Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said on Monday that “terrible people” such as the Boston Marathon bomber and felons convicted of sexual assault should be allowed to vote.
Source: Bernie Sanders says Boston bomber should be able to vote from prison
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said on Monday that “terrible people” such as the Boston Marathon bomber and felons convicted of sexual assault should be allowed to vote.
Source: Bernie Sanders says Boston bomber should be able to vote from prison
The Trump administration is considering suspending or limiting entry of nationals from countries with high rates of visa overstays as it seeks to clamp down on illegal immigration.
President Trump signed a memo on Monday giving the State and Homeland Security departments 120 days to come up with measures to tackle the problem.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren admitted to shopping at online retail giant Amazon Monday — even though she wants the online retail giant broken up, because she says it’s crushing small
Source: Elizabeth Warren wants Amazon broken up — but still shops there
A lightning strike in Moon Township caused a house fire Saturday night.
Source: Lightning Strike In Moon Township Causes House Fire – CBS Pittsburgh
A woman from West Virginia was found with a loaded handgun at the TSA checkpoint at Pittsburgh International Airport.
A TSA spokesperson said the incident happened Monday morning, marking the 10th similar incident this year.
The TSA spokesperson said Allegheny County police were contacted. Police then detained the woman and confiscated the gun.
The TSA said the woman was from Arthurdale in Preston County, West Virginia.
It has not been announced if she’ll face charges.
Source: Woman found with loaded gun at Pittsburgh International Airport
The court is poised to decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to sexual orientation and gender identity, along with factors such as race, religion, sex and national origin.
Source: Supreme Court Will Hear Cases On LGBTQ Discrimination Protections For Employees
A petition for new election districts in Westmoreland County’s Murrysville community will be presented May 3.The petition, filed on behalf of 85 registered electors, is looking to create new election districts in the community in an effort to reduce wait times and increase voter turnout.
Source: Redistricting push in 1 Westmoreland County community aims to cut wait times and raise voter turnout
Warren says her proposal would benefit 95% of the 45 million Americans carrying student debt and wipe it out for 75% of them. She says those steps would stimulate the economy by improving credit scores, increasing homebuying and easing small-business formation.
Source: Elizabeth Warren: Use wealth tax to wipe out college debt, pay tuition
Trump Moulton is the fourth House Democrat to join the 2020 campaign. A critic of party leadership, the Marine Corps veteran also adds to the share of 40-and-under candidates in the race.
Source: Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton Joins Democratic Race For President
2-vehicle crash happened late Sunday night
Oil prices surged by more than 3 percent on Monday past highs not seen since November 2018, after reports that Washington is set to announce that all buyers of Iranian oil will have to end imports, or be subject to U.S. sanctions.
Source: Oil prices spike more than 3% on reports that US will end waivers for Iran sanctions
Gunmen burst into a bar in southeastern Mexico on Friday and opened fire, reportedly killing 13 people.
Source: Suspects still on loose after 13 people shot dead at Mexico party – New York Daily News
Police have not released a name or any more details about the suspect.
Source: Police step up patrols following series of vehicle break-ins in North Fayette shopping areas
Allegheny County officials said the man was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Police are now searching for the suspect. At last report police were looking for a dark blue sedan seen leaving the area.
Source: Police searching for suspect after man is shot in back in Allentown
A North Carolina man was arrested Saturday after he allegedly shot a 9-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl during a road rage incident involving their father, investigators said.
Source: 2 children shot in road rage incident involving father
Pope Francis is celebrating Easter Mass this year facing a fresh round of bloodshed targeting Christians in Sri Lanka.
Source: Pope celebrates Easter Sunday amid bloodshed in Sri Lanka
A mayor in Westmoreland County has resigned in the wake of being accused of pointing a gun at teenagers earlier in April.
Source: Derry Borough Mayor Resigns In Wake Of Allegedly Pointing A Gun At Teens
The prestige press has some explaining to do — for subjecting the nation to a long, cruel ordeal named “collusion” and “obstruction.” Almost two years and millions of column inches later,
Here are the 10 worst, drawn from among many more:
10. CNN bungles Comey testimony
It took four bylines — including those of CNN stars Jake Tapper and Gloria Borger — to completely botch the most important aspect of former FBI Director James Comey’s June 2017 congressional testimony.
9. Times columnist shares fervid dreams
New York Times columnist Charles Blow’s column of Dec. 2, 2018, was silly even by his standards.
8. Washington Post ‘fact checker’ needs a fact check
“All the Known Times the Trump Campaign Met With Russians” read the headline on a 2017 Fact Checker feature in The Washington Post. But by fact-checking, the paper really means judging various claims against liberal orthodoxies.
7. The MSNBC spy who should stay in the cold
No senior US official has done more damage to the credibility of the intelligence community than John Brennan. Last month, Brennan confidently predictedthat “Friday [March 8] is the day the grand-jury indictments come down” against Trump associates and family members over “criminal conspiracy involving the Russians and US persons.” Nope.
6. The Guardian concocts a collusion meeting
Among foreign outlets, none covered itself in as much shame as The Guardian. The British paper in November 2018 published a story — bylined to superstar writer Luke Harding and two others, one of whom later mysteriously disappeared from the paper’s Web site — about secret talks between one Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange that took place at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The sourcing was flimsy, to put it generously, and sure enough, as Glenn Greenwald notes at The Intercept, “Nothing in the [Mueller] report even hints, let alone states, that [Manafort] ever visited Julian Assange.”
5. WaPo columnist’s overstated, undying Ukraine narrative
“The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes” ahead of the Republican National Convention “to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces.” So reported The Washington Post’s Josh Rogin.
4. The Atlantic accuses Jeff Sessions!
In June 2017, the combustible young reporter Julia Ioffe wrote an article for The Atlantic, running to several thousand words, that cast doubt on former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ claim that he didn’t meet with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak as a Trump surrogate but rather as a matter of routine in his role at the time as a US senator.
3. David Corn’s dossier debacle
It was the document that set off the whole shebang. In October 2016, days before the election, David Corn of Mother Jones wrote of an unnamed “former senior intelligence officer for a Western country,” Christopher Steele (unnamed at the time), who claimed that the Russians had dirt on Trump they could use to blackmail him.
2. McClatchy catches Michael Cohen in Prague
Speaking of the dossier, remember when McClatchy’s Greg Gordon and Peter Stone reported that Mueller had evidence that Trump consigliere Michael Cohen had “secretly made a late-summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign,”
1. Buzzfeed knows who told Cohen to lie
Which brings us to the top foul-up of the whole sordid saga. That would be BuzzFeed’s report, by Jason Lepold and Anthony Cormier, in January claiming that Trump had directed Cohen to lie to Congress about talks to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
Source: Top 10 things the media got wrong about ‘collusion’ and ‘obstruction’
Six nearly simultaneous explosions struck three churches and three hotels frequented by tourists on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka, according to a security official in Colombo, the capital of the island nation in the Indian Ocean.
Source: Blasts rock 3 churches, 3 hotels in Sri Lanka; multiple fatalities reported
At least six explosions rocked churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. A hospital official said scores were injured and at least two dozen dead. BBC News reports from the scene in Colombo.
The FBI arrested a 69-year-old militia member in Sunland Park on Saturday in connection with possessing firearms and ammunition as a felon, according to the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office.
The man, Larry Mitchell Hopkins, is a Flora Vista, N.M., native also known as “Johnny Horton Jr.,” according to an FBI release.
ABC-7’s Mauricio Casillas interviewed the United Constitutional Patriots Commander in a story that aired in March.
Source: BREAKING: FBI arrests militia member near border, described as “armed vigilante” – KVIA
The U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh says the indictment includes charges of mail fraud, conspiracy, embezzlement from a healthcare benefit program and money laundering.
PITTSBURGH —
A former CEO of Butler Memorial Hospital and her husband, a former longtime Butler County detective whose duties involved fraud investigations, are named in a federal indictment that alleges a $1.3 million fraud, authorities said Friday.
The 37-count indictment against Stephanie Roskovski, 48, and Scott Roskovski, 50, includes charges of mail fraud, conspiracy, embezzlement from a health care benefit program, money laundering and false statement in a loan application, U.S. Attorney Scott Brady’s office said.
The Roskovskis were at the federal courthouse in downtown Pittsburgh on Friday afternoon. It wasn’t immediately clear if they had an attorney who could comment.
Source: BUTLER COUPLE INDICTED: Former hospital CEO and ex-county detective charged in $1.3 million fraud
Whenever a new medication or other consumable chemical enters the market, adverse health effects will follow. Cannabis is no different.
Source: Much more must happen to make cannabis safe, public health expert says – nj.com
Forget aliens. We’ve got to find the asteroids.
Astronomers tend to be patient people. When it comes to stars, much of what they examine happened millions of years ago, and when it comes to space probes, even pre-launch prep can take a decade or more.
But they are getting impatient about launching an infrared space telescope called NEOCam. It has a very specific mission: Spotting near-Earth objects—astronomical bodies, most commonly asteroids, whose orbits around the sun could pass close to Earth and potentially collide with our planet, some of which could damage or destroy civilization itself.
It’s not speculative; a major meteoric impact is inevitable, and we need to keep a better eye on the solar system.
Source: NASA needs a camera to spot killer asteroids — Quartz
Dozens of people braved wind and rain on Good Friday to attend the 25th annual “Way of the Cross” drama in downtown Greensburg.
For the 17th time, Rick Zabrosky reprised his role as Jesus in the hours before his crucifixion — driven relentlessly through the streets of Greensburg by eight Roman soldiers.
“It truly brings the Scriptures to life,” Zabrosky, of Greensburg, said. “I have been stopped after the event by several people who joined the procession and told how moving it was and how it brought tears to their eyes.”
The re-enactment started on the steps of the Westmoreland County Courthouse with Jesus’ trial before Pontius Pilate. Following his sentencing, he was led by the guards down a route comprising South Main Street, West Otterman Street, South Pennsylvania Avenue and West Third Street.
Source: Greensburg re-enactment brings Jesus’ trial to courthouse steps | TribLIVE.com
Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to join the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential race next week.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to join the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential race next week.
The decision answers one of the most significant outstanding questions of the early presidential primary season, which has already seen announcements from 18 high-profile Democrats. Biden, 76, would be the oldest and most experienced politician in the race.
His plans were confirmed by three people with knowledge, who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The announcement is expected as early as Wednesday and would cap months of deliberation over his political future.
Source: Biden Expected To Launch Presidential Campaign Next Week | Newsradio 1020 KDKA
A California couple who for years starved a dozen of their children and kept some shackled to beds were sentenced Friday to life in prison, ending a shocking case that revealed a house of horrors
Source: Parents Who Starved And Shackled Children Sentenced To Life | Newsradio 1020 KDKA