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Mama Grizzly Jr. Bristol Palin Bars 'Teen Mom' Stars From 'Dancing'
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They've been gracing the covers of the weekly glossies for months and are making over $60,000 a piece from their megahit MTV show, but one place you won't be finding Amber, Maci, Farrah and the other 'Teen Mom' ladies is on 'Dancing ... |
'Sorry, mom!' Bristol Palin didn't vote in election - but wants Sarah to run for president in 2012
Simons/AP; Pizzello/AP Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, didn't vote in Tuesday's elections.
Bristol Palin remembered her dance moves well enough to survive another round on "Dancing With the Stars," but she forgot... |
'Teen Mom' Stars Earn $60,000 Per Season
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The young parents of MTV's hit show
"It's a monster hit," an insider tells me. "With ratings like that they deserve to be well compensated."
Indeed it's one of the biggest shows on the network and judging by amount of magazine covers they grace... |
I Took a Nap and the Teen Moms Became Celebrities?
Email This The stars of MTV's reality show 'Teen Mom' are gracing the cover of US Weekly again this week as well as the cover of OK! magazine. I must have blinked or taken a nap for a few minutes because I missed out on the moment when the teenage mothers from the ... |
Singles’ Day, or ‘bare sticks’ day as it is known in China, is the largest online shopping day of the year globally. But what is it all about?
BEIJING—Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reported a blockbuster $14.3 billion in sales during China’s Singles’ Day online shopping festival Wednesday, further highlighting the re... |
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Cyber Monday Exceeds $2 Billion in Desktop Sales for First Time Ever to Rank as Heaviest U.S. Online Spending Day in History
Cyber Monday Posts a 17-Percent Annual Gain in Online Desktop Sales, While Weekend Buying Increased 26 Percent
Full Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday Period Achieved Strong Grow... |
Just halfway into this year's Singles Day shopping event, Alibaba has eclipsed its record sales result from 2014.
The e-commerce giant says it generated $10 billion in gross merchandise volume (GMV) within 14 hours of the start of the shopping event — well above last year's record of $9.3 billion, which Alibaba sur... |
Jack Ma, chairman and CEO of Alibaba speaks in front of a big screen at Alibaba's headquarters in Hangzhou on Nov. 11, 2014.
Singles' Day, a twist on Valentine's Day, started in China in the 1990s as an obscure holiday but has snowballed into a consumer phenomenon thanks largely to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., found... |
Jack Ma says China's economy will be strong for next 15 years
Alibaba's Ma: We Want Money, Integrity to Be Together
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. logged a record 91.2 billion yuan ($14.3 billion) in sales on Singles’ Day, turning a sweethearts’ holiday dreamed up two decades ago into a major online shopping event.... |
"In the U.S. legal system prosecutors may wield even more power than cops.
Prosecutors decide whether to bring a case or drop charges against a defendant; charge a misdemeanor or a felony; demand a prison sentence or accept probation. Most cases are resolved through plea bargains, where prosecutors, not judges, neg... |
Today, the Women Donors Network’s Reflective Democracy Campaign released its groundbreaking Justice for All*? study that tracked the race and gender of elected prosecutors nationwide. The results, covered in today’s New York Times, uncover a criminal justice system that is managed and directed primarily by white men. O... |
Members of the Senate Watergate Investigating Committee are seen during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington as they listen to witness Robert Odle, foreground, in this May 17, 1973 file photo. (AP Photo/File)
The folks at Who Leads Us, a project by the Women Donors Network, have posed an interesting question... |
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WASHINGTON — Sixty-six percent of states that elect prosecutors have no blacks in those offices, a new study has found, highlighting the lack of diversity in the ranks of those entrusted to bring criminal charges and negotiate prison sentences.
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A Swedish company has created a terrifyingly tough test for their next aspiring employee: convince the entire office to listen to James Blunt if you want the job.
The Borg & Owilli content agency's advert for a new account manager explains that... |
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Being married boosts the survival odds of men and women with colon cancer, shows a new study by researchers at Brigham Yo... |
A sedentary lifestyle, long believed to contribute to chronic conditions such as heart disease, can increase the risk of colon cancer, according to a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Activities are considered sedentary if they require very low energy expenditure, such as prolonged sitting. Previous studie... |
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The YouTube account of Gavin McInnes -- the founder of far-right organization Proud Boys and one of the co-founders of Vice Magazine -- was terminated Monday because of repeated copyright violations, according to a message posted on his account page.
The account, which had about 221,000 channel sub... |
“Blaze Media no longer has a relationship with Gavin McInnes, and per company policy, cannot comment on personnel matters,” the company tweeted Saturday.
The Blaze, founded by conservative pundit Glenn Beck, merged with CRTV last week to form right-wing media giant Blaze Media. McInnes hosted a podcast with CRTV ca... |
Gavin McInnes, the onetime Vice Media bigwig and more recently the creator of the violent, far-right “Western chauvinist” Proud Boys organization, isn’t having such a great holiday season.
In late November, he frantically (and disingenuously) renounced any leadership position in the group amid a wave of arrests... |
The American Cancer Society’s estimates for leukemia in the United States for 2016 are:
About 60,140 new cases of leukemia (all kinds) and 24,400 deaths from leukemia (all kinds)
About 19,950 new cases of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Most will be in adults.
About 10,430 deaths from AML. Almost all will be ... |
Rich, creamy, nutritious and now cancer fighting. New research reveals that molecules derived from avocados could be effective in treating a form of cancer.
Professor Paul Spagnuolo from the University of Waterloo has discovered a lipid in avocados that combats acute myeloid leukemia (AML) by targeting the root of ... |
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Treatment regimens for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) continue to offer weak clinical outcomes. Through a high-throughput cell-based screen, we identified avocatin B, a lipid derived from avocado fruit, as a novel compound with cytotoxic activity in AML. Avocatin B reduced human primary AML cell viability wi... |
WASHINGTON Florida will not implement two provisions of the U.S. healthcare law involving an expansion of Medicaid for the poor and creation of a private insurance exchange, Governor Rick Scott said on Sunday.
Two other states with Republican governors, Wisconsin and Louisiana, opted out of the two provisions last ... |
Gov. Rick Scott: Florida can't afford health-care expansion
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney hopes to turn the U.S. Supreme Court 's 5-4 decision into a rallying cry for his candidacy, proclaiming the only way to repeal the law now would be to defeat President Barack Obama this fall.
But the announce... |
Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives for the second day of jury selection as his trial on 52 counts of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys over a period of 15... (Associated Press)
A jury dominated by people with Penn State loyalties was selected Wednesday to decide Jerry Sa... |
BELLEFONTE, Pa. – The 12-person jury that will decide the fate of former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, accused of child sexual abuse, was seated Wednesday with unusual speed. And with eight having deep ties to the university or potential witnesses, the panel is far more intimately conne... |
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration FAA.L has identified a second air traffic controller who fell asleep on the job, the agency said on Wednesday.
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The Federal Aviation Administration is moving to fire an air traffic controller who it says decided to nap on the job while working the midnight shift in the radar room at a Tennessee airport in February.
Unlike the controller supervisor at Reagan National Airport who told officials that he inadvertently dozed off ... |
AL-RUMAHIYA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - The dromedaries paraded down a dusty racetrack as judges rated the size of their lips, cheeks, heads and knees. Crowds of men watched from the bleachers, hooting when the beasts representing their own tribe loped down the track.
A dozen beasts have been disqualified from this y... |
In pursuit of the perfect pout, a dozen camels have been disqualified from a camel beauty pageant in Saudi Arabia for receiving Botox injections.
What distinguishes a beautiful camel is not just its height, shape and the placement of its hump. A full, droopy lip and large features are essential to achieving camel c... |
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— One man is dead following a confrontation between a suspect and Harnett County deputies in Spring Lake on Sunday morning.
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SPRING LAKE, N.C. (WNCN) – A dad was shot several times and died in an officer-involved shooting in Spring Lake Sunday morning, witnesses said.
The incident occurred just before 3:40 a.m. at a residence near the intersection of Stage Road and W. Everett Drive when deputies arrived on scene to conduct an assault inv... |
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Elon Musk gave his Twitter followers a first look at The Boring Company’s new tunnel, set to open next month in the Los Angeles area.
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Last night, super entrepreneur and Twitter addict Elon Musk posted some mesmerizing footage of the tunnel that his nearly two-year-old infrastructure company, Boring Company, is creating in Los Angeles right now, the first of four planned projects that Musk promises will reduce congestion in car-choked city cities.
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In this file photo taken on September 29, 2017, billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the 68th International Astronautical Congress 2017 in Adelaid... |
Elizabeth Warren took center stage at the Democratic convention Monday as the party faced challenges in unifying a party base torn apart by divisive primaries and, more recently, the leak of damning DNC emails.
The Massachusetts senator began by hitting on a theme embraced by both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders... |
US Senator Elizabeth Warren’s remarks as prepared for presentation Monday at the Democratic National Convention:
Thank you, Joe, and thank you to Massachusetts for the great honor of serving as your Senator. Wow! What a night. Michelle Obama. Cory Booker. And we still have Bernie coming up. Bernie reminds us what D... |
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Luka Rocco Magnotta was arrested in Berlin Monday after a four-day international manhunt that spanned three countries.
The 29-year-old Canadian wanted over a horrific Montreal ice pick murder and decapitation of a Chinese student that he allegedly filmed and posted to the Internet, was arrested in or near an Intern... |
Investigators in Berlin have detained a man whom they believe to be Luka Rocco Magnotta, a porn actor wanted in Canada for killing and dismembering someone and mailing body parts to political parties, a spokesman for the police in Berlin, Guido Busch, said Monday.
Authorities detained him after someone in an intern... |
(CNN) Children should not be given fruit juice before they are 1 year old unless it's advised by a doctor, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics , published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
The group had previously advised parents to wait to offer juice until a child reached 6 months ... |
One of the most common questions parents ask pediatricians is how much 100% fruit juice they should give their children. A new AAP policy recommends some children should be consuming less juice than previously advised.
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Pediatricians say children under 1 should not drink fruit juice
Doctors are recommending that children under the age of 1 should not have fruit juice, while consumption of the drink by older kids should be limited, according to updated guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Juice has long been tout... |
The $25 billion settlement with banks over foreclosure abuses may result in a wave of home seizures, inflicting short-term pain on delinquent U.S. borrowers while making a long-term housing recovery more likely.
Lenders slowed the pace of foreclosures as they negotiated with attorneys general in all 50 states for m... |
“The effect of this settlement will be catalytic,” Shaun Donovan , the secretary of Housing and Urban Development , said in an interview.
He predicted it would spur more loan modifications through existing government programs as well as principal reductions — when loan debt is written down for borrowers who owe mor... |
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FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, file photo, Mike Tyson attends a World Team Tennis exhibition to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation in Las Vegas. Tyson traveled to Suriname as part of the new... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, file photo, Mike Tyson attends a World Team Tennis exh... |
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A group of activists from Greenpeace on Thursday scaled the Shard, the tapered 310m glass tower next to London Bridge station, as a protest against oil and gas drilling in the Arctic.
In an action that was perhaps inevitable at some point after the completion last year of western Europe's tallest building, visible ... |
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Greenpeace protesters have climbed to the summit of London's Shard - the tallest building in western Europe.
Two of them then unfurled a blue flag with "Save the Arctic" written on it.
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I'm traveling this week so blogging is light. But I'm compelled to comment on the way the right is hyping my Tuesday appearance on "Morning Joe."
First, thanks to my friends at Newsbusters. It's nice when my videos go viral. But Newsbusters and its devotees drew an awfully weird conclusion abo... |
Hot sparks flew on the set of MSNBC's Morning Joe today igniting a brief but entertaining firestorm. The cause? Joan Walsh somehow being unable to name any leftwing extremists. This set off an angry reaction from co-host Mika Brzezinski which included a funny impersonation of a conveniently clueless Walsh. It was one o... |
A school year just isn’t complete without a senior class prank.
A group of Santa Barbara High School seniors decided to take their prank to another level, hiring a mariachi band to follow their principal around campus.
Principal John Becchio got a surprise when he walked into his office about 7:15 a.m. Tuesday ... |
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The students at Santa Barbara High School wanted to make some noise with their senior prank this year.
So the southern California seniors hired a mariachi band to follow principal John Becchio around school for an hour. From when Becchio walked into his office at 7:30 a.m., four musicians ... |
Yep, it's hexed.
"Jonah Hex" is to film what the chicken nugget is to cuisine. Bland, anonymous, packed with non-nutritious filler, prepared without pride or love, easiest to consume if you're not paying attention. This is industrially processed entertainment at it cheapest, nastiest and greasiest.
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John Malkovich, left, stars as Quentin Turnbull and Wes Bentley plays Adelman Lusk in Jonah Hex. handout/handout
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Starring Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Michael Fassbender and Wes Bentley. Directed by Jimmy Hayward. 81 minutes. At major theatres. 14A
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Jonah Hex ACTION: United States, 2010 U.S. Release Date: 2010-06-18 Running Length: 1:20 MPAA Classification: PG-13 (Violence, Sexual Content) Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cast: Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Michael Fassbender, Aidan Quinn Director: Jimmy Hayward Screenplay: Neveldine & Taylor, based on ch... |
There are few truths to be found in the smoldering ash heap that is "Jonah Hex," but here are the ones that matter: John Malkovich is responsible for the Fourth of July fireworks tradition (who knew?); Megan Fox looks better fighting in a bustier than tight white "Transformers" jeans (no-brainer); definitely consider a... |
Trump To Unveil Long-Awaited $1.5 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
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President Trump will finally be unveiling his long-awaited $1.5 trillion plan to repair and rebuild the nation's crumbling highways, bridges, railroads, airports, seaports and water systems Monday. But,... |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will roll out an infrastructure plan on Monday that already faces significant hurdles in Congress because it does not offer as much new federal funding as Democrats want or directly address how to pay for the effort.
The plan to use $200 billion in federal funds to... |
File- In this May 19, 2017, file photo, a man works on the Southern Nevada portion of U.S. Interstate 11 near Boulder City, Nev. President Donald Trump on Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, will unveil his long-awaited... (Associated Press)
File- In this May 19, 2017, file photo, a man works on the Southern Nevada portion of U... |
How do I know men are finished? I’ll read you a quote that says it all: “Yes. There have been times when I’ve been in a drunken stupor.” Toronto’s mayor, a shining example of modern manhood is what I would call the canary in the coal mine, only he’s not quite as delicate as the canary. Because, you know, He’s got “more... |
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How do I know men are finished? I’ll read you a quote that says it all: “Yes. There have been times when I’ve been in a drunken stupor.” Toronto’s mayor, a shining example of modern manhood is what I would call the canary in the coal mine, only he’s not quite as delicate as the canary. Because, you kno... |
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Attorneys representing Indianapolis families whose relatives drowned at Table Rock Lake while on a "Ride the Ducks" tour filed a lawsuit Sunday against Ripley Entertainment alleging wrongful death, outrageous conduct and negligence. The lawsuit filed ... |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A lawsuit seeking $100 million in damages has been filed against the owners and operators a duck boat that sank last week on a Missouri lake, killing 17 people.
The federal lawsuit was filed Sunday on behalf of two members of an Indiana family who lost nine relatives when the boat sank July ... |
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Faith Hill and Tim McGraw on the red carpet at Music City Center in Nashville before the start of the 51st annual CMA Awards on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. (Photo: George Walker IV, The Tennessean)
NASHVILLE — Unlike many othe... |
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are hosting a meet-and-greet before their Friday-night concert at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. As is the custom for touring artists, they make jovial chitchat with fans, many of whom have bought VIP packages; then everyone poses for a photo, which likely ends up as part of the fa... |
Two weeks after last month's tragedy in Las Vegas, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill voiced their support for gun control in an interview with Billboard magazine.
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FILE- In this Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018, file photo, judges preside over a hearing at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. The European Union's top court ruled Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, that Britain... (Associated Press)
FILE- In this Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018, file photo, judges preside over a hearing at the Europe... |
FILE- In this Dec. 8, 2017 file photo, UK's Union Flag, left, and the EU flag, flap in the wind outside EU headquarters in Brussels. The European Union's top court ruled Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, that Britain... (Associated Press)
FILE- In this Dec. 8, 2017 file photo, UK's Union Flag, left, and the EU flag, flap in t... |
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Prime Minister Theresa May has called off Tuesday's crucial vote on her Brexit deal so she can go back to Brussels and ask for changes to it.
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With Netflix streaming its way out of original content obscurity via popular shows like "Orange is the New Black" and "House of Cards," the Internet is making a serious play at competing with traditional TV to create shows of its own that attract eyeballs on a level with cable and network channels.
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But YouTube is owned by Google, and Google has a market capitalization of about $340 billion, which means that this was a counter-professional production put on by complete pros. In charge was Spike Jonze, who served as the event’s creative director and directed some of the segments. The preshow emphasized the spit-and... |
The inaugural YouTube Music Awards kicked off Sunday night with a live music video of the song “Afterlife” by Arcade Fire directed by Spike Jonze and starring Greta Gerwig.
Gerwig danced with the same awkward Turrets style that was so endearing in "Francis Hah." She grooved through a fake kitchen and into some fake... |
The first-ever YouTube Music Awards have wrapped. All of the night’s trophies have been handed out, and all of Spike Jonze’s “live music videos” have been, um, video’d. Eminem was made Artist of the Year, just days before the release of his eighth album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were crowned 2... |
CLOSE BackStage host Carly Mallenbaum talks with reporter Hilary Hughes about the unpredictable and chaotic show that was streamed online and hosted by Jason Schwartzman and Reggie Watts.
Internet stars mingle with industry heavyweights at the inaugural New York show.
Lady Gaga performs onstage at the YouTube M... |
The first YouTube Music Awards webcast wasn’t broadcast-quality in any sense — it was marred by video and sound snafus, and the show’s hosts looked adrift as they tried to wing it without scripts — with Eminem and a South Korean girl group winning top prizes based on fan votes.
The kudocast, which may be prelude to... |
U.S. stock markets were preparing to open in the wake of Sandy on Wednesday, ending a shutdown that left investors unable to trade for two days and sparked recriminations over whether Wall Street should have been better prepared to handle the impact of such a storm.
After four days away from the markets --Saturday,... |
The devastation was so widespread and so severe many residents cannot find the words to describe what they have seen.
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MORRISTOWN — No light, no power, no rest.
More than 24 hours after Hurricane Sandy pummeled New Jersey, crews work... |
People in the coastal corridor battered by superstorm Sandy took the first cautious steps Wednesday to reclaim routines upended by the disaster, even as rescuers combed neighborhoods strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire.
People walk through the houses destroyed in the aftermath of yesterday's storm sur... |
NEW YORK Some limited air travel is expected to return to the New York City metro area on Wednesday following the superstorm Sandy.
Superstorm floods New York City
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and Newark International Airport in New Jersey ... |
Eventually they loaded him onto a city bus that carried them out of the flooded area, and later into an ambulance that took him to Maimonides Hospital. He was treated for cuts, muscle strains and hypothermia .
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Fifteen people in the Far Rockaway section of Queens and nine in Coney Island were charged with ... |
There may be no light in the kitchen, but there’s likely food in the pantry.
The city’s food network roared back to life yesterday, with trucks rolling in and out of the Hunts Point Cooperative Market in The Bronx and other key distribution hubs.
“That’s why we have produce and people standing on line outside g... |
Online activists angered over antipiracy legislation in Congress as well as today's indictment of operators of popular file-hosting site MegaUpload attacked the sites of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, Universal Music, and the Motion Picture Association of America, shutting them down at least temporarily, and ... |
The FBI closed down Megaupload, one of the world's most popular file-sharing websites. Geoffrey Fowler reports on digits. Photo: AP.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation shut down one of the world's most popular file-sharing websites as a debate rages in Washington over whether to give the government new powers to c... |
Since January 17, English-speaking parts of Cameroon have had their internet blocked. Although no official reason has been given, residents of the African country say it's an intentional act by the government, affecting about 20 percent of the population.
This apparent crackdown on dissent is affecting people far o... |
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The first African winner in Google's annual coding competition is 370km (230 miles) from home, sitting outside his cousins' house in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, because the government has cut off his hometown from the internet.
As cocks crow in the background, 17-year-old ... |
(CNN) A crippling Internet shutdown is entering a third week in the English-speaking region of Cameroon.
The government suspended services for Southwest and Northwest province after a series of protests that resulted in violence and the arrest of community leaders.
The shutdown has proved particularly damaging ... |
English-speaking regions of Cameroon have now been without the internet for more than a week after Anglophone teachers, lawyers and students went on strike over alleged bias in favour of Francophones.
Wednesday marks the eighth day since the authorities ordered the country's telecommunications providers to shut off... |
GENEVA (10 February 2017) – A United Nations expert has called on the Government of Cameroon to restore internet services to predominantly English-speaking parts of the country which have been cut off in “an appalling violation of their right to freedom of expression.”
“I am particularly concerned at the tightening... |
Now, sub-Saharan African governments are increasingly employing the tactic: Blackouts have grown most rapidly in the past two years, researchers say.
In recent months, governments in several countries have turned off internet access during elections when violence broke out or was merely expected.
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As finals week approaches and students try to learn a semester's worth of information in a few days, it’s likely many will have the inclination to weep. But with campus libraries teeming with students, it can be tricky to locate a private space to shed a tear.
A student at the University of Utah has invented a solu... |
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Nomophobia
A lot of people with cell phones have experienced the churning sensation in their stomachs when they realize they’ve lost their phone. For most, it is easy enough to get another and move on, but for others, losing their phone or not having reception truly is a reason for panic. Nomophobia is an overwhelm... |
A man talks on a cell phone at Cannes, circa 2005. A recent online survey says nomophobia, the fear of being without a cell phone, is on the rise. (Patricia Williams / Los Angeles Times)
Do you feel anxious if your cellphone isn't nearby?
Does just the thought of losing your phone make your heart pound?
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