<> <> Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks at the Black Hat conference Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, in Las Vegas. The annual computer security conference draws thousands of hackers and security professionals to Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) <> A top Obama administration official says the government and…
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<> <> FILE – This March 20, 2012 file photo shows Netfilx headquarters in Los Gatos, Calif. Netflix on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015 announced it is letting new parents on its payroll to take up to a year’s paid leave in a move that could pressure other technology employers to…
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The campaign to stop President Barack Obama’s sweeping emissions limits on power plants began taking shape Wednesday, as 16 states asked the government to put the rules on hold while a Senate panel moved to block them. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who is leading the charge against the…
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<> <> Buzz Aldrin arrives at the 16th Annual Women’s Image Awards held at Beverly Hills Women’s Club, Dec. 14, 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif. <> Even after a trip to the moon, Buzz Aldrin still had to clear customs. The American astronaut has been sharing some of his travel…
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s approval ratings may be languishing below 30 percent, but on Twitter he’s as popular as Pope Francis — or so it would seem. The socialist South American leader regularly sets social media afire with support, with heavily trending anti-U.S. campaigns such #ObamaYankeeGoHome and #ObamaRepealTheExecutiveOrder, which denounced…
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One of the oldest surviving Hebrew manuscripts, a bible dating back more than 1,000 years, will soon be available online in a joint project with The British Library in London, the National Library of Israel said Monday. Aviad Stollman, the library’s chief of collections, said the Gaster Bible would go…
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India has ordered Internet service providers to block access to more than 850 adult websites in what the government has described as a way to protect social decency. N.N. Kaul, a spokesman for India’s department of telecom, said Monday that the government was trying to control easy access to pornography…
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The largest Florida corporate donor to a super political action committee backing former Gov. Jeb Bush’s presidential run is NextEra Energy Inc., the company that owns electric utility giant Florida Power & Light. Bush, a leading Republican contender, knows the company well. In 2009, more than two years after leaving…
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FILE- In this July 17, 2015, file photo, a car drives by HitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot in Marblehead, Mass. The Canadian researchers who created hitchBOT as a social experiment say someone in Philadelphia damaged the robot beyond repair on Saturday, Aug. 1, ending its brief American tour. The robot was…
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Seven men have been arrested for camping on Mauna Kea (mau-NAH’ kay-AH’), where there’s a new emergency rule restricting overnight access to the mountain because of protests against building a giant telescope there. The arrests early Friday are the first enforcement efforts since the land board approved the rule July…
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