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Helen Beristain voted for Donald Trump even though she is married to an undocumented immigrant. In November, she thought Trump would deport only people with criminal records — people he called “bad hombres” — and that he would leave families intact. “I don’t think ICE is out there to detain anyone and break families, no,”…
BuzzFeed News; Getty Images At 7:23 on Sunday evening, the conservative internet personality Mike Cernovich tweeted that former national security adviser Susan Rice had requested the “unmasking” of Americans connected to the Trump campaign who were incidentally mentioned in surveillance readouts. At 7:30, the owner of the Twitter account MicroMagicJingleTM noticed, and began blasting out…
react-text: 214 Pepsi /react-text react-text: 215 pulled its /react-text react-text: 217 controversial commercial featuring Kendall Jenner as a protester /react-text react-text: 218 following significant backlash on social media. /react-text react-text: 220 “Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding. Clearly, we missed the mark, and we apologize,” the company said…
Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images In 2008, former and future Russian Prime Minister and President Vladimir Putin released an instructional judo DVD to a certain amount of fanfare/bemusement from the Western press. Part of the infamous politician and former KGB agent’s 56th birthday celebrations, Let’s Learn Judo With Vladimir Putin, which is seriously the English translation of the…
Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” The Unfit President Unlike George W. Bush and Barack Obama before him, Trump doesn’t seem to care about working out or eating healthy. Google Metadata Michelle Kondrich / The Atlantic When Teddy Roosevelt was in office, he had the White House basement coated with mats. An avid martial…
First Family Jared Kushner, White House C.E.O. and Trump Princeling, Visits Iraq The First Son-in-Law cements his power in the White House with a surprise trip to Baghdad. Jared Kushner prior to a meeting with automobile industry leaders in the Roosevelt Room, January 24, 2017. From AP Photo. It was a mostly sunny, milder-than-average 70…
Let’s not beat around the bush. I have great news to share: Apple is currently hard at work on a “completely rethought” Mac Pro, with a modular design that can accommodate high-end CPUs and big honking hot-running GPUs, and which should make it easier for Apple to update with new components on a regular basis….
In pop culture years, 2012 was ages ago. But try to remember. That was the year quarterback Alex Smith suffered a concussion in the first half of the Niners game against the Rams in Week 10, and a backup QB named Colin Kaepernick had to fill in. The game ended in a tie, the NFL’s…
This week, Senate Republicans plan to try to move to a vote on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Then Senate Democrats plan to try to filibuster Gorsuch to block that vote — and if they can keep 41 of their 48 senators together, as now seems likely, they’ll succeed. And then, if…
react-text: 212 Uber Technologies has reached a settlement with Pennsylvania’s taxi regulator to end the ride-sharing company’s appeal of a record $11.4 million fine for operating illegally. /react-text react-text: 214 A notice posted on Tuesday with the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania said Uber and the state’s Public Utility Commission had reported an agreement in principle…