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US Defense Budget is 'Proposed and Pursued in the Wrong Way'

Sputnik International 

The Trump administration is expected to unveil a new budget proposal on Tuesday which will see a boost to defense spending, but Director of Research for the Foreign Policy program at Brookings Institution Michael O'Hanlon told Radio Sputnik that the White House's approach to military spending is unsound.

U.S. stocks open slightly higher, on track for fourth straight daily rise

MarketWatch.com 

U.S. stocks opened with a modest gain on Tuesday, suggesting the market's recent upward bias remained intact as investors looked past a suspected terrorist attack in Manchester, England. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 35 points, or 0.2%, to 20,930. The S&P 500 ticked up by 3 points to 2,398, a rise of 0.1%. The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 17 points, or 0.2%, to 6,151. All three indexes are on track for their fourth straight daily advance, having shrugged off a sharp decline last week, which came on rising political uncertainty.

CRAZY VIDEO: Rapper T.I. Finally CONFRONTS Tiny . . . About Allegedly Having An AFFAIR . . . With Floyd Mayweather!!! (‘I Spent MILLIONS On You . . . What Has That N***A Ever Done For You’)

MTONews.com™ (mediatakeout.com) 

If you’re not watching T.I. and Tiny’s The Family Hustle this season – START WATCHING NOW. Here’s a clip from next week’s episode and it’s gonna be FLAMES. Listen to what happened when Tiny tried to confront T.I. on his infidelities. You can see that T.I. was trying to keep himself COMPOSED during the whole […]

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I was at FoxNews.com during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. It created a monster.

Vox 

We watched as the traffic grew by leaps and bounds.

Our ’90s-era business-casual clothes were a bit baggy, which may have contributed to the sense that we were children playing grown-ups, wearing our fathers’ suits. About a dozen reporters and producers had gathered around the conference table in the fishbowl, and we were pitching stories for FoxNews.com. Leading the meeting were a producer and editor who, like us, were in their mid-20s. You knew it was your turn to speak when the producer tossed a foam football your way. Читать дальше...

Philippine forces hunt top Islamist militant in city

Yahoo! News 

Philippine troops and police battled dozens of gunmen protecting one of the world's most wanted Islamic militants in a built-up area of a southern city on Tuesday, authorities said. At least one policeman was killed in the hunt for Isnilon Hapilon, a leader of the infamous Abu Sayyaf kidnap gang and Philippine head of the Islamic State group, according to Philippine military chief of staff General Eduardo Ano. The fighting took place in Marawi, a mostly Muslim-populated city of about 200,000 people on the southern island of Mindanao... Читать дальше...

Helios & Matheson's stock nearly doubles after acquiring facial recognition technology licensing rights

MarketWatch.com 

Shares of Helios & Matheson Analytics Inc. rocketed 91% toward a 3 1/2-month high in premarket trade Tuesday, after predictive analytics company said it has acquired the licensing rights to IsItYou's facial recognition technology in the field of crime and terrorism. The technology will be integrated with RedZone's navigation app, RedZone Map, which is used for situational awareness to improve safety. "Through artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology, we will seek to develop... Читать дальше...

8-foot python startles man and dog in Florida garage

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

(AP) — An 8-foot (2 meters) python slithered into a Florida garage, startling an unsuspecting homeowner who was taking his dog for a walk. Liscinsky says the python bit his fingers as he wrestled with it before wildlife officials arrived.

Look for overtime rule change to be a one-year experiment

NBCSports.com 

I hate the idea of reducing preseason and regular-season overtime from 15 minutes to 10. I hate it because: (1) it likely will lead to unintended consequences; (2) it definitely will lead to more ties; and (3) it seems to be motivated primarily if not solely by a desire to eliminate one of the potential…

Male Circumcision Ritual Stirs Controversy in Uganda

Voice of America 

The Ugandan government has found itself at loggerheads with a tribe from the eastern part of the country this month after a state official threatened to ban the tribe’s centuries-old traditional rite of passage. Halima Athumani has the story for VOA from Kampala.





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