Not guilty plea from man who shot ex-NFL player McKnight

GRETNA, La. (AP) -- The man who fatally shot former NFL player Joe McKnight formally pleaded not guilty Monday to a second-degree murder charge.

Ronald Gasser, 55, of Terrytown, had initially been arrested on a manslaughter charge following McKnight's Dec. 1 death. Last week, he was indicted on a second-degree murder charge, which carries a mandatory life sentence. He's jailed on $750,000 bond.

Blaming America First Is An Ignorant Way To Approach Immigration

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America is big and surrounded by oceans. We don’t need a passport to go skiing, sailing, or sunning. We can do all that without leaving California, much less the United States. Insulated, we develop second-hand assumptions about the rest of the world.

Why did the USDA shut down an online animal abuse database?

An online database documenting animal abuse suddenly disappeared from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) website on Friday, sparking outrage among animal rights activists. 

Thousands of inspection reports and other information documenting animals mistreated, injured, or killed at research laboratories, zoos, puppy mills, and elsewhere were removed due to privacy concerns, said the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in a statement. 

Senate Democrats mount one last push against Betsy DeVos

Democrats plan to spend the next 24 hours speaking on the Senate floor in a last-ditch effort to derail the confirmation of Betsy DeVos, President Trump’s nominee for education secretary.

“Now is the time to put country before party,” said Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), urging GOP senators to join Democrats in opposing DeVos, a Michigan billionaire and major Republican donor who has spent decades advocating the use of public funds to help parents pay tuition at private and religious schools.

 

Taranto dal web alla carta

Gli scogli di Taranto, la storia di Mattia Moro che abbiamo pubblicato a settembre 2016, ci è piaciuta così tanto che abbiamo deciso di realizzarne (per una volta) una versione cartacea. L’abbiamo presentata in anteprima al festival Bilbolbul, in occasione della mostra omonima (ancora in corso fino al 4 dicembre a Bologna a Checkpoint Charly), e ora è disponibile anche qui per l’acquisto on line. Chi abita a Bologna può passare direttamente a comprarne una copia in redazione (in via San Valentino 1/f), ma la troverete anche a Bari, a Spine Winter Session (dal 6 dicembre al 5 gennaio in Strada Palazzo di Città 45)