The Daily Populous

Mr. Trump vetoed legislation in April that invoked the War Powers Act to cut off American military support to the campaign.

Another amendment, also passed Thursday, would prevent the Trump administration from using emergency authority to transfer munitions to the kingdom.

But the main objection of Republicans to the defense bill was that it does not allocate enough money to the Defense Department. »

The FTC started investigating Facebook last year after revelations surfaced that Cambridge Analytica, a UK political consultancy, accessed data from up to 87 million Facebook users without their permission.

The agency is looking into whether Facebook violated a legal agreement it had with the US government to keep its users' data private.

Robert Weissman, the president of consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen, said the reported settlement would let Facebook off the hook too easily. »

The firm, which aims to develop “ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers,” announced Thursday plans to host an event in San Francisco on the evening of July 16.

Perhaps most interesting of all, the company is giving members of the public the chance to attend the limited-space event.

Neuralink also reassures people that those who are unsuccessful can still watch the event through an online livestream. »

The sailing cargo ship Kwai docked in Honolulu last month after a 25-day voyage with 40 tonnes of fishing nets and consumer plastics aboard, gathered from what has become known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The circulating ocean current known as the North Pacific Gyre is believed to contain 1.8 trillion plastic items weighing over 80,000 tonnes.

Covering an expanse of ocean three-times the size of France, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch lies between Hawaii and California. »