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Police have ‘person of interest’ in Nashville bombing: Hunt for suspect narrows as FBI investigates whether spooky recorded warning was used to lure COPS to RV
Police have reportedly identified a person of interest in Nashville’s Christmas Day bombing that injured three people and caused massive damage to the city’s downtown.
On Saturday morning, CBS journalist Jeff Pegues tweeted out the news, but did not say whether anybody was yet in custody.
The blast emanated from a white RV parked on 2nd Avenue at 6.40 am Friday, and the FBI is now probing whether the explosion was deliberately designed to target law enforcement officers.
Hackers threaten to leak massive trove of ‘before & after’ plastic surgery photos, warn they’re ‘not a pleasant sight’
A dark web hacking outfit claims to have purloined some 900 gigabytes of “before and after” photos from a UK cosmetic surgery chain with a litany of celebrity endorsements, vowing to release the images unless a ransom is paid.
The hack on the surgery chain, the Hospital Group, was reported by the BBC on Thursday, noting that the company had informed both its customers as well as the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office of the data theft.
Nashville Explosion Motive? Take Your Pick.
This explanation sounds plausible … see this thread
The most mundane possibility: a dramatic suicide.
2020 has been a dark year, and it’s possible that someone planned to kill themselves (but not others) on Christmas in the most dramatic way possible.
24/x
— Alex Little (@AlexLittleTN) December 25, 2020
This one is more fun, I believe it entirely possible Taylor Swift is behind the bombing.
nashville , cctv of the RT playing the recorded message pic.twitter.com/ACPMn1xxLc
— basedengland8 (@basedengland8) December 26, 2020
Clergyman tweets that Christmas season is about God choosing a woman to lead a revolution of reorganizing the structures of societal power
In case leftists haven’t perpetrated enough hoaxes or issued enough preposterous statements for you lately, here is another. United Church of Christ Rev. Jes Kast recently posted on Twitter: “Christmas season is about God choosing a woman to lead a revolution of re-organizing the structures of societal power by her leadership, tenderness, and faith.”
Massachusetts city to post climate change warning stickers at gas stations
Cambridge, Massachusetts, has become the first US city to mandate the placing of stickers on fuel pumps to warn drivers of the resulting dangers posed by the climate crisis.
The final design of the bright yellow stickers, shared with the Guardian, includes text that warns drivers the burning of gasoline, diesel and ethanol has “major consequences on human health and the environment including contributing to climate change”.
University Claims Words ‘Picnic,’ ‘Brown Bag’ Are Offensive
Say “gathering” instead of “picnic” and “lunch and learn” instead of “brown bag.”
The University of Michigan has a “Words Matter Task Force.”
Seriously. Maybe that’s why out-of-state tuition costs more than $66,000 a year.
Massive downtown Nashville explosion: Dire warning came from RV, Human remains found
Nashville authorities believe an explosion that occurred in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning was an “intentional act” and sparked by a vehicle blast.
Police came across a suspicious RV parked outside a nearby AT&T building near Second Avenue and Commerce Street before 6 a.m., when initially responding to calls of shots fired in the area, said Metro police spokesperson Don Aaron.
There was no immediate evidence of any shooting but officers alerted the department’s bomb squad, which was en route when a “significant explosion” happened about 30 minutes later, Aaron said.
Just before the blast, witnesses in the area report a dire warning coming from the RV: “Evacuate now. There is a bomb. A bomb is in this vehicle and will explode.”
BREAKING: This is the RV that exploded on 2nd Ave N this morning. It arrived on 2nd Ave at 1:22 a.m. Have you seen this vehicle in our area or do you have information about it? Please contact us via Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463 or online via https://t.co/dVGS7o0m4v. @ATFHQ pic.twitter.com/JNx9sDinAH
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) December 25, 2020
War on Christmas? Biden’s Ag Sec Once Tried to Tax Christmas Trees
President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Department of Agriculture tried to put a tax on Christmas trees the last time he was in charge of the agency.
Tom Vilsack (D.), a former Iowa governor who was agriculture secretary when Biden was vice president, implemented a 15-cent tax on each live Christmas tree in the United States in 2011. His attempt ultimately fell short: Facing widespread criticism, the Obama administration paused the tax just one day after it went into effect and abandoned it altogether the following week.
Republican lawmakers push Trump to pardon Edward Snowden
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress are pushing President Trump to grant clemency to whistleblower Edward Snowden amid a blitz of pardons during his final weeks in the White House, according to a new report.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), as well as recently pardoned Trump associate Roger Stone, have all asked the president in recent days to drop the criminal charges against the former National Security Agency contractor, Politico reported Thursday.
CA Judge Orders Video Journalists to Pay $13.6 M to Planned Parenthood
A federal judge in California ordered the video journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood’s practices in the harvesting and sales of aborted baby body parts to pay the abortion giant $13.6 million to cover its legal costs in its case against them.
Florida braced for unusually cold Christmas – and falling iguanas
With unexpectedly cold weather forecast and pandemic-related curfews in some places, Florida is about to have a Christmas unlike any other – and it may involve falling iguanas.
The National Weather Service warned that south Florida could experience its coldest Christmas Day in 21 years, with morning lows in the low 30s and 40sF (below OC).
“Brrr! Much colder temps expected for Christmas,“ the NWS in Miami tweeted. “Falling iguanas are possible.“
Police: Explosion in Nashville may have been “intentional”
The Metro Nashville Police Department says authorities believe an explosion that rocked the downtown area early on Christmas Day was a deliberate act. Police spokesman Don Aaron said about three hours after the explosion shook the area that investigators believe it was “an intentional act.” Police earlier said they believe a vehicle was involved in the explosion.
Twitter – nashville explosion
#BreakingNews :
Massive Explosion in #Nashville #Nashvilleexplosion
US after reportedly an RV exploded. Reports of Heavy Damage. pic.twitter.com/VtubMsPPMn— ur'sGirivsk (@girivsk) December 25, 2020
‘Balloon boy hoax’ parents pardoned in Colorado
In 2009 a US couple told the world their son had been carried away by a balloon. Rescue services scrambled to save him, but it was revealed to be a hoax and the pair were convicted.
After 13 years, the couple have now been granted a pardon by the governor of Colorado.
“We are all ready to move past the spectacle from a decade ago,” Governor Jared Polis said.
The pair served jail time and had criminal records.