LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Dries Van Thielen Tensions in the South-Chinese Sea are up again. In July 2016, the International Court of Justice in The Hague condemned China’s artificial-island building and ruled in favor of the Philippines. When the President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte was in a meeting last week with Chinese…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White Former managers with solar panel giant Sunrun say they took part in manipulating troves of sales data before the company went public in 2015. The former managers say superiors told them to wait on reporting data showing hundreds of customers who canceled contracts during a roughly five-month…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock A history professor recently tackled complaints on campus from supposedly starving students by debunking a study claiming that nearly half of students were going hungry at college. Peter Conclanis, a history professor at the University of North Carolina, published on May 11 a rebuttal in City Journal to an…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday the Trump administration is investigating the violent clash between Turkish security officials and protesters outside Turkey’s embassy in Washington D.C. The nation’s top diplomat called the incident, in which members of Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s protective detail viciously attacked peaceful…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Former NBC host Billy Bush finally spoke out about the 2005 Access Hollywood tape in which President Donald Trump made derogatory statements about women to Bush, speaking candidly about how the video affected his career in an interview Sunday. Bush pointed to the “ironic” fact that he…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Influential organizers who supported Sen. Bernie Sanders during the 2016 presidential primary still think that the Democratic Party is in an “absolute crisis,” according to an interview published Sunday. Several organizers and donors who supported the self-described socialist were angry about how the Democratic Party handled the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is expected to decline a congressional subpoena and invoke his fifth amendment privilege on Monday, according to the Associated Press. Flynn’s pending invocation comes as the investigations into the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia has become a hot button issue…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett Retired Rear Adm. Patrick J. Lorge is now admitting that political pressure caused him to convict Navy SEAL Keith E. Barry of rape in 2014. In an affidavit submitted as part of an appeals process, Lorge stated May 5 that he does not believe the government proved the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, the firebrand Fox News commentator reportedly tapped for a senior post at the Department of Homeland Security, may have plagiarized almost 50 sections of his master’s thesis, a new analysis shows. CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski reports the sheriff failed to provide proper attribution of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett A noted rocket scientist and author believes private space companies run by billionaire entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos will probably make it to Mars before NASA does. “Unless NASA stops looking for excuses and diversionary activities and decides to focus its efforts on getting people to…