Creators of the WhatsApp messaging service repeatedly refused to comply with demands by the UK government to install a secret backdoor in its software.

According to an anonymous security source, the British government pressured the makers of WhatsApp in a meeting last summer to allow them to secretly spy on citizens – saying that they needed to do so in order to combat terrorism.

Alabama Senator Luther Strange’s campaign finance chair, Thompson Tractor CEO Mike Thompson, is listed on federal tax documents as an officer of the nonprofit Alliance for Jobs, which federal prosecutors say was used to bribe former Alabama state Representative Oliver Robinson, who pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges this month, AL.com’s Kyle Whitmire and John Archibald report.

From AL.com:

Alabama State Representative Ed Henry (R-Hartselle) is calling for the release of his grand jury testimony in connection with a corruption case involving former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard. Henry says now-U.S. Senator Luther Strange, who is facing a runoff Senate primary election next week against conservative Judge Roy Moore, is not telling the truth behind the anti-corruption unit he led while serving as Alabama’s attorney general.
From WHNT News 19‘s Brian Lawson:

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told a raucous crowd on Thursday evening that if grassroots Alabama Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore defeats D.C. establishment Senator Luther Strange on Tuesday, it will inspire more grassroots candidates across the country to challenge establishment politicians who are selling them out.
Palin, along with former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka, campaigned for Moore after his debate with Strange.

Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Matt Cartwright said Tuesday night that John McCain will make “good choices” on Obamacare repeal because he is “staring death in the face,” a video obtained by the Daily Caller reveals.

“Something tells me McCain, he’s staring death in the face right now, so he’s probably going to make good choices. He’s not going to bend to political pressure,” Cartwright told a town hall audience at Scheller Center at Lehigh Carbon Community College in Tamaqua, PA.

Former Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore of Alabama said in the state’s Thursday evening senatorial debate that Dreamers are not a protected class under the law because Congress never passed the DREAM Act in 2010.

Law enforcement use of one tracking tool, the cell-site simulator, to track a suspect’s phone without a warrant violates the Constitution, the D.C. Court of Appeals said Thursday in a landmark ruling for privacy and Fourth Amendment rights as they pertain to policing tactics.

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Graham Cassidy Healthcare Plan...NO Thank You!

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President Trump is ready to shift rules to allow American gun makers more leeway in selling arms and ammunition to foreign buyers.
This would mean expanded markets for AR-15s and American made 5.56 and .223 ammunition.

The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows that Republicans are increasingly dissatisfied with their leaders in Congress.
Only 36 percent of Republican voters say they are satisfied with House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, while 59 percent are dissatisfied, according to the poll.

McConnell suffers the most, as 25 percent of Republicans have a negative impression of the Senate Majority Leader while only 17 percent have a positive impression.

Court documents filed this week claim an armed good Samaritan intervened and stopped an alleged sexual assault after hearing a female runner scream.
The incident occurred on a running trail near Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas.