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May 03 2024
News
UK's Fake Conservatives Punished in Nationwide Local Elections
Britain’s ‘Conservative’ Party gets a well-deserved drubbing, losing council seats in a periodic reminder that voters do actually notice when you take right-wing votes but deliver left wing policies, like open borders and high taxes. Mayoralties, councillors, police commissioners, and a by-election across England and Wales were decides at the ballot box on Thursday, with thousands of seats
Breitbart NewsMay 02 2024
News
For law enforcement in Carolinas, Charlotte shooting is like ‘losing a family member’
York County law enforcement officers were reminded of a searing, familiar feeling Monday when a gunman killed four and injured others during a shootout in east Charlotte. Six years ago, four York County law enforcement officers were shot — one of them killed — while trying to apprehend a domestic violence suspect outside the town of York, South Carolina. Armed with a rifle, the suspect killed
Charlotte ObserverApr 27 2024
News
Jacksonville Sheriff hails new law giving him more budget independence.
Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters benefited from Gov. Ron DeSantis’ endorsement that cleared the GOP field for him in 2022’s Special Election to fill the unexpired term of a resigned predecessor. Two years later, the Republican lawman is benefiting from freshly signed legislation giving him more leeway in moving money around his department’s nearly $600 million budget, a measure that gives him
Florida PoliticsMay 05 2024
News
Burgum sidesteps question on political violence if Trump loses election
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) dodged a question Sunday on whether he is concerned about political violence if former President Trump loses the presidential election in November. Co-host Jake Tapper pressed Burgum on “State of the Union” whether he is worried that there could be political violence if the former president loses the race in November. Tapper noted that Trump told Time magazine
The HillApr 29 2024
News
Multiple Law Enforcement Officers Are Shot in Charlotte, Police Say
Multiple law enforcement officers were shot in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday when a U.S. Marshals task force conducting an investigation was met by gunfire, the police said. The authorities shut down the Shannon Park neighborhood, east of downtown, in order to more easily move victims to area hospitals, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department wrote on social media. It cautioned residents to
New York Times (News)May 02 2024
News
Early voting underway for W.Va. Primary Election
May 2—Nearly 400 Raleigh County voters have taken advantage of early voting for West Virginia's Primary Election. On Wednesday, the first day of early voting, Tammy Richardson, the chief elections officer for the Raleigh County Clerk's Office, said they had 218 people turn out to early voting at the Raleigh County Courthouse. Richardson said the turnout on Thursday was lower than on the first
Yahoo NewsMay 04 2024
News
Readers sound off on Shahana Hanif, NYPD’s Columbia raid and biking laws
Judge what she stands for by where she stands I am a constituent of Councilmember Hanif’s and have worked with her on many issues. I know that she practices solidarity every day. Solidarity is not a demand we make; it is built in relationships. Shahana does that work. I know because when I organized a vigil for the Tree of Life shooting victims, she organized Muslims to show up to protect us,
New York Daily NewsMay 02 2024
Analysis
Be ready for Donald Trump to never accept an election result
Former President Donald Trump has shown remarkable consistency over many years on a key issue of American politics: He does not have faith in election results.
He questions the results when he has won. He refuses to concede when he has lost. Now he’s reserving judgment on whether this year’s election will be “honest.”
In each quote below, he answers a version of the same question
CNN (Online News)May 01 2024
Opinion
Since When Does Criminal Law Not Apply to College Campus Protests?
Off campus, if you deliberately break a window, and the cops see you doing it, you get arrested. (Whether the local Soros-supported district attorney will press charges is another question.) If you assault someone, you will get arrested. If you threaten someone with imminent bodily harm, and the police hear it and believe there is a chance you will act upon that threat, you will get arrested
Jim GeraghtyApr 26 2024
News
Missouri lawmakers want voters to consider loosening strict term limits law
JEFFERSON CITY — One proposal that soared out of the House this week would ask Missouri voters to consider loosening the term limits law they enacted more than 30 years ago. That constitutional amendment, which three-fourths of voters statewide approved in 1992, limits state legislators to eight years in the House and eight years in the Senate, or 16 years of total service. But beginning after
St. Louis Post-Dispatch