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Her violations of public records rules indicate little regard for the people’s right to information. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters On January 13, 2009, Hillary Clinton attended her first confirmation hearing as a Secretary of State nominee. The same day, with Bush officials still under fire for using private email accounts to circumvent public records laws, someone registered…
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record. Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the…
Social media blogger/designer who loves sharing ideas and making awesome stuff. I write for @SiteProNews @BlogHerald @Socialnomics. Health tweets: @foodierx For the as-yet unacquainted, Reddit is a social media site–of sorts. While not as widely used as Facebook or Twitter, the content sharing site boasts a huge pool of participants who post about and discuss…
Will Eisner at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con; Cover of ‘A Contract With God.’ (Eisner photo by Alan Light) Welcome to Will Eisner Week, which runs through March 7 and celebrates the legacy of the comics great. Eisner, who died in 2005, is widely considered to be the inventor of the modern graphic novel,…
Last week, director Joseph Kahn dropped his “dark as f*ck” POWER/RANGERS short. Soon, it was pulled from the internet, but now it’s back in full NSFW glory. So what happened? In an exclusive interview, Kahn explains how the internet saved his short. Plus why he doesn’t think the real Power Rangers show should be this…
Playing through Homeworld again after all these years is weird. Games are forever changing. Usually, they’re advancing. They progress not just in terms of visuals, but design. Shooters, for example, change the way you take cover and recover damage, while stealth games have developed smoother controls and give the player a greater awareness of what’s…
In honour of Homeworld Remastered’s release — and the game’s enduring style — artist Matt Frith put together this homage to Homeworld 2. Suddenly, I want to play a 2D Homeworld, real bad. Kotaku.
Photo After Michael Brown’s shooting in Ferguson, Mo., many black residents protested what they called unfair treatment by the police. Credit Whitney Curtis for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has nearly completed a highly critical report accusing the police in Ferguson, Mo., of making discriminatory traffic stops of African-Americans that created…
When Danuta Danielsson stepped out of a crowd in the Swedish city of Växjö in 1985 and hit a neo-Nazi with her purse, the photo quickly became famous around the world. Danielsson was widely praised back then: Her mother had reportedly survived a German Nazi concentration camp, according to Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. Thirty years later, Danielsson,…
To Russia’s largest social network, putting a price tag on a woman’s photo that was put up on a public group without her permission is “just a bad joke.” Rate the Heifer, a small online community on VKontakte, Russia’s version of Facebook, has spurred a battle between chauvinists and feminists by asking users to put a virtual price tag on…