2019 December

Trade deal talks expand as Congress debates tech legal shield

Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy Pelosi ‘Don’t mess with Mama’: Pelosi’s daughter tweets support following press conference comments Bloomberg: Trump should be impeached On The Money: Congress races to beat deadline on shutdown | Trump asks Supreme Court to shield financial records from House Democrats | House passes bill to explicitly ban insider trading MORE (D-Calif.) is […]

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Trump speaks with Saudi king after Pensacola shooting

President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump says he will ‘temporarily hold off’ on declaring Mexican drug cartels as terror organization House Judiciary Committee formally receives impeachment report Artist behind gold toilet offered to Trump sells banana duct-taped to a wall for 0,000 MORE on Friday said he spoke with King Salman of Saudi Arabia after U.S. officials said […]

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PG&E announces $13.5B settlement for Northern California wildfires

Utility company Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced Friday a $13.5 billion settlement for a string of deadly wildfires that killed dozens of people and destroyed thousands of homes in Northern California. The settlement covers claims stemming from several wildfires, including the 2015 Butte Fire, 2016 Ghost Ship Fire, 2017 Tubbs and Northern California Fires, […]

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20 women sue Lyft alleging sexual assault

Twenty women filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Wednesday against ride-share app Lyft, alleging they were raped or sexually assaulted by the company’s drivers. The lawsuit follows one that was filed in September, in which 14 women alleged they had either been raped or sexually assaulted by Lyft drivers between 2018 and 2019. “What these women describe is something no one should […]

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Four dead in shooting outside Mexican president's residence: report

Four people were killed and two were injured in a shooting near Mexico’s National Palace where the president lives on Saturday, Reuters reported, citing officials.  President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was in the southeast region, not Mexico City where the shooting occurred, according to Reuters.  Initial reports indicate that a man entered a neighborhood to […]

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Trump asks Supreme Court to shield financial records from House Democrats

President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrumps light 97th annual National Christmas Tree Trump to hold campaign rally in Michigan ‘Don’t mess with Mama’: Pelosi’s daughter tweets support following press conference comments MORE has asked the Supreme Court to shield his financial records from the Democratic-led House Oversight and Reform Committee, in the latest case to bring questions […]

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FTC rules Cambridge Analytica engaged in 'deceptive practices' with Facebook data mining

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a unanimous ruling against Cambridge Analytica on Friday, saying the company engaged in “deceptive practices” by harvesting personal data from millions of Facebook users leading up to the 2016 election. In its official opinion, approved by FTC commissioners in a 5-0 vote, the agency determined that Cambridge Analytica violated […]

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FBI identifies Pensacola shooter as Saudi Royal Saudi Air Force second lieutenant

The FBI on Saturday night officially identified the suspect in a Friday shooting at a naval air base in Florida as a Saudi Royal Air Force second lieutenant.  The FBI’s Jacksonville branch told The Hill in an email that the shooter was Mohammed Alshamrani, 21. The organization described him as a “2nd LT in the Royal […]

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Minnesota National Guard names victims of helicopter crash

The Minnesota National Guard on Saturday identified the three people who were killed Thursday in a Black Hawk helicopter crash.  Thee three people are  Chief Warrant Officer 2 James A. Rogers Jr., 28; Chief Warrant Officer 2 Charles P. Nord, 30 and Sgt. Kort M. Plantenberg, 28, according to a Minnesota National Guard statement.  The […]

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Trump administration drops plan to face scan all travelers leaving or entering US

The Trump administration has reportedly abandoned plans to use devices to scan the faces of all travelers leaving or entering the U.S., following pressure from Congress and privacy advocates. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials told NBC News on Thursday that the plans, which were first reported by Reuters earlier this week, had been set […]

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