MASSIVE MANHUNT UNDERWAY FOR WAFFLE HOUSE SHOOTER

A nearly naked, a gunman entered a Waffle House in Nashville and killed four people. The gunman opened fire early yesterday morning at the Waffle House in Nashville's Antioch neighborhood. Patron, James Shaw Jr., during a pause in the shooting, rushed the shooter, wrestled the assault rifle and stopped the shooter from killing others. While doing so, Shaw was grazed by a bullet and burned his hand grabbing the weapon and throwing it on the counter according to police.

Travis Reinking, the suspected gunman, took off and is now one of Tennessee’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives. According to CNN, police think he still has two more weapons on him, so they're urging folks in Antioch -- which has had two mass shootings in seven months -- to be cautious as authorities search for him. Reinking was arrested near the White House for trespassing, just last year. He had told the Secret Service he needed to meet with President Trump.

Waffle House employee Taurean C. Sanderlin, 29, of Goodlettsville, Tennessee; customer Joe R. Perez, 20, of Nashville; Akilah Dasilva, 23, of Antioch and DeEbony Groves, 21 of Gallatin, Tennessee are listed as those killed in yesterday’s shooting. Several others were injured. #ENOUGHISENOUGH  Photo:  Hero James Shaw Courtesy of SkyNews

SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS 57 REGISTERING TO VOTE

By Mujib Mashal and Jawad Skhanyar NEW YORK TIMES APRIL 22, 2018
At least 57 people were killed Sunday as they lined up at a government office in Kabul to register to vote, raising new concerns about the potential for violence to undermine Afghanistan’s long-delayed parliamentary elections according to the New York Times. The attacker detonated his explosives as Afghan authorities distributed national identity cards in the western part of Kabul, the capital, part of a push by the government to get more people to register to vote.
A spokesman for the Afghan Health Ministry said the attack also wounded at least 119 others. Among the dead were 25 men, 22 women, and eight children, while two bodies were unidentifiable.
The Taliban denied responsibility, the Islamic State said it was behind the carnage, according to the group’s Amaq news agency. Although the group’s area of control and number of fighters in Afghanistan have largely been reduced through heavy airstrikes and commando operations, the militants still continue to claim attacks in urban centers.
Among the victims were children in uniform who were on their way to a nearby school. A picture circulating on social media showed one young child in the morgue still wearing her pink schoolbag, pulled up as a pillow to her hair, which was covered in blood. “I have carried so many bodies that I cannot even talk,” said Mohammad Karim, 47, who lives nearby. “What is our pain? It is an ongoing pain and misery. They are attacking us and we are being martyred,’’ Karim said. “I carried about 12 bodies. I carried a daughter and mother.’’

ROYAL BABY WATCH IS ON!

By the time you read this, a new royal may have arrived. The Duchess of Cambridge went in to labor on Monday, according to Britain’s royal palace. At the time it was reported the duchess, Kate was in the “early stages of labor”.
The baby will be Prince William and Kate’s third and Queen Elizabeth’s sixth great-grandchild and though the sex is unknown, fifth in line to the throne. Bumping Prince Harry down a notch, the new arrival will surely be the youngest guest at his wedding in May to Meghan Markle. #CHEERS

BABY, IN JACKET, FIRST TO APPEAR ON SENATE FLOOR

Ten-day-old Maile Bowlsbey made history Thursday by appearing on the Senate floor while her mother, Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), cast a vote against confirming a NASA administrator. Before Wednesday, children were not allowed on the Senate floor. But a rule change pushed through the Senate Rules Committee by ranking member Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn) and chairman Roy Blunt (R-MO) allowed children under the age of one to accompany their Senator parents to work.

“Everyday moms and dads balance being great parents and successful professionals, and workplaces need to recognize that reality,” Sen. Klobuchar said in a statement after the rule change was approved. “The United States Senate should be no exception. We are proud to have Senator Tammy Duckworth — working mom to a newborn — among our ranks, and I’m glad the Rules Committee was able to swiftly make this historic rule change for her and future senators.”
Duckworth, who had been working behind the scenes for months to change the rules per CNN, wanted to be able to return to the Senate floor for important votes during her planned 12-week maternity leave but expressed concern about leaving her newborn potentially for hours at a time. An Iraq war veteran who lost both legs when her helicopter was shot down, Duckworth appeared on the Senate floor in her wheelchair with the baby in a sling.
Duckworth voted against confirming Jim Bridenstine to be NASA administrator, but he was confirmed in a vote that followed party lines, 50 Republicans in favor and 49 Democrats opposed. Maile, wearing a “blazer” out of respect for the Senate dress code, was greeted by Sen. Klobuchar and other admirers including Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), according to The Hill. #GIRLSRULE