U.K. Investigators Raid Cambridge Analytica Offices In London Investigators with Britain’s information commissioner searched the London headquarters of Cambridge Analytica on Friday amid reports that the firm harvested the personal data of millions of Facebook users as part of a campaign to influence the U.S. 2016 presidential elections. The move […]
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Mexico Airport Raises $1.6 Billion The group behind Mexico City’s new airport raised $1.6 billion in an initial public offering of Fibra E shares Friday, providing another buffer against threats to shut the endeavor down. Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de Mexico, or GACM, sold 300 million of the securities […]
Half my family is gone’: Mom mourns Iowa family found dead at Mexico resort The only place here large enough to hold the shock and grief engulfing this town will be Southwestern Community College, perhaps in the gymnasium. That’s where mourners will gather for the funeral of a local family […]
The Trash Patch In The Pacific Is Many Times Bigger Than We Thought Between California and Hawaii, there’s a teeming patch of garbage that’s stretched over an area more than double the size of Texas. We already knew it was huge. There’s a reason it’s called the “Great Pacific Garbage […]
Tillerson bids farewell to a ‘mean-spirited town’ Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appealed to State Department employees on Thursday to maintain their integrity and to be kind in a “mean-spirited town” as he bid farewell to the staff he led for barely a year. Tillerson urged a few hundred employees […]
Protest over fatal police shooting delays NBA game in Sacramento Hundreds of protesters formed a human chain across the entrance to a sports arena in downtown Sacramento, Calif., on Thursday evening, in reaction to Sunday’s fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man. The protesters chanted, “Don’t shoot, it’s a […]
Feds tracked Austin bomber after FedEx camera got his plate, congressman says When the Austin bomber went to a FedEx store Sunday to ship two more of his package bombs, he made the mistake of parking within view of a surveillance camera, a US congressman told CNN. The license plate […]
Plastic patch in Pacific Ocean growing rapidly, study shows A collection of plastic afloat in the Pacific Ocean is growing rapidly, according to a new scientific estimate. Predictions suggest a build-up of about 80,000 tonnes of plastic in the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” between California and Hawaii. This figure is […]
EXCLUSIVE: Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee, was in fact an officer of Russia’s military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily Beast has […]
16-year-old girl wounded in Maryland high school shooting to be taken off life support, family says Police are investigating a “prior relationship” between the gunman who wounded two students inside his Maryland high school Tuesday morning and a female victim. The shooter died during a confrontation with a school resource […]
