North Korean President Kim Jong Un made a surprise visit to Beijing, China, this week and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was the first time the two met face-to-face and the first time the reclusive leader met …
Continue ReadingA Washington State man with a history of writing incoherent notes to the military was arrested late last night for sending suspicious packages to military bases and government buildings in Washington D.C.
Forty-three-year-old Thang Cong Phan was taken into custody …
Continue ReadingAttorneys general of several states pledged to sue the Trump administration over a decision to include a question about citizenship on the forthcoming 2020 census.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra already filed suit to prevent the question from being included, …
Continue ReadingFormer Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum criticized protesters who took part in the March For Our Lives demonstration for gun control for not taking enough personal action to solve the problem of gun violence.
“How about kids instead of looking to …
Continue ReadingFormer Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, in an op-ed in the New York Times this morning, called for the repeal of the Second Amendment of the Constitution.
“Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement …
Continue ReadingAttorneys for the White House are looking into whether the President’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, violated ethics regulations by meeting with banking executives who then lent his family’s real estate business hundreds of millions of dollars.
Kushner had several meetings …
Continue ReadingConservative commentator Ann Coulter harshly criticized President Trump for signing a $1.3 trillion spending bill last week that didn’t include funding for a wall along the southern border if the United States.
“I can’t see any way to sugarcoat what …
Continue ReadingAs fears of a trade war between the U.S. and China erupted last week, high-ranking officials from both nations began negotiating possible solutions to a trade deficit President Trump has called “out of control.”
“It’s the largest deficit of any …
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump is on the verge of firing the Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin according to people familiar with the matter. The President is planning on making “one or two major changes,” according to longtime Trump friend and …
Continue ReadingFormer President Barack Obama plans to dedicate his work post-presidency to helping to develop the next generation of leaders. “If I could do that effectively, then – you know – I would create a hundred or a thousand or …
Continue ReadingFacebook has been scraping metadata from users’ telephone calls, including names, phone numbers, whether the calls were outgoing or incoming, as well as call length it was revealed this week.
The discovery was made by a man in New Zealand …
Continue ReadingThe Trump administration announced that it is expelling sixty Russian diplomats from the U.S. for that government’s alleged role in the poisoning of a Russian ex-patriot living in Britain earlier this month. The announcement is expected to coincide with similar …
Continue ReadingThe parent company of data research firm Cambridge Analytica, Strategic Communications Laboratories, has bragged about interference-tactics in foreign elections according to promotional materials published by the company. SCL, and its subsidiary, use psychometrics, the study of human characteristics to predict …
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Pew Research has revealed that the U.S. has among the lowest tariff rates against imported goods in the world. It also shows that its current tariff rates are close to the lowest they’ve been in the nation’s history. …
Continue ReadingPope Francis had a message for the world’s youth on Palm Sunday: let your voices be heard.
“There are many ways to silence young people and make them invisible,” he said. “Many ways to anesthetize them, to make …
Continue ReadingHundreds of thousands of protestors descended on Washington D.C. yesterday to demand changes to the nation’s gun laws. The march was organized by survivors of the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL, last month. Outcry …
Continue ReadingThe Trump White House announced a revised ban on transgender troops from serving in the military. The ban would apply to individuals who have been stable in their biological sex for less than thirty-six months, who were diagnosed with gender …
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