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Facebook to end ban on political ads in United States
Facebook Inc will lift its temporary ban on political advertising in the United States on Thursday, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday.
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Here's the real reason Republicans won't say Biden won the election fair and square
In the wake of their 2020 losses at the federal level, the Republicans are turning to a decentralised, state-based strategy to win back power. It's going unnoticed by most Democratic voters, writes Emily Olson.
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QAnon-evangelical crossbreeding is creating America’s own ‘al-Qaeda’ radicals: experts
The Qanon conspiracy movement is cross-pollenating with evangelical Christianity, and experts on extremism are worried about an increasingly radicalized religious movement.
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Trump Appointee Arrested for Role in Capitol Riot
One of the latest people arrested in connection with the Capitol riot is a former State Department aide who worked on former President Trump's 2016 campaign. Federico Klein, 42, is the first known Trump appointee facing charges over the Jan. 6 attack, Politico reports.
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We Can’t Curb the Presidency Without Fixing Congress
The minoritarian skew of the House and Senate presents an obstacle to democratic reform.
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Biden Endorses Female Generals Whose Promotions Were Delayed Over Fears of Trump’s Reaction
President Biden has nominated two female generals to elite, four-star commands, the Defense Department announced, months after their Pentagon bosses had agreed on their promotions but held them back out of fears that President Donald J. Trump would reject the officers because they were women.
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GOP struggles to define Biden, turns to culture wars instead
President Joe Biden and the Democrats were on the brink of pushing through sprawling legislation with an eyepopping, $1.9 trillion price tag. But many Republican politicians and conservative commentators had other priorities in recent days. A passionate defense of Dr. Seuss. Serious questions about the future of Mr. Potato Head. Intense scrutiny of Meghan Markle.
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What Is Happening to the Republicans?
In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.
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Trump spoke to his base. Biden speaks to the entire nation.
As president, Trump always seemed to speak to his base. During his first primetime address as president, Biden spoke to the entire nation. MSNBC's Brian Williams has more.
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Watch: John Oliver Dedicates Entire Segment to Exposing Tucker Carlson as a 'White Supremacist'
John Oliver railed against Tucker Carlson yet again on Sunday's Last Week Tonight -- this time dedicating the bulk of his show to exposing the prime time host as "the most prominent vessel in America for white supremacist talking points.”
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Inside Gab, the Online Safe Space for Far-Right Extremists
The hacked data from Gab contains 65 gigabytes of data, including 4 million Gab accounts, 31,000 groups, and 39 million posts.
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U.S. intelligence finds Russia and Iran sought to influence 2020 election, but China did not
The report assesses that Putin "had purview over" Giuliani associate Andrii Derkach's activities.
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A year into the pandemic, Florida is booming and Republican Gov. DeSantis is taking credit
After a year of criticism by health experts, mockery from comedians and blistering critiques from political rivals, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is standing unabashedly tall among the nation's governors on the front lines of the coronavirus fight.
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States are finally moving to ban the homophobic ‘gay panic’ defence
Lawmakers in New Mexico took a step forward for LGBT+ people recently by advancing a bill to ban the so-called “gay panic” defence – a strange, backward legal idea that’s evaded the march of sexual and gender equality across the US with remarkable resilience.
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'Climate facts are back': EPA brings science back to website after Trump purge
Canceled four years ago by a president who considered global warming a hoax, climate crisis information has returned to the website of the US government’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of Joe Biden’s promise to “bring science back”.
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QAnon's ‘collateral damage’: Families struggle to pull loved ones back from the brink
No easy answers when a family member has fallen into the clutches of "Q," the conspiracy theory popular with supporters of former President Trump.
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Study: No partisan benefit from mail voting in 2020 election
Donald Trump last year publicly worried that the explosion in voting by mail during the pandemic would increase turnout so much that “you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
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Why do Americans share so much fake news? One big reason is they aren’t paying attention, new research suggests
Americans who share fake news on social media might not lack media literacy skills. Chances are they don't stop to check accuracy, a new study suggests.
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U.S. launched "more than 2 dozen" cyber operations to protect election, top official says
General Paul Nakasone said U.S. Cyber Command conducted "more than two dozen" operations to counter foreign attempts to interfere in the 2020 elections.
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