State agents have raided the Dallas headquarters of adult classified ad portal Backpage and arrested Chief Executive Officer Carl Ferrer. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that adult and child sex-trafficking victims had been forced
Facebook says it’s working to make virtual reality more social as the industry gets more crowded. With a host of leading tech companies now selling VR products, Facebook’s Oculus division is hoping to distinguish its
Brazilian scientists on Wednesday announced the discovery of what they say is the largest dinosaur ever found in South America’s biggest country. Diogenes Campos, director of Rio de Janeiro’s Earth Sciences Museum, said he named
Juvenile held after Texas special needs boy set on fire 6 October 2016 From the section US & Canada Image copyright YouCaring Image caption Kayden exhibits autistic behaviour, but has not been diagnosed, his mother
It was arguably Hillary Clinton‘s stickiest gaffe. She was speaking at an LGBT gala in New York City. Barbra Streisand had performed earlier. “To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters
President Obama will be commuting 102 additional prison sentences, mostly for drug-related crimes under outdated sentencing laws, the White House announced today. This brings the total of number of commuted sentences to 774 during Obama’s
Former President Bill Clinton may be known as one of the best retail politicians in American politics, but there have been a number of instances where his off-the-cuff remarks have gotten him in trouble. The
Evan McMullin, the long-shot independent presidential candidate, has chosen his running mate — veteran political and digital strategist Mindy Finn. Finn, 35, has worked for former President George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Twitter and Google.
NASA is bracing for its first hurricane without space shuttles to worry about. Now it’s SpaceX and Boeing fretting about hurricane-force wind and equally devastating storm surges. Before the shuttle fleet’s retirement in 2011, rollbacks
Increasingly common tools that allow police to conduct real-time social media surveillance during protests are drawing criticism from civil liberties advocates, who oppose the way some departments have quietly unrolled the technology without community input
