A group of former high-level government officials, nearly 100 tech CEOs and several state governments have all mounted legal opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration order, stating that it jeopardizes national security and stifles the U.S. economy.

The latest is a declaration filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ( Read more... )

I figured we could probably use another upbeat post, so...


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Margrethe Vestager slams Apple with €13 billion tax bill

Apple paid an effective corporate tax rate of 0.005 percent on European profits in 2014, Commission says.European competition czar Margrethe Vestager took on the world’s most profitable company Tuesday when she ruled that Apple violated EU rules with a tax arrangement that allowed the ( Read more... )

Ice Bucket Challenge funds gene discovery in ALS (MND) research


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[OP: Sorry this post was such a mess for so long today! I went in to fix a glitch in the source link on my phone while I was away from home this afternoon and the formatting of the whole thing somehow got completely borked. I had to wait until I got home (just a few minutes ago) to get on an actual computer and fix it ( Read more... )

Nottinghamshire has had it up to here with sexist douchecanoes. According to The BBC, police in the British county have expanded their definition of hate crimes to include acts of misogyny. The change was first championed last year by the Nottingham Women’s Centre during the Nottinghamshire Safer for Women Conference ( Read more... )

Pope Francis issued a blistering critique Monday of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing how some people lust for power at all costs, live hypocritical double lives and suffer from "spiritual Alzheimer's" that has made them forget they're supposed to be joyful men of God.

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An angry man was caught on video last week attacking a fellow passenger at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, apparently because he thought the man was gay. But then, a group of bystanders, including a man in a cowboy hat, quickly took action to bring the man down.

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One would-be dater, who shared the screengrabs with BuzzFeed, swiped right after seeing Ed’s face. They soon found themselves being chatted up by Miliband’s rhetoric.

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