JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s decades-long discussion about building a new capital has inched forward after President Joko Widodo on Monday approved a long-term plan for the government to abandon overcrowded, sinking and polluted Jakarta. Widodo decided at a special Cabinet meeting to move the capital outside of Indonesia’s most populous island, Java, said Planning…
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The Responses To This Girl’s Active Shooter Drill Tips Will Break Your Heart
A public service announcement in which a young girl teaches active shooter drills to adults has gone viral. March For Our Lives, the anti-gun violence movement, released the video captioned #GenerationLockdown on Monday. “If there was an active shooter, you would all be dead,” the youngster named Kayleigh told employees at a California office. Kayleigh…
Tech Company Asked For ‘Preferably Caucasian’ Candidate On LinkedIn Job Posting
IT staffing and recruiting company Cynet Systems has finally apologized for its racist job listing that Twitter users spotted last week. The otherwise fairly standard posting appeared on various sites, including LinkedIn, and began by stipulating that the job candidate be “Preferably Caucasian.” It should be obvious, but employment discrimination on the basis of race…
Mark Hamill, George Conway Join Forces To Torch Trump As He Lies For 10,000th Time
President Donald Trump hit a new milestone on Monday. The Washington Post reported that he had officially made 10,000 false or misleading claims since taking office in January 2017. And a couple of his most persistent Twitter critics have joined forces to mock him about it. “Star Wars” icon Mark Hamill shared a tweet from…
Drone Footage Captures The Terrifying Work Of Plowing Yosemite’s Tioga Pass
This might be one of the scariest jobs in public works. Last week, the California Department of Transportation shared a video of its road crews plowing Highway 120, just outside Yosemite National Park, after a winter of heavy snows. The drone footage showed plows working the narrow road with an avalanche-prone cliff on one side…
Judge And Civil Rights Icon Damon J. Keith Dead At 96
DETROIT (AP) — Judge Damon J. Keith, a grandson of slaves and figure in the civil rights movement who as a federal judge was sued by President Richard Nixon over a ruling against warrantless wiretaps, died Sunday. He was 96. Keith died in Detroit, the city where the prominent lawyer was appointed in 1967 to…
BYU Valedictorian Comes Out As Gay In Graduation Speech
A Brigham Young University valedictorian came out as gay in a powerful commencement speech that celebrated personal victories for classmates ― and his own. Matty Easton said he persevered through battles with his creator over his identity. “It was in these quiet moments of pain and confusion that I felt another triumph, that of coming…
Battling The Undead Proved Fatal For One Beloved Character
WESTEROS — Jorah Mormont, known as Jorah the Andal by the Dothraki, King of the friend zone by others, and sometimes by the alias Iain Glen, died Sunday protecting Daenerys Targaryen during a supposed skirmish with the undead in what is being called the Battle of Winterfell. Son of the late former Night’s Watch commander…
NRA In Chaos As Wayne LaPierre Is Reportedly Asked To Resign
The National Rifle Association is in turmoil amid allegations that Oliver North, recently installed as the gun lobbying organization’s president, threatened to release damaging information about longtime CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre unless he agreed to resign. In a letter to the NRA board of executives on Thursday, obtained by The Wall Street…
Driver In Bay Area Crash May Have Been Targeting Muslims, Police Say
A San Francisco Bay Area driver charged with eight counts of attempted murder is suspected of targeting the victims because he thought they were Muslim, local authorities said Friday. Sunnyvale Police Chief Phan Ngo said at a news conference that there’s evidence 34-year-old Isaiah Joel Peoples intentionally drove his car into the crowd on Tuesday…