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Melania Trump stepped out of Trump Tower in NYC Wednesday in style ahead of her husband Donald Trump’s birthday bash. The former First Lady left the skyscraper wearing an off-white Gucci flared shirt dress ($3,200) paired with a matching white Hermès handbag. She styled her hair down with a soft wave, finishing off the look with a pair of sunglasses. Melania and the former president’s son, Barron, followed behind her in a blue blazer and white button-down shirt outside the building. In photos obtained by Page Six, security officials escorted Melania, 53, and the 17-year-old to a black SUV. The...

Anti-Israel Islamist "activist" @LowkeyOnline, after he was exposed of inventing a total lie he fabricated in order to falsely connect Azov neo-Nazis to someone's money (Ygor), he tucked, just moved on to his next lies... Aubrey Belford replied to @LowkeyOnline (Mar 6, 2022): I was the editor abd co-reporter of that story (look it up) and you’ve complete twisted it. There is no link between thus money and anything to do with Azov. Aubrey Belford @AubreyBelford Tweeted (Mar 7, 2022): Like a good propagandist, he tucks tail and runs. On to the next talking point.

Uploading personal photos to the internet can feel like letting go. Who else will have access to them, what will they do with them—and which machine-learning algorithms will they help train? The company Clearview has already supplied US law enforcement agencies with a facial recognition tool trained on photos of millions of people scraped from the public web. But that was likely just the start. Anyone with basic coding skills can now develop facial recognition software, meaning there is more potential than ever to abuse the tech in everything from sexual harassment and racial discrimination to political oppression and religious...

The final stretch of a presidential campaign is typically a nonstop mix of travel, caffeine and adrenaline. But as the worst pandemic in a century bears down on the United States, Joe Biden is taking a lower key approach. Since his Aug. 11 selection of California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, Biden has had 22 days where he either didn’t make public appearances, held only virtual fundraisers or ventured from his Delaware home solely for church, according to an Associated Press analysis of his schedules. He made 12 visits outside of Delaware during that period, including Friday when...

Demonstrations at Armory Park today are part of a national effort dubbed "A Day Without an Immigrant." Latinos across the country skipped work and boycotted businesses in an effort to demonstrate the importance of immigrants to the economy. At Tucson's Armory Park, hundreds sat in small groups listening to music, eating lunch and mingling around. The tone is low-key, unlike the demonstration last month ---

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the Sept. 11 commission denies panel members are grandstanding or showing partisanship but says they plan a more low-key approach as they put together recommendations for a final report. "There will be a lower profile," Republican chairman Thomas Kean, a former New Jersey governor, said in an interview. "Trying to do anything in Washington is very, very difficult because the atmosphere is so poisonous and there are rockets coming from the right and the left."But I believe we'll steer through the distractions and write a fair and balanced report."Five Democrats and five Republicans are...

Kean: Sept. 11 panel will be more low-key By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Last Updated 5:08 pm PDT Monday, April 19, 2004 WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the Sept. 11 commission denies panel members are grandstanding or showing partisanship but says they plan a more low-key approach as they put together recommendations for a final report. "There will be a lower profile," Republican chairman Thomas Kean, a former New Jersey governor, said in an interview. "Trying to do anything in Washington is very, very difficult because the atmosphere is so poisonous and there are rockets coming from the right...