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There were no shortage of critics of President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which came just days after Trump’s own government indicted 12 Russians for interfering in the 2016 U.S. election, no less. The meeting was just about everything those critics feared it would be. Standing alongside Putin, Trump not only downplayed if…
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their first formal one-on-one summit Monday in Helsinki and held a news conference afterward. Here is an incomplete transcript of their remarks, with our annotations of the most interesting parts in yellow. It will be updated. PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Thank you so much. Shall we start working?…
HELSINKI — President Trump cast doubt on the conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, saying after his summit here Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin that the autocrat gave him an “extremely strong and powerful” denial. After Putin said his government played no role in trying to sabotage…
Late Friday night, police in Great Falls, Mont., received a call from a man in distress: He had come home to find his ex-girlfriend hiding behind his bedroom door, wielding a machete. She had somehow broken into the house while he was away, he said, and when he opened the door and walked into his…
“The reason that God was able to create the world in seven days is that he didn’t have to worry about the installed base.” — Enzo Torresi. 1945–2016. A few months ago, I published a blog called “What I learned working for both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs”. It was a re-publication of a blog I’d written two years…
The new iPhone 5S with fingerprint technology is displayed during an Apple product announcement at the Apple campus on September 10, 2013 in Cupertino, California Photo: Getty What started as a routine traffic stop has quickly escalated into a civil rights case in a Florida courtroom after a man was put behind bars this week…
Photo: Charles Sykes (AP) Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk accused one of the British divers involved in the rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach from the flooded Tham Luang cave complex of being a pedophile on Saturday in retaliation for questioning Musk’s contributions to the rescue effort. Yeah. CNN reported that…
The Agony Of Repeat The tale of a guy who became famous for falling down once, only to have that fall replayed every single week on a legendary American TV show. Today in Tedium: I have fond memories of America’s Funniest Home Videos, particularly the early years hosted by Bob Saget. It was a show…
An estimated 5,000 women a year died in the US before abortion was legalized. Source: The Political Future is Female – by Stats
Thai kids trapped in a cave? Forget Occam’s Razor, Elon Musk has the complicated solutions you didn’t know you needed! Source: How To Fix Things, The Elon Musk Way! – The Nib