(CNBC) U.S. stocks closed lower in choppy trade Friday as investors looked ahead to the French election. Wall Street also digested falling oil prices and comments from the Trump administration on tax reform. The Dow Jones industrial average fell about 30 points with IBM contributing the most losses. The index briefly turned positive in afternoon [...]
(San Francisco Chronicle) A massive power outage in San Francisco caused a blackout Friday morning in several neighborhoods, from the Financial District to the Presidio, forcing the closure of businesses, a BART station, cable car service and a federal courthouse, officials said. A spokesman for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said 88,000 customers lost power [...]
While the claims of collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia seem to have dropped abruptly off the media radar, there is a new report of collaboration between a U.S. political campaign and foreign powers. But the campaign was that of Hillary Clinton, and the chief architect was Barack Obama’s CIA director, John Brennan, the [...]
For some folks the sounds of spring is not that of a songbird, a babbling brook or the wind in the trees. For many, it is more closely aligned with a sneeze, a cough and a sniffle. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 20 million adults and 6.1 million [...]
(CBS NEWS) Veteran journalists at CBS are reportedly quite upset with network host Gayle King after she enjoyed a recent yacht vacation with Barack and Michelle Obama in Tahiti. King, co-host of “CBS This Morning,” went on a star-studded vacation with the former president and first lady, Tom Hanks, Bruce Springsteen, and her best friend [...]
(WASHINGTON TIMES) Kellyanne Conway said Friday that President Trump is “evaluating all such options” when it comes to possibly pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal. “The president made clear it was a terrible agreement from the beginning,” Ms. Conway said on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.” The senior counselor to the president argued that the [...]
(WASHINGTON TIMES) The White House said Thursday that it wants to see money for President Trump’s border wall included in the spending bill Congress must pass next week — a demand Democrats said sours negotiations and makes a government shutdown more likely. The demands mark a reversal for the administration, which had been saying it [...]
(POLITICO) Months before Donald Trump blew up American politics with his surprise win in November, he did the same thing to the conservative media. Through much of the campaign, two very different media moguls with colliding visions for the Republican Party vied for Trump’s soul: Roger Ailes, the longtime president and CEO of Fox News, [...]
(DAILY MAIL) President Donald Trump and his aides won the release of an Egyptian American aid worker who returned to the US late Thursday after being imprisoned in Cairo for three years, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. Aya Hijazi, a dual US-Egyptian citizen, was detained in Egypt for nearly three years on human trafficking [...]
(POLITICO) Two days before a French election that has Europe on edge, President Donald Trump weighed in Friday with a tweet that seemed to imply support for the controversial far-right populist Marine Le Pen. Trump’s Friday morning tweet responded to a shooting the day before on Paris’s Champs Elysees that outgoing French President Francois Hollande [...]
(BBC News) Facebook says it is working on technology to allow us to control computers directly with our brains. It is developing “silent speech” software to allow people to type at a rate of 100 words per minute, it says. The project, in its early stages, will require new technology to detect brainwaves without needing [...]
(LifeNews) We say it often: ideas have consequences; bad ideas have victims. And a certain, consistent Princeton bioethicist continues to show just how true that is. How do we know what’s right? Great minds have wrestled with that question for much of history. Is it doing our duty regardless of the consequences? Is it doing [...]
(Courthouse News) While this past winter busted California’s five-year drought, a new Stanford University study shows how the dry years did permanent damage to Central Valley aquifers. A satellite remote-sensing study performed by Stanford researchers shows a portion of the Central Valley sank by as much as three feet due to overpumping of groundwater during [...]
(ABC News) An Iranian panel charged with vetting candidates approved the country’s incumbent president and five challengers but disqualified former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from running in next month’s presidential election, state television reported Thursday. The decision by the Guardian Council means that President Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate, will face off against a field [...]
(BBC News) Scientists hope they have found a drug to stop all neurodegenerative brain diseases, including dementia. In 2013, a UK Medical Research Council team stopped brain cells dying in an animal for the first time, creating headline news around the world. But the compound used was unsuitable for people, as it caused organ damage. [...]
(New York Times) The Internal Revenue Service is about to start using four private debt-collection companies to chase down overdue payments from hundreds of thousands of people who owe money to the federal government, a job it has handled in house for years. Unlike I.R.S. agents, who are not usually allowed to call delinquent taxpayers [...]
(San Francisco Chronicle) A day after canceling a scheduled speech by Ann Coulter for security reasons, UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said Thursday that the right-wing pundit’s insistence on coming anyway persuaded him to rethink her banishment. “An appropriate, protectable venue” will be made available on campus May 2 — not next Thursday, as originally [...]
(KGW-TV) Authorities are searching for a man who they say set another person on fire at a Happy Valley Denny’s restaurant Wednesday night. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office told KGW’s Mike Benner the man walked into the restaurant, located at 12101 Southeast 82nd Avenue, at about 9 p.m., sat down, threw gasoline on the customer, [...]
Gender-bender bill lets employees choose April 21, 2003: California Democrats, led by a San Francisco lawmaker, passed a bill on this day mandating fines of up to $150,000 against business owners – including Bible bookstores and nonprofit organizations such as the Boy Scouts – for refusing to hire cross-dressing and transsexual job applicants. The bill’s subjective [...]
Whew. Provocative titles for books are often empty of real meaning; they are meant only to shock. Occasionally, though, one will come along that is provocative for the right reasons. With the recent results of the presidential election, one such book is finding a ready and growing audience. For years, a few researchers have sounded [...]
As Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, continues to consolidate power in the formerly secular nation, one of the foremost experts on Middle East geopolitics is sounding a desperate warning. Erdogan is just getting started. “I’ve been saying this for 12 years,” said Joel Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of “The Islamic Antichrist” and “Mideast [...]
Have you been musing for years about going to Israel? It’s time to stop procrastinating by reciting that old line about “next year in Jerusalem.” Haven’t you been saying that for too many years? In 2017, it’s time to say: “This year in Jerusalem.” Let me tell you why: June 7, 2017, will be the [...]
“As to the man who asserts his complete freedom to stand foursquare to the world, who values the necessary deed more highly than an unspoilt conscience or reputation, who is ready to sacrifice a barren principle for a fruitful compromise, or the barren wisdom of a middle course for a fruitful radicalism – let him [...]
What happened to you white people? Really, please tell me what happened to the people that have achieved so much but have now become wimpy, pansies cowering in fear of someone not liking them. White people today are seeking safe places when there was no safe place from them 100 years ago. I wrote “It’s [...]
As the USS Carl Vinson strike group steams ahead to the Korean Peninsula, Vice President Pence denounces the strategy of patience while in the DMZ. China marches thousands of soldiers to the border. Russia rushes to its border. Japan readies its military. Kim Jong-Un dazzles the world with lackluster missile launches. Hawaiians clean out bomb [...]
