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Kazan...

Information provided by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) allowed Russian law-enforcement agencies to arrest the would-be attackers before they could carry out their plan, the Kremlin said in a statement posted on its Internet site.

The foiled attack was to have been carried out on Kazansky Cathedral, in Russia’s second city of St Petersburg, and other busy sites in the city,” the Kremlin said.

 locations in the city where large numbers of people gather, the Kremlin statement said. The cathedral is a popular tourist site.

The Russian President thanked his American colleague for the information passed on.

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Andrea Ramsey announced in a Facebook post that she was ending her congressional campaign, calling allegations that she harassed her former employee and then retaliated against him "a lie."

The employee, Gary Funkhouser, filed the lawsuit against OneLab Inc., the Kansas City-area company where Ramsey worked as a vice president. The two parties agreed to dismiss the lawsuit after settlement talks.

Ramsey was hoping to win the right to challenge four-term incumbent Republican Kevin Yoder next year. The district contains a mix of affluent, GOP-leaning suburbs and poorer, heavily Democratic city neighborhoods. Democrat Hillary Clinton carried it in last year's presidential election.

Funkhouser filed the federal lawsuit in October 2005, four months after he was fired as a human resources manager at OneLab. Ramsey, then known as Andrea Thomas, was the company's executive vice president for human resources, a position she left in April 2006 for another job.

Harass and retaliate, is that considered sexually based?

Intent...**

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Pennsylvania man who posted several violent messages on Facebook and was convicted under a federal threat statute.

The Supreme Court rejected that view and decided that people cannot be convicted of the crime of sending threats unless they had an “awareness of some wrongdoing,” which is needed to show criminal intent.

The court’s opinion rested on a subtle point of criminal law and said nothing about the 1st Amendment or free speech. But it is likely to shield people who rant online or muse darkly about carrying out violent acts.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., however, said the court decided to focus narrowly on a historic principle of criminal law. Before someone can be convicted of a crime, they should be at least aware that what they were doing was wrong.

A defendant can be convicted if he “transmits a communication for the purpose of issuing a threat or with the knowledge that the communication will be viewed as a threat,” the chief justice said.   So Be Carefull...

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UFO...

Social media speculation was sky high after a line of flashing lights was seen above across the Denver area. At first glance, many saw a convoy of flashing lights lined up in a straight formation. 

Some speculated the line of lights were part of UFOs. Others were curious if they were drones. 

According to a military spokesperson, the lights actually belonged to a convoy of C-17 aircraft that were involved in an exercise. CBS Denver was told the planes were headed from South Carolina to Nevada and back.

Aviation expert Steve Cowell says the planes were flying in a formation that is commonly seen in military exercises.

"That was the echelon formation. In other words, they were all lined up in a row," Cowell said. "It is not uncommon to have these types of planes in formation, especially at night.

 Some described the line of lights in the sky as "creepy," claiming they couldn't hear any sounds coming from more than a dozen aircraft. Cowell said the planes, being military cargo aircraft, are designed to operate at quiet tones.

Slow Day...

A Louisiana private investigator [Jordan Hamlett, 32] pleaded guilty to misusing Donald Trump's Social Security number in repeated attempts to access the president's federal tax information before his election last year.

A court document accompanying Hamlett's plea agreement says he used Trump's Social Security number and other personal information to open an online application for federal student aid on Sept. 13, 2016. After obtaining a username and password, he tried to use an Internal Revenue Service data retrieval tool to obtain Trump's tax information, the document says.

"The defendant made six separate attempts to obtain the federal tax information from IRS servers, but he was unsuccessful.

Consent...

Sexual immorality is spreading rapidly among so-called Bible-believing, gospel-preaching, family-focused churches. Many of the conservative Christians probably know about a currently ongoing affair or premarital sex between active members of their own church. They may not approve of it. Many other religions have the same issues.

In Massachusetts, Consent can be just judicial, but is normally both parental and judicial. In the absence of any statutory minimum age, one opinion is that the traditional minimum common law marriageable age of 12 for girls and 14 for boys may still be in effect . Other States may have similar.

While couples or those attempt forming a relationship, may believe they are doing the right thing, their opinion is not shared by many.

However, let us keep morality and judgment out of the hands of well paid media personnel. 
Just a thought.