More than 60 members of the Latin Kings are facing federal charges after the #FBI and other agencies took part in a wide-spread bust on Thursday morning, according to officials. Members of the gang's East Coast leadership were among those charged in what Joseph Bonavolonta, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston division, said was the "largest takedown" in their office's history. The bust, called "Operation Throne Down," was carried out after nearly four years of infiltration by law enforcement, who recorded high-level conversations through informants and social media posts that could implicate the members, according to Boston com. Over 650 law enforcement agents started making arrests around 4:00 a.m. on Thursday that saw 62 alleged gang members charged. The charges vary from drug trafficking and firearms abuses to RICO conspiracy. To arrest the more dangerous suspects, 10 SWAT teams were deployed by the North Shore Gang Task Force.

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Meanwhile, somewhere in Russia ... #WTF?

Kenyan police officers were among those killed when gunmen suspected to be from Islamist militant group al Shabaab attacked a bus on Friday near the border with Somalia, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s office said on Saturday. The vehicle belonging to the Medina Bus Company was attacked on a lonely stretch of road in the Kotulo area as it traveled between the towns of Wajir and Mandera, reported Reuters. “People, among them police officers, were brutally murdered,” Kenyatta’s office said in a statement. Police said 10 people had been killed and that the attackers had specifically targeted non-Somalis after flagging down the bus. The area is mostly inhabited by ethnic Somali Kenyans.

Abandoned Alaska child, 5, carries toddler a half-mile in sub-zero temps in socks, light clothes: FOX News reports. A 5-year-old child in a remote Alaskan village carried a toddler a half-mile to a neighbor’s house in bitter sub-zero temperatures after they were left home alone, police said. The older child was frightened after the power went out at the home, so wearing only socks and light clothing, he picked up the younger child and started walking through temperatures that dipped 31 degrees below zero in the village of Venetie, Alaska, according to state troopers. Both children suffered cold-weather injuries, according to an Alaska Department of Safety news release.

11 Photos on Hong Kong Pro-democracy Protests Enlisted as AFP's Best Photos of 2019

//Police personnel fire tear-gas shells to disperse Pro-Democracy protestors in the Sham Shui Po Area of Hong Kong on August 14.//

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Friday's deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in the Florida Panhandle was "an act of terrorism,” U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who represents the area, said in a television interview. “This was not a murder,” he told Pensacola's WEAR-TV, referring to the deaths of three people at the U.S. military facility. Gaetz said the FBI's involvement in the investigation into the shooting indicated the case was being treated as terrorism, although officials have said they're still trying to determine if the shooting fits the definition.

Hong Kong’s new police commissioner said on Saturday his force would take a flexible approach to pro-democracy demonstrations as the city gears up for a rally on Sunday that is expected to draw a huge crowd, Reuters reports. Chris Tang was appointed last month upon his predecessor’s retirement and amid six months of sometimes violent anti-government protests in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong. He was speaking in Beijing on a “courtesy visit” during which he briefed top officials in charge of public security, legal and Hong Kong affairs. “We will use both the hard and soft approach. We will be stringent on illegal violent actions such as throwing of petrol bombs, acid,” Tang told reporters in Beijing. Police have given a rare green light to the demonstration planned for Sunday by the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) group, which organized largely peaceful million-strong marches in the summer. #HK

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Today in Paris, France ... Clashes of protesters with police at Halles mall.

A creature called Miguel Wattson has been charged with creating Yuletide spirit at the Tennessee Aquarium. The electric eel gives off electric shocks when he is feeding or excited. In a new illumination called "Shocking around the Christmas tree," the aquarium uses a special system in Miguel's tank to coordinate his electric pulses to a sound system and Christmas tree. "Whenever Miguel discharges electricity, sensors in the water deliver the charge to a set of speakers," said Joey Turnipseed, the Tennessee Aquarium’s audiovisual production specialist in a statement posted on their website. “The speakers convert the discharge into the sound you hear and the festively flashing lights.” Aquarium staff specified that the lights are not actually powered by the eel's shocks. Rather, "the intensity of their glow corresponds to the strength of the eel's discharges as detected by sensors in the tank that are connected to the Christmas tree." 🎄

America First Candidate Pete D’Abrosca calls for a moratorium on immigration and calls out TP USA on Tucker Carlson http://petefornc.com @columbiabugle