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A new version of Google+ is rolling out to users starting today, and just like every version before it, you probably won’t use it. Google project manager Danielle Buckley announced the news on her Google+ page today. In the post, she said the redesigned G+ includes three major updates, most of which make it easier…
Image: Wikimedia If you grew up in the 90s, you probably saw one of the legendary ITT Technical Institute commercials in the wee hours of the morning. Now, you’ll probably never see one again. Today, ITT Technical Institute campuses have stopped enrolling students at all of its campuses. The abrupt decision to stop enrolling students…
This started as a joke and now I’m not really sure anymore. Make sure to watch at 240p for that authentic 90s television feel. via Overwatch – F.R.I.E.N.D.S – YouTube. Source: Overwatch – F.R.I.E.N.D.S – YouTube
grab image for required schema tag end image for schema tag Brock Turner will be released from jail this Friday, September 2, after only serving three months of his already ridiculously short six-month sentence. Prosecutors suggested that Turner serve a six-year sentence, meaning he only served 1/24 of the recommended sentence. The maximum sentence for…
Jackie Robinson, in his 1972 autobiography, I Never Had It Made, described the moment when he realized that he could not “stand and sing the anthem,” nor “salute the flag,” which calls to mind recent statements made by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Robinson strongly indicted this nation on charges of racism, classism and bigotry: There I was, the black grandson…
The United States Army’s finances are so jumbled it had to make trillions of dollars of improper accounting adjustments to create an illusion that its books are balanced. The Defense Department’s Inspector General, in a June report, said the Army made $2.8 trillion in wrongful adjustments to accounting entries in one quarter alone in…
For a few glorious weeks this summer, Fox News seemed as if it had emerged from a retrograde stupor defined, in part, by “leg cams,” the cinematic technique predicated on shooting broadcasters at thigh level, in favor of a period of enlightenment. After former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual-harassment lawsuit against the…
Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson star in Fox’s “Empire.”View Full Caption Fox CHICAGO — Teens and children at a Chicago juvenile detention center were confined to their rooms and banned from family visits for days so “Empire” could film at the facility, according to a new class-action lawsuit. The Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center…
share tweet pin email During last year’s trial in which graduating senior Owen Labrie was charged with sexually assaulting a younger student at the prestigious St. Paul’s School, his accuser was shielded in anonymity by law. Chessy Prout, who was 15 years old at the time of the incident, has now decided to publicly reveal…
On Wednesday night, Bernie Sanders debuted his post-primary plans for stoking the earnest embers of his movement. They start with a new nonprofit called Our Revolution, which has endorsed many baby Bernie candidates across the country and hopes to make sure the platform he fought for remains at the heart of the Democratic Party after…