April 13, 2016

Obama hails 'momentum' in ISIS fight in Iraq, Syria

President Obama claimed significant progress Wednesday in the military campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, but a top Syrian official said President Bashar Assad will not give up control of the war-torn nation, where the extremists have flourished.

After meeting with his national security team at ...

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Enter Any Name and Brace Yourself (Find Photos and More)

Popular site has gone viral and public is in disbelief

Via: The Daily Caller

Gestigon and Renault know if you're ready to take the wheel

nissan_silicon_valley_innovation_tour_17_small Between the current advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and the future, completely autonomous car rests in some potentially treacherous semi-autonomous territory. Renault has enlisted the help of gesture-control experts at gestigon to help ease the transition from vehicles taking care of driving tasks to humans taking over driving duties. Read More

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Trump Asks Pittsburgh Crowd How Deceased Football Coach Joe Paterno Is Doing

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump appeared to forget Wednesday that legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno is dead and asked a crowd of supporters in Pittsburgh how the late coach is doing.

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Paul Ryan faces conservative rebellion over Puerto Rico 'bailout,' needs Democrats' help

Congress' bid to rescue Puerto Rico from its debt crisis is turning into yet another test for House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, and the early signs are not good, with one conservative lawmaker accusing leaders of gagging rank-and-file Republicans to keep them from scuttling the relief package.

Republicans had hoped ...

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VA Manager Says 'Thank God' They Don't Have To Hire Veterans

Being in the Boy Scouts would help more than being in the armed forces

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Obama appoints tech veterans from Microsoft and Uber to cybersecurity commission

800px-WhiteHouseSouthFacade The President has just released the list of appointees to the Committee on Enhancing National Cybersecurity — and it's more or less what you'd expect: higher-ups from the big players in tech, plus some academics and the former director of the NSA. Wait, what? Read More

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Weiner: Hillary Clinton Not Great on Her Feet

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Britain offended by Obama pressure to stay in EU: 'Sort of 1776 in reverse'

LONDON — It's always awkward when guests drop by right in the middle of an intense family argument, which might make for some uncomfortable moments when President Obama travels to Britain next week.

A rising number of Britons say they are offended that the U.S. president will try to persuade ...

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Report: Florida Will Not Prosecute Trump's Campaign Manager

'I'm very glad that we were able to produce the tape because I don't see anything'

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Interim guidelines to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act

whisper Despite the objections of many privacy advocates and security professionals, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is now the law of the land. Slipped into the 2016 federal omnibus spending bill, CISA permits private entities to share information about cyberthreat indicators (CTIs) and defensive measures against cyber attacks, both with each other and with the federal government. Read More

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With All Due Respect (04/13/16)

Mark Halperin and John Heilemann are joined by Commentary magazine's John Podhoretz, the New York Times' Adam Nagourney, former Ted Cruz campaign spokesman Rick Tyler and MSNBC's Kasie Hunt on "With All Due Respect."

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The Man Who Would Be King

(John Hinderaker) Here at Power Line, we have argued strenuously that President Obama's orders suspending enforcement of various immigration laws are unconstitutional because they violate the Take Care Clause. Law professor and former appellate judge Michael McConnell makes that point powerfully, reviewing the long struggle in Great Britain over royal prerogatives, the context of the founders' inclusion pf the Take Care Clause in the Constitution, and its subsequent legal history in the

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Obama to issue new oil, gas drilling regulations

The Obama administration will issue sweeping new regulations Thursday for offshore oil and natural gas drillers, potentially costly requirements to prevent environmental disasters such as the BP accident and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico six years ago.

Sources familiar with the rule-making said the Department of Interior will ...

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RNC Prepares For Likely Challenges On Credentials Committee At Convention

'There are different people claiming to be the legitimate delegate'

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PayPal Credit expands to the UK with an interest-free option for purchases over £150

paypal-credit After separating from eBay, PayPal has been on a march to grow both its international business and transactions beyond basic e-commerce. Today it is taking a step to do both, with the U.K. launch of PayPal Credit — a service that lets consumers use their PayPal accounts to spread out online payments for goods as a replacement for traditional credit cards. It will give consumers… Read More

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Rick Tyler on the GOP Delegate Selection Process

MSNBC political analyst Rick Tyler, former spokesman for the Ted Cruz campaign, discusses delegate allocation and the state of the GOP race on "With All Due Respect."

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Clinton Supporter Hakeem Jeffries: Bernie Sanders Functions as 'Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the National Rifle Association'

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Nebraska lawmakers OK new limits on property seizures

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska lawmakers overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to eliminate the state's civil forfeiture system amid outrage it creates a monetary incentive for law enforcement to use a controversial federal process to seize property before a conviction.

Lawmakers voted 38-8 to ban civil forfeiture and replace it with a ...

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Alaskan Moose Flourishing Because Of Global Warming

The animal's food supply expanded so the amount of moose habitat in Alaska expanded as well.

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Facebook's new chatbots still need work

Facebook Chatbots Facebook debuted chatbots for Messenger this week to much fanfare, promising consumers a new way to interact with their favorite businesses over the company's popular messaging service. The idea is that Messenger users could simply "chat" with these automated software programs to do things like read the latest news from CNN, get a weather report or even go shopping. In… Read More

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Will the GOP Donor Class Accept Ted Cruz?

Mark Halperin and John Heilemann discuss the Ted Cruz campaign's master plan for orchestrating a second or third ballot win at the Republican National Convention on "With All Due Respect."

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Angus King: Obama Made Mistake Supporting Filibuster of Alito SCOTUS Nomination

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Senators express disgust over sex crimes by UN peacekeepers

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday decried an epidemic of sex crimes committed by United Nations peacekeepers and called on the State Department to act more urgently to end the abuse by cutting off foreign aid to countries that won't hold their troops accountable.

At a Foreign Relations ...

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Infamous Saudi Religious Police No Longer Allowed To Make Arrests

'Heads nor members of the Haia are to stop or arrest or chase people or ask for their IDs'

Via: The Daily Caller

Airbnb's VP of engineering on the sharing economy

The sharing economy, which is sometimes referred to as collaborative consumption, has become a household term — at least in the tech industry — that signifies peer-to-peer exchanges through technology. "The fact that there are so many terms going around these things is almost a function of the fact the industry is so new," Airbnb VP of Engineering Mike Curtis told me… Read More

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Congressman Blasts DC Metro Chairman for Financial Mismanagement

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Olympic officials: Rio won't be scarred by politics, graft

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The Rio de Janeiro Olympics won't be scarred by the impeachment proceedings against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, a $3 billon corruption scandal touching scores of powerful politicians and businessmen, and the country's deepest recession in decades.

That was the message Wednesday from Rio organizers and ...

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The Bernie Sanders Double Standard

The senator judges Hillary Clinton by a yardstick he doesn't apply to himself.

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At the Table With Bloomberg Politics: The Election and Fiscal Policy

In a "At the Table With Bloomberg Politics" event in Washington sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann host a discussion on the 2016 election and long-term fiscal challenges facing America. Guests include: former Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota; Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee; former Chairperson of the FDIC Sheila Bair and the Brookings Institution's William Gale.

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Dems on FEC Target Corporations in Attempt to 'Blunt' First Amendment

Democrats on the Federal Election Commission are pushing proposals critics say would disenfranchise many Americans from the political process.

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Nebraska lawmakers pass bill allowing licenses to immigrants

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Young immigrants who entered the country illegally but were granted lawful status could qualify for professional and commercial licenses under a bill approved by Nebraska lawmakers on Wednesday.

Senators passed the measure with a 33-11 vote, enough support to override a likely veto by Gov. Pete ...

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Twitter Ends Pro-Second Amendment Ad Campaign

What happened?

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Threaded messaging is coming to Slack

slackdroid_2x In an interview with Walt Mossberg, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said threaded messaging — perhaps one of the service's most important missing components — is finally coming. Butterfield told Mossberg that Slack had been using threading internally for months while testing what the best version of the tool would be for the service, which will hopefully come out in the… Read More

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