TV pitches for prescription drugs will have to include price…
May 8, 2019
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Wednesday the Trump administration has finalized regulations requiring drug companies to disclose list prices of medications costing more than $35 for a month’s supply.
NXIVM Update: Judge Denies Motion for Mistrial – Case Will Continue…
May 8, 2019
The mistrial motion was based on the fact that certain witnesses in the trial – those who are deemed to be Keith Raniere’s victims – will only be addressed in the courtroom by their first names. Other witnesses, however, will be addressed by their full names...
Trump invokes ‘privilege’ over the full Mueller report
May 8, 2019
The president’s move came after the Justice Department, late Tuesday night, requested that the House Judiciary Committee postpone a scheduled vote on to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to provide the Mueller files to the panel. The Justice Department warned that if the committee did not postpone the vote, the attorney general would recommend that Trump claim executive privilege over the materials.
On Wednesday, the White House did just that.
Statement on Executive Privilege pic.twitter.com/6ujCZDnMC0
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) May 8, 2019
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Trump Can Send Asylum Seekers To Mexico…
May 8, 2019
Now, the president can at least temporarily declare victory on “Remain in Mexico.” The lower court still has to rule on the merits of the case, which could end up at the Supreme Court.
Biden Ally Involved With $60M Dark Money 2020 Strategy Center, Shutters PAC…
May 8, 2019
Matt Tompkins, a Democratic fundraiser, submitted paperwork to the FEC on April 24 establishing the Biden PAC. That same day, additional paperwork was submitted changing the name of the entity from the Biden PAC to the G Street PAC while also removing Tompkins as its treasurer. The PAC would eventually be named For the People and spend millions backing Biden. Biden's communications director, Kate Bedingfield, put distance between the campaign and the PAC and told the Hill that Biden "does not welcome assistance from super PACs."...
Brian Sims’ Non-Apology Attempt To Do Damage Control Only Confirms He’s A Human ‘Dump Heap’…
May 8, 2019
SpaceX successfully delivered 5,500 lbs of cargo to the International Space Station…
May 8, 2019
It launched Sunday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida joining five other spacecraft currently docked at the station...
Amazon in talks to acquire Chinese self-driving truck startup TuSimple…
May 8, 2019
TuSimple, founded in 2015 with operations in Beijing, San Diego and Tucson, Arizona, is developing artificial intelligence and computer vision technology for self-driving trucks... TuSimple gained unicorn status in February when it raised $95 million in a Series D round on a valuation of $1.095 billion. Investors include Nvidia Corp., ZP Capital, Sina and Composite Capital...
The CIA Will Use its New Dark Web Site to Collect Anonymous Tips…
May 8, 2019
According to the agency, a transition to the Tor network (known for its anonymity services) was a natural move since its onion site is “secure, anonymous, untraceable—traits ever-present in CIA’s intelligence collection mission.” The site will be an exact replica of its regular website, CIA.gov, featuring things like CIA World Factbook and its online Library of declassified materials... In other words, like a woke Burger King ad, the CIA is trying to be cool with the kids to ensure a future for its next generation of spies...
Facial recognition wrongly identifies public as potential criminals 96% of time, figures reveal…
May 8, 2019
NXIVM ‘Slave’ Says Women Forced Her Into Sex With Founder…
May 8, 2019
At 18, Sylvie was sucked into the group, thinking it was about empowerment. Over the following years, she said she was turned into Keith Raniere’s plaything. “I follow Keith into the house and he took me straight upstairs,” the woman, identified by prosecutors only as Sylvie, told jurors in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday. “He told me to undress and lie on my back on the bed. He then went down on me and I just remembered it felt like it was going on for a really long time.”...
GM will sell Lordstown Plant to Workhorse, who will build Electric Trucks. GM will also be spending $700M in Ohio creating another 450 jobs…
May 8, 2019
....in 3 separate locations, creating another 450 jobs. I have been working nicely with GM to get this done. Thank you to Mary B, your GREAT Governor, and Senator Rob Portman. With all the car companies coming back, and much more, THE USA IS BOOMING!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2019
China Plays a Dirty Game: China tried to backtrack on “nearly all aspects of US trade deal” — within hours Trump forcefully responded…
May 8, 2019
One private-sector source briefed on the talks said the last round of negotiations had gone very poorly because “China got greedy”.... China reneged on a dozen things, if not more ... The talks were so bad that the real surprise is that it took Trump until Sunday to blow up,” the source said. "After 20 years of having their way with the U.S., China still appears to be miscalculating with this administration.”...
China's testing the waters again. They can't help but try to see what they can get away with. They are in a 100 years war, while we are in a perpetual 2, maybe 4 year election cycle. China's strategy is to wait for the next loser that they can buy off.
Politico Tries to Smooth-Talk RFK Jr. By Convincing Him He’s Part of Their Own Cabal, But Only If He Stops Fighting Against Forced Vaccinations…
May 8, 2019
We love Bobby. He is one of the great champions of the environment. His work to clean up the Hudson River and his tireless advocacy against multinational organizations who have polluted our waterways and endangered families has positively affected the lives of countless Americans. We stand behind him in his ongoing fight to protect our environment... And his and others’ work against vaccines is having heartbreaking consequences...
Barr may seek executive privilege over Mueller report in face of contempt vote…
May 8, 2019
Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said Nadler was being unreasonable. “It appears that the more access to information Democrats receive, the less interested they are in actually examining those facts,"... Chairman Nadler, however, rebuffed the olive branch and plowed ahead with his plan to hold Attorney General Barr in contempt for upholding the law. I can’t imagine a more illogical hill for a legislator to die on.”...
NASA needs your help to improve its space laser…
May 8, 2019
NASA recently launched a new satellite with an ambitious goal: it will measure the height of every forest on the planet. It’s part of an effort to figure out how much carbon is locked up in trees across the Earth. But, NASA’s not totally sure how accurate their space-laser measurement system really is. So, we headed off into the woods to help them check their work.
DNA testing: Montana man’s ancestry test deemed oldest in Americas; traced his line back 55 generations…
May 8, 2019
Crawford's DNA story suggests his ancestors came from the Pacific, traveled to the coast of South America and traveled north, according to CRI. That's a theory anyway. He's part of mtDNA Haplogroup B2, which has a low frequency in Alaska and Canada and originated in Arizona about 17,000 years ago...
Missing part of Stonehenge returned after 60 years…
May 8, 2019
A metre-long core from inside the prehistoric stone was removed during archaeological excavations in 1958. No one knew where it was until Robert Phillips, 89, who was involved in those works, decided to return it. English Heritage, which looks after Stonehenge, hopes the sample might now help establish where the stones originally came from.
FBI has seized Deep Dot Web and arrested its administrators for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces…
May 8, 2019
Two suspects were arrested in Tel Aviv and Ashdod... Arrests were also made in France, Germany and the Netherlands. A source familiar with the operation said a site administrator was arrested in Brazil. Deep Dot Web is said to have made millions of dollars in commission by offering referral links to dark web marketplaces, accessible only at .onion domains over the Tor Network...
Philippines sets deadline for Canada to ship out garbage in filthy standoff…
May 8, 2019
The Canadian government, however, "informed that it might take weeks for them to arrange the necessary documents from their end" that would hinder them from meeting the upcoming deadline, Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero said... Teddy Locsin Jr., the Filipino Secretary of Foreign Affairs, tweeted on Tuesday that Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte "expects the garbage to be seaborne by May 15. That expectation will be met or else..."