Breaking: Alabama Senate election: Doug Jones defeats Roy Moore, Fox News projects

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12 December 2017

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Breaking: Alabama Senate election: Doug Jones defeats Roy Moore, Fox News projects | 12 Dec 2017 | Democrat Doug Jones has pulled off a major upset in Alabama by defeating Republican Roy Moore in Tuesday's special election, Fox News has projected, becoming the first Democrat to win election to the Senate from the deeply conservative state in 25 years. The dramatic Democratic upset in deep red Alabama cuts the GOP’s Senate majority from 52 to 51, further dimming Republican hopes of enacting major legislation backed by President Trump. With 91 percent of precincts reporting, Jones was ahead of Moore 49.6 to 48.8 percent.

 

Pakistani Air Force ordered to shoot down US drones | 09 Dec 2017 | Pakistan's Air Force (PAF) commander has reportedly ordered to take down drones violating the country's sovereignty, including that of the U.S. The jabs against America, a key ally, came Thursday in a speech Aman delivered at a ceremony of aviation students gathered in Islamabad. The top military official, Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman, praised Pakistan's air prowess, saying their forces are prepared to defend sovereignty of the country. "We will not allow anyone to violate our airspace," Aman said as cited by The Times of India, adding, that he has ordered the PAF "to shoot down drones, including those of the U.S., if they enter our airspace, violating the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity."

 

Defector says thousands of ISIS fighters were given safe passage from Raqqa in secret U.S.-approved deal | 07 Dec 2017 | A high-level defector from Kurdish-led forces that captured the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State has recanted his account of the city's fall, saying thousands of ISIS fighters - many thousands more than first reported - left under a secret, U.S.-approved deal. Talal Silo, a former commander in the Syrian Democratic Forces, said the SDF arranged to bus all remainingIslamic State militants I-CIA-SIS terrorists out of Raqqa even though it said at the time it was battling diehard foreign jihadists in the city. U.S. officials described Silo's comments as "false and contrived" [LOL] but a security official in Turkey, where Silo defected three weeks ago, gave a similar account of Islamic State's defeat in its Syrian stronghold. Silo was the SDF spokesman and one of the officials who told the media in mid-October - when the deal was reached - that fewer than 300 fighters left Raqqa with their families while others would continue to fight.

 

Japan, U.S., South Korea to hold missile tracking drill amid North Korea crisis | 10 Dec 2017 | The United States, Japan and South Korea will hold two days of missile tracking drills starting on Monday, Japan's Maritime Self-Defence Force said, as tensions rise in the region. The United States and South Korea conducted large-scale military drills last week, which the North said made the outbreak of war "an established fact". This week's exercises will be the sixth drills sharing information in tracking ballistic missiles [provoking war] among the three nations, the defense force said.

 

'US govt equates American people to enemy when it hides troops' whereabouts' - Ron Paul | 12 Dec 2017 | The Pentagon listing the location of some 44,000 military personnel as "unknown," while citing secrecy reasons to protect them from the "enemy," effectively means that the US public falls into that category, former US Congressman Ron Paul told RT. Lack of accountability on the whereabouts of the US troops was not very surprising, Paul believes, as it had become a "routine thing" over the past years...Apart from the Constitution, there's the War Powers Resolution, adopted after the Vietnam War clearly states that the US government "must report where the troops are," Paul added. Despite that, the locations of some 44,000 of troops were simply reported as "unknown."

 

Pentagon to allow transgender people to enlist in military January 1 | 11 Dec 2017 | The Pentagon is allowing transgender people to enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1, despite President Donald Trump's opposition. The new policy reflects growing legal pressure on the issue, and the difficult hurdles the federal government would have to cross to enforce Trump's demand to ban transgender individuals from the military. Maj. David Eastburn, a Pentagon spokesman, says the enlistment of transgender recruits will start Jan. 1 and go on amid the legal battles. The Defense Department also is studying the issue.

 

Police: Suspect in NYC subway passage attack 'ISIS-inspired' --Suspect made the bomb in his apartment - person briefed on the probe | 11 Dec 2017 | An attempted suicide bomber who set off a rush-hour explosion at the nation's busiest bus terminal is a Bangladeshi national living in Brooklyn who was inspired by ISIS, law enforcement officials said. The suspect in Monday morning's blast at Port Authority in midtown Manhattan was identified as Akayed Ullah, 27, according to New York Police Commissioner James O'Neill. Ullah strapped a pipe bomb to his body with Velcro and zip ties, police said. It detonated earlier than intended, sources told the New York Post. Ullah lived in Brooklyn, but he immigrated from Bangladesh nearly seven years ago, federal law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox News.

 

Brooklyn-based Bangladeshi national in a suicide vest caused rush-hour panic in Manhattan when his 'revenge' pipe bomb exploded too early --A pipe bomb prematurely went off in an underground tunnel linking the Times Square subway station and the Port Authority bus terminal Monday morning around 7:20am --Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said the suspect 'supposedly was setting the device off in the name of ISIS' and that it was 'definitely a terrorist attack, definitely intended' --The FDNY says three other people reported to local hospitals for minor injuries | 11 Dec 2017 | A Bangladeshi national in his 20s has been taken into custody with serious injuries after a pipe bomb he was carrying malfunctioned and exploded prematurely inside a Midtown Manhattan subway station Monday morning. It was the second time in two months that New York City was the target of a terrorist attack, and the first since President Trump sparked Muslim outrage around the world last week by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The explosion happened around 7:20am, in an underground tunnel linking the Port Authority Bus Terminal to Times Square. The underground tunnel is a major thoroughfare for workers during the morning rush hour. The suspect, identified as 27-year-old Akayed Ullah, was walking east towards Times Square when a 'low-tech' explosive attached to his body with Velcro and zip ties partially exploded. Another five-inch metal pipe bomb was found on his person.

 

Subway bomber wounds self, three victims in New York | 11 Dec 2017 | A Bangladeshi man set off a homemade pipe bomb strapped to his body in a crowded New York City commuter hub during the morning rush hour on Monday, officials said, immediately calling it an attempted terrorist attack...Investigators told Reuters they believe the attack in midtown Manhattan was intended to be a suicide bombing. The blast, which occurred around 7 a.m. (1200 GMT) in a busy underground passageway between the subway station underneath the Port Authority Bus Terminal and the Times Square subway station, sent commuters fleeing for the exits and police officers rushing to the scene, as officials scrambled to reroute trains and shut down streets. Three people, including a police officer, suffered minor injuries.

 

Explosive detonates near New York City's Times Square in 'attempted terrorist attack,' suspect in custody | 11 Dec 2017 | A suspect is in custody today after allegedly detonating a small explosive device in an "attempted terrorist attack" in the New York City subway system, sending commuters scrambling to evacuate a major transit hub just blocks from Times Square, city officials said. The explosion occurred in an underground passageway near the Port Authority Bus Terminal and, despite the rush-hour crowds, only three people suffered minor injuries, officials said. The 27-year-old suspect, Akayed Ullah, is in the hospital, badly injured in the arm and torso from the device that went off in his arms, sources said. Ullah, originally from Bangladesh, told authorities he is self-inspired from ISIS online propaganda, sources said.

 

Speakers to broadcast terror warning in event of Melbourne city attack | 10 Dec 2017 | Police warnings to move, leave or stay would be broadcast at more than 90 city sites in the event of a terrorist or Bourke St-style attack. Already, 65 sets of loudspeakers are in place at sites including Federation Square, Flinders St station and the Bourke St Mall. A test message and "wailing" standard emergency warning signal -- alerting people that an emergency announcement is pending -- will be transmitted over speakers installed at the State Library on December 28. It comes as police warn there is an increased risk of terrorism over the festive season.

 

In texts, FBI agents on Mueller's Russia probe team called Trump an 'idiot' and 'loathsome human' among other insults | 12 Dec 2017 | Two FBI agents assigned to the investigation into alleged collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia exchanged text messages referring to the future president as an "idiot," according to copies of messages turned over to Congress Tuesday night by the Justice Department. Special Counsel Robert Mueller removed one of the agents, Peter Strzok, from the Russia probe "immediately" after learning of the texts in late July, the department said in a letter to lawmakers. The other agent, Lisa Page, had already ended her assignment to Mueller's office.

 

Wife of demoted DOJ official worked for firm behind anti-Trump dossier | 11 Dec 2017 | A senior Justice Department official demoted last week for concealing his meetings with the men behind the anti-Trump "dossier" had even closer ties to Fusion GPS, the firm responsible for the incendiary document, than have been disclosed, Fox News has confirmed: The official's wife worked for Fusion GPS during the 2016 election. Contacted by Fox News, investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) confirmed that Nellie H. Ohr, wife of the demoted official, Bruce G. Ohr, worked for the opposition research firm last year. The precise nature of Mrs. Ohr's duties -- including whether she worked on the dossier -- remains unclear but a review of her published works available online reveals Mrs. Ohr has written extensively on Russia-related subjects. HPSCI staff confirmed to Fox News that she was paid by Fusion GPS through the summer and fall of 2016. Fusion GPS has attracted scrutiny because Republican lawmakers have spent the better part of this year investigating whether the dossier, which was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, served as the basis for the Justice Department and the FBI to obtain FISA surveillance last year on a Trump campaign adviser named Carter Page.

 

Media mistakes intensify debate over fake news | 10 Dec 2017 | Media outlets have remained under fire for several days amid a debate over journalism in an age when President Trump regularly attacks media as "fake news." ...Several news organizations, including two top cable networks, were recently forced to issue corrections to articles related to the investigation into Russia's [alleged] election meddling and potential ties between Trump campaign staff members and the Kremlin. CNN on Friday corrected a story that originally said Trump Jr. received an email from WikiLeaks presenting hacked documents with Democratic information on Sept. 4, before WikiLeaks made them public. The cable news [sic] outletcorrected the story retracted the lie, clarifying that Trump Jr. received the email on Sept. 14, after WikiLeaks had already published the documents.

 

Fordham University Republicans wearing MAGA hats are kicked out of campus coffee shop for violating 'safe space' | 10 Dec 2017 | (Bronx, NY) Members of Fordham University College Republicans appear to have [reported] a student-run coffee shop when they went with Make America Great Again hats to 'test the unwritten rule' of conservative discrimination. Rodrigue's Coffee House's 'President' can be seen on video telling the group members that they needed to leave the shop on the Bronx campus in five minutes. 'This says nothing about supporting political identities. This says nothing about politics and you have no right to do this' a member of the College Republicans tells the President after she tells them that they need to leave, in a video posted Friday. You are threatening the integrity of our club. This is a community standard--you are wearing hats that completely violate safe space policy,' [LOLOL!] the Coffee shop boss added. 'You have to take it off or you have to go.'

 

Alabama Supreme Court Okays Destruction of Digital Voting Records | 12 Dec 2017 | Alabama's special election [sic] for Jeff Sessions's vacated Senate seat is underway today, but state courts are still battling over whether or not digital records from the vote should be preserved in case of a recount or a hack. On Monday, a judge ordered local election officials to save digital images of ballots, AL.comreports. However, his decision was quickly reversed by the Alabama Supreme Court, which stayed his order Monday evening.

 

Polls close in Alabama Senate election | 12 Dec 2017 | Update: 8:12 p.m. ET - High turnout tonight--The Alabama Secretary of State office confirmed to ABC News that the turnout is currently trending at 25 percent, higher than the 18-20 percent it had forecasted. This far exceeds turnout in the recent races here. Polls have closed in the Alabama special election to fill U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions's seat in the U.S. Senate. The Senate race has been thrust into the national spotlight after allegations of sexual misconduct against the Republican nominee, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. The state has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1992, but Moore is locked in a tight race with his Democratic opponent, Doug Jones, a former U.S. attorney.

 

Roy Moore calls accuser a liar after she admits she added notes to his yearbook inscription | 08 Dec 2017 | U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama stepped up his attacks Friday on the integrity of a woman who says that he sexually assaulted her when she was a 16-year-old waitress at a restaurant where he often dined when he was a prosecutor in his 30s. The woman, Beverly Young Nelson, conceded in an ABC News interview that an inscription Moore wrote in her high school yearbook included notes she added under his signature. Moore, whose campaign already had suggested his signature in the yearbook had been forged, said Nelson's remarks to ABC proved she was lying. "Let's count how many national outlets will ignore the fact that she admits to lying," Moore wrote on Twitter.

 

Santa Barbara under threat from wildfire as massive inferno spreads and thousands flee under new evacuation orders --The massive Thomas Fire has spread to 173,000 acres and could be the among worst in California's history | 10 Dec 2017 | A flare-up on the western edge of Southern California's largest and most destructive [Direct Energy Weapon-created?] wildfire sent residents fleeing Sunday, as wind-fanned flames churned through canyons and down hillsides toward coastal towns. The so-called Thomas Fire is only 15 percent contained, now threatening the city of Santa Barbara and the nearby coastal town of Carpinteria, and is on track to become one of the worst wildfires in California history. It has already destroyed 583 structures and scorched 173,000 acres, the authorities say...The new evacuation zone extends within two miles of the Santa Barbara Zoo.

  

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