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Mobile phone giants and banks are using private companies to root through customers’ social media profiles before issuing contracts and loans.
A major Money Mail investigation found that firms are using data from Facebook and other social media websites such as Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter to find out about customers’ spending habits and earnings as well as to confirm their age, address and employment. Continue reading “Why your Facebook profile could stop you getting a mortgage”
At least 12 states have responded with a wave of fury and legal action this week after the Trump administration announced it would add a question to the 2020 census asking respondents whether they are U.S. citizens.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he would lead a multistate coalition to block the decision the Commerce Department announced on Monday. The addition of a citizenship question is highly controversial, and civil rights groups have long claimed it could jeopardize the accuracy of the census. Continue reading “At Least A Dozen States Plan To Sue Over New Census Citizenship Question”
American stocks could see a significant decline in the coming months due to a number of trends that point to a downturn in the global economy, according to Saxo Bank Chief Economist Steen Jakobsen.
Citing several factors including growing credit loans and a widening fiscal deficit in the US, he expressed doubts over infrastructure spending plans and a potential global trade war. Continue reading “Third of US stock market may be wiped out as consumer spending ‘maxed out’”
Russia must confess to the Salisbury ‘chemical attack’ in order to mend relations with the US and NATO, said the US State Department, adding that the only evidence the US needs for Moscow’s culpability was the word of its UK ally.
“If Russia wants to improve relations, it needs to first acknowledge its responsibility for this attack and cease its recklessly aggressive behavior,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters on Tuesday. Continue reading “‘Russia has lots of tentacles’: US says it needed no proof, only UK’s word to expel diplomats”
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A blinding national spotlight is shining on the family of Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old unarmed black man killed by Sacramento police last week. “You don’t know what it’s like until you experience it,” Clark’s uncle, Curtis Gordon, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday. “You can see it on TV, it’s totally OK to deal with those realities when it’s just through a television and they’re not in your home. It’s different now.” Continue reading “Family of Sacramento man slain by police skeptical of change”
The Bankruptcy of The United States
United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303
Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:
Courthouse News – by Adam Klasfeld
MANHATTAN (CN) – At an hour-long hearing Tuesday morning, the Second Circuit sent a loud and clear warning that New York City could face liabilities for police using sound weapons against protesters.
Whether the officer who turned on the devices will have to pay is less clear. Continue reading “NYPD Defends Sound Cannons in Appeal of Protest Case”
Complex – by Danielle Corcione
The Lost Boys and Goonies actor Corey Feldman says he was stabbed Tuesday night by a stranger.
TMZ reports the stabbing was inflicted in the 46-year-old’s abdomen. Three men approached Feldman’s car while driving in Los Angeles‘s San Fernando Valley. Feldman had a security guard present in his own car, but the guard was distracted by the three men when another car pulled up and the attacked jumped right out. Continue reading “Corey Feldman Stabbed in Possible Homicide Attempt”
Recently, the news has been all abuzz with teen activists who want to take away our guns but refuse to use clear backpacks, the Facebook privacy scandal, and how someone bit Beyonce in the face. But there are three recent events that aren’t getting much press which tell us it is entirely possible that we could be headed toward World War III at worst and toward an economic collapse at best. Continue reading “3 Recent Events That Could Send the US Hurtling Toward World War III”
New York Times – by Eileen Sullivan
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Wednesday that the Second Amendment — the right to keep and bear arms — “will never be repealed,” responding to an opinion piece written by a retired Supreme Court justice who called for just that. Continue reading “Trump Says Second Amendment ‘Will Never Be Repealed’”
The threat of flooding has returned to portions of the South, mid-Mississippi Valley and Ohio Valley this week due to the combination of a slow-moving system and plentiful moisture.
Already, clusters of heavy rain have developed from Texas to southern Ohio as of Wednesday morning.
Continue reading “Heavy Rain to Bring Flash Flooding, River Flooding in the South, Mid-Mississippi Valley, Ohio Valley”
Buncombe County Sheriff’s candidate R. Daryl Fisher has apologized for joking about taking guns out of residents’ “cold, dead hands.”
Fisher is a Democrat who was caught on video saying, “You’ve heard people say, ‘You’ll have to pry my guns from my cold, dead hands.’” He shrugs his shoulders, states, “Okay,” and then stands quietly while a room full of supporters laugh and applaud. Continue reading “North Carolina Candidate for Sheriff Apologizes for Joke About Taking Guns from Residents’ ‘Cold, Dead Hands’”
(Meredith) – A 13-year-old boy who drew a stick figure holding a gun and another holding two knives was suspended from his North Carolina middle school.
The boy’s father, James Herring, said he can’t believe his son received a two-day suspension earlier this month for what he calls a harmless picture. Continue reading “Boy suspended for drawing stick figure holding gun, knives”
Transgender Army officer Hannah Winterbourne has married actor Jake Graf — who used to be a woman.
Captain Hannah, 31, who spent her first few years in the Army as a man, wed Jake, 40, in London. Continue reading “Transgender Army officer Hannah Winterbourne weds actor Jake Graf – who used to be a woman”
Our Gardening by the Moon calendar works according to the age-old belief that phases of the Moon affect plant growth. Lunar planting is a longtime Old Farmer’s Almanac tradition.
Keep in mind that the four gardening regions below are quite broad; we also offer a modern planting calendar (not Moon-based) that gets down to zip code level. See our all-seasons gardening calendar. Continue reading “Gardening by the Moon Calendar”
CBS Local — Just like finding a long lost relative, scientists would like to introduce you to an organ you never knew you had: the interstitium.
New research published in Scientific Reports has revealed that the human body contains a network of fluid-filled channels that had previously been undiscovered. The spaces were found all around the body’s connective tissue which lines the digestive tract, lungs, urinary systems, and surrounding muscles. Continue reading “Scientists Find A New Organ In Humans: The Interstitium”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Baton Rouge, LA — In 2016, the city of Baton Rouge was rocked by the tragic death of 37-year-old Alton Sterling who was killed by police as he sold CDs in front of a convenience store. Now, after nearly two years, it was just announced that the two officers responsible for his death will not be charged.
This ruling comes nearly a year after the Justice Department ruled out federal charges as well. Continue reading “No Charges for Cops Who Shot and Killed Alton Sterling on Video”
A Georgia state lawmaker said she didn’t want to take guns away from Americans, but she also supports legislation that would seize guns from Americans. Likely missing a dictionary and basic common sense, Erica Thomas still expects us to believe that the government isn’t coming for our guns. Continue reading “Dem Lawmaker: We Don’t Want To Confiscate Guns, We Want To ‘Seize’ Them”