Las Vegas
The search of Paddock’s three-bedroom house on a cul-de-sac in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada, was for “re-documenting and rechecking,” said local police Chief Troy Tanner, who accompanied FBI agents as they served the search warrant.
“I don’t think they are after anything specific,” Tanner told The Associated Press. “They’re going through everything and photographing everything again.”
The home was first searched Monday by Las Vegas police, who said they found 19 guns and several pounds of potentially explosive materials at the house that Paddock bought in early 2015.
The search came exactly a week after Paddock opened fire on a country music crowd, killing 58 and injuring nearly 500.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The judge, prosecutors, defense lawyers and the Indonesian and Vietnamese suspects were to visit the chemistry laboratory to examine samples of the women’s clothing before they are formally submitted as evidence.
Such a move is not unusual in criminal cases in Malaysia, where judges often visit crime scenes. In this case, the decision came after government chemist Raja Subramaniam told the court the VX found on the clothing may still be active.
After the lab visit, defense lawyers are expected to cross-examine Raja, who testified last week that VX was found on the women’s clothing as well as on Kim Jong Nam’s face, eyes, clothing, and in his blood and urine samples.
This week, prosecutors say they will present airport security videos that show the two women carrying out the attack and indicate they knew they were handling poison.
Defense lawyers have said the women were duped by suspected North Korean agents into believing they were playing a harmless prank for a hidden TV-camera show.
Doan Thi Huong of Vietnam and Siti Aisyah of Indonesia pleaded not guilty at the start of their trial last week to charges of murder that carry a mandatory death sentence if they are convicted.
Kim, the eldest son in the current generation of North Korea’s dynastic rulers, was believed to be a family outcast who may have been perceived as a threat by the nation’s leader, his youngest sibling Kim Jong Un.
VX is banned by an international treaty as a weapon of mass destruction but is believed to be part of North Korea’s chemical weapons arsenal.
A Facebook ad by Dove that aimed to represent “women of color thoughtfully” quickly disappeared this weekend after it instead incurred intense social media backlash. The ad, according to images captured in screen shots, showed a black woman in a brown shirt, who then removed the shirt to reveal a white woman in a light-colored shirt. This was an advertisement for body wash, with the Dove bottle sitting before the woman on the bathroom counter in front of her.
Whatever the soap company intended to say in the ad, many viewers saw an offensive message. Said one respondent on Twitter:
“White = Clean
“Black = Dirty
“The World According to #Dove”
After taking the ad down, Dove apologized: “An image we recently posted on Facebook missed the mark in representing women of color thoughtfully. We deeply regret the offense it caused.”
A torchlight rally by white supremacists that descended into violence in Charlottesville, Va., in August drew participants from at least 35 states and spoke to the ability of the self-described “alt-right” fringe movement to mobilize adherents nationwide, the Anti-Defamation League said in a new report Sunday.
The analysis of 200 participants came one day after Richard Spencer, the leader of the Aug. 11-12 demonstration, returned Saturday with fewer than 50 followers to the home of the University of Virginia as it celebrated its bicentennial and posted video of a planned, 10-minute “flash mob.”
Albany, n.y.
Top lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo have argued the change will act as a powerful deterrent in a state where 30 state lawmakers have left office since 2000 because of criminal charges or allegations of ethical misconduct.
Some good-government advocates question whether the loss of a pension will be enough to keep errant lawmakers honest.
— Wire reports