The former CBS anchor, who has gained a new following with his Facebook essays on Donald Trump, is working on ‘What Unites Us,’ a book of essays about patriotism due Nov. 7. Dan Rather to write about patriotism in new book, ‘What Unites Us’ The former CBS anchor, who has gained a new following with his Facebook essays on Donald Trump, is working on ‘What Unites Us,’ a book of essays about patriotism due Nov. 7. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2m6KJNA “As we all know, we live in turbulent and disorienting times,” Dan Rather said in a Facebook statement announcing his book. “And yet conversing with all of you has renewed my optimism in this nation and its people.”
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Carson compares slaves to immigrants coming to a a land of dreams and opportunitya
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson referred to Africans enslaved during the Middle Passage as “immigrants,” calling America “a land of dreams and opportunity.” Ben Carson compared slaves to immigrants seeking a better life in his first official address Monday as Housing and Urban Development Secretary, setting off an uproar on social media.
Snapchat value tops $24B after IPO pricing
… President Obama failed to devote enough time to their issues. Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENPH), Melco Crown Entertainment Limited (NASDAQ:MPEL) Bernstein reissued an outperform rating on shares of Melco Crown Entertainment in a research note on …
Did you spot any of these celebrities spotted in the region this winter?
At least six celebrities have been spotted in the Lowcountry since November. From Leonardo DiCaprio to Norman Reedus , the celebrities have been spotted checking out local eateries, participating in festivals and even grabbing coffee at the Beaufort Starbucks.
Back to the future: Congress should look to past for Fintech going forward
My older colleague started working on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant in 1987. When he and the press secretary sent releases, they printed and mailed them back to the district and hand delivered copies to the House press gallery.
Jeremy Clarkson and his ‘Grand Tour’ co-stars tell us about their…
Amazon has just posted the final episode of “The Grand Tour,” the mind-bogglingly expensive, globe-trotting motoring show from Jeremy Clarkson and co. You might have heard about it. As chief executive Ernesto Schmitt explained to us last year , Drive Tribe positions itself as a “digital hub for motoring.”
A special warfare unit was spotted flying a Trump flag in public. Now the Navy is investigating.
Steve Thompson was on his way to pick up some feed for his goat farm Sunday morning when he noticed an impressive-looking military convoy and started filming. When he neared the lead vehicle in the convoy, the 32-year-old Shepherdsville, Ky., man noticed something else: A large blue and white Trump campaign flag.
Dan Rather to the Media: “Be Relentless and Remain Aggressive” in Trump Era
Dan Rather’s advice to journalists is to stand firm in the age of President Trump, who has called out news outlets for being “fake news” and has been seen ignoring questions in press conferences he’d rather avoid. Rather, who has been posting thoughtful essays on Facebook throughout the presidential campaign and now during the new Trump administration, sat down with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday’s Tonight Show to discuss his show, The Big Interview, and his thoughts on the new president.
Facebook’s Oculus facing $500 million bill in copyright case
In this June 11, 2015, file photo, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey holds up the new Oculus Rift virtual reality headset for photographers following a news conference, in San Francisco. In a verdict reached Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, Facebook’s virtual-reality subsidiary and two of its founders, Luckey and Brendan Iribe, are facing a sobering reality after a jury hit them with a $500 million bill for infringing on the rights of a video-game maker.
Facebooka s Oculus facing $500 million bill in copyright case
Facebook’s virtual-reality subsidiary and two of its founders are facing a sobering reality after a jury hit them with a $500 million bill for violating the intellectual property rights of video-game maker ZeniMax Media. The verdict reached Wednesday in a Dallas federal court represents about one-fourth of the $2 billion that Facebook paid two years ago to buy Oculus, a developer of virtual-reality gear and software.
Community Targets UFOs, Monsters, and Ghosts… Oh My
Author and investigative scholar Robert Goerman has created the very first Facebook Community devoted exclusively to paranormal nonfiction. Goerman explains, “I hope that we make the Paranormal Nonfiction Review a premier destination to discover and promote nonfiction books exploring anomalous phenomena.
Tech headlines: Avaya bankruptcy; Zuckerberg land grab; Sundance…
Avaya, the company that acquired many of Nortel’s assets when that tech giant went bankrupt, has itself declared Chapter 11. “Avaya has gone down this path to formally restructure its balance sheet so that it can better position itself in the long term, according to the vendor. The company got to this point from taking on debt after major acquisitions in the last decade highlighted by the Nortel deal,” reports Computer Dealer News.
Pretzer: When Trump’s sworn in, I’ll be There
JANUARY 19: Architect of the Capitol Stone Mason Division employee Romel Lazo uses a power washer to clean the West Front of the U.S. Capitol one day before the inaguration of Donald Trump January 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to come to the National Mall to witness Trump being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.
After enduring the shocking self-indulgent (and much-hyped)…
… night viewers. If you’ve woken up this morning with the angry feeling that you were robbed of an evening’s entertainment, I share your sense of betrayal. Sherlock was, quite simply, the most nonsensical, verbose piece of television I’ve ever sat …
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A depraved attack on a mentally disabled white teen broadcast live on Facebook allegedly by four black Chicago-area residents became a national rallying cry Thursday for conservative pundits who tried to pin the blame for the attack – without evidence – on the Black Lives Matter movement.
Obama makes his mark as first ‘social media’ president
When President Barack Obama urged fellow leaders at the United Nations to do more for the world’s refugees, his mention of a young boy named Alex could have been just a footnote, unnoticed or quickly forgotten. The White House had other plans.
The Latest: Police: Race not motive behind video attack
Chicago police say charges are expected against four people who police say beat a man in an assault that was broadcast live on Facebook. Chicago police don’t believe a man beaten in an assault broadcast live on Facebook was targeted because he was white despite profanities made by the accused assailants about white people and President-elect Donald… New guidelines say most babies should start eating peanut-containing foods well before their first birthday, to lower their chances of developing the dangerous food allergy.
Flood of plastic eggs delights children on North Sea island
Chicago police say charges are expected against four people who police say beat a man in an assault that was broadcast live on Facebook. Chicago police don’t believe a man beaten in an assault broadcast live on Facebook was targeted because he was white despite profanities made by the accused assailants about white people and President-elect Donald… New guidelines say most babies should start eating peanut-containing foods well before their first birthday, to lower their chances of developing the dangerous food allergy.
Celebrity Big Brother 2017: Heidi and Spencer Pratt arrive in personalised jackets
Inside Ivanka and Jared’s $5.5 million, six bedroom new D.C. home – just two blocks away from the Obamas’ post-presidency digs Put down your fork after three bites, greet people with a kiss and NEVER let guests wash up! Etiquette expert reveals the Duchess of Cambridge’s rules for hosting a successful party Murder case DISMISSED against wrestler ‘Superfly’ Snuka over death of his girlfriend, as judge finds him incompetent to stand trial because of dementia ’caused by fighting’ Revealed: American hiker who mysteriously died falling off icy cliff in Switzerland was facing child pornography charges in the U.S. Classmate, 15, who fatally shot a teenage girl in her bedroom during New Year’s attack dies of self-inflicted gun wound The smile that says she’s leaving: Beaming Megyn Kelly heads to the studio hours after announcing she’s moving to NBC ‘after Fox TURNED DOWN her last-minute $25M … (more)
Mansfield tattoo artist who competed on a Ink Mastera dies
“We are saddened to hear about the passing of Clint Cummings,” the official Ink Master page announced on Facebook. “The world has lost a talented artist.”
Avril Lavigne calls out Mark Zuckerberg for Nickelback diss
The 32-year-old Canadian singer accused Zuckerberg of “promoting bullying” in a post Thursday after the Facebook founder poked fun at Nickelback, her estranged husband Chad Kroeger ‘s band. “Dear Mark,” Lavigne wrote .
Facebook morphing into a futuristic TV network
… editors and confirming that the social media site has transformed into something else. And with some sort of entertainment programming now in the pipeline, served up just for you or me or any one of the other nearly two billion users, Facebook is …
Andrea Bocelli fans beg him not to sing – for fascist Trump’
“Music is beautiful, sacred. Don’t let this man buy you and desecrate art, hope, and beauty,” an opera enthusiast posted on the tenor’s Facebook page When word spread that Andrea Bocelli had been approached to sing at Donald Trump’s inauguration, opera fans hit social media and have literally begged the tenor to consider otherwise.
Kevin O’Leary’s campaign got rolling over lunch
When Kevin O’Leary popped up on Facebook late last week to nearly, almost, not quite declare his bid for the federal Conservative leadership, close watchers of Canadian politics must have been thinking, “Get on with it, Mr. Wonderful!” After all, O’Leary, celebrity investor and TV personality, has been flirting shamelessly with Tories for about a year, going back at least to his appearance last February at the Manning Centre Conference, an annual Ottawa gathering of right-wingers, where he headlined a session bluntly billed as, ” If I run, here’s how I’d do it .” Despite O’Leary’s undisguised interest in the job, though, he appears to have been seriously assembling a campaign organization for only a few weeks.