Facebook announced the departure of Alex Stamos, its chief information security officer yesterday. Stamos has been with the company since 2015. His departure comes as the company struggles with a rapidly-growing problem over the role it played in Russian …
Continue ReadingA package whose final destination was Austin, Texas, exploded in a Federal Express sorting facility in San Antonio shortly after midnight this morning, leaving an employee with non-life-threatening injuries. The wound was said to be a “percussion-type” injury from the …
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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to issue an injunction blocking a congressional map put into effect by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last month largely seen as a boon to democrats. The High Court issued a …
Continue ReadingA woman in Tempe, Arizona, has been killed after being struck by a self-driving Uber car at about 10 p.m. last night. The victim’s name has not as of yet been released.
The vehicle was in autonomous, or self-driving mode, …
Continue ReadingA new study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a healthcare education and advocacy group, has found that the re-establishment of certain subsidies implemented under Obamacare but repealed by President Trump last year may actually be detrimental to premium prices…
Continue ReadingJared Kushner’s father, Charles Kushner, met with the Qatari Finance Minister last year in the hopes of securing financing for a debt-ridden asset in the company’s portfolio the company confirmed yesterday. Kushner maintains however that he turned down offers form …
Continue ReadingAn Ohio high school student was suspended for refusing to participate in a walkout protesting gun violence last week. Hilliard Davidson High School Senior Jacob Shoemaker said he was presented with a choice, he could either participate in the walkout …
Continue ReadingRussian President Vladimir Putin won reelection yesterday, remaining Russia’s president for at least another six years. The Russian leader has been the head of the country since 1999, serving as either president or prime minister in that time. Putin …
Continue ReadingRecords obtained from the City of New York show that Kushner Companies, the real estate company owned by the family of presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner falsely filed dozens of documents that allowed it to nuisance tenants in buildings owned by …
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Bob Mercer was raised in New Mexico in the 1960’s. While in high school, he was able to work his way into a job at a nearby Air Force weapons lab writing computer programs. He once showed superiors at the …
Continue ReadingTensions between President Trump and former high-ranking intelligence community officials have been rising in the wake of the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. McCabe was fired on Friday after an internal FBI investigation found he acted inappropriately in …
Continue ReadingRussia has expelled twenty-three British diplomats in retaliation for the expulsion of twenty-three Russian diplomats by Great Britain, last week over the alleged assassination attempt of a Russian ex-pat living in England since 2010.
“Russia’s response doesn’t change the facts …
Continue ReadingFormer Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe believes his firing was political and that it has to do with his willingness to corroborate information former FBI Director James Comey has given to Congress as well as the special counsel about interactions …
Continue ReadingAttorney General Jeff Sessions dismissed Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe yesterday in the wake of an internal investigation that found that McCabe had been less than forthcoming with an internal audit about some actions while conducting the Hillary Clinton email …
Continue ReadingFacebook has admitted that a data research firm, in violation of its terms, inappropriately harvested user data of as many 50 million people, mostly U.S. voters. In response, the company has suspended the accounts the firm, along with another …
Continue ReadingSaudi Arabia has vowed to develop nuclear weapons if Iran does, the country said this week. Saudi’s defense chief and heir apparent, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said that the Kingdom would pursue nuclear weapons if Iran restarts its program, …
Continue ReadingDeputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe was fired last night in the wake of an internal investigation that found that he had been less than forthcoming with an internal audit about some actions while conducting the Hillary Clinton email …
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