Michael Avenatti Is Charged With Trying to Extort Nike
California lawyer Michael Avenatti was arrested and charged by federal prosecutors on both coasts, accused in New York of trying to extort millions of dollars...
Category Archives: Interesting News
Google flipped seats, shifted millions of votes to Dems in 2018 midterms
Google’s biased search algorithm actually flipped seats in the 2018 US midterm elections, according to a researcher who...
USDA roasted over ‘unjustifiable’ experiments on animals
US scientists have been conducting “questionable” experiments on felines for over three decades, feeding them dead cats and...
Mueller had search warrant for Michael Cohen’s emails a year before FBI office raid
Special Counsel Robert Mueller obtained search warrants to read former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s emails nearly a year before his office was raided by the...
Putin Signs ‘Fake News,’ ‘Internet Insults’ Bills Into Law
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a controversial set of bills that make it a crime to “disrespect”...
New Zealand PM’s office received gunman ‘manifesto’ minutes before massacre
The gunman suspected of killing 50 people in two New Zealand mosques sent his manifesto to state authorities...
Anti-vaccination activists refuse to be ‘silenced’
Vaccination skeptics say the US government has joined with pharmaceutical companies to shut them down, and the veil of silence over the true dangers of...
Australia bans Milo Yiannopoulos after ‘appalling’ comments on NZ shooting
The Australian government said Saturday that it has rescinded the visa of Milo Yiannopoulos for “appalling comments” that...
Congress discusses giving itself a pay raise
Living in Washington DC is expensive. For US lawmakers, that means it’s time to give themselves a pay...
Parents blame elementary school’s cell tower after 4th student gets cancer
California parents are demanding an elementary school remove their on-campus cell tower after four students and three teachers...
Sandy Hook massacre: Court rules it’s OK to sue gun maker
In a landmark ruling on Thursday, Connecticut's top court has given the go-ahead to a lawsuit by the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting,...
US warship quarantined at sea due to virus outbreak
A US warship has essentially been quarantined at sea for over two months and has been unable to...
Facebook reportedly under criminal investigation for secret data-sharing deals
Federal prosecutors are probing Facebook's illicit data-sharing partnerships, reportedly subpoenaing data from smartphone manufacturers as the regulatory walls...
US judge sentences Manafort to 73 months in prison
President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been sentenced by a federal judge to 73 months behind bars for two conspiracy charges. Last...
Users puzzled by Facebook’s ban on sharing Zero Hedge links
Users complained that Facebook blocked their attempts to share stories published by popular anti-establishment blog Zero Hedge, citing...
A $20,000 iPhone and $2,000 USB cable are all you need to hack iOS
If you’ve got the skills, then spending a few grand on a special type of iPhone or iPad...
Yellow Vests ransack MASONIC LODGE in French village
A crowd of Yellow Vest protesters broke into and trashed a Masonic lodge in the French village of Tarbes. The ransacking has been condemned by...
Microsoft survey shows Russian companies the most active in adopting AI
Some 30 percent of Russia-based companies are employing artificial intelligence (AI) technology, leaving European and US firms behind,...
Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify on Wikileaks
US army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been taken into custody for contempt of court after refusing to testify...
Feds and Fine Dining: $97bn end-of-fiscal year spending on Lobster Tail
Federal agencies splurged on lobster tail and other gratuitous frills in just one month in a convoluted plot...
Residents in US city fear pollution spike after China bans waste imports
Beijing’s move to crack down on waste imports may be part of the ongoing trade war with Washington, RT has been told. Ruptly met with...
US puts foreign financial institutions on notice of sanctions if they deal with Maduro
Washington has warned foreign financial institutions that they might face repercussions if they facilitate transactions that benefit the...
Chinese giant to sue US government over tech ban
The Huawei row between the US and China has apparently taken a new turn as the company has...
Chelsea Manning subpoenaed by grand jury, likely over contact with Assange
Activist and whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury, though the summons makes no mention of what she will be...