Paul Ryan’s $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill Funds Planned Parenthood, Sanctuary Cities – Won’t Fund Trump Wall
Speaker Paul Ryan is set to pass the largest spending bill in US history next to Barack Obama’s trillion dollar failed stimulus.
Speaker Paul Ryan is set to pass the largest spending bill in US history next to Barack Obama’s trillion dollar failed stimulus.
Following reports last night that Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos would be leaving the company after purportedly refusing to buckle to pressure to prioritize corporate profits over protecting users, Facebook said Tuesday that it would be hosting an “emergency town hall meeting” to allow employees to ask questions about the company’s relationship with Cambridge Analytica.
What’s it take to get a little respect? In a Congressional Financial Services subcommittee hearing last week, congressmen expressed “deep skepticism” about cryptocurrencies, echoing critics’ claims that cryptocurrencies are nothing but a pyramid scheme updated for the electronic age. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) stated emphatically, “Cryptocurrencies are a crock.” And last week, bitcoin — the best known of the cryptocurrencies — slipped to a new low under $8,000 after peaking around $18,000 in late 2017.
Hundreds of lawsuits against Monsanto for personal injury and wrongful death are moving forward, after scientific analysis was heard in court, detailing Roundup’s carcinogenicity. Expert opinion on Roundup’s glyphosate toxicity could be allowed at trial against Monsanto, pending the judge’s final decision. The first trial in the Roundup litigation is set for June 18, 2018, in the Superior Court for the County of San Francisco.
Vaccine safety champion and medical choice advocate Robert F. Kennedy and his World Mercury Project have delivered a promised report to Congress providing details on a six-step program to “introduce sound science and transparency to our vaccination program” for children, according to an announcement by the organization.
Modern Meadow, the New Jersey-based startup that pioneered the world’s first lab-grown bioleather brand from genetically engineered yeast, said its material could hit popular retailers—and runways—as early as next year.
The volume of trade between Russia and China increased by more than 20 percent last year and is still growing, according to Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang.
A YouTuber has been convicted by a UK court of being “grossly offensive” over a video in which he trained his pet dog to do a Nazi salute and now faces prison time.
There is nothing wrong with tattoos, Pope Francis told a group of young people Monday, urging them to be open to cultural expressions of “belonging.”
The Weinstein Co. filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday with a buyout offer in hand from a private equity firm, the latest twist in its efforts to survive the sexual misconduct scandal that brought down co-founder Harvey Weinstein, shook Hollywood and triggered a movement that spread out to convulse other industries.
FBI officials responded to an explosion at a FedEx sorting facility near San Antonio, Texas, early Tuesday morning. One woman suffered a minor injury from the explosion that took place inside the sorting facility.
A school shooting has taken place at Great Mills High School in Maryland. It has since been contained, according to authorities cited by local media.