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Activist offers to pay for Kansas’ recount of abortion vote

(AP) — An anti-abortion his own money would be Associated Press.
activist who heads a small used. The Kansas Republican
hard-right Republican Assembly is significantly to Leavitt said in a video posted
group said he’s offered to the right of the state Repub- to TikTok on Sunday morn-
pay the expected $229,000 lican Party and isn’t affiliated ing that there was 24 hours
cost of a hand recount of with the GOP-led legislature. left to raise money for the ef-
votes from every Kansas fort.
county after a decisive There has been no evidence
statewide vote affirming of significant problems with Earlier this month, Kansas
abortion rights. the election. Baseless elec- voters overwhelmingly re-
tion conspiracies have cir- jected a proposed amend-
Mark Gietzen, who leads the culated widely in the U.S., ment to the state constitution
group Kansas Republican As- particularly among support- that would have allowed the
sembly, told the Kansas City ers of former President Don- conservative Legislature to
Star he wants to pay for the ald Trump, who has repeated further restrict or ban abor-
recount that Melissa Leavitt, false claims that he lost the tion. It failed by 18 percent-
of Colby, requested because 2020 election through fraud. funded. said in updates posed to Tik- age points and was the first
he believes it could change Tok over the weekend that test of voter sentiment after
the outcome. The 165,000- Kansas law requires that a A spokeswoman for the Kan- the bond had not been paid the U.S. Supreme Court’s
vote difference in the election bond be posted to cover the sas Secretary of State’s Of- yet and fundraising was on- decision in June that over-
makes that unlikely, however. cost of the recount and if fice, Whitney Tempel, said going. Tempel didn’t imme- turned the constitutional
the recount changes the out- Friday that Leavitt had posted diately respond to messages right to abortion.
Gietzen said fundraising and come, the money will be re- a $200,000 bond, but Leavitt from the newspaper and The

Police: Man killed himself after ramming US Capitol barrier

(AP) — A man drove his motivation at this point,”
car into a barricade near Manger said.
the U.S. Capitol early Sun-
day and then began firing Police said “it does not ap-
gunshots in the air before pear the man was targeting
fatally shooting himself, any member of Congress”
according to police, who and that investigators are
said he did not seem to be examining the man’s back-
targeting any member of ground as they work to try
Congress. to discern a motive. Both
the House and Senate are
The incident happened just in recess and very few staff
before 4 a.m. at a vehicle members work in the Capi-
barricade set at East Capitol 18-year veteran of the force. vania and learned he had a tol complex at that hour.
Street NE and 2nd Street SE
in Washington. And many on Capitol Hill Capitol Police Chief Tom criminal history in the past Authorities said no other
remain on edge after sup- Manger said officers did not decade, though his motive injuries were reported and
porters of the then-president hear the man say anything remained unclear and he had
It comes at a time when law stormed the Capitol on Jan. before he opened fire “in- no links to the Capitol. police do not believe any of-
enforcement authorities ficers returned fire.
across the country are fac- 6, 2021. discriminately” in the street
with a handgun and walked “We don’t have any informa-
ing an increasing number of
threats and federal officials Authorities said the man, toward the Capitol building. tion that would indicate his
identified as Richard A. York Authorities are investigating
have warned about the po-
tential of violent attacks on III, 29, of Delaware, crashed whether the man may have
into the barricade and that as set his car on fire, the chief
government buildings in the
days since the FBI’s search he was getting out of the car, said, because the collision did
the vehicle became engulfed not appear to cause the blaze.
of former President Donald
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in flames. The man then
opened fire, firing several Police officers at the scene
in Florida.
shots into the air as police ap- saw the man fatally shoot
The attack is reminiscent proached. himself as they approached,
of an incident when a man Capitol Police said the man Manger said.
drove a vehicle into two Cap-
itol Police officers at a check- shot himself as the officers The chief said investigators
neared. He was later pro-
located addresses for the man
point in April 2021, killing an
nounced dead. in Delaware and Pennsyl-
Ex-employee shut down PD website over pay dispute, city says

(AP) — Officials in a Bos- department information Fuller said the employee con- that the employee shut down down the website, the paper
ton suburb are investigat- technology director, took trols access to the site and has “a vital resource for the resi- reported.
ing a former city employ- down the department web- not turned it over to the city. dents of the city of Newton.”
ee they say shut down the site in late June and July. The Newton has created a new The employee notified city The employee said in a state-
police website during a website instead directed visi- police department website in officials in March that he was ment that he was “disheart-
pay dispute. tors to a message that called its place. The old website was leaving the job, the Globe ened by the city’s representa-
on them to contact Fuller and no longer active on Sunday. reported. The paper report- tion of the facts in this mat-
Newton Mayor Ruthanne ask the mayor to restore it, ed the employee felt he was ter” and he would work with
Fuller said the former em- The Boston Globe reported Fuller told the Globe in a owed $137,000 in compensa- the city to resolve the prob-
ployee, who was the police on Friday. statement earlier this week tory time at the time he shut lem.