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Monday Jul 18, 2016 · 1:33 PM PDT 2016/07/18 · 13:33 All hell has broken loose on the convention floor in this first session of the Republican National Convention, as the Republican chair refuses a request for a roll call vote on the Rules package. There appear to have been two separate voice votes to adopt…
Take this quiz to find out In the land of “two Americas,” it turns out Republicans and Democratsdon’t even like the same foods. Using exclusive data provided by Grubhub, an online food delivery service that partners with restaurants all over the country, we examined the aggregate ordering patterns of customers across nearly 200 congressional districts. Out of 175 popular…
Yahoo said it earned 9 cents a share today in its second quarter, which was a miss of already weak expectations. Wall Street had expected Yahoo to earn 10 cents a share on $1.08 billion in the quarter, dow from 16 cents a year ago. Revenue was up, though, to $1.3 billion. Does anyone care?…
Theresa “Omarosa” Manigault, former star of Donald Trump’s reality-TV show The Apprentice and a Survivor contestant, has been named director of African-American Outreach for the presumptive Republican nominee’s campaign. “I’m happy to take up that cause for Donald Trump,” she told MSNBC upon confirming her hiring. Asked about recent polling, however, showing Trump polling at…
Companies need to be aware of — and take action to mitigate — pay inequity in the hiring process. advertisement Gender and racial inequality in pay is making headlines these days, and many companies are moving to eradicate it. One major and often unrecognized obstacle companies face is a less-than-robust understanding of the role of…
Photos: AP Here is a theory: Jared Kushner blocked Chris Christie from becoming Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee as revenge for his father. Back in summer 2004, Chris Christie, then-U.S. Attorney General for the District of New Jersey, negotiated a plea agreement with Charles Kushner, the head of a $2 billion real estate company and…
The Trump campaign seems to have gotten the thrust of the merciless Internet giggling that greeted the unveiling of its new logo on Friday. The logo, rolled out shortly after presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump announced Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate, is comprised of Trump’s “T” ramming into Pence’s “P,” a…
On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired the first interview with Donald Trump and 100 percent, totally, for sure running mate Mike Pence. It, um, probably could have gone better. http://gawker.com/reports-donald… Over the course of 20 minutes, the mood shifted from painfully tense to unbearably, painfully tense as Trump repeatedly interrupted both interviewer Lesley Stahl and new…
The entire point of Pokémon Go is to get out there and find monsters, but a new glitch has made that prospect difficult for many players. If you’ve logged in recently and noticed that every single critter around you is three steps away, you are not alone. Countless number of trainers around the web are…
Ailes and Murdoch. Photo-Illustration: Daily Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Roger Ailes’s tenure as the head of Fox News may be coming to an end. Rupert Murdoch and sons Lachlan and James — co-chairmen and CEO, respectively, of parent company 21st Century Fox — have settled on removing the 76-year-old executive, say…