Gawker Media, the company behind the Gawker.com website as well as sites like Jezebel and Gizmodo, filed for bankruptcy on Friday. The company was forced to take the drastic action after a jury awarded former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan $140 million in damages — a judgment the media company can’t afford to pay.
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This is pathetic.
In the whiniest interview this year and possibly this decade, Marco Rubio tells a reporter that "I warned you this would happen" in the event that Donald Trump won the nomination.
"I ran for President. I wanted a different outcome."
But you never took a principled stand for immigration reform, Marco. And you weren't intellectually quick enough to have anything but canned responses for your debate performances. And Trump won, and now you are forced... Читать дальше...
Space photos of the week, June 5—11, 2016. The post Space Photos of the Week: A Dwarf Galaxy Just Wants Some Alone Time appeared first on WIRED.
This week, a team of researchers announced new insights about this singular artifact, which has fascinated the world for decades.
With “The Color Purple,” director John Doyle proves less is so much more.
With “The Color Purple,” director John Doyle proves less is so much more.
FRIDAY, June 10, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- How can you keep someone who's thinking about suicide from going through with it? One way is to restrict easy access to methods of suicide, a new international review suggests.
FRIDAY, June 10, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- How can you keep someone who's thinking about suicide from going through with it? One way is to restrict easy access to methods of suicide, a new international review suggests.
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Stocks sold off to end the week on what was a slow week for US economic data and an increasingly anxious week for markets as we draw closer to the UK's "Brexit" vote.
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The mood of the market got pretty bearish in the last few days this week... Читать дальше...
Market's at risk if Britain decides to leave the EU, says bond guru Bill Gross.
Word of Owen and Amelia's marriage on Grey's Anatomy has traveled quite slowly from Seattle to Switzerland, it seems. Grey's alum Sandra Oh—the one time Mrs. Owen Hunt...
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Square co-founder Jim McKelvey is also a glassblowing artist who got frustrated when he couldn't sell one of his signature glass faucets to a customer with a credit card.
That moment launched the idea behind Square, one of the most recent tech IPOs and a 2013 Inc "Most Audacious Company."
Jim is also an economics major, computer scientist and Missouri native.
Even before Square, he was well known for sharing what he learns. (He wrote his first... Читать дальше...
Ever since Elon Musk founded a start-up space company 14 years ago, the goal has always been the same: Establishing a colony on Mars. Now he's finally beginning to reveal how he plans to get there.
Treasury prices soared Friday, pushing yields to a three-year low, amid a global government bond rally that has driven several benchmark yields across the world to their lowest levels in history.
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Amazon is preparing to launch a standalone music streaming subscription service, placing it squarely in competition with rival offerings from Apple Inc and Spotify, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
The service will be offered at $9.99 per month, in line with major rivals, and it will offer a competitive catalog of songs, the sources said. Amazon is finalizing licenses with labels for the service, which likely will be launched in late summer or early fall, the sources said. Читать дальше...
Bhubaneswar, Jun 10 () The opposition Congress today observed 'dhikkar divas' in its bid to highlight the failures of the BJD government in Odisha and NDA government at the Centre in meeting aspirations of the people.
A Staten Island man wanted for shooting a mother and son to death was ordered held without bail Friday, officials said.
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is suggesting she would hold a national referendum on her presidency if she survives an impeachment trial expected for August.
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HAMPTON BEACH, N.H., June 10 (UPI) -- A New Hampshire driver's dashboard camera captured the moment a car struck a moving motorcycle and the rider somehow managed to stay on his feet.
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TOONE, Tenn., June 10 (UPI) -- Chemring Group subsidiary Kilgore Flares Co. has received a $24.9 million U.S. Army contract for infrared decoy flares, the company announced this week.
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This summer's feast of football finally got underway when Euro 2016 kicked off in style on Friday night.
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At a conference of prominent Christian conservative activists on Friday, Republican Georgia Sen. David Perdue joked that the audience should pray for President Barack Obama, citing a verse that in its entirety calls for the death of the prayer's object.
Here's why the neurotic New Yorker ranks right behind Bob Dylan in the rock era.