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Images: Getty/Twitter WikiLeaks is no stranger to controversy. In July, the organization posted tons of Americans’ credit card and social security numbers. In August, the “whistleblower site” published dozens of malware links in an email dump from AKP, Turkey’s ruling party. But Sunday evening, the organization felt it crossed a line, when it tweeted a…
Image: Gizmodo/Getty While Hillary “Delete Your Account” Clinton might have a nuanced, albeit cringeworthy, understanding of how to utilize social media, the same cannot be said for her husband Bill. The New York Times reports that at a public appearance earlier this week in North Carolina, the former president speculated about the reasons no one…
Image: Shutterstock/Techcrunch Expressing love is one of the most difficult and important things you can do as a human being. There is no correct way to tell someone you love them, to truly express how much they mean to you. Messages get lost in translation. Wives and husbands feel taken for granted. Communicating clearly with…
Image via Getty. Ahead of their Sunday season opener, the Seattle Seahawks announced plans to link arms during the national anthem as a show of unity for an vague collection of causes, including “brotherhood” and “freedom.” Three days before the game, Seattle wide receiver Doug Baldwin previewed this “demonstration of unity,” which I suppose is…
Video of Clinton’s departure seemed to show her buckling and stumbling as she got into her van. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post) Let us suppose, for a moment, that everything we have ever heard about Hillary Clinton’s health is true. She has had multiple strokes. Also, she has multiple sclerosis. She depends upon a stool. She has Parkinson’s. And…
Enlarge this image Hillary Clinton waves as she leaves an apartment building Sunday. Earlier in the day, she fell ill at a Sept. 11 commemoration event. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP Hillary Clinton waves as she leaves an apartment building Sunday. Earlier in the day, she fell ill at a…
Enlarge this image Hillary Clinton’s begrudging release of information related to her health on Sunday follows a pattern set by candidates and many who have won the Oval Office. It is a pattern of secrecy and, in some cases, cover-ups that would be scandalous if they occurred on other issues of policy. Clinton mysteriously disappeared…
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Frederick Harran is the public safety director of the Bensalem Township Police Department in Pennsylvania, which has used the DNA program to solve burglaries. “This has probably been the greatest innovation in local law enforcement since the bulletproof vest,” he said. (Greg Kahn, special to ProPublica) The five teenage boys were sitting in a…
The story, at first, was all too common on Twitter: A user received a threat from an anonymous troll, and Twitter didn’t take it seriously. In this case, the user was political consultant Peter Daou. Last week, he tweeted a video critical of Donald Trump, and an anonymous troll replied: “drown in your own cum…