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Bigotry and ignorance join forces to deny the existence of black nuns in Europe. No surprise that it's bad history.

These computers are not programmed instead, connections between the circuits are “weighted” according to correlations in data that the processor has already “learned.” Those weights are then altered as data flows in to the chip, causing them to change their values. That generates a signal that travels to other components and, in reaction, changes the neural network, programming the next actions much the same way that information alters human thoughts and actions.

The American Federation of Teachers was the donor behind One Boston, a PAC that paid for a $480,000 television commercial supporting Mayor-elect Martin J. Walsh during the final days of the Boston mayoral race.

The Obama Administration has produced vast expansion of deportations reaching 409,000 last year, with over 2 million deported since this president assumed office. Increased enforcement has been justified as a device to encourage legislative reform of the immigration system, but it has only increased the deportations and the divisions of families.

Anti-base protester: 'Okinawa residents cannot tolerate the base relocation within the prefecture.

A criminal government at work!

There are many steps that we can take to end that state of affairs, but the most important is to put jobs back on the agenda.

Pope Francis, homelessness, drones, Obamacare, Boxing Day