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Bill Hinton/Getty Images Cambridge Analytica, the political-research company at the center of a massive Facebook-data scandal, received private emails of two world leaders from Israeli hackers. In one instance, Israeli hackers brought a USB stick which included private information about a Nigerian opposition leader, who is now president, to Cambridge Analytica’s offices. The same Israeli cybersecurity team […]
Parliament TV The Facebook data scandal has all-but confirmed Cambridge Analytica’s shadowy role in the US election, but its involvement in Brexit is even more murky. The company repeatedly claimed it worked with Leave.EU, only to later completely deny any collaboration with Nigel Farage’s Brexit campaign group. Leave.EU executives have also contradicted themselves on the […]
Screenshot via Fox/YouTube Former football player OJ Simpson, who was acquitted of murder in 1995, confessed to a “hypothetical” murder he would have committed had he actually been guilty. The confession took place in an interview Fox News conducted with him in 2006. Simpson described the details of the “hypothetical” murder. Footage from an interview […]
American Idol/YouTube During the season 16 premiere of ABC’s “American Idol” on Sunday night, 19-year-old contestant Benjamin Glaze from Enid, Oklahoma got his first kiss from judge Katy Perry. Before auditioning for Perry, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie, Glaze admitted that he hadn’t kissed a girl and was never in a relationship. Perry immediately asked Glaze to kiss […]
As the opening ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Olympics was about to start, fighter jets were scrambled with orders to shoot down a hijacked plane that threatened the 40,000 spectators, President Vladimir Putin has just revealed. The Russian President told what he called a “sensitive story” for the first time in a biographical documentary by a […]
Benny Goodman was running late for his Columbia recording session in a New York studio — rare for the swing bandleader, who was known to fire musicians for such behavior. “Charlie, Charlie, let’s play the blues in B,” an engineer called out from the control room. That simple suggestion for a warmup tune to kill […]
Zhong Zhi/Getty Images Kevin Durant accepted a big discount this past summer to help the Golden State Warriors’ keep their core together. Durant still has one year left on his contract, but could opt out this summer and command a huge raise. While Durant says he doesn’t know what will happen yet, he just dropped […]
Washington provoked Ankara into launching a military offensive on Syria’s Kurdish-controlled Afrin by “boosting” the Kurds with advanced weapons, according to the Russian Security Council. Read more “The Kurds are being boosted with advanced weaponry. The deliveries of modern weapons and encouragement of separatist sentiments among the Kurds have in fact provoked Turkey into carrying […]
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, author of ‘Enlightenment Now,’ argues that highly developed civilizations tend toward peace and tolerance. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a8e035e086151385ac850cc/master/pass/StevenPinker-AP-110111183411.jpg
Public K-12 schools are facing budget shortfalls amid reductions in government funding. Steve Schwarzman, the billionaire founder of private-equity firm Blackstone Group, recently gave a $ 25 million donation to his public high school. Such donations to public K-12 schools are rare, especially compared with their private counterparts. Given the budget shortfalls, Schwarzman recently told […]
