This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Thursday, September 29th, 2022. Happy Friday Jr. everyone! 5 weeks until a very special day for me, but for you guys let’s start with this…
 
On this day in history: Sept. 29th… 

48 BC Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt… in other news Epstein didn’t kill himself. 
1066 William the Conqueror, then Duke of Normandy, lands at Pevensey Bay in Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
1781 9,000 American and 7,000 French troops begin the siege of Yorktown
1785 Napoléon Bonaparte, aged 16, graduates from the elite École Militaire in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)
1850 US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment
1924 2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops
1928 Prussia forbids speech from Adolf Hitler
1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of President Theodore Roosevelt, is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for directing troops at Utah Beach during the D-Day landings
1974 "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" by Aretha Franklin peaks at #47
1976 Muhammad Ali beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

 
How about some birthdays?! 

551 BC Confucius, Chinese philosopher and founder of Confucianism, born in Zou, Lu state, China (d. ~479 BC)
1919 Tom Harmon, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1940, Michigan; LA Rams) and broadcaster (CBS 1950-62), born in Rennselaer, Indiana (d. 1990)


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https://www.dailywire.com/news/still-no-charges-for-man-who-admits-to-shooting-84-year-old-pro-life-canvasser
 
Still No Charges For Man Who Admits To Shooting 84-Year-Old Pro-Life Canvasser
 
A man who has admitted to shooting a pro-life canvasser earlier this month is still not facing charges and remains under investigation.
 
Richard Harvey, 74, admitted during a news interview that he fired off a “warning shot” from his .22 caliber rifle when he heard his wife allegedly arguing with the elderly pro-life activist. He then claims he tried to push away her clipboard and accidentally shot her in the front of her shoulder. Notably, the activist, who has not been named, claims she was shot in the back while leaving the residence.
 
“I came out and she is screaming and having a great old time, and being told, I’m sure I heard at least a dozen times, ‘You’re trespassing, get off the property,'” Harvey told WoodTV’s News 8.
 
He “fired a warning shot into a pine tree out front” and then went to “club away” the 84-year-old woman’s clipboard and the rifle “went off,” he said.
 
Asked if he’s afraid of facing charges, the man told News 8, “It’s always possible, I mean I shot someone.”
 
But Harvey remains in the clear as of Wednesday. The Michigan State Police are reportedly still looking into the matter and will forward the findings to the Ionia County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, where a decision will be made on poten