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Firearm Manufacturers Trade Down After April Decline In Background Checks
Monday, May 7, 2018 - 2:19pm | 326Read More...American Outdoor Brands Corp (NASDAQ: AOBC) traded lower on Monday and Sturm Ruger & Company Inc (NYSE: RGR) traded lower after the FBI released numbers showing a 20-percent month-over-month decrease in background checks conducted through the National Instant Criminal...
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Background Checks Rise In February Amid Renewed Gun Debate
Monday, March 5, 2018 - 12:22pm | 365Read More...What Happened Sturm Ruger & Company Inc (NYSE: RGR) and American Outdoor Brands Corp (NASDAQ: AOBC) were on the rise Monday after the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported both month-over-month and year-over-year increases in February firearm background checks. Notably, nearly every month...
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The GOP Surveillance Memo: What You Need To Know
Friday, February 2, 2018 - 4:59pm | 488Read More...The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lower, while the VIX trended higher Friday as investors grew concerned about rising interest rates and a couple of underwhelming tech earnings reports. Amid the selloff, House Republicans released a declassified intelligence memo...
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Gun Background Checks Show Largest-Ever Yearly Decline In 2017
Thursday, January 4, 2018 - 10:28am | 472Read More...October’s mass shooting in Las Vegas and November’s mass shooting in Texas were the first and fifth deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history, and the entirety of 2017 was one of the most violent. Gun Violence Archive recorded 345 total mass shootings and 15,539 gun-related...
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The Michael Flynn Guilty Plea Implications, Explained
Friday, December 1, 2017 - 2:13pm | 453Read More...The SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSE: DIA) and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) initially dropped more than 1 percent on Friday following reports that former Trump administration security adviser Michael Flynn agreed to testify against members of the Trump family and other...
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Adidas Falls On Corruption Charges Implicating NCAA Coaches, Financial Advisers
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 - 11:47am | 527Read More...Following a two-year investigation, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney and Department of Justice are attacking a web of corruption at top-ranked basketball programs implicating NCAA coaches, team managers, financial advisers and representatives of sportswear companies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation...
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How YouTube, Facebook Censorship Aligns With US Counter-Terrorism Efforts
Tuesday, July 4, 2017 - 1:13pm | 405Read More...It sounds counterintuitive for censorship or community expulsion to curb violent extremism, whose perpetrators are already driven by feelings of discrimination, alienation, oppression or non-acceptance, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But the recent strategies of tech and social...
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State Election Officials Baffled By Report 39 States 'Hit' By Russian Hackers
Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 1:16pm | 643Read More...State election officials are baffled by a Bloomberg report alleging that Russian hackers compromised the voting systems in 39 states, adding that cybersecurity firms were engaging in scare tactics to win state and local contracts to protect election systems. The June 13 Bloomberg story said that...
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Comey Demolishes Infrastructure Week, Calls Trump A Liar
Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 3:24pm | 823Read More...So much for “infrastructure week.” Former FBI Director James Comey took a wrecking ball to President Donald Trump’s policy diversion from the monumental problem plaguing the administration: Russian collusion with the 2016 election. Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee...
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5 Big Takeaways From Comey's Prepared Testimony About Trump: Loyalty, Russia, 'The Cloud' And More
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 - 3:19pm | 908Read More...Ousted FBI director James B. Comey, over the course of nine awkard private conversations, said President Donald Trump threatened his job, demanded his loyalty, and asked him to drop the probe into the Trump team’s dealings with Russia before ultimately firing him. Comey’s prepared...
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5 Things You Need To Know About Christopher Wray, Trump's Nomination For FBI Director
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 - 8:59am | 429Read More...President Donald Trump plans to nominate Christopher Wray to be the next director of the FBI. Trump has been searching for a nominee since he fired former FBI Director James Comey last month. He are five facts to know about Wray. 1) Led the Criminal Division Under George W. Bush Wray was...
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Cogint Denies Allegations Found In Short Report Saying Company Insiders Have Come Under Federal Investigation
Monday, June 5, 2017 - 3:57pm | 694Read More...Unemon Research is back with another scoop. The contrarian and Seeking Alpha contributor who previously exposed fraud in the Chinese firm L&L Energy, Inc. has found a new target in Cogint, Inc. (NASDAQ: COGT). “Based on my analysis of the facts, I see Cogint ... as just another blatant...
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Why Russia (And Probably Exxon) Want The U.S. To Lift Economic Sanctions
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 2:10pm | 728Read More...Word that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met with the head of a Russian bank makes now a good time to look at the U.S. economic sanctions meant to punish the Kremlin for its invasion of the Ukraine, and why Moscow would go to great lengths to get them lifted. A slew of...
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Special Prosecutor Holds Key For How A Trump Impeachment Might Unfold
Tuesday, May 23, 2017 - 2:54pm | 794Read More...President Donald Trump might have drawn headlines away from his domestic troubles with his first state trip abroad, but ongoing investigations into his team’s Russian ties and financial dealings aren’t going away. Which means the steady murmurs of impeachment will likely remain when he...
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Mueller Rep As Rigorous, Relentless Investigator Greeted With Bipartisan Approval
Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 10:18am | 1048Read More...Robert Mueller’s bulletproof reputation as a relentless, by-the-book investigator virtually guarantees a rigorous and wide-ranging investigation of President Donald Trump’s ties to the Kremlin, the former FBI director’s supporters say. “I can’t think of a better...















