US and China kick off high-level trade talks…
January 30, 2019
U.S. and Chinese negotiators kicked off two days of high-level talks in Washington Wednesday.
Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps…
January 30, 2019
Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release “dogfood” (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we’re told, as the affected apps simply don’t launch on employees’ phones anymore.
The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple’s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a “research” app.
iRobot, the maker of the Roomba vacuum, announced its first autonomous lawnmower today, the Terra…
January 30, 2019
hile most autonomous lawn mowers require people to lay down wire to define their boundaries, the Terra only requires wireless beacons to be placed around the perimeter of a lawn — the idea being it’s a simpler setup. The connected app also lets users define a grass height and make adjustments as needed.
FBI Arrests 2nd Chinese National For Stealing Trade Secrets From Apple…
January 30, 2019
We imagine there's nothing that would put a damper on trade talks quite like another indictment accusing a Chinese national of doing the exact thing (corporate espionage and stealing US trade secrets) that senior Trump Administration officials had warned would be deal-breaking for future negotiations. Yet, on the very day high level trade talks began in Washington, it appears that's exactly what has happened.
Virginia abortion bill sponsor saying plan would allow termination up until birth…
Virginia Governor Defends Letting Infants Die...
January 30, 2019
The bill would remove a number of restrictions currently in place regarding late-term abortions, including doing away with the requirement that two other physicians certify a third-trimester abortion is necessary to prevent the woman's death or impairment of her mental or physical health. The third trimester lasts until 40 weeks.
Judge’s health emergency causes cancellation of 9/11 hearing at Guantánamo…
January 30, 2019
Marine Col. Keith Parrella’s abrupt recess presented another pretrial delay in efforts to try the five men accused of plotting al-Qaida’s Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that killed 2,976 people in New York, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. The next hearings are scheduled for late March.
Court personnel declined to describe Parrella’s health emergency, citing privacy, but his wife and other war court personnel said the colonel had a detached retina that required surgery in the United States. The judge was airlifted around noon Wednesday. Parrella’s health situation was not life-threatening, but required emergency surgery, said defense attorney Jay Connell.
Korean man who died in Mexico returned with missing organs…
January 30, 2019
The body of a Korean man who died in Mexico has been returned to his family ― without his brain, stomach and heart.
Mexican authorities claim that the man, 35, surnamed Kim, died of natural causes despite a scuffle with other people just before his death. His widow fears that someone is trying to cover up the truth.
Triggered SJW says white coal miners are all racists wearing black face…
January 30, 2019
Friends said, “It’s coal miners at a pub after work.” It was a photograph of coal miners with blackened faces. I asked a Latinx and white woman for their opinion. They said it looked like coal miners at a pub after work. Then they stepped back, frowned and said it’s men in blackface.
I asked the waitress to speak with a manager. Instead, I spoke with a white restaurant owner. I explained to him why the photograph was offensive. Evidently, someone else had made a similar comment about the photograph before.
Yet, the photograph remained on the wall.
These people are sick!
Escort who promised to spill Trump-Russia secrets now says she made claims to save her life…
January 30, 2019
Anastasia Vashukevich was arrested last year in Thailand for holding sex training seminars in the country. She spent nearly a year behind bars until she was deported, and she was arrested in Moscow earlier this month on prostitution charges.
Vashukevich, who is known as Nastya Rybka on social media, claimed to have recordings of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska that would reveal more information about President Trump’s connections to Russia. She claimed to have obtained the recordings during an affair with the Russian billionaire.
Vashukevich is now walking back her declaration, saying she made up the claims to attract media attention to save her life while she was being held in Thailand.
DEMs cause disarray within Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign for 2020…
January 30, 2019
Injuries reported after motorcade incident outside White House…
January 30, 2019
An incident has taken place outside of the White House involving a pedestrian and a presidential motorcade.
A pedestrian who was protesting reportedly jumped in front of the motorcade and was struck, according to reports on Wednesday. A law enforcement officer was also reportedly involved.
The protester was reportedly arrested.
FBI investigates discovery of underground tunnel leading to Florida bank…
January 30, 2019
The Pembroke Pines Police Department was called to the scene of a possible sinkhole at the Flamingo Pines shopping plaza on Wednesday.
Officers arrived to find a hole in the pavement, which led to a tunnel that stretched from a wooded area toward a Chase bank.
Police also discovered tools for digging along with a pair of muddy boots, a homemade ladder and stool and a Honda generator, the news station reported.
El Chapo Trial: Defense Rests Its Case In 30 Minutes With Only 1 Witness…
January 30, 2019
By contrast, the prosecution questioned a staggering 56 witnesses over the course of 10 weeks.
CBP Officers Seize Heroin Valued More Than $750K…
January 30, 2019
The seizure occurred on Saturday, Jan. 26 at the Colombia-Solidarity International Bridge when a CBP officer referred a 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan hauling a 2018 utility trailer for a secondary examination. During a canine and non-intrusive imaging inspection, CBP officers discovered 21 packages containing a total of 28 pounds of alleged heroin within the trailer. The narcotics have an estimated street value of $752,400.
Foxconn is Allegedly Rethinking Wisconson LCD Manufacturing Plans – turning it into a “technology hub” instead of a manufacturing center…
January 30, 2019
Foxconn Technology Group is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus, and said it intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather than the manufacturing workforce the project originally promised.
Instead, Wisconsin might get a technology hub for research and development. Wisconsin has great engineering schools, so this is good.
Top Vatican Official Resigns After Being Accused Of Sexual Harassment…
January 30, 2019
A top Vatican official has resigned after a former nun from his community publicly accused him of making sexual advances during confession, the Vatican said Tuesday. The Vatican said that the Rev. Hermann Geissler denies the allegation and reserves the right to a civil suit.
FBI ignored metadata that indicated a copy of every email sent by Hillary Clinton was forwarded to a foreign third party, closed-door testimonies confirm…
January 30, 2019
The existence of the lead was first revealed during the public testimony of Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz in June last year.
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The ICIG referred the Clinton-email case to the FBI on July 6, 2015... which indicates that classified information is being, or may have been, disclosed in an unauthorized manner to a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power,”.China. Surprised? Remember, Hillary's lack of server security wasn't a bug, it was a feature. Think; plausible deniability.
Maduro “Open To Talks” As 20 Tons Of Gold Mysteriously Disappears From Venezeula’s Vaults…
January 30, 2019
It's probably just a coincidence.
One day after a Russian official warned that Venezuela would struggle to meet its financial obligations to Moscow under a $3.15 billion debt-rescheduling deal, Bloomberg is reporting that a mysterious Russian Boeing 777 had landed in Caracas on Tuesday and ferried away 20 tonnes of gold - equivalent to roughly 20% of the country's holdings of the shiny metal - to an unknown location with little explanation.
UPDATE:
A spokesman for the Kremlin has denied rumors that the private Boeing 777 registered to Russia's Nordwind airline which landed in Caracas this week was there to spirit away a chunk of the country's gold reserves - or escort the country's embattled leader, Nicolas Maduro, into exile, according to the Telegraph.
ICE arrests 118 during Operation Cross Check in New York…
January 30, 2019
During the operation, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 118 individuals for violating U.S. immigration laws. Of those arrested, more than 107 were convicted criminals or had criminal charges pending, more than 55 had been issued a final order of removal and failed to depart the United States, or had been previously removed from the United States and returned illegally. Several had prior felony convictions for serious or violent offenses, such as child sex crimes, weapons charges, and assault, or had past convictions for significant or multiple misdemeanors.
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The arrestees include nationals from: Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Senegal, Spain, Trinidad, and Venezuela. ERO deportation officers made arrests throughout New York City, the Hudson Valley, and Long Island, specifically in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island, Suffolk County, Nassau County, Suffolk County, Dutchess County, Putnam County, Rockland County , Ulster County, Westchester County, and Bergen County in New Jersey...Dems to strike ‘so help you God’ from oath taken in front of key House committee, draft shows…
January 30, 2019
A key committee in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives is moving to eliminate the God reference from the oath administered to witnesses testifying before the panel, as part of a new rules package expected to be approved this week, according to a draft obtained exclusively by Fox News.
The draft shows that the House Committee on Natural Resources would ask witnesses to recite only, "Do you solemnly swear or affirm, under penalty of law, that the testimony that you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"