Latinos and Democrats with robocalls claiming that the sitting judge had been releasing drug dealers into their neighborhoods . Kreep won by just over 1,000 votes , and now they might have to someday face a judge who boasts of his pro bono work for the Minutemen . But Gary Kreep is just a warm - up act .
" I think that should be absolutely disavowed . " ADVERTISEMENT Reporters bombardedconflict.attack.naRyan , who also criticized the remarks last week , with questions about Trump at an event intended to discuss solutions for poverty as part of the House GOP policy agenda . " I think they 're wrong . I do n't think they 're right - headed , " the Speaker , who endorsed Trump for president last week , said of the remarks .
In another governor ’s race , in Tabasco , Sepúlveda set up fake Facebook accounts of gay men claiming to back a conservative Catholic candidate representing the PAN , a stunt designed to alienate his base . “ I always suspected something was off , ” the candidate , Gerardo Priego , said recently when told how Sepúlveda ’s team manipulated social media in the campaign . In May , Peña Nieto visited Mexico City ’s Ibero - American University and was bombardedconflict.attack.naby angry chants and boos from students . The rattled candidate retreated with his bodyguards into an adjacent building , hiding , according to some social media posts , in a bathroom . The images were a disaster .
Israeli archaeologists found the site of a fierce battle where the Roman army bombardedconflict.attack.airstrikemissilestrikeand breached the walls of Jerusalem before conquering the city and destroying the Second Temple almost 2,000 years ago , officials said Thursday . They said that the discovery , made last winter during an excavation of a construction site for the new campus of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design outside the Old City , also finally confirmed the description of the wall that was breached provided by the historian Josephus Flavius . During the dig , the archaeologists found the remains of a tower surrounded by scores of stones and boulders fired by Roman catapults at the Jewish forces guarding the wall , the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement .
Thousands of Syrian government troops had defected by then , joining ragtag brigades of local farmers , students , and hairdressers . Some fighters made their own explosives and launched grenades from giant slingshots . The Syrian Army bombardedconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlewhat little territory these rebels controlled . Several of the activists attending the training session in Istanbul lived in besieged areas ; Wiley and his colleagues taught them to photograph and measure artillery craters , assess angles of impact , collect shell fragments , identify the types of weapon used , and calculate launching points . But , he said , “ the big thing we wanted them to focus on was documentation generated by the regime , ” which he called “ the king or queen of evidence in international criminal proceedings . ”
Danish planes have conducted strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq since voting to join the U.S.-led coalition in Sept. 2014 , but Friday ’s announcement marks the nation ’s first declaration of activity in Syria . In April , Denmark said it would increase its involvement in the coalition ’s effort by sending seven F-16 jets , a transport aircraft and military personnel to assist the Syria campaign . The multi - sided war in Syria raged on as Denmark announced its increased activity , with Aleppo surrounded by pro - government forces and bombardedconflict.attack.airstrikemissilestrikeby Russian airstrikes . On Friday , Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called for the resumption of peace talks .
Speaking on Saturday , Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu threatened Syrian Kurds with military action , saying that if there is a threat to Turkey , “ we will strike the PYD [ Kurdish Democratic Union Party ] like we did Qandil , ” referring to a violent bombing campaign waged by Turkey against the PKK ( Kurdistan Workers ’ Party ) in its Qandil mountain stronghold in northern Iraq . Later in the day , the Syrian government sent an official letter to the UN , strongly condemning Turkish actions and describing it as supporting terrorist groups . “ In addition , Turkish artillery bombardedconflict.attack.nathe towns of Maraanaz , al - Malikiyah , Minagh , Ain Dakna and Bazi Bagh , which are home to the civilian population , ” the complaint addressed to the UN Secretary General and the UN Security Council said . The letter added that 12 trucks mounted with heavy machine guns and carrying around 100 fighters entered Syrian territory from Turkey through the Bab al - Salam checkpoint on Saturday . The claim was later denied by the Turkish government .
He also reiterated allegations of Russian involvement in an attack on aid convoy last month , prompting an accusation of “ Russophobic hysteria ” by the Russian defence ministry . On the ground in besieged eastern Aleppo , residents said air raids using powerful bunker - buster bombs resumed on Tuesday and continued into the early hours of Wednesday morning . Doctors said they had documented 34 dead and 216 injured on Tuesday alone , adding that the total number was likely to be higher as some families retrieved their dead from bombardedconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlesites without taking them to local hospitals . Airstrikes on the largest market in eastern Aleppo on Wednesday killed at least 15 people , with fears for others who were trapped . In his BBC interview Sawers rejected calls for a no - fly zone to prevent Syrian helicopters or Russian planes from bombing Aleppo , saying this might have been an option three or four years ago but was not realistic today .
Video : UN says Aleppo suffering ' new height of horror ' Meanwhile , Mr Rycroft , Ms Power and French ambassador Francois Delattre walked out of the Security Council when Syria 's ambassador was called to speak - in a show of anger and frustration by the West . Syrian rebels had declared the push for peace " futile " after Syrian government and Russian warplanes bombardedconflict.attack.airstrikemissilestrikeAleppo in the worst surge of violence in the city for years . The 30 rebel groups - including the biggest faction backed by Turkey , Gulf states and the West - said the bombing campaign was " unprecedented " , with more than 200 killed in recent days . Efforts to revive such an agreement are now a lost cause unless there is an immediate end to fighting and aid is forthcoming , rebels said .
Chinese airlines need to hire almost 100 pilots a week for the next 20 years to meet skyrocketing travel demand . Facing a shortage of candidates at home , carriers are dangling lucrative pay packages at foreigners with cockpit experience . Giacomo Palombo , a former United Airlines pilot , said he ’s being bombardedconflict.attack.naevery week with offers to fly Airbus A320s in China . Regional carrier Qingdao Airlines promises as much as $ 318,000 a year . Sichuan Airlines , which flies to Canada and Australia , is pitching $ 302,000 .
Such a process would not dilute the evil of ISIS ’s civilian - targeting violence , but it would enable a more honest and complete understanding of the role Western governments ’ policies play and the inevitable costs they entail . Perhaps those costs are worth enduring , but that question can only be rationally answered if the costs are openly discussed . But whatever else is true , if we are constantly bombardedconflict.attack.nawith images and stories and dramatic narratives highlighting our own side ’s victims , while the victims of our side ’s violence are rendered invisible , it ’s only natural that large numbers of us will conclude that only They , but not We , are committing civilian - killing violence . That ’s a really pleasing thing to believe , no matter how false it is . Having media outlets perpetrate self - pleasing and tribal - affirming — but utterly false — narratives is the very definition of propaganda .
Israeli archaeologists found the site of a fierce battle where the Roman army bombardedconflict.attack.naand breached the walls of Jerusalem before conquering the city and destroying the Second Temple almost 2,000 years ago , officials said Thursday . They said that the discovery , made last winter during an excavation of a construction site for the new campus of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design outside the Old City , also finally confirmed the description of the wall that was breached provided by the historian Josephus Flavius . During the dig , the archaeologists found the remains of a tower surrounded by scores of stones and boulders fired by Roman catapults at the Jewish forces guarding the wall , the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement .
On July 7 , Israel launched a large military operation in the Gaza Strip , dubbed Operation Protective Edge . The Israeli Defense Forces devastated Gaza . For 51 days , Israel bombardedconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleGaza with more than 6,000 airstrikes . The United Nations Human Rights Council subsequently convened an independent , international commission of inquiry , which concluded that Israel , and to a lesser extent Palestinian armed groups , had likely committed violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law , some constituting war crimes . “ The scale of the devastation was unprecedented ” in Gaza , according to the commission .
He also reiterated allegations of Russian involvement in an attack on aid convoy last month , prompting an accusation of “ Russophobic hysteria ” by the Russian defence ministry . On the ground in besieged eastern Aleppo , residents said air raids using powerful bunker - buster bombs resumed on Tuesday and continued into the early hours of Wednesday morning . Doctors said they had documented 34 dead and 216 injured on Tuesday alone , adding that the total number was likely to be higher as some families retrieved their dead from bombardedconflict.attack.nasites without taking them to local hospitals . Airstrikes on the largest market in eastern Aleppo on Wednesday killed at least 15 people , with fears for others who were trapped . In his BBC interview Sawers rejected calls for a no - fly zone to prevent Syrian helicopters or Russian planes from bombing Aleppo , saying this might have been an option three or four years ago but was not realistic today .
Thousands of Syrian government troops had defected by then , joining ragtag brigades of local farmers , students , and hairdressers . Some fighters made their own explosives and launched grenades from giant slingshots . The Syrian Army bombardedconflict.attack.airstrikemissilestrikewhat little territory these rebels controlled . Several of the activists attending the training session in Istanbul lived in besieged areas ; Wiley and his colleagues taught them to photograph and measure artillery craters , assess angles of impact , collect shell fragments , identify the types of weapon used , and calculate launching points . But , he said , “ the big thing we wanted them to focus on was documentation generated by the regime , ” which he called “ the king or queen of evidence in international criminal proceedings . ”
By creating a " smoke curtain " they hope to impede visibility from warplanes that have been carrying out bombing raids . Image copyright unknown Image caption Children in Aleppo with a pile of burning tyres behind them Rebel - held parts of Aleppo have been heavily bombardedconflict.attack.airstrikemissilestrikerecently by pro - government forces . Rebels have launched an offensive to try to break a government siege . Russia is a key backer of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad and is supporting pro - government forces with air strikes .
On July 7 , Israel launched a large military operation in the Gaza Strip , dubbed Operation Protective Edge . The Israeli Defense Forces devastated Gaza . For 51 days , Israel bombardedconflict.attack.naGaza with more than 6,000 airstrikes . The United Nations Human Rights Council subsequently convened an independent , international commission of inquiry , which concluded that Israel , and to a lesser extent Palestinian armed groups , had likely committed violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law , some constituting war crimes . “ The scale of the devastation was unprecedented ” in Gaza , according to the commission .
Video : UN says Aleppo suffering ' new height of horror ' Meanwhile , Mr Rycroft , Ms Power and French ambassador Francois Delattre walked out of the Security Council when Syria 's ambassador was called to speak - in a show of anger and frustration by the West . Syrian rebels had declared the push for peace " futile " after Syrian government and Russian warplanes bombardedconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleAleppo in the worst surge of violence in the city for years . The 30 rebel groups - including the biggest faction backed by Turkey , Gulf states and the West - said the bombing campaign was " unprecedented " , with more than 200 killed in recent days . Efforts to revive such an agreement are now a lost cause unless there is an immediate end to fighting and aid is forthcoming , rebels said .
Turkish warplanes killed 20 Daesh terrorists and destroyed three buildings as well as a vehicle and a motorcycle of the terror group in northern Syria late on Saturday , the Turkish General Staff said on Sunday . The warplanes bombardedconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleDaesh targets south of Tell al Hawa in northern Syria between 7:38 – 7:44 p.m. local time , the written statement said . The region lies to the east of the town of Al - Rai . The airstrike that came less than two days before a U.S.-Russia agreement on a ceasefire in Syria takes effect .
Speaking on Saturday , Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu threatened Syrian Kurds with military action , saying that if there is a threat to Turkey , “ we will strike the PYD [ Kurdish Democratic Union Party ] like we did Qandil , ” referring to a violent bombing campaign waged by Turkey against the PKK ( Kurdistan Workers’ Party ) in its Qandil mountain stronghold in northern Iraq . Later in the day , the Syrian government sent an official letter to the UN , strongly condemning Turkish actions and describing it as supporting terrorist groups . “ In addition , Turkish artillery bombardedconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlethe towns of Maraanaz , al - Malikiyah , Minagh , Ain Dakna and Bazi Bagh , which are home to the civilian population , ” the complaint addressed to the UN Secretary General and the UN Security Council said . The letter added that 12 trucks mounted with heavy machine guns and carrying around 100 fighters entered Syrian territory from Turkey through the Bab al - Salam checkpoint on Saturday . The claim was later denied by the Turkish government .
Unknown hackers still managed to get away with about $ 80 m , one of the largest known bank thefts in history . The hackers breached Bangladesh Bank ’s systems and stole its credentials for payment transfers , two senior officials at the bank said . They then bombardedconflict.attack.nathe Federal Reserve Bank of New York with nearly three dozen requests to move money from the Bangladesh Bank ’s account there to entities in the Philippines and Sri Lanka , the officials said . Four requests to transfer a total of about $ 81 m to the Philippines went through , but a fifth , for $ 20 m , to a Sri Lankan non - profit organisation was held up because the hackers misspelled the name of the NGO , Shalika Foundation . Hackers misspelled “ foundation ” in the NGO ’s name as “ fandation ” , prompting a routing bank , Deutsche Bank , to seek clarification from the Bangladesh central bank , which stopped the transaction , one of the officials said .
By creating a " smoke curtain " they hope to impede visibility from warplanes that have been carrying out bombing raids . Image copyright unknown Image caption Children in Aleppo with a pile of burning tyres behind them Rebel - held parts of Aleppo have been heavily bombardedconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlerecently by pro - government forces . Rebels have launched an offensive to try to break a government siege . Russia is a key backer of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad and is supporting pro - government forces with air strikes .
Israeli archaeologists found the site of a fierce battle where the Roman army bombardedconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleand breached the walls of Jerusalem before conquering the city and destroying the Second Temple almost 2,000 years ago , officials said Thursday . They said that the discovery , made last winter during an excavation of a construction site for the new campus of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design outside the Old City , also finally confirmed the description of the wall that was breached provided by the historian Josephus Flavius . During the dig , the archaeologists found the remains of a tower surrounded by scores of stones and boulders fired by Roman catapults at the Jewish forces guarding the wall , the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement .
Turkish warplanes killed 20 Daesh terrorists and destroyed three buildings as well as a vehicle and a motorcycle of the terror group in northern Syria late on Saturday , the Turkish General Staff said on Sunday . The warplanes bombardedconflict.attack.airstrikemissilestrikeDaesh targets south of Tell al Hawa in northern Syria between 7:38 – 7:44 p.m. local time , the written statement said . The region lies to the east of the town of Al - Rai . The airstrike that came less than two days before a U.S.-Russia agreement on a ceasefire in Syria takes effect .
Video : UN says Aleppo suffering ' new height of horror ' Meanwhile , Mr Rycroft , Ms Power and French ambassador Francois Delattre walked out of the Security Council when Syria 's ambassador was called to speak - in a show of anger and frustration by the West . Syrian rebels had declared the push for peace " futile " after Syrian government and Russian warplanes bombardedconflict.attack.naAleppo in the worst surge of violence in the city for years . The 30 rebel groups - including the biggest faction backed by Turkey , Gulf states and the West - said the bombing campaign was " unprecedented " , with more than 200 killed in recent days . Efforts to revive such an agreement are now a lost cause unless there is an immediate end to fighting and aid is forthcoming , rebels said .
The Trump Wall , the past shows , does not promise a solution to the forces driving migration along the U.S.-Mexico border . But it does offer the illusion of a solution . So if the Trump Wall is ever built , no one should be surprised when it is bypassed , breached or bombardedconflict.attack.na, just like those that came before it .