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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4596862-massie-backs-greene-effort-to-oust-speaker-johnson/

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) announced Tuesday he will co-sponsor a resolution to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from the House’s top job.

Massie told his colleagues during a closed-door conference meeting that he will co-sponsor the motion to vacate resolution filed late last month by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), according to three GOP lawmakers in the room, becoming the first lawmaker to publicly join Greene’s effort.

Massie’s announcement came less than 24 hours after Johnson unveiled the outline of a plan to move foreign aid through the House, which includes voting on three separate bills to send assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and a fourth measure that pertains to other national security priorities.

But in a departure from his previous positions, Johnson did not include border security provisions in the plan after months of Republicans — including the Speaker — demanding that any aid for Ukraine be paired with legislation to address the situation at the southern border, sparking intense opposition among conservatives.

Érika de Souza Vieira Nunes took a corpse in a wheelchair to sign a loan, but bank employees noticed the attempted fraud and ended up at the police station

Érika entered with the corpse in a wheelchair and spoke to him normally, even asking him to sign the document. Employees at the bank branch became suspicious and called Samu.

"The people at the bank thought he was sick, feeling unwell, and called Police. The doctor found that the elderly man had already died, apparently a few hours ago.

https://extra.globo.com/rio/casos-de-policia/noticia/2024/04/mulher-leva-morto-para-sacar-r-17-mil-em-banco-se-o-senhor-nao-assinar-nao-tem-como-disse-a-gerente.ghtml

video in X.com: https://twitter.com/AlertaMundoNews/status/1780407182187504110

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Link: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/27314684/putin-launches-new-nuclear-capable-missile/

>The "super weapon" is understood to be capable of dodging Western detection thanks to its unpredictable manoeuvres.

>The suspected advanced rocket was launched last week from the Kapustin Yar test range - leaving a bizarre smoke trail behind.

>The intercontinental missile was spotted "waltzing" across the sky from different regions in Russia and even Iran.

>Shocked witnesses have caught the unusual "pirouettes" on camera with the clips showing white smoke twirls.

>Following the testing of the mysterious weapon, Ukraine has been on a total air alert, according to a military expert.

>Colonel Viktor Baranets, Russian defence expert for Komsomolskaya Pravda, said: "Nato's intelligence agencies are beside themselves after Russia's new missile test.

>"It looked like a comet with a serpentine white tail.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/us/fisa-surveillance-bill-program.html

A hidden dispute over whether a data center for cloud computing must cooperate with a warrantless surveillance program prompted the House last week to add a mysterious provision to a bill extending the program, according to people familiar with the matter.

The disclosure helps clarify the intent behind an amendment that has alarmed privacy advocates as Senate leaders try to swiftly pass the bill, which would add two more years to a wiretapping law known as Section 702. The provision would add to the types of service providers that could be compelled to participate in the program, but it is written in enigmatic terms that make it hard to understand what it is supposed to permit.

Data centers are centralized warehouses of computer servers that can be accessed over the internet from anywhere in the world. In the cloud computing era, they are increasingly operated by third parties that rent out the storage space and computing power that make other companies’ online services work.

Even as national security officials described the provision as a narrow fix to a technical issue, they have declined to explain a classified court ruling from 2022 to which the provision is a response, citing the risk of tipping off foreign adversaries. Privacy advocates, for their part, have portrayed the amendment as dangerous, so broadly worded that it could be used to draft ordinary service people — like cable installers, janitors or plumbers who can gain physical access to office computer equipment — to act as spies.

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Wow, who could have predicted this? It isn't like obongo and brandon were intentionally flying muslims from the MENA to red towns/states to cause the muslims to kill everyone or anything. Remember when dems flipped out because Trump banned muslims and then king hawaii judge overturned it?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-campaign-we-dont-want-votes-death-america-protesters-michigan

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https://www.wsj.com/us-news/murder-rates-down-new-york-san-francisco-philadelphia-508b6855
Homicides in American cities are falling at the fastest pace in decades, bringing them close to levels they were at before a pandemic-era jump.

Nationwide, homicides dropped around 20% in 133 cities from the beginning of the year through the end of March compared with the same period in 2023, according to crime-data analyst Jeff Asher, who tabulated statistics from police departments across the country.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/boomers-bought-up-the-big-homes-now-they-re-not-budging/ar-BB1lzZC0?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=0b85b171217441bb946162ff5aaadbbb&ei=10

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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/13/trump-crimes-poll-voters-00152110
A majority of voters believe former President Donald Trump has committed “serious federal crimes,” according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll.

Fifty-three percent of likely voters said they believe this, while 39 percent of those surveyed said they did not believe that Trump committed serious crimes. Nine percent said they didn’t know or didn’t answer the question.

The numbers broken down by party affiliation show that 90 percent of Democrats believe he has committed serious crimes, while 17 percent of Republicans fall in this category. Forty-nine percent of independents shared this sentiment.

The new poll comes as jury selection will begin in Trump’s New York trial on Monday, setting the stage for an unprecedented presidential race. In what will be the first time a former U.S. president has gone to criminal trial, the next couple of months will place into focus the long-anticipated clash of Trump’s legal perils with his push to win back the White House. The former president is set to hold a rally in Pennsylvania Saturday evening, the last before court will hamper his ability to be on the campaign trail.

In New York, Trump is being tried on charges that he falsified business records to cover up a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. He has continued to deny the charges while slamming the case as a political witch hunt.

Asked specifically about this case, 46 percent of likely voters surveyed said they believe Trump should be found guilty, while 37 percent said he should be found not guilty. Seventeen percent of voters said they didn’t know or didn’t answer the question.

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Just checked, and yup, Ukraine is still losing the war. They haven't taken shit back, they lost an additional city, and Russia destroyed Trypilska, a power plant in kyiv, one of the largest power plants in all of Europe and maybe the largest one in Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/13/ukraine-air-defences-overwhelmed-as-russia-pounds-power-stations
Ukraine air defences overwhelmed as Russia pounds power stations
Kyiv running short of missile defence systems while US military aid dries up
Ukraine’s air defences are being overwhelmed by concentrated waves of Russian bombing aimed at its power stations, acknowledged a senior presidential adviser after the destruction of an entire plant on Thursday.

Mykhailo Podolyak said Moscow was adopting new tactics of attacking power stations with up to “10 or 12 missiles at a time”, bypassing already stretched Patriot and other missile shields.

“The system is overloaded,” Podolyak said in an interview. “Now we have to see whether we can keep the system running, whether we need more air defence systems, especially against [hypersonic] ballistic missiles, and whether we can restore the destroyed facilities.”

On Thursday, Trypilska, a coal and gas fired plant south of Kyiv, was destroyed after Russian bombing caused fire to break out in the turbine hall, according to its operator, Centrenergo.

The energy company said that while no staff were killed, it had lost 100% of its generating capacity. “The scale of destruction is terrifying,” said its chair, Andriy Gota. The attack came three weeks after the same company lost the Zmiiv power station to Russian bombing near the city of Kharkiv

People who lived near the fossil fuel plant described the site being hit by multiple missile strikes shortly before 5am on Thursday, causing a fire that took several hours to put out, leaving the main building a charred ruin overlooking a lake near the country’s central Dnipro River.

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Meanwhile Trump is still in favor of Israeli war crimes

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/14/biden-netanyahu-iran-israel-us-wont-support

President Biden told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a call on Saturday that the U.S. will oppose any Israeli counterattack against Iran, a senior White House official told Axios.

Why it matters: Biden and his senior advisers are highly concerned an Israeli response to Iran's attack on Israel would lead to a regional war with catastrophic consequences, U.S. officials said.

>Iran launched attack drones and missiles against Israel on Saturday night local time in retaliation for an airstrike in Syria that killed a top Iranian general.
>"More than 200 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles were fired from Iran," IDF spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said. Most of the threats were intercepted outside of Israeli airspace, he said.
>A U.S. defense official earlier said U.S. forces in the region shot down Iranian-launched drones targeting Israel.

Behind the scenes: Biden told Netanyahu the joint defensive efforts by Israel, the U.S. and other countries in the region led to the failure of the Iranian attack, according to the White House official.

> "You got a win. Take the win," Biden told Netanyahu, according to the official.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/truth-social-investors-try-to-keep-hope-alive-as-stock-tanks

Donald Trump’s acolytes gathered at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday evening to celebrate the public listing of his social media firm, even as the company’s stock continued to crater. Under the Palm Beach sky, right-wing radio host Sebastian Gorka sucked on a cigar, actor Jon Voight posed for photos, and country singer turned Bible salesman Lee Greenwood belted his runaway hit “God Bless the USA.” At the end of the song, he and the former president saluted.

In a speech, Trump encouraged investors to keep calm. “We have over $200 million dollars in cash, which is very liquid,” he said, according to a reporter from Right Side Broadcasting Network in attendance.

On Trump’s social media site, Truth Social, the mood is less ebullient. “Man I really thought we were gonna see a jump today. Especially after that party last night. There is always tomorrow,” one user lamented on Thursday morning.

“Doesn’t it seem strange that the price goes down steadily every day? Haven’t seen a green day for a while,” wondered another.

Shares of Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, have fallen more than 50 percent since late March, as the company’s dire financial position has become more clear. Last year, it brought in just $4.1 million in revenue and posted a $58.2 million loss.

Even after tanking, however, the business is still worth more than $4 billion on paper—a number that defies normal valuation metrics. Trump loyalists have helped keep the stock afloat as a way to financially support him, though TMTG remains heavily shorted by investors who believe its shares will continue to fall.

On Truth Social, retail investors are encouraging each other to keep the faith. “When the whole world is set on ruining you with everything that they have got, it’s a good sign that you are likely on the right side of things,” one person wrote on Thursday.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/04/13/723624/Iran-retaliation-Israel-consulate-attack

From Iran state media outlet Press TV:
Iran has launched retaliatory strikes against the occupied territories in response to the Israeli regime’s terrorist attack of April 1 against the consular section of the Islamic Republic’s Embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus, reports say.

The strikes were launched on Saturday night, with some reports saying that the Islamic Republic launched a number of attack drones towards the occupied territories.

Iran has not officially acknowledged retaliatory strikes yet.

Reuters news agency reported that the Islamic Republic has not yet launched missiles in its retaliatory military action against the occupying regime, adding that there is likelihood of it targeting the occupied city of Haifa and the occupied territories’ coastline with “ballistic missiles” in the coming hours.

Israel’s Channel 12 confirmed that the regime had been attacked, claiming that Iran launched tens of drones towards the occupied territories.

(This story will be updated.)

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A mother who was among six victims killed in the knife attack at a Sydney shopping centre has been named.

Ash Good died in hospital from her injuries following the Saturday morning attack in the Australian city. Four other women and one man were also killed while another eight people remain in hospital including the 38 year-old Ms Good’s baby daughter.

The attacker, believed to be a 40-year-old male known to authorities, was shot dead by a police inspector.
A shocking video has shown the suspect armed with a large knife, while shoppers take cover in shops as one brave individual attempts to ward him off on an escalator.

One eyewitness reported seeing Ms Good’s baby with stab wounds, with the “terrified” mother attempting to console her child as they were taken to an ambulance.

Other witnesses reported hearing gunshots as they hid inside stores, with one saying of the attacker: “He had a nice big blade on him. He looked like he was on a killing spree.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/sydney-westfield-bondi-junction-suspect-update-b2528212.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbVN2HalbCE


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https://apnews.com/article/abortion-arizona-biden-trump-presidential-election-11fe3cecb65d2365192273ebac2e9ed1
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona was already expected to be one of the most closely contested states in November’s U.S. presidential election. But a ruling this week instituting a near-total abortion ban supercharged the state’s role, transforming it into perhaps the nation’s most critical battleground.

This Sunbelt state with a fierce independent streak has long been at the forefront of the nation’s immigration debate due to its 378-mile border with Mexico and its large Hispanic and immigrant populations. It now moves to the center of the national debate over reproductive rights after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a federally guaranteed right to abortion.

Abortion and immigration have been two of this year’s biggest political issues. No battleground state has been affected more directly by both than Arizona.

“Do not underestimate this,” Democratic pollster John Anzalone, who polls for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, said of the Arizona abortion ruling. “It’s dynamic-changing.”

Biden and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump are expected to fight hard to win Arizona after Biden carried the state four years ago by less than 11,000 votes.

In addition to the presidency, the U.S. Senate majority may be decided by the state’s high-profile contest between Republican Kari Lake and Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego in the race to replace retiring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent who caucuses with Democrats.

The state Supreme Court’s ruling reviving an abortion ban passed in 1864 also added rocket fuel to Democrats’ push to add a question to the November ballot asking voters to approve a constitutional amendment protecting the right to abortion until viability, when a fetus could survive outside the womb. Later abortions would be allowed to save the woman’s life or protect her physical or mental health.

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https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c3gl39w1el4o

Anoda kasala don begin happun, but dis time around na between Israel and Iran.

Di attack involve drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Iran bin launch

more dan 300 drones and missiles towards Israel on Sunday, di Israeli military tok.

Di attack include 170 drones and 30 cruise missiles, but none of dem enta di Israeli territory.

Dem also fire 110 ballistic missiles, and na small number of di ballistic missiles reach Israel, military tok-tok pesin, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari tok for statement wey dem show for television.

Di BBC neva independently verify di figures.

Di shortest distance from Iran to Israel na about 1,000km (620 miles) across Iraq, Syria and Jordan.

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