Month: December 2019

Last year, California passed a landmark privacy law that gives consumers more control over their data. The legislation gives residents unprecedented rights to control what information companies collect on them and how it is used. The California Consumer Privacy Act will go into action 1 January 2020, giving residents of the state a whole new…

Associated Press On December 18, the US House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump, charging him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress related to the Ukraine scandal. The Senate plans to hold a historic trial in January to determine whether to remove Trump from office. Given the current partisan makeup of the Senate,…

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) claimed on Sunday’s broadcast of State of the Union that there are no “substantive rules” when it comes to holding an impeachment trial and that the Constitution doesn’t provide much guidance to the Senate. CNN anchor Jake Tapper noted that Kennedy had previously said his objective in President Donald Trump’s impeachment…

Lawyers for Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy GIuliani arrested with partner Igor Fruman in October, announced Monday that they have sought a judge’s permission to hand documents and the contents of Parnas’ iPhone over to the House Intelligence Committee for use in its impeachment inquiry. Giuliani is President Trump’s personal lawyer, and Parnas and…

US embassy staff and the US ambassador in Baghdad have been evacuated, according to two unnamed Iraqi Foreign Ministry officials cited by Reuters, as hundreds of Iraqi protesters swam the embassy compound. Iraqi supporters of a powerful Iranian-backed militia were attacking the outside of the fortified zone that surrounds the US embassy compound in Baghdad,…

Bureau of Meteorology, Victoria The Australia bushfires are generating “pyrocumulonimbus” clouds, which create their own thunderstorms that can start more fires. Here’s how the process works and why it’s so dangerous. Visit Insider.com for more stories. The bushfires in Australia are now so big that they are generating their own weather, in the form of…

CHICAGO (AP) — Retailers legally selling marijuana for the past month in Michigan say they have drawn customers from surrounding Midwestern states where the drug remains illegal and, as Illinois prepares to joins the recreational market on Wednesday, officials are renewing warnings to consumers against carrying such products over state lines. The dynamic is familiar…

Houston (AFP) – Worshippers in the US state of Texas shot dead a gunman who opened fire during a livestreamed Sunday service, ending an attack that killed two parishioners, authorities said. The latest US shooting at a house of worship took place in the suburban Fort Worth community of White Settlement on Sunday morning when…

Iraqi supporters of an Iranian-backed militia on Tuesday stormed the US embassy compound in Baghdad and set it partly aflame during a rowdy demonstration that has raised tensions between Tehran and Washington. The protesters broke down the US embassy gate door and managed to make their way into the security kiosk at the entrance of…

Dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday, smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area, prompting tear gas and sounds of gunfire, angered over deadly U.S. airstrikes targeting the Iran-backed militia. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw flames rising…