Trump sues to block subpoena from House Democrats seeking information on his finances…
April 22, 2019
- President Donald Trump files suit against Democratic House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings on Monday to block a subpoena sent last week seeking information about the president's finances.
- Trump says in the legal complaint that Democrats have "declared all-out political war" against him, with subpoenas as their "weapon of choice."
- Last week, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenaed an accounting firm that Trump had used to prepare several years of financial statements, according to the lawmakers' document.
Yes Logan Act Violation, with evidence…
April 22, 2019
Saudi Arabia and others in OPEC will more than make up the Oil Flow difference in our now Full Sanctions on Iranian Oil. Iran is being given VERY BAD advice by @JohnKerry and people who helped him lead the U.S. into the very bad Iran Nuclear Deal. Big violation of Logan Act?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 22, 2019
Mueller Ambushed By MSNBC Reporter That Was Stalking Him During Easter Sunday Church Services…
April 22, 2019
Video Showing What Happens to 300 Year Old Oak Beam as a Blow Torch Is Applied to It for 5 Minutes…
April 22, 2019
Notre Dame putting a blow touch on a 300yr old oak beam for 5min straight. pic.twitter.com/m7OOPTpL97
— Lagud_Fortuyn (@Lagud2) April 21, 2019
Japanese Prosecutors Bring New Charge Against Carlos Ghosn…
Court says Nissan ex-chair Ghosn seeking bail...
April 22, 2019
Japanese prosecutors on Monday formally charged Carlos Ghosn, the former head of the Nissan-Renault auto alliance, with breach of trust, piling a new count of financial impropriety onto his existing charges in a move that adds pressure on him and ensures he remains jailed...
Online passwords: Research confirms millions of people are using 123456…
April 22, 2019
A recent study by the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) that looked at public databases of breached accounts confirms that for many people, simple passwords are still a thing, with 23.2 million accounts globally using “123456” — the most common string on the list.
Perhaps not surprisingly, second is “123456789,” while others include “password”, “1111111,” and “qwerty.”
Washington state could become first state to allow human composting…
April 22, 2019
Washington state lawmakers on Friday passed a bill that would allow residents to take part in “natural organic reduction” of human remains, citing in part research that said careful composted human remains could be safe for use in a household garden...
Scientists found the 22 million-year-old fossils of a giant carnivore they call “Simbakubwa” sitting in a museum drawer in Kenya. The 3,000-pound predator, a hyaenodont, was many times larger than the modern lions it resembles, and among the largest mammalian predators ever to walk Earth’s surface…
April 22, 2019
Scientists Create Living, Eating, Growing Machines…
April 22, 2019
A new biomaterial built in a Cornell University bioengineering lab uses synthetic DNA to continuously and autonomously organize, assemble, and restructure itself in a process so similar to how biological cells and tissues grow that the researchers are calling "artificial metabolism". However, scientists are not ready to admit that they have created lifelike machinery. Scientists have done everything but outright claim that their metabolizing biomaterial is alive, but research has listed the characteristics of life that the material exhibits-self-assembly, organization, and metabolism.
These human-engineered organic machines are capable of locomotion, consuming resources for energy, growing and decaying, and evolving. Eventually they die.
This robot could make pesticides obsolete – In efforts to stop the use of chemicals, researchers are testing ultraviolet light to kill diseases on strawberries…
April 22, 2019
Anything that takes money away from Monsanto is a step in the right direction.
CDC admits measles outbreak is caused by people brought into the US by travelers who left the US and returned from other countries such as Israel, Ukraine, and the Philippines, where large measles outbreaks are occurring…
April 22, 2019
The US officially declared measles eradicated in 2000. But outbreaks in other countries and fast international travel being accessible to the average person enabled the new outbreaks in the US.
Trump Says He Won’t Nominate Herman Cain For Fed Board…
April 22, 2019
"My friend Herman Cain, a truly wonderful man, has asked me not to nominate him for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board. I will respect his wishes." - Donald Trump
CDC: One in Seven Transgender Women Have HIV…
April 22, 2019
CDC, a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), stated:
According to current estimates, about 1 in 7 (14%) transgender women have HIV, and the percentage is much higher among black/African American (44%) and Hispanic/Latina (26%) transgender women.* An estimated 3% of transgender men have HIV.
The CDC’s warning about HIV among transgender individuals comes as the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.N.’s global health agency, recently announced that individuals who claim to be transgender no longer should be labeled with a mental illness.
Russia to make $9 billion in arms deal from Pakistan…
April 22, 2019
The deal is expected to amount $9 billion under which Islamabad would purchase heavy and medium fighter jets, medium and short-range air defense systems, tanks, combat helicopters, and warships.
US Senator: Turkey has ‘no chance’ of getting both F-35s and S-400…
April 22, 2019
The United States will impose sanctions on Turkey and freeze the delivery of American-made F-35 fighter jets if the country proceeds with the acquisition and deployment of the Russian S-400 missile defence system, US Senator Robert Menendez told Kathimerini’s executive editor Alexis Papachelas in an exclusive interview...
The Hubble Just Took a Gorgeous New Image of the Southern Crab Nebula’s Wonky Gas Bubbles…
April 22, 2019
Every year, Hubble spends a small portion of its time snapping a gorgeous anniversary picture like this one, according to a statement from the European Space Agency (ESA), the agency that manages the telescope in cooperation with NASA. The decision to image the Southern Crab Nebula for this year's birthday photo recalls the first encounter between the photographer and its subject in 1998, when Hubble imaged the complete hourglass structure of the nebula for the first time.
How Democrats misled the nation about Trump’s tax cuts…
April 22, 2019
...early April, SurveyMonkey found only 40 percent of Americans believed they saw savings, and only 20 percent felt sure they had. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll last month found even fewer, just 17 percent, thought their families would pay less.
Why are so many people under the wrong impression about their own taxes? As the Times put it, the gap “appears to flow from a sustained — and misleading — effort by liberal opponents of the law to brand [Trump’s tax reform] as a broad middle-class tax increase.” Give the paper credit for honesty.
Fact is, “Democrats did a very good job” at convincing people they wouldn’t benefit, the Tax Policy Center’s Howard Gleckman observed. “The reality has been unable to break that perception.”
Musk banking on autonomous Tesla taxis…
April 22, 2019
At the invitation-only event — called Investor Autonomy Day and set for 11 a.m. Monday at the company’s Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters — Musk is likely to detail plans to make Tesla the first company to offer widespread deployment of driverless cars on highways and city streets. Within months, Musk said, owners of most Teslas can have their cars refitted with a new computer board to enable full self-driving.
“Tesla will free investors from the tyranny of having to drive their own car,” Musk tweeted this week.
By linking homes equipped with solar panels and batteries together, into one system, Los Angeles could create the largest “virtual power plant” with the capability of retiring coal fired plants…
April 22, 2019
According to a new analytic report by Sunrun, energy from rooftop solar panels and batteries can replace retiring gas-fired power plants in the city of Los Angeles... “Our current energy system was built more than 100 years ago and was not designed for today’s energy consumers, technology or climate,” said Lynn Jurich...
A mystery agent is doxing Iran’s hackers and dumping their code…
April 22, 2019
Iran seems to be getting its own taste of a Shadow Brokers-style leak of secrets.