Over a 20-year span, Donald Trump made around two dozen appearances on “The Howard Stern Show” on both terrestrial radio and Sirius XM. During the 2016 presidential campaign, recordings surfaced of Trump making numerous sexist remarks to Stern about women’s looks and raising children. Trump even admitted to peeking in on naked women while they …
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Image: Pacifista!/Sara Gómez. All Rights Reserved. Article originally published in Pacifista! and available here. “Hello Carolina, I have a situation”. It was a Thursday at 6:40 in the morning when I received this message. The sender was a social leader who I had met two years prior whilst compiling a report. I will not give …
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Innovation is widely viewed as the engine of economic growth. To maximize innovation and growth, all our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors. But a study we recently conducted, jointly with Neviana Petkova of the U.S. Treasury, paints a different picture. We found that a child’s potential for future innovation seems to …
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Flickr/Centre for American Progress, CC BY-ND 2.0In a tirade against Jeremy Corbyn in The Sun on 26 April 2017, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson asserted that the Labour leader’s, “ardent anti-military stances actually mean ‘the consequences would be calamitous’ if he ever gets the keys to No 10”. And he went on to say that the …
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Just minutes into a Cleveland Cavaliers’ game against the Atlanta Hawks, Cavs star Kevin Love knew something was wrong. He was out of breath but struggled his way through the first half of the Nov. 5, 2017, game anyway. Moments into the third quarter, it hit him. Hard. For the first time in his life, …
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Tunisian women shout slogans and hold posters reading, "don't touch my rights" and "woman is the future of man" during a protest calling for the respect of women's rights and other fundamental rights in Tunis, Tunisia, August 13, 2012. Fauque Nicolas/ABACA/Press Association Images. All rights reserved. #NoWomanNoFly was the hashtag that concluded 2017 in Tunisia; …
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A game between the Sacramento Kings and the Atlanta Hawks was played in a nearly-empty arena on March 22, 2018, after residents gathered in front of the arena to protest yet another police shooting of an unarmed black man. Stephon Clark was killed the previous week, on March 18, outside his residence after officers received a …
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Opposition supporters protesting during a rally against alleged electoral fraud in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 03 December 2017. A victory by president Juan Orlando Hernandez looms over the horizon over a week after the disputed presidential elections in Honduras. The opposition accuses the government of electoral fraud and won't recognise the results. The situation could escalate. Photo: …
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Click:outdoor barbecue lighter Each day from Dec. 14 through Dec. 25, GOOD Sports will feature a worthy school athletic program in need of funding. Dan Powell Intermediate School in rural Fort Worth, Texas, has an open field but no soccer balls. The school’s soccer club — run by a group of teachers, including Jena Wood — meets …
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From left: Paul Murray, Peta Credlin, David Speers and Kieran Gilbert with their Silver Logie for the Most Outstanding News Coverage during the 2017 Logie Awards at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Sunday, April 23, 2017. Tracey Nearmy/Press Association. All rights reserved.For much of the 1980s, Rupert Murdoch steadily lost money on his Sky TV …
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