NEWS SUMMARY AT THIS HOUR-FRIDAY 9/21/2018
(UPDATES AND EDITING, EXPANSION, ETC. THROUGH 730AM EASTERN)
President Trump spoke at a campaign rally for the midterm elections in Las Vegas last night, urging everyone there to vote in November saying: "America is winning again, because we are putting America first again".
Trump urged votes for Republicans saying: "We need to have more Republicans in office".
The President will be at a private fundraising event in Las Vegas this morning and is visiting a VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas.
There was a "restitution hearing" in Las Vegas yesterday in connection with the Bunkerville Standoff case for Todd Engel, convicted in the first trial in May of 2017 and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Engel came to the defense of the Bundy Ranch in Nevada in April 2014 in the face of federal law enforcement assaults on Bundy family members and the presence of federal law enforcement snipers around the home following the seizure of 400 head of cattle by the Bureau of Land Management.
In a later trial of key defendants, evidence proving innocence was uncovered and charges dismissed with prosecutors cited for "gross misconduct" by the judge.
Yesterday, those same prosecutors were able to get 1.6 million dollars of restitution imposed on Todd Engel, a decision denounced by Ammon Bundy as one making Engel 'a slave for life'.
The latest from the lawyer for the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault is that Christine Blasey Ford will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee under "fair' terms.
The committee wants testimony Monday but the legal team assisting Ford is saying she might testify sometime next week, reportedly Thursday but on those terms they describe as "fair" including an assurance of her "safety".
Regarding Kavanaugh's nomination, President Trump said this at the Las Vegas campaign rally last night:
President Trump spoke at a campaign rally for the midterm elections in Las Vegas last night, urging everyone there to vote in November saying: "America is winning again, because we are putting America first again".
Trump urged votes for Republicans saying: "We need to have more Republicans in office".
The President will be at a private fundraising event in Las Vegas this morning and is visiting a VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas.
There was a "restitution hearing" in Las Vegas yesterday in connection with the Bunkerville Standoff case for Todd Engel, convicted in the first trial in May of 2017 and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Engel came to the defense of the Bundy Ranch in Nevada in April 2014 in the face of federal law enforcement assaults on Bundy family members and the presence of federal law enforcement snipers around the home following the seizure of 400 head of cattle by the Bureau of Land Management.
In a later trial of key defendants, evidence proving innocence was uncovered and charges dismissed with prosecutors cited for "gross misconduct" by the judge.
Yesterday, those same prosecutors were able to get 1.6 million dollars of restitution imposed on Todd Engel, a decision denounced by Ammon Bundy as one making Engel 'a slave for life'.
The latest from the lawyer for the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault is that Christine Blasey Ford will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee under "fair' terms.
The committee wants testimony Monday but the legal team assisting Ford is saying she might testify sometime next week, reportedly Thursday but on those terms they describe as "fair" including an assurance of her "safety".
Regarding Kavanaugh's nomination, President Trump said this at the Las Vegas campaign rally last night:
"Brett Kavanaugh, and I'm not saying anything about anybody else, Brett Kavanaugh is one of the finest human beings you will ever have the privilege of knowing or meeting."
Four are dead, three victims and the suspect, in a mass murder incident at a Maryland warehouse. The Harford County Sheriff says 26-year old Snochia Moseley entered a distribution center for the Rite Aid pharmacy chain killing three people and injuring three others. She then killed herself.
Moseley was a temporary employee at the distribution center in Aberdeen, Maryland. The sheriff says she was using a 9mm Glock pistol.
Before he left for Las Vegas yesterday, President Trump authorized additional sanctions against Russia.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says 33 individuals are now added to a Russian sanctions list.
The United States is sanctioning China's military for buying Russian weapons. China recently bought 10 Russian fighter jets and missiles.
The US sanctions apply to the Equipment Development Department of the Chinese military and the man who leads that department, Li Shangfu. US assets of the two are frozen and Americans are prohibited from doing business with them under the sanctions.
China has expressed its anger at the decision, saying the sanctions must be withdrawn or the United States must "bear the consequences'.
Before he left for Las Vegas yesterday, President Trump authorized additional sanctions against Russia.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says 33 individuals are now added to a Russian sanctions list.
The United States is sanctioning China's military for buying Russian weapons. China recently bought 10 Russian fighter jets and missiles.
The US sanctions apply to the Equipment Development Department of the Chinese military and the man who leads that department, Li Shangfu. US assets of the two are frozen and Americans are prohibited from doing business with them under the sanctions.
China has expressed its anger at the decision, saying the sanctions must be withdrawn or the United States must "bear the consequences'.
Russia is conducting military exercises in the eastern Mediterranean Sea shutting down air and sea traffic off the coasts of Syria and Lebanon. The area will remain closed through next Wednesday September 26th.
This is seen as a Russian countermove following the shoot down of a Russian surveillance plane Monday night in Syria by a Syrian missile during an Israeli air attack. Russia says Israel baited Syrian air defenses causing the destruction of the plane and deaths of 15 Russian military personnel.
Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov thanked Americans for offering their condolences for the 15 victims on the Russian military plane. Antonov said they:
Russia has scrambled aircraft 13 times in the past week to intercept foreign aircraft near its borders, according to the Tass News Agency.
Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov thanked Americans for offering their condolences for the 15 victims on the Russian military plane. Antonov said they:
"...gave their lives, protecting the world from terrrorism."
Russia has scrambled aircraft 13 times in the past week to intercept foreign aircraft near its borders, according to the Tass News Agency.
Shades of the Soviet Union in France where opposition politician Marine LePen is being ordered to undergo psychiatric testing.
Marine LePen leads the National Rally party, formerly known as the National Front.
The order is part of a criminal investigation into her for posting images of Islamic State atrocities online.
LePen tweeted pictures of the court order, calling it "crazy".
In the former Soviet Union, the Communist regime would declare opponents of the government insane and confine them to mental health institutions.
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