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Three men shot in Wilmington’s Hilltop neighborhood – The News Journal

PLAYLIST: WILMINGTON SHOOTINGS IN 2017Shooting in Wilmington's Hedgeville area injures man | 0:24

A shooting Wednesday morning injured a man. Details on what prompted the violence and an update to the victim's medical condition were not immediately available. 5/24/17 Damian Giletto/The News Journal

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Police found a man suffering from a gunshot wound sitting on a chair on the porch of a home Monday morning. 5/22/17 Damian Giletto/The News Journal

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A man in his early 20's was injured in a shooting Thursday night. The violence is the 75th shooting in the city so far this year. 5/19/17 William Bretzger & Damian Giletto/The News Journal

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A 29-year-old was hospitalized Wednesday night after getting shot in his leg in Wilmington. 5/18/17 William Bretzger & Damian Giletto/The News Journal

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Wilmington police are investigating a shooting involving multiple victims that occurred Tuesday afternoon. John J. Jankowski Jr./Special to The News Journal

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Officer's responded to the area of the 500 block of Shearman St.regarding a shots fired complaint. Police found a man, approximately 25 to 30-years-old suffering from apparent gunshot wounds to his back. 5/15/17 John J. Jankowski Jr. & Damian Giletto

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A 50-year-old man is in stable condition following a shooting Sunday night in Wilmington at the intersection of A and Chapel streets. 5/15/17 John J. Jankowski Jr. & Damian Giletto

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A 14-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday night in connection to a shooting that injured a 30-year-old woman in Wilmington William Bretzger & Damian Giletto/The News Journal

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Wilmington police are investigating a shooting Wednesday night in the 500 block of W. 25th St. that killed a 23-year-old man. 5/11/17 William Bretzger, Kyle Grantham & Damian Giletto/The News Journal

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A shooting in the 100 block of Elliot's Way Wednesday night put a 17-year-old boy in the hospital. 5/11/17 John J. Jankowski Jr. & Damian Giletto

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Gunfire killed a 39-year-old man and two others were wounded in three separate shootings. All occurred in just more than five hours between 8 p.m. Friday and 1 a.m. Saturday. William Bretzger/The News Journal

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A shooting Monday night injured a man. The violence is the 71st shooting in Wilmington so far this year. 5/2/17 John J. Jankowski Jr. & Damian Giletto

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A 46-year-old man was shot in the right shoulder Sunday afternoon, becoming the city's 70th shooting victim this year. 5/1/17 Kyle Grantham & Damian Giletto/The News Journal

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A 16-year-old girl was killed Wednesday night in Wilmington in a shooting along Kirkwood Street. 4/27/17 John J. Jankowski Jr. & Damian Giletto

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Wilmington police said Brian Brooks, of Wilmington, died from his injuries sustained in a shooting in the 900 block of Maryland Avenue. 4/26/17 William Bretzger & Damian Giletto/The News Journal

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Wilmington police said three people were taken to area hospitals, one in critical condition, after three separate shootings Tuesday. The incidents took place over less than twelve hours. William Bretzger/The News Journal

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A trail of blood led Wilmington police to find a 19-year-old man injured by gunfire on a front porch along North Jackson Street Tuesday. 4/25/17 Jennifer Corbett & Damian Giletto/The News Journal

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Wilmington police responded to the area of Seventh and West Street in reference to a shooting investigation Tuesday night. 4/12/17 John J. Jankowski Jr. & Damian Giletto

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A woman was shot in the arm on W. 6th St. in Wilmington on Monday night. She was taken to Christiana Hospital and admitted in good condition. 4/11/17 Kyle Grantham/The News Journal

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A double shooting Wednesday night in Wilmington injured a 17-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man in the city's Riverside section. 4/6/17 William Bretzger & Damian Giletto/The News Journal

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Shooting in Wilmington's Hedgeville area injures man

Man found shot on porch in Wilmington

Shooting on Claymont St. injures man

Man injured in Rodney St. shooting

Two shot in Wilmington Tuesday

Man injured in Shearman St. shooting

50-year-old man injured in Wilmington shooting

Teen arrested for shooting that injured woman

23-year-old man shot dead in Wilmington

Teen injured in Wilmington shooting

Three people shot, one fatally, in Wilmington shootings

Shooting in Wilmington's Hedgeville area injures man

Police: Man shot in shoulder

Teenage girl killed in Wilmington shooting

29-year-old shot in Wilmington dies from injuries

Three separate shootings leave three injured in Wilmington

Trail of blood leads police to shooting victim

Man shot Tuesday night, hospitalized in critical condition

Woman shot on W. 6th St. in Wilmington

Teen, young adult injured in Wilmington shooting

Wilmington police investigate at the scene of a shooting at Dupont and W. 3rd Streets, reported about 10:45 pm Friday.(Photo: William Bretzger, The News Journal)Buy Photo

Three men were injured, two critically, following a shooting Friday night in Wilmington's Hilltop neighborhood.

Officers responding to the 200 block of N. DuPont St. in reference to a shooting found a 60-year-old man in 1700 block of W. Third St.suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to his right arm, said Sgt. Andrea Janvier, a Wilmington police spokeswoman.

Assisting officers were directed to St. Francis Hospital where two additional gunshot victims arrived via personal vehicles, Janvier said.

One man, a 46-year-old, was suffering from gunshot wounds to his upper torso. The other victim, a 25-year-old man, was also suffering from gunshot wounds to his upper torso.

Both those victims were described as being in critical but stable condition, Janvier said. The older victim was reported to be stable.

The shooting, which occurred aboutabout 10:25 p.m., brings the amount of those shot in Wilmington to 89 outpacing the previous six yearsin the same time period.

Bystanders watched as officers knocked on doors and blocked off the surrounding area with police tape Friday.One man said he heard about 10 gunshots.

A crime scene investigation truck was on the scene as officers searched the area with flashlights, possibly for shell casings.

Wilmington police investigate at the scene of a shooting at Dupont and W. 3rd Streets, reported about 10:45 pm Friday.(Photo: William Bretzger, The News Journal)

A Wilmington Fire Department truck was at the scene in the 200 block of N. DuPont St.

It is possible the fire truck was struck by gunfire, according to the police scanner. But police did not mention that in a Saturday morning report.

"The circumstances surrounding this shooting investigation remain under investigation," Janvier said. Anyone with information relative to this investigation is should call Detective Michael Wilkerson at (302) 576-3620.

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Ann Coulter May Be Joking, but What She Says Is Far From Funny – Truthdig

Ann Coulter at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2012. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

Another Ann Coulter column, another casual endorsement of mass slaughter.

This weeks piece, Rome BurnsNero Worries About Pyrophobia, addresses how to keep attacks like the recent one in Manchester, England, from happening again.

She has three ideas. The first is to add six months to the immigration moratorium President Trump promised but hasnt delivered. The second is to drop a nuke on some majority-Muslim city involved in terrorism. The third is to deport a U.S. 9th Circuit Court judge (presumably because that court has ruled against the moratorium).

Just like her protg Milo Yiannopoulos, Coulter likes to keep her audiences guessing as to when shes joking and when shes just dishing out hard truths. Unlike Yiannopoulos, she has managed that balancing act with great aplomband cashed in for decades because of it.

But what makes her trio of suggestions on how to respond to terrorism so telling is that two of the three must be jokes. The U.S. cant lengthen an immigration moratorium that hasnt been, and probably wont be, put in place. And if President Trump hasnt managed to pull an Andrew Jackson and ignore the courts, he certainly cant start deporting the judges whose decrees hes beholden to. Those two recommendations are obviously jokes.

President Trump could, however, launch a nuke at Tehran, Iran, or Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

So the question then becomes: Are all three of her recommendations jokes? It would be strange for a right-wing pundit to end a column about stopping Islamic terrorism with three jokes. Indeed, after she makes her recommendations, she solemnly closes with:

Since Trump, politics has become a game to liberals. The media is a game. Hollywood is a game. Islamic terrorists are killing little girls in England. This isnt a game.

If Coulter thinks this is not a game, then it stands to reason that the recommendations she makesthose that are possibleare serious. Furthermore, this weeks column is not exactly a departure from the usual for her.

At the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2006 she, to great applause, roared, I think our motto should be post-9/11, raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.

In her first column after the 9/11 attacks, she ended with:

We should invade their countries [majority-Muslim ones], kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We werent punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. Thats war. And this is war.

In an interview in 2005, she really went full-Coulter, saying, I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning. Theyre a major threat. I just think it would be fun to nuke them and have it be a warning to the rest of the world.

If you think Coulters comments are in jest, Id have to ask what she could say that would make you take her seriously.

Another thing about Ann Coulter that isnt a joke is her open and obvious racism.

Its not just the periodic dog-whistles that she, like some other Republicans, indulges in, such as when she wrote that desegregating schools led to illiterate students knifing one another between acts of sodomy in the stairwell. Her racism runs much, much deeper.

Her weekly column, for instance, can be read on not one but two white nationalist websites. One is VDare, named for Virginia Dare, the first child born of English parents in the Americas. In addition to Coulters syndicated column, some of VDares recent articles have included Its Official: Europeans (Such As Macrons Voters In France) Have a Genetic Death Wish and The Moral Of New Orleans: Americans Cant Live With These People, a protest against the removal of Confederate statues in that city.

There is no ambiguity here. The website is openly racist, the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled VDare a hate group, and even other pro-Trump Republicans keep their distance.

The second white nationalist website Coulter is syndicated on is, shockingly, even worse. American Renaissance has been around since the 1990s and was the alt-right before there was an alt-right. It publishes essays about the supposed need to form a whites-only ethnostate, claims that blacks love raping white women, and obsesses over the supposedly impending genocide of whites in South Africa. After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the founder and longtime president of American Renaissance, Jared Taylor, commented on the ensuing disorder: When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilizationany kind of civilizationdisappears.

To reiterate, both of these websites publish Coulters columns. See for yourself here and here.

Could it be that Coulter is unaware that her work runs on these sites?

No.

She has attended Christmas parties thrown by VDare. She has also tweeted links to the American Renaissance website. American Renaissance in turn retweets her frequently, nor does it shy from mentioning her.

Coulter was also good friends with the late polemicist Joe Sobran; read her fawning obituary for him here. Sobran not only spoke at several American Renaissance conferences, he also spoke at a Holocaust denial conference. Some of his greatest hits include suggesting that gays with AIDS get tattoos on their posteriors that read Abandon hope, all ye who enter here and quipping An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews. After his death, Coulter lamented, And Im insanely jealous that hes giving God all the good belly laughs now.

It is a long-standing pattern. There is no ambiguity or room for doubt when it comes to Ann Coulter. Shes a racist warmonger who advocates nuclear warfare and is published on white nationalist websites. She should have been banished from polite society years ago.

Instead, shes a pundit whose influence reaches into the Oval Office. Aint that America?

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Cost of keeping peace at Ann Coulter’s Modesto speech? Enough to support a family. – Modesto Bee


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It cost the city nearly $65,000 to keep the peace at last month's Ann Coulter demonstration outside of Modesto Centre Plaza. About 100 demonstrators protested outside the downtown convention center April 28 as conservative polemicist Coulter spoke ...

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Ann Coulter: Donald Trump could be impeached – TheBlaze.com

Ann Coulter told Fox Business Stuart Varney on Monday that if President Donald Trump doesnt keep his promises, impeachment could well be on the horizon.

Varney noted that Coulter had lately been down on Trump, referring toher recent blog postsblasting the president his lack of action on building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Coulter stated in a recent interview thatshe was close to jumping ship on the president.

The attacks on Trump keep bringing me back to defend him every time we want to be mad at him, she began. We voted for a wall, for enforcement of our immigration laws, for not being the worlds policemen, for ending NAFTA. Unfortunately were not getting what we voted for, but secondly its preposterous because, I mean, to blame the quote chaos on Trump himself, no hes being viciously, violently attacked because he took on both political parties.

Varney then took aim at Coulters recent criticisms of the president.

Do you blame Trump himself for some of the tweets hes put out? Varney asked, And some of the things that hes said, almost, off the cuff youre critical of that, I take it.

Smiling, Coulter disagreed and said, No, I love the tweets. Almost everything that everyone else dislikes about Trump are what I consider his strong points. I love his tweets, its how he defends himself.

Insinuating that Trump is the peoples president for the people, and not Wall Street or elites Coulter added that Trump was the only candidate who was going to put Americans first.

She did, however, insist that she wants him to get back to his campaign promises, which include funding for the Mexico-U.S. wall and tighter immigration law.

Once again defending Trumps propensity toward Twitter, Coulter said, I love his 3 AM tweets; I think theyre hilarious.

Varney then turned the question back to political turmoil, and brought the media into the fray, noting that he feels the mainstream media will never give Trump a break.

Do you think, though, that the media at this point is winning? Varney asked.

Pausing for a moment, Coulter answered, I dont think they have as much power they did as when the took out Nixon, so part of their rage is that theyrelosing their power because of the internet. I dont think they will ever stop, and I hope Trump notices that if he doesnt keep his promises, Republicans will be wiped out in the midterm elections, Democrats will have the House of Representatives, and they absolutely will impeach him.

The left-wing base is just obsessed with that, so Trump better keep his promises, she added.

Reiterating that she wants campaign trail Trump, Coulter said, [Trump] was supposed to go down and be a bull in a china shop. Were still waiting for the bull in the china shop.

Thats what we want, she concluded.

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Federica Mogherini hosts an informal gathering with Prime Ministers of the Western Balkans partners – EU News

Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, hosted an informalgatheringwith thePrime Ministersof the Western Balkans partners, Prime Minister of MontenegroDukoMarkovi, Prime Minister of KosovoIsa Mustafa, Prime Minister of AlbaniaEdi Rama, Prime Minister of SerbiaAleksandarVui,Prime Minister-designateof the former Yugoslav Republic of MacedoniaZoranZaev, andBosnia and HerzegovinaCouncil of Ministers Chairman DenisZvizdito discuss the way forward forthe region'sEUmembershipperspective.

All presentconfirmed theirfull commitment tocontinue working for theEuropean Union integrationprocess, as confirmedby the EU at the March 2017 European Council. They reiterated their determination and strong shared interest instrengtheningcooperationand bringing about tangible resultsforthe lives of the citizens of the region.They emphasised their commitment togoodneighbourlyrelations and deepening regional understanding, through mutual respect and cooperation.

High Representative/Vice-President Mogheriniencouraged the six Prime Ministers to accelerate the necessary work in order to meet their citizens' expectations and move closer to their European Union future.

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