[USA Today] PHOENIX -- When Misty Lee Wilke realized the man she had been having a sexual relationship with was HIV positive, she ran him over with a Mustang.
The incident happened in April, but a home surveillance video of the crash was released this month.
The now-viral video of the vehicle mowing over a man on a bicycle was unlike anything Ronnie Foster had seen before.
"This was the first time that a security footage captured something of this much interest," said Foster, whose company provides surveillance-system services.
It was his business, BlueHorse Solutions LLC, that installed the surveillance system capturing the hit-and-run.
Newly released surveillance video shows heroic student security guard Jon Meis disarming suspected gunman Aaron Ybarra during a 2014 shooting at Seattle Pacific University in Washington state.
The dramatic video, released by the King County Prosecutor’s Office, shows Meis charging at Ybarra, hitting him in the face with pepper spray and then taking him down to the ground, pulling the gun from his hands.
The video starts with Ybarra, armed with a long gun, walking into the building and pacing around. He then shoots a woman as she walks down the stairs. The woman stumbles off as Meis appears, stopping the gunman.
[THEREGISTER.CO.UK] The self-proclaimed "Spam King," Sanford Wallace, has been given a 30-month jail sentence, a fine of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and five years' probation.
The 47 year old pled guilty back in August to sending more than a half-million spam messages through Facebook in violation of a court order that prevented him from accessing the social network following previous spamming efforts.
Wallace, from Las Vegas but sentenced in San Jose, will also undergo a mental health evaluation and will not be allowed to own or use a computer without the court's permission during the five-year probation period that will follow his sentence.
Twitter can be done on cell phones...
The two-and-a-half-year sentence is a little less than the maximum three years he was facing, a sentence that was itself reduced from 10 years following a plea deal.
Some of the details of that plea deal have now been made public. Although he was facing 11 charges ranging from fraud to damage to a protected computer, he pleaded guilty to electronic mail fraud and criminal contempt of court.
Wallace was barred from using Facebook after a previous spamming spree, but according to court documents obtained Facebook users' account information by setting up more than 1,000 fake websites which encouraged users to click on a link. If they did, the site grabbed their friend lists.
Using two aliases ‐ David Frederix and Laura Frederix ‐ he then spammed more than 550,000 Facebook users over the course of three months with over 27 million messages.
"Spamford" Wallace has been a prolific and notorious spammer since the 1990s, when he grabbed credit for junk fax and email campaigns. In 1997, ISP EarthLink successfully sued Wallace for $2m over his spamming activities.
He also ended up in court for spamming MySpace and for running a huge spyware ring, although this is the first time he has been convicted of a crime.
The judge's decision in this case comes more than six months after the planned December sentencing date. No explanation was given for the long delay. Or why two of Wallace's lawyers quit back in 2014. One lawyer did note, however, that Wallace simply refused to communicate with him. Which is ironic seeing as over-communication is what has led to his jail sentence.
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Personally, I think he ought to spend as much time in jail as the time he stole out of the lives of his victims combined.
[LEGALINSURRECTION] The fourth day of the “Freddie Gray” trial of van driver Officer Caesar Goodson is most notable for the implosion of the state’s “rough ride” theory of the case for lack of evidence.
Prosecutors were compelled to throw this theory into the mix for the first time on the first day of Goodson’s trial after it appeared the foundation had been pulled out from under their preferred “failure to provide timely medical care” theory of the case.
Goodson is charged with depraved-heart murder,manslaughter, second-degree assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment in the death of Freddie Gray.
The state has presented three different theories of the case in their prosecution of Freddie Gray, which we’ve covered at length in prior posts, including:
Theory #1: Murder by Failure to Seatbelt, and Theory #2: Murder by Failure to Provide Medical Care now seem to be out of reach for the prosecution, leaving them desperately clinging to their final theory for why Caesar Goodson should be sentenced to prison for 30 years, Theory #3: Murder by Rough Ride.
The difficulty with this third theory, as with the other two, is that prosecutors do not appear to actually possess any evidence they can introduce in support of their theory.
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The State's case implodes, let's see if the DoJ picks it up.
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like George Zimmerman became a "White Hispanic"
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If he gets acquitted, there will be riots. The prosecution will have to raise that point very subtly.
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The guy was obviously killed by the ride in the van. Sliding around on the floor and hitting a wall head-first because he was handcuffed and not able to hang onto anything. Probably during a firm braking maneuver. He went into the van in one piece, he came out dead. He was in police custody the whole time. What's so hard?
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What makes it hard gorb, IIRC Freddie the Faker has had a history of throwing himself around in police custody so he could claim brutality. He may have gotten a bit too rambunctious.
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#6 - and surveillance video of the van ride showed none of the actions you ascribe. In fact the other "passenger" in the back first said it was a smooth ride. This guy killed himself by stupidity
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Ah. Thanks for the explainers and the links. I never would have thought of they guy trying to hurt himself.
Still, he should have been belted or harnessed in place to protect both the passenger and the police. And given this evidence, it seems a video camera in the back of the van would keep lawsuits at bay, too.
The hunt for a renegade nephew of Kuwait's emir has turned up a gun disguised as a pen in his home, adding yet another layer of mystery to a bizarre case involving two other ruling family members and others.
Police officers who raided the home of Sheikh Athbi al-Fahad Al Sabah found the James Bond-style weapon, with what appeared to be a trigger in the pump of the pen, the Interior Ministry said Monday.
The pen, found along with a Kalashnikov rifle, a handgun and ammunition, made the front page across Kuwait on Tuesday, with the prominent newspaper Al-Rai calling it an "assassination device."
It's unclear why Sheikh Athbi would own such a weapon, though he once ran Kuwait's National Security Office, the nation's intelligence agency.
Sheikh Athbi has been on the run since May 30, when prosecutors say he, two other ruling family members and four other individuals were found guilty in a plot to publish anonymous Twitter posts sharing fabricated videos of judges receiving bribes.
He received a five-year prison sentence, which can be appealed.
The videos appear to be tied to a larger ongoing political scandal involving faked videos suggesting high-ranking officials were planning a coup.
Prosecutors imposed a gag order on the case, and ruling family members have apologized on state television.
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[AlAhram] Egypt's aviation ministry said on Wednesday it had indentified debris from the EgyptAir passenger jet that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people aboard.
A committee investigating the crash said in a statement that a ship contracted by the Egyptian government to take part in the search for the twin black box recorders and the wreckage of Flight MS804 had "identified several main locations of the wreckage."
Images of the wreckage were provided to the investigation committee, the ministry added in the statement.
"The search team and Sherlocks on board the vessel will draw a map for the wreckage distribution spots," the statement read.
The Airbus 320 jet dropped off radar screens on 19 May while en route from Gay Paree to Cairo.
Egyptian Sherlocks said Monday that less than two weeks remain before the batteries of the flight's data and cockpit voice recorders run out and stop emitting signals.
They can't put longer-lived batteries into these? And better yet, have them transmit continuously to the cloud via satellite?
The black boxes could help Sherlocks form a clear picture of what caused the crash; whether a technical failure or foul play.
There have been several instances where the recorders from crashed planes were found after their batteries had expired.
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They can't put longer-lived batteries into these?
It seems it should ping occasionally, but it also seems it would be much better if it would ping more for a while in response to some kind of interrogation signal.
On a hunch, I'm going to speculatively file this under WoT ops for now. AoS at 1730: I've moved it to non-WoT. The killer is insane and not identified as a terrorist.
Labour MP Jo Cox has been shot and killed in an attack in her constituency near Leeds today.
The 41-year-old mother of two was shot three times and attacked with a knife during the incident in Birstall, West Yorkshire, an eyewitness said.
Police have confirmed she has now died.
A 77-year-old man was also left with slight injuries. West Yorkshire Police have arrested a 52-year-old man.
Ms Cox was elected as MP for Spen and Batley in last year's general election, and was a rising star in the party.
MPs from all parties have been voicing their shock and sending their prayers.
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Considering the survival of the EU is pretty much at stake... and she was popular and for staying and the guy is supposedly against... am I too paranoid for saying the "Fors" took this as an opportunity for a political coup to force back public opinion for staying in the EU?
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Sounds like he's just a bit mad. I don't know if the Brexit issue set him off or if people are just guessing on that for lack of other motives (not a muslim for example).
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Brexit has nothing to gain from this. If the Remain folks try to use this it opens them to a terrible suspicion...don't even want to think about it.
Venezuela’s Supreme Court ruled Monday that a law to accept humanitarian medical aid violates the constitution, as the health crisis in the oil-rich country keeps on worsening.
However, rejecting humanitarian help for fear of intervention is nothing new in Venezuela. It already happened in 1999.
For the “humanitarian aid corridor" -- a plan that read like the current equivalent of the Berlin airlift during the Cold War -- it was a bad Monday: not only it was rejected it at the Supreme Court, but also before the Organization of American States.
Speaking during an OAS event, the Venezuelan ambassador before the organization, Bernardo Alvarez, explained that the Nicolas Maduro government not is only worried about legal matters when it comes to humanitarian aid, but that it also fears that the aid would entail foreign intervention.
“We believe in humanitarian aid but in a different one,” said Alvarez. “Not using it in the framework that (the Venezuelan opposition) wants to use it, which hides an unacceptable desire for (foreign) intervention”.
During the OAS event, held in Santo Domingo, Secretary General Luis Almagro reiterated that the organization will discuss, again, the Venezuelan situation at a Permanent Council meeting scheduled for June 23rd.
The Supreme Court’s Constitutional Hall struck down the aid law after a public request by President Nicolas Maduro, a familiar pattern when it comes to bills approved by the opposition-dominated National Assembly -- all of which have been struck down by the partisan governing body court.
The highest court in the land ruled that the law “usurps” matters that are the exclusive domain of the executive power and that it also violates ten articles in the Venezuelan Constitution.
RUMINT (Rumor Intelligence) is rife with reports that Russian intelligence agencies are preparing to release emails "hacked" from Hillary Clinton's rogue Internet email server.
Agreed, this sounds a bit like a blackmail plot in a 1940s radio detective thriller or a soap opera. Except it isn't. We live in a world where blood gets spilled.
I've read through several reports about the possible Russian information release, ranging from the staid, professional analysis to the wild Hollywood excitement--breathless. One of the more interesting analyses appeared a few days ago on oilprice.com, a site devoted to analyzing the global oil industry and forecasting trends:
"Reliable intelligence sources in the West have indicated that warnings had been received that the Russian Government could in the near future release the text of email messages intercepted from U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server from the time she was U.S. Secretary of State. The release would, the messaging indicated, prove that Secretary Clinton had, in fact, laid open U.S. secrets to foreign interception by putting highly-classified Government reports onto a private server in violation of U.S. law, and that, as suspected, the server had been targeted and hacked by foreign intelligence services."
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This is a speculation, a scenario. However, the U.S. military and NATO regularly use speculative scenarios to analyze verifiable as well as potential threats. They use scenarios to create field exercises to train troops for potential operations in non-speculative, for damn real on-going wars.
The truth is, Hillary Clinton doesn’t know what the Russians may or may not know—nor does Barack Obama. The FBI and CIA might have some good guesses, but they don’t know for certain. In the mirror world of intelligence, it is possible the Kremlin doesn’t know what it knows.
Two very accurate bits of information. Brain storming so-called "speculative scenarios" are particularly healthy and productive exercises.
"Not knowing what they know" is quite difficult to combat. When one has arrived at that point, the assumption must be made that everything is known and the damage assessment framed as such.
Thanks for posting my favorite likeness of the Beest.
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BDA modeling often begins with the worst (or Best) case scenario, as in "They know everything", and builds a weighted correlation matrix of events that might lead to that conclusion.
Risk-managed dependent event streams are often used in Project Management as the 'critical path', or are used with events as constraint variables in goal seeking Operations Research models.
If 'the Russians' do release incriminating detail, it won't be much. They 'shape' outcomes. Just enough to make Hilarity ineligible and Kerry (for example) less least desirable.
While many (here) would prefer a scenario wherein she, the Clintons, the Democrats and the Obama administration are crushed, shredded and salted, it is more likely that an information release will shape a more favorable, sympathetic and malleable candidate.
Some information will also be made available to closed circles, that will never make the public social forums. A typical extortion tactic when the threat of release is greater than the impact of release.
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My feeling is that Putin would prefer Trump as someone who is a pragmatic businessman he can deal with. Rather than Clinton who is hostage to numerous foreign interests who probably have some serious dirt on her.
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#2 As I've said yesterday, how can you blackmail somebody who's: (i) has no shame, and (ii) believes herself to be immune from persecution?
A most excellent question, since Hillary is way beyond the "a dead girl or a live boy" point. But America is certainly vulnerable to world opinion and outrage.
The opportunity here for anyone playing the Disinformation Game is that no one can refute whatever you decide to make up. Sure, you and the original parties know differently, but what are they going to say, "No, you're lying! Here are the *real* secret cables" ?
Examples? Talking smack about political opponents or friendly world leaders; Back channel discussion about how we knew in advance our latest drone zapp would destroy a kindergarten, a girl scout troop and a home for unwed bunnies as well as the latest Mr #3; The Iranian agreements are a plan to *bleep* the Saudis, and so on.
And all quite believable since it is either true or things people already suspect.
It's a long way from November, but Trump is gonna need GOP pols to endorse him in order to win. If he doesn't do what's necessary to get their support (i.e. beg), he will lose in a landslide. Normally, I'd get all riled up about GOP pols not supporting the presidential candidate. But this being Trump, I won't be too disappointed if he loses. Not because I disagree with him, but because he's a scumbag. It's kind of like the way Tony Soprano can't get too worked up about Chris Moltisanti coughing up blood after a car accident, despite the fact that Moltisanti is his nephew.
The poll finds 70 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Trump, including a 56 percent majority who feel this way "strongly." Negative ratings of Trump are up 10 percentage points from last month to their highest point since he announced his candidacy last summer, nearly reaching the level seen before his campaign began (71 percent). The survey was conducted Wednesday through Sunday among a random national sample of U.S. adults, coming after last week's primary contests, but with the large majority of interviews completed before Sunday's massacre at an Orlando club. There's a tiny bit of hope here, but Trump's negatives are just off the charts. The issue here isn't his lack of political correctness, but his scumbaggery. Nobody likes a scumbag, whether he's on your side or not.
Negative views of Trump have risen among a wide range of groups, jumping by double digits among liberals and conservatives and among both Republican women and Democratic men. But his standing has also worsened among two key voting groups: independents and white Americans who do not have a four-year college degree.
Trump's net favorable rating (favorable minus unfavorable) among non-college whites has flipped from a plus-14 in May to slightly negative minus-7 in the latest survey. Among independents, Trump's net rating has shifted from from -19 last month to -38 in the latest survey, returning him to roughly the same standing as in April (-37).
Zhang Fe, you forgot to submit a URL. I had some free time, so I googled the first paragraph, and came up with the Washington Post. Normally, however, we just delete articles submitted without a link.
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So ZF, does this mean that you are stupid enough to believe that Hillary will do a better job of defending our borders and at least holding our own with the adherents of Islam?
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I'm not totally convinced Trump's negatives are as strong as the polls suggest. There are a lot of people who would be embarrassed to be thought of as supporting him but would vote for him. I saw that with Nixon. And Lord knows, we've voted in scumbags before.
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'Scumbag'.....hmm? 'Scumbag' really doesn't look so awfully bad when stacked up against a traitorous, lying, thieving, criminal conspirator, and potential accessory to murder.
If it's the only choice I'm given, I suspect I'll stick with 'scumbag.'
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I have read and talked to people who say that Trump is crass, outspoken, not PC, on the attack, and a jerk (these are some of the milder things) but they will vote for him. They would probable, if polled, say they have a negative opinion of him. Don't trust the polls, they can be bought too.
I feel that this election is so far outside the usual that nothing pundits and prognosticators will mean anything no matter if they turn out wrong or right.
I'm basing my view on one piece of personal anecdotal evidence.
My wife who may be the nicest person in the world has told me that I should get a gun license.
She has objected to guns in the house strongly for the 40 years we've been together. This has been totally personal, she's not a gun grabber at all. Things have descended to such a state that, with no prompting at all, she suggested strongly that I become armed.
She can't be the only one that feels this way. This type of reaction is not something that the establishments will ever see coming. Chaos is not far away if we continue on this road.
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Define "scumbag" -- real estate developer? I'll grant you that.
But he only screws financiers, where as the lawyer/political class are the kind of scumbags who screw everybody and everything they can get their hands on.
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Anyone thinks someone like the Pope could fix this country, please raise their hand.
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TW, considering that my wish list has been developed over the course of 50 years the problem will be limiting my selection. My wife is in the "In for penny in for a pound" mode. When she sees some prices that may change quickly.
Of course, living in Massaholia could prove problematic.
Since I'm a traditionalist I won't be looking for any plastic rifles. AR15s are butt ugly in my estimation.
Might look at Marlin or Henry in .357 with a revolver to match.
I'm probably going to end up with a 9mm pistol of some kind, there are a million to choose from.
Wrist issue precludes a .45 and probably the .357 if I'm honest.
Can't imagine not getting a .22 rifle and pistol also.
Can you see where my problem might develop? 8^)
Oh, and I didn't even mention shotguns.
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Sometimes it takes a jerk, or a scumbag, to do the things that need doing and which the timid souls are unable to do.
Sometimes a person is called a jerk or a Nazi or a racists or whatever because he is saying things that nobody else has the guts to say. Example: Judge Curiel is a member of a racist organization and therefore unfit to sit on the bench.
But the bottom line here is that these polls are not crystal balls. You wanna bet your house, your car, your savings account on Hillary in November? Go for it. Just don't come to me on the street begging for spare change when it gets cold in January.
I was very pleased with the long-range accuracy of the Marlin; given .357 Mag jacketed softpoint is not noted for its exquisite ballistics, I expected 1-2 foot shot groups at 100 yards. Instead, they held to 4-6 inches. Not quite sniper rifle performance, but plenty good enough.
"Wrist issue precludes a .45 and probably the .357 if I'm honest."
Shooting .38 Special in the revolver helps that, in my experience.
"Can't imagine not getting a .22 rifle and pistol also."
Unthinkable.
"Can you see where my problem might develop? 8^)"
"Might"??? Hope you have plenty of $$$, you're going to need it to satisfy your craving.
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re: #21, Dave, I can afford the guns, it's the addition to the house to hold them all that's worrisome. ;^)
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Thank you, 49 Pan and Skidmark. If it becomes necessary, that's very good to know! But at the moment I still have two black belts at home -- Mr. Wife and trailing daughter #1. :-)
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[DAWN] LAHORE: Police nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on Tuesday the brother of Zeenat Rafiq who was burnt alive by her family for marrying a man of her own choice on Mast Iqbal Road, Chungi Amar Sidhu.
Police had registered a murder case under Section 336/ B of the Anti-Terrorism Act and 302 of the Pakistain Penal Code against her mother, Parveen Rafiq, brother Anees and brother-in-law Zafar on the complaint of Zeenat’s husband Hasan Khan.
According to Hasan, they had eloped, but he reluctantly allowed Zeenat to return to her family home after her family promised they would hold a celebration and not harm her.
Police had arrested Parveen, who shouted on the murder day in the street that she had killed her daughter for honour, and after two days Zeenat’s brother-in-law Zafar was also arrested.
Police on Tuesday also arrested the third nominated accused.
Anees in his statement said he was not present at home when the incident took place and his mother had committed the crime.
Cantonment Division Superintendent of Police Tariq Mastoi told Dawn Zaneet’s brother was arrested from a relative’s house.
He said even though Anees denied his involvement in the murder, circumstantial evidences revealed that more than two persons were involved in strangling and torching Zeenat. He said Zeenat’s mother was distorting the fact in her statements as she could not commit the crime alone.
Anees will be presented before the court on Wednesday (today) for physical custody.
He said police also arrested Zeenat’s brother-in-law Mushtaq who had brought Zeenat from her in-laws after she had eloped with Hasan. He said Mushtaq worked in a private organization and he was not present in the house at the time of the incident.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... mobile call data showed that Zeenat’s brother was at home when she was set on fire, he added.
The investigation officer said Zeenat’s mother confessed to killing her daughter by strangling her with her dupata and then torching her.
He said she claimed that she had taken the extreme step against her daughter for bringing bad name to the family. She also confessed that when her son-in-law brought her back for reception after reconciliation, she had started planning to kill her.
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[DAWN] The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has declared that the killing of a woman in the name of honour is against the law of the land and also an un-Islamic act.
The research cell of the CII, in a statement issued on Tuesday, decried the killing of women by male members of their families but also granted such men the benefit of "emotional reaction".
The statement said: "There are laws in the country that deal with obscenity and other moral crimes. Therefore killing someone over such misdeeds cannot be allowed even if it is in the name of honour."
But it added that "emotional reaction" was part of human nature, particularly in a situation in which one was provoked after witnessing immoral acts of a close relative.
At the same time, the statement said, no one could be allowed to kill a person despite witnessing a moral sin.
"Every accused should be brought before court and it is up to the court to declare the accused guilty or innocent," it said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[THEREGISTER.CO.UK] The self-proclaimed "Spam King," Sanford Wallace, has been given a 30-month jail sentence, a fine of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and five years' probation.
[LEGALINSURRECTION] The fourth day of the “Freddie Gray” trial of van driver Officer Caesar Goodson is most notable for the implosion of the state’s “rough ride” theory of the case for lack of evidence.
[AlAhram] Egypt's aviation ministry said on Wednesday it had indentified debris from the EgyptAir passenger jet that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people aboard.
RUMINT (Rumor Intelligence) is rife with reports that Russian intelligence agencies are preparing to release emails "hacked" from Hillary Clinton's rogue Internet email server.
[DAWN] LAHORE: Police 
