Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories
May 26, 2016
Reaganomics Band Gets Back Together to Advise Trump
Donald Trump the real estate developer owes much of his fame to the 1980s. Now Donald Trump the presidential candidate is going back to that decade to call on President Ronald Reagan's economic team.
Source: Bloomberg Politics
Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round; leaked pitch deck reveals revenues, user numbers
Earlier this week, we reported that the messaging app startup Snapchat was raising more money. Now we have more updates for you. An SEC filing is coming through today with information about Snapchat's latest Series F round, in which it has raised $1.8 billion. Separately, we've also obtained a leaked pitch deck, revealing Snapchat's revenue and forecasts. The Los… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
DuPont, Dow Getting What They Asked For: Tougher EPA Oversight
Congress is about to send President Barack Obama the biggest overhaul of rules governing chemicals in four decades, a change sought by an industry that has faced a hodgepodge of retailer bans, consumer boycotts and state regulations.
Source: Bloomberg Politics
Transportation Security Opportunism
The union representing TSA workers entered negotiations with the agency that are more focused on allowing workers to wear shorts than the staffing levels it now claims are responsible for wait times that have caused thousands of passengers to miss their flights.
The post Transportation Security Opportunism appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Source: Washington Free Beacon
Pro-Trump Hispanics face ridicule from friends and family
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Hispanic voters in Florida, New Mexico and California have waved Mexican flags and bashed Donald Trump piñatas - clashing with police, at times - to protest the Republican presidential contender's hard line approach to immigration.
Yet far from the protests, an increasingly vocal Hispanic minority is ...
New fantasy sports app SportsHero raises $2.4M ahead of planned Australia IPO
SportsHero is a new app that lets sports fans dabble in match predictions and show their skills off against friends and other game-watchers. The app is made by the team behind Singapore-based TradeHero, a virtual trading app backed by more than $10 million from investors, and it launched officially this week. Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Nuclear-free aspirations of Obama, Abe conflict with reality
TOBA, Japan (AP) - There is the soaring rhetoric. And then there's the messy reality.
When U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe make a historic visit to Hiroshima - the first time a sitting U.S. president has visited the site of the first atomic bomb attack ...
HP unveils a bunch of new Omen gaming hardware
To be fair, an omen isn't necessarily a portent of negative things. If it was, we wouldn't feel obligated to qualify it using words like "bad." Still, the word carries with it some fairly ominous overtones, surely not helped by the 1979 film that carried the title, centering around a young antichrist. And if HP is attempting to leave things open to interpretation… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Peter Thiel: The Hero We Need Right Now
About eight-and-a-half years ago, the folks at Gawker made a big to-do about outing a libertarian tech billionaire named Peter Thiel. According to Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker, Thiel "was so paranoid that, when I was looking into the story, a year ago, I got a series of messages relaying the destruction that would rain down on me, and various innocent civilians caught in the crossfire, if a story ever ran."
Yesterday we learned the form of the destructor that Thiel chose: Hulk Hogan.
The post Peter Thiel: The Hero We Need Right Now appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Source: Blog – Washington Free Beacon
Police: 1 Dead, 3 Wounded Ahead of Rapper T.I.'s Concert in New York City
No arrests were made.
Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories
Sanders Says 'I Look Forward' to Debating Trump in California
"Game on. I look forward to debating Donald Trump in California before the June 7 primary," Bernie Sanders says in Twitter post. NOTE: Trump Tells Kimmel He'd be Willing to Debate Sanders for Charity: CBS NOTE: Earlier, Sanders Says If Elected, He'll Make Democratic Party 'Wide Open'
Source: Bloomberg Politics
These Scandalous Women Will Make Anybody A Boxing Fan [SLIDESHOW]
These photos are scandalous
Via: The Daily Caller
Judge Nap Says There's Now 'Ample Evidence' to Indict Clinton Over Her Email Scandal
"This shows intent."
Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories
'We Are Praying for An Early Monsoon': It's So Hot in India, The Streets Are Melting
"There's absolutely no water."
Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories
Report: Hillary Clinton Met Terry McAuliffe's Mysterious Chinese Donor At Her New York Home
Clinton and Wang shook hands at fundraiser!
Via: The Daily Caller
Sherpa, a Spanish-language AI-based personal assistant, raises $6.5M
We've seen a big rise of apps and bots, and a lot of them have something in common besides being based on artificial intelligence and machine learning: they are written for English-speaking users. Now one of the more interesting personal assistant apps written primarily for Spanish speakers is announcing funding. Sherpa, a personal assistant app based out of Spain, has raised $6.5… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Trump: Jeb Bush Will Get a 'Burst of Energy' and Endorse Me
"I appreciate that many of the people I competed against have now endorsed me."
Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories
May 25, 2016
Sanders Says If Elected, He'll Make Democratic Party 'Wide Open'
"When I'm elected president, we're going to open the Democratic Party wide open," Bernie Sanders says at rally in Lancaster, Calif. Tells supporters: "I want each of you to march right in and make it clear that the Democratic Party is on the side of working people, not Wall Street" NOTE: Sanders has recently targeted DNC for favoring Hillary Clinton in party's presidential primary process; see related story
Source: Bloomberg Politics
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