Business Insider – by Ben Gilbert

Massive TVs with razor-thin frames, brilliant image quality, and built-in streaming services are more affordable than ever thanks to companies like Vizio and TCL.

If you want a 65-inch 4K smart TV with HDR capability, one can be purchased for below $500 — a price that may seem surprisingly low for such a massive piece of technology, nonetheless one that’s likely to live in your home for years before you upgrade. Continue reading “There’s a simple reason your new smart TV was so affordable: It’s collecting and selling your data, and serving you ads”

Popular Military

US Naval Aviators across the nation have penned an open letter to Capitol Hill and the Pentagon, urging them to consider allowing servicemembers to be armed on base.

The letter, sent to Fox News by Naval Air instructors who wished to remain anonymous, was written in the aftermath of an attack on students at Florida’s NAS Pensacola, when a Saudi officer opened fire on his classmates.  Continue reading “Navy pilots request to be armed because they don’t trust overweight police at military bases”

Yahoo News

Christopher Dionne, a former host of an HGTV home remodeling pilot, has been sentenced to three years in jail for molesting a 10-year-old girl in his Connecticut home, PEOPLE can confirm.

The sentence was passed down on Wednesday at the New London Superior Court, according to court documents.  Continue reading “Former HGTV Host Christopher Dionne Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Molesting 10-Year-Old Girl”

Miami Herald

The mother of the UPS driver who was held hostage and killed last week said she was being kept in the dark by authorities about the details surrounding her son’s death.

“Today is the fifth day and I know nothing.,” said Luz Apolinario as she left the funeral for her son, 27-year-old Frank Ordonez.  Continue reading “‘I know nothing’: Mother of slain UPS driver asks law enforcement for transparency”

Yahoo News

Bodycam footage of a Colorado mother being forcefully arrested in her own home in June has surfaced.

The video, which was acquired through an open records request by the Greeley Tribune, shows Casey Barnum, an officer from the Greeley Police Department, responding to a call about possible child negligence. He is seen questioning Rosie Perez, who defends herself for not letting her 16-year-old son into her home. Perez’s son had reportedly called the police after she allegedly kicked him out of her house and refused to drive him to his court hearing.  Continue reading “Footage shows mother being forcefully arrested in her own home: ‘This is a violation of my rights’”

Mercury News – by Levi Sumagaysay

A Silicon Valley startup has completed what appears to be the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck, which finished a 2,800-mile-run from Tulare, California to Quakertown, Pennsylvania for Land O’Lakes in under three days. The trip was smooth like butter, 40,000 pounds of it.

Plus.ai, a 3-year-old company in Cupertino, announced the milestone Tuesday. A safety driver was aboard the autonomous semi, ready to take the wheel if needed, along with a safety engineer who observed how things were going. Continue reading “A self-driving truck delivered butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days”

Yahoo News

NEW YORK — At a police station tucked into an end-of-the-line subway terminal in South Brooklyn, the new commander instructed officers to think of white and Asian people as “soft targets” and urged them to instead go after blacks and Latinos for minor offenses like jumping the turnstile, a half-dozen officers said in sworn statements.

“You are stopping too many Russian and Chinese,” one of the officers, Daniel Perez, recalled the commander telling him earlier this decade. Continue reading “‘I Got Tired of Hunting Black and Hispanic People’”

Yahoo News

Sometimes, you pick up a story at what used to be the back pages of a newspaper that nonetheless seems to carry the weight of ominous portent. Sometimes, these are medical stories—Ebola and whatnot. Increasingly, they have something to do with the climate crisis. And some of them start out simply weird but, the deeper you get into the story, both its darkness and its plausibility increase in tandem. This is one of those, from Vice. Continue reading “This Highly Organized Right-Wing Militia Is an Ominous Portent”

Yahoo News

America, home of the brave, land of the free, is watching.

Tens of millions of cameras are watching people across the country. The total number of cameras in the world could reach 45 billion by 2022, when the global video-surveillance industry is forecast to reach $63 billion.  Continue reading “I documented every surveillance camera on my way to work in New York City, and it revealed a dystopian reality”

Sac Bee

An off-duty California Highway Patrol officer wound up being briefly choked unconscious in a Black Friday brawl at a shopping mall near San Francisco as he went to the aid of a shopper, KRON reported.

Security video released by the Emeryville Police Department of the 8 p.m. incident at the Bay Street Mall shows a woman approach a group of teenagers, who violently push and shove her. Continue reading “Teens attack off-duty California cop defending woman in Black Friday brawl, video shows”

Gateway Pundit – by Joe Hoft

The FISA report from the DOJ IG is due out next Monday, December 9, 2019.  It’s likely that the DOJ IG Horowitz will address a number of issues, some we already know.

We reported in January of 2018 that a FISA Court Ruling report listed many criminal activities that took place during the Obama years related to the FISA process. Continue reading “The FISA Report Due Out Monday Will Be Damning – We Already Listed Several FISA Related Crimes from Previous Reports”

Miami Herald

Johnnie Ridgeway III, a former Miami-Dade police officer who served two years in federal prison for a civil-rights violation, worked hard to put his life back together.

The 51-year-old drove a tanker truck, delivering fuel overnight to gas stations. A few years ago, he’d finally saved up enough money to buy a home in Sunrise for him and his longtime wife, Sonia. Continue reading “Ex-Miami-Dade cop rebuilt his life after prison. Then, a nephew had him murdered, police say”

Yahoo News

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Closing a case involving a non-fatal U.S. Marshals shooting and the question of fair compensation for post-traumatic stress, federal Judge Jon McCalla ordered an $81,456 payment to 24-year-old Jahmazeo Richardson of Memphis, in a ruling issued Wednesday.

The figure is more than three times the $25,000 amount that Assistant U.S. Attorney David Brackstone, the lawyer representing the U.S. Marshals Service, asked the judge to consider as the maximum fair compensation.    Continue reading “Judge awards Memphis man $81,456 after US marshal shot at him during traffic stop”

Fox News

A New York man wearing military gear who barricaded himself inside a home after a dispute with his wife – and then posted updates on social media – surrendered Saturday night after a seven-hour standoff, authorities said.

Comments from Instagram followers only made the situation worse, police said, according to News 12 in Westchester County, north of New York City.  Continue reading “New York man in military gear, 28, surrenders after 7-hour standoff with police”

Yahoo News

When, if ever, should police be able to gather up Google location data to track down a criminal suspect? That’s one of the questions being posed by the lawyers of an alleged Virginia bank robber, who claims local police overstepped their bounds and committed privacy violations when they requested data from Google on him and 18 others near the vicinity of the crime. Privacy advocates say the implications of this case reach far beyond the alleged burglar and could affect the rights of millions of Americans using Google products.  Continue reading “An accused bank robber claims the police broke the law when they used Google location data to track him down. Privacy advocates agree.”

Yahoo News

OZARK, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on the murder trial of an Alabama police officer. (all times local):

7:50 p.m.

A jury is expected to begin deliberating soon in the trial of an Alabama police officer facing a murder charge for the 2016 shooting of an unarmed man.  Continue reading “Jury to deliberate in officer’s murder trial”