Thursday, November 8, 2018

Mass Shooting In California, And Other Stories

Late yesterday evening, a gunman killed at least 12 people at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California.  The suspect, identified as Marine veteran Ian David Long, was found dead inside the bar.

Read more at ABC News, CNN, CBS News, KOLO and NBC News.
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In other stories:









From the NL Times, children in Zaanstad, the Netherlands reportedly prefer Chimney Pieten for their Sinterklaas celebrations.  (In 2017, I visited a part of Zaanstad named Zaanse Schans, which is mentioned in the article.)




From the Evening Standard, PayPal bans British activist Tommy Robinson.




From El País, Catalan police have arrested a Franco supporter for allegedly plotting to assassinate Spain's prime minister.  (From what I can tell, a "Franco supporter" is someone who opposes the PM's plan to move Franco's body from its current location.  If you read Spanish, read the story at Público.)








From Khaama Press, police in Kabul, Afghanistan thwart an attempt by terrorists to blow up an oil tank truck.  (The article calls the truck, which appears in a picture, a "tanker", a term which often is used to denote a ship.  However, Kabul is way too far inland to accommodate that type of tanker.  The article also uses the common euphemism "militants".)














From the New York Post, a teacher in Broward County, Florida finds a "provisional ballot box" in a school storage room.  (What? Not in a car trunk as allegedly happened in Minnesota a few years back?)


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