GOP approval rises, Democrats fall post-impeachment in Gallup poll…
March 10, 2020
The Gallup poll found that since October, shortly after Democrats launched the impeachment inquiry, the approval rating for Republicans in the Gallup poll has gone up 6 points, from 34 percent to 40 percent. Democrats saw their approval rating fall over the same period from 38 percent to 35 percent. The disapproval rating in the Gallup poll for Democrats rose from 57 percent to 62 percent.
Biden, on video, lashes out at Detroit autoworker in profanity-laced gun dispute…
March 10, 2020
.@joebiden touring auto plant in Detroit quickly gets into an argument with a worker over guns. pic.twitter.com/37oCrX62HS
— Natasha Korecki (@natashakorecki) March 10, 2020
Biden told the guy he’d slap him in the face while speaking about guns. They literally think they are a ruling class.
NXIVM’s Keith Raniere requests new trial in sex-trafficking case
March 10, 2020
He and his lawyers filed a motion Monday in Brooklyn federal court for a new trial, arguing that two witnesses perjured themselves when they denied they were planning to sue him after the trial. The two women who testified at Raniere's trial are part of an 80-plaintiff lawsuit filed in January against Raniere and members of the group's top leadership, according to the motion.
Corey Feldman accuses Charlie Sheen of sexually abusing Corey Haim in (My) Truth documentary…
March 10, 2020
Sheen in the past has categorically denied ever engaging in improper behavior with Haim. EW has reached out to him for comment in response to the documentary's allegations... In the doc, Feldman first named three men he had previously accused of sexual abuse himself: Jon Grissom, an actor who had small roles in License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream costarring Feldman and Haim, nightclub owner Alphy Hoffman, and former talent manager Marty Weiss. He also said Dominick Brascia, a former actor and one-time friend of both Coreys who died in 2018, had sexually abused Haim.
Congress prepares to shutter Capitol Hill for coronavirus, opens telework center…
March 10, 2020
House opens center to answer questions, considering unspent money for digital phones, laptops...
US starts pulling out troops from Afghanistan…
March 10, 2020
American troops have reportedly begun their initial troop withdrawal as part of the US-Taliban peace agreement, with hundreds of soldiers leaving the country on Monday with no plans for replacements.
Speaking to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity, a US official confirmed the beginning steps of the withdrawal process have begun, with plans to drop the number of US troops in the country from 13,000 to 8,600.
Amateur astronomers help discover incredible teardrop-shaped star…
March 10, 2020
The “one-sided pulsator” was spotted in the Milky Way about 1,500 light-years from Earth, according to researchers. A light-year, which measures distance in space, equals about 6 trillion miles. The star, which is known as HD74423, is about 1.7 times the mass of the Sun.
Pediatricians Say Study Approving Puberty Blockers for Adolescents Is Flawed…
March 10, 2020
Stocks Climb After Dow’s Worst Day in 12 Years…
March 10, 2020
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 195 points, or 0.8%, to 24044. The S&P 500 added 1.1% and the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.3% All three indexes had been up more than 3% at the opening. The benchmarks had been on the cusp of a bear market—a drop of 20% below recent highs—before Tuesday’s rebound.
New York Post Journalist Censored on Twitter for exposing the ultra-wealthy background of socialist YouTuber Carlos Maza…
March 10, 2020
Twitter first locked Levine out of his account this morning, but after inquiries from the journalist and his followers, the platform restored access to his account, claiming that the lockout had been an “error” and that his tweets about Maza did not violate the platform’s policies.
However, later in the day, Twitter changed its mind again, telling Levine that “upon further investigation, these tweets violate our Twitter rules, specifically our private information policy.”...
US Navy is developing robot submarines controlled by Artificial Intelligence that could be given the ‘power to kill’ without any human input…
March 10, 2020
- Very little information has been revealed about the AI system known as CLAWS
- It is thought it could be deployed on the new Orca class of robot submarines
- It would allow the subs with 12 torpedo tubes to attack an enemy target alone
Hung jury results in mistrial for former CIA tech accused of handing ‘Vault 7’ docs to WikiLeaks…
March 10, 2020
Federal prosecutors were unable to convince a jury on any of the spying-related charges against an ex-CIA engineer accused of stealing reams of classified material – in what may be a dry run for the case against Julian Assange.
In a significant blow to prosecutors on Monday, jurors failed to come to a verdict on eight central counts against former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte, who was charged for stealing thousands of pages of classified information on the agency’s secret hacking tools and passing them to WikiLeaks – what later became its ‘Vault7’ release, the largest breach of classified material in CIA history...