America News Brief – September 4 2015 (as of 5:30 pm EST)

General News
ESPN takes Curt Schilling off air for remainder of season after tweet comparing Muslims to Nazis (ESPN)
Despite What Stephen Harper Said, Canada Does Not Lead The World In Taking In Refugees (Buzzfeed)
Omar Khadr wants bail restrictions lifted to allow Toronto visit (CBC)
Security/Control
The FBI Now Needs a Warrant To Use Its Phone-Sniffing Stingray Boxes (Gizmo)
Trudeau won’t say if Liberal-backed Bill C-51 is constitutional (CTV)
-2,000 cases may be overturned because police used secret Stingray surveillance (Guardian)
Elections
Trudeau promises to legalize marijuana, not sell it in depanneurs (CTV)
A Camo-Clad Tory Candidate Placed A Woman Under Citizen’s Arrest For Defacing His Signs (Buzzfeed)
Biden Weighs in on 2016 Presidential Run: ‘The Honest to God Answer is I Just Don’t Know’ (ABC News)
Pressured by party, Trump signs Republican loyalty pledge (Reuters)
Military
CIA, U.S. special forces launch drone campaign in Syria: media (The Daily Star)
Pentagon acknowledges reports of Russian ship off Georgia coast (First Coast News)
Police
Virginia Officer Stephen Rankin indicted in teen’s death at Walmart parking lot (CNN)
3 California deputies arrested; inmate died of blunt trauma (AP)
Lawyer arrested while representing client in courthouse hallway sues city and police (ABA Journal)
Clinton Emails
Former Clinton staffer signals he will invoke 5th Amendment in email inquiry (Chicago Tribune)
Snowden: Others Get Prosecuted for What Hillary Clinton Did (Wired)
Rowan Clerk Jailed for Contempt
Ted Cruz rips jailing of Kim Davis: ‘This is not America’ (Washington Times)
Jailed clerk’s attorney: Marriage licenses for gays are void (AP)

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