Orlando nightclub shooter’s father, an FBI informant, brushed off son’s terror comments, agent says

Orlando nightclub shooter’s father, an FBI informant, brushed off son’s terror comments, agent says

(Worthy News) – The Orlando nightclub shooter’s dad – revealed to be an FBI informant – told authorities who were investigating Omar Mateen before the attack that pro-terror comments the would-be gunman made to coworkers were just examples of him “being stupid,” an agent testified Monday.

FBI Special Agent Juvenal Martin, who was on the stand in the terrorism trial of Noor Salman, Omar Mateen’s wife, said Omar’s father, Seddique, had called him while his son was being investigated for the comments in 2006, a decade before the Pulse attack, and was upset.

Martin testified Seddique told him something like “if he had done those things he was being stupid,” the Orlando Sentinel reported. [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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Supreme Court weighs Republican challenge to Maryland electoral map

Supreme Court weighs Republican challenge to Maryland electoral map

(Worthy News) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday considers for the second time in recent months whether to rein in politicians who draw state electoral maps with the aim of entrenching their party in power in a case involving a Maryland congressional district.

The justices heard a similar case on Oct. 3 in which Democratic voters challenged state legislative district boundaries drawn by Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin, and have not yet issued a ruling. On Wednesday, they are set to hear an hour-long argument in a challenge by Republican voters to a U.S. House of Representatives district drawn by Maryland Democrats.

Both cases center on a practice known as partisan gerrymandering that involves manipulating boundaries of legislative districts to benefit one party and diminish another. The Supreme Court for decades has been willing to invalidate state electoral maps due to racial discrimination but never those created just for partisan advantage. [ Source: Reuters (Read More…) ]

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Supreme Court weighs Republican challenge to Maryland electoral map

Supreme Court weighs Republican challenge to Maryland electoral map

(Worthy News) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday considers for the second time in recent months whether to rein in politicians who draw state electoral maps with the aim of entrenching their party in power in a case involving a Maryland congressional district.

The justices heard a similar case on Oct. 3 in which Democratic voters challenged state legislative district boundaries drawn by Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin, and have not yet issued a ruling. On Wednesday, they are set to hear an hour-long argument in a challenge by Republican voters to a U.S. House of Representatives district drawn by Maryland Democrats.

Both cases center on a practice known as partisan gerrymandering that involves manipulating boundaries of legislative districts to benefit one party and diminish another. The Supreme Court for decades has been willing to invalidate state electoral maps due to racial discrimination but never those created just for partisan advantage. [ Source: Reuters (Read More…) ]

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Kremlin vows to respond to diplomatic expulsions

Kremlin vows to respond to diplomatic expulsions

(Worthy News) – The Kremlin says it will respond soon to the recent expulsions of more than 130 Russian diplomats from Western nations.

Monday’s mass expulsions by the United States, European Union nations and some other countries were a show of solidarity for Britain, which blames Russia for poisoning a former Russian intelligence agent in Britain with a military-grade nerve agent. Moscow vehemently denies responsibility.

Asked if Russia is going to react to the expulsions, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday that Russia’s response will follow an that that it will be “timely and will suit the interests of Russia.” [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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Kremlin vows to respond to diplomatic expulsions

Kremlin vows to respond to diplomatic expulsions

(Worthy News) – The Kremlin says it will respond soon to the recent expulsions of more than 130 Russian diplomats from Western nations.

Monday’s mass expulsions by the United States, European Union nations and some other countries were a show of solidarity for Britain, which blames Russia for poisoning a former Russian intelligence agent in Britain with a military-grade nerve agent. Moscow vehemently denies responsibility.

Asked if Russia is going to react to the expulsions, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday that Russia’s response will follow an that that it will be “timely and will suit the interests of Russia.” [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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Kremlin vows to respond to diplomatic expulsions

Kremlin vows to respond to diplomatic expulsions

(Worthy News) – The Kremlin says it will respond soon to the recent expulsions of more than 130 Russian diplomats from Western nations.

Monday’s mass expulsions by the United States, European Union nations and some other countries were a show of solidarity for Britain, which blames Russia for poisoning a former Russian intelligence agent in Britain with a military-grade nerve agent. Moscow vehemently denies responsibility.

Asked if Russia is going to react to the expulsions, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday that Russia’s response will follow an that that it will be “timely and will suit the interests of Russia.” [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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Kremlin vows to respond to diplomatic expulsions

Kremlin vows to respond to diplomatic expulsions

(Worthy News) – The Kremlin says it will respond soon to the recent expulsions of more than 130 Russian diplomats from Western nations.

Monday’s mass expulsions by the United States, European Union nations and some other countries were a show of solidarity for Britain, which blames Russia for poisoning a former Russian intelligence agent in Britain with a military-grade nerve agent. Moscow vehemently denies responsibility.

Asked if Russia is going to react to the expulsions, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday that Russia’s response will follow an that that it will be “timely and will suit the interests of Russia.” [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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States scrambling to avert Obamacare sticker shock after Dems balk at stabilization effort

States scrambling to avert Obamacare sticker shock after Dems balk at stabilization effort

(Worthy News) – Congress failed to tamp down Obamacare premiums in last week’s spending bill, shifting the burden onto states, where governors and legislatures are facing growing pressure — but few good options — to bring down rates before companies finalize their 2019 prices.

Politicians at all levels of government are fearing another round of sticker shock for consumers this fall as insurers jack up prices, blaming both the original 2010 health law and the moves Congress and the Trump administration have made to undercut it in the years since.

Capitol Hill had a chance to lower rates with a stabilization bill Republicans had hoped to attach to last week’s spending package. But Democrats balked, and Congress likely missed its last chance to act before the new rates are set. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

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Iran Shielding Military Facilities in Syria By Building Them Near Russian Assets

Iran Shielding Military Facilities in Syria By Building Them Near Russian Assets

(Worthy News) – According to reports, citing Israeli security officials, Iran is attempting to shield military facilities in Syria from attack by building them in close proximity to Russian assets.

The strategy is based on the assumption that Jerusalem—which has vowed to prevent Tehran from establishing a permanent military foothold across its northern border—will not risk targeting installations adjacent to Russian bases over fear of igniting a confrontation with Moscow.

The construction of the Iranian facilities apparently is being carried out without Russia’s knowledge, in some cases under the guise of residential buildings that in reality are housing Shiite fighters loyal to the Islamic Republic. [ Source: Media Line (Read More…) ]

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Palestinians to protest Friday after Jews sacrifice lambs near Temple Mount

Palestinians to protest Friday after Jews sacrifice lambs near Temple Mount

(Worthy News) – Palestinians across East Jerusalem will hold mass protests on Friday in the wake of a court-approved Passover sacrifice ceremony held by religious Jews close to the Temple Mount on Monday, the leader of the city’s Al-Aqsa Mosque announced on Tuesday.

The Jerusalem District Court gave the go-ahead for the bible-mandated ritual of slaughtering the paschal lamb not on the Temple Mount, the holiest site for Jews, but just below it, in the Davidson complex.

Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, imam of Al-Aqsa — Islam’s third holiest shrine — said, “We will not recognize the court’s decision because it has no right to discuss this subject. The decision harms and provokes the faithful, especially as this Friday marks Land Day,” the Ynet news site reported. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]

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