Senator Collins Honored at 2017 Common Sense Awards

U.S. Senator Susan Collins was honored for her work on issues that help children and families by Common Sense Media, the nation's leading non-partisan, non-profit children's media anda Z advocacy organization. U.S. Senator Susan Collins was honored for her work on issues that help children and families by Common Sense Media, the nation's leading non-partisan, non-profit children's media anda Z advocacy organization.

Texas stokes immigration debate with ‘sanctuary cities’ ban

Texas charged to the forefront of the national debate over immigration as Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a so-called "sanctuary cities" ban that lets police ask during routine stops whether someone is in the U.S. legally and threatens sheriffs with jail if they don't cooperate with federal immigration agents. The new Texas law was blasted by opponents as the nation's toughest on immigrants since Arizona's crackdown in 2010.

MasterChef fans offer theories on who will win

Stalker yelled 'you know who I am' at 20-year-old 'who he never even dated' and then shot her dead at Texas college before killing himself as crowds of terrified witnesses fled for their lives Queen Elizabeth's entire staff is called to a 'highly unusual' emergency meeting at Buckingham Palace - but mystery surrounds the reason why 'You can either leave or you can stay here and die': San Diego pool gunman let white woman escape as he murdered black and hispanic victims 'It takes a lot of work to lose to Donald Trump': David Axelrod turns on Hillary Clinton's claim it was the FBI, the Russians and misogyny that cost her the election 'I would not wish this on my worst enemies!' YouTubers try to survive on the Victoria's Secret Angels' strict pre-show diet - and are left in total MISERY Obama's team 'asked for NSA secrets on more than 30,000 Americans in 2016 and circulated 6,000 ... (more)

Samsung Galaxy S8 breaks S7 records

A separate update will deal with the inability to connect to certain high-speed Wi-Fi networks used by a local carrier and doesn't mean there is a hardware issue with the S8, Samsung said . The Galaxy S8 offers an all-screen front, repositioned fingerprint scanner, iris and facial recognition, a new voice assistant called Bixby , plus the latest Google Android software.

The N.E.A. Really Isn’t “Welfare for Rich, Liberal Elites”

Last autumn, I had a mischievous fantasy that I would fudge my address as Bartley, Nebraska, or Piedmont, South Dakota, on some grant applications in the hope of boosting my odds for success. If every other writer applying to the Guggenheim or the National Endowment for the Arts lives in Brooklyn, or Silver Lake, wouldn't a rural Zip Code give my application a glimmer of geographic diversity? I offer this small confession because many writers, painters, musicians, and art teachers, suffering the proverbial Stockholm syndrome, have internalized the Republican dogma that established artists in coastal cities are hoarding public and private art funds, in a self-serving parochial loop.

Ted Rall: Sheryl Sandberg Is The World’s Most Annoying Person

Invariably promoted as launching a "movement" - as opposed to shilling books - the Facebook executive's publicity blitzes are impossible to avoid. There's the inevitably self-involved New York Times op-ed; she's in Time, Fortune, USA Today, The Washington Post and Huffington Post , which tells us "Why Sheryl Sandberg Decided To Speak Openly About Losing Her Husband .

NYC mayor announces plan for free preschool for 3-year-olds

In this Sept. 4, 2014, file photo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio visits the Inner Force Early Tots Childhood Learning Center, a community-based organization that's part of the pre-K program, in the Brooklyn borough of New York on the first day of the mayor's expansion of early childhood education.

Zuckerberg Uses Virtual Reality To Put You Inside A Prison

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg released a virtual reality movie Sunday in hopes to help people assimilate with prison inmates. The documentary called "Step to the Line" utilizes VR technology to give viewers an opportunity to see prison and convicts in a first-person perspective.

Nevada Democrats Want Say in Congress Hearing on Nuke Dump

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Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey is back. And it’s weird – CNET

What do you do when you're young, rich, love internet irony and have a lot of time to kill? You could follow the example of Palmer Luckey, the 24 year-old cofounder of Oculus VR, who emerged Wednesday from an apparent social media exile after his political activities raised eyebrows last year. Luckey changed his Twitter avatar to Obi-Wan Kenobi -- perhaps in reference to the Star Wars character's last words, "If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

The Market In 5 Minutes

Facebook Inc launched a new Augmented Reality platform, which allows users to overlay graphics onto photos and videos in real time, leveraging new technologies such as SLAM, 3D effects and object recognition: Link Fox News is parting ways with Bill O'Reilly in the wake of a sexual-harassment scandal, bringing an end to the combative host's two-decade run that drew millions of loyal viewers and helped build the network's political influence: Link Here's a look at how some of the world's largest financial institutions performed in the first quarter and their stock's performance since the start of 2017 and over the past year: Link Every golf course in China is equipped with cameras at almost every tee.

Steve Ballmer’s new gov’t data project assumes that facts change minds

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has a lot of money and nothing to prove. Post-Microsoft, his biggest achievement so far has been paying $2 billion to buy the LA Clippers , but on Monday The New York Times dropped an extensive report about his next venture: a project called " USAFacts ," which aggregates publicly available government data to tell you how your city, state, and federal tax dollars are spent.

Cernovich: Google Hired Contractors to De-List InfoWars from Search Index

Google has hired contractors to remove or limit Alex Jones' website Infowars.com from its search engines. According to a search engine evaluator for Google, all contractors have been [instructed] to actively rate InfoWars as a low quality and untrusted site.