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After 28 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the dean of admissions, Marilee Jones, submitted her resignation in 2007. The day before, it had come out that Jones fabricated her education credentials on her résumé when she first applied for a job at the school in 1979. She claimed to have degrees from three […]
With politics and society increasingly divided, only 47 percent of US citizens polled say they’re “extremely proud” to be Americans, the lowest number ever. The number of Republicans with this extreme pride is at a five-year high. A new annual survey by Gallup, released on Monday, has highlighted two widening political divides, one between Republicans […]
The US Defense Department is reportedly analyzing the cost-to-benefit ratio of a large-scale withdrawal or transfer of US troops in Germany. Trump, who has had a tenuous relationship with the German chancellor Angela Merkel, was said to have been surprised by the number of US troops stationed there. Some US officials were said to have […]
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Several Twitter accounts were suspended Wednesday for sharing a Splinter News article containing a private phone number belonging to White House aide Stephen Miller. Miller is supposedly the architect of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. Twitter has since re-instated the suspended accounts after the phone number was shut off. Twitter suspended […]
The couple dropped their new record Everything Is Love on Saturday night last week, and are reported to be tracking to about 70,000 sales in the chart week. 5 Seconds of Summer’s new album YoungBlood, which has a near two-day advantage having come out on Friday (the first day of the tracking week), is marginally […]
If Trump actually followed White House protocol for secure calling, it’s probably fine. But what are the odds? https://media.wired.com/photos/5b23e4789f31fd2f2a2323e7/master/pass/TrumpKimJongUn-971754378.jpg
President Trump’s historic meeting with Kim Jong-Un may not have resulted in the complete de-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, but it did lead to a fascinating exchange in which the President claims to have given Kim a “very direct number” if the North Korean leader “has any difficulty.” Wired raises an interesting point about the […]
Trade between Russia and China has been steadily growing and accelerated in the first months of this year, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Our trade grew last year to reach $ 87 billion and the first four months of this year saw a growth that equaled the figure for the whole of last year,” Putin […]
Jacob Bøtter/Flickr Dating apps are increasingly connecting people who live or work close by, have the same commute, or went to college together. Sometimes dating apps can speed up a relationship that might have unfolded, albeit platonically, in real life. Most dating app users opt to see potential matches who live within a few miles […]
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque President Donald Trump’s personal defense team sent a lengthy memo to the special counsel Robert Mueller this year in which they made several bombshell arguments and admissions. They said Trump cannot be guilty of obstruction of justice because he has the power to shut down any federal investigation. They acknowledged Trump dictated a […]
