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The White House released a statement Monday afternoon announcing First Lady Melania Trump underwent kidney surgery earlier in the day at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and is expected to spend the week there. This morning, First Lady Melania Trump underwent an embolization procedure to treat a benign kidney condition.
As the host of The Daily Show, Noah has lectured his audience on why it makes sense for South Africa to imprison a woman for racism. On Sunday, Noah said on CNN , "I've said from the very beginning that Donald Trump reminds me of an African dictator."
A New Jersey high school is trying out a new cheerleading policy that is already stirring up a real hornet's nest after a mother complained when her daughter didn't make the cut. Sophomore Stephanie Krueger said she's been practicing four days a week for the last decade, dreaming of making it to Hanover Park High School's top tier cheering team, known as the "Black Squad."
President Donald Trump spoke to the people of Israel on Monday via a video feed at the new US Embassy in Jerusalem. : You're an anti-American mouthpiece that was given a platform by people that wish harm upon this country.
Four days ago Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar announced what he hoped would be hundreds of thousands of protesters storming the Israeli border with Gaza on Monday. Former IDF spokesman Avi Mayer posted this tweet today reminding readers the violence at the Gaza border today was neither spontaneous or popular.
Facebook has suspended roughly 200 apps suspected of misusing data they have gathered on the social media site, a vice president at the company said on Monday. The company has investigated "thousands of apps" and "around 200 have been suspended," Ime Archibong, vice president of Product Partnerships at Facebook, wrote in a blog post .
The chips, which are only about as small as a grain of rice, are designed to hold entry keys, credit card information, access to vending machines and printers, and technology to collect train fair while the passenger is already on-board. Ulrika Celsing is one of 3,000 Swedes with a chip implanted in her hand - a process known as "biohacking."
A Concord, Calif., high school student was arrested on May 9 after logging into his high school's grading system network and changing students' grades except his own. About 70 miles southwest of Sacramento, a 16-year-old Ygnacio Valley High School sophomore created a phishing email, which isn't a traditional "hack" rather a trick to get unsuspecting victims to reveal their log-in user names and passwords - one teacher fell for it.
The White House's wish list once comprised a sweeping infrastructure measure, overhauling the federal welfare program, another try at tax cuts and an immigration bill. But now, only the final item makes the list with the midterm elections fast approaching.
President Trump, who campaigned in no small part on his complaints about the American trade deficit with China and his claims that China is a currency manipulator, is now saying he wants to help a controversial Chinese telecommunications company regain access to American markets: In a surprising overture to China, President Donald Trump says he would help a Chinese telecommunications company get "back into business," saying too many jobs in China are at stake after the U.S. government cut off access to its American suppliers. The U.S. Commerce Department last month blocked the ZTE Corp., a major supplier of telecom networks and smartphones based in southern China, from importing American components for seven years.
As the nation's capital struggles with a homeless crisis, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson plans to introduce legislation as soon as this week calling for a study into converting a vacant residence hall blocks from the US Capitol into cheap housing for the well-paid politicians. "I think that building should be available to members of Congress who have found housing costs to be prohibitive," Thompson told The Post - referring to House members who rake in at least $174,000 a year.
Trump's decision to blow up the Iran deal is a massive attack on Europe - Few ideas are as holy in President Trump's international liturgy as the concept of national sovereignty. His National Security Strategy speaks of a "beautiful vision - a world of strong, sovereign, and independent nations Trump team sends mixed signals to Europe - National security adviser John Bolton on Sunday carefully doubled down on President Donald Trump's threat that European countries could be sanctioned by the United States if they continue to be involved with Iran.
Trump's decision to blow up the Iran deal is a massive attack on Europe - Few ideas are as holy in President Trump's international liturgy as the concept of national sovereignty. His National Security Strategy speaks of a "beautiful vision - a world of strong, sovereign, and independent nations Trump team sends mixed signals to Europe - National security adviser John Bolton on Sunday carefully doubled down on President Donald Trump's threat that European countries could be sanctioned by the United States if they continue to be involved with Iran.
While we wait for Managementa to wander back in here and do some much-needed fisking and ranting, I've taken it upon myself to try and entertain you with some occasional music and humor. Just so that people can come here and see something new every day.
Ronan Farrow has signed a second book deal, according to publisher Little, Brown, and Company. The book will dig into the story behind the 2017 New Yorker investigative piece that brought down movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and earned Farrow a Pulitzer Prize.
Yesterday, in a post about authoritarianism on the left, I recalled the old liberal saying, "friends don't let friends vote Republican." In America, no one, friend or foe, can stop us from voting how we please.
In "Robert Mueller would prefer not to" we took a look at Special Counsel Mueller's reluctance to proceed with criminal case he has brought against Concord Management, one of the three Russian entities he has indicted. There I noted that Mueller appeared not to anticipate that any of the defendants would appear in court to defend against the charges.
Former Detective Superintendent Caroline Goode of the UK Metropolitan Police took to Twitter on Saturday, the day before Mother's Day, to bully the mother of Julian Assange. Goode was the Senior Investigating Officer in the Metropolitan Police's Counter-Terrorism Command .