Fewer orders, more coaching: Army rookies learn to fire guns
As gun ownership drops among young Americans and the Army trains a generation more accustomed to blasting out emojis on cellphones than taking aim at targets, drill sergeants are confronting a new challenge: More than half of raw recruits have never held, let alone fired, a weapon.Young people who form the bulk of the Army's rookie soldiers don't have nearly the exposure to guns as past generations. And the drill sergeants tasked with transforming these men and women into competent marksmen are ..>> view originalBrock Turner sex assault focuses attention on sex registries
SAN FRANCISCO — When ex-Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner became a registered sex offender for life last Tuesday, he joined a nationwide list of registered sex criminals that has grown dramatically in recent years to more than 800,000. Even some who have denounced Turner’s six-month jail sentence as too lenient for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman question whether he should spend his life with the stigma and onerous restrictions of a registered sex offender. They join a growing n..>> view originalAfter 15 years, last artifacts of 9/11 have been given away
NEW YORK (AP) -- Behind the barbed wire, the minivan's busted windows and crumpled roof hint at its story. But forklifted to this windblown spot on the John F. Kennedy International Airport tarmac, between a decommissioned 727 and an aircraft hangar, it's doubtful passing drivers notice it at all.In the long struggle with the memories of 9/11, though, the van's solitary presence here marks a small but significant transition point.Tons of wreckage — twisted steel beams, chunks of concrete smellin..>> view originalJohn Hinckley Jr., the man who shot Ronald Reagan, will be released today
The man who shot President Ronald Reagan is scheduled to leave a Washington mental hospital for good on Saturday, more than 35 years after the shooting. A federal judge ruled in late July that the 61-year-old John Hinckley Jr. is not a danger to himself or the public and can live full-time at his mother's home in Williamsburg, Va.Hinckley had already been visiting Williamsburg for long stretches at a time and preparing for the full-time transition. He'll have to follow a lot of rules while in W..>> view originalChelsea Manning goes on hunger strike, says 'I need help'
Chelsea Manning is currently serving a 35-year sentence at a military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. (Uncredited/AP). BY Laura Bult. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Updated: Saturday, September 10, 2016, 11:58 AM. Imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea ...>> view originalFlorida Father Arrested After Son Left in Truck for 8 Hours
A Tampa-area father has been charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of his 23-month-old son, who was left in a pickup truck for eight hours, authorities said. Troy Whitaker, 41, of Palm Harbor, placed his son Lawson and 5-year-old daughter in his pickup truck Friday morning and took the girl to school, according to a statement from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. Whitaker then drove home without taking Lawson to day care and left him unattended inside the truck until about ..>> view originalTop Texas Court Is Unlikely Source of Execution Reprieves
Texas' highest criminal court has become an unlikely source for a lull in executions this year in the nation's most active death penalty state. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which historically has been seen as little more than a speedbump on a condemned inmate's road to the death chamber, in recent weeks has postponed the lethal injections of four inmates whose execution dates were pending. Combined with two similar actions by the court earlier this summer, the six reprieves have led ..>> view originalUS Suspends Construction on Part of North Dakota Pipeline
Tribal leaders said they were heartened by the government’s move and relieved that, for the time being, the Dakota Access pipeline would not be allowed to cross under their water supply. “When there’s a wrong that keeps continuing to happen, it’s O.K. to stand up against that wrong. That’s all we did,” said David Archambault II, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux. “I’m just so thankful that agencies are starting to listen.”For supporters and opponents of the pipeline, it was a day of high-..>> view originalVictim in San Bernardino terror attack asked colleague to say bye to mom
LOS ANGELES – A woman who lay among the wounded moaning in pain and others cowering in fear during the San Bernardino terror attack tasted blood and sensed death was near. When she called out to a colleague and asked her to say goodbye to her mother, the other woman tried to assure her she was going to make it. "I'm not, I'm bleeding from the mouth," she said before closing her eyes a final time. The woman's story emerged in a lengthy review of the police response to the Dec. 2 attack by a hu..>> view originalHalf of Trump Backers Belong in 'Basket of Deplorables:' Clinton
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said half the supporters of Republican rival Donald Trump belonged in a "basket of deplorables" of people who were racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic or Islamophobic. Speaking at a fundraiser on Friday night in New York, Clinton said Trump had given voice to hateful rhetoric through his behavior as a candidate for the White House in the Nov. 8 election. Try Newsweek: Subscription offers U.S. Democratic presidential candidate ..>> view original
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