Social media giant Facebook has announced the deletion of more than 270 accounts reportedly operated by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian disinformation operation. All in all, 138 pages, seventy-five accounts and sixty-five Instagram accounts to tide the IRA were …
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A caravan of 1,000 men, women and children migrants hoping to seek asylum in the United States has reportedly been disbanded according to Mexican authorities. The group made headlines last weekend when it crossed into the Mexico with the goal …
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The U.S. Surgeon General has issued the first public health advisory in years, calling on Americans to carry Naloxone, a drug that reverses the deadly effects of opioid overdoses. Surgeon General Jerome Adams characterized the advisory as the best, …
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Facebook, in announcing significant changes to its information-sharing features with third-party app developers, has announced that up to 87 million Facebook users – mostly in the U.S. – have had their information inappropriately harvested by political data research firm Cambridge …
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Immigration remains a paramount topic in today’s political climate and while a border wall has yet to be built around the southern border of The United States, the Trump Administration took key steps to secure the border this week by …
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The White House has indicated that despite recent comments by President Trump, U.S. troops will not be pulling out of Syria abruptly.
“The military mission to eradicate ISIS in Syria is coming to a rapid end, with ISIS being almost …
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Fox News host Laura Ingraham continues to face backlash after sending out a scathing tweet about Parkland shooting survivor, David Hogg, in which she seemingly mocked the 18-year-old activist for whining about not getting into the college of his …
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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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