Although president Donald Trump complains often and loudly about the costs he says immigrants impose on the United States, the numbers show a very different reality.
Delta Air Lines has begun cutting the recline of the coach seats aboard its Airbus A320 jets from 4 inches to 2 inches, to protect the “personal space” of passengers and allow people to work uninterrupted on laptops.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is at a “breaking point” as it faces an “unprecedented humanitarian and border security crisis,” Brian Hastings, CBP’s chief of law enforcement operations, said recently. In February the agency apprehended 76,000 people at the southern border, including 36,000 traveling with family members—the highest number in 12 years. CBP expects to make 150,000 arrests at the southern border in April.
Vladimir Putin’s latest financial disclosure has been posted on the Kremlin website, showing the Russian president earned roughly $135,000 in 2018 from his official salary, a military pension, interest on savings, and investment gains.
Julian Assange’s arrest in the UK came after years of debate over whether the WikiLeaks founder should be afforded the same legal protections in the US as journalists.
Attorney Michael Avenatti became a household name when he represented porn actress Stormy Daniels in a lawsuit against US president Donald Trump. Last year, he even briefly seemed like a presidential hopeful himself. Now, Avenatti no longer represents the actress, and—if he is convicted for the numerous crimes he’s charged with in a new 61-page federal indictment (pdf) by a California grand jury—he won’t ever represent anyone again.
Federal prosecutors say Julian Assange should be sent to the US to answer charges of working with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in 2010 to steal and publish military and diplomatic secrets online.
There are 671 Americans who have filed paperwork to run for president in 2020, 654 of whom you probably haven’t heard of before.
Local governments are rebelling against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown by refusing to hold the growing number of undocumented immigrants in its custody.
The annual cost to the US economy due to “malicious cyber activity” is somewhere between $57 billion and $109 billion, the White House Council of Economic Advisors said in a report last year, citing a study by Accenture and the Ponemon Institute. Each adverse event that hits a public company can shave $338 million off its market cap, according to the council report.
Federal authorities are probing possible Chinese intelligence operations targeting Donald Trump and his private Mar-a-Lago club, according to the Miami Herald. And as former members of the US and Russian intelligence communities tell Quartz, the president’s Palm Beach club provides unprecedented opportunities for spies to glean sensitive information.
The Trump administration has handed out dozens of security clearances to people who didn’t qualify, overruling federal officials who had already denied them access to the nation’s secrets, according to government whistleblower Tricia Newbold.
Donald Trump has praised Linda McMahon, the head of the US Small Business Administration (SBA), as “one of the country’s top female executives”, and reportedly considered her for the top job at the Commerce Department.
Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany went to Eastern Europe on vacation this month, and it cost US taxpayers no less than $23,000.
A US grand jury last week released a 52-count criminal indictment charging two men with illegally smuggling restricted microchips into Russia.
Arrests for violent threats against high-profile US politicians spiked in 2018.
The long-awaited Mueller report seems to have been good for Donald Trump’s reelection chances, according to PredictIt, a political-prediction stock market.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is looking for an Arizona contractor to incinerate marijuana at a rate of 1,000 pounds an hour between March and September, according to a newly issued contracting notice from the DEA’s Houston Division.
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The US Defense Department has revised its description of an initiative designed to use artificial intelligence to give tanks the ability to identify and engage targets on their own.
The grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max following an Ethiopian Airlines crash last week is affecting airlines all over the world—and private owners as well.
People of all faiths are standing with their Muslim neighbors across the world in a public show of support following Friday’s deadly shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, that killed 49 worshipers and left 50 wounded.
The Trump administration is the least transparent in American history, releasing censored files—or none at all—in response to 78% of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests last year, according to a data analysis by the Associated Press.
Employees at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) destroyed records they knew were being audited, a new memo posted to a government database reveals.
