Dem. first female nominee for governor in Ga.
ATLANTA— Georgia Democratstapped Stacey Abramsas the state’s first femalenominee for governorfrom either major party andthe first black woman to bea major U.S. party’s nomineefor governor.
The contest was among the early results of primaries and runoffs in Arkansas, Kentucky and Texas.
DavidErmold, a gay man inKentucky, lost his Democraticprimary bid for the rightto challenge Kim Davis,a Republican county official who went to jail threeyears ago for flouting theSupreme Court and deniedsame-sex marriage licenses.Meanwhile, Travis Brenda,a math teacher, defeatedthe majority leader of theKentucky House of Representativesin the GOP primary, following a wave of education protests.
Texas has three House runoffs that will be key to whether Democrats can flip the minimum 24 GOPheld seats they’ll need for a majority next year. Democrats could end up nominating women in all three districts.
Dad: Texas shooter bullied
SANTAFE, Texas — A 17-year-old student accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school should be seen as a “victim” because he may have recently been bullied, causing him to lash out, his father said.
The suspect’s attorney, Nicholas Poehl, has said he is investigating whether his client endured any “teacher-onstudent” bullying after reading reports of the teen being mistreated by football coaches. The school district issued a statement saying it investigated the accusations and “confirmed that these reports were untrue.”
PERRYHALL, Md. — DawntaAnthony Harris, a 16-year-oldwho was supposedto be on house arrest forauto theft, has been chargedas an adult in the Mondaykilling of BaltimoreCounty police Officer AmyCaprio, 29, who was respondingto a report of a suspicious vehicle.
Facial recognition fears
SEATTLE— Amazon’s decision to market a powerful face recognition tool to police is alarming privacy advocates, who say it could accelerate a dystopian future in which officers can identify and track people in real time, whether they’re involved in crimes or not.
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President Donald Trump declined to say Tuesday whether he has confidence in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, escalating pressure on the Justice Department as his White House negotiated rare access to classified documents for his congressional allies.