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Donald Trump rebuked by GOP over remarks to Muslim family

Donald Trump refused to apologize Monday to a Muslim family whose son, a U.S. Army captain, was killed in Iraq, drawing a further rebuke from the family, a reprimand from other Gold Star families and calls for more discipline from fellow Republicans, who said that even their presidential nominee cannot ...

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Trump Gives Twitter Shout Out to Ryan's Primary Opponent

Donald Trump thanks Paul Nehlen, who is running against House Speaker Paul Ryan in Wis. primary, for his "kind words, very much appreciated," according to Twitter post. NOTE: Twitter post, which doesn't refer to specific remarks from Nehlen, comes after message posted on Nehlen's campaign website claiming Ryan misrepresents Trump's position on "religious test" for immigrants NOTE: Nehlen, a businessman who has never held public office, has been supportive of Trump; faces Ryan in Aug. 9 primary

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Publishers dodged a bullet in their war with Facebook

Last year at this time, many publishers were wrestling with the question of what to make of Facebook Instant Articles. Facebook's audacious proposition was that it would host content from publishers on Facebook, with no link back to those publishers' sites. In return, the publishers could either run their own ads and get 100% of the revenues or letFacebook handle placements… Read More

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Trump Calls Clinton 'the Devil' and Says Election 'Rigged' in Her Favor

The Republican presidential nominee cast doubt on the outcome of the November elections.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Thomas Bach: IOC decision on Russians 'is about justice'

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - IOC President Thomas Bach issued another defense of his handling of the Russian doping scandal Monday, saying the decision not to exclude the entire Russian team from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics was based on human rights and justice.

Bach used his speech at the ...

Housing Project Bureaucrats In Tiny Towns Get Rich Off The Poor While Doing Little Work

Tiny villages pay housing authority heads 10 times the per capita income

NSF dedicates $35 million to improving software used in science and education

Integrated Management System and Technology Network as Art

Big data is more important than ever in just about every scientific discipline — and the data is bigger than ever, too. To help manage that data and get it into the hands of scientists and students, the National Science Foundation is putting $35 million towards a pair of software institutes that will build the tools necessary for 21st-century research. Read More

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Buffett Rips Trump on Tax Returns, Bankruptcies at Rally

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett ripped into Republican Donald Trump Monday over his refusal to release tax returns, his business bankruptcies and his attack on a fallen soldier's family, repeating a famous phrase from the McCarthy era, "have you no sense of decency, sir."

Source: Bloomberg Politics

U. of Houston student leader punished for "All Lives Matter" post

(Paul Mirengoff) Rohini Sethi is the student body Vice President at the University of Houston. After the assassination of five Dallas police officers at a Black Lives Matter inspired rally, she wrote on Facebook: "Forget #BlackLivesMatter; more like #AllLivesMatter." Sethi quickly deleted the comment, but it nonetheless generated outrage. In response, Sethi issued a statement in which she called her comment "inappropriate." She said it was an emotional response to the tragic

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Hillary Clinton vows to be 'small business president'

Hillary Clinton vowed Monday to be a "small business president" if she's elected to the White House, saying she'll make it easier for start-ups to get access to capital and find the best trained employees across the country.

At a campaign rally in Omaha, Mrs. Clinton contrasted her economic approach ...

Trump 'Thanks' Paul Ryan's Primary Challenger For Kind Words

Paul Ryan supports Donald Trump for president — but does Trump support the Republican House Speaker against his primary challenger? It was assumed by many politicos that Trump was supporting Ryan in his primary fight against Wisconsin businessman Paul Nehlen, but the Republican presidential nominee put that assumption into question with a Monday tweet. Thanks to @pnehlen […]

Why Minecraft predicts the future of collaborative work

Kids are the ultimate beta testers. As soon as they figure out what a new technology is for, they try to make it do something else. They push boundaries, break rules, play with possibilities and share their results in real time. When I see how my son and his friends play Minecraft, I see the future of engineering and technology — and it's an exciting one. Read More

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Trump Surrogates Say He Was Defending Himself vs. Khan

Katrina Pierson, national spokesperson for the Donald Trump campaign, and Boris Epshteyn, a Trump surrogate, discuss the Republican nominee's dispute with the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq in 2004 on "With All Due Respect."

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Mother of Benghazi Victim: Hillary Clinton's Bad Leadership Kills People

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Warren Buffet demands Donald Trump release tax returns

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Monday challenged Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to release his tax returns, offering to meet the billionaire "anytime between now and election" day and host a joint press conference at which reporters can ask the wealthy duo questions about their personal finances.

Speaking at a ...

Los Angeles Files Charges Against CEO Of Soylent For Living Like A Bum

'Experimental living'

In-car cameras let autonomous vehicles track passengers as well as pedestrians

A member of the media test drives a Tesla Motors Inc. Model S car equipped with Autopilot in Palo Alto, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. Tesla Motors Inc. will begin rolling out the first version of its highly anticipated

Powerful sensors and software have made autonomous cars impressively aware of their surroundings — but it isn't just obstacles, pedestrians, and other cars that a vehicle's AI needs to watch out for. It also needs to know what's going on inside itself, and researchers from Fraunhofer are hard at work making that happen. Read More

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How Is the GOP Handling the Fallout From Trump-Khan Feud?

On "With All Due Respect," Mark Halperin and John Heilemann discuss the Republican reaction to their nominee Donald Trump's dispute with the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq in 2004.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Trump Threatens to Revoke New York Times Press Access

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Hillary Clinton bounces out of convention, takes significant lead over Trump in polls

Hillary Clinton has soared to a substantial lead in polling after Democrats' convention last week, with one CNN survey even putting her above the 50 percent mark — the first time she's been there since June.

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump had taken a lead coming out of Republicans' gathering ...

DC Metro Workers Lash Out At Superiors, Demand Steep Increase In Funding

'The supervisors try to force you'

Southeast Asia-based Carousell raises $35M for its social commerce app

Carousell, a four-year-old company in Singapore behind a listings app that enables peer-to-peer selling, has closed a $35 million Series B round to grow its reach into new countries and increase product development. Read More

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Clinton Grabs Post-Convention Lead in CNN/ORC Poll

Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump 52% to 43% in CNN/ORC poll released today. NOTE: Trump was at 48%, Clinton at 45% in CNN/ORC poll conducted July 25 after GOP convention

Source: Bloomberg Politics

If she's moving her lips (2)

(Scott Johnson) I've now listened to Hillary Clinton's interview with Chris Wallace several times and remain in awe of the stream of lies that erupts like a gusher in response to Wallace's few pointed questions. At 15:00 of the video (below), for example, Wallace asks Clinton about the private email server that she used for her official State Department business. Everything she says is premeditated, cold-blooded, false and fraudulent. Consider her characterization

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Campus Carry Begins in Texas

Concealed carry became legal, for those with a permit, on many college campuses in Texas on Monday.

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'No first use' nuclear weapons policy a dangerous Obama idea

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

With only six months to go in the Oval Office, President Obama is contemplating "fundamental change" to U.S. national security policy: a declaration of "no first use" regarding nuclear weapons.

Such a declaration would forswear using any item in the U.S. nuclear arsenal unless we are hit first by ...

Former NFL Star Plans To Sell His Own Pot When It's Legalized

'I've never seen marijuana kill anyone'

Glassdoor sued by user whose email was 'leaked' instead of BCC'ed

A little over a week ago, Glassdoor began emailing its users to let them know of an update to the site's terms of service. But rather than BCC'ing its anonymous reviewers, Glassdoor dumped their email addresses into a regular ol' CC field, effectively outing at least 600,000 members of the site. Now, one of those outed users is suing. Melissa Levine, a Los Angeles-based… Read More

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U.S. Starts Air Campaign Targeting Islamic State in Libya

The U.S. military began its first campaign of airstrikes against Islamic State in Libya, citing a request from the nascent but internationally recognized government that is pushing to retake Sirte, the coastal city the terrorist group has occupied for about year.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Iranian Cleric Charged With Financing Terrorism, Money Laundering in Kosovo

An Iranian cleric based in Kosovo was charged last week with financing terrorism and money laundering through an ostensible nongovernmental organization that worked to spread Tehran's version of Shi'ite Islam across Europe, Radio Free Europe reported Monday.

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Obama pushes back against Trump on military, Gold Star family

President Obama told disabled veterans Monday that he's disgusted with criticism of the nation's military and rhetoric against Gold Star families — training his fire on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

While not mentioning Mr. Trump by name, Mr. Obama lashed out at the Republican nominee for calling the nation's ...

Alabama Coach Lane Kiffin Is Blatantly Lying About His Age On Twitter

Why would he do this?