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Jared Kushner Admits To 4 Meetings With Russians, Denies Campaign Collusion
Monday, July 24, 2017 - 11:37am | 760Read More...Jared Kushner is taking his turn in a hot seat increasingly crowded with people close to President Donald Trump, whose team is under investigation for ties to Russia and, in Kushner’s case, dealings with China. Before he was to meet privately with the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee...
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Stories Vs. Subs: Facebook Explores Article Paywall
Thursday, July 20, 2017 - 10:52am | 456Read More...Between the unchecked proliferation of fake news, paywall loopholes and the seizure of coveted digital ad spending, the relationship between online platforms and news organizations has been hostile of late. But Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is considering ways to make amends. After having hired...
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Politics' War On Media Heightens With Palin V. The NYT
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 12:30pm | 832Read More...And the battle rages on. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin inflamed the ongoing conflict between the media and an unofficial alliance of readers and politicians by filing a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times Co (NYSE: NYT) Tuesday. Palin claimed the newspaper knowingly published a false...
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Boeing Announces Biggest Jet Yet At Paris Air Show
Monday, June 19, 2017 - 9:37am | 464Read More...Hustling for new customers at the Paris Air Show, Boeing Co (NYSE: BA) on Monday announced plans to build the 737 Max 10, its biggest single-aisle airliner yet. The aircraft will seat up to 230 passengers and be 5.5 feet longer than the company’s 737 Max 9, which seats 178 passengers. The...
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Trump Restrictions On Business With Cubans: Possible Blow To President's Future Hotel Competitors?
Friday, June 16, 2017 - 1:22pm | 566Read More...President Donald Trump plans to ban U.S. businesses from dealing with Cuba’s military establishment, a sprawling enterprise with links to virtually every aspect of the country’s economy. The move immediately raised questions about whether the policy shift would benefit Trump’s own...
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Were Surprising Election Results In Britain And France A Backlash Against Populism?
Monday, June 12, 2017 - 4:20pm | 847Read More...A clear victory for the centrists in France and the stunning loss of a legislative majority by the right in Britain begs the question: Is there a backlash to the populism that put President Donald Trump in power and influences politics through much of the democratic world? In a word, maybe. It does...
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Britons Look On Bright Side As Lord Buckethead Boasts Best Bid Yet
Friday, June 9, 2017 - 11:19am | 539Read More...Election night in Great Britain may have been a lousy experience for Prime Minister Theresa May, but it was a big night for occasional candidate Lord Buckethead, an intergalactic space lord with a groovy manifesto, baby. “249! A new Buckethead record! Something to celebrate, eh?” Lord...
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Which Media Firms Are Benefiting Most From President Trump?
Thursday, May 25, 2017 - 8:47am | 774Read More...In spite of stunted political access since President Donald Trump took office, or perhaps because of information barriers and the repeated denunciation of media firms, sector players have recently done well for themselves. “In an odd way, the Trump administration has been the media’s...
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Special Prosecutor Holds Key For How A Trump Impeachment Might Unfold
Tuesday, May 23, 2017 - 2:54pm | 794Read More...President Donald Trump might have drawn headlines away from his domestic troubles with his first state trip abroad, but ongoing investigations into his team’s Russian ties and financial dealings aren’t going away. Which means the steady murmurs of impeachment will likely remain when he...
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FDA Spokesperson: Administration Not Behind Screen Changes From CNN To Fox
Friday, May 5, 2017 - 3:08pm | 273Read More...An email circulated Wednesday alerting researchers at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) White Oak Campus that all common area television monitors were being changed from CNN to FOX News at the request of administrative officials. However, a spokesperson for the U.S. Food and...
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Former Nixon Library Historian Has Familiar Feeling About Trump
Sunday, April 30, 2017 - 1:35pm | 655Read More...The historian hired to repair the Richard Nixon Library and Museum’s problems with the truth sees something similar in the current president: a sense of paranoia and frustration that might spill over into bad decisions. Timothy Naftali is a Canadian-American historian and a clinical associate...
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Canadians Bemused, Confused And Feeling Feisty About Trump's Protectionist Slap
Friday, April 28, 2017 - 8:59am | 821Read More...Canadians consider President Donald Trump’s protectionist move to impose 20 percent hikes on its lumber exports a slap shot across the face. And Canada is not afraid to drop the gloves and engage. "We're nice guys: Politeness is something we believe is a national virtue, but it's...
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U.S. Launches 'Mother Of All Bombs' On ISIS
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 1:10pm | 240Read More...The U.S. military dropped the “Mother of All Bombs” — the most destructive non-nuclear bomb in the American weapons cache — Thursday morning on ISIS tunnels in Afghanistan. According to CNN reports, citing four military officials involved in the mission, the 21,600-pound GBU...
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President Trump Binges On Fox News And CNBC
Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 1:18pm | 398Read More...The Economist reported in February that President Donald Trump's classification of the media as being an "enemy" of the American people actually helped media networks expand their audiences. Needless to say, individuals who consider themselves to be leaning right (conservatives) on the political...
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Online News Bounces Back From Post-Election Traffic Slump
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - 3:59pm | 861Read More...Online media, which was once hailed to be the annihilator of traditional media sources, including print and television, has been through volatile showing amid and in the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election. At the same time, this avenue of news and information has seen reader's trust in...
















