A woman who opened fire on unsuspecting employees at YouTube’s headquarters yesterday has been identified as Nasim Najafi Aghdam, a 39-year-old resident of San Diego, California, according to authorities. Aghdam was apparently nursing a grudge against the online video …
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Police responded to the headquarters of online video portal YouTube this afternoon after receiving calls of a shooter at the San Bruno, California location, which is about twenty miles south of San Francisco.
San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini told …
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According to numbers released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today, nearly 12 million people signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, during the 2018 open enrollment period. That number is a slight …
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A Dutch lawyer is the first person to be sentenced in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Attorney Alex van der Zwaan has been sentenced to thirty days in prison and was …
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is facing increasing scrutiny over the way he is running the agency. The questions regard travel expenses as well as his questionable use of an EPA statute that allows him to hire political appointees, …
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The Chinese government has announced about $3 billion in tariffs on U.S. imports to the country in response to U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from China, as well as other nations, last month. The Chinese tariffs will be …
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Sinclair Broadcast Group is facing heavy criticism for mandatory readings of scripts it has made news anchors at local television stations read denouncing what it calls “fake stories” published by media outlets that “just aren’t true” and that are published …
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A leaked memo has caused an uproar at Facebook by employees who are both upset about the memo and others who are upset it leaked. In the memo, Andrew Bosworth, a Facebook vice president wrote that Facebook’s growth rate is …
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President Donald Trump has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House according to the Russian Kremlin. The invitation was extended during a phone call last month in which the President congratulated Putin on his reelection victory.
The Kremlin, …
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Officials from the U.S. and its allies are worried about increased Russian-ship activity near underwater cables that carry most of the world’s data. Officials are suspicious the Russian vessels may be laying the groundwork for future operations against the lines.…
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President Trump has vowed to stop negotiating on a solution to the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program Sunday morning, citing what he considers a lack of desire on the part of congressional Democrats to get a deal …
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The incoming director of the National Security Agency will be facing nearly unprecedented threats in the cyber realm from nations such as Russia and China, as well as non-state terror actors like ISIS. Those threats will include not just cyber-espionage …
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French President Emmanuel Macron gave a major speech this week in which he laid out the country’s new strategy for championing Artificial Intelligence. The French government will spend close to $2 billion over the next five years to encourage startups, …
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President Donald Trump directed attacked Amazon.com Saturday accusing the online retail giant of cheating the U.S. Postal Service out of billions of dollars by paying considerably less than market rates to have their packages delivered. The President made the charge …
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A Texas woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for voting in the 2016 presidential election when she was ineligible to do so. Forty-three-year-old Crystal Mason had signed an affidavit laying out several requirements allowing her to vote. …
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Recently fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is alleging he was forced out of his job because members of the Trump administration secretly want to privatize the VA, something Shulkin opposed. Shulkin made the statements in an op-ed for The …
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Amid growing uncertainty over U.S. policy in Syria, Top Defense and State Department officials have asked the White House for clarification of President Trump’s recent comments that the U.S. would soon be pulling out of Syria.
“We’re knocking the hell …
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