By Hibah Yousuf U.S. stocks closed higher Thursday even after a technical glitch at the Nasdaq OMX caused a trading halt in all Nasdaq-listed stocks and options for more than three hours. The Nasdaq is home to more than 2,700 stocks, particularly technology giants such as Apple, Google and Microsoft. Trading at the exchange was halted around 12:14 p.m. ET due to issues with “quote dissemination.” Options trading was also halted, and the New York Stock Exchange and the BATS exchange had also halted all Nasdaq securities.
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Ayo Kimathi helps the Department of Homeland Security procure guns and ammunitions for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Once out of the office, though, his hobbies apparently include advocating for a race war on the World Wide Web. One former DHS supervisor of Kimathi told the Southern Press Law Center that the ICE small business specialist “fights for the little guy,” has a “commanding presence” and is pretty good at his job. Not all of Kimathi’s current co-workers have such nice words
The owner of the now-shuttered encrypted email service used by Edward Snowden told RT that he plans to fight for a strong precedent via the court system so that US internet providers can refuse to hand over customers’ personal info and communications. Ladar Levison abruptly shut down his company, Lavabit LLC, on August 8 to avoid being forced to hand over customers’ personal information and communications.
Could this be the beginning of the end for Google’s reign over the Web? According to a report published this week, Internet icon Yahoo! recently usurped Google as the top company in terms of Web traffic in America. Analytics group comScore released their latest list of top Web properties in the US on Wednesday, and long-time winner Google wasn’t at the time for a change.
A rape victim is suing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for forcing her to maintain a 16-year legal relationship with her rapist, who impregnated her and is now seeking paternity rights over the child. In 2009, 20-year-old Jamie Melendez raped a 14-year-old middle school student when she was home alone in Norwood, Mass. The girl, who is referred to as “H.T.” in court documents, said she felt threatened and intimidated by the man. As a result of the rape, she became pregnant and gave birth to a child, which forced her mother to quit her job to stay home and take…
France’s foreign minister has said a “reaction with force” could be needed if Syria is proved to have used chemical weapons against civilians. Laurent Fabius’s comments come a day after Syrian activists said hundreds of people died in such attacks in the Ghouta area of the capital, Damascus. The UN has asked Syria to allow UN weapons inspectors already in the country to be allowed to investigate.
By Gerry Smith The hacker collective Anonymous has not produced as many high-profile cyber attacks as it once did, a drop-off that can be directly attributed to the arrests of the group’s core members, an FBI official told The Huffington Post this week. Starting in late 2010, Anonymous captured worldwide attention through a series of attacks against U.S. companies and government agencies, stealing data and defacing or crashing websites. But the arrests last year of five members of Lulz Security, an influential splinter group of hackers, had a “huge deterrent effect”
By Gene Maddaus In April, a man named Erin Walker Markland drove off a mountain road near Santa Cruz and was killed. The woman who had planned to marry him, Jordanna Thigpen, was devastated. For comfort, she turned to a man who had taken up residence next door. He had been through something similar — years before, his fiancée had been killed. “He was the only person in my life who understood what I was going through,” she says.
Mac Slavo SHTFPlan.com If there’s one thing we know about how the US government operates, it’s that the American people are often the last to know about serious problems that may be taking place behind the scenes. This week, in a move that has spooked a lot of economic and financial analysts, President Barack Obama held a special, closed door meeting with the heads of the U.S. government’s financial, monetary and oversight agencies.
By David Learmount The pilotless airliner is no longer unthinkable. It is just a matter of time before airliners have one pilot, and soon after that they will have none. The first one-pilot commercial air transport aircraft will be freighters, and that sector will almost certainly blaze the trail to the pilotless passenger aircraft. That will be a cockpitless airliner in which first class passengers will occupy the window seats at the sharp end.
By Elizabeth Chuck A Memphis, Tenn., kindergarten student is in police custody after he fired a handgun in his elementary school cafeteria Thursday morning. The incident didn’t result in any injuries, and school is back in normal operation, school officials said. The Westside Elementary School student, 5, brought the gun to school in his backpack Thursday morning, according to school officials at Westside and at the Shelby County schools superintendent’s office.
Ever wonder what America would look like if each state were equal in population? An artist and urban planner has redrawn the map of the United States to show what it would look like if the same number of people occupied each state. Neil Freeman’s “United States redrawn as Fifty States with Equal Population” takes a radically simple stab at Electoral College reform, preserving its structure and function while simultaneously ending the overrepresentation of small states and underrepresentation of large states in presidential voting by eliminating small and large states altogether.
What’s killing the East Coast dolphins? The carcasses of dozens of the marine mammals, seven times more than normal, have been washing up on beaches this summer, and scientists are struggling for answers to the die-off. In Virginia alone, at least 164 dead dolphins have been found this year, said Joan M. Barns, public relations manager for the Virginia Aquarium in Virginia Beach. Almost half of those, 78, have washed ashore in August, she said.
The New York City Council has voted to affirm legislation previously vetoed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that seeks to ban discriminatory profiling within the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program and establishes oversight over of the department. The Community Safety Act includes two pieces of legislation. The End Discriminatory Profiling Act, passed by a vote of 34-15, establishes an enforceable ban on profiling and discrimination by the NYPD
Newly unveiled National Security Agency programs detail how the US government has the ability to monitor approximately 75 per cent of American internet traffic, and further discloses how telecommunications companies are compelled to provide such data. The programs – known as Blarney, Fairview, Oakstar, Lithium, and Stormbrew – are able to monitor the writing of emails, not just a message’s metadata, according to The Wall Street Journal. The programs also affect digital phone calls placed inside the US.
Now many websites are saying he started using drugs before his crash but I don’t believe that. His family said he stopped drinking awhile before the accident. Not too many websites are posting the autopsy and that is a important part in figuring out exactly what happened. It’s really long and here it is. (An complete analysis will occur soon as I have time)
The National Security Agency is still baffled by the extent of information Edward Snowden accessed, according to a new report. The National Security Agency is still unable to determine the breadth and scope of documents that Edward Snowden accessed and gave to news outlets, nearly two months after the first reports of their contents, anonymous US intelligence officials said.
The Toynbee tiles (also called Toynbee plaques) are messages of unknown origin found embedded in asphalt of streets in about two dozen major cities in the United States and four South American capitals. Since the 1980s, several hundred tiles have been discovered. They are generally about the size of an American license plate (roughly 30 cm by 15 cm), but sometimes considerably larger. They contain some variation on the following inscription: