Reason “We had…championship mountain climbers” who couldn’t get over bolstered 30-foot border fencing, President Donald Trump told Fox News in September. No one, he said, could scale the structure. A viral …
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An L.A. divorce lawyer named Bert Spitz (Alan Alda) is commiserating with a new client named Charlie Barber (Adam Driver). Charlie’s wife Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) has left him, and he …
In an age where wokeness matters above all, comedian and talk show host Chelsea Handler is trying to scrub her unsavory comedic past with a Netflix documentary. In Hello, Privilege. It’s …
A former San Diego County, California, sheriff’s office captain has been charged will running an illegal gun trafficking operation. Federal prosecutors say Marco Garmo sold “off roster” guns legally available …
Algorithms are at the heart of the Big Data/machine learning/AI changes that are propelling computerized decision-making. In their book, The Ethical Algorithm, Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth, two Computer Science …
Representative Matt Gaetz was widely mocked yesterday for suggesting during the impeachment hearing that “maybe it’s a different president we should be impeaching,” by which he meant the one who …
About two weeks ago (Nov. 19, 2019), the California Court of Appeal decided Vaquero Energy, Inc. v. County of Kern, which has interesting implications for the constitutionality of delegation of power …
In the midst of an affordable housing crisis, Los Angeles politicians have decided to reduce their own incentives to approve more development. On Wednesday, the city council voted unanimously to …
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear U.S. v. Sineneng-Smith, a case having to do with when speech encouraging illegal conduct (there, illegal entry into the U.S. or illegal residence …