Today’s comic by Matt Bors is The mysterious Donald Trump:
Feds to seek death penalty against Dylann Roof:
Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Dylann Roof, who is accused of killing nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, in July 2015.
Roof, who is white, is charged with 33 federal offenses, including hate crime charges for allegedly targeting his victims on the basis of their race and religion. A judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf in July 2015.
"The nature of the alleged crime and the resulting harm compelled this decision," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said.
Heartbreaking and all too familiar:
The New Jersey father pleaded guilty in 2014 to child endangerment after his 4-year-old son accidentally used the gun to shoot and kill Brandon Holt, a 6-year-old neighbor, at Senatore’s Toms River home, NJ.com.
More than three years after the shooting, a judge had to do the unthinkable: Determine how much the child’s death was worth monetarily to the people who loved him most — his parents.
The answer: $572,588.26 [...]
So far in 2016, at least 95 children younger than 18 have picked up a firearm and accidentally shot themselves or someone else, according to data from Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun-control group funded by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
One of Don Trump’s vice presidential possibilities: (Of course Corker is being framed!)
The FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission are scrutinizing Tennessee GOP Sen. Bob Corker’s personal finances, including stock transactions involving one of the nation’s top developers of shopping centers and malls, according to multiple sources familiar with the probe.
It looks like John Kasich hasn’t given up the ghost quite yet:
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination earlier this month, is instructing the 161 delegates he won to remain bound to him through the party's July nomination convention. [...]
Kasich has not thrown his support to Donald Trump, who became the presumptive nominee in early May after he and Sen. Ted Cruz left the race.
Gawker founder has suspicions:
For the last several years, Mr. Denton has been the target of a lawsuit brought by the wrestler Hulk Hogan in the now-infamous defamation case over Gawker’s publication of a sex tape — an editorial choice that recently resulted in a $140 million jury award to Mr. Hogan. [...]
During the trial, a low hum of speculation emerged within the legal community that Mr. Hogan’s legal case, which dragged on for more than three years, might be funded by someone other than Mr. Hogan — and for reasons other than simply inflicting financial pain on Gawker … Back then, Mr. Denton dismissed the idea of a third party secretly underwriting Mr. Hogan’s case as “rather conspiracy-theorylike.”
But in recent weeks, in the face of several new lawsuits brought against Gawker that are unrelated to Mr. Hogan’s case … Mr. Denton is having second thoughts. All of the new cases, like Mr. Hogan’s, were brought by Charles J. Harder, a Los Angeles-based litigator, working on a contingency basis, who has most likely run up huge legal bills and expenses. Gawker has said it has already spent as much as $10 million on its side of the case.
Mr. Denton has begun to question whether Mr. Harder has a benefactor, perhaps one of the many subjects of Gawker’s skewering coverage.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin mines rare data on Asian-American voters. Who we think will win may be more important than who we want. Social media lessons of the Arab Spring. When GunFAILing cops lie. When Hairspray von Clownstick gets caught lying (i.e., every day.)
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