187kmh on Indian Ocean Drive: six bikers charged

SIX bikers reaching speeds of up to 187kmh have been charged for alleged reckless driving on the notorious Indian Ocean Drive.

The motorcycles, travelling close to one another, were detected at high speed near Sovereign Hill Drive by a fixed site speed camera on August 30 about 11.30am…

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Trump’s lavish travel costs leave Secret Service too ‘tapped out’ to pay agents

The Secret Service, already stretched thin trying to provide security for Donald Trump’s large family, has now found itself unable to pay hundreds of agents on the commander-in-chief’s protective detail, according to a report.

Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles said more than 1,000 agents have already reached the federally mandated salary caps and overtime allowances for the entire year, USA Today reports

“The president has a large family, and our responsibility is required in law,” Mr Alles ​told the newspaper​. “I can’t change that. I have no flexibility.”

He said 42 people under Trump require protection, including 18 members of his family. Only 31 people required security teams during the Obama administration.

Source: Donald Trump’s lavish travel costs leave Secret Service too ‘tapped out’ to pay agents | Perth Now

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Comey wants to testify in public re; Trump + Russia, turning down offer to speak behind closed doors

Former FBI director James Comey reportedly does want to testify about alleged ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign – but only if it is in public.

Comey declined on Friday to testify behind closed doors before the Senate Intelligence Committee after he was invited to appear next Tuesday.

But a source close to the ousted FBI director told the New York Times that Comey is willing to testify in public.

Before his firing on Tuesday, Comey had been scheduled to appear in Thursday’s hearings – one in public and another more revealing classified session.

Andrew McCabe, who became acting director when Comey was sacked, appeared in his place since Comey was no longer a government official.

President Donald Trump seemed to throw him a brushback pitch on Twitter, writing Friday that Comey had ‘better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!’

The White House wouldn’t rule out, hours later, the possibility that the president’s three known conversations with his then-FBI chief were recorded.

Trump has claimed that Comey told him on all three occasions that he wasn’t personally under investigation.

According to unnamed friends of Comey’s who are leaking his thoughts to reporters, he is hoping to hear his own voice and Trump’s on recordings of his presidential chit-chat

Comey is ‘not worried about any tapes’ of those talks between him and the president, according to CNN, who quoted a Comey friend saying that ‘if there is a tape, there’s nothing he is worried about.’

NBC News has its own secret access to Comey’s inner circle, with one person close to him saying: ‘He hopes there are tapes. That would be perfect.’

White House press secretary Sean Spicer wouldn’t rule out the possibility during Friday’s briefing.

‘The president has nothing further to add,’ he said several times. Asked directly whether the White House is taping Trump’s phone calls , he wouldn’t give a yes-or-no answer.

And when asked if it was proper for the president to threaten his former FBI director.

It’s also possible that the FBI or the Justice Department was openly recording, or secretly monitoring, Comey’s calls. A request for information from the DOJ went unanswered on Friday.

Trump said Thursday during an interview with NBC News that the two men have spoken at least three times since Inauguration Day.

And on those occasions, he insisted, Comey assured him that he was not personally the subject of any federal investigations.

‘He said it once at dinner and then he said it twice during phone calls,’ Trump said.

He described a matter-of-fact exchange over dinner in which he asked an unusual question and got an unconventional response.

‘I said, “If it’s possible would you let me know, am I under investigation?” Trump recalled.

‘He said, “You are not under investigation”.’

Spicer was asked Friday whether or not the White House had a recording of that dinnertime conversation, and replied: ‘I’m not aware of that.’

It is rare for a federal law enforcement official to tell anyone, including the President of the United States, whether they are being investigated.

Even if Comey doesn’t speak to reporters about the circumstances behind his dismissal on Tuesday, he may have a high-profile venue to tell his side of the story.

The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked him to testify next week.

The latest twist from Trump amid reports that he demanded loyalty from James Comey during the private dinner at the White House back in January.

The claims from associates of the now fired FBI director. Comey had told associates that he was summoned to the White House for a one-on-one dinner with Trump seven days after the inauguration, the New York Times reports.

It was during the dinner that Trump reportedly asked Comey twice to pledge loyalty to him as the new Commander in Chief.

MORE HERE: James Comey ‘wants to testify in public’ about Russia | Daily Mail Online

FIFTY detainees on Nauru tried to set themselves on fire after man committed suicide

A pregnant woman is one of dozens of refugees who have attempted suicide on Nauru in the year since a 23-year-old detainee set himself alight and died.

Omid Masoumali, an Iranian refugee, died in April 2016 after he was filmed dousing himself in petrol and bursting into flames in protest of Australia’s detention laws.

In the wake of his death, 50 refugees threatened or attempted to commit suicide by setting themselves alight, former refugee worker Sandra Bartlett told a Senate inquiry into detention centres in Nauru and Manus, according to The Guardian.

Ms Bartlett, who worked for Connect Settlement Services last year, said while working with refugees in Nauru she noticed self-harm was ‘rife’ among asylum seekers and refugees.

The former case manager said she had been working at the facility for a month when Mr Masoumali died.

One woman who claimed she was assaulted by a staff member planned on killing herself and doused her clothes in petrol before changing her mind at the last minute, Ms Bartlett’s report read.

‘It is not uncommon for refugees on Nauru to state ‘I am not an animal’ or ‘we are not animals’,’ she said.

‘I believe that years of having no control over their lives or their choices, being spoken down to and feeling like they are seen as lesser people has had a profound impact on the mental health of many of the refugees on Nauru.’

In April, the Senate delivered their findings after a seven-month-long inquiry.

The committee called for the Australian government to admit they have control over the detention centres a duty of care to the asylum seekers and refuges.

MORE + SOURCE: Dozens of Nauru detainees tried to set themselves on fire | Daily Mail Online

Trump fact check: President takes credit for jobs that he didn’t create in first speech before Congress

Donald Trump falsely took credit for a whole range of jobs in his first speech before Congress. Speaking during a “Joint Address” that marked his first big speech to politicians since he became President, Mr Trump appeared to claim responsibility for new jobs that he didn’t actually have anything to do with.

Read more: Donald Trump fact check: President takes credit for jobs that he didn’t create in first speech before Congress | The Independent