The National Basketball Association’s most coveted free agent, LeBron James, is leaving his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers and heading west – to Los Angeles. The announcement was made via tweet by his agency, Klutch Sports Group.
“LeBron James, four time …
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The Treasury Department has unveiled the 2019 IRS Form 1040 – the form many Americans use to file their taxes – and there is a peculiar twist to the new version: it’s the size of a postcard.
It is the …
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Facebook made it known to Congress that it has shared user data with fifty-two IT companies – makers of both hardware and software. The revelation was made in a document dump of more than 700 pages to the House Energy …
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Instagram is now estimated to be worth $100 billion according to a report released by Bloomberg Intelligence. That valuation would mark a 100-fold increase from the $1 billion social media giant Facebook paid for the app in 2012.
The …
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Amazon has announced the launch of a new program that allows entrepreneurs to build their own businesses delivering Amazon’s packages. Successful owners, the company says, can earn as much as $300,000 operating a fleet of up to forty delivery …
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A lone gunmen opened fire in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, today, killing five and gravely injuring an unspecified number of others. A suspect, 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos, is in custody.
Authorities have called it a targeted …
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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement. He will be leaving the High Court in July. The announcement was made yesterday in the public release of a letter he wrote to President Donald Trump.
“This letter is …
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The Supreme Court, in two closely watched cases, allowed gerrymandered district maps to stand in Texas and North Carolina meaning both sets of maps will most certainly be used in the midterm elections.
The Court allowed three district maps to …
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The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major victory today upholding its travel ban against majority-Muslim countries. The decision was split 5-4, with the Court’s conservative-leaning justices voting to uphold the ban while its liberal-leaning justices voted to …
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Harley Davidson is about to be an unintended causality in the President’s growing trade war with the European Union. The company has announced it will be moving some of its iconic motorcycle production out of the U.S. in order to …
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A Canadian real estate developer has won approval to build what would be the most expensive and largest mall ever built in the U.S. The mall, to be built in the Miami, FL, area would be a massive 6.2 million-square-foot …
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Women in Saudi Arabia marked a historic day today as they were allowed to drive for the first time in the country’s history. Thousands of women took to the roads in celebratory drives, and more than 120,000 women applied for …
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Ride-sharing giant Lyft has announced a partnership with the American Cancer Society by which rides for cancer patients to their treatment appointments will be free of charge. The rides are the product of a partnership with ACS’s Road to …
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Uber, the mega-ride-hailing company, is experimenting with allowing customers to wait longer for a ride in exchange for lower rates.
The revelation was made by an employee who tweeted a screenshot of a ride request on the app with a …
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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, last night because she works for the Trump administration. Sanders confirmed the reports this morning on Twitter.
“Last night I was told …
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Apple has announced a new service program for MacBook and MacBook Pro users whose keyboards have been malfunctioning. The program will allow qualifying customers to get affected devices serviced and repaired for free.
The program covers keyboards where letters or …
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Tesla has told CNBC that an employee the company claims is disgruntled has made threats against it. The employee, a former technician, threatened violence against the company’s Gigafactory in Nevada, according to a company spokesperson.
“Yesterday afternoon, we received …
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