A school superintendent in Rising Star, Texas is taking criticism from some local residents after he left his gun in a school bathroom, where it was found minutes later by a third-grade student.
Local news station KTXS reports that Rising Star Independent School District Superintendent Robby Stuteville got called out at a school board meeting for leaving his firearm in an elementary school bathroom stall, where it was later found by a student who reported it to his teacher.
“For our kids' protection, we need someone who is more responsible with a gun,” said local resident Elizabeth Lee, whom KTXS reports has two grandchildren in the school system. "Mr. Stuteville is a good man. But that was irresponsible."
According to local station KTAB, local police are now investigating the incident, which occurred last month but was not disclosed until last week.
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In an interview with KTAB, Stuteville insisted that there was "never a danger other than the obvious" to the student who found his gun in the bathroom.
He also praised the student for immediately going to his teacher to report the firearm rather than picking it up and playing with it.
“This is one of those examples of guns in schools," Stuteville said of the weapon that he left in a bathroom stall for a third grader to find. “Regardless of who takes responsibility, they are a considerable danger and one should school their child to be on the lookout for any unusual placement of a weapon or anything out of place.”
A federal appeals court on Wednesday has denied a request from Donald Trump’s legal team that sought to block one of his lawyer’s from testifying against the former president in the classified documents case, according to multiple published reports.
“This means Trump's lawyer in the classified docs case is now expected to share notes, audio, etc., includ. material related to his client, Trump,” CBS News’ Robert Costa tweeted.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins confirms Costa’s reporting.
“A federal appeals court is refusing to block Trump's defense lawyer Evan Corcoran from testifying or turning over documents about the former president as part of the criminal investigation into possible mishandling of classified documents,” Collins tweeted.
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The ruling is described as a potential game-changer by CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig.
“A major ruling, made with astonishing speed,” Honig tweeted.
The next step for Trump’s legal team is the U.S. Supreme Court, according to Costa.
“Trump team could now try to take the matter to the Supreme Court, but it's hard to see how that stops Corcoran from complying with the appeals court order in the meantime,” Costa tweeted.
“Significant to have Trump's lawyer forced to provide notes, materials, and likely testify, potentially soon.”
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell pushed back against a Fox Business correspondent who tried to link inflation to government spending.
At a Wednesday afternoon press conference, Fox Business reporter Edward Lawrence suggested President Joe Biden's budget added to inflationary forces.
"Inflation has been rather sticky, so do you need help from the fiscal side to get inflation down faster?" Lawrence wondered.
"We don't give advice to the fiscal authorities, and we assume that we take fiscal policy as it comes to our front door, stick it in our model along with a million other things, and we have responsibility for price stability," Powell replied. "And we will get inflation down to 2% in time."
Lawrence followed up with a leading question.
"But the spending that's happened is working against what you are doing, right?" he asked. "So it's prolonging inflation?"
Powell, however, argued that government spending was not a top driver of inflation.
"You have to look at the impulse from spending, because spending was, of course, tremendously high during the pandemic, and then as the pandemic programs rolled off, spending actually came down," he pointed out. "So the sort of fiscal impulse is actually not what's driving inflation right now."
"It was at the beginning, perhaps, part of what was driving inflation, but that's not really the story now," he remarked.
At the same press conference, Powell signaled the Fed would soon end its regime of rate hikes.
"We no longer state that we anticipate that ongoing rate increases will be appropriate to quell inflation," he explained. "Instead, we now anticipate some additional policy firming may be appropriate."
Watch the video below from C-SPAN.
In the wake of the recent launch of his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump has shared his plan to “shatter the deep state and restore government that is controlled by the people.” But in an op-ed for the conservative Washington Examiner this Wednesday, columnist Zachary Faria asks why Trump didn't do that during his first term as president.
Faria acknowledges that some of the issues Trump cites in his plan need to be addressed by the next Republican president. "And yet, whether or not Trump’s plan is good or bad is irrelevant. It is late," he writes.
"Trump was president for four years. Trump and his allies were talking about the 'deep state' as early as March 2017, not even two months after he was inaugurated," Faria writes. "He was the head of the executive branch and could have come up with and implemented a plan to 'shatter the deep state' whenever he wished. And yet, it is only now, more than two years removed from office, that he wants to take up the fight."
As Faria points out, Trump's most loyal supporters will likely say that his plans to dismantle the deep state were obstructed by his opposing forces, but "if Trump was so weak that he couldn’t pull it off the first time, what is stopping them from obstructing him again?"
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"If the excuse is that 'RINO Republicans didn’t stand with him,' has anything happened to change that? Most of Trump’s chosen MAGA candidates lost, in case anyone has forgotten," Faria noted.
Trump told the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this month that Americans were "in an epic struggle to rescue our country from the people who hate it and want to absolutely destroy it."
American voters, Trump said, were tired of "entrenched political dynasties in both parties, rotten special interests, China-loving politicians" and supporters of "endless foreign wars."
"In 2016, I declared: I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution," Trump said.
"I will totally obliterate the deep state. I will fire the unelected bureaucrats and shadow forces who have weaponized our justice system. And I will put the people back in charge of this country again."
With additional reporting by AFP
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