President Trump and The First Lady Host the White House Historical Association Dinner…
May 15, 2019
White House launches tool to report censorship on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter…
May 15, 2019
The Trump Administration is fighting for free speech online.
No matter your views, if you suspect political bias has caused you to be censored or silenced online, we want to hear about it! https://t.co/9lc0cqUhuf pic.twitter.com/J8ICbx42dz
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 15, 2019
SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS should advance FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Yet too many Americans have seen their accounts suspended, banned, or fraudulently reported for unclear “violations” of user policies. No matter your views, if you suspect political bias caused such an action to be taken against you, share your story with President Trump.
Italian leader Salvini launches bill to fine rescuers €5,500 for each refugee they save…
May 15, 2019
The bill, which was announced by Mr Salvini on Friday, would present vessels with fines between €3,500 and €5,500 for each “foreigner” they deposit on Italian ground. In the most serious cases, Italian vessels caught transporting rescued refugees would see their licences revoked or suspended.
Facebook has banned 23 major Italian pro-populist pages with a combined 2.5 million followers two weeks before the European elections…
May 15, 2019
Facebook claims that the sites were spreading fake news, "hate speech," and "divisive content" about immigrants, vaccines and Jews, after left-wing "human rights" and environmentalist non-government organization (NGO) Avaaz issued a report on "inauthentic behavior" over Italian Facebook networks. "We thank Avaaz for sharing its research so we could investigate," said a Facebook spokesoperson.
Remember what we told you about Avaaz few weeks back, they are an ultra left-wing group founded by Res-Publica and MoveON.org. A SOROS group that is consulting Facebook on censorship. What else did you expect?
Florida passes new human trafficking legislation…
May 15, 2019
This anti-human trafficking bill, HB 851, requires educating the employees of hotels, massage parlors and adult theaters on how to spot the signs of trafficking and common practices. It calls for those employees who see evidence of these crimes to report suspicious activity... The law also reclassifies strip clubs that employ underage victims who commonly come from the foster care system and overseas, only to become trapped by trafficking rings — as adult theaters... Further, it would create a Prostitution Public Database of those convicted of soliciting prostitution in Florida and a fund to support the enforcement through steep fines, and to help the victims.
Devin Nunes: Peter Strzok’s ‘insurance policy’ was about getting into Trump campaign emails…
May 15, 2019
"We believe that insurance policy is not just about investigating the Trump campaign," Nunes said. "We believe it's to ensure that they were able to get the FISA warrant on Carter Page so they could go in and look at the emails in the campaign."...
Utah prosecutor says he won’t enforce strict abortion law…
May 15, 2019
The chief prosecutor in the county with Utah’s only two abortion clinics says he won’t enforce a new law banning most procedures after 18 weeks. The decision announced Tuesday by Democratic Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill marks the latest example of an official resisting such laws passed by states around the country.
Border Patrol Seizes More Than $2M Worth of Methamphetamine…
May 15, 2019
Thursday night, Kingsville agents working at the Javier Vega Jr. Border Patrol Checkpoint referred a passenger vehicle to the secondary inspection area after a Border Patrol K-9 alerted. During the investigation, agents located over 100 bundles of methamphetamine weighing nearly 70 pounds, worth more than 2.2 million dollars. Agents arrested the driver and passenger.
US Plans to Send Transportation Security Staff to US-Mexico Border…
May 15, 2019
"TSA, like all DHS components, is supporting the DHS effort to address the humanitarian and security crisis at the southwest border. TSA is in the process of soliciting volunteers to support this effort while minimizing operational impact," TSA spokesman James Gregory said in a statement. The TSA border assignment will last at least 45 days and comes at the start of the busy summer travel season, which a U.S. official acknowledged carried "some risk,"...
McDonald’s locations to double as U.S. embassies is the most American thing that ever happened…
May 15, 2019
In an odd and deeply American turn of events, the U.S. State Department has struck a deal with McDonald’s in Austria to help U.S. citizens in need. The embassy has unveiled a new program where Americans “in distress” or those whose passports have been lost or stolen can find help (and french fries) from any of Austria’s 194 McDonald’s locations. Staff at the fast-food chain has special access to a 24-hour hotline to the U.S. embassy, meaning that Americans in need can get in touch with the embassy and pick up a Big Mac while they wait.
AMD Confirms its Processors are Unaffected by RIDL (Rogue In-Flight Data Load) and Fallout Vulnerabilities that affect Intel’s Core processors…
May 15, 2019
AMD came to these conclusions on the basis of its own testing and discussions with the researchers who discovered RIDL. It's important to note here, that the "Fallout" vulnerability AMD is referring to in this statement is the one which is part of four MDS vulnerabilities Intel disclosed yesterday, and not the identically named "Fallout" vulnerability discovered by CTS Labs in 2018, allegedly affecting secure memory management of AMD "Zen" processors.
Is this why the US government is using them to help build the World's fastest supercomputer? What about the US DOE and Intel's partnership to build the first exascale supercomputer that was announced this past march?
Did you know that Intel invests heavily in research in China and about 100 researchers – or 10% of the total number of researchers from Intel – are located in Beijing. Intel also often collaborates with the Chinese ZTE Corporation that the US government recently banned because their equipment could be used to spy on Americans. Intel also has a "Strategic Cooperation Pact" with Huawei.
What will happen to Intel now that Huawei is banned from buying parts & components from U.S Companies? Is their project with the DOE compromised? Was this project with Intel a way to gain insider influence that would help push Intel away from manufacturing in China?
White House plans to overhaul immigration system ending the visa lottery program and implementing merit-based admissions…
May 15, 2019
The move would more than quadruple the number of immigrants admitted because of their work-related skills, while dramatically slashing the number of immigrants admitted because of family ties. Currently, approximately 12 percent of immigrants are admitted based on employment and skills, while 66 percent are admitted based on family connections. Those percentages, under the new plan, would shift to 57 percent and 33 percent, respectively. Ten percent of immigrants would be admitted on humanitarian or other grounds, but the plan would end the visa lottery program...
Barr’s Investigator John Durham Once Probed Mueller In A Shocking Case…
May 15, 2019
Robert Mueller was knee-deep in this scandal, along with Andrew Weissman and the agent sent to prison, but because Reno gave him very limited authority, Durham was not able to prosecute Mueller...
Border Patrol Agents Rescue Over 100 People Locked in a Trailer…
May 15, 2019
While interviewing the driver, who claimed to have no identification, a canine alerted to the odors of concealed humans and/or narcotics within the trailer. The tractor-trailer was referred to the secondary inspection area where the driver absconded through the passenger door and ran into an adjacent field. Agents proceeded to open the trailer and discovered a total of 120 people... would have been impossible for the people to escape the trailer as it could not be opened from the inside. The individuals apprehended in the trailer consisted of 11 juveniles from Honduras and Guatemala along with 109 adults both male and females from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and Mexico.
Judge rejects Michael Avenatti’s request for public defender…
May 15, 2019
Judge James Selna denied the request without providing a reason on the eve of Avenatti’s appearance in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California, on the issue of who will represent him. Prosecutors want Avenatti to fill out financial forms to show he can’t afford a lawyer before one is appointed and Avenatti refused, citing the complexity of his finances and legal situation.
Top FBI officials were ‘quite worried’ Comey would appear to be blackmailing Trump…
May 15, 2019
Senior FBI officials were concerned then director James Comey would appear to be blackmailing then President-elect Trump – using tactics notoriously associated with J.Edgar Hoover – when he attended a fateful Jan. 6, 2017, meeting at which he informed the real estate magnate about allegations he had consorted with prostitutes in Moscow, according to Jim Baker, the bureau’s chief counsel at the time. “We were quite worried about the Hoover analogies, and we were determined not to have such a disaster happen on our watch,” said Jim Baker, then the FBI’s top lawyer in an interview with the Yahoo News podcast Skullduggery
Three-day Central Texas human trafficking sting leads to 15 arrests, 9 women were rescued …
May 15, 2019
Cecil Smith, Randall Steele and Larry Golden, all of Killeen, were charged with promotion of prostitution, the sheriff’s office said. Tatyana Clemens of Arlington and Billy Shell of Dallas were charged with human trafficking. Ten men were charged with prostitution...
In a 12-page letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, White House counsel Pat Cipollone accuses House Judiciary Democrats of trying to “harass” Trump…
Read the letter...
May 15, 2019
Cipollone called on Nadler to cancel his investigation altogether. "Under the circumstances, the appropriate course is for the Committee to discontinue the inquiry discussed in the March 4 letter," he wrote. "Unfortunately, it appears that you have already decided to press ahead with a duplicative investigation, including by issuing subpoenas, to replow the same ground the Special Counsel has already covered. I ask that you reconsider that approach."
The stunning toll of Boy Scout sex abuse: More than 12,200 reported victims…
May 15, 2019
A researcher hired by the Scouts to analyze records from 1944 to 2016 testified earlier this year that she had identified 7,819 suspected abusers and 12,254 victims. But even those numbers grossly understate how many molesters infiltrated the Scouts’ ranks over the years, according to lawyers who have sued the organization on behalf of hundreds of abuse victims... they noted, and many instances of abuse were never reported.
Mnuchin says he will resist congressional subpoenas for Trump tax returns…
May 15, 2019
“We haven’t made a decision but I think you can guess which way we’re leaning,” Mnuchin told the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the IRS and Treasury Department, before adding that he thought federal courts should interpret whether Congress can obtain Trump’s tax returns. “This will go to the third branch of government to be resolved.”