August 3, 2016

Pence Endorses Ryan as Trump Campaign Does Damage Control

The Indiana governor says his running mate "strongly encouraged" him to back the House speaker.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Hillary Clinton Has Raised $100 Million in Increments of $2,700 or More

More than $100 million in donations to Hillary Clinton's campaign has come from donors cutting checks of $2,700 or more despite repeated claims that the campaign relies mostly on small donors.

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Michigan immigrant population growth outpaces national rate

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A new report says Michigan's immigrant population grew by roughly 10 percent between 2010 and 2014, helping to mitigate the state's broader population loss and the effects of the Great Recession.

The influx of 60,000 foreign-born residents during that period, a 10.2 percent increase, outpaced the ...

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Obama Shortens Sentences For 56 Federal Prisoners With Gun Convictions

Commutes sentences for 214 federal convicts

Via: The Daily Caller

Owlchemy Labs nabs $5 million to keep on building crazy VR games

Screen Shot 2016-08-03 at 11.49.15 AM Austin-based VR studio Owlchemy Labs just secured a $5 million Series A led by Qualcomm Ventures with participation in the round also coming from HTC, The VR Fund, Colopl Next and Capital Factory. "VR has been a deep passion of ours for many years and being at the forefront of designing new virtual worlds is truly a dream for our whole team," Owlchemy Labs CEO Alex Schwartz said… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Texas Agrees to Looser Voter ID Rules for November Election

Texas has agreed to let registered voters without proper photo identification vote in the November presidential election if they can provide voter registration cards, certified birth certificates, utility bills, government checks, pay stubs or bank statements with their names and addresses on them.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Mr. Trump's Wild Ride

(Steven Hayward) If Donald Trump's political odyssey were analogized to a roller-coaster ride, it would be the greatest theme-park thrill ride of all time, with more vertigo-inducing loop-to-loops, sudden stomach-grabbing plunges, and dizzying ascents before a new cycle, all producing more screams, howls, and terror than Jurassic Park crossed with The Shining. ("Heeeere's Donny!") A year into this thrill ride, and I still can't figure out whether Trump is a genius (Conrad

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Carson: Khan Family Should Apologize to Trump

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Prosecutors: State lawmaker planned to profit from tax hike

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - As Tennessee lawmakers raised cigarette taxes to 62 cents per pack in 2007, one veteran representative wanted even more, saying it "should have been a dollar."

Prosecutors say that was part of Rep. Joe Armstrong's elaborate scheme not to raise revenue or curb smoking rates but ...

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With 10,000 smartscooters sold, Gogogo powers up a rental service with Bosch in Berlin

Gogoro's electric smartscooter is pretty snazzy… but unless you live in Taiwan, chances are you haven't actually seen one in person. The scooters require a network of battery-swapping terminals to work as intended, so they're shipping out one country at a time — and so far, "one country at a time" means "one country": Taiwan. That changes… Read More

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Obama's ransom payment

(Paul Mirengoff) The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Obama administration secretly airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran in January at the same time Tehran was releasing four jailed Americans. The Journal, citing U.S. and European officials and congressional sources, says that Team Obama procured the money from central banks in Switzerland and the Netherlands. Reportedly, it was stacked on wooden pallets and flown to Tehran in an unmarked cargo

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Backlash in Kansas ousts at least 11 conservative lawmakers

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A top Senate leader and at least 10 other conservative Kansas legislators have lost their seats as moderate Republicans made GOP primary races a referendum on education funding and the state's persistent budget woes.

Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce was among the lawmakers ousted amid a ...

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New group supporting immigration reform holds NC event

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A new organization supporting immigration reform is announcing its plans and data about the contributions of immigrants to North Carolina.

Supporters of the Reason for Reform campaign will discuss their plans Wednesday at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh. The event will feature Ann Robertson of ...

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Bitcoin drops 20% after $70M worth of Bitcoin was stolen from Bitfinex exchange

branding-bitcoin Bitfinex, one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges online, has suffered a major hack. The company has posted a note on their website detailing the security breach, and while it doesn't mention a total amount, one of their employees confirmed on Reddit that the total amount stolen was 119,756 bitcoins.   That amount converts to about $77,000,000 based on a price of $650 USD… Read More

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Judge Trump Accused Of Bias Gives Him Small Win In Trump U Case

Videotaped depositions won't be released

Via: The Daily Caller

August 2, 2016

HP's Whitman Says She'll Donate to Clinton to Stop Trump: NYT

Hewlett Packard Enterprise's CEO Meg Whitman says she'll support Hillary Clinton for president and give a "substantial" contribution to her campaign to stop Donald Trump, NYT reports. "I will vote for Hillary, I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her, and I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her," Whitman says in telephone interview with NYT NOTE: Whitman backed Republican Chris Christie before he ended his 2016 presidential bid; then said Christie's endorsement

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Black Lives Matter: from a lie to a revolution

(Paul Mirengoff) The Black Lives Matter movement emerged as a force just about a year ago, following the killing of Ferguson, Missouri thug Michael Brown by a white police officer who was defending himself. The movement was predicated on a lie, namely that Brown was murdered without justification after he declared "hands up don't shoot." The Obama Justice Department would demonstrate the falsity of this claim. The larger lie behind the Black

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Trigger-Happy North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile

'This provocation only serves to increase the international community's resolve'

Via: The Daily Caller

Navigating mobile content with app streaming

too-many-apps-fb People are very comfortable streaming movies, TV, music, video games and more. However, the idea of streaming apps on mobile devices, for better or worse, has lagged far behind. Increasingly, however, people are becoming sick of downloading apps; they want content and services instantly. App streaming is relatively new, but has the potential to transform how we engage with mobile content. Read More

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Pence Tries to Calm Outrage as Trump Continues to Court Controversy

The vice presidential nominee and his running mate show off very different styles on the campaign trail.

Source: Bloomberg Politics