LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Anders Hagstrom State governors and courts intervened to stop 71 percent of scheduled executions in 2017, with just 23 scheduled executions being carried out nationwide. The numbers, from a year-end study from the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), are evidence of a national movement away from the death penalty in 2017. An…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Jacob Bojesson The Catalonian independence movement looks set to secure a big victory in a key election for the region’s push to secede from Spain. The Spanish government called a snap parliamentary election in the region after Catalonian leaders held a banned independence referendum. Left-wing parties ERC and CUP are on track to…
Last week, President Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1, a document that changes America’s space policy. It reorganizes the government’s focus on space travel and exploration while pushing for larger and more specific cooperation between the federal and private sector. What is most important is that for the first time since 1972, America plans to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Nick Givas Mark Denny of Brooklyn was freed from prison Wednesday, after serving 30 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Denny, 46, had been convicted of rape and robbery at a Burger King in 1987, but the only piece of admissible evidence against him was the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Eric Lieberman Apple says it purposefully slows down old operating systems running on older iPhones in order for the naturally deteriorating batteries to be able to keep up. The powerful tech company has been accused of downgrading technology on a number of occasionsin recent history, including the very recently released iPhone X. Apple…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Thomas Phippen Telecom giant AT&T is so pleased with tax reform plan that it will give more than 200,000 employees an extra $1,000 bonus, the company announced Wednesday. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed the Senate Tuesday evening, and was ratified once again by the House Wednesday. If President…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Saagar Enjeti Transgender service members will be able to use the room and bathrooms of their preferred gender, regardless of whether they have had sex reassignment surgery, NBC News reports. A memo prepared by the Department of Defense, however, clarifies that transgender service members will be required to use the undergarments consistent…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Steve Birr Authorities arrested a nurse found stealing vials of fentanyl from a hospital in North Carolina Monday that nearly caused an officer to suffer an overdose. Police were investigating Hayley Lammon Brown, who worked as a nurse at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, since April after they discovered a number…
AT&T to invest $1 billion in capital spending following tax reform passage from CNBC. Thomas Phippen on December 20, 2017 Several corporations applauding the Republican tax reform plan announced investment projects and employee bonuses to cheer the coming lower corporate tax rates. Aerospace company and defense contractor Boeing announced Wednesday that it would invest $300 million…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Eric Lieberman Facebook announced Tuesday that it will be “managing your identity” with facial recognition technology. The tools, which are optional for users, will help the social media giant identify and remove photos that people are not formally tagged in and in which the subject would rather not have the…