When you pull the pin on a hand grenade, you have four seconds from the time you release the spoon — the aluminum lever that holds down the fuse trigger — until it explodes. Four seconds can be a very long time. Read More
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The Republican Party and Donald Trump inched toward unity Sunday as Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus moved to squelch efforts by #NeverTrump conservatives seeking a third-party alternative.
Mr. Priebus said a search for a more conservative presidential option would be a "suicide mission" that would all but guarantee a ...
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As Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote in an essay titled "Intellect," "God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both." Rarely in our nation's recent political history has Emerson's instructive insight seemed more apropos.
Those opposing President ...
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Pennsylvania Democrats, no strangers to corruption, are surpassing their own dirty reputations as they prepare to host the Democratic National Convention this summer in Philadelphia.
There's former Rep. Chaka Fattah, an 11-term Democrat from Philadelphia whose trial opens Monday in federal court on charges of bribery, concealment of unlawful campaign ...
The Obama-era gun surge finally is receding, according to the latest government statistics that show the total number of firearms manufactured in the U.S. dropped in 2014 for the first time during this administration.
The numbers also showed the beginnings of a post-Newtown shift in production, as companies began to ...
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Although there is still a lot of hype surrounding 3D printing and how it may or may not be the next industrial revolution, the cost of printing continues to drop while the quality of 3D prints continues to rise. This development can be traced to advanced 3D printing technologies becoming accessible due to the expiration of key patents on pre-existing industrial printing processes. Read More 
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Some of Donald Trump's supporters watched with trepidation as he was whisked around Washington last week to powwow with GOP leaders and markedly softened his tone, worried that he was being co-opted by the party establishment.
Mr. Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee because voters were thrilled by his ...
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Last year was a massive year for mergers, with industry giants like Dell and Aol finally closing deals that were large enough to make 2015 a record-breaking year. Predictions mostly held that 2016 would be another huge year for mergers, as they are one of the best ways to continue growing share price after a prolonged bull market. Read More 
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In his most extensive attack yet on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, President Obama said Sunday that "ignorance is not a virtue" in politics.
Speaking to graduates at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Mr. Obama also criticized the Republican's proposals to keep immigrants and Muslims out of the U.S. The ...
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Internet accessibility for all people, of all ages and in all places has unleashed unprecedented resources and opportunities. It also unlocked our digital and physical security. The sacrifice of safety is an unintended consequence of the Internet age. Can the tools that caused this vulnerability be reappropriated to make us safer? Read More 
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Authorities cleared the tracks of protesters and arrested 52 climate activists Sunday morning in Washington state.
A spokesman for the rail line near two refineries in northwest Washington says about 150 people spent the night in tents ...
Power now resides with massive centralizing corporations like Google and Facebook and thus the Internet no longer reflects the interests of its users. So, the digital revolution has pretty much failed, according to Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger. But not all is lost. Wenger has a three part solution to fix the future – all of which rests of putting power back into the hands… Read More 
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FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) - Mounis Hammouda and Hisham Shaban were stranded in Honduras, penniless after being ripped off by a smuggler who was supposed to get them to Mexico so that they could arrive at their final destination, the United States.
The Palestinian men had traveled across the world to ...
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House Speaker Paul D. Ryan did not ask presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to "change" during their meeting with GOP leaders last week on Capitol Hill, a top Trump aide said Sunday.
"Donald Trump was not asked by the leadership to change, and there's no reason for him to ...
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In the ever-shifting landscape of cyberthreats and attacks, having access to timely information and intelligence is vital and can make a big difference in protecting organizations and firms against data breaches and security incidents. Malicious actors are getting organized, growing smarter and becoming more sophisticated, which effectively makes traditional defense methods and tools… Read More 
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska's Legislature could see a major shake-up next year if last week's primary results are any indication.
At least five incumbents appear to face a serious threat in the general election, having finished second in the primary to challengers. One lawmaker could be eliminated once provisional ...
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Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, an exhibition at the Met Breuer, is filled with curiosities.
Take, for instance, the 1775 portrait of a Spanish noblewoman by Anton Raphael Mengs. The subject sits in a chair, resplendent in a silk dress and fur-lined coat. The sumptuous fabric, for which the sitter undoubtedly paid a tidy sum in order to impress viewers with her status, is not what draws the eye or raises eyebrows today. At some point the sitter's face was blurred, her distinguishing features reduced to ghostly black shadows cast on opaque flesh. She looks rather like a bank robber wearing pantyhose over her head. The sitter's lapdog was traced but never painted, leaving a pug-shaped outline of raw wood panel in the middle of the portrait, surrounded on all sides by the rich colors and textures of a finished oil painting.
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SEATTLE (AP) - Demanding energy policy changes, hundreds of climate activists marched to the site of two refineries in northwest Washington state to call for a break from fossil fuels.
The protest developed Saturday as smaller group continued to block railroad tracks leading to the facilities for a second day.
...AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Just before dusk, Carlos Torres gets ready for work on the night shift.
The memories of his former life hang all around his concrete box of a home in the Aquiles Serdan section of Reynosa, one of the poorest neighborhoods in one of the hemisphere's most ...
Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) protested what they viewed as unfair practices by Hillary Clinton's supporters at the Nevada Democratic Convention on Saturday.
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