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The Latest: Woman killed in Philadelphia rampage is ID'd

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Latest on the Friday overnight shooting rampage in West Philadelphia (all times local):

2:35 p.m.

Authorities have identified a woman killed during a shooting rampage in Philadelphia as the 25-year-old daughter of Ethiopian immigrants.

Police say Sara Salih was fatally wounded while sitting in a vehicle ...

Citizenship Applications Up This Election Cycle — But Not At Record Levels

Immigrant voter turnout may rise as well

Elio Motors locks in price for nonrefundable reservations

Elio Motors has raised funds for manufacturing its forthcoming three-wheeled commuter vehicle in a few innovative ways, including Regulation A+ stock offerings. Its latest creative funding is through its reservation system. Anyone who puts down money for an "All In" nonrefundable reservation for an Elio has the base price of their vehicle locked in at $7,300. The wording is a… Read More

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Lucas Oil Head Considered for Trump Cabinet: Politico

Forrest Lucas, president and CEO of Lucas Oil, is being considered for post of Interior Sec. in a Donald Trump presidency, according to Politico, citing 2 unidentified people familiar w/campaign discussions on issue.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Forget the 3 am Phone Call: Watch Midnight Regs Instead

(Steven Hayward) There's a phenomenon going back to the Carter-Reagan transition or before that is well known among K Street lawyers and what is called the "regulated community" (a perfectly Orwellian term for private sector business under the visible foot of government): outgoing Democratic administrations enact a number of new rule-makings on the last day of the administration, often very controversial and costly rules that the outgoing administration has sat on for

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New York Bombing Suspect Rahami Captured After New Jersey Shootout

ELIZABETH, N.J. (Reuters) - An Afghanistan-born American suspected of carrying out the weekend bombing in New York City that wounded 29 people and planting other bombs in New York City and New Jersey was in custody after a gun battle with police on Monday.

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Hillary Clinton confronts millennials' cynicism: 'We need everyone off the sidelines'

PHILADELPHIA — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton warned college students and young voters Monday not to stay on the sidelines in this year's election because that would "play into the hand" of racist and reckless Republican Donald Trump.

Speaking to a crowd of students at Temple University, Mrs. Clinton said ...

General Estimates 20,000 Fighter Still In ISIS's Largest City [VIDEO]

'This is a big problem for our forces when we get inside the city during the operation'

Canaan adds two new partners and expands into SF

Canaan Partners, the multi-stage venture capital firm, is beefing up its enterprise software investment team and looking to spend more time in San Francisco in addition to its longtime home on Sand Hill Road. Joydeep Bhattacharyya and Rich Boyle are joining Canaan as partners where they'll focus on artificial intelligence and marketplace creation, and mobile-based software as a… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Trump's 'Americanism' Starts to Look Familiar to Ryan

The Economic Club of New York is a place for serious people. Janet Yellen addressed the club in March. Antonin Scalia spoke there in February, five days before his death. When House Speaker Paul Ryan stepped onto the stage Monday, he was in his natural habitat.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

AFL-CIO Support for Pipeline Draws Liberal Ire

The AFL-CIO's endorsement of a pipeline project expected to create thousands of infrastructure jobs has rankled liberals activists, including a member of AFL-CIO's coalition.

The post AFL-CIO Support for Pipeline Draws Liberal Ire appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Sept. 17

Public should know who is trying to influence government

The billionaire owner of a company that makes lead formerly used in paint gives Wisconsin Club for Growth $750,000 to help buck up Gov. Scott Walker and GOP senators during a political crisis - the recall ...

Facebook Is Getting Its Advertisements Around Ad Blockers

Facebook 'has a playbook'

Stripe offers Instant Payouts to all contractors after early rollouts at Lyft, Care.com, goPanache

Stripe, the startup that competes against the likes of PayPal's Braintree and WePay to provide payment services to digital businesses, is taking the wraps off its newest product to set it apart from the rest of the pack. Stripe is launching Instant Payouts, a service tailored specifically for marketplaces to pay their contractors "within minutes" to a contractor's… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Christie Allies Trial Told Governor Knew of Bridge Snarl Plot

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie knew his top allies were involved in a plan to snarl traffic near the George Washington Bridge to punish a mayor who didn't back Christie's re-election, prosecutors told a jury at the start of a trial. Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni deliberately shut access lanes to the bridge to paralyze traffic in Fort Lee, New Jersey, over several mornings during the first week of school in September 2013 to retaliate against Mayor Mark Sokolich, according to the prosecu

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Katie McGinty Rally Attendees Didn't Know Who She Was

The post Katie McGinty Rally Attendees Didn't Know Who She Was appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

Obama pledges to 'get to the bottom' of bombings in N.Y. region

President Obama tried to reassure Americans Monday after bombings in the New York region, saying authorities are working to "get to the bottom of what happened."

Speaking around the same time that police captured bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami, Mr. Obama said the investigation is moving rapidly.

The president said ...

China's Out-Of-Control Space Station To Burn Up In Atmosphere Next Year

China is no longer in control of the space station

Google launches a personalized travel planner, Google Trips

Google today is launching a new mobile application, aimed at helping you better plan your vacations and other travels. Called Google Trips, the iOS and Android app pulls in a combination of data from Google Maps and crowdsourced contributions from other travelers, in order to offer a personalized travel guide that helps you keep track of your day trips, reservations, points of interest,… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Clinton Global Initiative Ends With Some of Shine Worn Off

When the Clinton Global Initiative opens Monday for its 12th and final annual meeting, it'll be a little less global, lighter on initiative and absent one Clinton.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

How to "root out jihad from within"

(Paul Mirengoff) Following the terrorist attack in St. Cloud, Minnesota (not France), John wrote about what he called delusional efforts to combat the influence of ISIS on Somali youth in Minnesota. The efforts consisted of "funding a broad array of mental health and education programs" and also the developing "community-led intervention teams" — groups of Somali leaders and educators enlisted to identify and intervene with young people believed at risk for radicalization.

Source: Power LinePower Line

Reporter to Clinton: Are You Concerned These Bombings Are ISIS Sympathizers or 'Maybe the Russians' Trying to Swing Election to Trump?

The post Reporter to Clinton: Are You Concerned These Bombings Are ISIS Sympathizers or 'Maybe the Russians' Trying to Swing Election to Trump? appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

Texas Tech food industry center to monitor retail meat

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has selected a Texas Tech University center to monitor retail meat.

The Lubbock school's International Center for Food Industry Excellence is getting $700,000 to be a surveillance lab for the federal agency's National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System.

The federal money ...

Flashback: A Year Before ISIS Somali Stabbing, Minnesota Gov Told Diversity Skeptics To Leave

'If you are that intolerant, if you are that much of a racist or a bigot, then find another state'

Launching three new cameras, Nikon plunges deep into VR and action cams

In launching its Keymission series of cameras, Nikon is bringing the fight to the doorstep of action cameras and VR camera makers. The cameras range from chest-wearable cams, borderline GoPro clones and the most interesting item of the bunch: 360-degree cameras. Read More

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Bill Clinton: "America has One Remaining Bigotry"

bill-clinton-old Liberals can't stand being around Non-Liberals

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White House: We're in a 'Narrative Battle' With ISIS

The post White House: We're in a 'Narrative Battle' With ISIS appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

Trump tax plan would spur 2 million new jobs but deepen deficit

Donald Trump's tax plan would give the economy a major boost, adding about 2 million more jobs than the economy would produce without it — but at a major cost to government finances, which would see a massive drop in revenue, a new analysis said Monday.

Overall the economy would ...

FLASHBACK: Colin Cowherd Accurately Predicts Iowa Football Isn't The Real Deal [VIDEO]

Vindication...

Dyson's topple-resistant Cinetic Big Ball Animal vacuum works wonders

Company founder James Dyson created the first vacuum cleaner without a bag, and he also created the ball-based design that made it easier to negotiate complicated room layouts. A couple of years ago, Dyson also eliminated the need for a filter with its Cinetic range. Along they way the company has also been working on improving battery life, power and ergonomics, and other pieces of the… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Gas Lines and Fear of a Shortage are Growing Across the South

gas-lines1 Gas lines grow as politicians give speeches

The post Gas Lines and Fear of a Shortage are Growing Across the South appeared first on DailySurge.

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Trump Says Fear of Profiling Inhibits U.S. Terrorism Prevention

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. response to domestic terrorism is inhibited by police officers afraid they'll be accused of profiling.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Robot Detonates New Jersey Device in Latest Bomb Discovery

NEW YORK, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Five potential bombs were discovered overnight near a New Jersey station, one of which blew up on Monday as a bomb squad robot tried to disable it, after a weekend of attacks and security alerts in the United States.

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More than 800 immigrants mistakenly granted citizenship

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government has mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants who had pending deportation orders from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud, according to an internal Homeland Security audit released Monday.

The Homeland Security Department's inspector general found ...

Man Wanted In NYC Bombing Joins Growing List Of 'Citizen' Terrorists

Admitted into the country as immigrants

Trump Says Fear of Profiling Inhibits U.S. Terrorism Response

"Our police our amazing. Our local police, they know who a lot of these people are. They're afraid to do anything about it because they don't want to be accused of profiling and they don't want to be accused of all sorts of things," Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says in Fox News phone interview, discussing weekend New York City bomb.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Security guards, Minnesota style

(Scott Johnson) I wrote on Power Line about the huge federal terrorism case against Minnesota's Somali ISIS wannabes daily during the trial of the three defendants who contested the charges as well as in the Weekly Standard articles "The threat from 'Minnesota men," "Judging the 'Minnesota men,'" and "'Minnesota men' on trial." I also reviewed it in the Star Tribune column "What I saw at the trial." Yesterday I recalled one moment

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Donald Trump: 'We're going to have to be very tough'

Donald Trump on Monday lamented political correctness in the wake of the explosion over the weekend in New York City, saying local police are hamstrung because they don't want to be accused of racial profiling and criticizing magazines that he said are providing how-to guides for building explosive devices.

"It's ...

Watch Jeb Bush's Cameo During The Emmy Awards

Jeb Bush made a surprise appearance during the Emmy Awards Sunday night. In a skit where the host Jimmy Kimmel was searching for a ride to the awards show with several celebrities — and being repeatedly turned down — he finally got in the front seat of "Veep's" Selina Meyer's presidential limo, which was being driven […]