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Next week will see the release of No Man’s Sky, a sci-fi game about exploring a huge, procedurally generated universe. It’s a moment that many have been clamoring for ever since the game was first announced in 2013, with a raucous trailer, set to the sound of “Debutante” from 65daysofstatic. Since those early days the British…
During a 33-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency, I served presidents of both parties — three Republicans and three Democrats. I was at President George W. Bush’s side when we were attacked on Sept. 11; as deputy director of the agency, I was with President Obama when we killed Osama bin Laden in 2011….
Revealed at Madame Tussauds: Donald Trump’s Actual Hand Size 6:10 AM PDT 8/3/2016 by Benjamin Svetkey Care to compare with The Donald? Print here and measure up against Trump’s 7 1/4-inch-long right hand — just slightly less than that of the average man — which was cast in bronze at the museum’s Times Square…
The most current addition to the Marvel universe comes at a relevant time for the studio. Marvel Studios is not, if it ever were, one big happy family. Unlike other recent articles this is not exactly about the recent split between Feige and Perlmutter. That’s been dealt with again and again. This is about the…
By John Moore/Getty Images. Amid calls from Donald Trump’s allies and advisors to apologize and move on from his self-destructive spat with the parents of a Muslim soldier who was killed in Iraq, people close to the presidential nominee’s campaign are beginning to question whether anyone but Trump is in charge, and Republicans are looking…
If Twitter can get more people tweeting about brands’ ads, then maybe brands will count those free tweets’ audiences as extra impressions and consider the social network’s ads more cost-effective. It’s a big “if.” But considering how Twitter’s ad business is hurting, it can’t hurt to try. Earlier this year Twitter introduced its conversational…
Not long after the U.S. got involved in World War II, the Office Of Naval Intelligence struck a deal with the Jewish mob and the Italian crime families of New York to put the screws to the longshoremen’s unions and keep supply ships on the Northeastern seaboard safe from the presumed threat of Nazi saboteurs….
Gunshow – Great Frog part 2. Source: Gunshow – Great Frog part 2
During the three years that Arianna Travaglini used Airbnb, she was a very good guest and received stellar reviews from her hosts. The five she stayed with praised her friendliness, cleanliness and conscientiousness. After she visited Toronto in April 2014, the Airbnb host wrote, “Very clean tenants. The apartment was in an amazing condition! Highly…
According to a report from MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump asked a foreign policy advisor three times during a briefing why he couldn’t just use nuclear weapons to solve the nation’s problems. Scarborough shared the anecdote on Morning Joe Wednesday, speaking deliberately to avoid naming his source. “I’ll be very careful here. Several months ago,…