The Weekend Off – News You Missed
At the Great Outdoors Show in Harrisburg, PA.
Alaska
ADN.com – Disbelieved Fairbanks Four alibis show how anti-Native bias taints justice
Eileen Whitmer knew Marvin Roberts wasn’t guilty of murder in 1997, because when the Fairbanks Four were supposedly on a rampage killing teenager John Hartman, Roberts was sitting at a table with her at a wedding reception.
CNET – Oculus creator Palmer Luckey flies to Alaska to deliver first Rift VR headset to customer
You order the Next Big Tech Gadget and lo and behold, the creator of the gizmo materializes at your office to hand you the device. Sounds like something out of virtual reality, right? Nope. This was real reality (though it did involve the virtual kind).
LA TIMES – Alaska’s big volcanic blast that Instagram missed — until now
Thank goodness for Throwback Thursday (#TBT). How else would this mind-blowing photograph of Alaska’s Augustine Volcano billowing smoke and ash become a social media hit? The photo was taken on March 27, 2006 — four years before Instagram was even around.
National
Vice News – FBI Reveals New Details About Its Probe Into Hillary Clinton’s Use of Private Email Server [Jason Leopold]
The FBI submitted a classified declaration to a federal court judge late Friday explaining details about the bureau’s “pending investigation” into the use of a private email server by Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton. The declaration addresses why the FBI can’t publicly release any records about its probe in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by VICE News.
TheHill – Calif. to raise minimum wage to $15: reports
California lawmakers and union leaders have reached a tentative deal to raise the state minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next several years, the Los Angeles Times reports.
NY Times – In Donald Trump’s Worldview, America Comes First, and Everybody Else Pays
Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, said that if elected, he might halt purchases of oil from Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies unless they commit ground troops to the fight against the Islamic State or “substantially reimburse” the United States for combating the militant group, which threatens their stability.
International
AlJazeera – ISIL suicide attackers storm army base in Iraq
At least 10 suicide attackers from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attempted to storm one of the largest army bases in Iraq, according to the country’s military. A Iraqi defence ministry spokesman told Al Jazeera that eight of the fighters were killed by soldiers at Ein el-Assad base on Saturday.
The Guardian – French journalist Florence Hartmann jailed by war crimes tribunal
The journalist Florence Hartmann, a former correspondent for Le Monde, has been jailed at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, the body established to try the criminals she devoted her life to exposing. She was arrested ahead of the verdict handed down to former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić.
Der Speigel – The Path to Death: How EU Failures Helped Paris Terrorists Obtain Weapons
Where did the weapons used in the 2015 terror attacks in Paris come from? Files from the ongoing investigation now make it possible to follow the trail. Years of EU shortcomings helped the firearms on their way.