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Donald Trump tweeted 260 times within first 50 days of presidency: Report – Washington Times


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Donald Trump tweeted 260 times within first 50 days of presidency: Report
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Mr. Trump has taken to Twitter at least once a day since taking office, cranking out no fewer than 260 tweets from his @RealDonaldTrump account since his swearing-in, or roughly five posts per day the same number of in-person press conferences he's ...
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Pres. Trump on White House Intruder: ‘It Was a Troubled Person’ – Fox News Insider

President Donald Trump said the Secret Service did a fantastic job dealing with a "troubled person" who jumped the White House fence Friday night.

He addressed the incident to a group of reporters Saturday, saying he appreciated the Secret Service's efforts.

The intruder has been identified as 26-year-old Jonathan Tran, according to a representative with the U.S. Attorney's Office.

FoxNews.comhas more on the incident:

A person climbed a White House fence Friday night and gained access to the complex's south grounds before being arrested, the Secret Service said Saturday, shortly after noon.

The incident occurred at about 11:38 p.m. Friday while President Trump was at the White House, officials told Fox News.

The Secret Service also said the unidentified person scaled an outer-perimeter fence on the White House complex's southeast side, near the Treasury Building, and was arrested without further incident by an officer in the agency's Uniformed Division.

The intruder was carrying a backpack and purportedly got close to the White House's south portico residence entrance, near the Washington Monument.

No hazardous material was found inside the backpack, and a subsequent search of the complex grounds resulted in "nothing of concern to security operations," the Secret Service said.

Watch the video above to hear Trump's comments.

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Trump holds partial Cabinet meeting at his golf club – Washington Times


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President Donald Trump, center, meets Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, right, and Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, left, along with other members of his cabinet and the White House staff, Saturday, March 11, 2017, at the Trump National ...
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Alt-right internet detectives have captured Shia LaBeouf’s secret flag – A.V. Club

The story of Shia LaBeouf, Nastja Sde Rnkk, and Luke Turners He Will Not Divide Us art project has taken another, weirdly summer camp-y turn. The projectwhich initially consisted of a webcam streaming from outside a museum in New York, where people were encouraged to say He Will Not Divide Us for the benefit of online watchersquickly became a lightning rod for the bored, attention-seeking impulses of the faux-but-not-really racists whove labeled themselves the alt right. Bombarding the project with weird poses, shouted anti-Semitism, and a lot of chugged milk, the group basically drove LaBeoufs protest project out of New York, forcing it to reestablish itself in New Mexico.

But even then, the twin lures of an open camera and the chance to nebulously stick it to Shia LaBeouf were too powerful, and the project was forced to move again. This time, LaBeouf and company attempted to buy their exercise in public awareness a little anonymity, setting up a He Will Not Divide Us flag in an unknown location and leaving it to film.

But of course, nothing is truly unknown on the internet; not the depths and lengths that trolls will go to in order to amuse themselves with their edgy attempts to troll a college freshman-level art project, and definitely not a camera left pointing at a sky that sometimes has planes flying across it. In a display of incredibly depressing enthusiasm and mis-applied industriousness, it took the denizens of 4chanand those of its even-less reputable brethren like 8chanroughly a day to use flight-plan data to narrow down the city where LaBeouf had hidden his camera. At which point, they started driving around Greenville, Tennessee, honking car horns and listening to their echo on the stream, in order to pinpoint the house where the flag was flying. Then, they stole it and replaced it with a picture of Pepe, thus transforming this whole thing into the worlds most infuriatingly elaborate game of capture the flag.

Said flag has since been taken down, and the webstream continues to run on an empty flagpole. Theres no word on where LaBeouf might move it next, or how online racists next plan to waste their lives in order to bring someone passively disagreeing with them down.

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Women get far less recognition on Wikipedia than men, and a group … – CBC.ca

A Vancouver art gallery is making surewomen get their due on the world's largest online encyclopaedia.

The Belkin Art Gallery is hosting a Wikipedia 'edit-a-thon'. The goal is to create more pages celebrating the accomplishments of women, particularly femaleartists a demographic that the gallery's coordinator AlexandraBischoffsays is widely underrepresented.

"Less than 10 per cent ofWikipediaeditors identify as female," Bischofftold stand-inhost Gloria Macarenko on CBC'sOn the Coast, citing the figures from activist group Art + Feminism. "These events areessentiallyan effort to bolster female representation on thewebsite, and also to encourage more women to become editors."

The 'edit-a-thon' at the Belkin Art Gallery is one of many happening across the globe. The events areaffiliated with Art + Feminism, a group founded by New York-based artists includingUBC alumnusJacqueline Mabey.

"It is an openinvitationfor women to come together and work on pages that they would like to see created for Wikipedia," said Bischoff.

Art + Feminism began organizing the annual 'edit-a-thons' in 2014, after recognizing that the bulk of Wikipedia articles pertain to male subjects, and are edited by male users.

Alexandra Bischoff, program coordinator of the Belkin Art Gallery, says participants in the 'edit-a-thon' will be provided with books and catalogues to research their desired female artists. (CBC)

Bischoffsays the gender disparity "stems from the fact that coding and programming are traditionally considered to be male dominated industries," adding that Wikipedia's interface was long inaccessible for people who were uneducated in the trade.

"Alack of femaleeditorsnaturallywill lead to a skewed representation on the platform, in any field."

Bischoff says many accomplished female artists are notable absent from the platform but the group hopes to change that. The art gallery will begin their 'edit-a-thons' onMarch 18and hopes to create up to 15 new pages.

With files from CBC's On the Coast

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