President Donald Trump has expanded a US sanctions list of Russians that interfered in the 2016 presidential election — one of his toughest moves yet against a country he says didn’t meddle at all. On Thursday afternoon, the State Department announced that the administration identified 33 individuals and entities —Read More →
In continuing “Does Big Brother have too much of our data?” news: John Hancock, a US life insurance company, announced on Wednesday that all policies will now give incentives for people to send the company fitness tracker and other wellness data. The company “will stop underwriting traditional life insurance andRead More →
Michael Cohen has been talking to special counsel Robert Mueller. The former Trump lawyer has sat for hours of interviews with the special counsel’s team in recent weeks to discuss President Trump’s ties to Russia, ABC News reported Thursday. (Vanity Fair first reported last week that Cohen had been talkingRead More →
Nine months after the Trump administration’s travel ban fully and permanently went into effect, the public is finally beginning to get some insight into how it’s being implemented — and whether the administration is actually as willing as it has claimed to give waivers to worthy visa applicants. Documents fromRead More →
With her memory of an alleged sexual assault in the 1980s, Christine Blasey Ford has upended the Supreme Court nomination process and ignited a flurry of media attention and discussion on sexual assault, power, and politics. As we learned Sunday when she came forward, Ford, now a professor at PaloRead More →
Ed Whelan, an attorney and president of the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, believes he has found the person who really assaulted Christine Blasey Ford. And it wasn’t Brett Kavanaugh. On Thursday evening, Whelan, a prominent figure in conservative political circles in Washington, set Twitter on fire by notRead More →
For consumers who are blind or have low vision, a shopping trip can be rife with challenges. More than 8 million Americans reportedly have a vision impairment, but they can’t count on store staff to offer assistance or stores to have clutter-free aisles or easy-to-navigate layouts. Just entering or exitingRead More →
The National Weather Service reported Thursday that the overwhelming amount of rain from Hurricane Florence over three days was a 1,000-year event. But these once-rare events are poised to become more common as the climate changes. Torrential downpours dropped upward of 50 inches of rain in some areas of theRead More →
Hours after an ABC News report on Thursday that Michael Cohen had spent hours talking to special counsel Robert Mueller’s team about Trump’s Russia ties, the man himself decided to weigh in on the topic. Or at least, his Twitter account did — in the third person: Tweetdeck screencap Read More →
American food and beverage companies were already struggling before Canada and the European Union levied steep tariffs in recent weeks on everything from whiskey to ketchup.Read More →
