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Caitlyn Jenner costume for Halloween sparks social media outrage

August 25, 2015 publisher arrests, during-the-2015, japan-caroline, jeffrey-hurant, largest, manhattan, millennium, nokia-theater, press, united-states, vanity

By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) – Retailers selling Caitlyn Jenner costumes for Halloween sparked a social media firestorm on Tuesday from critics who say the get-up insults transgender people and promotes stereotypes. Jenner, a former Olympic gold medalist and reality TV star known as Bruce, came out as transgender this year and introduced herself in a Vanity Fair cover story that earned international attention. A change.org petition launched on Monday is demanding that Spirit Halloween, a costume company with over 1,100 locations in the United States and Canada, stop producing and selling the costume, which includes a brunette wig, shiny white padded bustier and shorts resembling the outfit Jenner wore in the Vanity Fair cover photo.

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Fox News: Republican Trump should apologize after latest Twitter outburst

August 25, 2015 admin donald-trump, during-the-2015, game, japan-caroline, manhattan, stage, trump, vanity

The head of Fox News on Tuesday called on Donald Trump to apologize after a string of posts on Twitter lambasting Fox anchor Megyn Kelly, the latest in an ongoing flap between the network and the leading Republican presidential candidate.

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Clinton to announce White House run Sunday; her fame both bonus and burden

April 10, 2015 publisher campaign, clinton, democratic, democrats, during-the-2015, excellence, political, toner-prize, while-secretary, white, york

By Steve Holland and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton will announce her second run for the presidency on Sunday, starting her campaign as the Democrats' best hope of fending off a crowded field of lesser-known Republican rivals and retaining the White House. The overwhelming favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination, Clinton will nonetheless face multiple challenges as she returns to the campaign trail seven years after losing the nomination in 2008 to Barack Obama. She has been a high-profile figure in American politics for more than two decades since her husband, Bill Clinton, won the presidency in 1992, and her fame still eclipses the other likely Democratic contenders and Republican opponents.

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Lufthansa says some frequent flyer accounts hacked

April 10, 2015 publisher accounts, democratic, during-the-2015, excellence, frequent, purchases-using, spokesman-told, toner-prize, using-the-miles, york

Lufthansa said hackers had managed to break into the accounts of some of its frequent flyers and use their miles to make purchases, just two weeks after British Airways suffered a similar attack. The hackers used lists to try to match usernames and passwords – when one matched, they made purchases using the miles on the frequent flyer’s account.

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China to punish Internet firm Sina over series of complaints

April 10, 2015 publisher beijing, broad-campaign, country, cyberspace, during-the-2015, excellence, frequent, most-complained, ongoing-online, president, regulator, regulator-said, since-president, toner-prize, user-complaints

China will punish web portal and social media firm Sina Corp after it was identified as operating the most complained about major website in the country, the Internet regulator said on Friday, the latest blow in an ongoing online crackdown. Representatives from Sina, which also operates China's most popular microblog Weibo Corp, discussed “the issues of breaking the law and the recent large quantity of Internet user complaints” with officials from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and its Beijing branch, the regulator said in a statement on its website. Since President Xi Jinping came to power in early 2013, he has overseen a broad campaign to bring China's Internet under the government's control

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Hillary Clinton hires Google executive as tech chief

April 8, 2015 admin build-websites, campaign, clinton, democratic, during-the-2015, excellence, motivate-people, person-familiar, political, president-even, scott-gutterman, tour

By Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Likely 2016 Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has hired a Google executive to serve as her chief technology officer, a person familiar with the campaign's planning said on Wednesday. Clinton hired Stephanie Hannon, Google's director of product management for civic innovation and social impact, to run her technology operations, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.