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Theresa “Omarosa” Manigault, former star of Donald Trump’s reality-TV show The Apprentice and a Survivor contestant, has been named director of African-American Outreach for the presumptive Republican nominee’s campaign. “I’m happy to take up that cause for Donald Trump,” she told MSNBC upon confirming her hiring. Asked about recent polling, however, showing Trump polling at…
Companies need to be aware of — and take action to mitigate — pay inequity in the hiring process. advertisement Gender and racial inequality in pay is making headlines these days, and many companies are moving to eradicate it. One major and often unrecognized obstacle companies face is a less-than-robust understanding of the role of…
Photos: AP Here is a theory: Jared Kushner blocked Chris Christie from becoming Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee as revenge for his father. Back in summer 2004, Chris Christie, then-U.S. Attorney General for the District of New Jersey, negotiated a plea agreement with Charles Kushner, the head of a $2 billion real estate company and…
The Trump campaign seems to have gotten the thrust of the merciless Internet giggling that greeted the unveiling of its new logo on Friday. The logo, rolled out shortly after presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump announced Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate, is comprised of Trump’s “T” ramming into Pence’s “P,” a…
On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired the first interview with Donald Trump and 100 percent, totally, for sure running mate Mike Pence. It, um, probably could have gone better. http://gawker.com/reports-donald… Over the course of 20 minutes, the mood shifted from painfully tense to unbearably, painfully tense as Trump repeatedly interrupted both interviewer Lesley Stahl and new…
The entire point of Pokémon Go is to get out there and find monsters, but a new glitch has made that prospect difficult for many players. If you’ve logged in recently and noticed that every single critter around you is three steps away, you are not alone. Countless number of trainers around the web are…
Ailes and Murdoch. Photo-Illustration: Daily Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Roger Ailes’s tenure as the head of Fox News may be coming to an end. Rupert Murdoch and sons Lachlan and James — co-chairmen and CEO, respectively, of parent company 21st Century Fox — have settled on removing the 76-year-old executive, say…
Marcin Iwiński, co-founder of GOG and development studio CD Projekt Red, has some curious thoughts on how to handle a very thorny subject: piracy. Speaking late last month at infoShare 2016, Iwiński dove into great detail regarding how CD Projekt Red gained a “legendary” reputation among customers. As you probably already know, The Witcher 3…
This article originally appeared on AlterNet. The absurd spectacle of the Donald Trump veepstakes played out on a canvas of carnage, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Nice, France. The travesties and the tragedies brought out the loons, who more or less tripped over one another to say the craziest, most irresponsible things. Trump grew quieter…
First of all — this is not my writing. It’s a Facebook post by someone I don’t even know, a man named Michael Arnovitz in Portland OR. But as a Facebook post it passes the fair use test and I’m quite certain he would not object that I share it here (he doesn’t). The…