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
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
Israel has attacked Syria again, but this time Syria actually fired back – raising concerns about this conflict blowing-out into a wider war. For the first time in 6 years, Israel officially acknowledged an airstrike in Syria, after a pre-down raid. However, according Syria’s military, an Israeli plane was downed and another hit another while carrying out strikes against Syria
WASHINGTON – The House Intelligence Committee will likely issue subpoenas as soon as this week for information from former national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and his companies, according to the panel’s top Democrat, after Flynn failed to voluntarily provide documents they had requested for their probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 elections. Rep. Adam Schiff, Calif.,
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
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani According to Gulf Times, The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, called for a political settlement of the conflict in Syria, where millions of people had been forced to leave their homes. Addressing the opening session of the two-day 17th Doha Forum, being held under the topic ‘Development, Stability and Refugees Issues,’ the
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
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
The current election has made understanding Brits pretty easy. Yesterday The Daily Telegraph published some statistics that suggest that Brits are just ordinary people, not much different from the Americans or the French – they are born communists but die hard-core conservatives. The above data suggest that British youngsters overwhelmingly supportCorbyn’s dream. But this changes once they hit political puberty
DURHAM, N.C. — Amy Pittman learned on her first day in jail to bottle up her grief. As soon as she arrived, guards took her shoelaces so she wouldn’t try to hang herself. Cry too much or scream too loud and she feared they would come back to take everything she had left — her clothes, a sheet, a plastic
