Alaska Officials Urge Court To Toss Trump Administration's Vote-Counting Lawsuit

Proper Flock'd: What This Cop Did Raises Major Red Flags... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A Naperville police officer turned a statewide camera grid into a personal tracking app, ran a man's plate about 150 times, and then retired like the file never existed. The story serves as yet another example of how the burgeoning mass surveillance grid is being abused on a regular basis. Patrick Dowhen was not a suspect. He was the ex. After Officer Oscar Maldonado started a relationship with Dowhen's fiancée, Flock became the shortcut. No warrant. No...

Loop Downgrade Apple As iPhone Rebound Shipment Hopes Slide Apple shares are down about 1% in premarket trading in New York on renewed concerns about iPhone demand. Loop Capital technology analyst Ananda Baruah downgraded Apple from "Buy" to "Hold," citing slumping expectations that the company will recover lost iPhone shipments next year and warning that skyrocketing memory chip costs could further squeeze profit margins. Baruah lowered his 12-month price target to $330 from $370, nearly in line with Bloomberg-tracked analyst forecasts of around $334. The new target implies roughly 4% downside from the...

Watch Live: White House Addresses Fragile Iran Truce All eyes are on the very shaky Iran ceasefire, at a moment Tehran is already threatening to pull out due to heavy Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Iran says it has again halted Hormuz oil transit, and there's much that's still up in the air and uncertain. The briefing with press secretary Karoline Leavitt is expected to begin at 1300ET: Washington and Tehran have just entered a two-week ceasefire, brokered by Pakistani mediation, aimed at negotiating a broader settlement following over a month of brutal...