LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Rob Shimshock Displayed with permission from Daily Caller News Foundation Education Secretary Betsy DeVos appointed a student loan CEO Tuesday to head the Federal Student Aid division of the Department of Education. DeVos appointed A. Wayne Johnson, a former Visa and Deloitte executive, as chief operating officer of Federal Student…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White Gov. Jerry Brown asked President Donald Trump for federal funds Friday night to clean up damage a series of deadly storms caused last month that helped end California’s long drought. Brown is asking the White House for $162 million in federal aid to contend with storms that caused…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Richard Pollock Billionaire George Soros in 2016 invested $238 million in 11 oil and gas companies, according to his federal financial filings, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned. The total value of his family-owned Soros Fund Management is estimated at $2.7 billion. He has 207 stocks in this…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Emanuel Lutchman of Rochester, New York was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Thursday, for planning a 2015 New Years Eve machete attack at the behest of the Islamic State. Lutchman fell under the auspices of an American-born ISIS fighter in Syria known as Abu Issa Al…
Listen to TLR’s Podcast! By Steve Birr GOP Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions argued Congress ultimately needs to change federal pot laws if Americans do not want him to crackdown on states’ rights, leaving uncertainty within the marijuana industry. Sessions, who started his confirmation hearing Tuesday for the post of attorney general, is a staunch opponent of…
By Emma Colton President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the interior opposes selling federally-controlled lands back to the states, placing him at odds with some of his Republicans colleagues on the issue. Trump’s choice to run the Department of the Interior, Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, opposes one of the Republican Party’s major planks: transferring public…
by Ted Goodman A congresswoman is going after Chipotle on allegations of wage theft in an an open letter to the Department of Labor. Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro requested federal investigators launch a probe into claims by nearly 10,000 current and former employees that the company did not pay them properly for time worked. The claims were…
Federal Judges Grant Government New Power Over Netflix Use by Josh Guckert Recently, two federal judges ruled that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) covers the sharing of passwords for accounts requiring such a code. In the modern “sharing” economy, with many still lacking requisite income, plenty of Americans engage in some sort of arrangement,…
By Ted Goodman Internet pirates rejoiced Tuesday as a federal judge ruled that IP-addresses did not suffice as evidence of piracy, much to the dismay of a beleaguered Hollywood trying to protect copyright profits. The producers of Adam Sandler’s “The Cobbler” sued Oregon resident Thomas Gonzales in federal court, claiming that he illegally downloaded the film based on the IP tracking. U.S….
In the wake of the United Kingdom’s referendum to leave the European Union, pundits the world over have pondered the future of the influential (and largely economic) coalition of European states. Several of the most powerful remaining of these member-states, however, seem to be wasting no time in charting that future course for themselves. Polish…