A lunch comment scared his classmates. It led police to a plot to attack Muslims On Friday, the lunch hour was underway at Greece Odyssey Academy, a school for grades six through 12 in suburban Rochester, N.Y., when one student’s comment set off alarm bells. According to a news conference held Tuesday by local law […]

Little-Known Startups Where Jeff Bezos Has Invested Millions Jeff Bezos is not only the world’s richest man, he’s also a very smart investor. That’s especially true when he invests in startups. Over the past few years, he’s put money into several new companies that turned out to be phenomenally successful, including Airbnb, Uber, General Assembly, […]

Only with Nancy’: How Schumer and Pelosi stuck together on the shutdown Trump has repeatedly tried — and failed — to drive a wedge between the Democratic leaders. A few days before Washington staggered into what would become the longest shutdown in U.S. history, Chuck Schumer received a request from Donald Trump. The president wanted […]

Job prospects are soaring in New York City, thanks to Amazon HQ2 and Google’s expansion plans The job market in the Big Apple appears hotter than ever. With unemployment at record lows, the battle for talent is raging as tech giants, including Amazon and Google, lay plans to open new or expanded operations in Manhattan […]

Watch Dogs close in on Silicon Valley giants as monopoly concerns mount Tech giants face having their rising monopoly power curbed by tough new rules after the world’s top competition regulators pledged to clip their wings. Joe Simons, the chair of America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, signalled that […]

Artificial intelligence vs. the hackers Last year, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure security team detected suspicious activity in the cloud computing usage of a large retailer: One of the company’s administrators, who usually logs on from New York, was trying to gain entry from Romania. And no, the admin wasn’t on vacation. A hacker had broken in. […]

11 Scholarships for Black Students to Apply to Now BlackScholarships.org has compiled a list of the most recent scholarships for black students that are currently accepting applications. From corporations to organizations including the United Negro College Fund, there is money to be had to finance a college education. Take a look at the list and […]

Blue states buck Trump to expand health coverage Democratic governors are experimenting with new ways to expand health care, testing out progressive ideas that could go national if their party wins the Senate or White House in 2020. The policies run counter to the Trump administration’s ideas and are only now possible after a Democratic […]

The GOP Tax Bill Is Creating Jobs – Just Not in the U.S. We should have told them to be more specific. When President Trump and his fellow Republicans in Congress called their massive tax overhaul last year the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” most of us assumed the jobs would be in the United […]

“Dorothy Butler Gilliam a Trailblazer in the ‘Fight To Make The Media Look More Like America’ Dorothy Butler Gilliam was the first black woman reporter at the Washington Post. She shares her story and her quest to make the media look more like America. “As a journalist for the black press and later for The […]