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Manny Ortiz was more than just a cop.

By all accounts, he was great at his job. He served for 22 years with the Rochester Police Department and was as an instructor at the police academy, where he taught firearms and defensive tactics to a generation of cadets.

Ortiz was 52 when he accidentally shot himself while driving to work one evening in November. The accidental discharge of his weapon caused his sport utility vehicle to crash into a ravine. Despite heroic efforts by passers-by and responding deputies, Ortiz was declared dead at the scene.

Revered by his fellow law enforcement officers, he was also beloved within the local Hispanic community. Passionate about his Puerto Rican heritage, Ortiz was called on when relationships between that community and the police department were strained.

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Leaders of a neo-Nazi group have been arrested and charged in a pair of federal investigations with conspiring to harass journalists, churches and a former cabinet official, among others, with phony bomb threats and other forms of intimidation.

John C Denton, 26, of Montgomery, Texas, a former leader of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with a series of phony bomb threats made in Virginia and across multiple countries.

In Seattle, prosecutors announced charges against a group of alleged Atomwaffen members for cyber-stalking and mailing threatening communications in a campaign against journalists with swastika-laden posters telling them “You have been visited by your local Nazis”.

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President Trump's reelection campaign is suing The New York Times for libel, claiming that the newspaper knowingly published false information about the president in an op-ed last year.

The lawsuit, filed in New York State Supreme Court on Wednesday, accuses the Times of intentionally defaming Trump with an op-ed claiming that his 2016 campaign had an "overarching deal" with Russia.

"The statements were and are 100 percent false and defamatory," Jenna Ellis, a lawyer for the campaign, said in a statement.

"The complaint alleges The Times was aware of the falsity at the time it published them, but did so for the intentional purpose of hurting the campaign, while misleading its own readers in the process,” Ellis added.

TVNL Comment: Read the Mueller Report, Ms. Ellis. The truth hurts. Then sue anyone who tells the truth about your client.  It rarely works, but it can by really costly.

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President Donald Trump is tightening his grip on the intelligence community as part of a post-acquittal purge of career officials and political appointees deemed insufficiently loyal, and the abrupt firing of his last intel chief is only the tip of the iceberg, current and former intelligence officials say.

Trump’s decision to replace acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire with a loyalist with no intelligence experience, Ric Grenell, shocked the national security world and has raised questions about who the president will nominate to serve in the post after Grenell’s “acting” status expires next month. In India, Trump hinted that his decision would come soon.

But it also revealed a deeper trend: namely, the steps Trump has taken to shield the public from intelligence that could be politically damaging for him, and keep the flow of information coming out of the agencies firmly under his control.

TVNL Comment: It gets scarier and scarier...

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Hot Pockets heiress Michelle Janavs was sentenced Tuesday to five months in prison for paying a fixer to get her daughters into the University of Southern California.

Janavs, whose family developed the wildly popular microwaveable snack before selling their company, had earlier pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in the far-reaching college admissions scandal.

The 49-year-old Newport Beach, California, resident admitted that she pledged $300,000 to fixer Rick Singer for help in fraudulently boosting college qualifications of her two daughters.

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