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Ahn Young-joon/AP Twitter responded to a new round of complaints about President Donald Trump’s tweets on North Korea Tuesday. Users on the social-media platform called out Trump’s musings about a so-called nuclear button on his desk. Trump was responding to new rhetoric from the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who on New Year’s Day […]
Investopedia Investopedia, an online glossary of financial terms and concepts, gets over 30 million monthly visitors We spoke to CEO David Siegel about bitcoin, blockchain, and how high cryptocurrencies can go. Investopedia, the online glossary of terms you were probably too embarrassed to admit you didn’t actually know, has ten times the amount of retirement […]
Pop quiz: What do This Is Us, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Superior Donuts and The Real Housewives of New York City all have in common? A whole lotta nothing, right? Except that each series coined a slangtastic new term that’s included in the 2017 TV Dictionary, TVLine’s rundown of the quirktacular words and […]
The legal fight over whether two pregnant, undocumented young women in US custody can get abortions ended Tuesday night, but a broader challenge to the Trump administration’s efforts to block abortions for teenage detainees will continue. The Justice Department filed court papers late Tuesday dropping its appeal of a court order that required federal officials […]
Enlarge / CDC Director Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald at the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday, December 5, 2017. (credit: Getty | Washington Post) The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fired off a series of tweets Sunday to try to quell fierce backlash from a Friday night report that the Trump […]
We can just imagine CDC personnel still shaking their heads after finding out that they can’t use certain terms in official documents for next year’s budget. According to The Washington Post, the Trump administration has prohibited the CDC from using “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based” — terms you’d expect to be part […]
Published time: 8 Dec, 2017 13:57 The Russian Lower House has passed in the first reading a bill which would impose a penalty of 5 to 10 years behind bars for fake terrorist threat phone calls. The bill was drafted by Lower House speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, along with MPs Pavel Krasheninnikov and Vasily Piskaryov, who […]
YouTube has been working hard lately to fix issues around child exploitation and abuse. The Google-owned video service revamped its policies and their enforcement around videos featuring minors or family-friendly characters in disturbing situations. Over the weekend, the company promised a crackdown on inappropriate comments on kid-friendly videos in response to big-name brands pulling their […]
Costa leaves Chelsea after three controversial years at the club but he scored 59 goals in 120 appearances to help them win two Premier League titles and one League Cup. The 28-year-old’s time at Stamford Bridge was ended by Antonio Conte via text message in the summer and in an act of defiance, he stayed […]
In her new book, ‘Crash Override,’ Zoë Quinn argues that overly opaque Terms of Service can perpetuate online abuse. https://media.wired.com/photos/59b1ab15b3e93f44f85d9a30/master/pass/terms_of_bs-01.png Feed: All Latest
