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Wisconsin father punched, killed 5-year-old son for eating Father's Day cake, prosecutors say

A Wisconsin man allegedly punched and killed his 5-year-old son after he got angry the child had eaten his Father's Day cake, according to prosecutors.

Travis Stackhouse told police he punched the boy in the stomach and hit him in the face Friday because he was "upset that others were eating" his Father's Day cake, a criminal complaint stated.

The criminal complaint obtained by FOX6 stated the child sustained bruising to both eyes, a cut to his lip and a laceration to his sternum.

Stackhouse, 29, initially told police he saw his son “somersaulting down the stairwell," but the boy did not appear to be injured.

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President Trump Pursues Smart China Strategy Heading Into Meeting With Xi Jinping “At President Trump’s planned meeting Saturday with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 Summit in Japan, Trump is expected to continue to advance a strategy that his administration introduced in his first six months in office: viewing China as a strategic competitor to the United States and its allies,” writes Dr. Nadia Schadlow, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, in Fox News.   “This shift from an enabling posture to a competitive strategy was a response to years of Chinese Communist Party efforts to shape the international system in a way that disadvantaged the United States on trade and advanced China’s authoritarian system.”   President Trump has two goals for that approach, Schadlow says. The first is fixing economic relationships so that America is never giving a strategic advantage to an adversary. The second is tilting the global balance of power toward free, open societies.   Click here to read more.

“Congress on Thursday approved $4.6 billion in emergency aid to deal with the border crisis, giving President Trump a symbolic victory on immigration and money to improve conditions for migrant children and families crowding the border,” Stephen Dinan and Gabriella Muñoz report in The Washington Times. President Trump “asked for the money nearly two months ago, but Democrats blocked it from being included in a disaster spending bill this month. Democrats also blocked 18 other Republican attempts to force the bill onto the floor.”

“The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was one of the most comprehensive tax overhauls ever enacted,” Bruce Thompson writes in the Washington Examiner. “Yet as far as the media is concerned, the bill only slashed taxes for corporations and the wealthy . . . This characterization of the bill is false and misleading, yet it is an assertion endlessly reported by reporters and pundits in the national media, as well as Democrats.”

“Americans hate to wait. We scout out the shortest grocery line. We choose the fastest delivery option. We chafe at slow-moving internet speeds. And we don’t like to wait for health care when we or our loved ones urgently need it,” Steven Law writes in Fox News. “Why do government-run health care systems—including so-called single-payer schemes like Medicare-for-All—result in long waits for needed care? Because unlike the private sector, government has zero incentive to customize care to individual needs. It achieves efficiencies primarily by doling out one-size-fits-all health care to everyone, regardless of unique circumstances.”

“On behalf of doctors across America and their patients, I am writing to underscore the importance of the executive order President Trump signed this week on ‘Improving Price and Quality Transparency in Healthcare.’ Everyone will benefit from this, save for those who profit from keeping Americans in the dark,” writes Marni Jameson Carey, Executive Director of the Association of Independent Doctors, in the Washington Examiner.

WCBI Press Release 6-28-19 (Home Invasion Whaleyville)

NOI 6/27/19 Wicomico Apartment Fire Edgewater Drive

NOTICE OF INVESTIGATION Date:   June 27, 2019 Time:  3:03 p.m. Location / Address:  715 Edgewater Dr., Salisbury, Wicomico Co. Type of Incident:  Fire Description of Structure / Property:  Two story wood framed apartment building Owner / Occupants:   Tide Mill Apartments (Owner)   Injuries or Deaths:   None Estimated $ Loss: Structure:  $500                      Contents: $0 Smoke Alarm Status:  Present, did not activate Fire Alarm / Sprinkler Status:   n/a Arrests(s):   None Primary Responding Fire Department:  Salisbury Fire Department # of Alarms:   1    # Of Firefighters:   7 Time to Control:   5 minutes Discovered By:   Apartment management staff Area of Origin:   Second floor balcony Preliminary Cause:   Under Investigation Additional Information:  Anyone with information is asked to call the Salisbury Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal at (410) 713-3780.

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NOI 6/28/19 Wicomico Dwelling Fire Bryn Mawr Avenue

NOTICE OF INVESTIGATION Date:  June 28, 2019 Time:  12:39 a.m. Location / Address:  1117 Bryn Mawr Ave., Salisbury, Wicomico Co. Type of Incident:  Fire Description of Structure / Property:   One story wood framed single family dwelling Owner / Occupants:   Christina Collins Injuries or Deaths:  None Estimated $ Loss: Structure:  $80,000                      Contents: $20,000 Smoke Alarm Status:  Unknown Fire Alarm / Sprinkler Status:  n/a Arrests(s):  None Primary Responding Fire Department:  Salisbury Fire Department # of Alarms: 1      # Of Firefighters:  25 Time to Control:  40 minutes Discovered By:  Passerby Area of Origin:  Attic Preliminary Cause:  Accidental, electrical Additional Information:

NOI 6/17/19 Wicomico Playground Equipment Fire State Street

NOTICE OF INVESTIGATION Date:   June 27, 2019 Time:  7:19 p.m. Location / Address:  714 State Street, Sharptown, Wicomico Co. Type of Incident:  Fire Description of Structure / Property:  Playground equipment Owner / Occupants:   Wicomico County Parks and Recreation (Gene Lowe Park) Injuries or Deaths:  None Estimated $ Loss: Structure:  $500                      Contents: $0 Smoke Alarm Status:  n/a Fire Alarm / Sprinkler Status:  n/a Arrests(s):  None Primary Responding Fire Department:  Sharptown Fire Department # of Alarms:  1     # Of Firefighters:  5 Time to Control:  5 minutes Discovered By:  Passerby Area of Origin:  Tube slide Preliminary Cause:  Incendiary (intentionally set fire) Additional Information:  Anyone with information is asked to call the Salisbury Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal at (410) 713-3780.

Independence Day 2019 Holiday Schedule

WICOMICO COUNTY GOVERNMENT OFFICES

Salisbury, MD ... Wicomico County Government Offices will be closed Thursday, July 4, 2019, in observance of the Independence Day holiday.

CONVENIENCE CENTERS, LANDFILL, BRUSH PILE, FERRIES
INDEPENDENCE DAY HOLIDAY SCHEDULE

Salisbury, MD ... On Thursday, July 4, 2019, the Newland Park Landfill, Convenience Center and Brush Pile, all external Convenience Centers, Whitehaven Ferry and Upper Ferry will be closed.

For more information, please contact the Newland Park Landfill at 410-548-4935. Ferry information is available by calling 410-543-2765.

So deep in student debt, they're suing Betsy DeVos over delays in loan forgiveness

Alicia Davis feels like she was scammed. As a student at Florida Metropolitan University from 2006 to 2008, she said she was told the cost of her online criminal justice program would be covered by Pell grants and scholarships. She was told her credits could be transferred to other schools. Graduating from the school, a subsidiary of the for-profit Corinthian Colleges, would lead to a job and a decent wage.

None of it was true, said Davis, who accrued more than $22,000 in student loans from FMU. The 36-year-old is now one of seven plaintiffs suing the U.S. Department of Education and its chief, Betsy DeVos, for allegedly failing to offer relief to more than 158,000 student-loan borrowers who claim they were defrauded by for-profit colleges.

"They pretty much sold me a lie and a dream," Davis told CBS MoneyWatch. "Turns out pretty much all of it was a lie."

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Want to Grow Your Own Cannabis? Get Ready to Fight ‘Big Marijuana’

Illinois is about to make history as the first state to legalize recreational cannabis and allow commercial sales through the state legislature instead of via a voter initiative, pending the governor’s signature. But this historic piece of legislation almost died along the way over the increasingly contentious issue of homegrow.
 
Eventually, lawmakers compromised by allowing only medical cannabis patients to cultivate for themselves; recreational consumers can’t grow at all. This may sound like politics as usual, but it actually represents a worrying trend for those who believe that the right to grow your own cannabis is an essential part of a truly equitable legalization plan.

Currently, every state—except for Washington—that allows recreational cannabis dispensaries also allows homegrow. So far, none of these states have seriously considered rescinding the policy, and in Washington, there’s a growing push to add homegrow to the mix.

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Government Intrusion in Higher Education Is Sowing the Next Debt Crisis

It was one of those moments whose significance only became apparent years later. It was part of the pro forma interview process for a faculty position. I was to be interviewed by the university’s bursar.

He was an elderly gentleman, tall, erect, and rather dapper in his black pinstriped, three-piece suit complete with pocket watch. If central casting had called for a Germanic-looking bureaucrat for a WWII war movie, this would have been the guy.

His formality and dress seemed out of place in an era where suits and ties came off, and faculty dress was almost indistinguishable from that of the students.

Being young and arrogant, I mentally dismissed him as a relic of another era. He was more than pleasant, and we both knew we were engaged in an academic ritual of another time.

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Crime-Ravaged Mexico City Deploys 140,000 National Guard Troops To Enforce Order

Mexico is deploying its new militarized National Guard police force within Mexico City in an effort to quell a recent surge in violent criminal activity, according to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

"We need a stronger presence of security forces and more protection for residents of the capital," Lopez Obrador said during his daily news conference on Thursday, pointing to increases in homicides, kidnappings and extortion amid intense cartel turf wars, according to Reuters.

The sprawling urban area that has a population over 21 million was for years a bastion of relative calm while much of the country slid into violent drug wars.

That said, Reuters notes that Mexico City is still safer than some US cities - including the Democratic strongholds of Baltimore, Detroit and St. Louis.

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Boy tossed from mall balcony still faces ‘serious complications’

A 5-year-old Minnesota boy who was tossed off a third-story Mall of America balcony has endured more than 15 medical procedures or surgeries — and it’s unclear when he’ll return home from a hospital, a family spokesman said.

Landen Hoffman, of Woodbury, is continuing to face “serious complications” stemming from the random April 12 attack when Emmanuel Aranda, 24, threw the boy nearly 40 feet off a balcony at the massive mall in Bloomington.

“While the miracle of his survival is what we celebrate and thank Jesus for every day, we must also acknowledge that our beautiful boy has been on a very challenging road to recovery,” family spokesman Noah Hanneman wrote late Tuesday on a GoFundMe page for the boy that has raised more than $1 million. “It has been so hard for our young son and our family.”

The boy has undergone a litany of surgeries and medical procedures for his extensive injuries, including two broken arms, a broken leg and fractures to his face and skull.

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Under pressure from U.S., Mexico launches raids against migrants

Mexico City -- About 100 Mexican soldiers and immigration agents raided a freight train in the southern state of Chiapas on Thursday and detained dozens of Central American migrants riding atop the cars. Such raids had been rare since the last crackdown on migrants in 2014. But under increasing U.S. pressure to reduce the flow of hundreds of thousands of Central Americans through Mexican territory, Mexico's government has stepped up enforcement.

At least some of the troops wore armbands of Mexico's newly formed National Guard. The government says it has deployed thousands of Guard agents across the country with supporting immigration enforcement.

In a scene filmed by Associated Press journalists, the train rolled to a stop in a rural area, and then soldiers climbed ladders to the top of freight cars shouting, "This is the army, you're surrounded!"

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'Those poor souls, they didn't have their fathers here': US Colonel buries his soldier son

One of the most heart-wrenching photos from the Second World War has been colourized alongside a series of images from the Pacific Theater.

The photo shows US Marine Colonel Francis Fenton conducting the funeral of his son Private First Class Mike Fenton, near Shuri, Okinawa, in May 1945.

The two briefly met each other during the bloody Battle of Okinawa in Japan and exchanged news. A few days later, Mike, 19, was killed in a Japanese counterattack.

After burying his son, Colonel Fenton stared at the bodies of other dead soldiers and said: 'Those poor souls. They didn't have their fathers here'.

Other captivating shots in the collection show US Marines injured in the line of duty receiving urgent medical attention, a Japanese soldier surrendering after spending days evading capture, and a troop of soldiers caring for a child orphaned by the brutal fighting.

The photos have been colourized by electrician Royston Leonard, 55, from Cardiff, Wales who spends up to five hours working on each individual photo. He believes that photos 'give more' when they are in color.

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The Day Fox News Was on the TV on My Gym

I'D OCCASIONALLY seen him in the gym — we both work out at the same Brookline Village health club — but we had never previously had occasion to speak. The other day, as I was using a weight machine near the front desk, I noticed him approach and speak to the staff member on duty. He motioned with apparent consternation toward the TV screens mounted on the opposite wall, and I heard him say the word "Fox." One of the eight screens was tuned to the Fox News Channel, and it became clear he wanted it changed.

"I'm sorry," the staffer replied. "Another member specifically asked for Fox to be put on."

He turned to resume his workout, plainly unhappy, and saw that I had been observing the exchange. "Are you the person who's watching Fox?" he asked me.

"No," I told him. "I don't like TV news. But what's the big deal? There are eight screens to look at. If you don't care for Fox, you have seven other options."

"That's not the point," he said (I'm paraphrasing from memory). "They shouldn't have Fox News on in this gym."

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Pinkerton: Soros-Backed Group Plans $50M Ad Campaign to Swing Trump’s Rural Voters Using Healthcare Issue

Here’s a headline to ponder: “Democratic group’s poll shows Trump vulnerable with his base on health care: American Bridge is planning a $50 million advertising campaign targeting small-town Trump supporters and swing voters.”

That headline appeared in Politico on June 24; the article explained that the goal of the Democratic group American Bridge is to chip away at Trump’s percentages in red rural areas. As American Bridge’s president, Bradley Beychok, said, “We’re trying to go from losing these segments [of voters] 85-15 to maybe 75-25.”

Such a nibble-around-the-edges strategy could bear fruit. For instance, in 2016, Donald Trump won 82 percent of the vote in Sioux County, Iowa, giving him a margin in that county of more than 12,000 votes. In the meantime, Trump won Iowa with only 52 percent, a mere 48,000 votes out of nearly a million-and-a-half ballots cast. So if American Bridge really could chisel down Trump’s supermajority numbers, the Democrats might succeed in flipping the Hawkeye State next year.

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Pregnant woman shot in stomach indicted over unborn baby's death

Birmingham, Alabama — A woman from Alabama who suffered a miscarriage after being shot has been charged with manslaughter for the death of her unborn child. The case has outraged abortion rights advocates nationwide.

Marshae Jones' arrest came some six months after the 27-year-old, who was five months pregnant at the time, was shot in the stomach. According to the grand jury indictment, Jones "intentionally caused the death of her unborn baby by initiating a fight knowing she was five months pregnant," concluding it was "caused in a sudden heat of passion."

The altercation happened last December at a Birmingham, Alabama suburb shopping center. The panel found that the shooter, 23-year-old Ebony Jemison acted in self-defense when she pulled out a gun.

The manslaughter charges against Jemison have since been dropped.

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What the Viral Border-Patrol Video Leaves Out

News outlets seized on the video as evidence of the Trump administration’s cruelty, but they omitted the crucial context.

In an attempt to justify Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s absurd comparison of American detention facilities to Holocaust-era concentration camps, many figures within the media have shared a viral video clip of a legal hearing in which a Department of Justice attorney debates a panel of judges as to what constitutes “sanitary conditions.” The majority of the shares were of a version put out by NowThis News, which claimed that the video shows a Trump administration official arguing that “children don’t need soap, toothbrushes, or beds to be ‘safe and sanitary’ while in Border Patrol custody.” The claim has led to several days of outrage, and has been used repeatedly as evidence that the current administration is being intentionally cruel to migrant children. Countless journalists, along with clickbait outlets such as The Hill and the Huffington Post, have highlighted the video inside this framing.

Unsurprisingly, it is not that simple. Indeed, the hearing in the video was related not to actions taken by the Trump administration, but to a challenge of a 2017 ruling that the CBP under the Obama administration had violated the Flores Settlement agreement with its treatment of children in custody. The judge in that case cited specific infractions that she felt were in violation of the “safe and sanitary” requirement under the Flores agreement and recommended a special monitor be appointed to ensure these facilities were complying with the original standard. The DOJ attorney in the video, Sarah Fabian, was not arguing that the United States should decline to provide those items to children, but rather that the Flores Settlement agreement didn’t specifically require those items. The notoriously liberal Ninth Circuit judges disagreed with this argument, preferring to read Flores narrowly. Fabian has been arguing similar cases on behalf of the Justice Department for years; that is her job. Some of her legal arguments have upset immigration advocates before. But they have never led to this type of media coverage, or to the claim that her fulfilling her legal role is indicative of a moral shortcoming.

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