Ongoing History Daily: The Clash = Terrorism?
Harraj Mann, 24, of Hartlepool, Teeside in Northeast England, took a taxi from his home to the airport and boarded a flight to Heathrow in London. In the taxi, he took up the
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Terrorism
A security guard faked a mass shooting report to get out of work
I understand that there are some days that you just don’t want to go to work. But this is not a way to call in sick. At last weekend’s Lollapalooza in Chicago, a
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The main suspect in the Bataclan massacre has been sentenced to life in prison. The same with 19 others.
Back on November 13, 2015, Eagles of Death Metal were in the middle of a show in Paris at the Bataclan Theatre when Islamist terrorists forced their way in and killed 90 people.
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Is facial recognition coming to a show near you?
Going to a concert should be about the fun, not a scenario in which people are worried about their photo being uploaded into a government database. Terrible incidents like the mass shootings in
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Manchester marks the one-year anniversary of the concert bombing
It was a year ago today that 22 people were killed as they left an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena. The UK had a national minute of silence at 2:30 pm
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Random music news for Tuesday, March 20, 2018
First day of spring! Now if those dirty piles of snow in parking lots would just go away. Here’s what I found for music news for March 20, 2018. Canadian music sales vs.
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Random music news for Friday, March 16, 2018
Mississippi finally ratified the 13th Amendment, which deals with the abolishment of slavery. It was March 16, 1995. Wow. And in music news for March 16, 2018… Spotify will go public on April 3.
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Rapper facing terroristic threat charges for song titled “School Shooter”
Roughly two weeks after the Parkland shooting in Florida, a New York man is facing felony charges after a song suggested he was going to shoot up a high school. Echoing a case
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A 17-year-old will spend 11 years in jail for plotting an attack on a Justin Bieber concert
Back on June 30, 2017, Welsh police arrested 17-year-old Lloyd Gunton on charges that he was going to perform an act of terror on Justin Bieber’s stadium concert in Cardiff. A search turned
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Artist are Now Looking Carefully at “Terrorism Insurance”
So many things can go wrong with a concert, a festival or a tour. This necessitates all manner of insurance. What if the stage collapses? Maybe the lead singer dies of an overdose
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One Concert Security Scare, Another Concert Under Heavy Security
Police in Rotterdam found a van filled with gas cylinders that may have been heading to the site of a concert by a California band called Allah-Las. As a precaution, the gig at
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