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John Podesta, former senior advisor to Barack Obama, former Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton, and future chair of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is offering some reflections on his most recent stint in the White House. Number one on the list — aliens: 1. Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the…
The United States has ordered the closure of its embassy in Yemen, and said its ambassador will leave the country by Wednesday amid the deteriorating security situation. US officials said on Tuesday they were suspending operations at the embassy in Sanaa until conditions improved. “The ambassador and the rest of the staff will leave by Wednesday evening,” an…
Jon Stewart tapes The Daily Show at the University of Denver on Aug. 26, 2008. Photo by Eric Thayer/Reuters Seventeen years ago, The Daily Show was a forgettable late-night lark on a little-watched cable channel. Today, after covering seven elections and countless scandals, controversies, and local quirks, the show Jon Stewart built is an institution…
Jeb Bush, a rumored 2016 Republican presidential candidate, just decided to publish hundreds of thousands of emails sent to him during his time as governor of Florida. On its face it seems like a great idea in the name of transparency, but there’s one huge problem: neither Bush nor those who facilitated the publication of…
Entry Text WASHINGTON — While Republican presidential contenders are waffling on the issue of vaccinations, a bipartisan group of senators sought on Tuesday to squash bunk medical science that has led parents not to vaccinate their children.The conversation around vaccination has risen to national prominence recently as a measles outbreak has spread across more than…
Conservatives are already howling. Of course people are angry Obama compared terrorism to local crime.
In a country beset by increasing wealth and income inequality, few places are more economically disparate than New York City. Part of what drives income inequality in New York is that it’s an extremely attractive place for the global elite to live, or in many cases to park their vast fortunes. On Sunday, The New…
Obama lied, nobody died. Is it okay, then? Maybe don’t believe in the part about opposing gay marriage. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images Eight years ago today, Barack Obama formally declared his presidential candidacy. He was opposed to gay marriage, a stance that his former adviser David Axelrodnow admitswas a sham. Obama privately believed in gay…
close shareTools BEIJING — China’s annual consumer inflation hit a five-year low in January while factory deflation worsened, underscoring deepening weakness in the economy and heaping pressures on policymakers to inject more stimulus to underpin growth. The risk of deflation is rising for the world’s second-largest economy as a property market downturn and widespread factory…
According to their latest update, published on their blog on Monday, there was definitely a jump in that number between the first and second halves of last year. “We’ve received ~40% more requests for account information affecting 128% more account holders during the second half of 2014 than in the previous reporting period,” Twitter said….