The rise of the violent left

Since 1907, Portland, Oregon, has hosted an annual Rose Festival. Since 2007, the festival had included a parade down 82nd Avenue. Since 2013, the Republican Party of Multnomah County, which includes Portland, had taken part. This April, all of that changed. In the days leading up to the planned parade, a group called the Direct Action […]

Holocaust Memorial in Boston is vandalized for second time this summer

A Massachusetts teenager has been charged with vandalizing a Holocaust memorial in Boston, in what the city’s police commissioner called a “senseless and shameful” act, particularly after the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va. The Boston Police Department said the suspect, a 17-year-old from Malden, around six miles north of Boston, was seen on Monday night by witnesses […]

Suspected assassination plot against Marco Rubio by Venezuelan politician: Report

A Venezuelan politician may have ordered a plot to assassinate Florida Senator Marco Rubio last month, according to a memo disseminated to law enforcement sources from the Department of Homeland Security. Out of precaution, Rubio has had an increased security detail since details of the threat emerged, according to the Miami Herald. He was seen […]

SpaceX set to deliver ‘supercomputer’ to the International Space Station for testing

One of the largest challenges a human mission to deep space would face would be the inevitable communications delay caused by the vast distances between Mission Control on Earth, and the spacecraft carrying the crew.  During the Apollo missions, in which American astronauts visited the moon, that communications delay was only around 1.3 seconds each […]

Hate site being shut down over disparaging article about Charlottesville attack victim

The extremist hate group site “The Daily Stormer” has been given a 24-notice to move its content to a different web host after posting a story critical of a woman killed this weekend during the unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia. The current web host, GoDaddy, issued a statement via Twitter saying that the Daily Stormer had violated […]

Lockheed Martin secures $8 billion logistic support contract for U.S. Special Operations

On Friday, Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon announced that the security and aerospace company has successfully secured an $8 billion U.S. Defense contract to serve as global logistics support for America’s Special Operations Forces. It is not uncommon for the U.S. military to rely on contracts with private sector organizations for support services like warehouse […]