LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at slashing regulations on American small businesses. The order will expand regulatory review with the goal of dramatically peeling back federal regulations. The order is the Trump administration’s first step in repealing two regulations for every new regulation put…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Starbucks Corporation CEO Howard Schultz said Sunday the company will hire 10,000 refugees in 75 countries over the next five years. The announcement comes just two days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday suspending all refugee admissions from any country for 120 days, placing a 90-day moratorium…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett The United Nations’ refugee agency is claiming that asylum seekers do not represent any kind of national security risk to the U.S. Refugees pose zero risk to security, according to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokeswoman Vannina Maestracci. Instead of perpetuating terrorism, she said, refugees…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Richard Pollock UPDATE: Mohamed Khadir’s Name Retracted by Police in Quebec City Shooting One of the two assailants of a mosque in Quebec City, Canada who killed at least six people last night has been identified as Mohamed Khadir, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a local television…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follet Academia needs to be a lot more humble if it wants to keep the trust of society, according to a British physicist. The physicist believes that the ever-increasing complexity of science has become difficult to explain to the general public, meaning that scientists have to be trustworthy enough for the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Professional quarterback Peyton Manning is rumored to run for office as Tennessee’s next senator, according to a Saturday report from a local CBS affiliate. The proposed run would only happen if current Sen. Lamar Alexander decided not to run in 2020, a decision the incumbent senator said…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson A petition to ban U.S. President Donald Trump from visiting the United Kingdom has drawn hundreds of thousands of signatures, and it will now be considered for a debate in the British parliament. The petition had 770,000 signatures as of Sunday night — well above the 100,000…
President Donald Trump lashed out Sunday afternoon at two Republican senators for their earlier criticisms of his new immigration policies. Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham expressed concerns about Trump’s recent executive order barring citizens of seven predominantly-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. Trump responded later in the day by telling the two senators to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Apparently all is not homogeneous inside the belly of the GOP. According to a new report, GOP insiders are worried about the upcoming repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act: Leaked recordings from a closed door session during the Republican Party’s retreat in Philadelphia show…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Shortly after the judge in the Facebook kidnapping case indicted the accused teens implicated in the charges, their lawyers made a plea for compassion on behalf of the kids (who kidnapped and tortured a disabled man for being white and live streamed the events on Facebook),…