The Louisville bank murderer wrote down why he planned to assault the bank he worked for, and his reasons are as untethered as the killer was from reality.
The 25-year-old University of Alabama finance major was said by a co-worker to have had a “kind of a monotone personality.” He decided on April 10 that he’d take an AR-15 platform rifle and assault his co-workers at the Old National Bank building. He bought the gun six days before the shooting.
The co-founder of Extinction Rebellion has been described as “a hypocrite” by her own organisation for buying plastic-wrapped groceries including grapes from Chile and citrus fruit from Spain.
Dr Gail Bradbrook, 50, was photographed shopping at a branch of Waitrose in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
The pictures, which were printed in The Sun, also showed her using a 1.5-litre diesel car.
Despite the strong relationship Canada maintains with Israel, Canadians have a mixed and uncertain opinion of the Jewish state, including on crucial, existential questions, a national opinion poll says.
… And while 36 per cent said the establishment of the State of Israel, which marks its 75th anniversary this month, was the right thing to do, 20 per cent said it wasn’t, but again, the largest response, at 44 per cent, was they didn’t know one way or another.
Those numbers suggest diversity is advancing …
The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, has said all member countries have agreed that Ukraine will eventually join the transatlantic military alliance once the war is over, ahead of a meeting of western defence ministers discussing further military aid for Kyiv.
Further announcements on weapons and support are expected after the summit at the Ramstein airbase in Germany, but Stoltenberg also sounded notably upbeat about Ukraine’s longer-term prospects for joining Nato.
“All Nato allies have agreed that Ukraine will become a member,” he said. “President Zelenskiy has a very clear expectation, we discussed this.
Ukraine in Nato: Orban casts doubt on long-term membership plan
h/t TB
Ontario’s Ministry of Health is investigating how Norfolk County Paramedic Services responded to a 2021 police raid that killed renowned gunsmith Rodger Kotanko.
Hannah Jensen, press secretary for the office of deputy premier and health minister Sylvia Jones, confirmed the investigation to CBC Hamilton on Thursday morning.
Jensen didn’t provide any details including when the investigation started and what spurred it.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his government’s move to spend as much as $13 billion into a new battery plant for auto giant Volkswagen and set the willingness to subsidize green manufacturing as a major difference between his party and the Conservatives.
You know in your heart this will be the Mother of all Boondoggles.
Mental health counselor says losing weight intentionally is fatphobic pic.twitter.com/V1lkaFXjvL
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 19, 2023
From crime to climate protesters, the predictable result of not upholding the law is more lawlessness
It is always interesting to see how far things can run if the authorities let them. If you tour around American cities these days – especially Democrat-run cities – you can see the results everywhere.
Legalise or effectively legalise drugs – as in New York and other places – and you will soon see and smell them everywhere. In the middle of the day, you will witness people lighting or shooting up. All other judgments aside, it can be said with a fair degree of certainty that the person before you is not going to contribute to the economy that day. Nor perhaps for the remainder of their life.
Fentanyl has changed everything — except the policies we use to fight it
I stepped through a hole in the chainlink fence surrounding Portland’s O’Bryant Square and saw four people nodded out and three smoking fentanyl. The man who had supplied them was standing nearby; he gave me a nod and continued with his business.
Built in 1973, the park is mostly brick and concrete with its dominant feature a bronze fountain in the shape of Portland’s iconic rose. It was permanently closed and fenced off in 2018. The city blamed “structural issues,” but the real reason for closing the park was that it has long been a well-known place to use drugs. As a teenager in the late 1980s I used to skateboard there. As I practiced ollies, I often observed LSD and marijuana deals.
In the 1990s and 2000s, the Department of Justice played a critical role in halting the violence plaguing American cities. Federal prosecutors used programs like Operation Ceasefire and Project Exile to target convicted criminals caught with guns for long prison sentences, helping to initiate the great American crime decline. Now, with cities once again beset by rising violent crime, it’s a good time to check on the DOJ’s activity. A new report from researchers at Syracuse University does just that, tracking and ranking 90 federal districts based on prosecutions of weapons offenses—generally, convicted criminals caught with guns. The results are revealing.
I’m about to climb into the first “narco-sub” known to have brought cocaine from South America to Europe.
It’s 20 metres (65 ft) long, built out of fibreglass and – remarkably – homemade.
After clambering on top, I lift up the wonky manhole cover and descend into the hull where three men survived for 27 long days and nights, as they voyaged across the Atlantic Ocean just under the surface of the crashing waves.
It’s cramped, claustrophobic and incredibly primitive.
The Christians of Iraq and Syria have for decades suffered from persecution and instability caused by oppression by the Ba’ath regimes, the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, the outbreak of Sunni-Shiite fighting in 2006, al-Qaeda terrorism, the 2014 genocide by ISIS, ongoing Turkish airstrikes on Iraq and Syria, and in many cases, pressures and harassment at the hands of their Muslim neighbors. All this persecution has forced many of them to leave their home countries and seek asylum elsewhere.
Colorado-based Biofire Tech is taking orders for a smart gun enabled by facial-recognition technology, the latest development in personalised weapons that can only be fired by verified users.
But in a sign of the long, challenging road that smart guns have faced, a prototype twice failed to fire when demonstrated for Reuters this week.
Toronto mayoralty candidate Anthony Furey says if he’s elected there will be “no more bike lines on major roads” in the city.
Furey says plans for new dedicated lanes on Bloor St. W., Eglinton Ave., Sheppard Ave. and Kingston Rd. will be shelved and he’ll remove the existing lanes on University Ave. to allow for better access to hospital row.
“Ambulances are facing delayed reaction time to getting to people because of the bike lane situation,” Furey said Thursday on University near the hospitals.
Uber driver Taneem Aziz guilty in trio of sexual assaults
The distraught dad on the other end of the line said his daughter had been sexually assaulted by an Uber driver.
He had seen a story in the Toronto Sun. It had to be the same guy.
