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American Airlines passengers tackle, restrain man who tried to open emergency exit mid-flight

American Airlines passengers tackle, restrain man who tried to open emergency exit mid-flight

Passengers onboard an American Airlines flight reported feeling rushing wind when a fellow traveler attempted to rip open the emergency exit in mid-air on Tuesday. Six of them sprang into action, tackling the man and holding him down in the aisle until the plane safely returned to Sunport Airport in Albuquerque. Flight 1219 had been on its way to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport when the incident occurred roughly half an hour after takeoff. “30 minutes after departing Albuquerque I was shaken out of my Panda Express and tequila-induced stupor by a man trying to aggressively open the airp......
Trump ‘stiffs law enforcement officers’: Nikki Haley, citing Raw Story

Trump ‘stiffs law enforcement officers’: Nikki Haley, citing Raw Story

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley issued a statement Monday based on a recent Raw Story article, calling on former President Donald Trump to pay law enforcement who protect his presidential campaign events.

Haley cited Raw Story’s article “Siren: New Hampshire town eats Trump security bills while Haley pays local police,” where Raw Story obtained documents through an open records request showing that Trump’s June 27 visit to Concord, N.H., cost the local police and fire departments $3,778.85.

Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and a former U.N. ambassador under the Trump administration, said Trump should pay for costs incurred by law enforcement who will be staffing his visit Monday afternoon in Derry, N.H....

Teens bused to Albuquerque to protest 'abortion holocaust' outside actual Holocaust museum

Teens bused to Albuquerque to protest 'abortion holocaust' outside actual Holocaust museum

As part of its "Do You Know? Do You Care?" campaign, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust staged a protest Thursday outside of the New Mexico Holocaust and Intolerance Museum. The activists not only held signs reading "ABQ: America's Auschwitz," they entered the museum to hand out leaflets and demand it commission an exhibit comparing the Holocaust to abortion. They did not, by their own admission, know much about the laws they came to protest.