Bank Flagged ‘Suspicious’ Payments To Lobbyist Who Worked With Fusion GPS And Attended Trump Tower Meeting

The bank for Russia-born lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin flagged as suspicious hundreds of thousands of dollars into his account in 2016 and 2017. Akhmetshin worked closely with Fusion GPS in 2016 and was also one of the attendees of the infamous Trump Tower meeting. Akhmetshin worked for Fusion GPS to investigate the lobbyist behind the Magnitsky …

New Zealand Prime Minister Sets Timeline On Stricter Gun Laws In Response To Deadly Mosque Shootings

New Zealand’s prime minister set a timeline for her government to draft stricter gun laws but failed to make concrete proposals after a meeting with her cabinet following Friday’s deadly mosque shootings. “Within 10 days of this horrific act of terrorism we will have announced reforms which will, I believe, make our community safer,” Prime …

DoD Leaders: Partnerships Key to Defeating Terrorists

Owen West, assistant secretary of defense for special operations/low-intensity conflict, and Air Force Maj. Gen. James B. Hecker, the Joint Staff’s vice director of operations, discussed the Defense Department’s counterterrorism approach Wednesday during a House Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington. The 2018 National Defense Strategy spells out how the United States will defend the …

Google Bans Rumsfeld’s Winston Churchill Card Game Because It Shows A Cigar

Google suspended a popular game named after former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill because the game included an image of cigars, according to a Facebook post from the game’s creators. “After going back and forth with Google, we have discovered the issue of Churchill Solitaire’s suspension,” the game’s creators noted in a Thursday post. “Referencing …

How a 1911 Supreme Court Ruling Led to an Investment Opportunity Today

A new trend in the life insurance industry has investors from all levels excited: viatical settlements. What is a viatical settlement? It’s a fancier term that refers to the selling of a life insurance policy to a third party for a cash lump sum, as well as agreeing to pay the premiums for the life …

California Governor Wants National Guard To Help Struggling Pot Industry Instead Of Protecting Borders

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is hoping to pull National Guard troops away from the U.S.-Mexico border to help protect his state’s struggling marijuana industry. Faced with competition from a robust black market, the legal cannabis industry in California has not experienced the growth that supporters had expected. Newsom — who enjoyed hundreds of thousands …

Trump Effect: February Jobs Number Blows Out Expectations

Click:Pyramid tea bag packing machine Private sector jobs rose by 235,000 beating expectations by 40,000 Continues trend of 200k+ jobs growth Jobs continued to grow above analyst expectations in February, according to the newest Moody’s/ADP report. Wall Street economists had expected 195,000 new jobs in the previous month, but the booming economy brought in by …

Navy to Commission Littoral Combat Ship Tulsa

The Navy will commission its newest Independence-variant littoral combat ship, the future USS Tulsa (LCS 16), during a 10 a.m. PST ceremony Saturday, Feb. 16, at Pier 30/32 in San Francisco. U.S. Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma will deliver the commissioning ceremony’s principal address. Kathy Taylor, former mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the ship’s sponsor. …