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  • Rapper T.I.’s remarks about daughter spark New York bill to end virginity tests

    12/04/2019 1:50:36 PM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 11 replies
    Fox News ^ | Dec 2019 | Associated Press
    New York could bar doctors from performing so-called virginity tests under legislation prompted by the rapper T.I.'s controversial claim that he has a gynecologist check his daughter's hymen annually. Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages said Tuesday the bill she submitted last month would prohibit medical professionals from performing or supervising such examinations, though it's unclear how common they are in the U.S. New York would also consider it sexual assault when such tests are performed outside of a medical setting. “It’s medically unnecessary,” the Democrat said. “It's often painful, humiliating, traumatic. All in all, it's a form of violence against women.” Her...
  • Rapper T.I. addresses backlash over taking his daughter to OB/GYN to ‘check her hymen’

    11/30/2019 10:41:17 AM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 44 replies
    CBS News ^ | Nov 29 2019
    After facing intense backlash earlier this month for stating that he goes to the gynecologist with his teenage daughter each year to “check her hymen,” rapper T.I. defended himself this week during an appearance on the Facebook Watch show “Red Table Talk.” T.I. told host Jada Pinkett Smith that he thinks a “false narrative” about his comments has been “sensationalized” — but he also defended his choice to “protect” his daughter from “the little slimy, grimy, chubby-fingered little boys who want to just come and defile and destroy the sanctity that I have.” The rapper made the initial comments during...
  • T.I.'s wife, Tiny, reports $750K worth of jewelry stolen from her Lamborghini

    10/07/2019 11:10:58 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 72 replies
    WPXI ^ | October 7, 2019 | Michael Seiden
    ATLANTA - R&B singer and reality TV star Tameka “Tiny” Harris, the wife of Atlanta rapper and activist T.I., reported more than $750,000 worth of jewelry was stolen from her Lamborghini SUV while she dined in Midtown, police confirmed. Harris told Atlanta police she returned to her vehicle after having drinks with a friend on Sunday night and discovered the jewelry was gone, WSB reported. Her wedding rings, watches and stud earrings were among the jewelry she said she left inside a blue velour bag on top of the center console of her SUV, according to the news station. She...
  • Ant-Man Actor and Rapper T.I. Calls President Trump a “Madman”

    12/06/2018 1:45:41 PM PST · by jtrent1388 · 47 replies
    Bounding Into Comics ^ | 12-04-2018 | Jorge Arenas
    Ant-Man actor and rapper T.I. unloaded on President Donald Trump in a recent interview where he called him a “madman.” In a short clip released by TMZ promoting T.I.’s upcoming appearance on BET’s Raq Rants, host Raquel Harper began the conversation talking about her own disgust for President Trump, “So, I’m pretty much disgusted right now in every single way about Donald Trump and what he’s doing with this country.” She would then go on to task T.I.’s opinion about the President.
  • T.I. Warns Of ‘Hidden Agenda’ Behind Trump’s Meetings With Black Influencers

    01/18/2017 12:08:44 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 33 replies
    The Huffington Post's Black Voices ^ | January 18, 2017 | Brennan Williams, pop culture editor
    T.I. has issued a stern warning to his celebrity peers meeting with Trump: “Do not accept any invitation to have any meeting... No matter how positive you think the outcome may be.” On Monday, T.I. shared his two cents on the matter in a series of Instagram video posts explaining his theory on the Trump administration’s “strategic plan” to help normalize the president-elect. “They see how adamantly against [Trump] being president the hip-hop community and the young black people was in America,” he said. “So what did they do? They get Kanye West to come in. Well, surely, ‘if you...
  • 1 dead, 3 injured in shooting at T.I. concert near Union Square

    05/26/2016 6:24:38 AM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 19 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 25, 2016 | By Larry Celona, Jamie Schram and Joe Marino
    A 33-year-old man was killed and three other people — including rapper Troy Ave — wounded when gunfire erupted shortly before the start of a concert by rapper T.I. at Irving Plaza on Wednesday night, sources said.
  • Citi Upgrades National Semiconductor From Sell Hours After Texas Instruments Buys It

    04/05/2011 8:16:13 AM PDT · by blam · 10 replies
    TBI ^ | 4-5-2011 | Gregory White
    Citi Upgrades National Semiconductor From Sell Hours After Texas Instruments Buys It Gregory White Apr. 5, 2011, 10:55 AM This morning, Citi upgraded National Semiconductor from sell to hold hours after the company was acquired by Texas Instruments. The note, from Citi: TXN announced it will acquire NSM for $25 per share in cash after the market's close Monday; NSM ticked up 73% to $24.30 in after market trading. TXN plans to finance the $6.5B transaction with existing cash and debt. The deal is expected to close in six to nine months pending approval from regulators and NSM share holders....
  • Rapper T.I. spared long prison term

    05/25/2009 5:30:05 AM PDT · by Schnucki · 12 replies · 768+ views
    Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | May 25, 2009 | Leonard Doyle
    As a rapper, T.I. is as big as they come. A Grammy Award-winning, gangsta-style singer, songwriter and mogul, his company Grand Hustle Records earns over $20 million (£12.5 million) a year. He is also a convicted criminal who under normal circumstances would be starting a 30-year stretch in a federal "Supermax" prison this week, following his prosecution for multiple illegal gun charges. But in the age of Barack Obama, T.I., aka Clifford Harris Jr, will serve less than a year behind bars, thanks in no small measure to the bad boy rapper's political connections. Provided he surrenders at a prison...
  • Rapper T.I. Arrested Before Awards Show (paid his bodyguard to buy machine guns and silencers)

    10/13/2007 7:53:35 PM PDT · by RDTF · 10 replies · 69+ views
    Breitbart ^ | October 13, 2007 | ERRIN HAINES, AP
    ATLANTA (AP) - Grammy-winning rapper T.I. was arrested Saturday—just hours before he was to take the stage at the BET Hip-Hop Awards—after federal officials said he had paid his bodyguard to buy machine guns and silencers for him. The arrest resulted from an investigation that began this month when a federal firearms licensee contacted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives about a man inquiring about buying a machine gun without registering the weapon as required by law, according to a criminal complaint filed Saturday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. After trying to buy several machine guns from...
  • Rapper T.I. Arrested Over Machine Guns, Silencers

    10/13/2007 10:22:17 PM PDT · by Extremely Extreme Extremist · 7 replies · 115+ views
    CBS 2 CHICAGO ^ | 13 OCTOBER 2007 | CBS 2 CHICAGO
    (CBS) ATLANTA -- Grammy-winning rapper T.I. was arrested Saturday - just hours before he was to perform at the BET Hip-Hop Awards - in a parking lot where federal officials said he planned to pick up machine guns and silencers his bodyguard bought for him. T.I., born Clifford Harris, is charged with possession of unregistered machine guns and silencers, as well as possession of firearms by a convicted felon. Harris was in federal custody, said U.S. attorney's office spokesman Patrick Crosby, who would not disclose his location. Sydney Margetson, a spokesman for T.I.'s label, Atlantic Records, declined to comment...
  • Dell reflects on 25 years of PCs ~ PC arrived in 1981

    08/12/2006 10:06:07 AM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 91 replies · 1,706+ views
    CNET ^ | August 7, 2006 4:00 AM PT | By Tom Krazit Staff Writer, CNET News.com
    The man who founded the world's largest PC company thinks the best is still to come after a quarter-century of the IBM PC. Twenty-five years have passed since IBM launched its version of the personal computer. Apple Computer may have captured the attention of early computer hobbyists with its first products, but IBM's PC made the business world sit up and realize that personal computers could be much more than toys. Michael Dell started off using PCs to create homework shortcuts, the way many young people at the time discovered the new devices. Few people, including Dell's parents, realized exactly...
  • US firms accuse Qualcomm of unfair practices in South Korea

    07/03/2006 7:06:34 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 2 replies · 302+ views
    AFP ^ | 07/03/06
    US firms accuse Qualcomm of unfair practices in South Korea SEOUL, July 3, 2006 (AFP) - Two US technology firms have filed a complaint with South Korea's antitrust watchdog accusing US mobile phone chip developer Qualcomm of abusing its market dominance, officials have said. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC), a state organization watching for fair trade, said the complaint was lodged by Texas Instruments and Broadcom. "Qualcomm was accused of selling its handset chips bundled with other chip products by using its market dominance," an FTC official said. Qualcomm has monopoly market status in South Korea as the sole supplier...
  • Roof Collapse at Texas Instrument Plant (Richardson, TX)

    03/25/2005 8:18:29 AM PST · by davidosborne · 100 replies · 4,300+ views
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  • Graduate Cryptographers Unlock Code of 'Thiefproof' Car Key

    01/29/2005 4:37:19 AM PST · by MississippiMasterpiece · 23 replies · 6,472+ views
    New York Times ^ | January 29, 2005 | JOHN SCHWARTZ
    BALTIMORE - Matthew Green starts his 2005 Ford Escape with a duplicate key he had made at Lowe's. Nothing unusual about that, except that the automobile industry has spent millions of dollars to keep him from being able to do it. Mr. Green, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, is part of a team that plans to announce on Jan. 29 that it has cracked the security behind "immobilizer" systems from Texas Instruments Inc. The systems reduce car theft, because vehicles will not start unless the system recognizes a tiny chip in the authorized key. They are used in...
  • Work to begin soon on TI plant

    10/25/2004 4:14:00 AM PDT · by q_an_a · 3 replies · 276+ views
    Dallas News ^ | 10.25.04 | CRAYTON HARRISON
    Chip-making factory in Richardson expected to create 1,000 jobs Texas Instruments Inc. plans to announce today that it will break ground Nov. 18 on a state-of-the-art chip plant in Richardson, fulfilling a major part of the economic development deal it made last year. In exchange for TI's promise to build a Texas factory that is expected to eventually employ 1,000 people, Gov. Rick Perry allocated $50 million from a corporate incentive fund to the University of Texas at Dallas. UTD will ceremonially start construction of its engineering building on the same date.
  • Minister: Soros trying to overthrow Cabinet

    09/03/2004 7:08:28 PM PDT · by nypokerface · 34 replies · 1,566+ views
    The Baltic Times ^ | 09/04/04 | Aaron Eglitis
    RIGA - Government ministers took the current wave of NGO hysteria to new heights this week when they suggested that billionaire George Soros had organized an attempt to overthrow the ruling coalition via nongovernmental organizations. Interior Minister Eriks Jekabsons' Aug. 19 statement that the security police would begin to analyze Delna, the local chapter of Transparency International, and that billionaire financer George Soros may be behind its actions caused consternation in the capital. This was followed by an interview with Deputy Prime Minister Ainars Slesers in the Russian language tabloid Vesti Segodnya on Aug. 27, in which Slesers claimed that...
  • FLYING THEIR POLITICAL COLORS

    11/16/2002 11:34:24 AM PST · by forest · 47 replies · 1,902+ views
    Fiedor Report On the News #296 ^ | 11-17-02 | Doug Fiedor
    Last Thursday, House Democrats elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as House Minority Leader. Pelosi won the minority leader position on a 177-29 vote. That is, only 29 House Democrats voted against her. Clearly, 177 agree with her positions. This is a very important point. Because, now we can define, specifically, what the House Democrats are and what they stand for. Money is the life-blood of politics. Like Hillary in the Senate, Pelosi capitalized on that. In so doing, Pelosi bought her position within the Democratic Party. According to Opensecrets.org(1), Pelosi set up her own PAC and quickly became a major...