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Actress Zoe Saldana says the election of Donald Trump taught her that sexism is a more “aggressive” problem than racism in America. “There was a realization that I just had in this last election is that, that America is racist — of course, there’s racism everywhere, I’m not saying that there isn’t — but I think that sexism is much stronger and it’s much more aggressive,” the Guardians of the Galaxy star said in an interview on SiriusXM’s “Sway in the Morning.” Saldana conceded that there are women in various leadership positions today, but argued that “CEOs are primarily males”...

The Breakthrough Listen project is managed by a team at the University of California, Berkeley, SETI Research Center and uses the Parkes Telescope in Australia, the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Automated Planet Finder optical telescope at Lick Observatory in California to collect radio signal data – a LOT of radio signal data. In just two years, the project has accumulated eight petabytes (8 million gigabytes) of data from observations of just 692 stars that have been designated as possible candidates for alien life – a total of 1709 stars have been selected for the project. Each...

Hillary Clinton delivered her most forceful critique of President Donald Trump's 2016 victory on Tuesday, taking personal responsibility for her failed campaign but also pointed to the timing of a letter from FBI Director James Comey and Russian interference as factors. "If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president," she told CNN's Christiane Amanpour at a Women for Women event in New York. "I take absolute personal responsibility. I was the candidate, I was the person who was on the ballot. I am very aware of the challenges, the problems, the shortfalls that we had,"...

Hillary Clinton has had a dreadful last few days. On Friday night, she claimed that 25% of the country and half of Trump’s voting block were “deplorables.” Today, while heading back to her customized for invalids limousine, she was doing more bobbing and weaving than George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle, before fainting. Sometime during the mayhem, something metallic clanged on the sidewalk, leaving the conservative media wondering if she wears a brace of some type. Mrs. Clinton was quickly hustled into the vehicle by her dutiful minions and the Secret Service agents, who have now taken on...