Baltimore Cops Commended for Shooting Mentally Ill Suspect After Body Cam Footage Released
Two Baltimore cops who shot a mentally ill man as he wielded knives and a cane on Friday were commended by their police union president. “We support Officers Jones and Brown and commend them on their actions as they did what was necessary to protect the lives of many others, as well as their own,” said Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 President Gene Ryan. Video footage of the shooting was released on Wednesday after about 30 protesters assembled at the scene of the shooting last week. Balti..>> view originalVice President-elect Mike Pence Says Trump Administration Plans Ambitious Agenda
CINCINNATI—Vice President-elect Mike Pence said Thursday that the incoming Trump administration is planning a burst of activity that would take aim at the gridlock in Washington, pressing forward with its goals to overhaul the tax code, health care and immigration laws. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Pence said President-elect Donald Trump is preparing ambitious 100-day and 200-day plans aimed at fulfilling core...>> view originalPolitics|Donald Trump Holds 'Thank You' Rally in Cincinnati, and Announces His Pick for Defense Secretary
Mr. Becerra, like Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland before him and former Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois (now the mayor of Chicago) before them, had risen as far as he could in the House leadership. Mr. Becerra faced a blockade of older members of Congress, like Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Steny H. Hoyer, and James E. Clyburn, in the top ranks. Unlike Mr. Van Hollen, who was elected to the Senate last month, Mr. Becerra opted against running for his state’s open Senate seat..>> view originalSessions' hometown delighted by cabinet nomination
Sen. Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's pick to be United States attorney general, launched a public campaign as Alabama attorney general in 1996 to prevent a gay rights group from holding a conference at the University of Alabama, according to a KFile ...>> view originalAP news guide: The Michael Slager case
Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager, right, sits in the courtroom during his murder trial at the Charleston County court in Charleston, S.C., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. The case of a former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist is now before the jury. (Grace Beahm/Post and Courier via AP, Pool) (Associated Press) By Bruce Smith | AP December 2 at 3:46 AM CHARLESTON, S.C. — Deliberations continue in the trial ..>> view originalTrump picks retired Marine Gen. James Mattis for secretary of defense
President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he has chosen retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis, who has said that responding to “political Islam” is the major security issue facing the United States, to be secretary of defense. “We are going to appoint Mad Dog Mattis as our secretary of defense,” Trump told a rally in Cincinnati, the first stop on a post-election “thank-you tour.” Trump joked that the media and audience should keep the news to themselves. “We are going to be announcing him Monday..>> view originalTacoma, Wash., police officer shot dead. Suspect killed after 12-hour standoff ends in gunfire.
A police officer in Tacoma, Wash., was shot and killed during a standoff with a barricaded suspect Nov. 30. (Reuters) This post has been updated. After a nearly 12-hour standoff with multiple law enforcement agencies in Tacoma, Wash., a 38-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting a police officer Wednesday was killed by a single bullet from a SWAT team member early Thursday morning. The man, whose name has not been released, had barricaded himself inside a three-story home on the city’s..>> view originalDonald Trump kicks off victory tour with Cincinnati rally, Cabinet announcement
Fifty days away from his inauguration to the White House, President-elect Donald Trump took a victory lap in Ohio Thursday, re-litigating old election grudges, making news with a Cabinet announcement, and sounding very much like he was still campaigning for office. Capping off days of speculating about his pick for Secretary of Defense, Mr. Trump teased an official announcement at Cincinnati’s U.S. Bank Arena -- by telling the raucous crowd that it would be retired Gen. James Mattis. “I don’t wa..>> view originalSan Bernardino Recalls Terror Attack With Silence, Speakers
At the moment when shooters unleashed terror on San Bernardino a year ago, county employees will remember their fallen colleagues with silence. Later on Friday, community members will gather to remember the 14 people killed and 22 wounded with speeches from religious leaders and law enforcement. The hardscrabble city of 216,000 people east of Los Angeles is preparing to mark the anniversary of the Dec. 2 attack by husband-and-wife assailants on a holiday luncheon for county health employees..>> view originalTeenager brings guns to school, but his parents disarm him
Teenager brings guns to school, but his parents disarm him Brady Mccombs and Michelle L. Price, Associated Press Updated 3:19 am, Friday, December 2, 2016 A mother greets her daughter and a friend following a lockdown at Mueller Park Junior High after a student fired a gun into the ceiling Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in Bountiful, Utah. Police said two fast-acting Utah parents disarmed their son in the hallway of the Utah junior high school Thursday after the teenager brought the fa..>> view original
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