LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: ROBERT DONACHIE Capitol Hill and Health Care Reporter Democrats aren’t giving up their fear that Russia is heavily influencing the American political process, claiming the former Soviet nation is still meddling through advertisements on Facebook. Despite an ongoing federal investigation into the country’s influence in the 2016 presidential election, a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Grace Carr A 75-year-old woman said she would prefer to find herself behind bars than take down her signs supporting President Donald Trump. After authorities demanded that Rockland, Maine, resident Susan Reitman take down the signs in front of her property, she refused and said she’d rather go to jail…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Eric Lieberman IKEA released an app that may solve one of the biggest problems with shopping at its store: Knowing if the products fit or look good for their destined location. As Apple made iOS 11 available Tuesday, it also made augmented reality and the IKEA Place app available. Augmented reality is…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Rob Shimshock Three college students and one former student were arraigned Tuesday and Wednesday and face five years in prison each for wearing masks while protesting a Richmond, Va., Confederate rally Saturday. The four individuals, who were either current or former Virginia Commonwealth University students, violated a 1952 Virginia law…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Tim Pearce Bureaucracies have successfully evaded congressional budget oversight for years by illegally hiring contract labor to take the place of employees, according to a Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) report released Tuesday. Bureaucracies commit thousands of felonies a day, misappropriating funds not approved by Congress and expanding agency influence at a time…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Every adult knows the myriad challenges of adolescence. The hormones. The confusion. The pressure. It’s a period when it’s not unusual for teens to gain freedom, drift from Mom and Dad, and be introduced to alcohol, drugs, and sex. This would be difficult enough, but children are then usually thrust…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Steve Birr More than a dozen pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. will work together with the White House to fast track the development of non-opioid pain medication to curb addiction. President Donald Trump’s opioid commission, led by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, announced Monday a new partnership with the pharmaceutical…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Ethan Barton Some of the most highly toxic waste sites in America aren’t being cleaned because the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refuses to send staff where they’re needed most, a government watchdog reported Tuesday. The EPA hasn’t changed how it distributes staff to Superfund sites in 30 years, despite acknowledging…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: TIM PEARCE Energy Reporter At least five people are confirmed dead after an earthquake rocked Mexico City Tuesday, just 12 days after the country suffered its strongest earthquake in a century. Tuesday’s earthquake registered as a magnitude 7.1 and struck about 70 miles southeast of Mexico’s capital, according…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Anders Hagstrom on September 19, 2017 The Georgia Tech student shot by police Saturday wrote three suicide notes in his dorm room before summoning police and repeatedly asking them to shoot him, investigators say. Scout Schultz, 21, had a history of mental illness and was shot by police Saturday after…