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There’s a big debate happening tonight, and it has nothing to do with Donald Trump or the Republican primary. While Americans wait for the 9 pm GOP showdown, Canadian political junkies (and US-based fans of Canadian politics) will be tuning in to theMaclean’s National Leaders Debate, the first debate of the Canadian federal election of…
Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no reason to be angry. After all, the famous writer had a new book coming out. But that was the problem. A…
Ahmed Mohamed is a smart kid. At 14, he’s already making his own radios and repairing go-karts. Normally, that type of do-it-yourself know-how earns praise from teachers and even classmates. But because Mohamed is a Muslim American student living in an area with a history of Islamophobia, it made him a prime suspect for terrorism….
Hoping to impress the teachers at his new school, an Irving, Texas, high school freshman named Ahmed Mohamed brought a homemade clock with him to MacArthur High Monday morning, which he’d assembled before bed the night before. When he showed it to those teachers, though, they were something other than impressed, and by Monday afternoon,…
Yes! Zune is still a thing. But whatever is left of Microsoft’s old music vestige will be getting shut down on November 15th. Microsoft stopped selling its Zune HD music player hardware years ago, but the brand has lived on in the form of Zune Music Pass, a subscription music service that came with 10…
As the candidates gather at the Reagan Library for the second 2016 presidential debate, a longtime conservative consultant says the Tea Party has morphed into the Troll Party—and it’s a fight for the soul of the GOP. All my life, the Republican Party has been my political home. Helping it succeed has been my work…
Don’t let the comb-over fool you. Donald Trump’s rhetorical style is straight out of middle school. “He’s like an eighth-grade girl,” Rosalind Wiseman told me. “As an educator who works with children, it’s an amazing thing to watch,” she said, “because you really wish the adults would be the adults and be able to check…
Over the last few weeks and months there has been increasing alarm that today, September 16, is a critical one for publishers — and by critical, I mean the diagnosis that most publishers will soon be in critical condition. After all, today Apple releases iOS 9 with support for “content blocking extensions” which will effectively…
Definitive proof that ninth-grader Ahmed Mohamed is smarter than police officers who arrested him Sep 16, 2015 8:38am PDT by Shaun King 51 65 Please log in or sign up to continue. On September 14, ninth-grade engineering whiz and NASA fanboy Ahmed Mohamed was confronted, interrogated, handcuffed, arrested, and jailed after bringing a homemade clock…
Expect to see this smile again on Wednesday. Donald Trump participates in the first prime-time presidential debate hosted by Fox News on August 6, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio.Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Ding, ding: Round 2. The Republican presidential contenders are in Southern California on Wednesday for the second pair of primary debates. CNN’s…