An Amazon Echo Recorded a Family’s Private Conversation and Sent It to Some Random Person
Don’t mind that giant internet-connected recording device on your kitchen table.Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In case you needed another reminder that Amazon’s Echo, an internet-connected recording device designed to listen and respond to verbal commands, can pose security and privacy risks for you…
The Kentucky House Majority Leader Wrote a Bill to Cut Teachers’ Pensions. A Teacher Just Beat Him at the Polls.
Travis Brenda, a teacher at Rockcastle County High School, defeated Jonathan Shell in a state House Republican primary on Tuesday. Wade Payne/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Kentucky passed a plan this spring that threatened the pensions of its future educators, thousands of teachers rallied outside the statehouse in…
This 70-Year-Old Republican Mayor Wants to Prove That His Small Southern Town Can Go Green
Abita Springs residents celebrate the commitment to 100% clean energy at Abita Springs Earth Fest 2017.George Long Photography Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last year, Mayor Greg Lemons counted every single street light in Abita Springs, Louisiana, and found there were 256. If his town of about 2,900 residents switched over to solar-powered lamps and LED…
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown is a Boom Time for Private Prisons
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hardline immigration policies put in place by President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have inspired more than just fear and panic in immigrant communities—they’ve also inspired investors in private prisons. In the week following the 2016 election, stock prices for the country’s two biggest…
Stop It. Stefan Halper Wasn’t Spying on Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Why is Donald Trump using the word SPY every ten minutes or so even though there’s zero evidence that Stefan Halper was spying in any normal definition of the word? A friend of Trump explains: Trump told one ally this week that he wanted “to…
We Don’t have a Retirement Crisis. We Have a Young People Crisis.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The St. Louis Fed published a short note today comparing the net worth of millennials in 2016 vs. Gen Xers in 2001. Here it is: Today’s millennials have fewer assets and more debt, and their net worth is therefore considerably lower than Gen Xers at…