Online job search firm LinkedIn has released its annual list of most sought after companies. This year’s Top Companies list is the company’s fourth and lists the companies Americans most want to work for – and remain at once they’re …
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Founder of online watchdog group WikiLeaks Julian Assange was arrested in the U.K. yesterday. He now faces extradition to the U.S. on charges of aiding the hacking of U.S. government computers. The “hacktivist” had been holed-up in the Ecuadorian …
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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned her post Sunday. The announcement was made by President Trump on Twitter.
“Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service…” the …
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British Prime Minister Theresa May has asked the European Union for a delay for the Britain’s exit from the coalition. It is the second time she has done so.
May is asking for the exit date to be pushed back …
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Updated 4/3/19 at 5:48 p.m.
Singapore may be the first nation to hold social media platforms responsible for allowing fake news to go unchecked on their platforms with a new law being proposed. The law, submitted in its parliament yesterday, …
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New York City has become the first U.S. city to pass what is known as congestion pricing – tolls on vehicles entering the city during peak traffic hours. The fees are part of a state budget agreed to by the …
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McDonald’s is betting that it can use data to take intelligence around customer orders to a new level.
“How do you transition from mass marketing to mass personalization?” asks McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook. “To do that, you’ve really got to …
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The Attorney General William Barr has notified Congress that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found no evidence of collusion on the part of the Trump campaign and the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The notification …
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Former campaign chairman for Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, was sentenced for crimes uncovered by the investigation conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller over the last several years.
Manafort was charged with a bevy of crimes related to tax evasion, fraud …
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The White House unveiled its budget for fiscal year 2020 this week and it looks to be the most serious effort made to curtail spending on the nation’s non-defense-related programs to date.
“In the last two years, President Trump …
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A man living in England who was HIV-positive has become the second adult worldwide to be cleared of the deadly virus after receiving a bone marrow transplant.
Nearly three years after receiving stem cells from a donor with a rare …
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Mark Harris, a candidate for Congress from North Carolina’s ninth district, has decided to drop out of the race after an election fraud scandal involving his campaign has come to light. Harris made the announcement on his Facebook page.
“Given …
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Citing a humanitarian crisis on the southern border, President Trump declared a national emergency yesterday from the White House. The declaration would allow the President to repurpose funds for the construction of a border wall along the U.S. border with …
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Lawmakers in Arizona are looking to declare pornography a public health crisis. State Representative Michelle Udall, R-Mesa, introduced a bill that says pornography “perpetuates a sexually toxic environment that damages all areas of our society.
“Like the tobacco industry, …
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Video portal YouTube has announced changes that will make it harder for videos espousing conspiracy theories and other subjects meant to fool viewers into clicking on them, to be found the company announced last month.
“When recommendations are at their …
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The U.S. economy, surpassing expectations, added 304,000 jobs in January, indicating the economy remains as strong as it has been in recent months. Economists had been expecting gains of about 180,000 new jobs for the month.
The unemployment rate …
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A longtime associate of President Donald Trump’s, Roger Stone, has been indicted and arrested, charged with obstruction of an investigation, making false statements to the FBI and witness tampering. Stone was arrested in a pre-dawn raid at his home …
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