[CNN] Authorities have identified the suspect accused of ramming a vehicle through an entrance gate at the FBI’s Atlanta field office on Monday afternoon.
Ervin Lee Bolling was arrested and charged with interference with government property, Dekalb County Police spokesperson Officer Elise Wells said.
He was also charged in federal court Tuesday with destruction of government property, according to a criminal complaint.
The suspect is a Navy veteran from South Carolina, according to two law enforcement sources. He was arrested after trying to enter the facility.
Bolling crashed into a "final denial barrier" — a piece of steel that goes flat as each authorized car enters the secured area and then lifts back up again — at the gate where employees enter, according to an affidavit in support of the complaint.
Bolling then tried to follow an FBI special agent on foot into the parking lot, the affidavit states. The special agent and two others, who had been trying to leave, ordered Bolling to stay seated on a curb, but he stood up and tried to walk farther onto the property.
The court document says Bolling resisted when the agents tried to detain him and he was eventually taken into custody. He was identified through a passport he was carrying. Passport?
The motive of Monday’s incident remains unclear. The suspect in Monday’s incident did not say anything while being taken into custody, a law enforcement official told CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... Bolling was transported from the FBI building to the hospital for "medical care and evaluation," according to the court documents. Bomb technicians cleared the vehicle, a federal law enforcement official said.
The suspect remains in the hospital, Wells told CNN on Tuesday morning. It was not clear whether Bolling had an attorney; none is listed in his federal court records.
The incident comes about two weeks after the FBI Atlanta field office conducted a tabletop exercise with personnel to test procedures for responding to an unauthorized entry, a law enforcement source who is familiar with the bureau’s security planning told CNN.
The FBI has ramped up security in recent years amid a wave of threats to personnel, and following the 2022 attempted breach of an FBI field office in Cincinnati.
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The Cincinnati breach and subject being eliminated story was out of the headlines quickly.
The fbi will continue to be the object of scorn come November.
[AyPee] An abducted 15-year-old girl and her father — a fugitive wanted in the death of the teen’s mother — were both killed amid a shootout with law enforcement Tuesday on a highway in California’s high desert, authorities said.
San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus did not specify whether Savannah Graziano was shot by the responding deputies or her father. Anthony John Graziano, 45, had allegedly killed his estranged wife the day before and abducted their daughter.
Investigators had issued an Amber Alert after Graziano fled. He was described as armed and dangerous.
A 911 caller reported seeing the suspect’s Nissan Frontier around Barstow on Tuesday, according the sheriff’s department. Deputies located the pickup truck and chased it on the highway for around 45 miles (70 kilometers).
Throughout the chase, Graziano — and possibly his daughter as well — was “constantly shooting back at the deputies” through the truck’s rear window, Dicus said.
The shooter put several rounds through a patrol car’s windshield and later disabled a second pursuing vehicle, the sheriff said.
The pickup truck became disabled on the shoulder of a highway in the city of Hesperia, and the firefight ensued.
Dicus said the girl was wearing tactical gear as she exited a truck’s passenger side and ran toward the sheriff’s deputies. She fell to the ground amid the gunfire. The deputies did not initially realize it was the girl who was running toward them, Dicus said, because she was wearing a helmet and a military-style vest that can hold armored plates.
She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead shortly before noon.
Her father was found in the driver’s seat and pronounced dead at the scene. A rifle was found inside the car.
One deputy was injured by shrapnel during the firefight, Dicus said.
Graziano allegedly killed Tracy Martinez, 45, on Monday morning in a domestic violence event in the city of Fontana, near San Bernardino, according to Fontana police Sgt. Chris Surgent.
Family members told investigators that the couple had been going through a divorce. Martinez was rushed to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Fontana is about 35 miles (55 kilometers) south of Hesperia, on the other side of the in San Gabriel Mountains.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A tragedy of errors. Generally, until one sees the decline over time in someone one knows well, it’s hard to recognize the pattern in the behaviours.
Carl Grant died six months after his spinal cord was wrecked by police body slam
Georgia dementia patient got confused and drove to Birmingham, Alabama
Vincent Larry pushed him down stairs at stranger's house, slammed him in ER
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I agree, very sad. But. I hit 75 recently. I was an 11B4P in RVN from 68 through 70. He was 68. The math doesn't make sense to me. Can anyone help me here?
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Several phone screens down from the misleading headline: Grant died almost six months later on July 24, 2020, aged 69.
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If he were born in 1956, and enlisted at age 18, he would have had to have been in Vietnam in 74 or 75. That's pretty late in the conflict. Who knows Whiskey Mike.
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It is remotely possible. I'm 66. Saigon fell when I was a senior in high school. Remember it well. Two adzwhole classmates (Karl and Fritz IKYN) paraded a VC (they said) flag through the halls.
[NYPost] Adidas has barred German fans from customizing soccer jerseys with the number 44 after concerns that the figures resembled the World War II-era Nazi SS symbol.
The German Football Association’s font used on the customizable jerseys on Adidas’ website makes the digit "44" look like the two lightning bolt-like designs featured in the flag of the Schutzstaffel, more commonly known as the SS — the major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... German historian Michael König drew attention to the shirt’s dubious design on X over the weekend.
An earthquake rocked the entire island of Taiwan early Wednesday, collapsing buildings in a southern city and sparking a brief tsunami warning for southern Japanese islands.
Video and images on social media showed buildings shaken off their foundations. A five-story building in lightly populated Hualien appeared heavily damaged, collapsing its first floor and leaving the rest leaning at a 45-degree angle.
In the capital, Taipei, tiles fell from older buildings and within some newer office complexes.
The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake at a 7.5 while Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring agency gave the magnitude as 7.7 from 7.5 earlier. The effects of the earthquake were felt as far away as Kinmen, a Taiwanese-controlled island off the coast of China, said Wu Chien-fu, the head of Taiwan's earthquake monitoring bureau.
A tsunami warning was issued for coastal areas of southwestern Japan's Miyakojima and Yaeyama regions and the main island of Okinawa, Japanese public broadcaster NHK World reported. Waves had reached some areas and were more than 9 feet high.
Figures regarding casualties have not been released. Train service across the island of 23 million people was suspended. In the capital, Taipei, children were seen going to school and the morning commute appeared normal.
[FoxNews] The 2 different broods of cicadas have not risen from the ground simultaneously since Thomas Jefferson was president.
Billions, if not trillions, of two groups of noisy flying insects are expected to emerge from the underground in 17 U.S. states in April in a rare natural phenomenon not seen since 1803.
The insects, known as cicadas, are set to spring up and engage in a frantic mating frenzy lasting several weeks before they will all eventually die near trees.
But that’s not before they lay eggs on forest floors and the cycle of life begins anew.
It will be the first time in 221 years that two types of cicadas -- brood XIX and XIII-- have risen from the ground at the same time, back when Thomas Jefferson was president, and it is not expected to happen again until 2244.
The one to two-inch-long bugs possess sturdy bodies, bulging compounded red eyes and membranous wings with a three-inch wingspan.
But don't be alarmed, cicadas are not harmful to humans, pets, household gardens, or crops, the Environmental Protection Agency says. In fact, they are a valuable food source for birds and mammals. Cicadas can aerate lawns and improve water filtration into the ground while they add nutrients to the soil as they decompose.
Most cicada species come out every year, but in the United States, there are two periodical broods of cicadas that stay underground for either 13 years or 17 years.
"The co-emergence of any two broods of different cycles is rare, because the cycles are both prime numbers," John Cooley, a cicada expert at UConn told Live Science.
"Any given 13 and 17-year broods will only co-emerge once every 13 x 17 = 221 years."
Brood XIII cicadas appear on a 17-year cycle, and are restricted mostly to northern Illinois, eastern Iowa, southern Wisconsin and a few counties in extreme northwestern Indiana, according to entomologist Floyd Shockley of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington.
Brood XIX emerges on a slightly shorter 13-year cycle, and are widely distributed from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia - a total of 15 states, according to Shockley. The two broods together span parts of 17 states.
There’s a cute little map of brood distributions that can be seen in the Reader view, even if you didn’t sign up with the website, dear Reader.
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[FoxNews] The Texas Senate Committee on Education is expected to hold a hearing in May probing university officials on how they are ensuring compliance with state law banning DEI.
What odds what they discover instead is how very hard the university is trying to work around the new law?
The University of Texas at Austin fired dozens of employees who worked in their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs to comply with a new state law, according to a report.
University of Texas at Austin President Jay Hartzell announced Tuesday the school’s Division of Campus and Community Engagement is being dissolved and its programs and funding transferred to other divisions.
The announcement comes as the university works to comply with a new Texas law that came into effect Jan. 1, which effectively dissolved DEI institutions at public colleges and universities throughout the state.
The Austin American-Statesman reported that a person with knowledge about the situation said 60 positions that were related to DEI work were eliminated at UT-Austin.
The law mandates that all governing boards of public colleges and universities ensure that their institutions prohibit the establishment and maintenance of a DEI office and the issue of "DEI Statements." In addition, hiring practices and training are no longer able to use DEI statements.
"I recognize that strong feelings have surrounded SB 17 from the beginning and will shape many Longhorns’ perceptions of these measures," Hartzell wrote in reference to the new law. "It is also important that this continues to be a welcoming, supportive community for all."
In the message, Hartzell said student-facing jobs would remain throughout the rest of the semester and that laid-off employees could apply for other positions at the university.
So they’ll still be on the payroll AND they’ll be angry? Interesting times, of a certainty.
The firings came after state Sen. Brandon Creighton, R., outlined expectations on how universities will comply with the state law. He wrote a letter expressing the serious nature of the bill, saying that the measure "mandates a fundamental shift in the operation of our higher education institutions." He added that universities are expected to facilitate a "merit-based environment."
Furthermore, he explained that the Texas Senate Committee on Education is expected to hold a hearing in May, probing chancellors and "general counselors" of higher education institutions to show how their universities are complying with the law. If universities fail to comply with the state law, they could lose funding, Creighton warned.
Among 5 specific questions on compliance, university spokespeople are expected to explain, "How has your institution ensured that there are no DEI offices or officers on campus, or no individuals or organizations performing the duties of a DEI office or officer?"
Cultural graduations were another casualty of the effect of the law, prompting outrage from some students.
When the university’s Multicultural Engagement Center (MEC) was closed in compliance with the state’s law, Black Graduation, Latinx Graduation, and GraduAsian ceremonies were impacted as a result.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, introduced a bill to freeze federal funding to colleges and universities that force students to sign or make statements on DEI.
The University of Florida fired all its DEI employees in compliance with state law last week.
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Cultural graduations were another casualty of the effect of the law, prompting outrage from some students.
When the university’s Multicultural Engagement Center (MEC) was closed in compliance with the state’s law, Black Graduation, Latinx Graduation, and GraduAsian ceremonies were impacted as a result.
Dems LOVE segregation
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Sanity.
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University of Texas at Austin finance professor Richard Lowery has annoyed the university’s administration by publicly criticizing its embrace of diversity, equity, and inclusion and suggesting that administrators exploit their positions for their children’s admission.
Lowery’s crusade did not go unnoticed: Several university administrators — and the university president, Jay Hartzell — responded with a “campaign to silence” the professor, which included threatening his job, salary, professional affiliations, and research opportunities, according to a lawsuit Lowery filed against the administrators.
Lowery embraces the fact that his views are unpopular on campus. His bio on his now-private Twitter account reads: “All opinions are mine and almost certainly diametrically opposed to those of my employer.”
Lowery became unpopular on campus by criticizing the UT Austin’s sprawling DEI bureaucracy, which costs $13 million annually in salaries alone. The UT Austin “Faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Strategic Plan” requires that “all members of faculty search committees must participate in diverse hiring training” and invests $3 million over four years to support “recruitment and hiring of faculty contributing to diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
The focus on DEI is exemplified by a UT Austin research program that offers a voluntary four-week study for white four- and five-year-old children and their white caregivers to learn about “anti-Black racism.” Lowery criticized the project in an op-ed for the College Fix, writing, “Imagine if such training were to be focused only on black preschool-aged children, a subset the researchers deemed deficient in patriotism.”
In response to Lowery’s public criticism of the university, Hartzell and several senior administrators pressured his supervisor at the Salem Center — a research center at the business school of UT Austin — to discipline him, according to the lawsuit. (While he likely couldn’t be fired from his tenured position as a professor, Lowery’s role at the Salem Center came with a $20,000-a-year stipend and is renewed annually.)
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But Hispanic ignores the Brazilians, magpie, who descend from Portugal, not Spain. ;-)
Linguistically, of course, the masculine ending of Latino includes Latin females as well. Only the feminine Latina is exclusive to that s3x. But Heaven forbid the self-righteous who insist on changing the entire language to meet their particular peeves should actually learn something about the subject.
[AFRICANEWS] South Africa’s parliamentary speaker faces imminent arrest over corruption charges after a court on Tuesday dismissed her bid to block police and prosecutors from arresting her.
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, who is a senior member of the ruling African National Congress party, is accused of receiving bribes from a defense contractor while she was defense minister.
According to prosecutors, she received 11 payments totaling $135,000 between December 2016 and July 2019. She sought another bribe of $105,000 but that wasn’t paid, prosecutors said.
Opposition politicians have called for her to step down from her position as speaker over the allegations.
Mapisa-Nqakula last week launched an urgent court bid to block her arrest, but a judge at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria dismissed her application on Tuesday.
Speaking to news hounds after the judgment was delivered, National Prosecuting Authority front man Mthunzi Mhaga did not say when the arrest would be made but confirmed the judgement paved the way for it to occur.
"Obviously the wheels of justice will now be in motion, as we were listening to the judgment, which was well reasoned," Mhaga said.
"We have always maintained that this is unprecedented and it was unnecessary for us to be brought to court. We have always maintained that the process of arrest will be done seamlessly," he added.
Before launching her court bid, Mapisa-Nqakula was told by prosecutors she should turn herself in to authorities for processing and to appear before a judge.
Mapisa-Nqakula is the latest African National Congress leader to face corruption allegations as the party prepares to fight tough national elections this year.
Recent polls suggest the party could receive less than 50% of electoral support for the first since time it came into power in 1994.
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[AFRICANEWS] Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... inaugurated Bassirou Diomaye Faye as its new president on Tuesday, completing the previously little-known opposition figure's dramatic ascent from prison to the palace in recent weeks.
Faye was released from prison less than two weeks before the March 24 election, along with popular opposition figure and mentor Ousmane Sonko, following a political amnesty announced by outgoing President Macky Sall. It is the former tax inspector's first time in elected office.
"It’s the culmination of a long struggle for democracy and the rule of law," said Aissata Sagna, a 39-year-old factory worker who worked on Faye's campaign. "This is a day of celebration for us, even if we have lost young people killed during the demonstrations."
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[Regnum] A fire that broke out on April 2 in a nightclub located in the basement of a 16-story building in Istanbul led to the death of 29 people, one victim is in serious condition, Turkish TV channel TRT reported, citing data from the city governor's office.
According to journalists, the incident occurred in the Gairettepe area when repair work was being carried out in the basement. 86 rescuers took part in extinguishing the fire, and 31 units of special equipment arrived at the scene.
The fire was reportedly extinguished quickly, and the governor's office announced that an investigation into the cause of the fire had begun. Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikay reported the tragedy to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The head of state expressed condolences over the loss of life.
As Regnum reported, on March 3, an explosion occurred on a gas pipeline in Istanbul, after which a fire started. Rescuers dealt with the fire in 15 minutes. According to preliminary data, the incident occurred due to a short circuit in the electrical cables running near the underground part of the gas pipeline.
In November 2023, a business center caught fire in the Turkish city of Bursa after a lightning strike. The entire building burned down despite the fact that 100 people and 33 fire engines took part in extinguishing the fire.
[Daily Caller] Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz expanded on why he might not vote for President Joe Biden in the November election on Tuesday, saying how the Democratic leader handles the Israel-Hamas war will be a determining factor.
The Biden administration abstained in the UN Security Council, which allowed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza to pass on March 25. Dershowitz, who said he has voted for a Democrat in every presidential election since 1960, warned that the Biden campaign’s effort to win the battleground state of Florida could fall short because of its high Jewish population who are concerned about how the administration is addressing the Israel-Hamas war.
"You’re not going to win Florida if you don’t support Israel," Dershowitz said during his podcast, which was slated to discuss the expansion of a gag order on former President Donald Trump imposed by New York judge Juan Merchan that drew criticism from legal experts. "If you think you’re gonna lose Michigan because of 200,000 or so Muslims or Arabs, that’s nothing compared to what’s gonna happen in Florida, where there’s so many pro-Israel voters, so many Jewish voters, indeed, so many Israeli voters."
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I'm sure the Party is worried. You'll still vote for them whether you sit it out or not. That's how the game now works. It's all kabuki theater to keep the proles sedated.
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Dersh has a good racket going. He needs to thread the waters of self marketing. I suspect Puff’s “ ongoing investigation” is a better example of what happens when a Driver tries to leave the plantation.
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she admitted abortion rights was now her single issue
Someone should set up a fund that people like Mrs. Bobby could donate to. It would buy bus/airplane tickets to unlimited-abortion states for people who can’t get them at home. This avoids fighting unwinnable political battles at home, while ensuring that those who want abortions are able to get them. And has the added benefit of a “tourism” income stream for states rapidly losing income-earning residents, not to mention employment for people to check that the applicants are actually physically pregnant, not just identifying as pregnant to get a free trip.
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Like most people, irish rage boy, he knows a great deal about his areas of expertise, and unthinkingly accepts the common assumptions of his milieu about everything else.
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When light conditions are right, the satellites appear in a train as they parade across the night sky. The satellites are sometimes visible in the first few minutes after sundown and before sunrise when the sun is below the horizon, but the satellites are high enough to reflect direct sunlight.
And perhaps during the total eclipse next Monday?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
