We’ll update with the newest info at the top.
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11:33
Cruz has been given 33, Trump 3 so far. 6 more to be decided.
10:55
Wisconsin is a modified ‘Winner Take All’ delegate distribution – By State and By Congressional District – 42 Delegates total:
24 district delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of the 8 congressional districts: each congressional district is assigned 3 National Convention delegates and the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in that district will receive all 3 of that district’s National Convention delegates.
So far, Cruz has been awarded 24 delegates. Further delegates to be determined by district results.
10:32
With about 42% in:
Trump is up by about 900 votes in Rock County with 72% of the vote in, so it looks to me like he may get that. Others are too close, not enough numbers in yet or clearly Cruz.
9:54
Trump can still pick up delegates by winning in Congressional districts. We’ll let you know how those come in.
9:48
With 20% in:
9:45
9:39
Now the delegate crunching starts.
Some results, with 4% in:
9:28
They just called it for both Cruz and Sanders.
With no numbers in yet, that means it must be by a lot to make such an early prediction.
9:22
9:14
Based on exit polls, but we shall have to see.
A man who was roaming the streets in Crown Heights on Friday without a shirt and a wielding a four-inch knife in his hand while yelling at a Lubavitcher Chusid “Allah Akbar” may soon face hate crime charges, sources familiar with the investigation told JP.
Police say 25-year-old Naquan Smith, who has a criminal history with 10 prior arrests in New York City, was in front of 899 Montgomery Street with the knife in his hand Friday afternoon.
Schneer Goldstein was at the intersection of Montgomery Street and Schenectady Avenue when he observed Smith with the knife in hand. Goldstein called 911 and Crown Heights shomrim. While waiting for their arrival, the anti-crime team from the 67th Precinct passed by and Goldstein flagged them down and they held down Smith.
Shomrim member Natan Shusterman arrived on the scene and recovered the knife, a law enforcement official said. Smith was then placed under arrest by responding police officer Michael Mercado from the 71th Precinct, and Smith was charged with menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.
The Hate Crime Unit from the Brooklyn district attorney’s office is now further investigating the incident to determine if Smith should face hate crime charges, sources said.
The investigators were unable to contact witnesses because the incident was too close to Shabbos, but they will follow up on several directions this week, the sources said.
Courts: When Hillary Clinton and other liberals claim “systemic racism” in criminal justice, they’re not just talking about cops and courts. They also think juries are racist, and they’re pushing “reforms” to second-guess their verdicts.
Several liberal groups, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, are backing a major lawsuit that aims to subject jurors to investigation for racial bias after they convict criminals.
If they succeed, defense lawyers could challenge convictions based on the vaguest notions of bias, and there are liberal judges who would no doubt agree to overturn them.
This week the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear their crusading case: Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado.
Hispanic immigrant Miguel Pena-Rodriguez claims his Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury was violated when the state convicted him of criminal sexual contact with two teenage girls. Despite overwhelming evidence against him, Pena-Rodriguez insists he was railroaded because a juror was biased against illegal immigrants.
A 33-year-old who officials say is in the country illegally may face criminal charges after crashing into a volunteer firefighter’s car in Lavon last week, killing him and two children.
A Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman said a van driven by Margarito Quintero — who does not have a license — swerved into a northbound lane from a southbound lane on State Highway 78, striking fire Capt. Peter Hacking’s car, authorities said.
Hacking and two of his children, 4-year-old Ellie and 22-month-old Grayson, died at the scene.
Quintero, 33, and two passengers – were taken to Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano with serious injuries.
Quintero’s condition wasn’t known on Tuesday, but DPS spokesman Lonny Haschel said Tuesday that he could be charged with criminal negligent homicide by the time DPS completes its investigation of the crash.
Quintero, a Mexican citizen, entered the U.S. illegally near Laredo in August 2006. He was arrested on criminal charges and deported in 2008, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
ICE has no record of encountering Quintero since he was deported. An immigration detainer will be placed on him if he enters law enforcement custody, ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok said.
Marquette Law School student Caleb Smith waited more than an hour on Tuesday to cast his ballot in the presidential primary, standing in a line of students of nearly 100 students that snaked around the school’s student union.
“It’s fine, I don’t have class until 5:30,” he told ThinkProgress.
Others were not so lucky. Many students who had come on their lunch break left when they saw the line, saying they had to go to class and would try to come back later. Polls close at 8 p.m., and volunteers with the League of Women Voters told ThinkProgress they were concerned some students would not be able to return. Marquette University employees said the majority of the school’s 12,000 enrolled students were assigned to a single precinct.
While dozens of students stood waiting to vote, the longer wait was for same-day registration — an especially important step for students, who tend to have a new address every year. Students who did not have a Wisconsin drivers license or passport had to wait in yet another line to acquire a voter ID, since Wisconsin’s law does not accept student IDs issued by most of the schools colleges and universities.
Education major Megan Malloy, as she passed her time in line doing her homework on the hallway floor, said she did not know until Tuesday that such an extra step was necessary. “It’s an inconvenience, but it’s not that big a deal,” she said. “At least they have [the ID office] on campus. If it was far away, I think the voter turnout would be a lot less.” […]
Malloy was also far from the only student voter on Tuesday not to know the ins and outs of the state’s newly-implemented voter ID law. The Republican-controlled legislature that approved the law did not budget any funds for educating residents about the requirements, and students doing get-out-the-vote work told ThinkProgress they have seen widespread confusion around the law.
Other campuses across Wisconsin reported problems as well. “There are really long lines at the UW-Madison to get a compliant ID,” said Andrea Kaminiski with the League of Women Voters, a group monitoring the election. “Some students were giving up and leaving.”
Government officials in Greece believe that because of the recent terror attacks in Brussels, an official mosque needs to be built as soon as possible in Athens, or else the country will suffer a similar fate to Belgium from Islamic extremists.
“Every day that we do not have an official mosque and imam in Athens, we pay for in the increased risk of the radicalization of Muslims in the dark and unofficial places of worship,” an anonymous Greek official told local newspaper Kathimerini.
My new cats were freaking out. In carriers in the back seat of the car, they yowled their displeasure. I reassured them: “Don’t worry boys, we’ll be home soon.”
Whoops! I had called them boys, when in fact they were girls. An understandable mistake, as I’ve had cats for about 50 years, and all of them have been male. “I’m going to have to work on using the right pronouns,” I thought. And then another thought: “Why? They’re cats.”
That’s when I decided to raise my cats to be gender neutral.
The cats’ lives wouldn’t change, I reasoned, and it would help me learn to use plural pronouns for my friends, neighbors and colleagues who individually go by they, their and them. Even though using they, them and their as singular pronouns grates on many people because it’s grammatically incorrect, it seems to be the most popular solution to the question of how to identify people without requiring them to conform to the gender binary of female and male. It also just feels right to refer to people as they wish to be referred to.
In a year when political tensions already are running high, a group of protesters is fueling the acrimony by showing up to political rallies and events with a large American flag – and stomping on it.
The members of the self-described “F*** Your Flag Tour” most recently popped up at a Donald Trump rally Sunday in West Allis, Wis. They posted themselves next to the line of thousands of people waiting to get into the Republican presidential front-runner’s event at the local high school.
They proceeded to lay the muddied flag on the ground and stand on it, triggering heated exchanges with those nearby.
One man shouted to the group, “My brother is fighting overseas for that flag, pick it up.”
He got into an argument with the protesters and tried to get close enough to pick up the flag but was blocked and shoved. Police eventually had to lead him away out of safety concerns.
The nation’s top law enforcement officer dropped by the Queen City on Monday to talk terrorism and other topics.
FBI Director James Comey spent his morning in the agency’s Buffalo field office meeting with current and former agents, before sitting down with representatives of a host of local law enforcement agencies.
“If you’re going to be effective, you’ve got to get out and talk to the folks (in the field offices) and meet with our state and local law enforcement partners,” Comey said. “At the FBI, we don’t do anything alone.”
It’s Comey’s second visit to Buffalo since he became FBI director in September 2013. As with his last visit, the topic at the top of his list of things discuss, in a meeting with a small group of reporters, was terrorism.
Comey said the Islamic State, which he called ISIL, was the focus of counterterrorism efforts by his agency.
“ISIL continues to push out a slick message to English-speaking audiences,” he said. “The good news is, it appears this message to travel (to Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East for jihad) is finding less resonance in the United States.”
Megastars Jackie Chan and Lionel Messi are among the big names celebrities named in the Panama files as using the controversial law form to invest their millions offshore.
At least 20 other footballers from super teams Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United are also said to have used Mossack Fonseca’s services to set up offshore havens.
Lionel Messi, who is already facing tax fraud charges in Spain, owned a Panama company, Mega Star Enterprises Inc, with his father Jorge, leaked documents reveal.
President Obama made a forceful case Tuesday for stopping corporations from moving their headquarters overseas in order to avoid U.S. taxes, saying they are taking advantage of the American economic system and saddling the middle class with the bill.
These companies “renounce their citizenship, but get all of the rewards of being an American company,” Obama said at a press conference Tuesday.
Obama praised regulations issued the day before by the Treasury Department aimed at making more difficult these so-called inversions, in which U.S. companies combine with foreign firms to reduce U.S. taxes.
You can’t be within 100 feet of a polling place and definitely can’t be inside one. As I was posting this article, the videos posted by the supporter were being deleted but managed to see that his entourage pulled up right in front of the building.
A supporter of Donald Trump posted a video of the candidate greeting voters outside Waukesha Fire Station #5, a polling place, shortly before noon Tuesday.
Wisconsin law prohibits election activities such as holding campaign signs or distributing leaflets within 100 feet of a polling place, according to Michael Haas, elections administrator for the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board.
Hass confirmed that he had been told by the clerk for the City of Waukesha that Trump had entered a polling place. GAB officials were looking into the matter and contacting the Trump campaign to make it aware of the state rule, he said. A spokeswoman for the campaign did not answer her cellphone and did not immediately return a telephone call.
The Islamic State is using social media to identify Americans overseas who can be targeted outside of a secure location, experts warned a Senate panel Tuesday.
“One of the emerging tactics that ISIS in particular is trying to use is stalking and killing its foes, especially those who are affiliated with governments,” Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, during a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing. “Basically, taking them out of the government sphere, making them individuals who can be tracked.”
Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., convened the hearing to discuss the threat of terrorism following the Brussels bombings last month. The panelists agreed that government personnel in Brussels and at various NATO facilities in Europe are at risk, but also noted the difficulty of providing adequate protection outside of government facilities.
“What some of the followers and adherents of ISIS have tried to do is expose military personnel and their family members with personal data, addresses, etc.,” said Juan Zarate, a former deputy national security adviser under President George W. Bush. “So there is a vey real effort underway to at least threaten, if not put at risk, family members and
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a controversial bill into law on Tuesday that could allow businesses and government workers to deny services to lesbian and gay couples.
Bryant said in a statement that he was signing HB 1523 “to protect sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions of individuals, organizations and private associations from discriminatory action by state government or its political subdivisions.”
The law, dubbed the Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act, has met with sustained opposition from LGBT groups, businesses and the Mississippi Economic Council. They say the law sanctions discrimination against lesbians and gays.
Islamic State (IS) terrorists have released a threatening new video, praising the attacks in Paris and Brussels and promising London, Berlin or Rome will be next.
The video, titled, “Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands” after a Quran verse (009:014) quotes another verse (191-193) calling on Muslims to, “kill [infidels] wherever you find them”.
The film claims responsibility for the bombings that killed more than 30 people in Brussels, Belgium last month and promises more “dark days” for Europe. Adding:
“Nations of the cross this message is for you. Know that your options are few: either you join Islam, or pay tribute, or face the war.
“So it was Paris yesterday and today Brussels. Allah knows where it will be tomorrow. Maybe it will be in London, or Berlin, or Rome”, the narrator declares.
Two Afghan asylum seekers have been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy at a public swimming pool in Germany.
The incident reportedly took place at an indoor pool in Delbrück, North Rhine-Westphalia, on Friday afternoon.
The Afghan men, aged 20 and 25, are said to have cornered the 14-year-old in the showers, where they forced him to perform sexual acts on both of them.
Donald Trump’s campaign is increasingly falling into disarray as the Manhattan billionaire braces for a loss in Wisconsin that could set him on course for an uncertain convention floor fight for the Republican presidential nomination.
Since March, the campaign has been laying off field staff en masse around the country and has dismantled much of what existed of its organizations in general-election battlegrounds, including Florida and Ohio.
Last month, the campaign laid off the leader of its data team, Matt Braynard, who did not train a successor. It elevated his No. 2, a data engineer with little prior high-level political strategy experience, and also shifted some of his team’s duties to a 2015 college graduate whose last job was an internship with the consumer products company Colgate-Palmolive. Some of the campaign’s data remains inaccessible.
As the final stretch of this hard fought GOP primary bogs down into a delegate fight among party insiders and operatives that likely won’t be decided until the July convention in Cleveland, Trump’s singular star power appears to be no longer enough—and his campaign’s months-long lack of attention to other fundamentals is emerging as a hindrance to his ability to clinch the nomination outright.
“Presidential campaigns are a team sport, and he doesn’t have that mentality,” one high-level GOP operative said. “That’s why they’re missing a lot of these opportunities that are passing them by. [Trump] might be a great quarterback, but every quarterback still needs a strong offensive line.”
