Pengilly’s quick expulsion due to admission of guilt: IOC The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday denied double standards in the expulsion of the most vocal critic in the Russian doping affair from the Pyeongchang Olympics, saying British IOC member Adam Pengilly had admitted his guilt. Pengilly was ordered home […]
Google to acquire Xively IoT platform from LogMeIn for $50M Google announced today that it intends to buy Xively from LogMeIn for $50 million, giving Google Cloud an established IoT platform to add to their product portfolio. In a blog post announcing the acquisition, Google indicated it wants to use […]
EU tells Facebook, Google and Twitter to do more for users Europe’s justice commissioner told Facebook (FB.O), Twitter (TWTR.N) and Google (GOOGL.O) on Thursday to do more to bring their user terms in line with EU law, ramping up pressure on the tech giants after their efforts were deemed too […]
Hackers stole $6 million in attack on SWIFT system, Russian central bank says Unknown hackers stole 339.5 million rubles ($6 million) in an attack on the SWIFT international payments messaging system in Russia last year, the Russian central bank said on Friday. The disclosure, buried at the bottom of a […]
Inaugural committee directed $26M for event services to firm connected to Melania Trump adviser President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee paid $26 million for event production services to a firm connected to a friend of first lady Melania Trump, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who serves as a volunteer adviser in the East […]
EPA Says Scott Pruitt Flies First Class Because Angry People Yell At Him Too Much Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt frequently flies in first and business class because he’s regularly confronted by angry members of the public during his travels, according to a report in Politico on Thursday. The […]
Senate’s Renewed Push for Sentencing Overhaul Hits a Familiar Roadblock A bipartisan group of senators pushing to revive legislation that would bring sweeping changes to federal sentencing laws cleared a key hurdle on Thursday, but the effort appeared likely to stall once again. Advocates of criminal justice overhaul from both […]
Obama ran out of words on mass shootings. Trump has struggled to find them. As he heads to Florida this weekend, President Trump is following in the footsteps of former president Barack Obama, a man he disparages and a leader whose time in office in many ways came to be […]
Immigration bills fail in Congress, leaving ‘dreamers’ in limbo Weeks of intense negotiations for a bipartisan deal on immigration collapsed in Congress on Thursday, leaving hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants facing possible deportation. The rejection of four proposals in the Senate, coupled with a lack of consensus in […]
House GOP pushes hardline immigration plan as Senate deals fail House GOP leaders are forging ahead with their own hardline immigration bill, as the Senate threw in the towel Thursday on legislation to protect hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants from deportation. The main author of the House bill, […]
