Today’s situation is dangerous and frightening at an entirely new level. | Continue reading
Speed and red-light cameras are the bane of many motorists. | Continue reading
Environmentalist and children’s television host Bill Nye tore into President Trump on Friday evening over his stance on climate change, arguing his administration is going in the “wrong direction.” | Continue reading
The House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday subpoenaed the owner of 8chan, the internet messaging board linked to three mass shootings this year, to testify before Congress. | Continue reading
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) "Moscow Mitch" while attacking him for blocking House Democrats' legislation, including election security measures. | Continue reading
The Pentagon's internal watchdog on Tuesday said that it is investigating potential ethics concerns around the $10 billion "war cloud" contract at the center of an ongoing tug-of-war among lawmakers and the White House. | Continue reading
Trump, being a businessman, understands “sunk cost,” and that sometimes you walk away from a failed project. | Continue reading
Top FBI officials informed congressional lawmakers this week that they have been unable to access the smartphone of the suspected gunman in the Dayton, Ohio, mass shooting, two sources told The Hill. | Continue reading
YouTube has reportedly removed the account of Soph, a 14-year-old girl with nearly 1 million followers, after she uploaded a video attacking LGBTQ people. | Continue reading
Facebook is facing new questions over its handling of the Cambridge Analytica debacle even after a record settlement with the FTC ended a year-long investigation by regulators into the matter. | Continue reading
SpaceX's Super Heavy rocket promises to change space travel as profoundly as the ocean-going caravel did sea travel. | Continue reading
Capital One and GitHub have been hit with a class-action lawsuit over the recent data breach that resulted in the data of over 100 million Capital One customers being exposed. | Continue reading
An Arizona body donation facility is being sued after the FBI reportedly found buckets full of body parts, male genitalia in a cooler, and heads and bodies of different people sewn together. | Continue reading
The hashtag #MoscowMitchMcTreason began trending on Twitter Tuesday morning after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) fired back against the nickname "Moscow Mitch" in a fiery speech from the Senate floor. | Continue reading
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a freshman who has emerged as a top Republican critic of major technology companies in Congress, on Tuesday will introduce a bill banning social media companies from building "addictive" features into their products. | Continue reading
One of the nation’s leading whistleblower attorneys said Monday that most people aren’t legally prepared when they go about exposing potentially illegal or unethical information within an organization or government. | Continue reading
Our data are a valuable public resource. It’s time that policymakers treated them that way. | Continue reading
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), a 2020 presidential contender, is suing Google over claims that the tech behemoth violated her right to "free speech." | Continue reading
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday announced it is launching an investigation into whether the country's largest tech companies have stifled competition or harmed consumers, marking the department's widest-ranging inquiry into potential te | Continue reading
Scientists are memorializing Iceland's first glacier lost to climate change with a plaque and eulogy that will be unveiled in August. | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will lose nearly two-thirds of its staff at two research agencies as the department pushes ahead with a move to the Kansas City area. | Continue reading
“The View” co-host Meghan McCain on Monday criticized her father’s longtime friend Sen. | Continue reading
This bill is great for Silicon Valley, but bad for high-skilled American workers. | Continue reading
Lawmakers are zeroing in on the potential for foreign cyberattacks to take down the U.S. electric grid, with members in both chambers pushing hearings and a flurry of bills to address the issue. | Continue reading
A federal judge ruled on Friday that the Department of Defense (DOD) can move forward with its plan to award a $10 billion "war cloud" contract later this summer, which will be likely given to either Amazon or Microsoft, knocking down a legal chal | Continue reading
Senators are growing anxious that they might have to vote to raise the nation’s debt ceiling in a matter of weeks given new estimates that the government could hit its borrowing limit earlier than expected. | Continue reading
Officials with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) defended the government’s use of facial recognition technology before a skeptical House panel on Wednesday, downplaying privacy and accuracy concerns as overblown. | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday voted to override part of a San Francisco city ordinance aimed at promoting access to more broadband providers for residents in apartment buildings. | Continue reading
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New Zealand’s justice minister criticized Google Wednesday after the name of a suspect in the murder case of a British backpacker was published in an email of what's trending sent by the company. | Continue reading
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Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang claimed his microphone was "not on" a few times when he attempted to jump in during Thursday night's Democratic debate in Miami. | Continue reading
We are in the midst of a space industrial revolution — a revolution in transportation, mining and manufacture. | Continue reading
President Trump on Wednesday said tech giants Google and Facebook should be sued over alleged bias toward conservatives. | Continue reading
A group of experts on Tuesday warned a House panel that artificial intelligence is not capable of sweeping up the full breadth of online extremist content — in particular posts from white supremacists. | Continue reading
A House committee on Friday advanced legislation that would require election systems use voter-verified paper ballots to guard against election interference. | Continue reading
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It’s only June, but President Trump’s laserlike focus on immigration and desire for a border wall are making GOP lawmakers nervous that lagging talks on a budget deal could further bog down and lead to another government shutdown. | Continue reading
The executives at Facebook, YouTube and Twitter want to act all righteous by deplatforming provocateurs. | Continue reading
A survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting said Monday that Harvard University has rescinded his acceptance after recently surfaced screenshots showed him using racial slurs a few months before the 2018 massacre in Parkland, F | Continue reading
We are reaching a point in higher education where leaders are ceding control to activists. | Continue reading
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The top spokesperson for President Trump’s 2020 reelection bid said the campaign would handle offers of information on opponents from foreign entities on a “case by case basis.” | Continue reading
A photo of Silicon Valley tech executives is taking heat after two women were photoshopped to be added to the group, BuzzFeed News | Continue reading
A 9-year-old boy in California used his allowance money to pay off school lunch debts for his entire third-grade class, | Continue reading
It's time to make climate change a bridge issue rather than the wedge issue currently dividing Republicans and Democrats. The Energy Innovation Act is the bridge that can unite our nation to take the first meaningful step toward preserving a livable climate. | Continue reading
The struggling news industry is joining calls to increase oversight of tech giants like Facebook and Google. | Continue reading
Environmental Protection Agency is battling its own board of science advisers over its controversial plan to dismiss certain types of scientific research from consideration when issuing rules. | Continue reading