Supreme Court: Home-Care Workers Get Overtime
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts signed an order paving the way for two million home-care workers to be eligible for minimum wages and overtime pay.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts signed an order paving the way for two million home-care workers to be eligible for minimum wages and overtime pay.
With China’s foreign exchange reserves falling by $490 billion in the last twelve months, China is on pace to run out of currency reserves in just two years.
The U.S. Department of Justice has offered BP a $20.8 billion settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill that will allow it a $5.35 billion tax windfall.
With 27 percent of student loan borrowers in default, Democrats want to shift blame away from the multi-billion dollar indirect Obamacare tax that is driving interest rates up on student loans.
Security site ‘Palo Alto Networks’ put out a warning that an iOS malware that cleverly can infect “non-jailbroken” Apple devices using enterprise certificates and private APIs has been infecting iPhones for 10 months and could herald a new era of iOS threats.
Saudi Arabian cash reserves are in free-fall due to China’s economic crash driving oil prices down to an average of $45 a barrel and the Kingdom becoming the world’s third largest military spender.
Although Americans were expected to accept Obamacare pushing healthcare premiums up by 6 percent of wages after inflation to cover such important medical procedures such as sex reassignment, it now appears that transgenders are not being served.
President Obama faces a fight in Congress, and opposition from Democrat and Republican presidential candidates, as he revs up his campaign for congressional approval of the deeply-unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal. The deal was finalized Oct. 5 by trade ministers from
Twenty years ago, the volatile Persian Gulf supplied 35 percent of U.S. oil consumption and the left’s so-called experts were screaming that the world had hit the “peak oil” extraction point, after which supply would soon dwindle rapidly.
California Governor Jerry Brown showed his unflinching support for unlimited drone operations by vetoing three bipartisan bills protecting privacy, public safety and education.
The Tesla Model X SUV was introduced earlier this week to rave reviews for its design touches, including rear “falcon-wing” doors that open upward for seven passengers.
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) may restrict colleges from compensating athletes beyond the cost of attendance.
Phelim McAleer, investigative journalist and filmmaker of the new short film Gashoax, sat down with Breitbart News to discuss his rivalry with anti-fracking activist and producer of Gasworks, Josh Fox. McAleer had an outstanding career as a top newspaper investigative journalist with
With faux-science video producer Josh Fox about to release his Gasworks video on Thursday, it appears his incendiary claims will get same-day competition from a new film called Gashoax by Phelim McAleer, the cinematographer who made Frack Nation.
The newly-introduced Samsung Pay is about to crush Apple Pay, because all newer generation Galaxy mobile phones already work with 85 percent of “swipe-style” credit card machines.
The United Farm Workers celebrated in Delano their fiftieth anniversary of their founding over the weekend with red flags waving over a union that has shrunk by 85 percent.
With San Francisco’s local election day approaching, Airbnb and friends have raised more than $8 million to fight tougher restrictions on short-term “vacation rentals.”
Trump’s tax plan is designed to gain Republican support from populations that tend to vote Democrat by eliminating federal income taxes on 61 percent of black and 55 percent of Hispanic couples, while eliminating income taxes on almost 50 percent of millennial women.
The anti-tax group, Americans for Tax Reform, said today that Donald Trump’s tax reform proposal meets its “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” to oppose net tax increases. In this Presidential cycle, Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform got every GOP candidate, except Trump,
Apple reported that it sold over 13 million iPhone 6s and 6s Plus in the launch weekend, beating its 2014 iPhone 6 record by 3 million devices. Wall Street analysts had expected Apple to sell up to 12 million smartphones, because the
Fed Data: Federal Reserve Swindled Trillions From American Savers
California regulators approved a climate change rule on Friday that will push California gasoline prices up to at least an 80 cent premium over the U.S. national average.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that Seattle’s minimum wage does not violate the Constitution or existing laws, despite requiring that franchise businesses start paying a higher minimum wage more quickly than non-franchise small businesses.
China’s President Xi Jinping will sign an agreement to open up China’s rice market to U.S. exports as part of his economic charm offensive this week, after signing a $38 billion aircraft deal with Boeing in Seattle.
A Bay Area company named EnChroma has just released glasses that use multi-notched filters that for the first time can correct the red-green color blindness suffered by 8 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women of Northern European ancestry.
The Obama administration is demanding that minorities again receive preferences to qualify for mortgages–the same policy that helped trigger the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the 2007-8 financial crash.
Warner/Chappell Music will no longer collect about $5,480 per day on royalties for the copyright to “Happy Birthday to You” after federal judge George King ruled Tuesday in Los Angeles that the 1893 lyrics weren’t subject to copyright protection anymore.
The Brookings Institution found that President Obama is using bad data to justify spending an extra $120 billion on “Preschool for All.” Research by the left-leaning think tank discovered that advocates of the policy, which would extend a new entitlement for all low- and
CEO Martin Winterkorn just stepped down as CEO of VW Group after the company admitted that for the last 6 years they had installed sensor “defeat device” software to reduce emissions readings by up to 98 percent in 500,000 diesel-powered cars sold in the United States.
Microsoft has acknowledged that its free Skype Internet-calling, video and text service suffered a worldwide outage on September 20, 2015. The paid business users’ service is reportedly not suffering the same outages.
From fewer than 50 barrels a day in 2009 to 400 barrels today, fracking technology has advanced at a pace that has doubled oil well production every 2 years. That pace of productivity improvement is almost identical to the computer industry’s Moore’s Law, which expects the speed of processing chip to double every 2 years.
The 15 miles that separate Apple and Stanford University now have tech centers for 11 car makers, if you include Apple and Google. Although each company is spending spectacular amounts of money on developing driverless cars, Apple may be about to take the lead by being the first company to gain the state’s DMV permission to test artificial intelligence cars on public roadways.
The Obama Administration’s Dodd-Frank Act, passed early in his first term to supposedly punish Wall Street, has had the adverse effect of actually making billions for Wall Street hedge funds by cutting in half the percentage of Americans that could
A teenage app developer has found a backdoor that opens up the names and e-mail addresses of Kylie Jenner fans who just downloaded her new mobile app.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPQ) announced on Tuesday that the company will cut about 10 percent of its 300,000 member workforce, but appears to be moving “forward” with expanding its use of H1-B foreign immigrant visas.
California picked up an average of about an inch of rain, with some mountain areas collecting 2 inches, as hurricane Linda brought the first of what is expected to be a “tropical train” of El Niño generated and other storms to the West Coast.
California’s office of Environmental Protection issued a “notice of intent” to label Monsanto’s highly effective ‘Roundup’ weed herbicide’s key ingredient glyphosate as a cancer causing compound.
Just weeks after Boeing sold off all the equipment at its 1.1 million square foot Long Beach, CA factory, Europe’s Airbus officially opened in Alabama what the company promises will be the most cost-efficient commercial airliner assembly plant in the world.
Now in the final countdown to the Wednesday, September 16 release of Apple’s mobile iOS 9 and September 30th release of desktop OS X El Capitan, content providers are freaking out revenue loss because the update will feature a “native” built-in ad-blocking extension.
With the two hottest stock markets since the March 9, 2009 bottom being India and the United States, it should not be surprising that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is headed to California’s Silicon Valley to celebrate Indian/American entrepreneurship.