Jerry Lewis, the brash slapstick comic who teamed with Dean Martin in the 1950s and later starred in “The Nutty Professor” and “The Bellboy” before launching the Muscular Dystrophy telethon, has died in Las Vegas. He was 91.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John Katsilometes reported that he died at his home at 9:15 a.m. and his agent confirmed the news.
Jerry Lewis, Comedy Legend, Dies at 91
Elon Musk leads 116 experts calling for outright ban on killer robots
Some of the world’s leading robotics and artificial intelligence pioneers are calling on the United Nations to ban the development and use of killer robots.
Tesla’s Elon Musk and Google’s Mustafa Suleyman are leading a group of 116 specialists from across 26 countries who are calling for the ban on autonomous weapons.
Evangelical students returning university diplomas to protest Trump
Former students at Liberty University are preparing to return their diplomas in a group protest of university president Jerry Falwell Jr.'s support for President Trump's agenda.
In a group letter first reported by NPR, a small group of alumni is criticizing Falwell for supporting the president in the wake of Trump's remarks blaming "many sides" for violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend. The letter slams Falwell for defending Trump's comments, specifically for his saying there were "very fine people" protesting on both sides.
Schiff: Jury’s out on Trump’s mental stability
Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that he and his colleagues are increasingly concerned about President Donald Trump’s mental fitness.
“There are some serious issues,” Schiff said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” adding that “the pressures of the job may only get worse.”
Dick Gregory, civil rights activist and comedian, dies
US comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory - who broke racial barriers in the 1960s and used his fame to counter racism and protested wars in Vietnam and the Middle East - has died aged 84.
Gregory died at a hospital in Washington DC late on Saturday after being hospitalised for a week following a bacterial infection, his family said on social media.
Photo of ‘Antifa’ man assaulting officer was doctored, analysis shows
An image that appeared to capture a member of an anti-fascist group beating a U.S. police officer with a club during a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is fake.
The doctored photograph, the Associated Press and Snopes.com found, turned out to be a Getty Image shot in 2009 during clashes between police officers and protesters in Athens, Greece. An “Antifa,” or “antifacist,” logo was digitally superimposed onto the jacket of a protester, who is seen attacking an officer with a blunt object.
Wave of resignations hits Commerce Department’s board of ‘digital economy’ advisers
More business executives are departing en masse from Trump administration advisory positions, with a new set of resignations from a Commerce Department advisory board following an exodus from two business groups advising the White House, which then disbanded both of them.
More than half of the members of the 15-person Digital Economy Board of Advisors, an expert board set up last year by the Obama administration to help the federal government navigate the digital economy, are known to have resigned this week in the wake of President Donald Trump's controversial comments about the violence last week in Charlottesville, Va., that left one person dead.
US Megachurch Leader Quits Donald Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board
A New York megachurch pastor announced Friday he was resigning from Donald Trump's evangelical advisory board, the first religious adviser to join a wave of defections after the president's response to violence at a white supremacist rally.
AR Bernard, who leads the 37,000 registered members of the Christian Cultural Center, told CNN that "I had to fully disengage myself".
Sessions Cites Junk Science to Shut Down Pot Research
These and many other questions are still open to scientific clarification, and for decades it’s been the federal government’s fault we don’t know the answers.
These and many other questions are still open to scientific clarification, and for decades it’s been the federal government’s fault we don’t know the answers.
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