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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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In the News
By Deanna Paul @ WashingtonPost.com, Oct. 7
As many GOP lawmakers continue to defend President Trump amid an expanding impeachment inquiry, Colin Powell, the retired general who served under three Republican presidents, said the party “has got to get a grip on itself.”
In remarks broadcast Sunday on CNN, Powell criticized Republican members of Congress for staying silent as Trump’s efforts to pressure a foreign power to target a political rival were exposed.
Republican leaders, Powell said, “are holding back because they’re terrified of what will happen to any one of them if they speak out.” He continued, “When they see things that are not right, they need to say something about it, because our foreign policy is in shambles right now.” [....]
Op-ed by Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky @ CNN.com, Oct. 5; she agrees:
MITT WON’T PRIMARY TRUMP—BUT HE’S TRYING TO BRING HIM DOWN
By Gabriel Sherman @ The Hive @ VanityFair.com, Oct. 7
Trump’s favorite punching bag is reaching out to fellow Republicans to raise the temperature on impeachment. “Romney is the one guy who could bring along Susan Collins, Cory Gardner, Ben Sasse,” says a Mitt confidant.
By Ken Frydman, press secretary for Rudolph W. Giuliani during the 1993 mayoral campaign.
By Annie Gowen @ WashingtonPost.com, Oct. 6, 10:21 pm
Police in Kansas City, Kan., said they are searching for two people involved in a bar dispute early Sunday morning that left four people dead and five injured. The city’s police department said that two men wielding handguns walked into the Tequila KC bar at 10th Street and Central Avenue in Kansas City about 1:27 a.m. and opened fire, sending panicked patrons fleeing into the street.
On Sunday evening, the department released surveillance cameras with photos of two men – both wearing baseball jerseys, including one from the Kansas City Royals – and asked for the public’s help in identifying them.
The investigation is ongoing, but police said they don’t believe the attack was random or a hate crime [....]
four counts of murder during his arraignment on
Sunday in Manhattan Criminal Court.
Pool photo by Rashid Umar Abbasi
A police van idled and a single piece of yellow caution tape flapped from a nearby tree as Benjamin Vanbrackle pulled his shirt down to show the fresh scar that wrapped around his neck to the top of his chest.
It took 28 stitches to sew him up after he was slashed with a box cutter several weeks ago, he explained late Saturday, slurring his words. “I drink a lot,” he said.
Hours earlier, not far from where Mr. Vanbrackle, who is 62 and homeless, sat on a bench, four homeless men were bludgeoned to death as they slept on the street in Chinatown at the base of the Bowery.
A 24-year-old homeless man, Randy Santos, was charged on Sunday with four counts of murder. Mr. Santos’s criminal history suggests he had been caught in a downward spiral for months before the attacks, accused of biting a worker at an employment agency in the garment district in Manhattan last October and punching a stranger in the eye on a Q subway train four days later, the police said [....]