standard letterhead in both NMDPS notices was identical, but in retrospect the words "Bill Richardson, Governor" seem to jump out a little more in the second one. Richardson—a former Energy Secretary in the Clinton administration—was in the final months of his second and final term as New Mexico's governor, but Gary King remained the state attorney general until 2015. He ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2014 and may have imagined nobody would be any the wiser when he accepted $35,000 donated by five shell companies that Epstein had established. The companies—three of which were apparently named after streets in the gated Brooklyn enclave where Epstein was raised—are based in the Virgin Islands. That is where Epstein has two private islands and where numerous people also saw him in the company of apparently underage girls and where he also made numerous political contributions, and even hired a former governor's wife as his office manager.Epstein almost certainly would still be flying girls to New Mexico and the Virgin Islands, along with his residences in Palm Beach and New York and likely Paris had he not been indicted by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office for sex trafficking. He was arrested when he stepped off his Gulfstream at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. Epstein seems to have been abusing girls in New Mexico for at least 27 years. If he was traveling with underage girls after his widely reported conviction, no one should have imagined that he was doing so for any purpose other than should have been immediately reported to the authorities. So many people saw something and said nothing.Epstein apparently imagined people would keep saying nothing and he would remain at liberty. He has long leased grazing rights for 1,244 acres adjoining his Zorro Ranch and he renewed the lease in 2016 so it runs to 2021. He was reported in 2011 to have 39 Angus-cross cows and two bulls. The bulls are apparently for breeding.Epstein seems to have been obsessed with breeding. As The New York Times reported, he talked about using his seed to impregnate a herd of women, whom he seems to have regarded as just cattle at whatever age. He was said to have suggested to scientists that the human race would be improved by having what might in ranch terms be called an Epstein-cross.We can all hope that his line dies in prison along with him. Until then, look for Epstein to seek to curry favor with other inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center by putting money in their commissary accounts the same way he used to contribute to politicians in New Mexico and the Virgin Islands.Out in New Mexico, one of Epstein's more remote neighbors was spared ever encountering him. But the artist Sina Brush did receive an unbidden letter from him not long after he built his mansion. He informed her that he was paying her $25,000 for her refuge of 40 years. The letter did not even ask she was interested in selling. She sent back a polite "no thank you" note despite his rudeness. The modest parcel where Brush lives and works with an aging mare named Billie—"after the kid"—is one place that Epstein could not have bought with all his money. There, Brush enjoys a realm whose magical light and timeless peace have inspired many other artists, including not only Georgia O'Keeffe, but also Gerald Cassidy, Forrest Moses, Woody Gwyn and Fritz Scholde. Here is isolation that can also lead to what is the very best in us."I'm not going anywhere," she told The Daily Beast. "I need this kind of tranquility and beauty."Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| 'Good Guys With Guns' Can Rarely Stop Mass Shootings, and Texas and Ohio Show Why Posted: 06 Aug 2019 02:00 PM PDT  Mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso show the NRA's push to relax gun laws hasn't stopped the death toll from gunmen.
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| Community raises more than $50,000 to keep man with special needs as neighbor Posted: 05 Aug 2019 05:46 PM PDT  Lamar Harris has lost all the relatives who once cared for him. But his Gloucester Township neighbors showed him he still has plenty of family.
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| Sharks bite three people on the same beach in separate attacks within 24 hours Posted: 06 Aug 2019 03:42 AM PDT  Three people have been bitten by sharks on the same beach in just 24 hours, with two attacks occurring within 30 minutes of each other.Multiple separate attacks were recorded over the weekend at New Smyrna Beach in Florida, an area which has been called the "shark attack capital of the world".A 20-year-old surfer, Emily Comfort, was bitten on her left hand and wrist on Saturday, according to Volusia County Beach Safety, and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.Approximately half an hour later, a 21-year-old surfer named Riley Petrovich was treated for a shark bite on his right foot.He refused transport to a hospital, according to officials.On Sunday, beach officials reported that 51-year-old Peter Bourbeau was bitten by what he described as a 4ft shark while standing in knee-deep water.Mr Bourbeau said he kicked the shark and it swam away.It is not known whether any of the attacks were committed by the same predator.Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Programme for Shark Research at the Florida Museum of Natural History, told CNN that sharks are often drawn to New Smyrna Beach by bait fish which gather nearby."If you like to surf and you surf in this particular spot, the chances are high that you have been within 10ft of a shark," he said."The surfers all know this. They routinely report seeing sharks in the area. While it may be news to the non-surfing community, it is widely-known to scientists and surfers."Shark sightings are relatively common in Volusia County, where there has been 303 unprovoked attacks recorded since 1882, according to research by the Florida Museum of Natural History.That number is the highest for a county in the US.There have been 1,441 confirmed unprovoked shark attacks in the US since 1837 with the majority occurring in Florida (828 attacks), according to the museum.In 2018, the museum reported 16 unprovoked shark attacks in the state, accounting for half of all such attacks in the US last year.
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| War with Iran is the mother of all wars: Iran president Posted: 05 Aug 2019 11:24 PM PDT  War with Iran is the mother of all wars, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday in a speech broadcast live on state TV, warning once again that shipping might not be safe in the Strait of Hormuz oil waterway. Tensions have risen between Iran and the West since last year when the United States pulled out of an international agreement which curbed the Islamic Republic's nuclear program in return for an easing of economic sanctions on Iran. "Peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, war with Iran is the mother of all wars," Rouhani said at the Foreign Ministry in a speech which also praised Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after the United States imposed sanctions on him on July 31.
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| Mother took Lyft to get rid of dead 4-year old's body Posted: 06 Aug 2019 08:51 AM PDT  Malachi Lawson, a 4-year-old Baltimore boy, was initially reported missing by his mother before he died.
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| Democratic Congresswoman: Trump ‘Not Welcome’ In El Paso After Shooting Posted: 05 Aug 2019 04:09 AM PDT  A Democratic congresswoman representing the El Paso, Texas area declared Monday that President Donald Trump is not welcome in her city following a recent mass shooting."It is shocking to me that [President Trump] is so utterly self-aware, and this is why, from my perspective, he is not welcome here. He should not come here while we are in mourning," Texas Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar said Monday on MSNBC's Morning Joe program.Escobar's comments came in the wake of a mass shooting at an El Paso shopping mall. A 21-year-old gunman allegedly killed at least 20 people and injured another 26 when he went on a shooting spree inside a Walmart on Saturday. A manifesto believed to have been posted by the alleged gunman warned of an "Hispanic invasion" taking place in the U.S.The manifesto went on to claim that violent action was needed to stop the elimination of the white population in the U.S. and Europe. Investigators are now considering whether to weigh the mass shooting as a hate crime.Escobar tried to directly link a Trump rally held in El Paso months earlier to the shooting, but then immediately walked those comments back.
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| 4 people found dead in apparent San Antonio murder-suicide Posted: 06 Aug 2019 09:01 AM PDT ![4 people found dead in apparent San Antonio murder-suicide]( "4 people found dead in apparent San Antonio murder-suicide") Emergency personnel responding to a San Antonio house fire found four people dead in an apparent murder-suicide, police said Tuesday. Police spokeswoman Romana Lopez said officers received a report of a family disturbance Monday at a home in southwest San Antonio just south of Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. Responding officers found the house in flames and two bodies in the front yard with gunshot wounds.
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| Couple died shielding their 2-month-old baby during El Paso shooting Posted: 05 Aug 2019 08:05 AM PDT  An El Paso couple died shielding their 2-month old son after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart on Saturday.
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| Graham to Introduce Bipartisan ‘Red Flag’ Legislation after Mass Shootings Posted: 05 Aug 2019 11:23 AM PDT  In the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend, Senator Lindsey Graham announced his intention Monday to introduce bipartisan "red flag" legislation designed to help law enforcement keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.The South Carolina Republican said he and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) plan to introduce a bipartisan bill establishing a federal grant program that would encourage states to institute "Extreme Risk Protection Orders" laws."These grants will be given to law enforcement so they can hire and consult with mental health professionals to better determine which cases need to be acted upon," Graham said in a statement. "This grant program also requires robust due process and judicial review. It does allow for quick action.""Red Flag laws generally work by a family or household member or law enforcement officer petitioning a court to temporarily restrict an individual's ability to buy or access firearms," Graham said in a congressional hearing on the matter in March. "The burden of proof is placed on law enforcement to prove the person in question has become an imminent danger and there is a Due Process right for the individual to challenge the determination."A 21-year-old gunman opened fire on Saturday in an El Paso, Texas shopping center, killing 20 people and injuring 26 others. Less than 24 hours later, another young male shooter used an assault-style rifle to kill nine people, including his sister, and injure 27 more in a Dayton, Ohio entertainment district.The El Paso shooter had posted statements online before the shooting expressing his hatred for immigrants and Hispanic people, who comprise the majority of the Texas border town's population."Time to enact common-sense legislation in Congress to empower states to deal with those who present a danger to themselves and others — while respecting robust due process," Graham wrote Saturday on Twitter in the aftermath of the El Paso shooting.Graham added that he has discussed his proposal with President Trump, who "seems very supportive."During his remarks addressing the shootings Monday, Trump called on Congress to pass such legislation "in a bipartisan manner."
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| China tells Kyrgyzstan to punish mine attackers Posted: 06 Aug 2019 09:08 AM PDT  China's embassy in Kyrgyzstan Tuesday called on the Central Asian country to punish villagers it said attacked a Chinese-owned mine, leaving more than 20 workers injured. The rare diplomatic rebuke from Beijing followed a skirmish between mine employees and villagers living close to the Solton Sary gold deposit which is licensed to China's Zhong Ji Mining. The embassy said it had informed Kyrgyzstan of its "serious concern" over the incident.
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| How Jack Daniel's and 34 volunteer firefighters protect the world's supply of its whiskey Posted: 05 Aug 2019 03:04 PM PDT  Jack Daniel's spent millions to protect their product from the destructive fires like the blaze at Jim Beam. Its volunteer fire brigade is full time.
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| Only 3 countries in the world protect the right to bear arms in their constitutions: the US, Mexico, and Guatemala Posted: 06 Aug 2019 09:31 AM PDT  Only Mexico, Guatemala, and the US have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The US is the only country without any constitutional limits.
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| Aden attack exposes splits in Yemen's anti-Houthi alliance Posted: 06 Aug 2019 06:29 AM PDT  Yemen's southern separatists on Tuesday accused an Islamist party of complicity in last week's deadly attack on Aden, the seat of government, exposing rifts in the Saudi-backed coalition battling the Iran-aligned Houthi movement. The separatists and Islamist party are united in their wider war on the Houthis, but have rival agendas for Yemen, and frictions between them over Thursday's attack could destabilize the southern port city that is the coalition's sole stronghold.
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| FBI: California gunman had list of possible targets Posted: 06 Aug 2019 03:57 PM PDT  The FBI has opened a domestic terrorism investigation into the mass shooting at a California food festival after it discovered a "target list" compiled by the gunman whose relatives apologized Tuesday and said they were "horrified" by his actions. The FBI disclosure came during a funeral mass for Keyla Salazar, a 13-year-old middle schooler who was one of three people killed on July 28 by gunman Santino William Legan during the Gilroy Garlic Festival. It was the first of three mass shootings within a week that killed a total of 34 people in Gilroy, Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas.
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| John Oliver Delivers Emotional Plea to Trump and America in Wake of Dayton and El Paso Mass Shootings Posted: 04 Aug 2019 08:54 PM PDT  HBOOn Sunday evening, prior to airing the latest taping of his Emmy-winning program Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver addressed the audience with a message in the wake of the mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, that have left 31 people dead and dozens more injured. "Before we start our show tonight… as I'm sure you're aware, America has just seen two mass shootings within 24 hours—in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas. And while it's still very early, I just feel like there are a couple of points that seem worth mentioning here," the comedian said. "First, when it comes to gun control, I know it can feel like everything's been said before… but while the depressingly familiar numbness that we may be currently feeling can help you handle the pain in the short term, in the long term, it can actually be a real problem—because unless something hurts as much as it's supposed to, nothing gets done about it. And something has got to be done here. And not just about guns," he continued. The late-night host then, with tears welling up in his eyes, pinned some of the blame for the shootings on the xenophobic rhetoric of President Trump, who kicked off his presidential run by branding Mexican immigrants rapists and drug dealers, and has since referred to migrants crossing the southern border as an "invasion" thousands of times. "The El Paso shooting is currently being investigated as a hate crime, and the shooter's manifesto featured anti-immigrant language that may well be familiar to you from certain cable networks and certain presidents," Oliver explained, flashing a picture of Trump on the screen. "And clearly, white nationalism and anti-immigrant hysteria did not start with this president, but he certainly seems to create an environment where those kinds of views can fester and indeed thrive." He added, "In fact, just three months ago, as he was deliberately winding up a crowd with the image of 15,000 immigrants marching toward the border, this happened." John Oliver Drags Meghan McCain: 'The Most Embarrassing Child of a Prominent Political Figure'Oliver then threw to a clip of Trump at a May rally in Panama City Beach, Florida, where he laughed away a comment from an audience member about shooting immigrants. "How do you stop these people? You can't!" Trump exclaimed. When someone in the rally crowd yelled, "Shoot them!," he chuckled and responded, "That's only in the Panhandle that you can get away with that stuff! Only in the Panhandle!" "Yeah, but here is the thing about that: It is not only in the Panhandle where you can get away with that statement," said Oliver. "You can now get away with it all over the country, and, as he just made painfully clear, in any room the actual president is in—which is absolutely appalling, and that is something we cannot afford to get numb to, because if that ever, for even a moment, feels like it's become normal, we are completely fucked."Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Man allegedly tries to rob bank in Cleveland, gets caught after leaving a note with his name, address Posted: 05 Aug 2019 01:40 PM PDT  An Ohio man accused of robbing a bank was caught by police last week after hemade a pretty unfortunate mistake
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| E. Guinea accused of planning border wall with Cameroon: army sources Posted: 06 Aug 2019 12:19 PM PDT  Yaoundé (AFP) - Equatorial Guinea is planning to build a wall along the border with its neighbour Cameroon, according to sources in the Cameroon army. An army officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Equatorial Guinean soldiers had crossed the Ntem river that forms a natural border between the two countries, and erected milestones in the town of Kye-Ossi on the Cameroonian side. At the weekend, state radio reported that Cameroon army chief, Rene Claude Meka, visited the spot at the end of July to see where the border had been encroached, noting "the expansionist ambitions" of neighbouring Equatorial Guinea.
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| These are the 9 victims of the Dayton, Ohio shooting Posted: 05 Aug 2019 04:30 PM PDT  Nine people were killed and at least 27 people were injured during the August 4 shooting in Dayton, Ohio, police said.
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| Iran's Air Force Just Lost a Fighter Jet: U.S. Made F-4 Phantom Just Went Down Posted: 05 Aug 2019 12:22 AM PDT  On Aug. 4, 2019, around 12:30 hrs local time, the F-4E Phantom II inventory of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) became a little smaller after a 61st TFS F-4E crashed near Tangestan beach, north-west of home base 6th Tactical Air Base Bushehr (Iran).Luckily both crew members managed to eject in time and parachuted safely to mother Earth.Their unfortunate Phantom crashed into the Persian Gulf. Regular patrol flights of F-4Es are common in the region, but this crash comes amid tensions in the Gulf region between the US and Iran.Earlier, on Aug. 4, Iran announced it had captured a foreign oil tanker, which, according to their statement, was smuggling fuel to an unnamed Arab state in the region. Possibly, the F-4E was involved in a top cover mission when things went wrong. A spokesman of the IRIAF said the crew of the crashed F-4E reported technical issues before they ejected.
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| China, Pakistan slam India's move to change Kashmir's special status Posted: 06 Aug 2019 12:14 AM PDT  SRINAGAR, India/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan to change the status of Kashmir ran into fierce opposition from China and its ally Pakistan on Tuesday as the disputed territory lay under a telecoms blackout to forestall protests for a second day. In a move to tighten its grip on Jammu and Kashmir, parts of which are claimed by Pakistan and China, India dropped a constitutional provision that allowed the country's only Muslim-majority state to make its own laws. The changes imposed by Modi's Hindu nationalist-led government are the most sweeping in the nearly 30 years that India has been battling a revolt in Kashmir.
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| Kremlin Bites Back at Anti-Graft Leader Who Taunted Putin Allies Posted: 06 Aug 2019 06:23 AM PDT ![Kremlin Bites Back at Anti-Graft Leader Who Taunted Putin Allies]( "Kremlin Bites Back at Anti-Graft Leader Who Taunted Putin Allies") (Bloomberg) -- For years, opposition leader Alexey Navalny embarrassed Russia's leadership with YouTube videos exposing their lavish lifestyles and dubious wealth, and the Kremlin put up with it. Now President Vladimir Putin's patience appears to have run out.With Navalny in prison and riot police brutally detaining protesters in the largest numbers for years, Russian authorities are targeting his Anti-Corruption Foundation as part of efforts to crush a revived opposition movement. Investigative Committee allegations that unnamed fund employees laundered about 1 billion rubles ($15 million) came as at least 10 people arrested at the peaceful rallies face mass unrest charges that could see them jailed for up to 15 years.The dark irony of authorities seeking to brand Russia's most high-profile anti-graft campaigners as corrupt is lost on no one. It comes amid the harshest crackdown on dissent since Putin suppressed months of opposition protests against his return to the Kremlin in 2012 after four years as prime minister."Navalny wasn't dangerous until signs of mass social upheaval appeared," said Valery Solovei, a Moscow-based political scientist. "The authorities felt that by keeping an eye on him, they could successfully control the opposition," though he's seen as a threat now "because of the new-found appetite for street actions and the availability of protest infrastructure," Solovei said.Navalny and his foundation, employing a team of researchers and a drone, have gained millions of followers online for their video reports detailing the luxurious homes and lifestyles enjoyed by top officials and their families, extending far beyond what their modest state salaries could support. It's become a potent tool as ordinary Russians endure five years of declining living standards with no relief in sight.Duck HouseThe exposes reached as high as Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who was widely ridiculed after the foundation released videos showing a floating duck house in the grounds of one of his residences. Rubber ducks became symbols of protests against official corruption in dozens of cities that followed one 2017 report, seen 31 million times on YouTube. Medvedev denied Navalny's allegations that he spent money from a charitable fund to build palaces in Russia and abroad.Navalny, 43, was barred from running for president against Putin in the 2018 elections by what he has denounced as a politically-motivated fraud conviction. Shortly after being handed a five-year suspended sentence in the July 2013 embezzlement case relating to a timber company, Navalny was allowed to run for Moscow mayor against incumbent Sergei Sobyanin, a Putin loyalist, and received 27% of the vote. When the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Navalny hadn't got a fair hearing and ordered a new trial, a Russian judge simply re-convicted him.Navalny also received a suspended sentence in 2014 while his younger brother, Oleg, was jailed for three and a half years after they were convicted in a separate fraud trial involving the Russian branch of French cosmetics company Yves Rocher. Both men denied wrongdoing, and Navalny accused the Kremlin of effectively taking his brother hostage as punishment for his political activism.The money-laundering charges against the Anti-Corruption Foundation dwarf its yearly budget. It raised 58 million rubles ($891,000) from over 16,000 donors in 2018, according to its annual report. The non-profit avoids donations from abroad that would force it to register under Russia's strict "foreign agent" law.'Political Center'Navalny was jailed for 30 days last month for urging followers to join an unauthorized protest on July 27 against the exclusion of dozens of opposition candidates for Moscow city council elections in September. Many of those kept off the ballot have cut their political teeth at his foundation, including Lyubov Sobol and Ivan Zhdanov."The Anti-Corruption Foundation is, of course, not just a center for the fight against corruption, but also a political center," said Executive Director Vladimir Ashurkov, who fled to London in 2014 and received political asylum after Russia accused him of embezzling funds raised for Navalny's mayoral campaign. "Navalny, Sobol, Zhdanov and others are actively engaged in politics."With Putin's approval rating at the lowest since 2013, more than 20,000 people had attended an authorized protest a week earlier. This time, riot police detained about 1,400 people, the largest number since the 2012 protests.The next day, Navalny was briefly hospitalized after what his doctor called "a toxic reaction to an unknown chemical substance" that led the opposition leader to suggest he may have been poisoned. He suffered eye damage in 2017 when an assailant who was later linked to a radical pro-Putin group threw chemical dye in his face.Hunger StrikesMeanwhile, police cracked down on many of Navalny's allies, raiding homes, opening criminal cases and summoning them for interrogation. Prominent figures such as Ilya Yashin and Dmitry Gudkov, a former member of parliament, were jailed.By the time the opposition held fresh protests last week, the only high-profile opposition leader not in prison was Sobol, a prominent lawyer who's more than three weeks into a hunger strike in protest at the rejection of her candidacy. Zhdanov, who was jailed for 15 days on July 29, announced on Aug. 2 that he, too, was on hunger strike.When Sobol tried to attend Saturday's rally, police dragged her from a taxi and bundled her into a van that sped away to a police station. Hundreds more were detained during the day as riot police again flooded the streets of central Moscow in a show of force.The Moscow Prosecutor's office intensified the pressure on Tuesday, saying officials would seek to strip a couple of their parental rights for bringing their one-year-old son to the July 27 rally. Checks will also be made against others who brought children to unsanctioned protests, it said in a statement.While the authorities have repeatedly resorted to criminal charges against the opposition, Kremlin-linked figures have occasionally attempted to engage Navalny on his favored territory of social media, where he uses biting humor and pop-culture fluency to cast Russia's ruling elite as hopelessly out of touch.General Viktor Zolotov, who heads the 300,000-strong National Guard that reports directly to Putin, challenged Navalny to a duel in a video last year and threatened to beat him into "burger meat." Billionaire metals tycoon Alisher Usmanov hit back at the opposition leader in a response recorded on a staffer's iPhone aboard his 156-meter yacht.While many of those who took part in the unauthorized protests were young, an officially sanctioned demonstration called for this weekend will test how the broader Moscow public has interpreted the authorities' crackdown."They are simply using the same methods and approaches against Navalny that helped dim the protests' brightness previously," said Alexei Makarkin of the Moscow-based Center for Political Technologies. "But there's now a new generation that didn't live in the Soviet times who are less reverent to power and less afraid. Furthermore, there wasn't five years of stagnation in 2012."(Updates with Moscow prosecutors in 17th paragraph)To contact the reporters on this story: Jake Rudnitsky in Moscow at jrudnitsky@bloomberg.net;Ilya Arkhipov in Moscow at iarkhipov@bloomberg.net;Stepan Kravchenko in Moscow at skravchenko@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Torrey Clark at tclark8@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Gregory L. WhiteFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, whose wife Gabby Giffords was shot in the head, still owns guns. He says Congress could do a lot more to keep people safe. Posted: 06 Aug 2019 12:09 PM PDT  NASA astronaut Mark Kelly is running for Senate in Arizona. He supports stronger federal background checks and more red-flag laws.
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