LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read Recent reports claim that the Kurdish Regional Government has actively prevented Christians and Yazidis in Iraq from returning to their homes after they were retaken from Islamic State, but the available information cannot substantiate these claims. Verdict: Unsubstantiated The Investigative Project on Terrorism, or IPT, claimed that the Kurdish Regional…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett The major California-based solar company Sungevity declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday. Sungevity is laying off workers, auctioning off some assets, and agreeing to hand over control investors in exchange for $20 million in financing to keep the company’s operations going. Sungevity was one of seven residential solar power companies, which Congress…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Juliegrace Brufke GOP Sen. Rand Paul said they are still in the pre-negotiation stage of striking a compromise on the House GOP’s Obamacare repeal bill Wednesday. Dressed in a tux and equipped with copies of “The Art of the Deal,” Paul said he and the House Freedom Caucus are…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman More than 33 million records from various corporations and government agencies were leaked recently, after researchers discovered the information was quietly made available to the public. Organizations with the most files exposed are the Department of Defense, with 101,013 employee records, and the U.S. Postal Service with…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley A federal judge in Hawaii has temporarily stayed certain provisions on President Donald Trump’s revised executive order on refugees and migrants. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson of the District of Hawaii issued an order late Wednesday that temporarily bars enforcement two aspects of the directive, which was scheduled…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Dries Van Thielen After a populist Brexit Campaign voted to secede out of the EU and the United States elected Donald Trump as their president, an uncomfortable nationalist wind was blowing towards The Netherlands in the form of Geert Wilders (PVV). On March 15, the Dutch faced parliamentary elections…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) accused fellow Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) of working for Russian President Vladimir Putin, following Paul’s vote to block the consideration of a treaty that would allow Montenegro into the United Nations, reports the Washington Examiner. “If there’s objection, you are achieving the objectives of Vladimir Putin,” McCain…
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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall Four men attacked a good Samaritan after he offered to loan them some money to pay for their meal at a Brooklyn fast-food restaurant. The 37-year-old victim approached the two men on March 1 with the offer upon realizing they were a few dollars short at the…
By Paul Meekin I like a popcorn flick as much as the next guy, but sometimes I like to be challenged by the movies I watch. I like to learn things, I like to have the things I thought I learned turn out to not be true. And recently, I’ve enjoyed watching movies that ascribe…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense James Mattis are reviewing plans to send 1,000 more U.S. conventional forces to Syria to aid assault on the Islamic State’s capital of Raqqa, The Washington Post reports. The new troops would likely be a mixture of service members from…