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The 23-year-old man linked to the deadly bombings that rocked Austin, Texas, and surrounding areas over the past month had a “target list” of future locations he wanted to strike, the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security said Thursday.
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said that authorities have discovered that Mark Anthony Conditt, 23, had a “target list of future targets” including residences and addresses discovered by authorities.
“I think he had pulled these addresses, these were his future targets. It was a target list.” he said on “America’s Newsroom.”
McCaul added that based on the data authorities were able to retrieve from Conditt, they were able to go the homes and “clear them” from any suspicious packages. [Read More]
DC students at Thurgood Marshall joining with Parkland students for #NeverAgain rally (WJLA)
Southeast Washington’s Thurgood Marshall Academy is now teaming up with students from Parkland, Florida.
On Thursday morning, they have come together at Thurgood Marshall Academy for a #NeverAgain rally against gun violence, in advance of Saturday’s March For Our Lives. Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School students Emma Gonzalez, Cameron Kasky, Alex Wind, Ryan Deitsch, Jackie Corin, David Hogg and alumni Matt Deitsch were all scheduled to be in attendance. [Read More]
Report finds death rates rise for white, middle-class Virginians (Richmond.com)
Death rates are rising for white, middle-class Virginians living in affluent areas, a finding that surprised a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher who expected to see that trend confined to rural, economically stressed regions of the state.
Life expectancy rates have been dropping for several years in the U.S., a phenomenon not seen in other industrialized nations. Researchers looking at the trends have found that death rates for younger, white Americans are rising nationwide and have been studying contributing factors.
A team that previously looked closely at mortality rates in California and Missouri — where rates increased only in poorer and more rural regions — found a different landscape in Virginia: The rise in mortality rates here also is occurring in metro and suburban areas. [Read More]
Key members of the media continue to push a narrative that President Trump is anti-woman, even as they ignore the several women who hold powerful and high-profile roles in his administration.
After Trump’s announcement last week that he was nominating Gina Haspel as the next CIA director, which would be the first time a woman led the agency, the New York Times covered it with the headline, “Gina Haspel, Trump’s Choice for C.I.A., Played Role in Torture Program.”
That’s a far cry from 2013, when the Times covered then-President Barack Obama’s appointment of Julia Pierson to the Secret Service, another first for a woman. “First Woman Is Chosen to Lead Secret Service,” read the paper’s headline for that announcement. [Read More]
Septuagenarian smackdown? Trump, Biden trade fighting words (Yahoo)
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are in a rhetorical smackdown over who could clean the other’s clock in a brawl.
Trump, reacting to comments Biden made about him earlier in the week at an anti-sexual assault rally, tweeted Thursday: “Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Joe!”
At the University of Miami on Tuesday, Biden cited lewd comments the Republican president made in a 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape about grabbing women without their permission. [Read More]
University to host ‘whiteness in decline’ event (The College Fix)
A lecture scheduled for next month at Columbia College in Chicago will examine the topic of “whiteness in decline” and look at how whites’ current social position has led to a “resurgence of white supremacy.”
The lecture, titled “Whiteness in Decline: The Emotional Politics of White Nationalist Resurgence,” will take place April 12 and include a presentation from professor Paula Ioanide of Ithaca College in New York.
Ioanide’s remarks will touch on the “imagined and real losses in entitlements white Americans have come to expect and the ways these connect to the resurgence of white nationalism,” according to an online description of the event. [Read More]
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