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Steve Ambrose Uber is getting ready to broaden its target market to more than the weekend drinkers. In a posting on Uber’s blog, the company announced Nov. 3 the testing of a new expansion plan specifically for commuters. Known as UberPool, the company will now offer fixed-rate rides that serves the San Francisco area. “POOL…
Jonah Bennett The Mexican Supreme Court ruled Wednesday four individuals have a right to produce and consume marijuana for personal and recreational use, paving the way for marijuana legalization. The 4-1 ruling keeps existing drug laws intact, but lays the groundwork for a host of legal challenges that could result in marijuana legalization, reported The New York Times….
Rachel Stoltzfoos U.S. intelligence suggests an Islamic State bomb brought down the Russian passenger jet in Egypt over the weekend. “There is a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane,” a U.S. official familiar with the matter told CNN. The official said the bomb was most likely…
Steve Ambrose The U.S. Department of Justice hit two contractors with multi-million dollar fines this week, after an investigation concluded Russian computer scientists were writing software code for U.S. military systems. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and its subcontractor NetCracker agreed to pay more than $12 million in a settlement with DoJ, which alleged the contractors’…
Steve Ambrose The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee slammed the Transportation Security Administration for their horrendous security inspections record in a hearing Tuesday. “I think we need a complete overhaul,” Republican Rep. [crscore]John Mica[/crscore] said in the hearing. “I think we need to address risk. I think we’re hassling 99 percent of the people who…
Ethan Barton Major U.S. newspapers regularly publish what often appears to be editorial content provided to them by Chinese and Russian propaganda outlets without disclosing that they are controlled by foreign governments. The Washington Post has distributed in its print editions two paid advertising supplements — China Watch and Russia Beyond The Headlines — that…
Josh Fatzick It’s no secret that the District of Columbia Archives building is in terrible shape, but what exactly is the D.C. government trying to hide in there? Several emails obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation through a Freedom of Information Act request show the bureaucratic foot-dragging involved in keeping a reporter out of…
Casey Harper The shooting death of an Illinois police officer that launched a manhunt for the killers is now being called a “carefully staged suicide.” Lt. Joe Gliniewicz of the Fox Lake Police Department radioed in on Sept. 1 that he was chasing three people on foot. He radioed in for backup but police found him…
Jacob Bojesson A British investigation into the Russian plane crash that killed all 224 people onboard in EgyptSaturday reveals it “may well have been brought down by an explosive device,” Downing Street reported Wednesday. A spokesman from Prime Minister David Cameron’s office said it is too early to “categorically say” why the plane crashed, only that…
Casey Harper More than half of black millennials say they have either experienced police harassment or violence, or they know someone who has, according to a study released Wednesday. The survey, first reported by the Associated Press, asked “Have you or anyone you know experienced harassment or violence at the hands of the police?” and 54.4 of black…