Kanye West to Launch Star-Studded Initiative to Restore Poor Chicago Communities
Grammy-winning rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West is gearing up to launch an initiative to help revitalize the lives of hundreds of thousands of Chicago, Illinois, residents with the help of some of his celebrity friends, TMZ reports.
Democratic Donors Paid $50 million for New Anti-Trump Research
Anti-Trump researchers are continuing to conduct investigations of President Trump and were paid $50 million by unidentified donors in blue states, according to a House intelligence committee report made public on Friday.
LAPD Officer Arrested For Trying To Smuggle Immigrants Across Border
A Los Angeles police officer has been arrested on federal charges alleging he tried to smuggle two illegal immigrants into the United States this week in southeastern San Diego County.
Israel: Iran Has More Than 80,000 Fighters in Syria
The Times of Israel reports: Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday presented an aerial photograph of an alleged Iranian base outside Damascus that he said Tehran was using to bring in and train tens of thousands of fighters for the militias it backs in Syria.
Car ploughs into pedestrians outside Birmingham mosque injuring two
Officers from West Midlands Police were called to the scene at about 2:15pm after receiving reports that two men in their 20s had been injured in a hit-and-run incident, reports the Express.
Taiwan president ‘willing to meet’ Chinese leader in wake of Korean summit
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen said Friday she would be willing to meet her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping “for peace and stability.” The statement comes in the wake of a landmark summit between the leaders of the two Koreas.
House Intel: No Evidence Trump Campaign Colluded With Russia
There is no evidence President Trump’s campaign colluded or conspired with the Russian government during the 2016 election, but both his team and the Clinton campaign had “poor judgment and ill-considered actions,” the House intelligence committee concluded in a report Friday.
Trump on Kim Jong-un Push for Peace: ‘We’re Not Going to Be Played’
President Donald Trump indicated he believed North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was sincere about pushing for peace and announcing his interest in denuclearizing the Korean peninsula.
Danish Immigration Minister: Migrants “Cheat and Lie” to Exploit System
Denmark’s Minister of Immigration and Integration says that many “asylum seekers” take advantage of Danish generosity and sympathy by lying and exploiting the system.
More Psychiatry and More Psychiatric Medications Means More Mass Shootings
In late September 2016, a few days after Nikolas Cruz turned 18 and became old enough to buy a gun, the Department of Children and Families sent one or more investigators to Cruz’s home. The Department had been alerted by posts on Snapchat where the young man talked crazily about cutting himself and asked for help in getting a gun.
White House 1600 Daily: Meet America’s new Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo
Yesterday, the Senate easily confirmed Mike Pompeo to be our 70th Secretary of State. Pompeo, who has served as CIA Director since last year, drew unanimous Republican support and earned the votes of several key Democrats. “Considering his distinguished time as CIA Director & his exemplary career in public service, I will vote to confirm Mike Pompeo,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) tweeted this week.
Facial recognition may be coming to a police body camera near you
The country’s biggest seller of police body cameras on Thursday convened a corporate board devoted to the ethics and expansion of artificial intelligence, a major new step toward offering controversial facial-recognition technology to police forces nationwide.
Scientists keep alive brains of decapitated pigs to prompt ethics debate
A team at Yale University have experimented on up to 200 pigs’ heads, taken from an abattoir roughly four hours after the animals’ slaughter, by connecting them to a system called “BrainEx”.
Sowing the seeds of suicide: Monsanto’s ownership of our food supply is destroying farming
There’s a reason Monsanto is one of the most hated companies in the world, and it goes far beyond the damage its products have done to the environment and human health. Indeed, Monsanto’s control over our food supply is destroying farming itself, and the repercussions for all of us could be devastating.
Wiccan transgender inmate sues to practice witchcraft in a North Carolina men’s prison
Jennifer Ann Jasmaine, a transgender who identifies as a wiccan is suing North Carolinas Lanesboro Correctional Institution for halting her practice of witchcraft.
Google Creates Ultimate Cover-Up Tool for Bureaucrats: ‘Expiring Emails’
Government watchdogs across the ideological spectrum worry that a new Google feature — “expiring email” — will enable virtually untraceable bureaucratic and political cover-ups by making important official evidence simply disappear on command.