This is a guest post by Matt Clifford, co-founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First Almost no one in the UK tech ecosystem wanted Brexit. Most of us are worried about the impact on our country and the continent – but one group that's well positioned to thrive is the UK's startups. I've spent much of the last few days talking to Entrepreneur First's portfolio and there… Read More
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Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D., Va.) doesn't care whether or not the Virginia Supreme Court reverses his executive order that restored voting rights for 206,000 felons because he plans to circumvent the judicial branch if he has to.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - One of Brazil's top security officials says the political turmoil that has brought repeated changes to key government positions will not affect security at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Andrei Rodrigues, responsible for overseeing Brazil's security at special events, said on Wednesday that there will ...
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Kanye West and Adidas just announced they are turning their Yeezy collaboration into a full-fledged partnership. The deal, which Adidas is calling "the most significant partnership ever created between a non-athlete and an athletic brand", will result in the creation of a new business unit inside of Adidas – akin to how Nike handles the Michael Jordan brand. The new unit will… Read More 
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Over a year ago, Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit announced the beta launch of the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). While AWS already offers a number of cloud storage services in the form of S3, Glacier and Elastic Block Store, the idea behind EFS is to offer AWS users access to a more straightforward file storage system that at least partly mirrors the features of the kind of… Read More 
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CIA Director John Brennan said that the suicide bombings in Istanbul, Turkey bore the signs of ISIS and should serve as a warning to Americans that the terrorist group is aiming to carry out similar attacks in the U.S.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Democratic legislative leaders are promising to do away with new partisan commissions overseeing Wisconsin elections and ethics laws if they gain majority control of the Legislature.
Democratic lawmakers held a news conference Wednesday to mark the final day of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board. The Republican-controlled ...
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Box announced Box Shuttle today, a new service that combines software and consulting to help customers move large — as in millions or even hundreds of millions — of legacy files to the Box service. Previously, companies with files stored in network file shares or legacy content management systems like Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum or OpenText were on their own when it came… Read More 
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A pro-Hillary Clinton super-PAC accepted multiple contributions from a company that contracts with the U.S. government despite such donations being banned under campaign finance laws.
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Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New York's newspapers:
The Poughkeepsie Journal on legislative action to fight the heroin epidemic.
June 25
So, once again, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has crisscrossed the state and signed into law a bill designed to fight the heroin scourge.
Let's hope this helps ...
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British startup Made is opening its largest showroom to date in Paris tomorrow. Made is a sort of Everlane for furniture. The company tries to cut as many middlemen as possible to provide good looking furniture at affordable prices. And yet, 60 percent of its sales still happen in the U.K. The company is now heavily focusing on international expansion. And this new showroom is a great example… Read More 
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) - In the wake of a unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate a corruption conviction against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, legal experts say federal prosecutors in Oregon face a narrowed scope in influence-peddling cases like the one involving John Kitzhaber.
Kitzhaber has been ...
Those core values are that friends and family come first, that the feed should inform and entertain, that Facebook is a platform for all ideas, that authentic communication beats spam, that you have the controls to hide or highlight what you want, and that Facebook will keep iterating to improve the experience. Facebook is also making a feed ranking change today that literally puts its… Read More 
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Rep. Michael McCaul, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, on Wednesday said the Islamic State terror group is "most likely" responsible for the deadly suicide bombing attacks in Turkey on Tuesday.
Mr. McCaul said the Istanbul attack is like a "sequel" to attacks at an airport and metro station ...
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In a move that is both altogether unexpected and entirely predictable, Amazon is announcing this morning that it will bringing the same on-screen ad subsidized price cut its been offering on its own Kindle products to third party devices. As of this morning, the online mega-retail is offering up deep discounts on a pair of already low-priced smartphones in a service akin to its Special… Read More 
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BOSTON (AP) - A second member of Mayor Marty Walsh's administration is being charged in extorting a music festival production company.
Timothy Sullivan, the city's Chief of Staff of Intergovernmental Affairs, was arrested Wednesday morning following a federal grand jury indictment, the U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz's office announced.
The 36-year-old ...
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