September, 2019

Police say the wife of "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary has been charged with careless operation of a vessel in a fatal boat crash in Canada. Ontario Provincial Police say 56-year-old Linda O'Leary of Toronto is scheduled to appear in court on October 29.
Two boats crashed on Lake Joseph near Seguin, Ontario, on August 24, killing a Florida man identified as 64-year-old Gary Poltash and a 48-year-old woman identified as Susanne Brito. Brito died in the hospital days later. O'Leary said after the crash that he wasn't piloting the boat at the time.

Shortly after 12:30 p.m., at least eight men left the Senate Democratic offices carrying two cardboard boxes, two brown bags labeled “evidence” and what appeared to be a desktop computer, wrapped in plastic. They loaded everything into two SUVs. An FBI spokesman confirmed that agents were at the capitol Tuesday conducting “authorized law enforcement activity,” but declined to comment further. The spokesman had no immediate comment when asked about the search of Sandoval’s Cicero office.

Companies receive 2m-3m tons in tariff waivers for U.S. soy. Firms already bought at least 20 cargoes on Monday, people say...

“Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific,” the declaration states. “Scientists should openly address the uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real benefits as well as the imagined costs of adaptation to global warming, and the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of mitigation.” The scientists underscored the importance of not rushing into enormously expensive climate action before fully ascertaining the facts.

As we reported on Monday — One terrified little girl in Australia couldn’t even talk to reporters about climate change without crying. She broke down in tears while talking to reporters about climate change junk science... But that was not your typical emotional teen. The girl in the video is an Aussie child actress.

Having an ID and being registered does not give you the right to vote. #VoterFraudIsReal #NationalVoterRegistrationDay pic.twitter.com/u5frwo8V48

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) September 24, 2019

A privacy bill, signed into law this May, requires website operators to respond to requests from consumers and halt the sale of their personal information within 60 days—or potentially face strict fines... Formally in effect on October 1, SB 220 authorizes Nevada’s attorney general to bring legal action against operators of websites and apps that violate its requirements. Violators may be subject to injunctions and civil penalties of up to $5,000 per violation...

The olive branch to hackers marks a huge about-face for the industry, which last week asked for feedback from researchers and companies about the best ways to let outsiders vet their security. They've long argued that researchers, by exposing security flaws, could give a roadmap to foreign hackers intent on compromising the 2020 contest. Now they're saying the threat of Russian hacking and disinformation is too severe for the security of election systems to be treated as a private matter to be managed behind closed doors...

Boston Dynamics is putting Spot to work. The company has announced a new leasing program for its Spot robot (formerly SpotMini), which is aimed at construction, entertainment, and other automation-friendly industries. But is the world ready for this semi-autonomous quadruped?

....You will see it was a very friendly and totally appropriate call. No pressure and, unlike Joe Biden and his son, NO quid pro quo! This is nothing more than a continuation of the Greatest and most Destructive Witch Hunt of all time!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2019

The first salvos in a federal court case pitting two of the nations most powerful lawyers against each other were heard Tuesday in New York, as famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz argued that his Twitter attacks against a woman accusing him of sexual abuse are protected free speech.

The defamation case promises to provide lurid new details about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case, including whether other powerful men were involved in procuring young women from Epstein for sex. Among the names thrown out at the hearing Tuesday was Leslie Wexner, owner of Victoria’s Secret, whom Dershowitz said will be called as a witness should the case go to trial.

Testing 12 different bamboo cup brands, Stiftung Warentest found that most released ‘very high’ amounts of melamine and formaldehyde after contact with a hot drink. At first glance, food and beverage containers made from bamboo seem like a good choice for environmentally friendly consumers. Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant on the planet, so there’s no shortage of sustainable material. Plus, bamboo containers are reusable and can, therefore, replace the disposable containers used by coffee shops and other food and beverage outlets. According to data cited by German consumer organisation Stiftung Warentest foundation, disposable coffee cups create 40,000 metric tons of waste each year in Germany alone. However, a recent test by the consumer group, that investigates and compares goods on the German market, has shown that by switching to a bamboo cup you might be risking your health in the process.

Federal agents are probing the recent spate of suicides committed by sailors assigned to the USS George H.W. Bush — including a fourth case in July, according to a report. Authorities began investigating the suicide of Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class Robert John Bartulewicz III in July, but federal agents launched a new probe after three other sailors from the same aircraft carrier killed themselves last week, the Navy Times reported... Navy officials rejected suggestions that the cases point to an “epidemic,” the Navy Times reported. “The sailors did not serve in the same departments, and there does not appear to be a connection between their deaths,” Cmdr. Jennifer Cragg told the outlet.

A residential side street in San Francisco now resembles a scene out of the rocky West after a group of neighbors banded together to place about two dozen boulders along the sidewalk to try and deter homeless people from camping out amid the city's ongoing crisis. Neighbors along Clinton Park in the city's Mission Dolores neighborhood said the rocks are meant to keep drug users from having a space to shoot up as they camp out overnight. "They'll shoot up and stay overnight," neighbor David Smith-Tan told KTVU. "A bunch of my neighbors, we all chipped in a few hundred dollars and I guess this is what they came up with."

The eleged pattern of selling public office for millions and billions is an attack on the core of our government of laws. It must be taken seriously, even if it involves a member of the Washington protected class.

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) September 24, 2019

Calling the government's arguments "untenable," the court ordered the Trump admin to produce a plan in 30 days on how to fix the visa application problem.

Dubbed "Greater Adria" by its founders at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, the missing piece of continental crust seemingly separated from North Africa and lodged itself under Southern Europe. While most of the continent is underwater, much of the land mass's sedimentary pieces were scraped off during its great migration. Those scrapings now make up European mountain belts, including parts of the Alps, Greece and Turkey.