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PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic National Committee chairwoman resigned under fire Sunday, on the eve of a national convention meant to project competence and unity in contrast to the turbulence of the Republicans’ gathering last week. The disarray threatened to upend Hillary Clinton’s plan to paint the Democrats as the party best prepared to lead a…
Nintendo Co. shares plunged by the most since 1990 after the company said late Friday that the financial benefits from the worldwide hit Pokemon Go will be limited. The stock sank 18 percent to 23,220 yen at the close in Tokyo, the maximum one-day move allowed by the exchange, wiping out 708 billion yen ($6.7…
In a stark illustration of the potential for augmented reality to shape how we experience the world, Belt Magazine reports that the gazebo where 12 year old Tamir Rice was shot by police in 2014 is now a “Pokéstop” in Pokémon Go. And the text describing the site, known as the Cudell Gazebo, contradicts what…
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Photo Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times Welcome to a world without rules. (I want you to read this paragraph in your super-scary movie trailer voice.) Welcome to a world in which families are mowed down by illegal immigrants, in which cops die in the streets, in which Muslims rampage the innocents and threaten our…
For months now, Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies have been hammering Donald J. Trump on the air, and Mr. Trump has barely bothered to hit back at all. But as he emerges from the Republican convention, Mr. Trump is at last receiving some meaningful air support: Rebuilding America Now, one of the “super PACs”…
Updated | Just hours after Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican presidential nomination, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke announced he is running for a U.S. Senate seat representing Louisiana under an “America First” campaign slogan. It’s a two-word phrase that Trump also used in his speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention. “I’m overjoyed to see Donald Trump…
A brush fire that was sparked Friday afternoon exploded in size again on Sunday, scorching more than 30,000 acres north of Los Angeles and spreading an enormous plume of smoke for miles, fire officials said. Ash from burned brush fell miles away from the actual flames, and the large smoke plume spread through such a…
There’s been heated debate during the past two weeks over which of Pokémon Go’s three teams — Instinct, Mystic, and Valor — are the best. Obviously it’s Mystic, but we learned today that Team Instinct really has it rough. Designs for each of the three teams’ leaders have finally been unveiled, and the consensus is that Mystic…
KABUL, July 25 (Reuters) – Civilians are being killed and wounded in record numbers in Afghanistan, the United Nations reported on Monday, just days after one of the deadliest attacks ever in Kabul. Overall at least 1,601 civilians were killed and 3,565 wounded in the war in the first six months of 2016, the United…