May, 2020

The state is now entering phase two of a four-phase plan to reopen businesses in the state. Restaurants that want to offer dine-in services must “create a daily log of customers and maintain that daily log for 30 days, including telephone/email contact information, and time in," according to The Seattle Times.

Police conducted a trial of controversial facial recognition software without consulting their own bosses or the Privacy Commissioner.

Despite multiple warnings from U.S. intelligence officials, multiple Chinese-funded Confucius Institutes still operate on American soil. Colleges continue to ignore these warnings, even as U.S. lawmakers seek to hold China accountable for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

The three-month extension to the county’s “safer at home” order was announced by Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer on Tuesday. Though she stopped short of issuing an official order, Ferrer said the timetable would not shift until officials see a “dramatic change to the virus and tools at hand,” stressing the need for increased testing capacity.

Flynn's lawyer, Sidney Powell, wrote an open-letter to Obama which was featured on her website, but for some reason it was removed. So we posted it here for everyone to read. Link to archived original included.

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Had the Long March 5B rocket re-entered the atmosphere about 15 to 20 minutes earlier on Monday, it would have rained debris on the nation’s largest metro area... The about 100-foot long rocket was launched on May 5, carrying an unnamed prototype of a newly-designed Chinese crew capsule.

From thousands of pages of transcripts, here's what you should know about witness testimony in the House Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation.

Each moderator will receive a minimum of $1,000 and will be eligible for additional compensation if they are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or related conditions. The settlement covers 11,250 moderators, and lawyers in the case believe that as many as half of them may be eligible for extra pay related to mental health issues associated with their time working for Facebook, including depression and addiction.

"He is on his way home on home confinement. He will be with his wife in [Virginia]. He is obviously relieved," Manafort attorney Todd Blanche told Fox News on Wednesday.

“Opening offices will be our decision,” the spokesperson said. “When and if our employees come back, will be theirs.” In an email, first obtained by BuzzFeed News, Dorsey said it was unlikely that Twitter would open its offices before September and that all in-person events would be canceled for the remainder of the year.

The order bars the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from expanding the amount of water it pumps from the San Joaquin Delta through the federal Central Valley Project.

As reported by La Provence, a study looking at the 466 million French prescriptions written since the pandemic began in France, show a huge spike in doctors prescribing the drug. In the last week of March, for instance, over 10,000 people were prescribed hydroxychloroquine in Marseille alone.

The team behind the t-shirt have so far tested it on two common neural network AIs used for facial recognition software and found it successfully prevents identification a little over half of the time.

Sullivan's minute order indicated that an upcoming scheduling order would clarify the parameters of who specifically could submit the amicus briefs, which are submissions by non-parties that claim an interest in the case. Sullivan specifically said he anticipated that "individuals and organizations" will file briefs "for the benefit of the court."

The roughly 110 inmates have accounted for 190 arrests since the pandemic took hold of the Big Apple, according to police. Of those arrests, 45 — or roughly one-quarter — were for burglaries, helping drive the 43 percent spike in break-ins over the last month, according to NYPD data.

Chief Justice John Roberts worried openly that the House committees are claiming a "limitless" ability to request private documents of a sitting president. Justice Stephen Breyer noted the subpoenas were seeking "a lot of information and some of it's pretty vague," adding that "there may be burdens" imposed on the president by forcing his banks and accounting firm to produce them.

I feel terrible. The whole point of talking about it was that we could take action and minimize the damage… I wish I had done more to call attention to the danger.