Category: Nation

Data Sheet—Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Good morning. Aaron here filling in for Adam. I’ve been covering T-Mobile for the past few years, beginning just slightly after John Legere came on as CEO in late 2012, with all his outspokenness and his new ideas for shaking up the wireless market. It’s been an awesome story. What’s the old saying? First they ignore you, then they laugh

Apple Report Reveals National Security Requests Are Soaring

The U.S. government’s national security requests on Apple data soared during the second half of 2016. Apple reported in a biannual transparency report released on Tuesday that it received between 5,750 and 5,999 national security orders during the second half of 2016. Apple said that those orders affected between 4,750 and 4,999 user accounts. The U.S. government doesn’t allow companies

Anti-Russia or anti-Trump? Democratic support for NATO soars to modern high

What I mean in the headline is, is it their animosity towards Russia after the election that’s mainly driving this or is it more of a tribal “whatever Trump thinks, I think the opposite” reaction? The president is America’s most famous NATO skeptic, after all. Or he was, until about a month ago. The two options aren’t mutually exclusive. It

Three more arrests as Manchester investigation expands

Overnight (or at least “overnight” for most of us in the United States anyway) authorities in England arrested three more persons of interest in the Manchester Islamic terror attack. The Brits tend to do a better job of keeping their cards close to the vest in terms of media leaks, so it’s difficult to say exactly how close of a

HBO Just Scrapped Jon Stewart’s New Animated Show

Fans will have to wait a bit longer for Jon Stewart to make his return to television. HBO and Stewart said that they will not move forward with the comedian’s short-form animated project, according to CNN. “We all thought the project had great potential but there were technical issues in terms of production and distribution that proved too difficult given

Tennis Star Serena Williams Joins This Tech Company’s Board

Tennis superstar Serena Williams is making her first foray into the technology world by joining the board of online survey giant SurveyMonkey, the company announced on Wednesday. While it may seem like an odd pairing, the match was made through Facebook chief operating officer and SurveyMonkey board member Sheryl Sandberg. Sandberg and her late husband, Dave Goldberg, SurveyMonkey’s former CEO,

The nightmare goes on: Records show years of abuse suffered by Adrian Jones, stealing food from trash to survive

Unsealed records from the Kansas Department of Children and Families (DCF) show multiple allegations of abuse against Heather Jones, the stepmother of Adrian Jones who, along with Adrian’s father Michael, pleaded guilty to murdering the child. The 7-year-old boy starved to death in 2015 before his father fed his body to pigs. Prior to his death, Adrian suffered extreme abuse

Abu Sayyaf allies abduct priest, 13 others from Catholic church in Philippines

The Philippine government has imposed martial law on Mindinao after radical Islamic extremists launched attacks, but it didn’t stop the terrorists from conducting operations. The rebels took a Catholic priest and 13 parishioners and parish employees hostage this morning after attacking the church, despite a blackout in the city of Marawi in which the church was located: Muslim extremists abducted

The Oval Office Influence Maze

Who has Donald Trump's ear? The latest reports indicate that Jared Kushner's star is rising, while Steve Bannon's has dimmed. (Though their respective positions on Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey could stir the dynamic.) Michael Flynn was booted early. And Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will be a key architect of Trump's tax plan–but that piece of legislation

Manchester Bombing: UK investigates ‘network’ of alleged Manchester attackers

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — British security forces raided a building Wednesday in central Manchester as they investigated “a network” of people allegedly behind the city’s concert bombing. Hundreds of soldiers were sent to secure key sites across the country, including Buckingham Palace and the British Parliament at Westminster. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the bomber, Salman Abedi, “likely” did not

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