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Courtney Kube 2 hours ago Military officials on Thursday evening released numbers for what resources were being moved both in and out of the massive deadly storm. National Guard Florida: 2,500 Soldiers and Airmen activated to provide search and rescue, reconnaissance, high-wheeled vehicle and security support More than 6,000 Soldiers and Airmen from National…
the oppressor and the oppressed Oh dear, there is trouble in the Fox News family again. Megyn Kelly appears to be equal parts amused and appalled by how much time Sean Hannity spends on his knees for Donald Trump, so after the first presidential debate, she tooooootally Mean Girl-ed him during Fox News coverage of…
Verizon is pushing for a $1 billion discount off its pending $4.8 billion agreement to buy Yahoo, several sources told The Post exclusively. The request comes on the heels of the web giant getting bludgeoned by bad news in the past few days. Yahoo revealed two weeks ago that it had been hacked in 2014…
When Sally Haslanger, a prominent feminist philosophy professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, returned to her Cambridge office in August after a summer abroad, she found a padded envelope with no return address waiting for her. She opened the package while sorting through her other junk mail and stuck her hand inside to feel what…
Photo Credit: Stephen Lovekin/Getty For one of the classiest, most luxurious purported billionaires alive, Donald Trump doesn’t exactly have the most refined palate. He seems to prefer McDonald’s, taco bowls, and burnt steaks to any sort of more refined fare, which makes this absolutely phenomenal rumor all the more believable. Writer Jen Deaderick thankfully decided…
You need to rescue the princess with code – but sometimes your code doesn’t work and the princess is a dragon and you’re a fish. Welcome to programming: This comic was developed by the Toggl Goon Squad. When not horsing around and making fun of technologies they do not like (or don’t know how to…
Look, Hurricane Matthew is going to be bad. Real bad. It’s currently a Category 4, and there’s a good chance it will be the strongest hurricane to hit the mid- and upper-Atlantic Coast of Florida in years. There will be extensive property damage. The Kennedy Space Center is at serious risk. There’s a danger…
Some of the world’s richest and most powerful people are convinced that we are living in a computer simulation. And now they’re trying to do something about it. At least two of Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires are pouring money into efforts to break humans out of the simulation that they believe that it is…
Hurricane Matthew is looking to be the first serious hurricane to hit Florida in a decade. It killed more than 100 people in Haiti. Officials in the state are taking on the difficult task of getting people to take the threat seriously enough to leave their homes. Matt Drudge just made it a lot harder…
Digital publishers may be pouring time and energy into cranking up their video operations, but for a lot of their potential viewers, text is still the way to go. New data from Pew Research finds that, when it comes to the news, younger adults still prefer words over moving images. While 46 percent of Americans…