LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read A notorious Russian hacker allegedly involved in the massive hack of millions of Yahoo email accounts purportedly made money by manipulating the company’s search engine to show users fake erectile dysfunction ads. Alexsey Beylan was tasked by Russian FSB agents Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushchin to hack into…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett The Department of Justice has arrested and indicted retired Navy Rear Adm. Bruce Loveless and eight other Navy officers for allegedly accepting prostitutes, wild parties and other bribes in exchange for divulging classified info to a defense contractor. The indictment alleges that Loveless and other officers received bribes…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen announced Wednesday afternoon that the fed would raise the federal funds rate, marking the second rate increase in just three months and only the third since 2007. The federal funds rate is the overnight rate on loans between banks, and it is…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch President Donald Trump heads to Michigan Wednesday to announce he’s reconsidering the Obama administration’s last-minute fuel efficiency regulations. Trump will order the EPA to redo a mid-term review of its greenhouse gas standard for new cars the Obama administration hurriedly finished to keep the program in place. The administration…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen When you put a whole town up for sale for $3.85 million, you get interest from a lot of different places — including Chinese investment companies. Tiller, a small town in southwestern Oregon, used to be the home of loggers, but now it’s a ghost town. “When the federal…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell Most major South Korean companies are vulnerable to Chinese retaliation over the deployment of a U.S. missile shield on South Korean soil, a new report suggests. Following the launch of four North Korean extended-range scuds into the Sea of Japan, the U.S. began the process of deploying…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall The Baltimore Police Department suspended two more officers who might have connections with the seven officers indicted on racketeering charges. The two officers, who will not be named, have been suspended with pay, according to Baltimore Police spokesman T.J. Smith. They will remain on administrative duty until…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock A nonprofit group has demanded that university employees who repeatedly wiped away pro-life sidewalk chalk messages on National Pro-Life Chalk Day apologize, uphold free speech, and teach its staff to do so. The Christian nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom delivered a letter to Kutztown University, which is a public…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kathryn Watson Congress has consistently rewarded Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) officials with bigger budgets despite their demonstrated inability to manage tax dollars efficiently, but that may be about to change under President Donald Trump. Instead of cutting the department’s funding when it failed each year since…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) is reportedly set to announce charges against four suspects for hacking Yahoo and breaching hundreds of millions of user accounts. One of the alleged perpetrators lives in Canada, and the other three live in Russia, according to Bloomberg News. The accused man…