LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti The Russian government is attempting to bar the U.S. from most of Syria’s airspace in its latest effort to implement a ceasefire in the Syrian civil war, a senior diplomat told reporters attending the ceasefire conference Friday in Kazakhstan. Russia’s special envoy to Syria Aleksandr Lavrentiev said the U.S….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is slowly turning away from protests to focusing on policy to effect change in the Trump Era, according to The Washington Post Thursday. BLM, known for its protests against the police shootings of black men, wants to focus on changing policy…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke A New Jersey man wanted to use a pressure cooker bomb to blow up the “enemies” of ISIS and become a martyr for the terrorist group, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Gregory Lepsky, 20, of Point Pleasant, N.J., will appear in federal court to face allegations that he…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell North Korea has flipped out over the comments of another U.S. politician quick to criticize Kim Jong Un. North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency, quoting a foreign ministry spokesman, slammed Colorado Senator Cory Gardner after the latter called the young North Korean dictator a “whack job.”…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman The American Health Care Act (AHCA), passed 217-213 by the Republican-controlled House, repeals a series of taxes that predominately affect middle-income Americans, according to Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a nonprofit taxpayer advocacy group. “It repeals a series of about six or seven taxes that directly hit…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock The CEO of YouTube discussed “microaggressions” and Silicon Valley’s gender representation and pay in an interview Wednesday. Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, sat down with Poppy Harlow from CNN for a segment on CNN Money’s American Opportunity vertical. “There are sometimes microaggressions,” explained Wojcicki. “You’ll be talking…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman A draft of a proposed new surveillance law in the U.K. leaked Thursday shows the country’s government wants the power to force internet service providers (ISPs) to give up people’s communications in real-time. The Investigatory Powers Bill, colloquially known as the “snoopers’ charter,” originally passed under the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke Police in Texas say a concealed carry holder is a “hero” for shooting a crazed attacker and preventing what could have been a slaughter inside a crowded sports bar on Wednesday. The man, who was dining with his wife at Zona Caliente in Arlington, Tex., quickly sprung into…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky President Donald Trump declared the death of the Affordable Care Act during his comments with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Thursday evening. “So when you compare something to Obamacare, Obamacare is no longer living,” President Trump said about Obama’s signature achievement. “And we have something that’s going to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ethan Barton A federal judge ordered the Department of State to release new emails stored on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private server regarding the 2012 attack in Benghazi, a nonprofit government watchdog group announced Friday. Two previously unreleased emails have a subject line “Quick Summary of POTUS…