PHILADELPHIA — Baseball players are the most resilient of all athletic species. It isn’t a choice, of course. You either learn how to adapt to the daily grind, the nightly water flume, the absurd pace of 162 games in 180 days, or it’s best to find another way to make a living. So it was Read more about Forget the result, Mets did right thing at the trade deadline[…]
President Trump told reporters on Friday night that he loves his daughter Tiffany, denying a report that he’s actually embarrassed by her weight. “She’s going to be calling me when we get to Camp David,” Trump told reporters of his daughter by second wife Marla Maples. “I love Tiffany. She’s a wonderful person and she Read more about Trump says ‘I love Tiffany,’ denies unflattering report[…]
A Kentucky vocational school principal is facing child porn charges — a decade after he banned books for “soft pornography” and homosexual content, according to a report. Philip Todd Wilson, 54, was busted Tuesday after state troopers received a tip that he was in possession of explicit images involving a minor, and possibly distributing the Read more about Principal who banned books over homosexuality is busted for child porn[…]
@Jack might want to update his password. The personal account of Twitter’s chief executive Jack Dorsey was hacked Friday afternoon, which resulted in a barrage of bizarre and racist tweets from @jack — famous for sending out the first-ever tweet in March 2006. At approximately 3:45 p.m., Dorsey’s account tweeted out “Shoutout Debut, Corey, NuBLoM, Read more about Twitter chief Jack Dorsey’s personal account hacked[…]
Ex-FBI chief James Comey believed the seven memos he’d composed summarizing his conversations with President Trump were personal papers — but he was apparently the only one, with even his inner circle saying they were “stunned” and “shocked” by his leak of a memo to the press. “Members of Comey’s senior leadership team used the Read more about Even James Comey’s top FBI team was ‘stunned’ he leaked memos[…]
Full-service kitchens and bars, movie screenings, and even interiors with natural materials and a cozy color palette sound like the trappings of any nice hotel. But future guests of the Von Braun Rotating Space Station — an in-the-works hotel for space tourists — can enjoy the same perks while cruising the heavens. “Eventually, going to Read more about This space hotel will be ‘like going on a cruise’ or to Disney[…]
Capitalism rarely meets something it can’t put a price on. Goods and services, like cars and housecleaning, those have a price. Health insurance puts a price on your well-being—and worse, slavery puts a price on a human being. Exotic plants and animals have their own prices on the black market (or on Facebook). The Amazon Read more about Who's Burning the Amazon? Rampant Capitalism[…]
Amazon has introduced a new feature that markets its private-label brands right before consumers add rival products to their shopping carts. The Washington Post conducted dozens of product searches and saw offers for a “similar item to consider” featuring an Amazon brand appearing just above the area where shoppers click to add a purchase to Read more about Amazon tactic pushes shoppers to its own brand before clicking ‘buy’[…]
A great white shark came so close to a fisherman’s boat in Massachusetts this week that it nearly took a chomp out of it, “epic” new video shows. Matt Riley was lobstering with his friends in Cape Cod Bay when the shark came closer and closer to their vessel, video posted to his Instagram page Read more about Great white shark nearly chomps on Cape Cod fisherman’s boat: video[…]
A 12-year-old Russian girl has died 11 days after she was trapped underwater for almost 15 minutes when her arm was sucked into a swimming pool pump at a Turkish resort, according to a report. Alisa Adamova was vacationing with her parents at the four-star Sunhill Hotel in Bodrum when her arm became lodged in Read more about 12-year-old girl dies in freak pool pump accident at Turkish resort[…]