February 25th, 2020

More than 40 of the complaints described the performances by both stars as “soft porn” and one person from Tennessee said their eyes were “molested” by the performances. Hundreds of viewers seemed to be particularly upset about the amount of “crotch” shown by the singers during the performance.

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U.S. Attorney William Barr, appearing at a luncheon with Senate Republicans, urged lawmakers to support a renewal of the National Security Agency program, along with less controversial measures due to expire next month as part of the USA Freedom Act, according to Republicans who attended the event. The NSA has shut the program down. And while the Trump administration has been pushing for its reauthorization since last August, its efforts have found little traction in Congress.

Matthew Dmitri Richardson, 19, of Fayetteville Ark., was charged with maliciously attempting to damage and destroy by means of fire a vehicle used in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce... He was initially spotted by Pentagon Police in the north parking lot on Monday morning. The officer who saw Richardson claimed he was standing next to a vehicle, attempting to ignite a piece of fabric that was inserted into the gas tank.

At least 10 schools across the US have installed radio frequency scanners, which pick up on the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals from students' phones and track them with accuracy down to about one meter, or just over three feet...Inpixon already offers indoor positioning analytics in malls, offices and prisons, and now it wants to bring its phone tracking technology to schools... "Some of these schools may have younger kids, so they may not be carrying phones, so there's an application where there's a wristband or a tag they can use in lieu of a phone"...

Situated on the edge of downtown Seattle in a space that takes up 10,400 square feet (with 7,700 square feet of dedicated shopping space), the new Amazon Go Grocery dwarfs all of Amazon’s previous cashless stores... like other Go stores, the Go Grocery still has people swipe in by the entrance of the store using their phone, while a vast array of camera and sensors installed in the ceiling of the store tracks what you grab...

The editorial, which ran on Sunday, said the freshman representative has been in "hot water" with some in the party for "refusing to pay dues to her caucus' fundraising arm, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee" and instead devotes resources to "defeating Democrats"... "Don’t be surprised when the established Democrats who’ll control redistricting after the 2020 Census do their best to eliminate her seat," the editorial stated.

The company filed for bankruptcy in September as part of a tentative settlement in the case central to the country's opioid crisis, and the ad campaign is part of a stipulation in similar cases that require the company to notify victims that they are able to file claims.

Iger will remain executive chairman of Disney through the end of 2021, according to the company... On a call with investors shortly after the announcement, Iger addressed the timing of his announcement, which happened 22 months before he was expected to retire at the end of 2021. Iger said he decided to step down now because he wanted to focus on the creative side now that major projects like the Fox merger and launch of Disney+ were behind him.

Mayor London Breed announced Tuesday afternoon that while there haven't been any confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, in San Francisco so far, the city needs to be prepared in case the virus spreads to the area. The San Francisco Chronicle was the first to report the news.

"The global picture is changing rapidly, and we need to step-up preparedness," Breed said in a statement. "We see the virus spreading in new parts of the world every day, and we are taking the necessary steps to protect San Franciscans from harm."

Michalel Carvajal will replace Kathy Hawk Sawyer, who previously ran the BOP as its first female director from 1992 to 2003... Carvajal currently works as assistant director of the department’s correctional programs division, handling the daily oversight of BOP's correctional services.

This Martian hum is just one in a slew of fresh mysteries and discoveries detected by NASA’s InSight lander. The work, described in a suite of five studies published today in Nature Geoscience and Nature Communications, provides a peek at the surprising activity above and below the red planet’s surface.

Jackson read the President's tweet attacking the Stone jury forewoman, as well as commentary from InfoWars' Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson from Fox News, to a federal courtroom, in deciding to hear testimony from jurors while protecting their identities after Stone asked for a retrial. Making jurors' identities public "would put them at substantial risk of harm," Jackson said... The hearing is ongoing, and at least one juror may be called to testify Tuesday afternoon in a closed courtroom.

A sobbing 6-year-old Florida girl begged Orlando cops to let her go as she was arrested at school for hitting three employees, disturbing police bodycam video shows. The footage, released by the family of Kaia Rolle late Monday, shows the first-grader breaking down as she is restrained with zip ties on Sept. 19 at Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy Charter School... A charge of misdemeanor battery against Kaia was dropped by prosecutors the following day, the newspaper reports.

American spies teamed up with UC Global, a Spanish company contracted by Ecuador to provide security at the embassy, to help plant “intrusive and sophisticated” secret surveillance of Assange, his attorney stated without evidence at the London hearing Monday, according to reports.

City leaders in Costa Mesa, California are currently engaged in a volley of words and legal briefs with the Trump administration in general–and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in particular–over a plan to move several dozen Coronavirus patients from a military lockup facility to a civilian-run facility. Local officials there are backed up by their counterparts in Orange County, as well as state and federal officials representing California.