Marine stabbed to death in Hawaii as crowd looks on, suspect in custody

A 23-year-old Marine mortarman was stabbed and killed in Waikiki, Hawaii early Saturday morning, following a verbal altercation that escalated to violence. Sgt. William Brown, who hailed from Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force based at the Kaneohe Marine Corps Base, has been characterized as a “beloved […]

John McCain took an indirect shot at Trump for his famous deferment during the Vietnam War

Sen. John McCain seemed to call out Trump for his medical deferment from the Vietnam War. The senator criticized wealthy Americans who “found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur” — the exact diagnosis Trump received in 1968. Trump famously dismissed McCain’s military service in 2015, saying “I like people who weren’t captured.” […]

The Air Force says it doesn’t plan to recall retired pilots to fix shortage

An amended executive order gave the Defense Department the authority to recall up to 1,000 retired pilots to address a personnel shortage. The Air Force says it doesn’t currently intend to recall those pilots however. The Air Force says it doesn’t plan to use new authority granted by an amended executive order to recall retired […]

Federal judge unseals New York crime lab’s software for analyzing DNA evidence

A federal judge this week unsealed the source code for a software program developed by New York City’s crime lab, exposing to public scrutiny a disputed technique for analyzing complex DNA evidence. Judge Valerie Caproni of the Southern District of New York lifted a protective order in response to a motion by ProPublica, which argued that […]

American dynasties

The rumors that Chelsea Clinton is being groomed for political office, possibly congress, are not completely unfounded.  For most of her life, she has stayed out of the public’s eye and remained relatively unassuming and flown under the radar. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, her social media exploded into the spotlight.  Some would argue that […]

Man charged with terrorism after IED detonates in Virginia

Stephen Powers, a 30-year-old man from Gloucester, Virginia, was arrested on Friday and charged after allegedly detonating an improvised explosive device (IED) near Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. No one was killed or injured in the blast, and Powers has already been charged with possessing and using an explosive device and committing an act of terrorism according […]

Trump to release JFK files, subject to ‘further information’

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that subject to receipt of further information, he planned to allow the opening of long-secret files on the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy that are scheduled for release next week.   Read the whole story from Reuters. Featured image courtesy of Wikipedia

White supremacists who beat people up at rallies are escaping police custody — so media outlets are unmasking them

Members of California’s Rise Above Movement got into violent altercations during the protests in Charlottesville and Berkeley. But police aren’t charging them with crimes, an investigation from ProPublica found. So the outlet has identified several white nationalists, revealing who they are to the world. White nationalists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia and Berkeley, California this year, beating up […]

A black protester hugged a white nationalist outside Richard Spencer’s talk. ‘Why do you hate me?’ he asked

Wearing a white T-shirt emblazoned with swastikas, Randy Furniss, hands in his pockets, walked slowly through a crowd Thursday that had largely gathered to protest white nationalist Richard Spencer, who was delivering a speech at the University of Florida. Days before Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) had warned in an executive order that a “threat of a potential emergency is […]

‘Killing Gunther’ is a bad SNL sketch with very little action, comedy, or Schwarzenegger

The trailer for the new Taran Killam helmed action comedy “Killing Gunther” looked like an opportunity to watch an action icon introduce some levity into his normal shtick, with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Gunther” featured heavily throughout the two-and-a-half-minute commercial.  With witty one-liners, plentiful explosions, and Schwarzenegger’s smiling face abutting each shot of the rest of the […]

SOFREP Rundown: Hillary Clinton and the Russian uranium business

THE PLAYERS The Clinton Foundation – a non-profit organization run by Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton.  Its mission is “to bring people together to take on the biggest challenges of the 21st century.”  They focus on areas like global health, climate change, economic development, health and wellness, and programs built to enable girls and women […]