President Donald Trump on Thursday ditched his “boring” prepared remarks at a tax roundtable in West Virginia, and instead repeated his claim that “millions” of people are voting illegally and boasted that he was right about the threat of Mexican rapists.
A group that is suing Harvard University is demanding that it publicly release admissions data on hundreds of thousands of applicants, saying the records show a pattern of discrimination against Asian-Americans going back decades.
[....] While the dairy industry nationwide is in the grip of an economic crisis — fueled by decreasing demand as customers turn to milk alternatives — the picture is particularly bleak in New York where dairy sales represent about half of total farm sales every year.
[....] Devyn Holmes is on life support at a Houston-area hospital with a gunshot wound to the head, the result of a clip posted on Facebook Sunday morning where people in a car were handling two handguns.
The Trump administration said it will place a 25% tariff on electronic touch screens, iron and steel plates, medical devices, aircraft parts, batteries and other products to penalize China for its trade practices https://t.co/ve1SvHhyTJ
The president declared ‘it is time’ to bring U.S. forces in Syria home. At nearly the same moment, his top diplomat and general for the region said, ‘that mission isn’t over.’
One by one, the buses pulled up to the Orange County Hall of Administration last week carrying posters with messages such as "No Tent City" and "No Homeless in Irvine." Many of the hundreds on board were immigrants, and this would be their first experience joining a political protest.
"We do have reason to believe ... that the crash was intentional. This is all based on preliminary information," said Greg Baarts, Acting Assistant Chief for CHP, Northern Division.
"Russian ships are skulking around underwater communications cables, causing the U.S. and its allies to worry the Kremlin might be taking information warfare to new depths," AP's Deb Riechmann reports.
[....] “The short answer is that the exit polls are wrong,” Matthew DeBell, a senior scholar at Stanford’s Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, emailed me. He continued:
A US government effort to fight online sex trafficking has cleansed many sites of personal ads and consensual eroticism, in a shift advocates say amounts to dangerous censorship. (Already having a major effect, article gets into examples.)
Fascinating because this guy, Chinese historian Shen Zhihua, is a real old school Commie party member, and still very much a believer, yet also a "bon vivant" gentleman and scholar who believes the truth shall set them free, at 68 survived through it all with onty a 2-yr. prison stint.
PRAGUE — A Russian man accused of hacking the systems of three American technology companies in 2012, possibly compromising the personal information of more than 100 million users, was extradited to the United States from the Czech Republic on Friday.
