Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Australian prime minister demands answers on Minneapolis police shooting

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Australian prime minister demands answers on Minneapolis police shooting

Australian prime minister demands answers on Minneapolis police shooting(Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called the fatal shooting of an Australian woman by a Minneapolis police officer over the weekend "shocking" and "inexplicable" and said his diplomats were seeking answers from U.S. authorities. A Minneapolis police officer shot Justine Damond, who was originally from Sydney, around midnight Saturday while responding to an emergency call she had placed about a possible assault behind her house in a quiet residential neighborhood. Turnbull said he and the Australian consul-general in Chicago were "seeking answers," in a television interview on Wednesday morning in Australia (Tuesday evening in the U.S.).


Mother charged in baby's hot-car death was getting hair done: police

Mother charged in baby's hot-car death was getting hair done: policeThe mother, DiJanelle Fowler, kept the car running with the air conditioning on, but the car's battery died while she was inside the beauty shop in Tucker, Georgia, on June 15, said DeKalb County Police spokeswoman Shiera Campbell. Police believe Skylar Fowler was dead by the time her mother returned to the car a few hours later, Campbell said. "Instead of calling 911, she called roadside assistance to get her battery jumped," Campbell said in a phone interview.


GOP Rep. Rohrabacher gets to the bottom of Martian civilization: There wasn’t any

GOP Rep. Rohrabacher gets to the bottom of Martian civilization: There wasn’t anyA Republican lawmaker asked a panel of NASA scientists Tuesday for opinions on whether Mars could have had civilized life “thousands of years ago.”


8th person in Trump Jr. meeting identified as Ike Kaveladze

8th person in Trump Jr. meeting identified as Ike KaveladzeIke Kaveladze’s attorney confirmed that his client was the eighth person at the June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Kaveladze, who believed he was attending the meeting as a translator, is senior vice president at Crocus Group, the real estate development company run by Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov.


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