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Seriously, a Republican running for state Assembly in District 14? Attempting to win over a liberal stronghold? Having never run for office before? "I always wanted to run for office," said Allen, who in one of the more intriguing local races in the June 7 election, finished a close third in a top-two primary battle to Democrats Mae Torlakson and Tim Grayson. "This came up as an open seat," Allen said, referring to the vacuum left by termed-out Susan Bonilla.
Democratic Candidate for President former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Californians at Los Angeles Mission College Culinary Arts Institute in Sylmar, California. Search engine giant Google is being accused of manipulating search results to in favor of Hillary Clinton, who is now the likely Democratic nominee for president.
Register to become a member today. You'll get the essential information you need to do your job better, including Nearly six weeks after Facebook was accused of hiding conservative content from its users, Google is facing allegations that it's favoring presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over Republican candidates.
Nevada recently agreed to help EHang develop a pilotless drone that could carry people on trips through the air for more than 20 minutes. Nevada could soon approve the next generation of self-driving vehicles, flying passengers through the air in a new autonomous aerial vehicle .
When Ro Khanna challenged Rep. Mike Honda's re-election two years ago, Khanna finished 20 percentage points behind the fellow Democrat in the 17th Congressional District primary. Khanna narrowed that gap to within four points that November, but ultimately lost.
Of course this is an inadequate way of posing the question. God is always present for believers, even if the political workings of the divine can be hard to discern.
One hundred years ago today was the largest and most expensive naval battles of the First World War - the Battle of Jutland. While tactically the naval fight was a failure as more British ships and people were lost, strategically it was a success due to the damage to the German fleet.
South African grain and oilseed prices surged to records after the rand weakened and international prices increased, making imports pricier just as the country becomes a net buyer of the commodities after a drought damaged local harvests. Yellow corn for July delivery rose 2.7 percent to 3,815 rand a metric ton on the South African Futures Exchange in Johannesburg Monday, the highest level since trading started in August 1996.
Jon Morris, left, and Aaron Amador, both of WHPacific, work a GPS receiver as they plot utility locations on Airport Vista Way in Santee. - John Gastaldo Jon Morris, left, and Aaron Amador, both of WHPacific, work a GPS receiver as they plot utility locations on Airport Vista Way in Santee.
"Rules are made to be broken" is a saying that has many variations, but perhaps no one has summed up Hillary Clinton's attitude about rules more than the late science-fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein, who said: "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
A jury in federal court yesterday found that Google's use of Oracle's Java code and package names in its Android operating system is lawful under the principle of "fair use." Oracle, which filed suit against Google in 2010 after acquiring the Java software platform through its purchase of Sun Microsystems, is expected to appeal that decision.
"It's pretty much an epidemic," said Chad Olivier of Baton Rouge. "The real issue isn't so much of who gets breached, it's how do they even know they've been attacked."
Retired U.S. astronaut and University of Tennessee Space Institute graduate Scott Kelly will speak at the school's "Welcome Week Life of Mind" celebration. Kelly's talk is a part of UT's First-Year Studies 100 class, which is a zero-credit pass-fail class that gives students their first taste of college studies.
Jon Callas, who co-founded several well-respected secure communications companies including PGP Corp, Silent Circle and Blackphone, rejoined Apple in May, an Apple spokesman said. Callas had worked at Apple in the 1990s and again between 2009 and 2011, when he designed an encryption system to protect data stored on a Macintosh computer.
Noting that "terrorism is one of the truly urgent issues of our time," Microsoft recently said it is taking several steps to identify and combat extremist content online. Those measures include a change in its terms of use to prohibit the posting of terrorist content on Microsoft consumer services like Xbox Live, OneDrive, Skype and Outlook, according to a blog post on Friday.
Just over 50 years ago in a river town in southeastern Ohio, a high-tech polymer called Udel PSU was produced for the very first time. NASA applied the shiny gold film to the visor on Neil Armstrong's helmet.
This one hasn't been to space. Shuttle fuel tanks are designed to disintigrate once the Space Shuttle has used them to rocket past the earth's atmosphere.
Not all of the kids of West Orange, New Jersey's Pleasantdale Elementary School were exactly thrilled when they heard their school would be renamed to Kelly Elementary, according to the school's PTA members. But they quickly warmed to the idea - and yesterday , they cheered the loudest of all as members of the school community and city residents gathered to celebrate their identical-twin hometown astronauts, Mark and Scott Kelly.
Taking its cue from a third-grader in Baltimore, the Obama administration on Thursday opened a dialogue with students to seek ideas on how the government can encourage more young people to engage in science, math and technology. White House officials announced in a blog post that they are inviting students - or "kid scientists and innovators" - to send in their ideas for shaping the future of the field, including how to improve science and engineering education in schools.