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Police also said Masood was not the subject of any current investigations and there were no prior intelligence reports indicating his intent to carry out the terror attack.

Masood was known to police for a range of previous convictions, they said, including for assaults, possession of offensive weapons and public order offenses.

He was never convicted of any terror-related offenses.

No cheese eater and no commie. But you? _________.

Putin's 'cheese war' on Europe leaves bitter taste in St Petersburg

By Roland Oliphant, St Petersburg
4:00PM BST 22 Aug 2015

A bulldozer destroys packages with supposed embargoed cheese products at a landfill site near Belgorod in Russia, Picture: EPA

Kremlin stunt to destroy imports of banned European foods backfires in city that suffered starvation in World War Two

It is one of the stranger witch hunts of modern times: a crusade against food that has seen Russian officials launch a feverish hunt to bulldoze Western-made produce.

For the Kremlin, the decision to destroy French cheeses and Polish apples smuggled into the country is a matter of sovereignty - an attempt to wage economic war on the countries that sanctioned Russia after the annexation of Crimea.

A Cossack carries out a raid seeking sanctioned products illegally imported to Russia at an Auchan hypermarket Photoshot/Sergei Konkov/TASS

But for a great many in the city of St Petersburg, it is an incomprehensible and deeply upsetting strategy that brings back painful memories.

“It simply makes my heart bleed to see it. When you remember what happened here, when you have seen a child asking for food and known that you have nothing to give it, such waste is simply incomprehensible,” said Ludmilla Smirnova, a St Petersburg pensioner and veteran of the siege of what was then known as Leningrad.

“No one should be confused.Obamacare repeal if it passes will be Trump’s triumph. He personally intervened to save bill when it faced defeat.”

— Newt Gingrich, at 7:27 am.

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“Why would you schedule a vote on a bill that is at 17 percent approval? Have we forgotten everything Reagan taught us?”

— Gingrich, at 2:36 pm.

Especially when it comes to policy regarding marijuana, Sessions emulates Rip Van Winkle. He apparently went to sleep shortly after Richard Nixon declared a “war” on illegal drugs in 1971 and just recently awakened from his slumber. There is little evidence that Sessions understands what havoc the war on drugs has wrought both domestically and internationally since Nixon issued his declaration.
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Speaking at a gathering in Richmond, Virginia on March 15, Sessions equated marijuana use to heroin addiction. Either one, he contended, was a “life-wrecking dependency,” adding that marijuana was “only slightly less awful.” He reserved special contempt for those who argue (with growing evidence) that marijuana has been useful in weaning opiate addicts off of those harder drugs.

A vote on US President Donald Trump's healthcare bill has been withdrawn at the last minute after it failed to gain enough support to pass in Congress.

Mr Trump told House Speaker Paul Ryan to pull the bill after it became apparent it would not get the minimum of 215 Republican votes needed.

The withdrawal is seen as a huge blow to Mr Trump.