A businessman known as the “Taxi King” has pleaded guilty to tax evasion in New York State Court and agreed to cooperate with investigators as a potential witness. The case could have national implications because of who the man’s significant …
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Cable companies have lost about 3.4 million subscribers in the last six years according to the latest numbers from Leichtman Research Group, a firm that specializes in the analysis of the U.S. broadband, media and entertainment industries.
“The number of …
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An informant was sent by the FBI to infiltrate the Trump campaign in the hopes of ascertaining whether officials were colluding with the Russian government on interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The informant interacted with three Trump campaign staffers: …
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Special counsel Robert Mueller plans to end a portion of his Russia investigation by September 1, according to former New York City Mayor, and current member of President Trump’s legal team, Rudy Giuliani.
Giuliani said Mueller is hoping to end …
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President Trump has reportedly lobbied U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to raise the rates the U.S. Postal Service charges Amazon.com to ship its packages. The President reportedly pushed for rates to as much as double for Amazon, along with other …
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America’s most in-demand job right now is data scientist, according to industry analysts. Job postings for the positions rose 75% from January 2015 to January of this year at online job board Indeed.com.
Average salaries are about $119,000 and …
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The Chinese government has begun assigning Chinese citizens credit scores in an effort to build what it calls, a culture of “sincerity.” The government will assign a score to individuals and that score will either increase or decrease based …
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Toy maker Hasbro has successfully trademarked the scent of the iconic children’s compound Play-Doh.
“The mark is a scent of a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, combined with the smell of a salted, wheat-based dough,” …
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After rolling out the Kindle and introducing the world to digital books, and establishing voice assistance with the Echo, Amazon is poised to bring about the next big thing in personal computing: home robots.
The online mega-site and tech company …
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that the number of workplace investigations it has conducted for illegal labor this year has already doubled the entire amount conducted last year. The results have been more arrests and more fines collected …
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A gunman opened fire in a high school in Texas this morning, killing ten, wounding ten others. The assailant, a 17-year-old student at the school, has been identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis. He allegedly used a shotgun and a .38 revolver, …
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Rapidly accelerating diplomacy between the U.S. and the Koreas hit a snag this week when North Korea canceled a set of talks scheduled with the South, then subsequently threatened to pull out of a summit set between Kim Jong Un …
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A new study by the Pew Research Center shows that 64 million people, or 20% of the American public, live in multi-generational households. The study, based Pew analysis of census data, shows the number of people living in a home …
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New York’s Governor Cuomo has signed an executive order allowing convicted felons the right to vote. Their voting rights would be reinstated once they are released on parole.
Cuomo had proposed a bill in the New York State Legislature …
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has received a slew of negative publicity in recent weeks amid accusations of abuse of power and several senior-level resignations. Several people within the agency have characterized those departures as staffers abandoning a sinking …
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With the decision earlier this month to end TPS for 50,000 Hondurans living in the U.S., the Trump administration has basically terminated the TPS program.
The Temporary Protected Status Program allows individuals to remain in the U.S. and grants them …
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Google assistant can now make real phone calls, and the difference between it and real-life human conversation is virtually indistinguishable.
The technology was demonstrated last week at Google I/O the tech giant’s annual developer conference.
Different from voice-recognition software that …
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