NexPro Media Staff

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NexPro Media Staff

Monday, 18 March 2019 04:34

Breaking Back to Meth?

Law enforcement officers in the U.S. are struggling to tackle a resurgent methamphetamine problem that's been growing in the shadow of the opioid crisis, as much of the market's supply has shifted from a homemade product made in domestic labs to a purer and cheaper narcotic imported by foreign cartels.

"Demand is of course there, as it always has been – I would say it has gone up. But the supply … there's just so much more of it," says Sgt. Rick Jackson of the Pendleton Police Department in eastern Oregon.

 

Read more at US News.

Monday, 18 March 2019 04:33

Should Seniors Be Driving?

Prince Philip, who's 97, was recently involved in a car crash that injured two women and prompted a debate on older drivers in Britain. Two days after the accident, he was photographed driving a Land Rover and not wearing a seatbelt. Of course, that reignited a debate about seniors and driving.

 

Read more at US News.

House on Wednesday passed a bill mandating universal background checks in a historic vote on the most significant piece of gun control legislation in years.

The Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, sponsored by Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., passed largely along party lines, 240-190. The bill now faces a steep uphill battle as it heads to the GOP-controlled Senate.

 

Read more at US News.

Farid Ahmed survived the shooting in Christchurch, but his wife was killed by the gunman.

Hosne Ahmed was shot as she ran back into the mosque to try to save her husband, who uses a wheelchair. She was 44.

 

Read more at BBC News.

During a House homeland security hearing on 6 March, Ms Nielsen said that border agents do not put children in cages in detention facilities. She explained: "If you mean a cage like this." She raised her hands above her head and drew an outline of a small, rectangular-shaped dog kennel.

Democrats disagreed. Regardless of the size of the wire-enclosed areas where children were held, the contraptions were still cages, said Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey.

 

Read more at BBC News.

Both planes were Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft.

Last Sunday the Ethiopian Airlines jet crashed after take-off from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board.

 

Read more at BBC News.

An attack on a New Zealand mosque took the lives of 50 worshippers Friday and left dozens more wounded when a white supremacist opened fire and live-streamed the shootings. Here are the stories of some of those killed and wounded.

THE DEAD

Read more at PBS News.

A rabbi who packs a gun. A church installing security cameras. A police car protecting a mosque.

Houses of worship have traditionally been places of refuge where strangers are welcome. But high-profile attacks in recent years on an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, a synagogue in Pittsburgh and now mosques in New Zealand have made many worshippers and their prayer leaders rethink how protected sanctuaries really are.

 

Read more at PBS News.

And then there was one more. And maybe one more still to come?

The large crop of Democrats who want to be president grew, technically, when New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand changed her status Sunday from exploring a 2020 White House run to becoming a full-fledged candidate. She’d spent more than a month visiting states to gauge support for a campaign, so voters likely considered her already in the race.

 

Read more at PBS News.

A Christchurch gun shop on Monday acknowledged selling guns online to the 28-year-old white supremacist accused of killing 50 people in mosque shootings that have upturned New Zealand’s reputation as among the world’s most tolerant and safe nations.

At a news conference, Gun City owner David Tipple said the store sold four guns and ammunition to Brenton Harrison Tarrant through a “police-verified online mail order process.”

The store “detected nothing extraordinary,” about the purchaser, he said.

 

Read more at Associated Press News.

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