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The New York Times used a full page in this week's paper to print out every lie President Donald Trump has publicly told since taking office just over five months ago.

The list contains Trump's contradictions on a slew of topics, like the Iraq War, NATO, the administration's controversial travel ban, the crowd size at Trump's inauguration, the ongoing controversy over Russia's interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign's possible role in it, and more. Читать дальше...

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As Republicans try to advance toward their goal of defunding Planned Parenthood, a trio of advertising employees thinks it has found a way to convince people it's misguided: by tricking them into learning more about what Planned Parenthood does.

Alyssa Georg, Elena Knox, and Claudia Cukrov work for New York-based ad agency SS+K. They've launched a website and Twitter account aimed at engaging some of Planned Parenthood’s most vocal critics online.

Defundpppetition.com... Читать дальше...

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John Simmons didn't expect to go into banking.

His father was a plumber. He jokes that when he flew in to Newark airport for his interview with JPMorgan, he had $120 in his pocket. It cost him that much to get from the airport to New York City. He wasn't much of a negotiator back then, he quips.

More than 20 years later, he's still with the bank, and heads the middle market banking & specialized industries (MMBSI) group in JPMorgan's commercial banking business. Читать дальше...

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Billionaire tycoons Charles and David Koch are unhappy with the Senate's healthcare bill which may be voted on this week, officials who work for the brothers' political apparatus said.

They were staunchly opposed to the House of Representatives' version of the bill as well — called the American Health Care Act — and promised millions in campaign donations to Republicans who helped sink it. Officials say the brothers will also lobby for changes to the Senate's bill.

At a weekend event with conservative donors... Читать дальше...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Jorge Posada peppered line drives around the Yankee Stadium outfield, first from the left side, and then the right.

The switch-hitting backstop seemed plenty comfortable to one of his old teammates — a soon-to-be Hall of Famer, no less.

"Tim Raines, he said, 'You look like you can play,'" Posada recalled. "I said, 'There's no way, man. They're throwing too hard right now.'"

Posada, a 17-year major league veteran, had no trouble catching up Sunday. Читать дальше...

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Shoes are a human obsession. Despite being just a piece of clothing, people care immensely about their shoes, and we show it in many different ways.

We’ve written songs about them and displayed them in museums. To get the perfect pair, people are willing to wait in line for days, pay insane markups or even use violence. Читать дальше...

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MGT Capital, the company run by John McAfee, said it would start to mine Ethereum — the bitcoin rival that has surged nearly 4,000% this year — in its latest bid to turn a profit.

MGT, which is publicly traded over the counter, has pitched itself to investors mostly as a cybersecurity company. Cybersecurity is where McAfee made his mark as the founder of the antivirus company that bears his name.

But McAfee has more recently started to tout cryptocurrencies. Читать дальше...

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Planning to book your summer holiday? Just type in an emoji to kick off your flight or hotel search on Kayak.

The travel search engine has rolled out an emoji-search functionality today, in which users can use emojis to look up flight or hotel deals for their destinations.

Want to go to New York City or Las Vegas? Just put in the Statue of Liberty or the slot machine emoji for a list of deals. Kayak has introduced the emoji-search functionality for 10 cities so far... Читать дальше...

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Coined shortly after the financial crisis in 2009, the so-called “gig economy” or “sharing economy” refers to the growing cadre of companies like Airbnb, Lyft, and TaskRabbit—platforms that employ temporary workers who provide a wide variety of services: delivery, ridesharing, rentals, and odd jobs.

A recent Pew study estimated that nearly a quarter of all Americans earn some money through these platforms.

But how much money are the service providers in... Читать дальше...

Swollen, throbbing, and pale purple, Beatrice's left leg looked less like a limb and more like an oversized, striated eggplant.* But her breathing — or lack thereof — is what caught my attention first.

As you see on this head-spinning graph below, the total amount of money in the world is $84 trillion. But that includes money in the bank. In physical coins and notes, the total global money supply is only $31 trillion. See the problem? Hence the rise of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is the cryptocurrency that refuses to die. Its demise has been predicted numerous times, and one expert calculated that its value is eighteen times more volatile than the U.S. dollar. Yet the virtual money keeps going from strength to strength. Читать дальше...

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Have you ever wished you had a personal assistant to help you find a new job or move up in your career? Well, now you can have one, thanks to the chatbot.

Chatbots know how to interact with people, because they either follow a human-composed set of rules or learn how to communicate via artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

Bots that follow rules are more limited and can only answer things they’ve been programmed to understand.

They won’t... Читать дальше...

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The statement the White House issued late Wednesday night following a more than two-hour meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump’s Mideast point man Jared Kushner was, at first glance, extremely innocuous.

Kushner was joined by Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt and Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, and the communiqué that followed the session with the prime minister was bland and seemed to reveal – true to form for these types of statements – very little. Читать дальше...

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In a new interview, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank explained the comments he made that ignited a firestorm earlier this year after they were widely seen as praising President Donald Trump.

"It was unfortunate that my words got characterized in a way that were meant to be divisive in some way, shape, or form," Plank told Willie Geist on NBC's Sunday Today Show.

Plank stopped short of apologizing for or rescinding the comments he made on CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report" in February... Читать дальше...

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Netflix has released the titles that will be leaving its streaming service in July, so take a break from your tans and watch some great movies before they're gone.

There's some very worthy stuff you should consider: Mel Brooks’ classic “Blazing Saddles,” the late Adam West as the Dark Knight in a movie version of his popular “Batman” TV series from the '60s, and Melanie Griffith putting the moves on Harrison Ford (and facing off against Sigourney Weaver) in the '80s classic... Читать дальше...

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President Donald Trump seemed to confirm reports that he called the House of Representatives' healthcare bill "mean" during a "Fox & Friends" interview that aired Sunday morning. 

The Associated Press, citing anonymous congressional sources, reported earlier this month that Trump called the House's version of the bill "mean" during a meeting with Republican senators, asking them to make their version of the bill be more "generous."

The White House declined to comment on the AP's story... Читать дальше...

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White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Sunday dismissed criticism of the Trump administration's increasing lack of on-camera press briefings.

Asked about CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta's criticism of the reduced number of daily televised press briefings, Spicer told Fox News that the White House was holding hand-recorded or audio-only briefings because some reporters weren't seeking information during briefings.

"I think some of these reporters are more... Читать дальше...

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When the prospects taken in Thursday's NBA Draft sign their first contracts, many of which are multi-year, multi-million-dollar deals, it doesn't mean they're just set for life.

There are several unexpected costs to signing seven- and eight-figure deals that people may not realize, according to Adonal Foyle, a 1997 first-round pick who played 12 years in the NBA.

While speaking to Business Insider to promote his new book "The Athlete CEO," Foyle broke... Читать дальше...

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Ford's GT supercar was revealed at the Detroit auto show in 2015 and, a little over a year later, the racing version won the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans and notched a second in the 2017 race.

That meant that the race car and the road car had to be developed at the same time.

And unlike the GT's on-track competition in the IMSA WeatherTech series in North America and the World Endurance Championship in Europe, the GT was really a race car first.

The Ferrari 488... Читать дальше...

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North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has as been the source of much international scrutiny.

Lately, he's been in the news because of his regime's growing nuclear weapons capabilities and the case of American student Otto Warmbier, who died just days after he was released from a DPRK prison.

Information about life inside "Hermit Kingdom" is somewhat scarce, as are details about the daily routine of the country's self-styled "Supreme Leader."

However, some information has slipped through. Читать дальше...

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Daniel is “free-spirited and open-minded” about hooking up.

As one of the 70 percent of students who do so each year on U.S. college campuses, he embraces hookups and their culture of students having sexual encounters without expectations of any feelings, much less relationships.

Hooking up, according to Daniel, is all about “fun,” “gratification,” “curiosity,” “party culture” and “hormones.”

As Catholicism teaches abstinence before marriages, there... Читать дальше...

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In fixed income, and particularly non-investment grade credit, one area to consider as a differentiation point between managers (whether active or passive) is in the use and management of stressed and distressed credit.

Rather than use credit ratings, which can be stale and backward-looking, we use a market-based definition that flags positions based on their price, spread over government bonds, and yield-to-worst to define and analyze our exposure to these situations. Читать дальше...

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Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, criticized the Obama administration for its failure to take appropriate action after it learned Russia was meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

"The Obama administration should have done a lot more when it became clear that not only was Russia intervening, but it was being directed at the highest levels of the Kremlin," Schiff told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday.

Schiff's remarks came on the heels... Читать дальше...

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Best known for her comedic work in movies and TV — and her recurring role as Trudy Campbell on “Mad Men” — Alison Brie is on the cusp of taking her career up a notch. And she’s getting there by taking on some edgy material.

On Friday, you’ll see her as the lead in the fictional origin story of how the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling got off the ground in the 1980s with the new Netflix series “GLOW.” Then a week later she and Aubrey Plaza star as horny... Читать дальше...

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If you're looking to boost your sex appeal, step away from the mirror.

Business Insider asked a panel of dating and relationship experts to share the most appealing qualities in a potential partner — and no one mentioned physical traits. Sure, looks can be important, but it seems people are also seeking someone who carries themselves with confidence and treats others well.

Read on to find out which personality traits you should be working on (and flaunting) in order to attract love. Читать дальше...