The Daily Populous

Friday April 7th, 2023 morning edition

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - A teenager is suspected of planning to “shoot up” multiple schools in Colorado Springs.

The DA’s office included the arrest papers which can be read at the bottom of this article.

According to the arrest papers, a family member of the suspect called authorities claiming their sister “threatened to shoot up a school.”

“There were numerous containers filled with half eaten food with mold growing inside and numerous alcoholic beverage containers laying around the house.”.

A law enforcement officer spoke with the suspect, who reportedly said at one point, “I’m al little drunk by the way.”.

“Lilly verified that Timberview Middle school was one of the ‘main targets’ currently and other targets were churches.

Lilly was asked what kind of planning she had done, and she state layout of the school, active firearm planning and starting a manifesto.”. »

Protesters storm BlackRock’s Paris office holding red flares and firing smoke bombs

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Demonstrators forced their way into the building that houses BlackRock’s office in Paris Thursday, taking their protest against the government’s pension reforms to the world’s biggest money manager.

Videos shared on social media showed protesters entering the Centorial office block, located near the Opéra Garnier opera house, holding red flares and firing smoke bombs.

Workers invade the Centorial building that houses BlackRock's office in Paris on April 6, 2023. »

Clarence Thomas Ruled on Bribery Case While Accepting Vacations

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During that time, Thomas ruled on a bribery case.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas voted in a unanimous Supreme Court decision to overturn a bribery conviction against a former Virginia governor in 2016 while allegedly accepting luxurious vacations from a top Republican donor at the same time.

Thomas has faced increasing scrutiny recently after news broke regarding Thomas' wife, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas advocating for overturning the 2020 election results. »

TN lawmaker asks students what gun they’re ‘comfortable being shot with’

Authored by bostonglobe.com

“You’re not going to like my answer, and look, I’m going to say that straight up,” Lamberth said to the students.

Confronted by students protesting at the Tennessee Capitol following a mass shooting at a school in Nashville, a state lawmaker posed a question that has drawn intense criticism.

“If there is a firearm out there that you’re comfortable being shot with, please show me which one it is,” he asked rhetorically. »

Sweden: State actor likeliest culprit for pipeline sabotage

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The pipelines, known as Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, are majority-owned by Russia’s state-run energy giant Gazprom.

HELSINKI (AP) — Swedish prosecutors said Thursday a state actor was the most likely culprit for the explosions that incapacitated the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea last year, an act deemed as sabotage.

Authorities and investigators in Denmark, Sweden and other countries early on suspected the explosions were deliberate attacks and consider them sabotage. »