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TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s ruling coalition agrees to some changes in the election system, but won’t scrap the so-called majoritarian system, a demand by NGOs and opposition parties. By postponing the removal of the ‘majoritarian‘ system, the coalition heeded the advice of former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. T...
"The American people should know that anti-choice leaders like Janet Porter will support anyone regardless of what they have done to women or others in their quest to outlaw abortion." Rusty Thomas, director of the extremist anti-choice group Operation Save America, told the attendees that he had appeared to support M...
Baskets have never been so controversial. Hillary Clinton’s now-infamous “baskets of deplorables” jibe ignited a fierce political spat online: Trump got angry, Clinton somewhat apologized, and then Trump used an Obama quote to attempt a checkmate. It all started when Clinton, speaking at a LGBT fundraiser in New York,...
- Will Ospreay has officially signed a contract with New Japan Pro Wrestling. He first appeared for the company at NJPW Invasion Attack, where he lost an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match to KUSHIDA. - Dave Meltzer noted on this week's Wrestling Observer Radio that there have been talks of possibly recasting ...
It’s a little before six in the morning and quite cold on the beach. It’s low tide, and the sand is wet and hard-packed and stony. This early on a Sunday, there are often only two people here, on the California coast just north of San Diego. Patricia Churchland is throwing a rubber ball into the ocean for her two dogs ...
An ambitious German-led project to supply Europe with solar energy from the deserts of North Africa will start with a meeting on July 13, an executive from the German insurance giant Munich Re told the Süddeutsche Zeitung on Tuesday. The project involves a consortium of about 20 firms -- including Siemens, Deutsche Ban...
A sign marks the entrance to a gender neutral restroom at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt., in 2007. (Toby Talbot/AP) A federal judge has denied a transgender teenager’s request to allow him to use the same bathroom as his peers at his public school in Virginia. Instead, the judge ruled Friday, the teenag...
It was just one of several signals that the Oct. 19 election that gave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a majority Liberal government might renew the country’s role as a leader in global development. Arriving at his offices in the Pearson Building, Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion was greeted by cheers from civil se...
If there’s one thing Detroit natives take pride in, it’s their city’s legacy of making stuff. And if there’s another thing, it’s Detroit’s revival after decades of post-industrial decline. Mark Wallace seems equally excited about both. Three years ago, Wallace founded Detroit Wallace Guitars, a small company that make...
So far, what scientists have learned from the Dawn fits with what they thought. “Science doesn’t have to go back to the drawing board right now,” Dr. Russell said. The scientists report their Vesta findings in six articles in Friday’s issue of the journal Science. Photo One of the surprises is that two giant craters...
The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement attracted little attention when it was forged in 2005. That changed with negotiations to admit five new countries, most notably the US. And now, says Rick Shera, things are getting seriously weird. Yes, it's a copyright thread … It's one way of negotiating, I guess: leak a docum...
What I Did Today Instead of Working WHERE ARE YOU (trailer script) OPENING Begin panoramic shot of a vast, unnamed metropolis teeming with life. As we hover over the skyscrapers, the music begins to build softly, establishing a dark, dire theme. Voiceover of VELMA and SHAGGY. VELMA “So, how are you doing today, N...
Swedish police have been criticized by locals for allegedly failing to adequately respond to riots in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby on Monday which resulted in several burnt-out cars, aggravated thefts and assaults. No-one has been arrested over the riots. Between 30-50 people were involved in the unrest which broke...
The decision by the Ukrainian parliament to allow companies from the US and EU to co-manage the country’s gas pipelines could lead to the country being left with no gas supplies in the coming winter, an MP has warned in an emotional online address. Nikolay Rudkovsky, an independent MP in Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, beli...
(Editorial) – The LA Galaxy are having an underwhelming start to the 2016 season. They crashed out of CONCACAF Champions League with a 4-0 loss at Santos Laguna. They did pull off a great comeback win over D.C. United, but followed that up with a lackluster loss to the Colorado Rapids on Saturday. The performances hav...
Listeners who have closely followed Iceland’s burgeoning black metal scene over the last decade know that there has been considerable cross-pollinization among bands in the vanguard of that surging movement. Sinmara is perhaps the best example, with a line-up that includes members of such other groups as Svartidauði, S...
Brisbane Roar FC has announced its partnership with The Coffee Club will not be renewed for the coming season. The club’s current front-of-shirt sponsorship deal with the organisation concluded on 30 June, 2015. The association between the Roar and The Coffee Club began in November 2007 and was one of the longest-run...
Clemson University researchers found that beer pong balls may carry dangerous bacteria, The Associated Press reported. The balls collected by student researchers from parties over one weekend found salmonella, listeria, E. coli and staph, according to the AP. The study found a high level of bacteria transferred to the...
Seeking Justice for China’s ‘Underage Prostitutes’ BEIJING, China — Four and a half years ago in a small village on the outskirts of the coastal city of Yingkou in northern China, a woman stopped a 12-year-old girl outside the child’s school and lured her into a car. “If you don’t come with me, I will beat you every t...
What NetJets did for private jets, Donenfeld’s The Culinistas is doing for private chefs: making luxe affordable. For $300, plus groceries, her team of chefs cook eight personalized dishes that will last a week. The service is now available in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago and Donenfeld has expanded into cookbooks ...
It's becoming increasingly clear that agencies like the NSA have been collecting information on American citizens as they try to monitor international communications, and according to a recent report the CIA is doing the same thing with financial transactions. The Wall Street Journal reports that the CIA has been build...
Those of you who have noticed will have noticed, eventually, that I have been increasingly focused on my theory of the trans-brain which says – if I may avoid nomenclature for a minute – that your brain is everywhere. My theory was originally stated here, gained momentum thanks to the New York Times here, saw the despe...
By: Associated Press April 15, 2016 DEBARY, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida man was arrested after deputies say he hanged his mother's dog from a tree and threatened to commit suicide during an eight-hour standoff. Volusia County Sheriff's deputies say 24-year-old David Rivera was arrested Thursday and jailed on a $2,000 bon...
Louisiana State Rep John Labruzzo (R) has introduced “feticide” legislation to ban all abortion in his state and sentence women and doctors who violate the ban to 15 years hard labor. The law would make no exceptions for cases of danger to the health of the mother, incest or rape, and would essentially be an attempt to...
The room is dim. Four musicians tinker with their instruments as a fifth, the front man, walks onstage. A slight but noticeable crescendo accompanies his entrance. He is tall with a strong build. A large paper mache head rests on his broad shoulders, covering his face and giving him a nondescript expression. This is Fr...
In an interview, Mr. Mahaney said stock-based compensation could “distort the quality” of a company’s earnings and “make them look stronger than they are.” Mr. Mahaney has identified Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo and Alibaba as among the tech companies that are highly dependent on stock to pay their employees. In a report,...
It is not at all clear that Obama particularly wants Clinton’s advice about how to win the presidency, but many Democrats believe it is increasingly clear that he could use it. Bill Clinton's advice to Barack Obama There they were in Harlem on Thursday, the 42nd president and the Democrat who hopes to be the 44th, for...
Life is a game. This is your strategy guide 682k shares Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Real life is the game that – literally – everyone is playing. But it can be tough. This is your guide. Basics You might not realise, but real life is a game of strategy. There are some fun mini-games – like dancing, driving, ...
Israeli border police shot dead a Palestinian who stabbed an officer in Jerusalem on Sunday (November 29), a police spokesman said, the latest attack in a two-month wave of violence. Near a main gate of Jerusalem’s walled Old City, the Palestinian pulled out a knife and stabbed a border policeman in the neck, moderate...
Former welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre, who vacated his title to take an indefinite break in 2013, has signed an agreement to return to the UFC. On Friday, UFC president Dana White told the Los Angeles Times that St-Pierre, 35, signed the deal on Thursday after a lengthy negotiating process. The deal reunites ...
Image copyright AP Image caption Turkey insists there is no need to let the Syrians in Officials in the EU have urged Turkey to let in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees trapped on its border at Kilis after fleeing fighting. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said there was a moral, if not legal, duty to pr...
Ice Age Co-Stars: Horses, Camels And Cheetahs Mammoths and saber-toothed cats may be the most famous beasts of the Ice Age. But they shared the prairie with horses and camels, too—both of which evolved in North America and crossed the ice bridge into Eurasia, before disappearing here. Matthew Kohn and Christopher Hill...
Pics It's probably the greatest scientific experiment of our time (or at least the biggest), a 27km round tunnel that fires trillions of protons in opposite directions over 11,000 times a second at 99.9999991 per cent of the speed of light lying under the Alps in Europe. The entrance to the Large Hadron Collider beaut...
Last summer, I sat in the office of Michael Coteau, Ontario’s Minister of Children and Youth Services, and I was frustrated beyond belief. Coteau had earlier been deputized by the Ontario Liberal government as the minister responsible for the Anti-Racism Directorate, and I requested the appointment to share my concerns...
Atlanta - Driver Tale of the Tape Clint Bowyer (No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford Mustang) 14/1 · One top five, six top 10s · Average finish of 20.444, 13th-best · Average Running Position of 16.926, 12th-best · Driver Rating of 81.6, 11th-best · 129 Fastest Laps Run, series-best · 3,245 Laps in the Top 15 (55.1),...
(Fortune Magazine) -- The tangled web of subprimes has claimed more than its share of victims in recent months: homeowners by the hundreds of thousands, to be sure, but also those who created, packaged, insured, distributed, and ultimately bought what should have been labeled "junk mortgages" but which by a masterstrok...
Beachside memorials and religious services have been held across Asia to mark the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 220,000 in one of modern history's worst natural disasters. The devastating December 26, 2004, tsunami, triggered by a 9.3-magnitude earthquake, struck a dozen countries around the...
If you had to explain humanity to a logical outsider, you would have a hard time sounding sane as you got to the part where you tried to explain that tens of thousands of people show up 81 times a year in 30 stadiums around the country to yell at men in pajamas who hit a ball with a stick and run in a circle. Of cours...
Like everyone else on the planet, I’m still processing what happened last week. Not so much how it happened -- that’s pretty clear. But rather what the implications are for all the groups that President Elect Trump threatened during his campaign, and for the worst of his supporters now emboldened in their hate, bigotr...
Cities: Skylines developed a vibrant community, and came about as a direct response to a certain other city builder that went down the opposite path, making it our Community Champion of the year. We'll be posting the rest of our awards and personal picks daily as we approach the end of the year, which we're collecting ...
PRINCETON, NJ -- Most Americans believe President Obama will win the presidential election this fall, even though the race has been highly competitive for most of the year. Americans' expectation that Obama will win has been remarkably consistent, virtually unchanged since May despite three intervening months of campai...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A California Assembly panel delayed action on Monday on a bill to end sales taxes on tampons and sanitary napkins, an exemption already enacted in five other states in a growing movement against what sponsors say is a tax that unjustly targets women. The measure has garnered bipartisan s...
Source: NASA/Wikipedia Commons When I was growing up, the list of planets in our solar system included a small planet far from the Sun called Pluto. Then, a number of objects about the same size as Pluto began to be discovered. Some were even bigger than Pluto. A body of scientists, the International Astronomical Unio...
MONUMENTAL Island looks anything but. This pile of black rocks rises starkly out of the cold, choppy seas south of Baffin Island, on Canada’s remote north-east coast. The tides here are among the strongest in the world yet, despite the inhospitable feel of this place, its waters are rich in marine life. Suddenly a so...
(CNN) -- A Russian lawmaker found stuffed in a barrel of cement last week may have been killed over unpaid debts, investigators said on Monday. Mikhail Pakhomov, 36, was reported missing early last week, according to a report from the state-run RIA-Novosti news agency. On Thursday, some of the politician's personal pr...
MaidSafe Development Update MaidSafe Blocked Unblock Follow Following Sep 25, 2015 It has been an exceedingly busy summer at MaidSafe and it seems like a good point to recap on what we have working on and how we see things rolling out as we move forward. Since our last major update, when we announced the network runn...
The government shutdown may be over, but its effects will be felt in next year's tax season. The IRS has announced that it will be delaying the date when it will start accepting tax returns by about two weeks. The 2014 season will start sometime between January 28th and February 4th, a week or two later than its origin...
The Philadelphia Eagles are now 0-1 in the 2015 NFL regular season schedule after being beaten by the Atlanta Falcons by a final score of 26-24. It was a shaky performance from the Birds in white and midnight green. Here are 10 things we learned from this game. There is a lot to discuss, so let's get right to it. 1) C...
"The Killing" has been revived. Again. A final six-episode season is coming to Netflix. Series stars Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman will return. “The rich, serialized storytelling in ‘The Killing’ thrives on Netflix, and we believe that it is only fitting to give Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder a proper send off," C...
A hellscape surrounded it: the tall, once-gleaming corners of what was known once as "Turner Field." Once, people walked these spaces, and purchased beer in aluminum mock-bottles to drink while watching a game, and living life as people did in the now-distant year 1997. Now, only feral dogs and the merciless wind inha...
Time was all you needed to write a novel was a good idea and a pocketful of gumption. Well, we’re in modern times now, and you’d be a silly, silly person not to take advantage of all the great software available out there. Here are some of my favorite tools, presented in order of when they show up in my novel-writing p...
To get to Bandosingh Hazaari’s bhang shop in Hyderabad, India, you have to follow the gods. In the maze of nameless alleys in Dhoolpet, a working-class neighborhood in the southeastern Indian city of Hyderabad, enormous fiberglass figures of Hindu gods and goddesses peek out of temple doors and between buildings. It’s...
Hello everyone, the first commission is now finished and it's for who asked me to draw Sunset Shimmer and Twilight (a ponified version of Sci Twi) at the beach, enjoying the time together They both cuddle in the warm summer sun while the sea's calm splash sounds is relaxing and supports the atmosphere^^ Actually, wo...
"I knew that day that the ideologies of my past career were no longer relevant to the future that I want, that I demand for my children. Friday changed everything. It must change everything. We all must begin anew and demand that Washington's old way of doing business is no longer acceptable. Entertainment moguls don't...
Welcome to Handiham World! …And welcome to a new era of challenges for radio clubs. What do I mean by that? Well, if you have to ask, you might not be that tuned in to your local club’s activities. Radio clubs provide a means for you and I to get together with like-minded folks who appreciate amateur radio and who e...
The Kingdom’s capital city is home to approximately 100,000 inhabitants including the Royal family. This bustling little city is the main centre of commerce, religion and government in the country. The juxtaposition of ancient tradition and modernity make Thimphu the ideal location for visitors to break away from their...
As catering manager Kristina Viator was leaving Tempe Center for the Arts a few Saturday nights ago she noticed the crowds at Tempe Town Lake. She realized people were there playing Pokemon GO (Phoenix New Times recently reported Tempe Beach Park as one of the best places to play Pokemon GO). It occurred to her that so...
The first rule of running a user interactive website is: Don't moderate the users. It seems that Steve Huffman has violated this rule, when he edited posts made by Donald Trump supporters. He has admitted to this moderation on his Reddit profile. This mistake in management of his website is a really big deal. By mode...
More than 100 Doctor Who T-shirts Hide Your Arms has gained something of a reputation for creating epic t-shirt lists and obsessing over films and TV shows to find t-shirts. When it was first suggested to me that I write a list of Doctor Who t-shirts (if you have an idea for a list send it in) I thought that it might ...
By Staff An Egyptian man who went online to watch a porno film for the first time got the shock of his life when he found that the woman in the film was his own wife. The man, identified as Ramadan, instantly collapsed in disbelief on the floor at an internet shop before coming round and rushing home to face his unfa...
Martin O'Neill remains favourite to succeed Giovanni Trapattoni as Republic of Ireland manager. The former Celtic, Sunderland and Aston Villa manager, told BBC NI last week he was keen to get back into management. However the former Northern Ireland captain has yet to declare an interest in the vacancy, following Tra...
JD: So I get off the train. You know, I’m walking towards the stairs and this young teenager, uh, pulls out a knife. He wants my money. So I just gave him my wallet and told him, ’Here you go.’ He starts to leave and as he’s walking away I’m like, ’Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you’re gonna be robbing pe...
This Thursday and Friday the Internal Revenue Service will be in federal court to explain its inexplicable “loss” of thousands of emails from multiple computers at the same time—just the emails that tie the White House to the use of the IRS to target the president’s political opponents. The IRS has to make two separat...
Large speed bumps installed in Jersey City are causing numerous vehicles to bottom out and grind into the road surface, prompting city officials to lower the humps. “Oh my God, what moron did this?,” said a man who identified himself only as Walter after driving his pickup truck over a speed bump on Erie Street near E...
"When I discovered what was true, I could not resist acting on it and telling others. " Daily Bell: You have almost singlehandedly led a revolution in thought that has changed the world. How does that make you feel? Rockwell: Well, thank you, but that's not how ideas work. Without donors, faculty, students, collabora...
One of the key themes I've mentioned over the last year is the increase in conventional sales and the corresponding decline in distressed sales (Foreclosures and short sales). I've argued this increase in conventional sales is a sign of a healing market. Tom Lawler has sent me some rough data that suggests much of the...
Calcium is synonymous with milk and dairy products, which leads many people to believe they’ll become calcium deficient if they switch to a vegan lifestyle. While milk certainly contains a lot of calcium, many plant-based foods also contain calcium, and some actually rival it. As long as you’re consuming a variety of n...
Italian officials want to 'restore decorum' to Milvian bridge, which became focal point for tradition inspired by cult novel Thousands of "love padlocks" fixed to an ancient Roman bridge by passionate couples have been sliced off with bolt cutters and dumped in a warehouse to save the bridge from damage. Teenage love...
"Deacon Blues" is a song written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen in 1976 and recorded by their group Steely Dan on their 1977 album Aja.[1] It peaked at number 19 on the Billboard charts[2] and number 17 on the U.S. Cash Box Top 100 in June 1978.[3] It also reached #40 on the Easy Listening chart.[4] In Canada it spe...
By all accounts, Saturday was a very good day for the Jacksonville Armada FC. The first-year NASL side got to play their first ever league match at home and started setting records before the first kick ever took place. The official attendance was 16,164, close to double the capacity of their normal home field at the ...
With every passing day, Barack Obama is ensuring his own reelection -- but at a bloodcurdling cost for Democrats on the ballot without him in 2010. President Obama is gifted with that alchemical political material, Teflon. He speaks with power and grace. He exudes even-handed comfort, assuring all sides that this pres...
Sundar Pichai, Google’s new CEO under the company’s Alphabet restructuring, has made his first major wave of executive shuffles as chief executive, promoting three top lieutenants on the critical ads and Android units. Neal Mohan, vice president of display and video advertising, now assumes that role as SVP. And Hiros...
An intriguing case of wife-swapping has left the police at their wits' end since the day it was reported. After a casual meeting of two couples in the city, the husband of one woman begins an affair with his friend's wife. When his friend soon found this out, he approached his friend's wife and the two began having an ...
The British Invasion Though best known for the records he made with the Rolling Stones, with whom he worked until 1975, Mr. Johns also was the recording engineer for the Who, the Kinks and Small Faces on some of the most notable songs of the 1960s. Even at the time, he sensed these were not ordinary sessions. “There ...
A tanker carrying natural gas exploded at 7:20 p.m. (1920 UTC) in a northern suburb of Ghana's capital Accra on Saturday evening, killing at least seven people and and wounding dozens of others. A second explosion followed minutes later. A gas tanker is believed to have exploded at a state-owned GOIL liquefied natural...
Ninja is a build system similar to Make. As input you describe the commands necessary to process source files into target files. Ninja uses these commands to bring targets up to date. Unlike many other build systems, Ninja’s main design goal was speed. I wrote Ninja while working on Google Chrome. I started Ninja as a...
Those familiar with the guiding principles of the G.O.P. know that Republicans strongly believe they were put on earth to cut taxes on the wealthy. But equally important is the notion that, at all times, government spending is out of control, particularly when it comes to services for people outside the 1 percent. So i...
MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid had the gall to blame Republicans for divisive rhetoric just a day after she took cheap shots at shooting victim Rep. Steve Scalise. On her show Saturday, Reid alleged that Scalise, who has undergone multiple surgeries after being shot at the GOP baseball practice, may be a racist and a homopho...
10 years ago (CNN) - Dream big and give back, Michelle Obama told the first graduating class of University of California-Merced on Saturday in her first commencement speech as the first lady. "Remember that you are blessed - remember that in exchange for those blessings you must give something back," Obama told the s...
Manuel Vigil has had two sets confiscated in three weeks by the school, which says they're gang-related LOVELAND -- In an attempt to keep gang activity out of the school, Thompson Valley High School officials say they take any number of measures, including barring rosary beads when their use is deemed inappropriate. ...
The scandal brewing at the military regarding sexually explicit images of female troops being non-consensually shared has grown larger than the private social media site Marines United to include a whole host of gay adult sites depicting uniformed men engaged in sex acts. Now your very own tax dollars will be used to ...
ADVERTISEMENT: PAX Preview Pain One of the downsides to my articles being published on Thursday means that I’m usually pretty late to the party for any Magic news that was shown over the weekend. For example. I was going to spend a few solid paragraphs thoroughly expressing my disgust for how Wil Wheaton butchered th...
How animals can be transformed into medical assistant devices and used in a more holistic health approach including medical animals in treatment. Revital Cohen designed the Life Support project to show how animals could be transformed into alternative, low-cost medical assistant devices and a part of a more holistic h...
Episode 695: Put A Chip On It Credit cards and debit cards have tons of safety features. The extra security code on the back. Sometimes your picture. Your signature. That little hologram of a bird that nobody looks at. But, until recently, there's been a big safety feature missing from credit cards in the U.S.: The c...
A couple of weeks ago, a large banner appeared in front of the Science Center. “Free Speech,” it proclaimed in large block letters. I moved a bit closer, confused, and saw that at the bottom it said, “Sponsored by the Harvard Libertarian Forum.” I was still confused—it seemed as if this group were making a statement, b...
Here they are, finally finished, the Stiles & Derek action figures! After so much wait, it seemed only appropriate to share this on a Monday, because even when we’re on hiatus, every Monday should be a Moonday :) This is a project that’s been in the making for little over a year; I know, it seems like a long time but ...
Background Edit Incidents Edit 3 August Edit Private Charles H. Kuhl, of L Company, U.S. 26th Infantry Regiment, reported to an aid station of C Company, 1st Medical Battalion, on 2 August 1943. Kuhl, who had been in the U.S. Army for eight months, had been attached to the 1st Infantry Division since 2 June 1943. He ...
LE CLAIRE, IOWA (The Borowitz Report) – With a stop in Iowa on Tuesday, the Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton officially embarked on a nineteen-month marathon of looking concerned. Sitting with patrons at Jones Street Java House, in Le Claire, the former Secretary of State listened intently, sipped from a cup of ...
Image caption Save the Children says single mothers may have to work longer or get into debt Single mothers could lose thousands of pounds under planned changes to the benefits system, a charity claims. Save the Children says its research suggests 150,000 women could lose up to £68 a week when the new universal credi...
The IT job market is starting to heat up and security professionals are one of the career fields in high demand. The recent rash of high profile security breaches is causing executives and company boards to demand an increased focus on cybersecurity practices and IT shops are struggling to keep up. Earning a security c...
#UofTGrad17: How Indigenous studies helped Julie Blair connect with her culture By Hannah James November 9, 2017 Julie Blair at fall convocation (photo by Gary Beechy, BDS Studios) After working in Toronto nightclubs for years, Julie Blair wanted a career change. So, she came to the University of Toronto. What she...
Share. So then just what is being referenced? So then just what is being referenced? Exit Theatre Mode Bethesda has released its annual Christmas card, offering tantalising insight into its game line-up for 2014. Released on the Bethblog, the image contains a number of references to upcoming Bethesda titles that we ...
A translation of a Spanish article from El Libertario summarising the development of the protests in Venezuela during February 2014, and addressing the relationship of those protests to conditions in Venezuela and the Venezuelan right. On February 4th, 2014, students from the Universidad Nacional Experimental del Tach...
(Newser) – Every aspect of Sonia Sotomayor's nomination procedure to become the newest Supreme Court justice was so controlled that she was even told what to wear at the acceptance ceremony, she said in a talk at Yale yesterday. Sotomayor, who appeared on campus for her 30th Yale Law School reunion, wanted to shop for ...
In a statement released by Eskom, he says he will leave office on 1 January next year. JOHANNESBURG - Eskom CEO Brian Molefe has just announced that he will resign from his position. In a statement released by Eskom, he says he will leave office on 1 January next year. Mr Molefe says he'll take take time off to refl...
September 7, 2017 New York City educator and activist Brian Jones makes the case in defense of one element of the legacy of the 1960s social movements for liberation from oppression. AS PART of their never-ending quest to "Make America Great Again," Donald Trump and his loyal minion Attorney General Jeff Sessions are...
Image: Shutterstock Cryonics, the practice of freezing oneself in the hopes that you can later be brought back to life and cured of whatever condition (including old age) motivated your decision, is basically illegal in the Canadian province of British Columbia. I say "basically" because putting grandpa in a deep fre...
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Today we spend the hour with the director of a groundbreaking new documentary called The Act of Killing. The film is set in Indonesia, where beginning in 1965 the military and paramilitary slaughtered up to a million Indonesians after overthrow...
New NBA commissioner Adam Silver handed down punishment to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in a harsh and swift manner on Tuesday afternoon, announcing a lifetime ban from the league and a $2.5 million fine. Silver's decision comes three days after a recording of Sterling making racist remarks to girlfriend ...
Update on January 25, 2016 at 15:26: Sam Barlow just mentioned on his Twitter that this is planned to be a spiritual sequel to Her Story with no links to the game. This is still really exciting news! A sequel to the brilliant FMV detective game Her Story is on the way. We gave it a gold award We don't have a lot of i...