Ghana's MEST innovation space is making moves, gearing up to launch a Pan-African VC fund in 2015, while expanding its IT training program into Nigeria and Kenya. Based in Accra, MEST (full name Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology) operates both as a tech institute and startup incubator. Its 12 month Entrepreneurs-in-Training (EIT) program infuses African techies with… Read More
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A blind man accused of obstructing police has been ordered to stand trial in a case related to a Lansing event celebrating a federal disabilities law.
Judge Hugh Clarke Jr. heard testimony Friday and watched video. He says people don't have a right to disobey lawful ...
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"These sanctuary policies are dangerous."
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"It amazes me, and it actually kind of scares me."
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Economists tell us that the history of human labor is one of continually increasing specialization. As we progressed along the economic continuum from hunter-gatherer through agrarian and industrial and now into post-industrial economies, the labor force has become more fragmented, with workers having more and more specialized skill sets. Read More 
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has so far resisted elaborating on two landmark decisions that established a nationwide right to defend one's home with a gun.
That could change with a new appeal filed by gun owners that challenges a Chicago suburb's assault weapons ban.
The appeal by Dr. ...
"I'm going to kill some people."
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil. It is accepted as axiomatic that they exploit their drivers; they brazenly reject the rule of democratic law, while simultaneously kowtowing to authoritarian China; they use vicious and/or deceitful tactics; and they ignore the needs of the disabled. Read More 
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During his travel, Obama says he'll meet with police chiefs, a community battling drug abuse and former prisoners.
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ST. MARIE, Mont. (AP) - By the time Pat Kelly realized he was in trouble, members of the anti-government sovereign citizen movement had already claimed 371 of the developer's investment homes.
And it all appeared to be legal, done with a favorite tool of anti-government groups: liens.
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In the first part of a projected two-volume biography, Niall Ferguson challenges us to re-consider Henry Kissinger's formative years. A Harvard professor, historian, and media personality, Ferguson is serving as Kissinger's authorized biographer. Pushing back against the notion of Kissinger as a Machiavellian ultra-realist, Ferguson synthesizes tens of thousands of documents into 878 pages of narrative, supported by thousands of notes.
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GABORONE, Botswana (AP) - A court has stopped the Botswana government deporting 10 players from Eritrea's national football team who have refused to go home following a World Cup qualifier and are claiming asylum.
A court ruled the players could stay temporarily and will have their case heard in December.
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TechCrunch has obtained documents that show Pinterest has been forecasting $169 million in revenue this year and $2.8 billion in annual revenue by 2018. Pinterest was also expecting to grow its monthly active users to 151 million by the end of 2015 and 329 million by 2018. Andreessen Horowitz used this information to solicit limited partners to invest in its special investment fund for… Read More 
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Ted Strickland has raised just over 13 percent of the money advisers said he would need to have by November 2016 in order to defeat incumbent Sen. Rob Portman (R., Ohio) in the Ohio Senate race.
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He was "extremely delighted" to visit.
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With the release of iOS 9, the ability to block ads and other content that slows down mobile websites has been a standout feature, if a somewhat controversial one. Soon after iOS 9's launch, a number of app developers rushed to release their own content blockers on the App Store, and these apps quickly climbed the charts. With the abundance of content blockers available today, it's… Read More 
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as Democrats were starting to count him out, Joe Biden sent a clear signal through his political team that not only might he enter the presidential race soon, he has a strategy prepared that he thinks could win.
After months of growing calls for him to ...
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"Injecting politics…leaves a foul taste in the FBI's mouth."
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Twitter today released the details of how its new executive chairman Omid Kordestani will be compensated. The social media company says that Kordestani, who was poached from Google and was apparently the company's highest paid employee in 2014, will be paid a base annual salary of $50,000, and will have the option of getting up to 1.2 million shares on top of that. The shares are… Read More 
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Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley raised $1.3 million in the third quarter of the year and finished September with about $806,000 on hand — putting him well back of Democratic presidential rivals former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Bernard Sanders in the money race.
Mr. O'Malley's campaign ...
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"They took everything."
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Matt Kelly, who has spent the last two-plus years as the head of product at Facebook, has resigned from the company, he announced in a Facebook post to friends and family yesterday. He tell us separately that he's planning to travel to see friends and family and afterward, to get back in to the startup world. Kelly had been with the company since November 2009, joining the (then… Read More 
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Real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Janet Yellen, who chairs the Federal Reserve, is keeping interest rates low for political reasons and that the Obama administration doesn't want to risk triggering a possible recession before the president leaves office.
"Keeping these interest rates at this level ...
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In Nablus, dozens of Palestinians threw firebombs at the site known as Joseph's Tomb.
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It's not just the GOP with an internal struggle.
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