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Congratulations—Friday is International Women’s Day! As a woman, you must be so pleased to be recognized. In this day and age, when everything is so polarizing, it’s really hard for progressive, multinational corporations like ours to know just when and how to take a stand. But this day is important to us. And while some might say that coming out in support of International Women’s Day is a bold move—even a controversial one — we are willing to stick our necks out to show solidarity with half of the world’s population. As some of the world’s biggest companies, we are...

House Democrats passed a sweeping electoral reform bill in a 234-193 party-line vote on Friday. The For The People Act, better known as H.R. 1 — spearheaded by John Sarbanes (D-Md.) — aims to expand voting rights, implement new ethics rules and increase transparency in elections, according to its proponents. The bill includes provisions enable automatic automatic voter registration, strengthen resources to stave off foreign threats on elections and would make Election Day a national holiday for federal workers. Democrats unveiled the legislation shortly after the start of the 116th Congress, underscoring its importance in their agenda. Supporters of the...

Former US army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been jailed for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks. US district judge Claude Hilton ordered Manning to jail Friday after a brief hearing in which Manning confirmed she has no intention of testifying. She told the judge she “will accept whatever you bring upon me”. Manning has said she objects to the secrecy of the grand jury process, and that she already revealed everything she knows at her court martial. The judge said she will remain jailed until she testifies or until the grand jury concludes its work. Manning’s...

08 mar [Catholic Caucus] Adultery and Homosexuality. The Two Vanished Words It is a fact, not an opinion. The words “adultery” and “homosexuality” have both disappeared from the magisterium of the Church, the highest, that which reports to the Roman pontiff.About the first word this was already known. It disappeared completely just when it would have been most natural to say it, at the two synods on the family and shortly afterward, when Pope Francis settled the accounts in the exhortation “Amoris Laetitia.”While the disappearance of the second is more recent. And this too happened right at the moment...

The sweeping bill is aimed at getting money out of politics and increasing transparency around donors, cracking down on lobbying, and expanding voting rights for Americans by implementing provisions like automatic voter registration. As they passed the bill that was their first priority of the year, Democrats were in a celebratory mood.

Bill Shine resigned as White House deputy chief of staff and communications director on Friday, after nine months in the position. According to a statement released by the White House, Shine will join President Donald Trump‘s 2020 campaign as a senior adviser.

An unvaccinated 6-year-old boy from Oregon has racked up more than $800,000 in medical bills after almost dying in the state's first case of pediatric tetanus in 30 years. The unidentified boy contracted tetanus - a serious infection caused by bacteria entering a wound - through a cut on his forehead while playing outside on a farm in 2017. It was the first time a child in Oregon had been diagnosed with rare disease in more than 30 years, according to a report on the case by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday.

Francis Effect: Numbers of Priests Falling For the first time in decades, the number of Catholic priests is falling in absolute numbers, although the world population and the [alleged] number of Catholics are growing. These date are contained in 2017 Church statistics which the Vatican has just published. Also, the number of seminarians is falling, while the number of bishops is growing. Picture: © Aleteia Image Department, CC BY-SA, #newsCjhfqtjhvv

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown will not be traded to the Buffalo Bills, as Bills general manager Brandon Beane confirmed. Early Friday morning, NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported that the Bills and Steelers were close on a trade for the seven-time Pro Bowler. That report was quickly refuted by Brown and several media outets. “We inquired about Antonio Brown on Tuesday, and kept talks open with the Steelers," Beane said in a statement. "We had positive discussions, but ultimately it didn’t make sense for either side. As great a player as Antonio Brown is, we have moved on and our...

The U.S. women's national team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation on Friday in a fight over pay equity and working conditions. According to court documents, all 28 members of the USWNT world championship team accused U.S. Soccer of years of "institutionalized gender discrimination," highlighting not just pay but also issues like medical treatment and transportation. "The USSF has utterly failed to promote gender equality," the team alleges in the lawsuit. "It has stubbornly refused to treat its female employees who are member of the WNT equally to its male employees who are members of...

House Democrats voted Friday to defend localities that allow illegal immigrants to vote in their elections, turning back a GOP attempt to discourage the practice. The vote marks a stunning reversal from just six months ago, when the chamber — then under GOP control — voted to decry illegal immigrant voting. “We are prepared to open up the political process and let all of the people come in,” Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and hero of the civil rights movement, told colleagues as he led opposition to the GOP measure. The 228-197 vote came as part of a broader...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal hit a snag when it lost the support of another freshman representative, Ilhan Omar. Omar had been an enthusiastic supporter of the Green New Deal and wanted to save the earth, but then she noticed something very disturbing when looking at a map of the earth: Earth is the planet on which Israel resides.

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This is hilarious. You have to sit through a couple of ads first, but it's worth it. It makes fun of online arguing and debating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IABRgZH12YA&feature=youtu.be

Dick Beyer, who left an incredible legacy as The Intelligent, Sensational Destroyer, as former AWA World champion Doctor X, and as a coach, died today, March 7, just after noon eastern time in his home just outside Buffalo, New York. He was 88. His son, Kurt Beyer, posted the news: "It is with a very heavy heart to let you know that Dad -- aka The Destroyer, aka Doctor X, aka Dick Beyer, aka Coach -- passed away shortly past Noon today. He was in bed at home, and was surrounded by all of his children and wife as he...

Another day on the subway... Gena Rowlands in "Gloria" (1980)

This quantum chip (1x1cm) allows the researchers to listen to the smallest radio signal allowed by quantum mechanics. Credit: TU Delft Researchers at Delft University of Technology have created a quantum circuit to listen to the weakest radio signal allowed by quantum mechanics. This new quantum circuit opens the door to possible future applications in areas such as radio astronomy and medicine (MRI). It also enables experiments to shed light on the interplay between quantum mechanics and gravity. The results have been published in Science. The usual solution to a weak radio signal is to find a bigger signal, for...

Some ego maniac showmen conduct character assassination by ridicule Thank You, Sean Hannity for bringing the Fox spotlight back on to the celebrity who first cast presidential candidate Donald Trump as the Perpetual Orange Man, which lived on as the heart and soul of the Hate Donald Trump Movement. That it was Hannity who outed Glenn Beck for what he did to the nation is nothing less than Poetic Justice. Kudos to social media-suppressed Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit for having the gonads to write about last night’s outing.

Jan-Michael Vincent, 1980s TV heartthrob and star of Airwolf, has died. The actor passed away last month, on February 10, after suffering a cardiac arrest at a North Carolina hospital. He was 74. TMZ, who obtained the death certificate, reports that no autopsy was performed and the star was later cremated.

An unconventional coffee shop in California is finding itself at the center of controversy – yet again – as a result of its servers’ skimpy styles. At a meeting on Tuesday, city council members in American Canyon voted unanimously to revoke a license granted to Bottoms Up Espresso, after critics argued that the “bikini barista” coffee shop was operating more like an adult business than a café. City officials claim they received complaints about the servers’ outfits following the store’s opening, prompting a community director to speak with the owner. “I met with one of the owners on Jan. 4,...