Tag: spent

27 FEB

UK spent £1.75 billion on airstrikes in Iraq & Syria since 2014 – report

The UK has spent £1.75bn ($ 2.44bn) on air and drone strikes in Iraq and Syria as part of the US-led campaign against Islamic State, the Drone Wars UK group said, based on data it acquired through Freedom of Information requests. Since August 2014, the Tornado, Typhoon and Reaper aircraft of the Royal Air Force […]

24 FEB

Feds have spent 13 years failing to verify whether passport data is legit

Enlarge / Leonel Cordova (L) and Noris Cordova, who are not plaintiffs in this lawsuit, speak to a CBP officer at Miami International Airport on March 4, 2015 in Miami, Florida. (credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) For over a decade, Customs and Border Protection has failed to properly verify e-passports (which contain biometric data) as “it […]

13 FEB

Bill and Melinda Gates have spent billions on US education — but they are not yet satisfied with the results

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funneled billions in funding toward improving US education and raising public high school graduation rates. In Bill and Melinda’s annual letter, Bill writes that schools around the country are still “falling short on important metrics.” The foundation’s new strategy focuses on listening to teacher feedback, and funding programs […]

11 FEB

Tactical units spent weeks trying to breach and climb Trump’s border wall prototypes — and they’re nearly impossible to scale

Reuters/Jorge Duenes Eight prototypes of President Donald Trump’s long-promised border wall stand in San Diego, California, at the Otay Mesa port of entry. They’re made of concrete, steel, and other materials, and designed to withstand even the most persistent breaching tools and intrepid climbers. Constructions crews spent roughly a month erecting the prototypes, in the […]

21 JAN

HQ trivia winners reveal how they won — and what they spent their jackpots on

HQ Trivia   When Casey Donahue won $ 6,000, he couldn’t quite believe it. The Los Angeles-based freelance filmmaker was at his parents’ house in Boca Raton, Fla., on Christmas Eve when he was just one of two people who won that night’s round of HQ Trivia. The popular trivia app, which has a live host […]

19 JAN

Trump spent his first year in office bashing the ‘failing New York Times’ — here’s how its shares have done since his inauguration

Michael Nagle/Getty Images The S&P 500 index, a common Wall Street benchmark, has gained 23% during President Trump’s first year in office.  The New York Times Company, which Trump often bashes as “failing” has risen even more than the index.  Donald Trump loves to bash “the failing New York Times.” He has tweeted disparaging comments about […]

15 JAN

Mark Zuckerberg’s former mentor has spent a week attacking Facebook for becoming ‘toxic’ (FB)

Rob Kim/Getty Roger McNamee, an early Facebook investor, has spent the last week attacking chief executive Mark Zuckerberg for his firm’s role in spreading fake news during elections. McNamee said he noticed anti-Hillary Clinton memes spread by “bad actors” in early 2016, and later flagged this to Facebook, which he said didn’t take his concerns […]

07 JAN

After an investor bailed, a 20-year-old filmmaker spent her entire college fund finishing her award-winning debut

Samuel Goldwyn Films Actress-turned-director Quinn Shephard was 20 when she made her debut feature film “Blame” in 2015. The movie went on to win the best actress prize at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and later found theatrical distribution. Shephard had to cash in her college fund to self-finance the movie after her sole investor […]