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The U.S. government will pay $492 million to 17 American Indian tribes to settle lawsuits over the mismanagement of natural resources and other tribal assets, NPR reports. The U.S. says that there are more than 100 lawsuits totaling $3.3 billion that have been brought against the federal government by American Indian individuals and tribes, some…
“It turns out what America really needs Hillary Clinton to be, she is, namely one of the only people in the whole god damn country not afraid of a bully.” Thanks for weighing in, but it looks like Hillary Clinton is doing just fine without the help of body language experts. Watch Full Frontal with…
Captain America finally gets his own Avengers movie. Wait… I mean… The Avengers finally show up to help out in one of their members’ solo films. Wait… Spider-Man finally doesn’t suck in a film about not-Spider-Man… wait… Here are the sins we found in Captain America: Civil War, a movie we didn’t love, but didn’t…
A reporter at the presidential debate has become the hero we all deserve by yelling, “Thanks a lot, bitch!” at another woman while chasing an interview. vine.co The priceless moment was captured by Dalton Bennett of the Washington Post. The reporter, Al Jazeera English’s Kimberly Halkett, was apparently trying to get an interview with Gov. Mike Pence when…
We live in an era of increasing automation. Machines help us not only with manual labor but also with intellectual tasks, such as curating the news we read and calculating the best driving directions. But as machines make more decisions for us, it is increasingly important to understand the algorithms that produce their judgments. We’ve…
Technology has become more ubiquitous in the advertising industry than sneakers, beards and novelty T-shirts, but one commentator says that rather than be a boon for business all the wizardry’s actually proven a disaster. Author block Author block Controversial US Professor, David Carroll (pictured below), a specialist in media design from The New School’s Parsons, believes all the tech…
The NYPD crime blotter from the 84th Precinct includes a theft at CVS in Brooklyn Heights.View Full Caption DNAinfo/Nikhita Venugopal BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — A $500 wedding ring, credit cards and electronics were swiped at Brooklyn Bridge Park on three different days last week — continuing a string of thefts that have occurred near the park’s sports venues. The…
Books In ‘Hitler,’ an Ascent From ‘Dunderhead’ to Demagogue close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Credit Patricia Wall/The New York Times How did Adolf Hitler — described by one eminent magazine editor in 1930 as a “half-insane rascal,” a “pathetic dunderhead,” a “nowhere fool,” a “big mouth” — rise to power in the land of Goethe…
In presidential debates, there is really only one winner: Twitter. As Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton threw punch after punch during Monday’s first presidential debate, Twitter landed the deciding blows. (Well, Twitter and the fact-checkers.) It was hard to keep up during the most-tweeted debate ever, but we did our best to collect the…
Politics Donald Trump and His Allies Struggle to Move Past Tax Revelation close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo A supporter at a rally for Donald J. Trump in Manheim, Pa., on Saturday. Credit Mark Makela for The New York Times Donald J. Trump and his allies struggled on Sunday to move beyond the revelation that he…