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U.S. lawmakers on Sunday expressed doubts that they could advance legislation to toughen the asylum process for migrants in the next two weeks, as sought by President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence after the administration delayed a planned weekend round of deportations. Democrats signaled they would rather focus on a comprehensive immigration overhaul or measures to fund the asylum process at the border. Republicans, meanwhile, favored legislation to limit asylum options and build Mr. Trump’s proposed border wall. The president underscored the tight timetable [Read More]

A new federally led study of oil seeping from a platform toppled off Louisiana’s coast 14½ years ago found releases lower than other recent estimates, but contradicts the well owner’s assertions about the amount and source of oil. Oil and gas have been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico since a subsea mudslide caused by Hurricane Ivan on Sept. 15, 2004, knocked over a Taylor Energy Co. production platform, which dragged and broke a bundle of well pipes. Taylor capped nine wells but said it [Read More]

A new undercover exposé by Project Veritas reveals that the company is programming its machine learning algorithms in order to avoid the “next Trump situation.”  “We all got screwed over in 2016, again it wasn’t just us, it was, the people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over so we’re rapidly been like, what happened there and how do we prevent it from happening again,” said longtime Google employee and head of “Responsible Innovation,” Jen Gennai.  “We’re also training our algorithms, [Read More]

More than 4 million employees — slightly more than 3% of the U.S. workforce — work from home at least half the time.        Read on The Source

Gold prices resumed a push higher on Monday, as flows into the precious metal continued on improved prospects for easier monetary policy from the Federal Reserve and other central banks. The precious metal “continues to be extremely overbought with short positions staying at their yearly lows and long positions climbing to their highest level since February 2018,” said strategists at Societe Generale, in a note published Monday. “This extreme positioning is likely to linger as [Fed Chairman] Jerome Powell reassured markets about the Fed’s capacity [Read More]