Police shoot a man at a Walmart in Dayton, Ohio, apparently after he’d picked up a toy gun on a store display, while he was talking to his girlfriend on the phone …
“We was just talking. He said he was at the video games playing videos and he went over there by the toy section where the toy guns were. And the next thing I know, he said ‘It’s not real,’ and the police start shooting and they said ‘Get on the ground,’ but he was already on the ground because they had shot him,” she said, adding: “And I could hear him just crying and screaming. I feel like they shot him down like he was not even human.”
Through Iraq’s recent unfolding crisis, the US position has been that no progress is possible until Baghdad forms an inclusive rather than sectarian government which commands confidence from each of Iraq’s three ethno-religious communities – Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Shia Arabs. This is undoubtedly right as far as it goes: ISIS’s success rolling over Iraq’s Sunni heartlands was at least made much easier – perhaps possible – by Sunni estrangement from the government in Baghdad. But what if that government simply cannot or will not be formed?
US District Court Judge Mark Fuller was arrested Sunday morning and charged with misdemeanor battery for assaulting his wife. Police responded to a call from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Atlanta. Fuller’s wife said her husband had assaulted her; she was treated for wounds by paramedics but declined to be taken to a hospital.
Fuller is best known for presiding over the trial of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (D), which Siegelman’s supporters believe – with some reason – was a politically motivated prosecution.
Fuller is a judge in the Middle District of Alabama.
Steven Seagal performs with band at pro-separatist event in Crimea organized by Russian nationalist biker gang.
“MOSCOW (AP) — Kremlin says Russia is sending humanitarian convoy into Ukraine in cooperation with Red Cross.”
Guerilla documentarian James O’Keefe films himself crossing the US-Mexico border in an Osama bin Laden mask.
This AP piece looks at the struggles of al Jazeera America, which is celebrating its first anniversary on the air. The upshot is: very, very few people are watching it. So why is that? Let’s start by noting that it’s extremely difficult to break into the US cable news market, which is already pretty saturated or at least seems to be. AJA also faces at least some challenge simply because of the name. But in conversations I had with a few highly placed people in AJA prior to and post-launch I came away with what I think may be a big, big part of the problem.
Rove: Clinton wants to be the “goldilocks” of foreign policy.
A state judge in Tennessee has become the first post-Windsor judge to uphold a ban on same-sex marriage or the right of a state not to recognize one.
Depression is something so profound it transcends being a comedian (or even happiness itself). It may even be correlated with the profession. But hearing that a Robin Williams took his own life does make you step back for a moment and ponder the entirety of the human enterprise.