Kellyanne Conway is 'mad' media downplays Dayton shooter's liberal views, although no link is seen to massacre

Unlike the El Paso massacre, which is being treated by the FBI as a possible hate crime, there is no indication at this point that the mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, was racially or politically motivated.

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Three US tourists die in Caribbean drowning tragedy

St. John's (Antigua and Barbuda) (AFP) - Three American tourists have drowned in the Turks and Caicos Islands after apparently getting caught in a fast-moving tide fueled by high winds, authorities and local residents said Tuesday. The third was discovered early this morning with assistance from the US Coast Guard. Residents said the families may have been attempting to cross the half-mile distance through shallow water from Bambarra Beach to nearby Pelican Cay.

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Founder of site linked to mass shootings says he created 'a monster'

The creator of a far-right online message board connected to three mass shootings that killed dozens of people has described himself as "naive and ignorant", likening the platform 8chan to Frankenstein's monster, with no limit to its extremism. Fredrick Brennan, 25, who lives in the Philippines, said the free-wheeling web board he created in 2013 had become a hive of white supremacy, anonymous hate, and Neo-Nazism since he sold it to a fellow American, and said he felt a sense of guilt, "sometimes". "If I could go back and not create 8chan at all, I probably would," he told Reuters in an interview.

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Trump tweet: Nobody blamed Obama for Sandy Hook

President Trump responded to the criticism he’s been receiving in the wake of the deadly mass shootings over the weekend by quoting “Fox & Friends” co-hosts, who argued former President Barack Obama was not treated as harshly.

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13-year-old suffers skull fracture when man attacks him for wearing hat during national anthem, police say

A grown man grabbed a 13-year-old and threw him to the ground during the national anthem, according to investigators in Montana.

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Chinese foreign ministry slams U.S. 'interference' in Venezuela

An order by U.S. President Donald Trump to freeze the Venezuelan government's assets and cut off its funds is an act of "gross interference" and a violation of the norms of international relations, China's foreign ministry said.

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Tucker Carlson: White Supremacy Is a ‘Hoax’ and ‘Not a Real Problem in America’

Three days after a Texas man allegedly killed 22 people in El Paso after apparently posting a manifesto complaining of a “Hispanic invasion,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson said white supremacy is not a problem in the United States and is actually a “hoax” and a “conspiracy theory.”Carlson, who regularly spouts the same anti-immigrant “invasion” rhetoric the El Paso shooter is believed to have espoused in a racist manifesto, hit back against those who say President Trump’s rhetoric on immigration may have emboldened the suspected shooter. The Fox News star claimed it is “just a lie” to say Trump ever “endorsed white supremacy or came close to endorsing white supremacy.”Crediting the president for condemning white supremacy while addressing the recent mass shootings, Carlson not only blasted critics of the president but took it a step further and dismissed the issue of white supremacy altogether, saying “the whole thing is a lie.” “If you were to assemble a list, a hierarchy of concerns, problems this country has, where would white supremacy be on the list? Right up there with Russia probably. It’s actually not a real problem in America.”After asserting that one could fit all the white supremacists in America within a football stadium, the Fox News primetime star—who has repeatedly claimed racism is essentially a non-existent problem— then mocked the idea of white supremacy being an issue in this country.“It’s a hoax,” he declared.  “Just like the Russia hoax, it’s a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power.”Moments later, during an interview with frequent guest Victor Davis Hanson, Carlson insisted he's “never met anybody—not one person—who ascribes to white supremacy.”“I don't know a single person who thinks that's a good idea,” he added. “I don't—I mean, they are making this up, and it's a talking point which they are using to help them in this election cycle, obviously, because Russia died.”The New York Times, meanwhile, recently highlighted how white extremist ideology is a major driving force in deadly mass shootings. Furthermore, the FBI said last month that the majority of domestic terrorism cases they’ve recently investigated are versions of white supremacist violence. Besides the El Paso shooting, at least a dozen people were killed over the past year in two separate synagogue attacks in Poway, California, and Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania, both of which were tied to alleged gunmen who had expressed white nationalist views online beforehand. Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Texas Police Department Under Fire After Viral Photo Shows Officers on Horseback Leading Handcuffed Man By Rope

Chief Vernon L. Hale III of the Galveston police department said the officers "showed poor judgment" in the incident and that they did not have any ill intentions with their decision

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Denver Police Reminds Community: Don't Use Twitter as 911

Following the recent mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso, Denver police are asking for people to stop relying on social media to report suspicious activities to police.

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Poll: Most Republicans support assault weapons ban, despite Trump saying 'no appetite'

Trump campaigned in 2016 on his strong support for the Second Amendment. But the poll found that more than half of GOP voters said they would support stricter gun laws after the recent shootings.

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Brazilian gang leader found dead after trying to escape jail by dressing up as daughter

A Brazilian gang leader who made headlines by attempting to escape jail bydressing up as his 19-year-old daughter has been found dead in his cell,Agence-France Presse reports

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N.Y. Times’s Trump headline about Trump slammed by critics, readers canceling subscriptions

The New York Times is being criticized after an overly generous headline about President Trump’s comments on Monday about the weekend’s mass shootings.

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Experts question legality of India's changes in Kashmir

India's Hindu nationalist-led government has used a presidential order to revoke the special constitutional status of Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir state. It also had a bill passed to downgrade Jammu and Kashmir into a union territory instead of a state and turn a third region of the state, Ladakh, into a separate union territory. Clause 3 of Article 370 of India's Constitution states that the president can make changes to the article or abrogate it only with the consent of the Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir, which dissolved itself in 1957 after it drafted the state's own constitution, says Aman Hingorani, a lawyer and expert on Kashmir constitutionalism.

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Here's why the pilot of Enola Gay had no regrets about dropping the first atom bomb

On August 6, 1945, US bomber the Enola Gay launched the world's first nuclear attack, dropping an atom bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

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The Latest: Family of Ohio shooter, sister release statement

The family of the Ohio shooter and his sister who was among the nine killed has released a statement saying they are devastated, and cooperating with law enforcement's investigation. The family offered "their most heartfelt prayers and condolences" to the victims killed by 24-year-old Connor Betts, who opened fire early Sunday in Dayton's Oregon entertainment district. Twenty-two-year-old Megan Betts was killed by her brother.

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Shark feeding frenzy near shore at Myrtle Beach stuns visitors

A group of sharks engaged in a feeding frenzy close to the shore at Myrtle Beach, S.C., treated visitors to a wild spectacle Monday afternoon.

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Trump words linked to more hate crime? Some experts think so

The rampage in Texas has brought new attention to the dangers of immigration-motivated hate crimes and violence in a country with 58 million Latinos amid daily political rhetoric from the White House, conservative politicians and the dark corners of the internet about migrants coming across the border. Overall, statistics released by the FBI late last year showed hate crimes in the United States rose 17% in 2017 compared to the previous year, the third straight annual increase.

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Woman convicted of murdering alleged sex trafficker freed from prison

Cyntoia Brown, who received a life sentence at 14-years-old for killing a real estate broker, has been released from prison after 15 years.

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Chinese official says Hong Kong facing biggest crisis since 1997

Hong Kong is facing its biggest crisis since it returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997, the head of China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs office said on Wednesday. Zhang Xiaoming, one of the most senior Chinese officials overseeing Hong Kong affairs, made the comments during a meeting in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. Zhang was holding a forum that included Hong Kong delegates to China's parliament, the National People's Congress and China's main consultative body, the CPPCC, to discuss the political crisis in the territory.

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Gun control really works. Science has shown time and again that it can prevent mass shootings and save lives.

Mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio over the weekend have once again put America's gun violence problem in the spotlight.

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How Elizabeth Warren plans to reboot the farm economy

She joins a number of 2020 Democrats trying to appeal to rural voters by unveiling a sweeping plan to overhaul farm policy.

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Police believe they have found alleged Canadian murder suspects dead

The bodies of two teens suspected of multiple murders in Canada are believed to have been found dead.

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Two Nuclear-Armed States Accuse India of Harming Sovereignty

(Bloomberg) -- India’s move to abolish the decades-long autonomy of Kashmir has drawn strong reaction from its neighbors, with China accusing New Delhi of undermining its territorial sovereignty and Pakistan’s army vowing to go to "any extent" to stand by the Himalayan state.China’s strongly-worded statement was most critical of the impact of India’s actions on the mainly Buddhist region of Ladakh -- an area of strategic importance nestled between Tibet and Pakistan.Just two years after India and China’s decades-long dispute flared up over a remote area of the Himalayas, and six months after the most serious military escalation between India and Pakistan in decades, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise move on Kashmir has inflamed tensions yet again.Beijing has always opposed India’s inclusion of Chinese territory in the western section of the China-India border, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswomen Hua Chunying said in a statement Tuesday."The recent unilateral revision of domestic laws by the Indian side continues to undermine China’s territorial sovereignty, which is unacceptable and will not have any effect," Hua said.India’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Raveesh Kumar said Tuesday the creation of a new union territory of Ladakh was an internal matter. "So far as the India-China Boundary Question is concerned, the two sides have agreed to a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement," Kumar said in a statement. "India does not comment on the internal affairs of other countries and similarly expects other countries to do likewise."‘We Will Retaliate’Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan said India’s move may lead to a war, while its army pledged to go to “any extent’’ to defend the people of the disputed state that’s claimed in full by the two nuclear-armed nations.“We will retaliate any attack” on part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan, Khan said at a meeting of parliament that was called to debate the move. “This is not a nuclear blackmail. The world will be responsible if it doesn’t take action against India.”Earlier, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi wrote a letter to the secretary general of the United Nations on the “critical situation”, according to a tweet by the government on Tuesday. Pakistan’s army said it “stands by the Kashmiris in their struggle to the very end. We are prepared and shall go to any extent to fulfill our obligations.” It will not recognize the “sham” Indian efforts to revoke Kashmir’s autonomy, spokesman General Asif Ghafoor said in a tweet after a meeting of top army commanders.India has accused Pakistan of using militant groups including Jamaat-ud-Dawa led by Hafiz Saeed, the suspected planner of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, of waging a proxy war in Kashmir. Islamabad denies the charges.Border IssuesChina, meanwhile, expressed serious concerns about the current situation in Kashmir."We call on India and Pakistan to peacefully resolve relevant disputes through dialogue," she said, noting China had urged India to "avoid any move that further complicates the border issue."India and China have long had border disputes in Ladakh, which was made a federally administered region along with the move to remove the special status to Kashmir in parliament on Monday. A two-week standoff ensued in September 2014 when Chinese troops advanced several kilometers into northern Ladakh.(Recasts throughout with Pakistan reaction from third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dandan Li.To contact the reporters on this story: Archana Chaudhary in New Delhi at achaudhary2@bloomberg.net;Ismail Dilawar in Karachi at mdilawar@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Unni KrishnanFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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