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Fauci gives Congress COVID-19 warning
Anthony Fauci, the administration’s top infectious disease doctor, told a House panel on Tuesday that rising U.S.
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Republicans push bill requiring tech companies to help access encrypted data
The proposed legislation is Congress' latest attempt to weaken encryption from tech giants.
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Facebook's new Fact-Checking policies have carved out an exemption for climate deniers
A "conservative" Facebook employee quietly intervened, overturning the fact check, and the misinformation was no longer labeled as false. Facebook will consider it "opinion" and therefore immune to fact-checking.
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Op-Ed: Those who exercise free speech should also defend it — even when it's offensive
People love to claim the 1st Amendment to protect speech they favor, but resist similar safeguards for expression they dislike.
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Farewell to privacy: Lindsay Graham unveils a bill that would make encryption useless
The LAED Act "[mis]understands how encryption works. You can't create a backdoor just for 'good guys,'" one expert tells Salon.
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Zuckerberg: Facebook will prohibit hate speech in its ads
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said the company will change its policies to prohibit hate speech in its advertisements. Under its new policies, Facebook will ban ads that claim people from a specific race, ethnicity, nationality, caste, gender, sexual orientation or immigration origin are a threat to the physical safety or health of anyone else, Zuckerberg said.
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U.S. Must Release Children From Family Detention Centers, Judge Rules
The order, which cited the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, applies to children held in the nation’s three family detention centers for more than 20 days.
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Wall Street Quietly Begins Warning About A Biden Presidency
With Joe Biden surging in the polls, Wall Street executives are preparing for a potential scenario where he becomes president—with some firms warning clients the stock market could take a hit.
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US buys up world stock of key Covid-19 drug remdesivir
No other country will be able to buy remdesivir, which can help recovery from Covid-19, for next three months at least
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The 3 Weeks That Changed Everything
Imagine if the National Transportation Safety Board investigated America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Court sides with publisher of tell-all book by Trump's niece
A version of this article first appeared in the "Reliable Sources" newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Bad news for President Trump and his younger brother, Robert Trump, who has been trying to block an unflattering tell all book by the President's niece, Mary Trump, that Simon & Schuster is set to publish in July.
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For the forgotten men of 1st Platoon, Trump's pardon of an officer they helped convict of murder is a crushing betrayal
Only a few hours had passed since President Donald Trump pardoned 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and the men of 1st Platoon were still trying to make sense of how it was even possible. How could a man they blamed for ruining their lives, an officer the Army convicted of second-degree murder and other charges, be forgiven so easily? How could their president allow him to just walk free?
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Controversial Alaska hunting techniques to return as bans reversed
Controversial Alaska hunting techniques to return as bans reversed
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Trump administration moves to formally withdraw US from WHO
The White House has officially moved to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), a senior administration official confirmed Tuesday, breaking ties with a global public health body
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Parler, the Trumpy Alternative to Twitter, Is Already Falling Apart
June was a grim month for Donald Trump supporters on Twitter. The social media giant was adding warning labels to some of the president’s tweets, and banned an internet-famous MAGA “meme-smith.” Fearful that more crackdowns would soon follow, Trump supporters began to flock to Parler, a budding social network that bills itself as the free-speech, conservative-friendly alternative to Twitter.
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Biden FCC Would Restore Net Neutrality Rules
Fund more municipal broadband
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Is evangelical support for Trump a contradiction?
A religious historian explains why Trump wasn’t a trade-off for American evangelicals.
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Democratic and Republican parties warn staff not to use TikTok over security concerns
TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, is said to be a major security concern among Democrats and Republicans.
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Kanye West Presidential Bid Seemingly Ends 10 Days After Announcement
The musician's 11th-hour White House attempt meant he had little-to-no time gather enough signatures in order to appear on state ballots.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg discharged from the hospital and doing well
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been discharged from the hospital after being treated for a possible infection in her latest health scare.
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