An oversight hearing on FBI and DOJ actions ahead of the 2016 presidential election devolved into partisan bickering and political shouting matches on Capitol Hill yesterday. Testifying was FBI agent Peter Strzok.
Strzok, it was discovered in May of last …
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The Department of Justice has decided to appeal a federal judge’s decision to approve a merger between AT&T and Time Warner.
Last month U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon OK’d the proposed mega merger clearing the way for the $85 …
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The Trump administration has successfully reunited all eligible immigrant children under the age of 5 it was announced today. The heads of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice issued a joint …
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Target unveiled a new app for its customers. But it’s not every customer that has access to it. Only about 600 of Target’s estimated 30 million weekly shoppers have been invited to download the app and participate in its purpose.…
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A former employee of Apple has been charged in federal court with stealing company secrets, authorities say. The charges were first reported by The Mercury News.
Xiaolang Zhang, a hardware engineer, was charged in the U.S. District Court …
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Global coffee giant Starbucks announced it will be phasing out plastic straws from its more than 28,000 stores worldwide by 2020, in a bid to become environmentally sustainable. In place of straws, the company will be bringing into use a …
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President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the forthcoming vacancy on the High Court left by the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kennedy was nominated by then-President Ronald Reagan and has served for 31 years.
Although nominated by a Republican, …
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There is a total of $1.3 trillion of outstanding student debt in the U.S. right now. Nearly 44 million Americans carry some debt from tuition related expenses. The average student now carries $37,000 in debt. A new game show hopes …
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Conflicting messages have arisen from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s most recent visit to North Korea just concluded on Saturday. At the conclusion of the meetings, Pompeo told reporters that conversations he had with a high-ranking North Korean official were …
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Small business owners are continuing to hire at near-record levels, according to a monthly jobs report published by the National Federation of Independent Business. Sixty-three percent of owners reported either hiring or attempting to hire new employees in the …
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Individuals who enlisted in the army through a program that expedited their citizenship have been quietly discharged in recent weeks leading to speculation that the Trump administration is slowly revoking their status in addition to having suspended the program in …
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The U.S. economy added 213,000 jobs in June, details a jobs report that shows an economy that is growing at near-record levels.
Construction jobs added 13,000 jobs in the month, health care added 25,000 and professional and businesses services, leading …
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The government agency responsible for granting citizenship to immigrants has created a task force to strip those individuals of their citizenship. The group, a so-called denaturalization task force, has as its aim stripping individuals who are found to have …
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Tech giant Microsoft has sunk an entire data center off the coast of Scotland. The goal, it says, is to speed the transfer of data as well as to cut down on operational costs.
“For true delivery of AI, we …
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Illegal border crossings were down 18% in June compared with May according to the Department of Homeland Security. The agency credits its zero-tolerance policy for the drop in migration numbers.
“Following the implementation of the Administration’s zero-tolerance policy, the …
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Embattled administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt has resigned. President Donald Trump made the announcement on Twitter.
“I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Within the Agency Scott has …
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Scandals continue to plague Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.
Kevin Chmielewski, a former deputy chief of staff for operations at the EPA is expected to testify before Congress in coming weeks about “secret” calendars used to keep meetings that …
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