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Image Credit: Helena Group Last week, I received a PDF presentation about “Helena,” a new startup boasting a 20-year-old Yale student CEO and connections—so they claim—to some of the most powerful and influential people in the world, from Stanley McChrystal to, uh, Selena Gomez. I spent the better part of last week trying to figure…
Wow. So, Hillary Clinton went on the Breakfast Club and said—barely refraining herself from launching into the rest of the “Formation” chorus, we assume—that she keeps hot sauce in her bag? And apparently she’s been laying tracks for this latest act of pandering for years now? Clinton talked about hot sauce to Conde Nast Traveler…
paging_filter On Friday, the Writers Guild of America-East announced that it had reached an agreement with Vice Media on a proposed contract covering its roughly 70 members at the company. The WGA-East has not made the proposed contract publicly available, but an email sent to members of the Vice union includes details on the pay…
As even the most deft social media ninja will tell you, social media campaigns are hard. But it really seems like the New York Police Department should have seen this one coming. A coalition led by the NYPD and Manhattan’s top prosecutor launched a campaign to “highlight the impact encryption is having on public safety…
Reed Hastings got it right. It just took longer than he thought. “We expect Amazon to continue to offer their video service as a free extra with Prime domestically but also to brand their video subscription offering as a standalone service at a price less than ours,” the Netflix CEO told his investors in a…
Racial slurs that have cropped up chants, e-mails and white boards on America’s college campuses have some people worried about whether the nation’s diverse and fawned-over millennial generation is not as racially tolerant as might be expected. The Christian Science Monitor went so far as to ask, “Are millennials racist?” Surely not all millennials are racist, but data can…
The death toll from a powerful earthquake that shook Ecuador’s northwestern coast soared to 272 on Sunday, and hundreds more pepole were wounded, the office of the nation’s president said. Ecuador was in a state of emergency Sunday after the magnitude-7.8 earthquake flattened buildings and ravaged towns just before 7 p.m. (8 p.m. ET)…
A Southwest Airlines jet takes off from Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) Earlier this month, Khairuldeen Makhzoomi found himself at a gathering with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He had been invited to the dinner-and-lecture event in Los Angeles by a friend who works for the World Affairs Council, and he…
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is expected to announce this week that Alexander Hamilton’s face will remain on the front of the $10 bill and a woman will replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the $20 bill, a senior government source told CNN on Saturday. Lew announced last summer that he was considering redesigning the…
Twenty years ago, Sesame Street ran a special segment warning US children about the risks of lead. And 20 years later, Last Week Tonight‘s John Oliver brought the Sesame Street cast to his show to highlight America’s continuing lead epidemic. As Oliver told Elmo (who offered $1.76 from his piggy bank to help), America’s lead…