The President has announced that the Defense Department will pursue a space-based missile defense system reminiscent of the one proposed by Reagan in 1983. As with Reagan’s ultimately abortive effort, the technology doesn’t actually exist yet and may not for years to come.
View More ‘Star Wars’ returns: Trump calls for space-based missile defenseCategory: Trump
GoFundMe will refund donations to campaign for Trump’s border wall
A GoFundMe campaign launched last month to pay for President Trump’s border wall raised over $20 million from more than 300,000 donors. But that wasn’t nearly enough.
Brian Kolfage assured donors Friday that because the campaign didn’t reach it…
How Trump’s government shutdown is harming cyber and national security
It’s now 18 days since the U.S. government unceremoniously shut down because Congress couldn’t agree on a bill to fund a quarter of all federal departments — including paying their employees. But federal workers are starting to feel the pinch after not getting paid for two weeks, and this will have a knock-on effect to […]
View More How Trump’s government shutdown is harming cyber and national securityHillary Clinton has the best response to Trump’s ‘ridiculous’ speech
Everyone from television host Jimmy Kimmel to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a response to President Trump’s first Oval Office address, in which he described undocumented immigrants as murderers and rapists and made his case for the $5 billion border…
View More Hillary Clinton has the best response to Trump’s ‘ridiculous’ speech5 things Malala Yousafzai wants you to know about being a refugee
Malala Yousafzai captured the world’s attention after she was shot by the Taliban for her advocacy of gender equality. In her latest book, We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World, Yousafzai writes about being forc…
View More 5 things Malala Yousafzai wants you to know about being a refugeeStephen Colbert is back, and had a field day roasting Trump’s government shutdown
Stephen Colbert has returned from a short break, while the U.S. government has not.
So, to catch up, the Late Show host spent ten glorious minutes on Monday night absolutely roasting the president’s now 17-day shutdown of the government, in which…
Jimmy Kimmel gives federal employees work during Trump’s shutdown
It’s Day 17 of the U.S. government shutdown, with Donald Trump refusing to budge on his demand of $5.7 billion to build his border wall, and about to make a prime-time address on the subject on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, nearly 800,000 federal employees…
Another day, another reversal in the stock market
Signs that the Federal Reserve could hold off on further interest rate hikes coupled with a booming jobs report sent stocks on Wall Street surging to close a volatile first trading week for the New Year. After yesterday’s Apple-induced slide, and in the face of economic indicators that signaled a potential slowdown in global and […]
View More Another day, another reversal in the stock marketStock markets suffer their worst Christmas Eve trading day
Twas the last trading day before Christmas, and on the trading floor, Most stocks were falling, and then falling some more, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin all the banks had called, In hopes that full coffers were still in their vaults. Bruising #stock selloff continues, as Treasury sec #Mnuchin tries to calm jittery #markets https://t.co/Ejcurl74nV via […]
View More Stock markets suffer their worst Christmas Eve trading dayPusha T says Kanye West doesn’t wear the ‘MAGA’ hat anymore
Kanye’s embracing of Trump has earned him the wrath of many in the rap and entertainment industry. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Kanye West, Trump, Pusha T, and Make America Great Again
View More Pusha T says Kanye West doesn’t wear the ‘MAGA’ hat anymoreFacebook’s got 99 problems but Trump’s latest “bias” tweet ain’t one
By any measure Facebook hasn’t had the best of years in 2018. But while toxic problems keep piling up and, well, raining acidly down on the social networking giant — from election interference, to fake accounts, faulty metrics, security flaws, ethics failures, privacy outrages and much more besides — the silver lining of having a core […]
View More Facebook’s got 99 problems but Trump’s latest “bias” tweet ain’t one‘Individual-1’ memes are everywhere after prosecutors suggest ‘substantial’ prison time for Cohen
Grab your popcorn. Refill your tea. Individual-1 is getting meme’d.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York filed separate memos recommending “substantial” prison time for Trump’s former law…