Monthly Archives: January 2017

(CNN)A speech by right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos’ at UC Davis was over before it even started Friday after protests erupted, forcing sponsors to cancel the event. Thirty minutes before the Breitbart tech editor was scheduled to speak, the UC Davis College Republicans canceled the controversial talk after consulting with the university’s police department and student […]

President-elects team does not consider multimillion-dollar plans in conflict with written vow to end new foreign investments, which critics call ambiguous The Trump Organization will press ahead with multimillion-dollar plans to expand one of the president-elects golf resorts in Scotland, despite its apparent pledge to halt new investments overseas. Trump officials said the plans for […]

A documentary celebrating Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds makes for essential viewing, while the team behind Keepin It 1600 launch a new politics podcast to take on Trump Sky Go Bright LightsAffecting in its own right, Carrie Fisher and her mother Available now BBC3 Annie Mac: Who Killed The NightRadio 1 host Annie Mac looks […]

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Protesters successfully shut down a University of California, Davis event Friday night headlined by infamous online harassers Milo Yiannopoulos and pharma bro Martin Shkreli. Yiannopoulos, a conservative writer for Breitbart News whose online harassing of actor Leslie Jones got him banned from Twitterin July, was speaking as part of his university tour, dubbed The Dangerous […]

It’s the end of a fashion era… kind of. American Apparel is shutting down — or, more accurately, it’s going to look very different — after being purchased at a bankruptcy auction by Canadian company Gildan Activewear. Gildan, which makes t-shirts and other clothes themselves, has indicated that they will shut down American Apparel’s 110 […]

Creating asset efficiency is an easy value-add for many technologies. Rich valuations, of course, factor hugely into where funding goes in the startup world, and the bigger the potential market, the bigger the valuation. Moreover, venture valuation in general tends to be based on total revenue rather than profitability. A startup founder can likely get […]

‘Hotel for goods’ Mr Wilson’s company, Simply Self Storage, is among dozens of firms with purpose-built secure storage facilities which have sprung up in Scotland since the early 1990s. “Our storage facility has 700 rooms in 40 different sizes,” he says. “We like to think of it as a hotel for goods. “People have a […]

For African Americans, Obamas presidency has been largely defined by his reluctance to engage with discrimination and a racist criminal justice system In the first hours of the new year in 2009, just weeks before Barack Obama was to be inaugurated as the next president, shots rang out in Oakland, California. A transit officer named […]

US justice department finds black and Latino civilians hardest hit by unlawful force after 13-month investigation into citys law enforcement The Chicago police department regularly uses force that is unjustified, disproportionate and otherwise excessive, federal investigators have concluded. In a scathing report released after a 13-month process, Department of Justice (DoJ) investigators found that police […]