Charlie Kirk bullet analysis finds no conclusive link to rifle found near scene

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Lawyers for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk have asked to delay a preliminary hearing scheduled in May, saying they need time to review an enormous amount of material and a bullet analysis that could contribute to his defense.

Tyler Robinson’s defense team said in recent court filings that an analysis from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a federal law enforcement agency, could not conclusively connect a bullet fragment recovered during an autopsy to the rifle found near the scene. The FBI is running additional tests, according to court documents.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, USA

Chinese Cars Can’t Cross From Canada to US, Trump’s Envoy Says

The US won’t allow Chinese electric cars from Canada to enter its market, President Donald Trump’s ambassador in Ottawa said, after a January deal in which Prime Minister Mark Carney lowered tariffs on those vehicles.

“Those cars can come in from China, come into Canada, but they’re not going to cross the border into the US,” Pete Hoekstra said in an interview with Canada’s Rebel News. “That ain’t gonna happen.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "China - Communist Slave State"

Zelensky says allies asked him to scale back attacks on Russian energy

Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine’s allies have urged him to scale back attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure amid the ongoing global fuel crisis – but that they would only end if Russia stopped targeting Ukraine’s first.

The Ukrainian president told journalists in a WhatsApp voice message that, by launching attacks on Russia’s energy system, Ukraine was only responding in kind.

It is unclear which countries he may have been referring to. China and India remain heavily dependent on Russian oil, and the EU on Russian gas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Carney will need to get ahead of the looming economic crisis to stay in power

By now, it’s clear that no matter what kind of resolution U.S. President Donald Trump attempts to impose on his latest misadventure in Iran, this conflict and its global repercussions will be far from over.

More likely, it will resemble George W. Bush’s infamous “mission accomplished” moment aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in 2003: a premature declaration of victory that gave way to years of prolonged conflict, with consequences that are still unfolding today.

Whatever branding Trump chooses, it won’t stick.

But the economic consequences will.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Spain closes airspace to US military over Iran war, widening rift with US

Spain has ramped up its opposition to the US-Israel war on Iran by closing its airspace to US aircraft involved in attacks, underlining its position as Europe’s leading critic of the conflict.

The move, first reported by El País newspaper and confirmed by the defence minister on Monday, comes after Madrid said the US could not use jointly operated military bases in the country for operations related to the war.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

‘She didn’t know what she was doing’: Ontario senior with dementia charged by OPP after assault

The family of a 93-year-old Ontario woman with severe dementia who was arrested and charged after an altercation with her elderly husband is asking for police to use more discretion when it comes to dementia cases.

Evelyn Patton shouldn’t have been charged with assault in December despite the Ontario Provincial Police’s mandatory charging rules in cases of intimate partner violence because she was in a delirium and didn’t have the mental state to commit a crime, said her daughter Shelley Hodgkinson.

WTF?

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Parks Canada targets historic Saskatchewan homestead for revisionist history

A historic prairie homestead once dedicated to celebrating 19th-century settlement is now being recast to emphasize “inequities on the Prairies,” including the treatment of indigenous people, according to a new federal management plan tabled in Parliament.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the plan for the Motherwell National Historic Site calls for a shift away from its traditional focus on European homesteaders toward what Parks Canada describes as “diverse storytelling” and expanded narratives.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

WARMINGTON: K9 cop helps take bite of out of jewelry thieves on Oshawa shopping spree

This was a dog day afternoon in Oshawa for five alleged jewel thieves who ended up wearing the collar and being put on a leash!

Let’s just say, this Durham Region cop helped take a bite out of crime on Sunday — and collar some suspected thieves too.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime