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from American News
BREAKING: 25 Year Old Video Of Donald Trump Surfaces… We Can’t Believe What He Said [VIDEO]
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from Breitbart
EXCLUSIVE–REINCE PRIEBUS TO BARACK OBAMA: RELEASE THE SECRET OPERATION FAST & FURIOUS DOCUMENTS
Now years after former Attorney General Eric Holder was voted into both criminal and civil contempt of Congress, President Barack Obama continues to hide from the U.S. Congress—and the American people—documents related to the Operation Fast and Furious gun walking scandal. President Obama himself is hiding the documents under what is generally considered a flimsy and imprecise use of presidential executive privilege. As such, with the latest news that the deadly scandal may be connected to more carnage inside the United States—specifically the Garland, Texas terrorist attack earlier this year—Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus is calling on the president to be transparent once and for all with regards to Fast and Furious.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
Terrorist Who Attacked 'Draw Mohammed' Contest in Garland, Texas Had Gun From 'Fast and Furious'
Three months after the Garland, Texas terror attack, Americans are learning that one of the terrorists, Nadir Soofi owned a handgun associated with the Fast and Furious gun-walking debacle, and might have had the gun with him at the attempted terrorist attack in May.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Climate change: Obama orders steeper cuts from power plants
Aiming to jolt the rest of the world to action, President Barack Obama moved ahead today with even tougher greenhouse gas cuts on American power plants, setting up a certain confrontation in the courts with energy producers and Republican-led states.
Wildfire roundup: Central Washington blaze grows to over 9 square miles
A lightning-caused fire in Central Washington has burned more than 9 square miles near Lake Chelan, growing thousands of acres between Saturday and today. Several hundred people were evacuated from a Lutheran retreat center and the Holden Mine Remediation Center on Saturday. Officials say Holden Village is not threatened by the fire, but the blaze threatens the only evacuation route. The Wolverine Fire, which started Wednesday, is burning in timber about 3 miles northwest of Lucerne, Washington.
Oregon blaze forces evacuations
In southwest Oregon, a fire burning in forestland has spread to more than 23 square miles, according to more accurate mapping of the blaze. The Stouts Creek Fire about 16 miles east of Canyonville in Douglas County doubled in size from Friday to today. About 35 families have been evacuated from their homes and another 100 families have been told to prepare to leave.
Crews battle stubborn Lewiston Orchards blaze
A Lewiston Orchards grass fire that appeared to be out Saturday afternoon reignited about an hour later, destroying a trailer and an outbuilding, the Lewiston Tribune reported.
E-cigarette helps end armed standoff in Soap Lake
A standoff between police and an armed gunman in Soap Lake ended today after negotiators gave the suspect an e-cigarette. Jason B. McIlwain, 32, was arrested on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm and lodged in the Grant County Jail. More charges are expected, and the investigation continues.
Case against North Dakota businessman alleges offers for five killings
In his quest for North Dakota oil riches, James Henrikson employed a cadre of would-be hit men to kill those he perceived as threats or who had jilted him, federal prosecutors plan to argue at a trial later this year. Six men, including Henrikson, are scheduled to go on trial this fall on charges related to the shooting death of Henrikson’s business partner, Doug Carlile, who was killed in his South Hill home in December 2013. Most of the men, but not Henrikson, appear to be cooperating with federal investigators.
Coeur d’Alene planning redevelopment of Sherman Avenue
Depending on who you ask, the east gateway to Coeur d’Alene is either a thriving business district or an urban blemish. An up-and-coming working neighborhood with grit, or drab and neglected – ripe for revitalization. Reality resides somewhere between these extremes. East Sherman Avenue is neither dilapidated nor as vibrant as other parts of town. But it’s now at the center of a city-led discussion on what could be done to improve the 12-block corridor from downtown east to Interstate 90.
A 40-year-old St. Louis woman isn’t dead, but she said she spent months trying to convince credit reporting agencies that she’s alive. Alexandria Goree is suing Experian, TransUnion and Equifax over the glitch, contending that it was difficult to get loans or a new home.
Biden aides resume discussion on presidential run
Vice President Joe Biden’s associates have resumed discussions about a 2016 presidential run after largely shelving such deliberations during his son’s illness and following his death earlier this year. But Biden has yet to tell his staff whether he will run or personally ask them to do any planning for a potential campaign, according to several people close to the vice president.
Canadian hitchhiking robot destroyed by vandals
A hitchhiking robot that captured the hearts of fans worldwide met its demise in the U.S. The Canadian researchers who created hitchBOT as a social experiment told the Associated Press that someone in Philadelphia damaged the robot beyond repair on Saturday, ending its first American tour after about two weeks.
Texas attorney general indicted on felony securities fraud charges
A grand jury has indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on felony securities fraud charges that accuse the Republican of misleading investors before he took over as the state’s top law enforcement officer, a special prosecutor said Saturday.
Replacement opens for Charity Hospital lost in Hurricane Katrina
Ten years after the levees and floodwalls broke during Hurricane Katrina and flooded New Orleans, the Big Easy finally has a full-scale hospital again. At 6 a.m. Saturday, the new 2.3 million-square-foot University Medical Center New Orleans, built with $1.1 billion of federal, state and private rebuilding money, ambulances and medical staff began the transfer of 131 patients into the new hospital for its first day of operation. The UMC complex is the successor to the towering 1930s-era Charity Hospital, a 1 million-square-foot Art Deco downtown institution much loved in New Orleans. In tandem with the UMC campus, a new adjacent U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital is slated to open next year.
Long-lost Fitzgerald story finally published
A year before F. Scott Fitzgerald died of a heart attack, he completed a short story about a hard-drinking writer diagnosed with cardiac disease. “And as for that current dodge ‘No reference to any living character is intended’ – no use even trying that,” Fitzgerald warns at the start of “Temperature,” an 8,000-word piece dated July 1939 that is receiving its publishing debut in the current issue of the literary quarterly The Strand Magazine.
Suspected Flight 370 wing flap arrives at French facility
A wing flap suspected to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 arrived Saturday at a French military testing facility where it will be analyzed by experts.
Highly active volcano erupts on Reunion Island amid media frenzy
Journalists arriving last week on the Indian Ocean island Reunion to report about the discovery of a jet wing fragment were met with another spectacular sight: the eruption of one of the Earth’s most active volcanoes.
In brief: New Taliban leader vows to continue unity, insurgency
The new leader of the Afghan Taliban vowed to continue his group’s bloody, nearly 14-year insurgency in an audio message released Saturday, urging his fighters to remain unified after the death of their longtime leader. The audio message purportedly from Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor also included comments about the Taliban’s nascent peace talks with the Afghan government, though it wasn’t immediately clear whether he supported them or not. Mansoor took over the Taliban after the group on Thursday confirmed former leader Mullah Mohammad Omar had died and said they elected Mansoor as his successor.
Three bin Laden relatives killed in jet crash, British police say
Three relatives of the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden were among four people killed when a private jet crashed on landing in southern England, British police confirmed Saturday. Arab media and NBC News named the relatives as Osama Bin Laden’s stepmother Rajaa Hashim, his sister Sana bin Laden and her husband Zuhair Hashim. The plane’s Jordanian pilot also died.
Judge halts release of secretly recorded video of abortion providers
Forest Service firefighter David Ruhl, 38, who was in a vehicle in the Modoc National Forest, was killed by the erratic, wind-stoked blaze while he was surveying an area to decide the best way for crews to handle the flames.
Record rains threaten Midwest crop yields
Zimbabwe halts hunting of lions amid outrage
Zimbabwe has suspended the hunting of lions, leopards and elephants in an area where a lion popular with tourists was killed, and is investigating the killing of another lion in April that may have been illegal, the country’s wildlife authority said Saturday.
The Dirt: Dutch Bros. to open outlet on Pines and Sprague
This will be the seventh Dutch Bros. location in the Spokane area owned by Kevin and Kerry Parker.
Dental office, surgery expands to North Side
Silvey Construction is building a dental office and ambulatory surgery suite in unfinished space at 9911 N. Nevada St. for Spokane Oral & Maxillofacial-North.
Aircraft company to grow Sandpoint factory
Quest Aircraft Co. will expand its Sandpoint factory, with plans to add about 75,000 square feet to its production facility that builds the Kodiak single-engine turboprop airplane.
Lasting Beauty leases site for salon
Lasting Beauty LLC is leasing a 675-square-foot building to open a new Spokane Valley beauty salon at 9406 E. Sprague Ave. Owner Candace Olsen, who has worked many years in the industry, will be joined by a nail technician and others.
Friends, neighbors help ill Whitman County farmer harvest fields
The farmers surrounding the small Whitman County town of Lamont all know each other. They went to school together, played on the same football team and rode the same school bus home. So when Steve Swannack landed in the hospital with a severe case of pancreatitis two months ago, his neighbors and friends immediately banded together to help out. They cut and baled his hay and moved his herd of nearly 100 cows. On Saturday, they hopped in their combines and drove down the highway to harvest all 1,000 acres of Swannack’s fields.
Spokane’s online bike registry pays first dividend
For the first time, Spokane’s online bicycle registry has been used to reunite a bike with its owner. The registry contains information for 1,146 bike owners, and nearly 350 of them have logged their information since the registry moved online in May.
ISP troopers responded to 45 traffic fatalities from Memorial Day weekend through July 29. The number is 60 percent higher than the 28 fatalities investigated during the same time frame in 2014.
In brief: Cusick man dies in single-car crash near Colville
Andrew J. Rose, 32, of Cusick, died in a single-car crash Saturday morning just before 8 a.m. on state Highway 20 about 22 miles east of Colville.
Fast-growing fire doused outside Sprague
A fire was reported near the town of Sprague in Lincoln County on Saturday afternoon, growing to 1,600 acres, but it was quickly doused.
DNR: Long Lake fire half contained
The fire south of Long Lake in northwestern Spokane County was kept in check by firefighters Saturday after it grew rapidly Friday evening and put up a towering plume of smoke. The fire, north of Long Lake Road, has been mapped at 430 acres,
Police search for robber who held up shoe store
Spokane police are investigating an armed robbery at Payless Shoes in Shadle Center about 4 p.m. Saturday.
Man attacked by bear at Lewis-McChord base
A man was attacked by a bear at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord, suffering minor injuries. The attack happened about 8:30 a.m. Saturday on the base near Tacoma, KOMO-TV reported. Officials said the man, a civilian, was attacked while walking in a restricted area. He sustained only scratches.
Red flag warning posted for Glacier area
A red flag warning was posted Saturday for much of northwest Montana, including Glacier National Park, where firefighters are battling a wildfire. The fire in Glacier had burned about 5 square miles about 4 miles west of the St. Mary Visitor Center. Crews contained about 65 percent of the fire, which was reported July 21.
Miss Tri-Cities 2015 to be stripped of crown
Maeloni Ogle, 21, the reigning Miss Tri-Cities, will be stripped of her crown after pageant organizers learned she pleaded guilty this year to a misdemeanor theft charge.
Spanaway girl thrives after third heart transplant
A Spanaway girl who waited seven months for a second heart transplant, only to have it fail, has dodged the odds, doctors say, receiving a rare third donor heart within a matter of days. Eight-year-old Aiyana Lucas surprised even the surgeon who performed the latest transplants, one on July 3 and then a hectic second operation on July 6, when the third-grader’s window for survival was closing.
3 more salmonella cases reported in Yakima area
Three new cases of salmonella have been confirmed in Yakima County as part of a growing statewide outbreak, state health officials said Friday. Four cases have now been confirmed in the county. Yakima County remains the only county east of the Cascades reporting salmonella cases. The number of statewide cases rose to 90, up from about 55 the previous week.
Selah drug raid yields 30 fighting roosters
Authorities who thought they were raiding a meth lab Friday morning instead found more than 30 fighting roosters and cockfighting equipment, a Washington State Patrol spokesman said. They also arrested a 30-year-old Yakima man and seized more than $10,000 in cash, a small amount of methamphetamine, drug packaging equipment and a stolen gun.
Oregon bottle deposit hike likely as recycling redemption falls
New state data show that Oregonians are returning fewer beverage bottles to redeem their 5-cent deposit, putting the state on track to double the deposit to 10 cents per bottle in 2017. Under a 2011 law aimed at stemming the downward trend in bottle redemption, the deposit is slated to rise Jan. 1, 2017, if the redemption rate does not stay above 80 percent for two consecutive years.
Daughter, mom accused of helping dispose of gun allegedly used in Spokane killing
Police last week arrested two more people they say are connected to the killing of 17-year-old Ceasar Medina at Northwest Accessories on Monroe Street in May. Cassandra L. Larson, 31, is accused of disposing of one of the guns allegedly used in the crime, and her mother, 57-year-old Ruth E. Ferguson, is accused of helping her.
Sponsors raise $1.4 million to host Seattle conference for lawmakers
Local tech giants Microsoft and Amazon are among the biggest donors making it possible for state lawmakers from around the country to converge on Seattle this week. Makers of alcoholic drinks, cigarettes, pharmaceutical drugs and marijuana are chipping in, too. Planning this year’s summit of the National Conference of State Legislatures has taken years and the effort of Washington lawmakers and staff members, but private donors, not taxpayers, will pick up most of the state’s tab for hosting.
Eye on Boise: Governor creates Idaho task force to battle hackers
Idaho’s state computer network is “constantly under attack,” according to Gov. Butch Otter’s office, and that’s why Otter has named a new Cybersecurity Cabinet Task Force, chaired by Lt. Gov. Brad Little, to strengthen the state’s protections against computer hackers.
Spin Control: Wrongdoing, not offensive words, is basis for a recall
Kathleen Parker: Redirect Planned Parenthood funds to community health clinics
Editorial: Submit your ballots in vital Spokane races by Tuesday
Smart Bombs: Congress unlocked fetal cells
Guest editorial, Con: Proposed sick leave costly for businesses, with potential for abuse
Guest editorial, Pro: Hardworking people should be able to meet basic health needs, not spread illness
Boise celebrates Basque population with Jaialdi festival
Idaho has 7,900 residents who claim Basque heritage, 2,000 of them in Boise. Those numbers are self-reported on government surveys, so the actual Basque population could be much greater. What Idaho Basques lack in raw numbers, they more than make up for in concentration, visibility and distinctiveness. Basques began arriving here more than a century ago, flourishing as they integrated themselves into civic and social life while preserving their heritage and cultural identity. Their strong and unique presence made Boise a natural pick for the first Jaialdi festival in 1987, and for those that have followed every five years since 1990.
Gardening: Enjoying the harvest means knowing the signs
Firms shouldn’t pretend mergers are in best interest of consumers
Has there ever been a high-profile merger that’s resulted in lower prices or higher quality for consumers? In the wake of several big deals in recent days, I put that question to dozens of business professors, economists and lawyers specializing in mergers and antitrust issues. These are people who study and track this sort of thing for a living. Not one was able to cite a single big-ticket merger that irrefutably benefited consumers in a long-term, demonstrable way.
Windows 10 upgrade fixes annoyances of its predecessor
BBB Tip of the Week
Scammers are trying to get your Google log-in credentials, and emails prompting you to go to an important document are setting the trap.
Hispanics’ population rises, but homeownership doesn’t
They make up the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, yet Hispanics are increasingly locked out of homeownership because of tighter lending standards that rely on outdated measures of creditworthiness.
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