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Around 1 p.m. on Thursday, a young man was punched by an unidentified person with a covered face in front of Robert E. Kennedy Library. The young man was passing out fliers with neo-Nazi sentiment Wednesday in the same location. The fliers portrayed a Nazi symbol with the words, “American Nazi Party” and “Symbol of White…
GIF Blackbird Interactive, developers of the excellent Deserts of Kharak, have teamed up with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to create an interactive tour of a concept Mars base. Not the most obvious thing to reading about, I grant you, but they’re a good fit, with Blackbird’s sleek designs helping create a colony that looks real,…
Getty Images Muslim activists Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi have launched a crowdfunding campaign to support the repair of a St. Louis Jewish cemetery that was vandalized over the weekend — and the response has been overwhelming. The campaign, which aimed to raise $20,000, exceeded its target in three hours — and had drawn more…
People attend the Outdoor Retailer show at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City in January. (Rick Bowmer/AP) The twice-a-year Outdoor Retailer show is the world’s largest trade exhibition for one of the world’s fastest-growing industries. It’s where companies such as Patagonia, the North Face, REI, Black Diamond and Polartec hawk their coolest…
The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Outlander: Some of the best genre fare on TV is based on books. Yet, until relatively recently, most authors had little to do with the development of shows based on their work. Often, studios would option a book, and then try to keep the original author at arm’s length during the production process, says Ty…
Richard Saker/REX/Shutterstock Start Article Post Content UPDATED: Controversial far-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos has been disinvited from speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, it was announced on Monday. The decision comes amid a controversy involving a video from January 2016, in which Yiannopoulos appears to defend pedophilia. It resurfaced after it was recently shared on a conservative blog,…
The Opinion Pages | Op-Ed Contributor The Downfall of Kellyanne Conway By ERIN GLORIA RYANFEB. 17, 2017 close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway arrives for the daily briefing at the White House press room on February 14. Credit Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press As Kellyanne Conway sleepwalks her way through a…
OpinionCanada Warning: Canada is not what you think it is If you assume Canada is a welcoming haven from the bile and divisiveness in the age of Trump, you may be mistaken. 19 Feb 2017 13:07 GMT | Islamophobia, Canada, US & Canada Former Canadian PM Harper spent much of his tenure fuelling and…
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said Sunday that the ride-sharing company will investigate new allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination in its workplace. After former Uber engineer Susan Fowler published a nearly 3,000-word blog post Sunday describing a nightmarish workplace culture in which male superiors solicited her for sex and human resources officers shrugged off her…
Milo Yiannopoulos has come under fire for advocating sexual relationships between “younger boys and older men.” | Getty Trump to speak at CPAC as Yiannopoulos tape controversy roils event By Matthew Nussbaum 02/20/17 10:25 AM EST President Donald Trump will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, returning to the annual confab that…