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A man wielding a knife was shot dead by police in Midtown Wednesday morning. According to ABC7, the shooting was on Eighth Avenue near West 50th Street just before 8:30 a.m. Police said a man was armed with a knife, and assaulting or threatening people with it.

Police responded and confronted the suspect. One of the officers sustained an apparent slash wound. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a minor injury. Police officers fired and the suspect was killed. The suspect's knife was recovered at the scene.

The FBI's probe into Clinton's use of a private server isn't the only noose that is keeping Clinton (and the State Department) up at night: this week interviews begin in a separate Judicial Watch civil suit, previously profiled here, against key State Department figures, all of whom just happen to be close co-workers of Hillary.

A major police investigation has been launched after a severed human head was found in a skip in Cambridgeshire, England The head was found by a quarry worker at the Mick George quarry in Mepal, between Chatteris and Ely, on Monday afternoon. A quarry worker, who asked not to be named, claimed his colleague spotted the head lying on top of a skip and believed it to belong to a woman in her 30s or 40s. Press TV reports: The head was found on Monday afternoon at the Mick George quarry in Mepal, which operates as a disposal facility for asbestos, contaminated soils and other hazardous waste.

Submitted by Andrew Napolitano via LewRockwell.com,

The bad legal news for Hillary Clinton continued to cascade upon her presidential hopes during the past week in what has amounted to a perfect storm of legal misery. Here is what happened.

U.S. district judge Rosemary Collyer has ruled that Obamacare has been unconstitutionally funded without the appropriate approval from Congress.  House Republicans have been given the go-ahead to sue the Obama administration for the government’s illegal implementation of Obama’s signature healthcare law. Latimes.com reports: On Thursday, she ruled the administration is violating a provision of the law by paying promised reimbursements to health insurers who provide coverage at reduced costs to low-income Americans.