#Grant asylum to Afghans who helped United States

#Grant asylum to Afghans who helped United States

“#Grant asylum to Afghans who helped United States” With US forces set to exit Afghanistan by Sept. 11, President Joe Biden has a clear duty to offer refuge to all translators and other Afghans who went out on a limb to help the Americans during the war. Roughly 18,000 of them have applied for special…

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#The future of crimefighting tech is here: drones and robots

#The future of crimefighting tech is here: drones and robots

“#The future of crimefighting tech is here: drones and robots” The future of nonlethal crimefighting is here — and progressives and civil libertarians are losing their minds. Back on May 6, FBI agents, armed with a search warrant, flew a surveillance drone inside a gun suspect’s apartment in upstate Poughkeepsie. According to court documents, feds…

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#Reporters as arms of the spy state and other commentary

#Reporters as arms of the spy state and other commentary

“#Reporters as arms of the spy state and other commentary” From the left: Reporters Now Arms of the Spy State A decade after the huge WikiLeaks dump of Afghan War secrets launched “a historic stretch of true oppositional journalism” investigating massive national-security-agency abuse, Matt Taibbi seethes at his TK News site, suddenly “the FBI-CIA-media partnership” has…

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#Letters to the Editor — May 17, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — May 17, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — May 17, 2021” The Issue: Eddie Scarry’s article (“Mess-ter President,” May 13) informs us that the White House “requires reporters to submit quotes from officials that they want to use for approval before story publication.” A free press is a bedrock of democracy and is enshrined in the First Amendment….

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#Suspect in string of NYC bank robberies busted

#Suspect in string of NYC bank robberies busted

“#Suspect in string of NYC bank robberies busted” A convicted serial bank robber is back behind bars after allegedly pulling off a string of Big Apple heists — while still on parole for previous bank jobs, sources said Sunday. Craig Gernett, 42, was released from prison in August after serving more than 10 years in…

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#Man charged with shattering NYPD patrol car window

#Man charged with shattering NYPD patrol car window

“#Man charged with shattering NYPD patrol car window” The rear windshield of an NYPD patrol car was smashed in Manhattan as officers responded to a call of a man with a knife, the city’s largest police union said Sunday. “This is the situation on our streets: while two @NYPD34Pct cops were responding to a report…

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