“When you look at your phone it'll shoot thousands of lasers straight into your pores, then it sucks your soul like Dementor. Thank you for your life juice.”
'A $1000 emoji machine.' The best new iPhone X parody video so far.
This smart dog is so excited to go on a walk with his human
Hydraulic press vs. Coke
Did Equifax execs sell stock before data breach news broke because they knew? U.S. Senators want to know
Two influential members of the U.S. Senate today demanded answers from Equifax on the recent massive data breach that affected 143 million Americans.
Hurricane Irma turned these green Caribbean islands brown
These NASA images of Hurricane Irma churning across the Atlantic Ocean show “widespread browning of the landscape,” as winds devastated several Caribbean islands before moving on to the Florida Keys and the U.S. mainland. Read the rest
'I will get Putin on this… we will get Donald elected,' emailed Trump's Mafia-linked ally Felix Sater in 2015
Felix Sater, a longtime business associate of Donald Trump with organized crime ties, promised in a 2015 email to “engineer a real estate deal with the aid of the president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, that he said would help Mr. Trump win the presidency,” reports the New York Times today.
Whole Foods lowers some prices as much as 43% and starts selling Echo on first day under Amazon
“Whole Paycheck” no more. Today is Whole Foods' first day as an official part of Amazon.com, which bought the grocery chain for $13.7 billion. Around the country this week, prices at Whole Foods Markets are down a third or more on some of the more popular produce items like avocados and apples, no doubt part of Amazon's plan to rid the chain of its bad rep for high prices.
Harvey hits hard, TX governor issues mandatory evacuations as 'catastrophic flood' risks loom
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas just gave an update on the impact of Harvey, formerly a category 4 hurricane, and now a tropical storm that made landfall near Corpus Christi late Friday night. There are no confirmed storm fatalities yet. At this time, 338,000 power outages are reported across the state. The governor is issuing a mandatory evacuation order for central parts of Texas.
Trump pardons Joe Arpaio
President Donald J. Trump today pardoned the lawless racist and former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. He was found guilty of criminal contempt in a case about racial profiling. Of course he was Trump's first pardon.
North Korea fires 'several' ballistic missiles into Sea of Japan, reports South Korean military
North Korea has launched what is likely to be multiple short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast into the Sea of Japan, according to South Korea's military.
Mueller investigating Flynn's role in seeking Clinton's stolen emails to help Trump campaign
Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team of investigators are looking into whether former Trump cabinet member Mike Flynn may have been part of an effort to get a hold of Hillary Clinton’s emails, hacked by Russia.
This video of a 360º hand-crafted flipbook of Mt. Fuji will take your breath away
Ex-CIA Dir. Brennan: I briefed Congress on Russian election interference, they didn't get 'importance and gravity'
Former CIA Director John Brennan sent an internal memo to CIA employees last December in which he said some of the members of Congress he'd briefed on the CIA's conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections did not “understand and appreciate the importance and gravity of the issue.”
Hurricane Harvey could be strongest storm to hit U.S. in over a decade, and a first for Trump's FEMA
#HurricaneHarvey could hit landfall late Friday night along the Texas coast as a Category 3 hurricane.
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Top Trump aide emailed campaign officials about proposed contact with Putin
Congressional investigators looking into connections between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections have found an email from a senior Trump aide that references “a previously unreported effort to arrange a meeting last year between Trump campaign officials and Russian President Vladimir Putin,” CNN reports.
Yet another Russian ambassador turns up dead, this time in a swimming pool
Mirgayas Shirinskiy (photo) is the fourth senior Russian diplomat to “unexpectedly” die this year under.
