Facebook’s fact-checkers flag satire as fake news
Facebook on Friday said it mistakenly threatened to demonetize a satirical website’s social networking account after one of its articles, “CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine…
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Alex Jones’ former employees allege racism, sexual harassment, anti-Semitism: Report
Two people formerly employed by far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have filed federal complaints alleging the embattled InfoWars publisher discriminated against his staff and subjected…
Trump Accuses Lawmakers of Being ‘Afraid of the NRA’
U.S. President Donald Trump again called on lawmakers to approve some type of gun control legislation to prevent more school shootings, two weeks after 17…
Putin boasts of new-generation ‘invincible’ weaponry
President Vladimir Putin boasted Russia has developed a new generation of hypersonic missiles in his state of the nation address on Thursday, warning global powers…
Hope Hicks, Trump’s longest-serving aide, resigns from White House
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s communications director and close aide Hope Hicks announced her resignation Wednesday and will leave the West Wing in a few…
Dick’s Sporting Goods will no longer sell assault-style rifles, says ‘thoughts and prayers are not enough’
Dick’s Sporting Goods announced Wednesday that it would stop selling assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines, and end the sale of firearms to people under 21…
Supreme Court strengthens government’s power to indefinitely detain immigrants who face deportation
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday strengthened the Trump administration’s power to hold immigrants in jail for months or years as they fight deportation,…
Trump names campaign manager for 2020 reelection bid
President Donald Trump has only just completed his first year in the White House, but he is already looking ahead to a 2020 reelection campaign,…
Trump says he would have gone into school unarmed to stop massacre
President Trump Monday criticized Florida deputy sheriffs who didn’t confront the gunman at a Florida high school, saying he would have gone in unarmed to…
Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of DACA ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the Trump administration’s appeal of a federal judge’s ruling that requires the government to keep the Deferred…