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A couple in California taking out the trash over the weekend ended up victims of a “very brutal” attack that was caught on camera, according to officials.
The Stockton Police Department said on Facebook the incident happened Sunday around 11:30 p.m. when the group of unknown assailants attacked the couple in the 900 block of Henry Long Drive in the Weston Ranch area of the city. Continue reading “California couple hurt in ‘very brutal’ attack by group of teenagers outside their home”
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday that online giant Amazon has ‘destroyed the retail industry across the United States.’
Mnuchin said he looked forward to hearing the results of a Justice Department probe, announced on Tuesday, into whether big U.S. technology firms engage in anti-competitive practices, the strongest sign yet that the Trump administration is stepping up its scrutiny of Big Tech. Continue reading “Treasury secretary says Amazon DESTROYED America’s retail industry”
A California entrepreneur pleaded guilty on Wednesday to paying $250,000 to get his son into to the University of Southern California as a fake volleyball recruit.
Jeffrey Bizzack of Solana Beach, California, was the 51st person to be charged in a sweeping scheme that involved rigging test scores and bribing coaches to get students into elite schools including Georgetown, Stanford and Yale universities. Continue reading “Entrepreneur Jeffrey Bizzack pleads guilty as part of the college admissions bribery scandal”
Just days after President Donald Trump declared that he was never friends with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, footage has emerged of the two at a private party back in 1992.
Producers at Morning Joe unearthed the video, which shows that Epstein was a guest of Trump’s at Mar-a-Lago in November of that year and was surrounded by a group of models and cheerleaders. Continue reading “Video shows Donald Trump partying with Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell”
A father-of-seven has lifted the lid on his ingenious life hacks following the birth of his quintuplets.
Chad Kempel, 37, from San Mateo, has spent the past year putting his creative nature to good use – including baby-proofing the entire house, creating his own custom furniture, and inventing his own ways to ensure all five babies can be fed at once, Continue reading “Father-of-seven has revealed his top parenting hacks – including baby-proofing the house”
The Federal Trade Commission voted this week to approve a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook that could end an investigation into its privacy practices, according to a person familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak on the record, a deal that could result in unprecedented government oversight of the company.
The settlement — adopted with the FTC’s three Republicans supporting it and two Democrats against it — could end a wide-ranging probe into Facebook’s mishandling of users’ personal information that began more than a year ago. Continue reading “FTC votes to approve $5 billion settlement with Facebook in privacy probe”
