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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based broadcaster, said Sunday it is slashing about 500 jobs a little more than two months after announcing the closure of its U.S. offshoot. The cutbacks come as 2022 World Cup host Qatar refocuses its spending priorities amid a steep drop in prices for oil and gas,…
Wonder Woman, introduced in 1941, was a creation of utopian feminism, inspired by Margaret Sanger and the ideals of free love. Credit Photograph by Grant Cornett Barrier Status: ‘none’ The Wonder Woman Family Museum occupies a one-room bunker beneath a two-story house on a hilly street in Bethel, Connecticut. It contains more than four…
This Wednesday, North Carolina passed the most dangerous piece of anti-LGBT legislation in the country, restricting cities from passing nondiscrimination laws and preventing trans people from using bathrooms that represents their gender identity. All of this has been done in the name of so-called “religious freedom.” It was just moments after Skye Thompson, a transgender…
Rescuers use a stretcher to shift a body from a bomb blast site in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday. Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images Rescuers use a stretcher to shift a body from a bomb blast site in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday. Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images At least…
Lawmakers and labor unions have struck a tentative deal to raise the statewide minimum wage to $10.50 an hour next year and then gradually to $15, averting a costly political campaign this fall and possibly putting California at the forefront of a national movement. The deal was confirmed Saturday afternoon by sources close to the negotiations…
It’s lit Last year, the Lonely Planet crowned Queens the top travel destination in the US. And yeah, sure, we were closely followed by Western South Dakota, but we reveled in the victory. Queens isn’t your typical front-runner like Manhattan. We’ve always been the silent hero type. A silent hero who houses the New York Mets, the US Open, the iconic unisphere in…
Check out the indiegogo campaign at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/co… A desperate young man possessing special powers clashes with a militarized police force after committing a petty crime. Code 8 is an action/science fiction short film, produced as a proof of concept for a feature film version to be filmed later this year. Director: Jeff Chan Writers: Jeff…
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about Code 8, a mysterious project from Robbie and Stephen Amell. Now, the project has been unveiled, and it looks like an intriguing film project. We speculated that the project was going to be released On Demand, but it turns out that the short film was just a…
Today at WonderCon, DC comics unveiled the creative team rebooting their entire universe in their Rebirth overhaul. DC last rebooted their universe with The New 52 comics five years ago, and this new series will hit comic book shelves on May 25th, and will last for two years. DC took to Twitter during the live…
Citation, Appropriation, and Fair Use: News Genius Picks Up Again Where Failures Left Off As an old man of the Internet, I’ve seen several waves of “scribble on top of other people’s pages” plug-ins and web site. Anyone remember Third Voice? It was a browser plug-in that first appeared in 1999. that let you annotate…