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Newt, my boy. My dear, morally bankrupt Newt. What did Mr. Trump do to you? Did he hurt you? You can tell us. You don’t have to do this. Newt Gingrich, who has not been given any formal position in Donald Trump’s administration despite countless months of groveling and boot-licking, made a big no-no yesterday….
Between the Trump transition team’s infighting, incompetence, and high-profile resignations, any decisions that signaled even a modicum of stability for the country would come as a relief at this point. Unfortunately, the nascent Trump Administration isn’t inclined to calm anyone’s nerves. According to an official within the Department of Energy, this past Friday, the President-elect’s…
Putin is the winner as Washington melts down over Russian hacking. A part of the declassified version Intelligence Community Assessment on Russia’s efforts to interfere with the U.S. political process is photographed in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated Jan. 8, 2017 10:20 p.m. ET 721 COMMENTS What a spectacle. Two weeks before a peaceful…
Astronaut Jeanette Epps made African-American history on Wednesday when NASA announced that she’ll be the first black American astronaut to board the International Space Station. While NASA has sent 14 black astronauts into space over the decades, none have ever stayed aboard the ISS as a crew member. Epps will be the first African American and…
When Google launched Allo and Duo last year, it recast hangouts as a cross-platform chat app for enterprise customers. Now it’s making changes to help ensure that fate. A quiet update to the Google Hangouts FAQ reveals that the sun will set on the platform’s API in late April. Effectively, this means any consumer app…
We started There Is Only R over the summer as our in-house publication about all things VR/AR/MR. (“There is no VR/AR/MR, there is only R”.) It has multiple functions for us: it allows us to talk to innovators in the industry, it helps us educate ourselves about what’s happening, it provides us with a platform to express…
Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, spent five years building Medium into one of the slickest publishing platforms on the web. Yet he found himself in traditional-publishing purgatory on Wednesday, cutting 50 employees and searching for a new business model. There could be no better proof that delivery methods matter little and content is king….
Third party voters were blamed for Trump’s election, but Clinton’s inability to motivate her own party’s voters was a far greater factor in her defeat. Anthony L. Fisher|Jan. 6, 2017 12:32 pm Stop the presses. Turns out it wasn’t Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, and Evan McMullin that cost Hillary Clinton her spot in the Oval…
Reports of sexual attacks in Greenpoint were up 62 percent last year, police said. View Full Caption Flickr/jacobsoboroff GREENPOINT — There has been a 62 percent jump in sex attacks reported in Greenpoint over the last year, with the majority not resulting in arrests, police statistics show. In 2016, the NYPD was told about 13 rapes…
House Republicans this week reinstated an arcane procedural rule that enables lawmakers to reach deep into the budget and slash the pay of an individual federal worker — down to $1 — a move that threatens to upend the 130-year-old civil service. The Holman Rule, named after an Indiana congressman who devised it in 1876,…