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Apple announced in a statement on Wednesday that it plans to accelerate U.S. investment and create thousands of new jobs.
For years Apple Inc. has been criticized for outsourcing manufacturing to China.
Apple says it plans to bring back billions of dollars it has kept in tax havens overseas, and that it will pay a one-time tax of $38 billion on its overseas cash holdings. Continue reading “Apple Plans To Create 20,000 Jobs And Build New Campus”
With the debate over immigration to the U.S. as fiery as ever, a new analysis suggests that Silicon Valley would be lost without foreign-born technology workers.
About 71 percent of tech employees in the Valley are foreign born, compared to around 50 percent in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward region, according to a new report based on 2016 census data. Continue reading “H-1B: Immigrants make up nearly three-quarters of Silicon Valley tech workforce, report says”
Washington Examiner – by Susan Ferrechio
The Senate just barely advanced legislation on Tuesday to reauthorize a key counterterrorism surveillance tool after several Republicans and Democrats demanded more privacy protections for U.S. citizens.
The bill, a six-year reauthorization of the Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, passed the House last week, but it was less clear whether the Senate would agree to end debate on the bill on Tuesday. Continue reading “FISA surveillance bill barely advances in close Senate vote”
The Oregonian – by Maxine Bernstein
A half-inch piece of metal lodged in the shoulder of Oregon refuge occupier Ryan Bundy could become central to the federal government’s prosecution of an FBI agent accused of lying about firing two shots as police tried to arrest the 2016 takeover’s leaders.
When Bundy was arrested along U.S. 395, emergency medics found him bleeding and wrapped his wound in a dressing.
He was taken to Harney District Hospital, where an X-ray revealed a metal fragment next to his right shoulder bone, presumably from a gunshot. Continue reading “Ryan Bundy’s new bargaining chip: his shoulder shrapnel”
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Residents of southeast Michigan were left a bit shaken Tuesday night after a big bright flash lit up the sky and the ground beneath them shook.
A flying saucer? No. A shooting star? Not quite.
The National Weather Service eventually solved the mystery, tweeting “USGS confirms meteor occurred around 810 pm, causing a magnitude 2.0 earthquake.” Continue reading “Earthquake-causing meteor leaves southeast Michigan residents awestruck”
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A former CIA officer has been arrested and charged with illegally retaining classified records, including names and phone numbers of covert CIA assets.
Fifty-three-year-old Jerry Chun Shing Lee was arrested Monday night after arriving at JFK International Airport. He made an initial appearance Tuesday in federal court in New York, but will face charges in northern Virginia, where the CIA is located. Continue reading “Ex-CIA officer arrested, charged with keeping documents”
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A San Diego State University professor was given $430,000 by the federal government to study the grocery store habits of Latino Americans.
According to a report from The College Fix, Professor Iana Castro of San Diego State’s College of Business Administration has received a $430,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to study the grocery store purchases of Latino American families. The purpose of the study is to learn how Latino Americans can combat obesity by making healthier choices at the grocery store. Continue reading “Government Gives San Diego State Professor $430,000 to Study Latino Grocery Store Purchases”
A man shot and injured four law enforcement officers late Monday and early Tuesday near a South Carolina home, a sheriff’s spokesman said, after deputies initially were called there for a complaint of domestic violence.
The man suspected of firing the shots, Christian Thomas McCall, was injured in a shootout with officers near the home outside the city of York, ending a nearly six-hour ordeal in which the officers were looking for or trying to capture him, York County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Trent Faris said. Continue reading “4 South Carolina officers shot after domestic violence call”
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Chelsea Manning on Sunday confirmed via Twitter that she is a candidate for U.S. Senate.
Three days after making her intention known to federal election officials, Manning tweeted “yup, we’re running for senate” with an attached campaign video indicating her intention to run in the 2018 Maryland Democratic primary. She sent a subsequent tweet seeking donations to her campaign.
The 71-second video weaves together images of white supremacists holding tiki torches in Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as protesters clashing with police elsewhere.
Continue reading “Chelsea Manning confirms US Senate run”
Houston, 12 January (Argus) — Landowners are contesting Nebraska’s approval of TransCanada’s 830,000 b/d Keystone XL pipeline route, shifting the case to a state appeals court.
The move adds uncertainty to the future of the project which has already faced years of delay.
Dozens of Nebraska landowners filed a notice of appeal to the Nebraska Court of Appeals. They are planning to contest a 20 November decision by the Nebraska Public Service Commission to approve a route through the state for Keystone XL. Continue reading “Keystone XL route faces landowner challenge”
A driver who later admitted to using narcotics crashed his car into the second-floor dental offices of a Santa Ana building today, according to police.
The white sedan was partially wedged into the second story of the office building, Santa Ana Police Department reported. A specialized fire truck from Los Angeles was brought in to extract the car from the dentist’s office. Continue reading “Car goes airborne, crashes into 2nd-floor dental office in Santa Ana”
Yahoo News – by Jon Fingas, Engadget
It’s not just state officials who are investigating Hawaii’s false alarm over a (thankfully non-existent) missile attack. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has confirmed that the regulator’s investigation into the error is “well underway.” While Pai shied away from making many definitive statements early on, he said that early findings suggested Hawaii didn’t have “reasonable safeguards or process controls” to prevent a mistaken alert.
Not surprisingly, Pai labeled the alarm as “absolutely unacceptable.” It wasn’t just that it triggered panic for the 38 minutes between the initial alert and the correction, according to the Chairman — it’s that this reduced confidence in the alert system and may have hurt its effectiveness in a real crisis. Continue reading “FCC investigates Hawaii’s false missile alert”
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said on Saturday that it has begun allowing certain young, undocumented immigrants to renew protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
The move comes after U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued a preliminary injunction this week blocking President Trump‘s decision to end the Obama-era program, which granted temporary reprieve from deportation to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, often called “dreamers.” Continue reading “Trump admin resumes accepting DACA renewals after court order”
A man aboard a Greyhound bus who allegedly threatened to shoot and kill fellow passengers on Friday, leading police on a chase that began in Wisconsin and ended in Illinois, is an illegal immigrant, and is now facing terror charges.
Police responded to a call around 9:40 p.m. Friday from a bus passenger who claimed there was a person threatening to kill people, Fox 6 reported, citing the Racine County Sheriff’s Department. Continue reading “Greyhound bus chased by police after illegal immigrant threatens passengers”
(Reuters) – The “heroic actions” of teachers, school staff and first responders following the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre of 26 young children and educators at Newtown elementary school may have prevented the death toll from being even higher, Connecticut State Police said in a report released on Friday.
The 74-page report detailed state police response to the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School, one of the five deadliest mass shootings by a single gunman in U.S. history. Continue reading “Connecticut police commend ‘heroic’ response to Sandy Hook massacre”
The GOP chairman overseeing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) says the agency is partly to blame for the failure of the prosecution against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), who heads the House Natural Resources Committee, said in a letter that he wants Trump administration leaders to investigate what he sees as major problems in the BLM’s enforcement programs that led to the Bundy mistrial, including withholding evidence. Continue reading “GOP chairman slams federal agency involved in Cliven Bundy case”