Just as predicted, now that so many Democrats are on board with the lunatic drive for a national $15 minimum wage, progressives are starting to up the ante: Three days after the House passed a $15 bill, Rep. Rashida Tlaib started talking $20. At a Detroit event held by radical groups aimed mainly at ending Read more about From $15 to $20: The start of another Democratic rush further left[…]
In case you don’t recall, the Knicks entered July with nine free agents of their own. Once the club got spurned early by Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, Knicks owner James Dolan’s crew had $74.8 million to throw around ($70 million in cap space plus the $4.8 million room exception). It is telling that none Read more about So much for Knicks’ ‘culture’ talk[…]
MOSCOW — A doctor who saw Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the hospital says he may have been poisoned. Anastasiya Vasilyeva, who has been Navalny’s physician for several years, said on Monday that the swelling and the rash on his face could be consistent with chemical poisoning. Click Here: new york city fc jersey Read more about Russian opposition leader may have been poisoned: doctor[…]
Jeremy Lin is a long way from Linsanity. As a matter of fact, he’s sounding a lot closer to the end of his NBA career than its peak. The 30-year-old, who was once a phenomenon with the Knicks, and later had two injury-riddled seasons across the East River with the Nets, is coming to grips Read more about Jeremy Lin’s NBA status keeps getting sadder: ‘Rock bottom’[…]
Presidential candidate Julian Castro is often mistaken for his identical twin brother, Joaquin, but now there’s a whisker of a difference between the two. The 44-year-old siblings travel together on the campaign trail, where Julian, a former federal housing secretary mayor of San Antonio, Texas, is running for the Democratic nomination with the help of Read more about Julian Castro\u2019s twin brother grew a beard to avoid mix-ups[…]
Most automotive factories pride themselves on how quickly they can stamp out new cars. Last year, Volkswagen’s massive plant in Wolfsburg, Germany—the largest in the world—stamped out about 3,500 Golfs and Tiguans a day. That’s about two cars a minute, using robots, perpetual shift changes, and precisely choreographed, just-in-time parts delivery strategies from a global Read more about Tour the Factory Where Bentley Handcrafts Its Luxury Rides[…]
It’s 1:30 in the morning and I’m pretty sure my girlfriend is dead. She went out with friends after work to celebrate somebody's birthday. I opted to stay in and go to bed at a decent hour because I have work in the morning, and also because I am lame. But now I'm awake, staring Read more about The Terrible Anxiety of Location Sharing Apps[…]
I've been hunting for gear for hours. Scouring planet to planet, gathering resources, finishing quest steps. My goal is a gun made by a superpowerful AI on Mars, but I've got some chores to do before I can get my hands on it. I have to access 15 information nodes strewn about the ruined red Read more about Depression and the Solace of 'Grinding' in Online Games[…]
The Gulfstream Girl can’t use that nickname anymore. In 2013, the model turned pilot—then 27, blond, often beaming in photos—was hit with a trademark infringement suit by Gulfstream Aerospace, which told her its brand name was off-limits. That must have been a disappointment. As a commercial pilot, the former Gulfstream Girl, whose real name is Read more about The Twisted Flight Paths of 'Global Girl' and the Lolita Express[…]
No One Saw a Thing | Thursday, 11 p.m., Sundance In the six-part docuseries “No One Saw a Thing,” Israeli-born filmmaker Avi Belkin stitches a psychological thread through nearly 40 years of seemingly unrelated violent events in dusty Skidmore, Mo., current population 263. They include the 1981 vigilante murder of town bully Ken Rex McElroy, Read more about How one Missouri town was torn apart by decades of violence and murder[…]