The manhunt ends for the suspected shooter who killed four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee. James Shaw Jr., who wrestled away the suspect’s AR-15, has since raised thousands of dollars for the victims’ families. More than half of the world's wealthy investors say they
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The Comey memos, composed after each of his meetings with President Trump, have gone public. In one of the memos, the President suggested jailing journalists to prevent stories from getting out of his leaking White House. No one's talking about the new tax law—supposedly the GOP'
Before Facebook, before Cambridge Analytica, Peter Thiel's Palantir began mining your data, and it's never stopped. Online echo chambers aren't real. Research shows social media exposes us to more perspectives, not fewer. A nascent social network, Minds, represents a post-Facebook future where users
As potential grows for direct talks between Trump and Kim Jong Un, Trump gives himself an escape hatch: "If we don't think it's going to be successful, we won't have it. If the meeting when I'm there isn't fruitful,
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a secret visit to North Korea recently, becoming the most senior US official ever to meet with Kim Jong Un. Barbara Bush dies at 92, one of only two women in American history (her and Abigail Adams) to be both wife and mother of
Following last week's FBI raid on Trump fixer Michael Cohen's home, office, and hotel that resulted in the seizure of multiple documents and devices, yesterday a Manhattan judge blocked Cohen and Trump's request to review all documents before prosecutors. During the Cohen hearing, the
France, Britain, and the US launch coordinated bombing strikes against Syria. Trump quickly says, echoing W., “Mission accomplished!” Members of Congress insist the White House needed to consult with them first. Russia says the strikes were ineffective, claiming most of the missiles were intercepted. Hitting Assad now might bring a
After exiting the Trans Pacific Partnership soon after entering office, Trump now wants back in—if he gets a better deal than Obama. It might not be so easy, though, since the other countries have already renegotiated a plan that doesn't include the US. Rummaging for data to
Steve Bannon is back, or he’s trying to be: pitching White House aides and Trump allies on a plan to kill the Mueller probe. Worth remembering: Trump's recent tweets on Russia mirrored the conversation and the storylines, in almost real-time, from an episode of Fox &
