Anti-Bill O’Reilly Banner Flown Over New…

12:58 PM PDT 4/18/2017 by THR Staff The banner reads “Fox: #DropOReilly, The Sexual Predator.” Women’s rights group UltraViolet organized a protest in New York on Tuesday against Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly amid his sexual harassment controversy. The group is demanding the O’Reilly Factor host be fired from the network. The protest was held at Fox News headquarters in New York at 1:30 p.m. ET and video of the demonstration was streamed live on Facebook. A plane flew a banner that read “Fox: #DropOReilly, The Sexual Predator” over the city in the hours leading up to the protest. An UltraViolet rep told The Hollywood Reporter the plane would fly around the Statue of Liberty, by Battery Park, before flying up and…
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Facebook Messenger launches group bots and…

Facebook today launched two powerful ways for people to find Messenger bots to use, addressing the discovery problem that’s plagued bot the platform’s 100,000 developers. Facebook’s new Chat Extensions lets you use Messenger bots in group chats so you can watch a sports game’s play-by-play together from TheScore’s news ticker bot, collaborate on building a Spotify playlist, or get a consensus on booking a flight through Kayak. OpenTable, the NBA, Food Network, WSJ, and other developers are also launching group bots today. Apple Music is coming soon. TechCrunch reported last month that Facebook would launch these group bots today at F8. Until now, bot experiences were just you and the bot. But that puts a ton of pressure on the…
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Conservative group targets Sen. Elizabeth Warren

A conservative group says their mission is to damage Senator Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 prospects for the presidency, and they want to “make her life difficult.” America Rising PAC is the group behind the reported memo that recently leaked. They’re timing their mission to the release of Warren’s new book. Politico reports Warren’s book is due out Tuesday. It’s called This Fight is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class. Elizabeth Warren through the years Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., attends a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Dirksen Building titled ‘Foreign Cyber Threats to the United States,’ featuring testimony by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and others, January 5, 2016. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Senate Armed…
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Business group: China backtracking on market…

Business group: China backtracking on market opening Joe Mcdonald, Ap Business Writer April 17, 2017 Updated: April 18, 2017 2:09am FILE – In this Oct. 21, 2016 file photo, a Chinese woman demonstrates the ability of Baxter, an industrial robot from U.S. company Rethink Robotics, to follow her hand movements during the World Robot Conference in Beijing. China’s push to develop its own technology and other industries has “narrowed the space” for foreign companies to compete in its market, an American business group said Tuesday, April 18, 2017, and it appealed Beijing to carry out market-opening pledges. Foreign companies are especially concerned about government initiatives to develop competitors in electric cars, robotics, biotech and other fields. less FILE – In…
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Confidence that Trump will keep his…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally March 1, 2016, in Louisville. (John Bazemore/AP) It was always fairly obvious that much of President Trump’s campaign rhetoric was composed on the fly, often in real-time focus-grouping before enthusiastic audiences. The progressive website ThinkProgress tallied 663 distinct campaign pledges ranging from the familiar — build the wall — to the esoteric: “I will do a better job with the military, I will do a better job with jobs.” Overlaid with Trump’s famous apathy toward doing his homework, those ad hoc commitments are starting to crumble in the face of political realities. He’s recently abandoned a number of his consistent campaign pledges, such as his insistence that China should be labeled…
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Pro-Trump group launches a $3 million…

The Capitol dome is seen at sunset. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press) Hours before the Republican health-care plan fizzled last month, White House officials marched to the Capitol and urged party leaders to call for a vote on the House floor. Several of them later groused privately that they wanted a list of who was with President Trump and who was against him. Although that vote was not to be, an informal tally has lived on in recent weeks, passed around the West Wing and within Trump circles. And now an influential outside group with close ties to the president is acting on it. Leaders of America First Policies, a pro-Trump nonprofit outfit, told The Washington Post on Sunday that it is…
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Christians most persecuted group in the…

The recent Palm Sunday bombings at two Egyptian churches that killed 44 worshippers and wounded more than 100 others are the latest in a spate of deadly attacks targeting the world’s Christians. Nearly 90,000 of the faithful were killed for their beliefs in violent and gruesome attacks last year, according to a report by the Center for Studies on New Religions, making Christians the most persecuted group in the world. While some were killed as part of state-sanctioned persecution, as in places like North Korea, nearly one-third of the Christians who died in 2016 were executed at the hands of Islamic extremists like ISIS. The study also found that as many as 600 million Christians were prevented from practicing their…
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CIA director takes negative tone on…

Published: Friday, April 07, 2017 @ 12:47 PM By: Debbie Lord, Cox Media Group National Content Desk Judge Neil Gorsuch was confirmed for the vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court Friday by a 54-45 vote.  Here is how each senator voted. Alexander, Lamar – Yes    Baldwin, Tammy – No    Barrasso, John – Yes   Bennet, Michael – No    Blumenthal, Richard – No    Blunt, Roy – Yes    Booker, Cory – No    Boozman, John – Yes    Brown, Sherrod – No    Burr, Richard – Yes   Cantwell, Maria – No    Capito, Shelley – Yes    Cardin, Benjamin – No    Carper, Thomas – No    Casey, Robert “Bob” – No    Cassidy, Bill…
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CIA director takes negative tone on…

CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, Thursday, April 13, 2017. Pompeo denounced WikiLeaks, calling the anti-secrecy group a “hostile intelligence agency.” (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press) By Eileen Sullivan and Deb Riechmann | AP By Eileen Sullivan and Deb Riechmann | AP April 14 at 4:01 AM WASHINGTON — CIA Director Mike Pompeo has denounced the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks as a “hostile intelligence service” and a threat to U.S. national security, a condemnation that differed sharply from President Donald Trump’s past praise of the organization. In his first public speech since becoming taking over the CIA, the former Republican congressman escalated the agency’s hostility to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, accusing them of making…
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Musk Draws Rebuke After Telling Investor…

This is part of a series of stories that comprise TheStreet’s Blue Chip Studio, which will illuminate issues related to corporate board performance, activism, dealmakers and personalities revealed by analysis of data generated byBoardEx, a business unit of TheStreet. Elon Musk’s remark that if a Tesla (TSLA) investment group wants greater board independence they should buy the stock of Ford (F) has earned a rebuke from one of his institutional investors. The Tesla CEO was responding to a letter in which several investors urged the company to strengthen its corporate governance by appointing directors that don’t have ties to Musk and to have yearly board elections. In a Tweet on Wednesday afternoon, Musk advised the group to buy Ford stock,…
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