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It was also the latest in a string of attacks in Mogadishu, though 2019 saw al-Shabab extend its reach to cities it hadn’t attacked in years. In January, a small group of fighters mounted a 21-hour siege of a luxury hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, killing at least 21. In July, another group stormed a hotel in the southern Somali city of Kismayo, killing 26.
Despite the reports, Crown Heights was humming with pedestrian traffic on Friday afternoon, with Hanukkah underway. Cars and vans playing songs in Yiddish rolled up Kingston Avenue, where families ran errands before sundown.
David Lahainy, a Torah student at the Chabad Lubavitch headquarters, said he had noticed more police officers in the neighborhood.
“We need more,” said Mr. Lahainy, who carried two bouquets of roses from a flower stand that is near a mural of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who died in 1994 and led the Lubavitch Hasidic community based in Crown Heights.
Mr. Lahainy, 26, paraphrased the rabbi’s saying that although Jews should take care of themselves, they cannot live with fear and should trust God.
Anti-Semitic hate crime complaints have increased by 18 percent this year, according to data provided by the Police Department. The department received 214 anti-Semitic hate crime complaints as of Sunday — 32 more than in the same period last year.
“We take every one seriously, whether it’s one or eight,” the police commissioner, Dermot F. Shea, said a news conference on Friday. “I would argue that one is too much.”
Moishe Mindick, a music and Judaism teacher who lives in Crown Heights, said he and his neighbors were taking action. Mr. Mindick, 31, belongs to a WhatsApp group of more than 90 people called Make Crown Heights Safe Again, which he said was organizing patrols in response to the incidents.
At least nine people were shot, two fatally, during a music video shoot in what police are describing as an “ambush.”
The shooting occurred Friday night near Houston in Harris County, according to NBC News. Sheriff Ed Gonzales said that a group of men in their 20s were in a parking lot of a residential area filming a rap video when gunfire broke out.
“All of the sudden, basically they were ambushed, we believe, by individuals in cars and/or foot,” Gonzalez said.
“This is a very serious situation — this is a residential neighborhood,” Gonzalez, who said the crime scene stretched several blocks, continued. “A lot of shots were fired.”
In addition to the two found dead at the scene and those who were rushed to the hospital, the sheriff said more people may have been injured and sought medical care on their own. Authorities are still investigating why the shooting occurred and who is behind it.
“Anybody that was out here, they need to speak up,” Gonzalez said. “We need some leads right now.”
Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), easily the party’s most endangered senator up in 2020, said Sunday he intends to hear the evidence and dismissed suggestions that a vote to convict Trump would cost him his seat in ruby-red Alabama.
“If I did everything based on a pure political argument all you’d need is a computer to mash a button,” Jones said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “That’s just not what this country is about. It’s not what the founders intended to do.”
Jones will be hearing the evidence first-hand, but Democratic challengers are also preparing for the trial. Candidates like Mark Kelly in Arizona, Theresa Greenfield in Iowa and Sara Gideon in Maine have pledged to follow it closely and echoed calls from Schumer for a “fair trial” including administration witnesses.
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who is running against Gardner, said there was “clear evidence” Trump had abused his power and “should be impeached.” He did not call for removal from office but said the “Senate needs to have a fair trial, and that the president’s aides have to be allowed to testify.”
But Hickenlooper, like other Democratic candidates, faces pressure from his left flank. Primary competitors in a handful of Senate races are already calling for Trump to be removed from office. Andrew Romanoff, who is running to Hickenlooper’s left, has called for Trump’s removal, contrasting his position with both Gardner and Hickenlooper in a recent fundraising email.
A similar scenario has played out in Maine, North Carolina and Texas, where party-endorsed candidates are calling for a fair trial but are undecided on removing Trump from office while progressive competitors are already saying they would vote for removal.
Cal Cunningham, who was endorsed by the DSCC in North Carolina, has previously said there was evidence Trump committed an abuse of power. In a statement last week, he said he was “alarmed” that Tillis and McConnell had “admitted their priority is to help cover for the president” on administration officials testifying, but did not state a position on removing Trump. His primary opponent, state Sen. Erica Smith, has gone further.
“If I were in the United States Senate, given what I would have received from the House on the articles, I would be an independent arbiter of the facts,” Smith said. “And as the facts are showing now, it would be a vote to impeach and remove.”
It was also the latest in a string of attacks in Mogadishu, though 2019 saw al-Shabab extend its reach to cities it hadn’t attacked in years. In January, a small group of fighters mounted a 21-hour siege of a luxury hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, killing at least 21. In July, another group stormed a hotel in the southern Somali city of Kismayo, killing 26.
LAFAYETTE — UPDATE: Five fatalities have been confirmed by officials. One person survived that crash according to the Lafayette Fire Department.
Six people were inside the plane when it crashed according to officials.
Three people on the ground were injured. Those injured were taken to the hospital.
Law enforcement is asking that everyone avoid the area of the crash at this time. —-
Officials previously confirmed there was at least one fatality. Federal investigators are en route to the scene. A news conference will take place once officials are on scene.
Eyewitnesses say the plane hit a power line while trying to make an emergency landing. The impact blew out the windows of the post office off of Verot School Rd.
Acadian Ambulance is reporting they transported two people to a local hospital.
All businesses and neighborhoods in the area are without power at this time.
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Walmart on Pinhook is closed and has been evacuated. The area around has been roped off by police.
Lafayette police confirm to KATC that a plane has crashed near the intersection of Feu Follet Road and Verot School Road. Viewer submitted video shows that the plane went down near the United States Post Office at that intersection. First responders are en route to the scene.
HONG KONG—Months of unrest have transformed the city beyond the tear gas, graffiti and disrupted commutes. There are deep changes in the lives of residents.
Protests have created an increasingly unpredictable state of upheaval, forcing anxious decisions among the city’s 7.5 million residents—the safest route for the kids to go to school, whether to cancel a wedding or to move away.
The first one occurred 19 days into the new year when a man used an ax to kill four family members, including his infant daughter. Five months later, 12 people were killed in a workplace shooting in Virginia. Twenty-two died at a Walmart in El Paso in August.
A database compiled by The Associated Press, USA TODAY and Northeastern University shows there were more mass killings in 2019 than any other year dating back to at least the 1970s.
In all, there were 41 mass killings, defined as when four or more people are killed, excluding the perpetrator. Of those, 33 were mass shootings. More than 210 people were killed.
Most of the mass killings barely became national news, failing to resonate among the general public because they didn’t spill into public places as massacres did in El Paso and Odessa, Texas; Dayton, Ohio; Virginia Beach, Virginia; and Jersey City, New Jersey.
The majority of the killings involved people who knew each other – family disputes, drug or gang violence or people with beefs that directed their anger at co-workers or relatives.
In many cases, what set off the perpetrator remains a mystery.
That’s the case in the first mass killing of 2019, when a 42-year-old man took an ax and killed his mother, stepfather, girlfriend and 9-month-old daughter in Clackamas County, Oregon. A roommate and an 8-year-old girl escaped, and the rampage ended when police fatally shot the killer.
The perpetrator had occasional run-ins with police over the years, but what drove him to attack his family remains unknown. He had just gotten a job training mechanics at an auto dealership, and despite occasional arguments with his relatives, most said there was nothing out of the ordinary that raised red flags.
The incident in Oregon was one of 18 mass killings in which family members were slain, and one of six that didn’t involve a gun.
Mass killing trends of 2019
•The 41 mass killings were the most in a single year since the AP/USA TODAY and Northeastern database began tracking such events in 2006, but other research going back to the 1970s shows no other year with as many mass slayings. The second-most killings in a year before 2019 was 38 in 2006.
•The 211 people killed in this year’s cases are outnumbered by the 224 victims in 2017, when the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history took place in Las Vegas.
•California, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, had the most mass slayings – eight. Nearly half of U.S. states experienced a mass slaying, from big cities such as New York to tiny towns such as Elkmont, Alabama, which has a population of almost 475 people.
•Firearms were the weapon in all but eight of the mass killings. Other weapons included knives, axes and fire at least twice when the perpetrator set a mobile home ablaze, killing those inside.
•Nine mass shootings occurred in public places. Other mass killings occurred in homes or workplaces.
‘This seems to be the age of mass shootings’
James Densley, a criminologist and professor at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota, said the AP/USA TODAY/Northeastern database confirms and mirrors his own research into mass shootings.
“What makes this even more exceptional is that mass killings are going up at a time when general homicides, overall homicides, are going down,” Densley said. “As a percentage of homicides, these mass killings are also accounting for more deaths.”
He said it’s partially a byproduct of an “angry and frustrated time.” Densley said crime tends to go in waves: The 1970s and 1980s saw a number of serial killers, the 1990s were marked by school shootings and child abductions and the early 2000s were dominated by terrorism.
“This seems to be the age of mass shootings,” Densley said.
He and James Alan Fox, a criminologist and professor at Northeastern University, expressed worries about the “contagion effect” – the focus on mass killings fueling other mass killings.
“These are still rare events. Clearly, the risk is low, but the fear is high,” Fox said. “What fuels contagion is fear.”
The mass shootings this year include three in August in Texas and Dayton that stirred urgency, especially among Democratic presidential candidates, to restrict access to firearms.
The database does not have a complete count of victims who were wounded, but among the three mass shootings in August, more than 65 people were injured.
‘As soon as the El Paso shooting happened, I was on edge’
Daniel Munoz, 28, of Odessa, was caught in the crossfire of a shooting in West Texas. He was on his way to meet a friend at a bar when he saw a gunman and the barrel of a firearm. He got down as his car was sprayed with bullets.
Munoz, who moved to Texas about a year ago to work in the oil industry, said he had been on edge since the Walmart shooting 28 days earlier and about 300 miles away in El Paso, worried that a shooting could happen anywhere at any time.
He called his mother after the El Paso shooting to encourage her to have a firearm with her in case she needed to defend herself. He told friends before they went to Walmart to bring a firearm in case they needed to protect themselves or others during an attack.
“You can’t just always assume you’re safe. In that moment, as soon as the El Paso shooting happened, I was on edge,” Munoz said.
As a convicted felon, he’s prohibited from possessing a firearm, which adds to his anxiety, he said.
A few weeks later, as he sat behind the wheel of his car, he spotted the driver of an approaching car wielding a firearm. “My worst nightmare became a reality,” he said. “I’m in the middle of a gunfight, and I have no way to defend myself.”
In the months since, the self-described social butterfly has steered clear of crowds and can tolerate only so much socializing. He drives the same car, still riddled with bullet holes on the side panels, another bullet hole in the headrest of the passenger seat and the words “evidence” scrawled on the doors. His shoulder is pocked with bullet fragments.
WASHINGTON – Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal stated Thursday that he believes some Senate Republicans are concerned with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s approach to working with the White House on how to handle the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the Senate.
“I’ve talked to anywhere from five to 10 of my colleagues who have very severe misgivings about the direction that Mitch McConnell is going in denying a full, fair proceeding with witnesses and documents. My hope is that they will say publicly what Senator Murkowski did, and really hold Mitch McConnell accountable,” the Connecticut senator said during “Capitol News Briefing” on the Connecticut Network.
Earlier this week, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, stated that she is “disturbed” by McConnell’s remarks that he is going to work “in total coordination” with the White House during the upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate, and that he wouldn’t be “impartial about this at all.”
Her comments come after an interview the Majority Leader had with Sean Hannity on Fox News where he declared that “everything” he does “during this, I’m coordinating with the White House counsel. There will be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this, to the extent that we can.”
Blumenthal quipped that he hoped that if, in fact, some of his Republican senate colleagues had similar worries, they would step forward like Murkowski.
“I believe Sen. Murkowski is saying what a lot of my Republican colleagues are thinking, in fact, saying privately,” Blumenthal said.
He continued that McConnell is “sabotaging this proceeding by saying he won’t be impartial.”
Trump became the third president in history to be impeached after the House of Representatives voted to approve two articles of impeachment over the president’s request of Ukraine to investigate political rivals.
According to the rules expressed in the Constitution, during an impeachment trial of the President of the United States, the Senate takes an oath to act as impartial jurors.
Former Vice President Joe Biden confirmed Friday he would not comply with a subpoena to testify in a Senate trial of President Donald Trump.
The Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives impeached Trump earlier this month alleging Trump abused his presidential power by tying foreign aid approved by Congress to a politically motivated investigation into a company on which Biden’s son Hunter Biden served on the board.
Leaders in the Democratically controlled House and Republican leadership in the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate are trying to come to terms for an impeachment trial. Biden said in early December he wouldn’t comply with a subpoena by the Senate, and confirmed that statement Friday in an interview with the Des Moines Register’s editorial board. He has not been subpoenaed, but Trump’s allies have floated the idea.
Testifying before the Senate on the matter would take attention away from Trump and the allegations against him, Biden said. Not even that “thug” Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney and former New York City mayor, has accused Biden of doing anything but his job, the former vice president said. Biden also said any attempt to subpoena him would be on “specious” grounds.
Biden said even if he volunteered to testify in an attempt to clear the air, it would create a media narrative that would let Trump off the hook.
“What are you going to cover?” Biden said to Register Executive Editor Carol Hunter in response to a question. “You guys are going to cover for three weeks anything that I said. And (Trump’s) going to get away. You guys buy into it all the time. Not a joke … Think what it’s about. It’s all about what he does all the time, his entire career. Take the focus off. This guy violated the Constitution. He said it in the driveway of the White House. He acknowledged he asked for help.”
Nick Coltrain is a politics and data reporter for the Register. Reach him at ncoltrain@registermedia.com or at 515-284-8361.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making President Donald Trump squirm.
Pelosi’s refusal to transmit the articles of impeachment against Trump to the Senate has robbed the president of what he wants most: “total and complete exoneration” following a trial.
Asked about Trump’s mind-set in recent days, one Republican strategist in frequent contact with the White House told Insider Trump was incensed about impeachment because he believes it undermines his political prowess.
The strategist said Trump was angry because the allegations against him suggest “that he needs outside help to win an election, that he can’t do it on his own. And he thinks that’s bulls—.”
A person who was close to Trump’s legal team during the Russia probe also told Insider the cascade of witness testimony, more than anything else, grated on the president’s nerves.
“For a man who puts personal loyalty above everything else, this was something he never saw coming,” the person said. “He couldn’t stop them, so he decided to smear them, but at the end of the day, all he could do is sit back and watch it happen.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is doing to President Donald Trump what no one else has in the nearly three years since he took office: She’s making him squirm.
In the wake of an impeachment inquiry and with a looming trial in the Senate, the president has become increasingly frustrated by Pelosi’s unprecedented decision to withhold the two articles of impeachment against him from the upper chamber until Majority Leader Mitch McConnell guarantees a fair and impartial trial.
Pelosi’s refusal to transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate has robbed the president of what he wants most: “total and complete exoneration” following a trial.
Trump, for his part, has made no secret of his fury. He spent Christmas evening ranting about Pelosi and impeachment to his 68 million Twitter followers.
“Why should Crazy Nancy Pelosi, just because she has a slight majority in the House, be allowed to Impeach the President of the United States? Got ZERO Republican votes, there was no crime, the call with Ukraine was perfect, with ‘no pressure,'” Trump tweeted on Wednesday night.
He added, “She said it must be ‘bipartisan & overwhelming,’ but this Scam Impeachment was neither. Also, very unfair with no Due Process, proper representation, or witnesses. Now Pelosi is demanding everything the Republicans weren’t allowed to have in the House. Dems want to run majority Republican Senate. Hypocrites!”
This week’s complaints were just the latest in Trump’s monthslong Twitter tear against Pelosi and the impeachment inquiry.
The day after House Democrats unveiled two articles of impeachment this month — one charged the president with abuse of power, and the other charged him with obstruction of Congress — Trump posted 60 tweets and retweets before noon.
The public airing of grievances is a staple of the Trump presidency.
In the three years he’s been in office — and long before that — Trump has made a habit of using Twitter and the media to lob attacks at everyone and everything, including Democrats, the former special counsel Robert Mueller, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actress Rosie O’Donnell, and the mainstream media.
Trump has also had legal troubles before.
This month, Trump paid $2 million to eight charities after a New York judge ruled that he and his family had used the now defunct Trump Foundation as a slush fund to bolster his campaign and pay off business expenses.
Last year, Trump agreed to a $25 million settlement to be paid to former students of Trump University, which then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman described as a “sham university” that swindled “thousands of Americans out of millions of dollars.”
‘One way or another, everything goes back to 2016’
Pelosi announces articles of impeachment against Trump. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
But impeachment has struck a particularly sensitive nerve with the president.
Asked about Trump’s mind-set in recent days, one Republican strategist in frequent contact with the White House, who requested anonymity to discuss internal conversations, told Insider Trump was incensed about impeachment because he believes it undermines his political prowess.
“One way or another, everything goes back to 2016,” the strategist said. “For two years after he took office, the president had the Russia cloud hanging over him.”
“To him, that investigation was synonymous with the belief that he didn’t win the White House on his own, that he had help from the Russians,” the strategist added. “Looking ahead with the 2020 election, he’s facing new allegations once again that he needs outside help to win an election, that he can’t do it on his own. And he thinks that’s bulls—.”
Exacerbating things further is Pelosi’s position as the tip of the Democratic spear.
The House speaker has been a thorn in the president’s side since January, after the Democratic Party resumed control of the House of Representatives.
In the months since, Trump has been forced to make concession after concession to Pelosi and the Democrats — a major adjustment for a president who sees himself as having the “absolute” right to govern as he sees fit and whose power went virtually unchecked while Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress.
‘As long as those articles of impeachment sit in Nancy Pelosi’s hands, Trump is powerless’
Trump. Associated Press
The president got his first taste of Pelosi’s strategy in January, in the middle of a government shutdown, as the White House and congressional Democrats fought over Trump’s demand that the federal budget include billions in funding for a border wall.
In the middle of that fight, Trump sent a letter to the House speaker canceling a trip she was scheduled to take to Afghanistan on a government-funded military plane.
In response, a few days later, Pelosi disinvited the president from giving the State of the Union before Congress. Eventually, Trump was forced to cave and agreed to reopen the government without the border-wall funding.
To some, Politico Magazine said, it even looked like Pelosi used Trump’s State of the Union to project power. At one point in particular during the speech, the Democratic leader smiled and pointed at the president while applauding him.
Politico reported that while some observers viewed the moment as an attempt to smooth out the division between the two sides, others saw it as an indulgent and “exaggerated recognition that a parent might give a toddler in need of positive reinforcement.”
Since then, Pelosi has continued her refusal to give an inch to the White House unless Democrats receive something in return.
In September, she exercised the full extent of her power as the leader of the House when she announced an impeachment inquiry into Trump after revelations that he withheld nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine while attempting to strong-arm the Ukrainian president into publicly announcing investigations targeting Trump’s 2020 rival former Vice President Joe Biden.
Adding fuel to the fire was the fact that Trump was not only unable to stop the investigation but also helpless against the flood of career nonpartisan national-security officials and foreign-service officers who stepped forward to testify against him.
A person who was close to Trump’s legal team during the Russia probe told Insider the cascade of witness testimony, more than anything else, grated on the president’s nerves.
“He’s called them Never Trumpers, but these people worked for him, and some still do,” the person said. “For a man who puts personal loyalty above everything else, this was something he never saw coming. He couldn’t stop them, so he decided to smear them, but at the end of the day, all he could do is sit back and watch it happen.”
The person added: “And as long as those articles of impeachment sit in Nancy Pelosi’s hands, Trump is powerless.”
A father rushed into a burning Southern California apartment on Friday and died trying to rescue two of his children, who also perished in the early morning blaze, authorities said.
Flames erupted at around 1:15 a.m. at an apartment complex in the Riverside County town of Hemet, about 85 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, officials said.
As emergency responders rushed into the second-floor unit, news footage captured a woman screaming, “My family!”
“One of the victims, a 41-year-old male was the father, and he went back inside to rescue other family members that were not able to get out, and he wasn’t seen alive after that, unfortunately,” Hemet police Lt. Nate Miller told reporters
The father died in the fire, along with his daughters, 4 and 12. An 8-year-old boy was rescued from the burning apartment and was listed in grave condition, officials said.
“It’s a terrible situation,” Miller said. “As a father myself, I think a lot of us would think about going back in.”
The young victims’ mother and two other children, ages 6 years old and 3 months, made it out of the apartment safely. The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
In New York City, more than half a dozen anti-Semitic attacks have been reported in the last week. Since last year, the number of such hate crime complaints has shot up more than 50% in New York. And with two days left to Hanukkah, New York police are on alert. Don Dahler reports.
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Gains by the GOP are much more likely, and Republicans are confident they can use the impeachment votes by many House Democrats against them — starting with those representing districts won by Trump in 2016.
There are 30 such seats following Rep. Jefferson Van Drew’s (N.J.) decision to switch parties and become a Republican.
“For the Democrats running in those 30 Trump districts, they now need to tell their constituents why they voted against their vote for president, and I think that’s going to be a very difficult argument to make, especially with President Trump on the ballot,” National Republican Congressional Committee Spokesman Michael McAdams told The Hill.
McAdams argues Democrats will be in a “tricky position” given GOP voters are energized by an impeachment they oppose. He also noted polling that shows independents opposed to impeachment.
At the same time, they aren’t sweating too much about the possibility of losing their majority.
One Democratic operative pointed to a recent Politico-Morning Consult poll showing 52 percent of respondents support impeaching the president, as well as a funding edge for the party.
The source said they expect Democrats in swing districts to place a strong focus on health care and drug pricing.
“We have a huge, huge, huge advantage on drug prices and health care and it’s where we’re going to spend our money — money that we have more than they do,” the operative said. “We have more money on the hard side than they do, which obviously goes a lot further.”
Of the 30 Democrats representing districts won by Trump, McAdams noted that Trump won 13 by more than 6 1/2 points.
He also said New Jersey, where Van Drew appeared to decide his best route to reelection was to run as a Republican, will be a key state. Democrats gained four seats in the state in 2018.
Conservative outside groups have also ramped up spending on anti-impeachment ad campaigns, hammering Democrats on their votes in districts they see as winnable.
Shortly after the House’s impeachment vote, American Action Network announced plans to spend an additional $2.5 million in 29 Trump-won districts held by Democrats, following an $8.5 million spending blitz in the weeks leading up to the articles of impeachment coming to the floor.
“There are a lot of Democrats today who voted for people who can’t go back home and explain that vote, and I will challenge them if they’re getting a lot of people criticizing their vote, I would challenge them to invite Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff to explain what was done today,” he told reporters immediately after the impeachment vote.
The Democratic operative said if Republicans were that confident about winning back the majority in 2020, fewer would be retiring.
Some represent districts that appear likely to be won by Democrats.
The Cook Political Report has Democrats favored to win two seats in North Carolina that will be easier pickups for the party because of new congressional district lines brought about by a court decision. The two seats are held by Walker and Holding.
Democrats are also favored to pick up a seat in Texas.
“If impeachment is so great for them, why are all their members retiring and why are they are not raising more money — two signs that look bad for them in flipping the House,” the operative said.
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