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On Thursday, President Obama hosted a Town Hall meeting on race relations in Washington D.C. that aired on ABC, with guests affected by police violence in the United States. That included police officers and the families of Alton Sterling and Eric Garner. Garner’s daughter, Erica, was not happy with how it went. It started off…
Templates: not just for adorable gingerbread houses. (Inhabitat) Clean up your newsroom workflow with ready-made tools that are easy to use I’ve never been much for cleaning my room. As a kid, I was too lazy for something that sounded so inconsequential. But my mom would scold me and remind me that, just by doing…
The Origin of Florida Man: The World’s Worst Superhero If you have not heard of Florida Man aka “The World’s Worst Superhero,” his twitter feed is below. Enjoy. Here are his mugshots: Image from MiamiNewTimes.com And here is his Facebook Page, his SubReddit, and articles in magazines like Esquire, Mic Magazine, Huffington Post, The New…
The elderly lady was part of a group visit to Nuremberg’s Neues Museum, where the work is displayed. If the museum didn’t want people to follow the artist’s instructions, they should put up a sign to make that clear, she told police. Eva Kraus, the museum director, said the damage was not permanent and would…
Philip Hammond MP. Photo: Oli Scarff Note to Philip Hammond: In ALL 32 OECD countries that cut spending, economic growth was seriously damaged 14 Jul 2016, by Geoff Tily in Economics Since 2010, under the direction of international organisations and most economists, governments across the world have cut spending in order to restore public finances…
Can I trust you? – Post and Courier. Source: Can I trust you? – Post and Courier
(1) Nerdy Childhood Pursuit Almost every conversation I have with an engineer starts with “oh I started coding when I was 10.” We think that people don’t really love technology unless they found it themselves in a garage. Well, I can tell you about using Perl when I was 10. And I can tell you…
Details are emerging about the man believed to have been behind the Nice attack – the third devastating terror attack on French soil in 18 months. Main points: Suspect identified as Franco-Tunisian with dual nationality, reports say French authorities have not yet released the name of the man killed by police after ploughing his truck…
Photo Police officers on Friday at the site where a truck barreled for more than a mile through a crowd watching a fireworks display in Nice, France. Credit Valery Hache/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images PARIS — The death toll from the terrorist attack on a Bastille Day fireworks celebration in the southern French city of…
Istanbul’s busy Ataturk airport was the target of a terrorist attack by three men on Tuesday. The attack took place near security checkpoints in the departures level of the airport. After firing on officers, the attackers apparently detonated bombs — the two large explosions crumbled the entrance of the…