Season in review: Palm Beach fire and police officials share end-of-season updates Public safety officials are working to combat vehicle burglaries, educate the public about falls and cardiac care, and using the off-season to train. 05/4/2024 - 10:05 pm | View Link
Police tactics at campus protests reveal disparities in approaches to public order and lessons learned post-George Floyd As universities and colleges turn to police to clear their campuses of protests over Israel’s war in Gaza that continue to ripple across the nation, the response by law enforcement is under heightened ... 05/4/2024 - 10:01 pm | View Link
Investigators say student killed by police outside Wisconsin school had pointed pellet rifle Authorities say a student who was killed by police outside a Wisconsin school pointed a pellet rifle at officers and had refused to drop the weapon. 05/4/2024 - 8:18 am | View Link
Wisconsin police fatally shot student after he pointed pellet rifle at them, state DOJ says Police in Wisconsin fatally shot a student who had pointed a pellet rifle in their direction outside a middle school, according to the state's Department of Justice. 05/4/2024 - 6:43 am | View Link
Mount Horeb student fatally shot by police after pointing pellet rifle at officers, DOJ says The boy did not comply with officers' commands to drop the weapon, and police shot him after he pointed the weapon at them, the state DOJ said. 05/4/2024 - 6:36 am | View Link
“Fresh from his criminal trial in New York, Donald Trump delivered a frustrated and often profane roughly 75-minute speech at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Florida on Saturday, attacking one of the prosecutors pursuing him and comparing President Biden’s administration to the Nazis,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “These people are running a Gestapo administration.”
“In his speech, he complained repeatedly about the criminal trial in Manhattan, to which he will return on Monday, insisted that Democrats use ‘welfare’ to cheat in elections and said he would need an attorney general with ‘courage’ as he mocked his former attorney general, William P.
Young America's Foundation, the American version of Hitler's Youth, and the college Republicans at the University of Wisconsin in Madison had collaborated to throw a wild shindig at the Library Mall in Madison. The invitation that they were sharing was something to behold:
They promised there would be American flags, free t-shirts, popsicles, Toby Keith and Freedom!
Well, isn't that interesting?
By Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune
April 29, 2024
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The Colorado legislature convened Saturday for a final weekend of work in its 2024 session, which is set to end Wednesday. Major pieces of legislation are still pending, with lawmakers expected to debate gun regulations, housing, land-use policy, transportation, property tax reform and other priorities in the final days.
This story will be updated throughout the day.
Updated at 5:25 p.m.: A proposed excise tax on guns and ammunition to pay for victim services cleared a key Senate committee Saturday afternoon after Democrats turned on their own over its movement through the chamber.
The measure would create a 6.5% tax on gun and ammo dealers and raise an expected $39 million a year, according to sponsor Sen.
Since Mark Hamill's White House visit tells us how woke Star Wars has gotten, and we all know about wokester Star Trek, Starship Troopers and Helldivers are better choices.