Category: US Politics

‘Radical Islamic terrorism’: Three words that separate Trump from most of Washington

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump appeared to revel in his forceful use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism,” even when his critics grimaced. Not one to be easily deterred, Trump continued his use of the phrase from the earliest moments of his presidency when he promised to eradicate the threat of radical Islamic terrorism “from the face of the earth” during his inauguration speech.

‘Radical Islamic terrorism’: Three words that separate Trump from most of Washington

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump appeared to revel in his forceful use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism,” even when his critics grimaced. Not one to be easily deterred, Trump continued his use of the phrase from the earliest moments of his presidency when he promised to eradicate the threat of radical Islamic terrorism “from the face of the earth” during his inauguration speech.

Trump to skip White House Correspondentsa Association dinner

President Donald Trump, who has been criticizing the news media and is famously thin-skinned, says he won’t be attending the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner – sparing himself the dubious honor of being an in-the-house target of jokes. The annual fundraiser for college scholarships and venue for reporting awards mixes politicians, journalists and celebrities and is typically attended by the president and first lady.

John Legend’s ‘hilarious’ Twitter hacker

A number of messages were posted on the 38-year-old star’s micro-blogging page, which took aim at US President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but John saw the funny side of the now-deleted posts. He took to Instagram to write: “My twitter has been hacked.

7 things to know now: New planets; SpaceX, Powerball, CPAC

Capt. David Bursten of the Indiana State Police is joined by law enforcement officials from numerous departments to provide the latest details of the investigation into the murders of Liberty German and Abigail Williams on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, at Delphi United Methodist Church in Delphi, Ind. German, 14, Williams, 13, were murdered last week while hiking the High Bridge Trail just east of Delphi.

Higgins celebrates Buffalo & Niagara Falls students making history in latest NASA launch

Congressman Brian Higgins welcomed Buffalo and Niagara Falls students back to Western New York following a trip to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to witness their work blast up to the International Space Station during a launch on Sunday, Feb. 19. “It is exciting to see the incredible creativity of local students recognized nationally,” Higgins said. “This is a real-life demonstration of the critical role the arts and sciences play in education.

Atlanta and other cities eye test tracks for self-driving cars

Self-driving vehicles could begin tooling down a bustling Atlanta street full of cars, buses, bicyclists and college students, as the city vies with other communities nationwide to test the emerging technology. Atlanta would become one of the largest urban areas for testing self-driving vehicles if plans come together for a demonstration as early as September.

Blumenthal signals WiFi access for VA hospital

Patients at the U.S. Veterans Administration Medical Center here will soon have access to WiFi, at the urging of U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal . Blumenthal had urged VA officials to provide access after hearing from a Marine veteran and writer who was being treated for leukemia at the West Haven hospital , who felt the lack of Wi-Fi impeded his recovery and resulted in social isolation.

Atlanta, other cities eye test tracks for self-driving cars

Self-driving vehicles could begin tooling down a bustling Atlanta street full of cars, buses, bicyclists and college students, as the city vies with other communities nationwide to test the emerging technology. Atlanta would become one of the largest urban areas for testing self-driving vehicles if plans come together for a demonstration as early as September.

The Impeachment Of Hillary Clinton

February 20 – House Judiciary Chair Bob Goodlatte announced today that the impeachment proceeding against President Hillary Clinton would proceed directly to a vote of the full House. “We know everything we need to know,” said Goodlatte.

Big Brother in the U.K.

The United Kingdom’s Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority is not part of an agency tasked with fighting terrorism. It’s a licensing body that “regulates businesses who provide workers to the fresh produce supply chain and horticulture industry, to make sure they meet the employment standards required by law,” according to its mission statement.

GOP Plots To Clip NASA Wings As It Tweets Climate Change Updates

NASA continues to steadfastly tweet urgent climate change information despite a critical president and GOP efforts to force the agency to stick to space and forget the Earth. The Trump administration aims to largely restrict NASA to focus on its space missions and abandon climate change research, which is a part of its Earth Sciences Division.

GOP Plots To Clip NASA Wings As It Tweets Climate Change Updates

NASA continues to steadfastly tweet urgent climate change information despite a critical president and GOP efforts to force the agency to stick to space and forget the Earth. The Trump administration aims to largely restrict NASA to focus on its space missions and abandon climate change research, which is a part of its Earth Sciences Division.

Code Load On Cyber Coolies

The alarm bells may have started ringing a little too soon. Indian infotech firms like Infosys began losing the confidence of shareholders last month when bills proposing changes to the H-1B visa programme, which allows nearly 1.5 million skilled Indians to work in the US, were tabled in Congress.

High school students to launch biology research into space

Govs. Mark Dayton of Minnesota and Dennis Daugaard… Addressing position needs this recruiting class was what Nebraska did with this recruiting class, and linebacker Andrew Ward fits that bill. Ward is a three-star linebacker ac… While his feud with New York Knicks owner James Dolan continues, Charles Oakley will suit up in the newly founded 3-on-3 league founded by rapper/entertaine… — President Trump is spending his third consecutive weekend away from Washington, D.C., at his luxury resort Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

Why one senator is quizzing Yellen about robots taking U.S. jobs

To say Sen. Heidi Heitkamp didn’t like the answer she received from Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen on the issue of automation taking away jobs is a bit of an understatement. Heitkamp, a North Dakota Democrat who sits on the Senate Banking Committee, asked Yellen at a hearing Tuesday about whether the central bank has studied the issue – she referenced a Bank of England study that showed up to 80 million U.S. jobs at risk – and how to draw attention to it.

When Play Drives Progress

At the 1996 Republican convention, Newt Gingrich gave what the editors of The Weekly Standard condemned as “the worst and most embarrassing speech of his career.” Pulling Olympic gold medalist Kent Steffes up on stage, the speaker of the House and leader of the Republican Revolution sang the praises of the unplanned creativity that had produceda beach volleyball.

NASA bets big on private sector to put humans on Mars

NASA will continue tapping the private sector to fund space exploration efforts under President Trump , marking a continuation in policy that first began under former president Barack Obama . “Public-private partnerships are the future of space exploration,” Dava Newman, a former NASA deputy administrator who resigned before Trump took office, told CNBC on Monday.

Whistleblower Links NOAA Study to Climate Treaty Agendas

Former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist Dr. John Bates has gone on record that the organization knowingly released “unverified” global temperature data in violation of rules on scientific integrity which Bates had received a 2014 U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal for devising. Dr. Bates told the U.K.’s Daily Mail that a politically sensationalized 2015 NOAA “Karl study” published in the journal Science was blatantly intended to influence policy agendas favored by the Obama administration at the 2015 Paris climate conference.

Navarrette: Will DeVos threaten power of teachers unions?

What do you suppose would happen if an education reform advocate who spent decades throwing bricks at the public school system from the outside suddenly became the ultimate insider: secretary of education? Well, much to the horror of self-serving teachers unions that sprinkle money throughout the Democratic Party to protect the status quo and make sure the interests of students who attend public schools don’t interfere with those of the grown-ups who work there, we’re about to find out.

The Man. The Myth. The Moustache.

When John Stossel was diagnosed with lung cancer in April, he announced it in the most characteristic way possible: He dashed off a column from his hospital bed with a quickie economic analysis of why nurses don’t care when your out-of-date heart monitor beeps all night long. Stossel, 69, is now cancer-free and ready to move on to the next thing.

10 Things to Know for Today

This Feb. 4, 2017 photo released by NBC shows Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump in the opening sketch of “Saturday Night Live,” in New York. With the return of John Oliver to HBO and Alec Baldwin’s guest hosting slot on “Saturday Night Live,” this is shaping up like a big weekend for late-night’s treatment of the new president.

Lunar eclipse

Prod the kids outside, give them hot chocolate and gaze toward the moon in the east. Enjoy the evening penumbral lunar eclipse on Friday.

Is Trump Tweeting From a ‘Secure’ Smartphone? The White House Won’t Say

For some time, the public has known that Donald Trump does a lot of his tweeting himself, from the account @realDonaldTrump, and from an Android smartphone. But many cybersecurity experts believed that would change once Trump took the oath of office, because White House-approved communication devices are much more secured – and stripped down – than the smartphones the rest of us use.