by Chris White Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk accused the media of “killing people” for covering a string of wrecks and one death related to the company’s self-driving feature. “You need to think carefully about this,” Musk told a slew of reporters during phone conference Wednesday. “Because if, in writing some article that’s negative, you effectively dissuade…
by Phillip Stucky Former President Bill Clinton wanted a “young Latina celeb type” to join him on the campaign trail, according to hacked internal emails. “WJC asking if we should have a Latino surrogate do events with him,” Bill Clinton’s chief of staff Tina Flournoy wrote in February. “Not sure that’s the focus for the…
by Saagar Enjeti FBI investigators found reams of classified information in the home and car of suspected NSA spy Harold T. Martin III. Martin reportedly had “six full banker’s boxes worth of documents,” along with nearly 20 terabytes of classified information in digital storage. Martin amassed multiple computers, thumb drives, and other digital storage devices, all…
by Eric Lieberman Website likes Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, and many others are not working Friday morning, allegedly because unknown hackers attacked the servers of Dyn, which is a major domain name system (DNS) host. The attack is believed to be a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. DNS is the technical network that converts website address names…
by Brian Nichols It is an undisputed fact that Donald Trump is, by and large, the worst candidate the GOP could have nominated to face off against Hillary Clinton in the contest for President of the United States. With polls showing Trump losing to Clinton by several points (in some cases, double-digits), it’s not hard…
by Robert Donachie President Barack Obama compared Obamacare to phones that literally burst into flames at a Thursday speech at Miami Dade College. Touting his landmark healthcare bill to a crowd of thousands, Obama said: “The problems that may have arisen from the Affordable Care Act is not because government is too involved in the…
by Phillip Stucky Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele isn’t supporting Republican nominee Donald Trump, according to a Buzzfeed report Friday. “I will not be voting for Clinton,” Steele said at a dinner honoring the 40th anniversary of Mother Jones, a progressive magazine. “I will not be voting for Trump either.” Trump has “captured that racist underbelly, that…
by Phillip Stucky Voters overwhelmingly want the loser of the election in November, regardless of whether it is Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton or Republican nominee Donald Trump, to accept the results and move on, according to a Politico/Morning Consult poll published Friday. Sixty-eight percent of voters agreed that the loser should accept whatever the American…
by Ted Goodman The Arlington Municipal Patrolman’s Association (AMPA), which is one of four police unions in the city, is contesting a new police department policy that prohibits association members from meeting with new academy recruits while off-duty and outside city property. The AMPA, which represents about 350 of the city’s 600 sworn officers, filed a lawsuit, arguing…
by Luke Rosiak An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) geologist said he doesn’t believe he did anything wrong by constantly watching pornography and masturbating on the job because he always finished his meager workload and his colleagues spent lots of time doing “personal” things, too. Besides boredom at work, the EPA employee said he watched pornography…