Man accidentally shot dead by own passenger in ‘failed drive-by attempt’

A man has died after being accidentally shot by his own passenger as he attempted to fire out of a car window, police say.Matthew Gibson, 26, was pronounced dead on 22 July after being shot in the head during the incident which prosecutors portrayed as a drive-by shooting gone bad in Park Manor, Chicago.Video footage from 21 July showed Gibson pulling alongside a white SUV that was waiting to make a left turn at around 5:40am, according to reports from the Chicago Sun-Times.As the car slowed his passenger, Jake Lee, opened fire on the vehicle with a .40-caliber handgun.However Lee, 27, accidentally shot his driver in the head during the incident. Despite his injuries Gibson was able to drive two miles from the scene.A 22-year-old man was also wounded during the shooting. Prosecutors for Cook County added that there did not appear to be any sign of shots being fired from the white SUV.Gibson was found to be brain dead on Monday, and was kept alive only to have his organs harvested. His death was ruled as a homicide.His death was the 271st recorded homicide in Chicago this year, a figure that has risen to 277 since the incident. Of those deaths, 243 were killed in shootings.Lee, from the city’s Englewood area, now faces a charge of aggravated battery with a firearm, and is expected to face a count of murder.He was placed on parole in April 2017 after having served an eight-year sentence for aggravated battery with a handgun, a period that was set to end in 2020.Lee was denied bail at a hearing on 23 July.

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Coalition says strike kills 5 IS jihadists in Syria

A US-led coalition air strike killed five jihadists in eastern Syria on Monday, a spokesman said, in the first such raid since the collapse of the Islamic State group's "caliphate". "Coalition forces conducted a strike against a Daesh cell near Busayrah", a town in Deir Ezzor province, said coalition spokesman James Rawlinson, using an Arabic acronym for IS. The five jihadists were all Syrian, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor.

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Trump administration tightens opioid prescriptions for feds

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Pakistani military plane crashes into garrison city, kills 17

A Pakistani military aircraft on a training flight crashed in a built-up area in the garrison city of Rawalpindi early on Tuesday, killing all five crew members and 12 civilians, an army statement said.

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Gunman scorned California garlic festival on social media before mass shooting

A 19-year-old California man was identified by police on Monday as the gunman who opened fire with an assault rifle at a garlic festival in Gilroy, California, killing three people and wounding a dozen others.

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Water meant for Puerto Rican hurricane victims dumped on farmland

Tens of thousands of water bottles destined for desperate Puerto Ricans after devastating back-to-back hurricanes slammed into the US island territory remain unopened on farmland almost two years later, emergency aid officials confirmed Monday. Aerial images captured by AFP show a sea of water bottles, packaged into massive bundles, heaped on what appears to be a private estate in the Higuillar neighborhood in Dorado, 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of San Juan. A spokesman for the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) confirmed it had provided the water bottles as part of relief efforts for Hurricane Maria, which occurred in September 2017.

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Kamala Harris releases healthcare policy plan days before Democratic debate

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris on Monday released a "Medicare for All" proposal ahead of a second debate for Democratic presidential candidates, when their differing approaches to healthcare insurance policy are expected to feature prominently. Harris' plan would allow Americans to buy into the Medicare government health insurance program, establishing a 10-year phase-in period during which newly born children would be automatically enrolled and healthcare providers can transition. The plan would allow private health insurers to offer Medicare plans if they meet requirements on costs and benefits.

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Arkansas school shooter who killed 5 in 1998 dies in head-on crash: police

Drew Grant was 11 years old when he and a friend fatally shot four students and a teacher at their Arkansas middle school in 1998.

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Gilroy garlic festival shooting: Gunman shot dead after killing at least three at California event

A six-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl were among those killed by a gunman who opened fire at a popular food festival in California on Sunday.  Santino William Legan, 19, appeared to target people randomly as he began shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival after cutting through a fence to gain entry, according to the police.  He killed three people and injured another 12 with an assault-style rifle before being fatally shot by police officers who responded to the incident in less than a minute.  Six-year-old Stephen Romero, the 13-year-old girl and a man in his 20s were killed, officials and authorities said. The motive for the attack is unclear.  Alberto Romero, Stephen's father, told the San Francisco Bay Area news station KNTV: "My son had his whole life to live and he was only 6. That's all I can say." The attack came at the end of the three-day festival in Gilroy, a city in north California known as the "Garlic Capital of the World”. The event is attended by more than 100,000 people.  Festival attendees have to pass through metal detectors and have their bags searched, but the shooter is believed to have gained access through a fence near a car park. Details of the attack are still emerging.  BREAKING UPDATE: Ambulance crews were told 11 people down in a reported shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. https://t.co/ufzR4VllULpic.twitter.com/giApm5t2bX— Stephen Ellison (@sj_ellison) July 29, 2019 Jack van Breen, a musician playing at the festival, said he saw a man wearing a green shirt and grayish handkerchief around his neck fire into the food area with what looked like an assault rifle. He and other members of the band dove under the stage. Mr Van Breen said he heard someone shout: "Why are you doing this?" The reply was: "Because I'm really angry." Donna Carlson of Reno, Nevada, told reporters she was helping a friend at a jewellery booth when "all of a sudden it was pop, pop, pop.” She hid behind a table until police said it was safe to leave.  Donald Trump, the US president, condemned the "wicked murderer” during an event at the White House on Monday morning.  He said: "We express our deepest sadness and sorrow for the families who lost a precious loved one in the horrific shooting last night in Gilroy, California.” Police Chief Scot Smithee said police officers in the area confronted the suspect less than a minute after he opened fire, and the suspect was shot and killed. "He had some sort of a rifle," Mr Smithee said, adding they were investigating the possibility there was a second shooter. Witnesses reported confusion and panic as shots rang out at the event in the city of 50,000 located about 80 miles southeast of San Francisco.  People leave the Gilroy Garlic Festival following a deadly shooting Credit: AP Videos posted on social media appeared to show festival attendees scattering in confusion as at least one loud popping sound could be heard in the background. "What's going on?" a woman can be heard asking on one video. "Who'd shoot up a garlic festival?" Herman Solis, of Hollister, said he and his girlfriend dropped to the ground when he heard shots fired. “You could hear the bullets whizzing by,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle. “It was unreal. We ran and ducked for cover. It was chaos. At first I thought it was fireworks. Then I realised it wasn’t.” Another witness, Julissa Contreras, told NBC a white man in his 30s armed with a rifle opened fire indiscriminately. "I could see him shooting in just every direction. He wasn't aiming at anyone specifically. It was just left to right, right to left," Ms Contreras told the network. Emergency personnel stand outside Gilroy High School Credit: AP Tim Cook, the Apple CEO, shared his condolences on Twitter, saying he was "deeply saddened" by the targeting of the "beloved community tradition". Earlier Gilroy police said: “The hearts of the Gilroy Police Department and the entire community go out to the victims of today's shooting at the Garlic Festival.”

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A shark attack while snorkeling is extremely rare. Tips on how to avoid it

Steven Spielberg’s summer blockbuster hit "Jaws" came out 44 years ago. Oh, and it's shark week. There is still a very real public fear of sharks.

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Trump’s Racist Tweets Don't Break Any Rules, Twitter Says

Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily BeastPresident Donald Trump’s spree of tweets attacking black political figures over the weekend do not violate Twitter’s rules prohibiting dehumanizing language, the company said. Trump wrote that Rep. Elijah Cummings’ (D-MD) congressional district, a majority-black area that includes part of Baltimore, was a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” and that “no human being” would want to live there. He further retweeted a British conservative commentator who called Baltimore “a proper shithole.” A day later, the president said there was “nothing racist” about his tweets, turning his criticism toward longtime Democratic political operative Rev. Al Sharpton, who he called a conman.In early July, Twitter announced new rules disallowing tweets that deny the humanity of religious groups after nearly a year of deliberation and public comment. The company considered banning all dehumanizing speech, including attacks on geographic origin, reportedly using the president’s “shithole countries” remark as an example, but narrowed the policy to encompass religion and groups explicitly protected by civil rights laws.Cummings, chair of the House Oversight Committee, has been investigating Trump and recently decried detention conditions at the Southern U.S. border. Last week the president made similar attacks against four newly minted Representatives, all women of color, telling them to go back to their countries. Three of four were born in the U.S. The comments also did not run afoul of Twitter’s rules.Whether Trump’s racist tweets violate Twitter’s rules has long been a subject of debate, and Twitter has often fallen back on the defense that, as the U.S. president, his remarks are newsworthy and should remain visible. Under a policy announced in late June, however, Twitter said it will label tweets by prominent figures that break the social network’s abusive behavior rules when it's “in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain available.” Twitter opted not to give Trump’s latest set of tweets that label. 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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Beijing reiterates support for Hong Kong's Lam, police

BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China reiterated on Monday its support for Hong Kong's leader, Carrie Lam, and its police, and called on Hong Kong people to oppose violence following another weekend of clashes between protesters and police in the city. Hong Kong bore the scars on Monday of its eighth straight weekend of violent protests, with hard hats, umbrellas and water bottles littering some central streets. Huge crowds have taken to the streets to protest against a now-suspended extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects in Hong Kong to be sent to China to face trial in Communist Party-controlled courts.

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Barack and Michelle Obama offer rare rebukes of Trump over attacks on Baltimore

Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama offered rare rebukes of President Trump after he lashed out at an African-American congressman and called the lawmaker's majority-black district “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”

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Pakistani military aircraft crashes on training flight, 17 killed

A Pakistani military aircraft on a training flight crashed in a built-up area in the city of Rawalpindi, killing all five crew members and 12 civilians, a statement from the army's communications wing said on Tuesday.

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CORRECTED-UPDATE 2-Britain tells Iran: release ship to 'come out of the dark'

Britain told Iran on Monday that if it wants to "come out of the dark" it must follow international rules and release a British-flagged oil tanker seized by its forces in the Gulf. Iranian commandos seized the Stena Impero near the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important waterway for oil shipments, on July 19. "If the Iranians want to come of the dark and be accepted as a responsible member of the intentional community they need to adhere to rules-based system of the international community," Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told Sky News.

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Rivals unload on Kamala Harris’ health plan from left and right

Bernie Sanders' and Joe Biden's campaigns immediately criticized the version of Medicare for All Harris released Monday.

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UPDATE 1-Israel says Arrow-3 missile shield passes U.S. trials, warns Iran

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CNN's Jake Tapper Reminds Bernie Sanders He Accused Pharmaceutical Executives of Murder

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders accused pharmaceutical executives of murder but declined to defend the comments when pressed by CNN’s Jake Tapper.Tapper played a clip of Sanders comparing Pharma executives to murderers at a rally one week ago before asking the senator to defend his position on Sunday’s “State of the Union” show on CNN.“Pharmaceutical executives see themselves as people who help save lives and improve lives, do you really see them as murderers?” inquired Tapper. “This is a philosophical issue we have to deal with,” replied Sanders, before launching into an extended discussion of the insulin market without ever defending his original characterization.“You can call them whatever you want,” Sanders demurred. “I will tell you that as president of the United States we are gonna take on the pharmaceutical industry … what they’re doing involves corruption in my view,” he continued.Sanders also promised that as president he would use anti-trust laws to break up what he believes is a medication monopoly, and appoint an attorney general specifically to prosecute drug manufacturers.

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'Stay inside and lock your doors': Tiny Canadian village on lockdown as teenage murder spree suspects spotted scavenging for food

A massive police manhunt has been launched in a remote part of northern Canada for a pair of teenager double murder suspects.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been chasing Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, for weeks since the pair were connected to two separate killings in British Columbia earlier this month.The teenagers have been tracked in a series of stolen cars as they have travelled thousands of miles across Canada, from its Pacific coast in the west all to the way east to rural Manitoba.Police helicopters, a plane, drones, dog units and armed officers have flooded the area around York Landing, a small village in remote northern Manitoba, where a local indigenous neighbourhood watch group had spotted the duo.Officers tweeted residents in York Landing should stay inside and lock all their doors and windows while the heavy police presence searched their community.James Favel from the Bear Clan Patrol, the First Nations group which reported the sighting, said some of his volunteers spotted two young men who matched the description of Mr McLeod and Mr Schmegelsky.The pair immediately stood out in the small, close-knit village while scavenging for food near a dump and ran away as soon as they realised they had been seen, he added.RCMP units had already been searching the nearby town of Gillam and believe the pair have been cornered in this region of rural Manitoba.But the intense police presence was leaving its mark on the locals. “Up here, all the towns and communities, they look like ghost towns,” said Wade Taylor, another volunteer with the Bear Clan Patrol.“Like, everyone’s inside. There’s a high level of stress, anxiety and fearfulness because they’re being kept in their houses.“Some of the people, you can tell by their voice that they’re almost at the point of breaking down crying. You could say it’s traumatic.”The manhunt saga began on 12 July when Mr McLeod and Mr Schmegelsky, childhood friends, left their home in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island and travelled 1,500 miles north to Whitehorse, in the Yukon, to look for work.But on 15 July police discovered the bodies of a young couple near Liard Hot Springs, back in British Columbia and the RCMP has said the teenagers are suspects in the case and wanted for questioning.A few days later a burnt-out truck driven by the pair was discovered, along with the body of Leonard Dyck. Mr McLeod and Mr Schmegelsky have been charged with his murder and chased across Canada by the RCMP ever since.The duo are believed to be armed and the public has been warned not to approach them.The father of Mr Schmegelsky has told reporters he believes his son is on a “suicide mission” and expects him to eventually die in a confrontation with the police. “A normal child doesn’t travel across the country killing people,” he said. “A child in some very serious pain does.”

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Deputy who plays bailiff on courtroom TV show hurt in weekend shooting that killed his wife

The deputy, who also does acting work, was hurt in the shooting that killed his wife in southeast Houston.

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British man who ‘faked death’ while facing rape charges arrested in US

A British man has been arrested in the US after allegedly faking his own death while facing rape charges in Scotland.Kim Gordon, also known as Kim Vincent Avis, disappeared in February after his son reported that he had not come out of the sea after swimming at a Californian beach.But investigators said the boy’s account “fell apart” and he could not say how they supposedly travelled to Monastery Beach, which is locally nicknamed Mortuary Beach because of frequent drownings.The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office concluded that Mr Gordon had not entered the water after an extensive search including a helicopter, boats, divers and a drone.“We continued to investigate the case and learned that Avis was out on bail for 24 felony sexual abuse charges pending in Scotland,” a spokesperson said.“After speaking with his ex-wife, we became suspicious of the drowning report. We reinterviewed his son and determined he was not telling the truth.”Mr Gordon’s son was returned to Scotland by the local child protection department, while local police, Scottish authorities and Interpol continued the investigation.Authorities said the 55-year-old was traced to Colorado Springs following a sighting and arrested on Friday morning.Mr Gordon is being held by US marshals in the city, ahead of an extradition hearing later this month.A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Police Scotland is aware of reports from the USA regarding Kim Gordon or Avis and is liaising with the relevant authorities.”Scottish media reported that he was facing 24 charges, including allegations of rape, sexual and physical assault.Mr Gordon, who formerly busked and sold jewellery in Inverness, failed to attend a court hearing in Edinburgh in March.

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President Trump's Attacks on Baltimore Came as Elijah Cummings Quietly Built Effective Investigations Into the Administration

President Trump's Twitter tirade against Elijah Cummings highlighted the effectiveness of the Congressman's oversight strategy

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Chaos and fear in Libya's Mitiga airport after missiles halt air traffic

Missiles on Monday hit Tripoli's only functioning Mitiga airport which remained closed to air traffic, causing chaos and fear among passengers, witnesses said.

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