July 1, 2016

Amazon Prime Video gets exclusive deal for most PBS Kids shows

daniel-tiger-pbs-ios Amazon Prime Video will be the exclusive subscription streaming service for the majority of PBS series for children, Amazon announced today. All episodes are now available to download and stream. Prime members in the U.S. can watch PBS episodes via the Amazon Video app for TVs, connected devices including Fire TV, mobile devices and online. The shows will also be available with Amazon… Read More

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Elizabeth Harrington on Lynch: She Should Recuse Herself

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Hillary Clinton raised nearly $70 million in June

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in June raised nearly $70 million and begins July with about $44 million in the bank, according to fundraising totals released Friday afternoon.

Of the $70 million, about $40 million will fund Mrs. Clinton's campaign, and another $28 million will go to the Democratic National Committee ...

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HuffPost Blogger Involved In Exciting Coke Bust

Fun times at Arianna's sleep-focused website.

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Hyperloop One co-founder and CTO Brogan BamBrogan steps down

Brogan BamBrogan, co-founder and CTO at Hyperloop One, talks about the future of transportation during a press conference in Las Vegas on May 10, 2016. The Hyperloop One startup intent on zipping people along at near-supersonic speeds in pressurized tubes announced that the French national rail company had joined its growing list of backers. Hyperloop One said that it closed an $80 million round of second round of financing with funding coming an array of investors, including GE Ventures and France's SNCF. (Photo: JOHN GURZINSKI/AFP/Getty Images) Hyperloop One co-founder and CTO Brogan BamBrogan is out at the company and former VP of engineering Josh Geigle will be taking over BamBrogan's role as CTO. The move, though abrupt, may have been a long time coming. The company has been shifting Bambrogan away from public comment for months and switched him to the CTO role, appointing former Cisco exec Rob Lloyd as CEO in… Read More

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How To Stop 99% Of All Mass Shootings With One Simple Gun Law

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Loretta says she'll accept recommendation on Clinton prosecution, but won't recuse herself

(Paul Mirengoff) Attorney General Loretta Lynch said today that she "fully expect[s]" to accept the recommendations of the "career agents and investigators" who are considering whether Hillary Clinton should be criminally charged in connection with her scandalous use of a private email server. In response to a follow-up question, she said "I will accept their recommendations," and added that "the case will be resolved by the same team that has been working

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Man Plays Star Spangled Banner With Gun

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Sarah Palin unloads on #NeverTrumpers, calling them Republicans Against Trump, or 'RAT'

DENVER — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin unloaded Friday on conservatives who refuse to support presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, dubbing them "Republicans Against Trump, or RAT for short."

"They want to take their [Denver] Nuggets ball home and stay home instead of vote, because their guy didn't win ...

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This Sexy Swimsuit Model Wants You To Check Out American Flag Bikinis

What's more appealing: The model or the sale?

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Knocki turns your tables and walls into smart device controllers

knocki By most standards, Knocki has had a home run Kickstarter campaign, blowing way past its $35,000 target with more than $1.1 million committed. But it sounds like CEO Jake Boshernitzan is still hoping for more support in the campaign's final hours (it's scheduled to end at 3am Eastern on Saturday). After all, he said that Knocki deliberately set the campaign target on the low… Read More

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Donald Trump's Personal Trade War Targets TPP, NAFTA

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has focused on trade in his campaign, vowing major changes to U.S. policy while renegotiating existing deals. Bloomberg's Brendan Greeley examines Trump's trade war on "Bloomberg Markets." (Source: Bloomberg)

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U.S. Embassy in Bangladesh Orders People to Shelter in Place Amid Hostage Situation

The U.S. Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, issued a shelter in place order amid reports of a shooting and hostage situation in the capital's diplomatic zone.

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Alabama Republicans Face Civil Rights Lawsuit Over Wage Law

'We want the judge to say the state law is unconstitutional and to tell the city of Birmingham that it can enforce its ordinance'

Via: The Daily Caller

Virtual reality training ramps up for the 2016 NFL season

STRIVR Football is a downright violent sport. If players aren't injured in the games themselves, there's a chance that they could be hurt in practice. It happens all the time. While there's no substitute for actual football practice, there is a technology enjoying rapid growth in the NFL and it involves taking contact-free virtual reps: virtual reality training. Read More

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Grandmother Scares Off Three Home Invaders With Handgun

A Florida grandmother warded off three intruders with her handgun on Tuesday.

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Appeals court dumps states' latest challenge to Obamacare

A federal appeals court seemed sympathetic to West Virginia's complaints about Obamacare, but tossed out the state's challenge in a ruling Friday that leaves President Obama with a free hand to alter enforcement of the law.

The judges said West Virginia didn't prove it was injured by Mr. Obama's about-face, ...

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Uber Drivers Caught Smuggling Illegals Across The Border

But was there surge pricing?

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The data offers a first glimpse into Clinton's general-election advertising strategy, as well as her campaign's view of the 2016 Electoral College map.

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Annals of mewling idiocy

(Scott Johnson) In the annals of mewling idiocy emanating from Foggy Bottom, Secretary of State John Kerry must be given pride of place. Speaking to his friends at the Aspen Ideas Festival earlier this week, he contributed in a major way to man-made global warming. It was in his remarks at the festival that Kerry declared ISIS's Istanbul massacre a sign of our success: Now, yes, you can bomb an airport. You

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Inflation-Adjusted Rents Up 64% Since 1960 While Incomes Up Only 18%

Inflation-adjusted rents are up 64 percent since 1960 while household incomes increased only 18 percent in the same time frame, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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Casper decides to keep open-carry ban at city meetings

CAPSER, Wyo. (AP) - Gun owners will not be permitted to bring firearms into Casper City Council meetings after officials there decided not to change a ban on openly carrying guns at meetings.

The Casper Star-Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/29jcAss ) that state law prohibits concealed weapons at public meetings, and Casper ...

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Hillary Supporter Defends Private Email: She's 'Always Under The Microscope' [VIDEO]

Claims 'it's not because there is some underlying, underhanded thing'

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Seed investing is bifurcating

Macro image of young vegetable plant with fresh green leafs A curious gap has emerged in the early-stage investment landscape: While emerging startups are able to raise very small, sub-$500,000 rounds, seed and pre-A investors are requiring increasingly higher revenue and market traction milestones before they deploy capital to companies. Lately, it seems as if the single, discrete "seed" round of $1-$2 million has largely disappeared. Read More

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Trump Says He'd Like Palin to Have Convention Role: NYT

Donald Trump says he expects Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to speak at national convention and wants Sarah Palin to have some role, New York Times reports, citing interview with Trump. Trump is considering asking Serena Williams, Don King, and Dana White to have convention roles, report says NOTE: Williams has said she doesn't vote because of her Jehovah's Witness faith Related: Trump Campaign Lining Up Sports Icons for Convention Trump's children will speak and his wife is considering it, report

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Morning Joe Rips Obama Administration's Handling of Syria, ISIS

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Court dismisses part of lawsuit against Frederick County

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - The U.S. District Court has dismissed part of a discrimination lawsuit against Frederick County and its sheriff, brought by a woman who challenged the department's immigration enforcement.

The Frederick News-Post reports (http://bit.ly/29gY0jP) that according to a June 16 filing, the court determined that Sheriff Chuck Jenkins ...

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Lynch Signals She Will Accept FBI's Clinton Investigation Recommendation, Stops Short Of Recusal

Republican wants her to recuse herself

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Björk will wear 3D-printed masks in upcoming shows because Björk

BjorkDigital_Tokyo_NeriOxman_Photocred_Santiago_felipe_dezeen_936_6-1-906x604@2x Singer Björk has commissioned a set of wild 3D-printed masks for her upcoming shows. These masks, made in conjunction with MIT's Mediated Matter lab and Stratasys, are called Rottlace and have a strange, hairy quality thanks to advances in 3D printing filament and new printing techniques. Professor Neri Oxman lead the team that made the masks. "I am so incredibly blown away by… Read More

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Trump Tries to Master Tightrope Walk With Evangelicals

Evangelical Christians helped fuel his rise to the top of the Republican Party but could also limit his general-election appeal.

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Shakespeare for Grownups (and Gardeners)

For high-school students and undergraduates who encounter the Bard in survey courses or, worse, under the antiseptic light of Great Books programs, Shakespearean textual scholarship is the undiscovered country. Travelers who would return from its bourne will welcome the guiding hand of Emma Smith.

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16 Pictures That Prove Britney Spears Is The Queen Of Pop [SLIDESHOW]

'Stronger than yesterday...'

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Vivatech concentrates France's booming tech scene, and its minds

viva Over the last 5 years something big happened in France. Perhaps it was the economic crisis which added some much-needed shock-therapy. Perhaps it was an increasing friendliness towards tech entrepreneurship by the government. Whatever happened, France is now well on its way to creating a far better environment for startups. Yesterday the government passed a seismic new bill – the… Read More

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