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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett Three-quarters of Venezuela’s population lost at least 19 pounds amid serious food shortages last year, according to new research. A 2016 living conditions survey called Encovi conducted on 6,500 Venezuelan families found that 32.5 percent eat only once or twice a day. That’s about three times higher than…
Audrey Conklin The U.S. imposed a 15% tariff Sunday on Chinese imports valued at $111 billion in 2018 including tools, apparel, footwear and electronics, The Wall Street Journal reported. An second 15% tariff on $156 billion worth of Chinese smartphones, laptops, toys, video games, among other things, will be implemented on Dec. 15, according to WSJ. “Tariffs…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Today on Twitter, conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos released a resignation statement, officially stepping down from his senior editing role at Breitbart News and continuing a firestorm sell-off of his brand since a video surfaced in which he appears to defend pedophilia. Following the release of the video, Yiannopoulos has been uninvited from…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jack Crowe White House press secretary Sean Spicer resigned Friday over concerns that he would be expected to cover newly appointed communications director Anthony Scaramucci’s duties, in addition to his responsibilities as press secretary. Spicer resigned after objecting to Scaramucci’s Friday appointment, a source that witnessed the exchange told the New York Times….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read Holdovers from the Obama administration in the Pentagon are hampering efforts to fix the military’s major readiness problem, leaving Secretary of Defense James Mattis alone in his efforts to properly equip U.S. forces, according to the chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services. “I am concerned…
Peter Hasson The Washington Post passed on a thinly sourced, unproven allegation about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh before the New York Times published it in a misleading article in Sunday’s paper that has since been corrected. Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly left out exculpatory evidence in an article that claimed Kavanaugh had…
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