Texas Man Arrested for Threatening to Kill Nancy Pelosi
A North Texas man was charged Thursday with threatening to shoot and kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats for being part of a “satanic cult.”
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Police Shooting
The admission of testimony from a police officer who fatally shot Feras Morad, an unarmed college student, was not prejudicial, the Ninth Circuit ruled. The officer testified that he could hear Morad making threatening statements on an eyewitness video and also testified that he had written in his police report that he had heard the student say, “I’m coming to get you.”
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Connecticut Man Charged With Threatening to Kill Rep. Adam Schiff
A Connecticut man has been arrested on charges of making a death threat against California Congressman Adam Schiff in an email in which he invited the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to a “Measure your Coffin day.”
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Previously convicted felon Francisco Alvarado Felix, 33, of Hesperia, Calif., was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for threatening a restaurant manager with an assault rifle after employees refused to sell him alcohol, federal prosecutors said.
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A Florida appeals court ruled that murder charges should have been dismissed against a defendant who shot and killed a man who had instigated a car chase that ended in a parking lot and began banging on the window of the defendant’s truck while yelling threats. The defendant is entitled to “Stand Your Ground” immunity.
Read moreSnapchat Threat
A Florida appeals court ruled against a defendant seeking to dismiss a charge of sending a written threat to kill or injure a child. The defendant sent a Snapchat photo to his North Marion High School classmate depicting a scoped AR-15 rifle with the caption, “Show and Tell @NM on Monday.” The picture was sent two weeks after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
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Kentucky Students in Viral Encounter Sue Over Tweets From Writers
Several Kentucky Catholic school students involved in last year’s videotaped confrontation with a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial filed a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and others, claiming their tweets about the incident sparked harassment and threats.
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Dollar General Must Recognize Unionization of Missouri Store, Eighth Circuit Rules
Dollar General failed to show an employee who it claims threatened fellow co-workers leading up to a union ratification vote was acting as an agent of the union, the Eighth Circuit ruled Thursday.
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Philippines Says It Will Boot Out US Troops
The Philippines notified the United States on Tuesday it would end a major security pact allowing U.S. forces to train in the country, in the most serious threat under President Rodrigo Duterte to their 69-year treaty alliance.
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A Marine veteran who posted on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Facebook page that he would “pay an ISIS terrorist with a nuke” to “burn the v.a. at 10 million degrees Fahrenheit,” was properly convicted of terroristic threatening, an appeals court in Arkansas ruled, finding that it was reasonable for the VA to take the statement and other parts of the post as a true threat.
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Stormy Daniels Lobbies Ninth Circuit to Revive Suit Against Trump
An attorney for President Donald Trump told a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday adult film star Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against the president was an attempt to silence him after he questioned her story of being threatened to keep quiet about an alleged affair between them.
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A class action claims Alaska Airlines threatened employees who dare to speak about alleged “fume events,” when cabin air is contaminated due to improper repairs or servicing after the merger with nonparty Virgin Air, in Alameda County Superior Court.
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House Foreign Affairs Presses State Dep’t on Yovanovitch’s Safety
Calling it “profoundly alarming” that Marie Yovanovitch, the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, was the subject of threatening text messages, a lawmaker pressed the State Department on Wednesday for underlying documents.
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Lithuania Blasted for Turning Blind Eye to Anti-LGBT Facebook Posts
The refusal of Lithuanian authorities to prosecute online threats made against two gay men after a photo of them kissing amounts to a human rights violation, the European Court of Human Rights held Tuesday.
Read moreDefense Secretary Saw No Evidence of US Embassy Threat by Iran
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday that he did not see evidence of four American embassies being threatened by Iran, contradicting President Trump’s justification last week for ordering a drone attack that killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani.
Read moreOregon Legislature
A federal court in Oregon dismissed Republican state Senator Brian Boquist’s claims against other state legislators relating to his temporary bar from the state Capitol. After he and other Republicans walked out of a vote and the governor ordered state police to arrest them and bring them back, Boquist made threatening statements, including a warning that the police should “send bachelors and come heavily armed.”
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A Texas trial court properly required certain Facebook posts at the center of a defamation case to be deleted as the litigation continues, an appeals court in the state ruled. The posts claimed that the plaintiff is a “Viet Cong spy living among the Vietnamese-American refugee population” and listed her address. The woman was threatened with violence and feared for her and her children’s safety.
Read morePolice Immune from Abortion Protester’s Arrest Claims
Four police officers who arrested an anti-abortion protester over a perceived bomb threat are entitled to qualified immunity, the Sixth Circuit ruled Friday.
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Colorado Man Pleads Not Guilty in Plot to Bomb Synagogue
A Colorado man accused of plotting to bomb a synagogue pleaded not guilty Monday to three charges handed down by a federal grand jury.
Read moreSouth LA Teen Arrested Over Threat of Mass School Shooting
A 13-year-old student who threatened to carry out a shooting at his South Los Angeles middle school had a list with the names of students and staff, a hand-drawn map of his school, and an AR-15 assault rifle at his home when he was arrested, police said Friday.
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