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3-19-18
BlackListed News Updates
- Gunman, three hostages found dead after standoff at California veterans home
- Florida passes bill preventing marriage of anyone under 17
- Veterans facility in Yountville on lockdown amid reports of active shooter, hostage situation
- The FBI Now Admits It Could’ve Prevented The Florida High School Shooting
- Study finds that false news spreads faster than truth online, thanks to humans (not bots)
- UN Calls for Psychiatric Evaluation After Duterte Puts Top Human Rights Expert on 'Hit List'
- Amazon Sets Off To Become America's Biggest Mortgage Lender
- Venezuela Sues Oil Traders For Corruption
- Toxic chemicals found in drinking water of 2 Detroit suburbs
- Stores likely to face more lawsuits over ban on under-21 gun sales
- A Bag Containing 54 Severed Human Hands Has Been Found in Eastern Russia
- Terrified Of Losing In Court, ISPs (With Senator John Kennedy's Help) Push Hard For A Fake Net Neutrality Law
- Student debt could hold back economic growth, should be discharged in bankruptcy, Fed chief says
- Religion can't be used to justify workplace discrimination, court rules
- Mysterious Entities Secretly Stealing Billions from ‘Frozen’ Gaddafi Accounts
- Broadcom says will not sell national security assets to foreign firms
- Florida SWAT Team Members Suspended For Responding To Parkland Shooting
- TSA Expands Body Scanner Searches to NYC, L.A. Train Stations
- UK Terrorism arrests hit record high but only a fraction lead to convictions, police reveal
- Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Advocates
Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
A gunman and three hostages who were taken prisoner inside the nation's largest veterans' home in California were found dead late Friday after an hours-long standoff in which dozens of bullets were fired at police outside, authorities confirmed.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
A woman who was 11 when she was forced to marry her rapist has worked for six years to ban child marriages in Florida. On Friday, she was hailed as a hero after the Legislature passed a bill prohibiting marriage for anyone under 17.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
One of the nation's largest veterans care facilities in the country was put on lockdown Friday morning after reports of an active-shooter and hostage situation, facility officials said.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
Amid the fallout from the February 14 school shooting in Parkland, FL, that left 17 dead, the FBI and local law enforcement received widespread criticism for their inability to prevent the shooting despite multiple warning signs and opportunities. On Tuesday, the FBI admitted these failures to the House Judiciary Committee during a hearing focused on how the bureau handled tips about Nikolas Cruz prior to the massacre.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
An MIT research team has published a paper in Science detailing their analysis of the virulence with which truth and falsehood spread on Twitter; they analyzed 126,000 stories tweeted by 3m people 4.5m times, characterizing the stories as true or false according to consensus among a pool of independent fact-checking organizations, and concluded that "falsehood diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in all categories of information, and the effects were more pronounced for false political news than for false news about terrorism, natural disasters, science, urban legends, or financial information."
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
The United Nations human rights chief suggested that Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte's mental health should be evaluated after the authoritarian leader included a U.N. official on what Human Rights Watch has called a "government hit list" of alleged terrorists.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
First it monopolized the online retail space; then it made a dramatic appearance in the bricks and mortar grocer sector with its acquisition of Whole Foods, and lately it has been preparing to take on both the pharmaceutical & healthcare sector, and even banking.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
Venezuela’s state oil company has filed a lawsuit against a Miami-based company, alleging it provided insider information to a number of large trading companies that made billions of dollars by buying oil products at below market prices.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
Drinking water in Macomb County's New Baltimore and Mount Clemens has tested positive for contamination, according to notices issued by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality this week. The contamination is related to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS or PFCs, described as the MDEQ as "a suite of chemicals historically used in thousands of applications throughout the industrial, food, and textile industries."
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
Dick's Sporting Goods now faces lawsuits in two states — Oregon and Michigan — over its decision to stop selling guns to anyone under 21, a move done in response to last month's Florida school shooting. Walmart, which announced a similar policy, faces an identical lawsuit in Oregon. While the retailers say they have no plans to rescind their new policies nationwide, a lawyer involved in the court challenges says he expects to see more suits filed soon in other states.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
Russian police have launched an investigation after a bag containing 54 severed human hands was found near the Siberian city of Khabarovsk. According to the Siberian Times, a single hand was spotted first, then the bag containing the remains was discovered on an island in the Amur River. Photos that appear to be taken at the scene show the hands lined up in 27 matching pairs laid out in the snow.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
ISPs are worried that the FCC's assault on net neutrality won't hold up in the face of court challenge. And they should be. By law, the FCC has to prove that the broadband market changed substantially enough in just a few years to warrant such a severe reversal of popular policy.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
Burgeoning levels of student loan debt could slow down economic growth over time, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Thursday. While the issue is primarily one for Congress to tackle, Powell said it could become an economic question. "You do stand to see longer-term negative effects on people who can't pay off their student loans," he said. "It hurts their credit rating, it impacts the entire half of their economic life."
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
This week saw two major developments in federal anti-discrimination law as it relates to LGBTQ workers and religious freedom. On Wednesday, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a transgender employee, who was fired after coming out to her boss, was unlawfully discriminated against. That same day, Lambda Legal filed an appeal in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of a man whose employment offer was rescinded when his prospective employer learned of his sexual orientation.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
Some €10 billion of Libyan government funds, frozen as part of sanctions against the late Muammar Gaddafi’s inner circle, has mysteriously disappeared from a Belgian bank somewhere between 2013 and 2017, according to local media.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
Broadcom Ltd said in a letter to U.S. Congress on Friday that it will not sell any critical national security assets to any foreign companies if its $117 billion deal to buy chipmaker Qualcomm Inc is approved. “Qualcomm’s work is too important to our national security to let it fall into the hands of a foreign company — and in a hostile takeover no less,” Senator Tom Cotton, a vocal Republican voice on foreign policy, had said.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
Two Florida SWAT team members have been suspended after responding to the Florida massacre without their bosses' permission. Detectives Jeffrey Gilbert and Carl Schlosser - as identified by the Florida Sun-Sentinel - did not tell superiors that they were going to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where mass shooter Nikolas Cruz, 19, killed 17 people. After they jumped into action without following protocol, the two were suspended from the Miramar Police Department's 'privileged program' on February 22 and were ordered to surrender their SWAT-issued rifles.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
Visitors to New York’s Penn Station will now be subjected to random searches via body scanners courtesy of the Transportation Security Administration and Amtrak Police.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
Terrorism arrests skyrocketed in 2017 but only a fraction lead to convictions, startling new data from the Home Office reveal. The stats show the police in a harsh light, and there are those asking whether enough is being done.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST
Police in Lancashire, a county in northwest England, have rolled out a program to broadcast crime updates, photos of wanted and missing people, and safety notifications to Amazon Echo owners. Since February, the free app has been available to those using Alexa, a cloud-based voice assistant hooked up to the Echo smart speaker. The first of its kind in the U.K., the program was developed by the police force’s innovations manager in a partnership with Amazon developers.
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