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Silicon Valley billionaire and Donald Trump delegate Peter Thiel has defended his legal attack against Gawker Media by claiming the company “routinely published thinly sourced, nasty articles that attacked and mocked people.” At the same time, he has insisted that reporters should not be alarmed by his role in destroying an independent media outlet. “It’s…
storytext “Today” show co-host Billy Bush had no immediate comment about his role chatting with Donald Trump on a vulgar 2005 videotape revealed Friday. Angry comments piled up on Bush’s Facebook page from viewers who were disgusted by the contents of the tape, in which Trump brags in graphic terms about being able to grope…
close story-meta Photo Donald J. Trump at a rally in Henderson, Nev., on Wednesday. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Donald J. Trump was caught on tape bragging in vulgar terms about making sexual advances toward a married woman, aggressively kissing and groping other women, and boasting that “when you’re a star they let you…
Donald Trump bragged in vulgar terms about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women during a 2005 conversation caught on a hot microphone — saying that “when you’re a star, they let you do it” — according to a video obtained by The Washington Post. The video captures Trump talking with Billy Bush…
28 Sep 2016 on javascript | web Introducing BDSM (Based on a true story) We had a problem The frontend team was way way (way) ahead of the server team. More than half the APIs we needed weren’t done and the delays kept piling on. And this wasn’t new either, as the backend teams…
Trump’s Offer to Christians Is Same Offer Devil Made Christ By Eric Sapp Sep 2, 2016 As an evangelical and member of the Global Advisory Board of Christian Post’s parent company, I was heartbroken to read CP’s recent editorial telling evangelicals that we have a moral obligation to vote and must vote for either Donald…
The claim that if wages go up, jobs go down isn’t a description of reality at all. It is a negotiating strategy used by employers to keep wages down and profits high, writes billionaire venture capitalist and $15 minimum wage proponent Nick Hanauer. Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters Editor’s Note: This column is reproduced with permission…
A 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight drug-resistant superbugs without antibiotics. The new approach has so far only been tested in the lab and on mice, but it could offer a potential solution to antibiotic resistance, which is now getting so bad that the United Nations recently declared it a “fundamental…
Media On Twitter, Hate Speech Bounded Only by a Character Limit close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Twitter, which helped enable the outsider candidacy of Donald J. Trump, has hosted abusive clashes between voters. Credit John Locher/Associated Press If you go by what some Twitter users have to say, it’s a wonder…
Media The Online Video View: We Can Count It, but Can We Count on It? close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, left, spoke at Advertising Week about the company’s recent video miscalculation mishap. Credit Michael Nagle/Bloomberg ONE OF THE great promises of online videos was the potential to measure precisely how effective…