Facebook’s Related Articles To Counter Spread Of Fake News
Facebook announced it is broadly rolling out its Related Articles feature on the News Feed to counter fake news. Related Articles will now appear underneath news links that [...]
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Senate Blocks Trump from Making Appointments During August Break
The U.S. Senate has effectively blocked President Donald Trump from making any appointments while the lawmakers are on their August break. The politicians have agreed to a [...]
Misleading statements on Russia meeting recall Clinton’s impeachment
Clark D. Cunningham, Georgia State University According to a biographer of Donald Trump, “He’s been lying his whole life, almost reflexively.” Now, President Trump may [...]
Fire Hannity Effort Intensifies
Efforts to get Fox News to fire commentator Sean Hannity have intensified in recent days, amid allegations that the network collaborated with the White House in promulgating [...]
Factbox: West Virginia Governor Jim Justice
Who is Jim Justice? He was born in 1951 in Charleston, West Virginia. He went to school there and graduated from Marshall University with a master’s degree in Business [...]
Mueller impanels grand jury in Russia probe
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that special counsel Robert Mueller has seated a grand jury in Washington, D.C., to investigate Russia’s interference with the [...]
The real consequences of fake news
This photograph taken in Paris Friday Dec. 2, 2016 shows stories from USA Daily News 24, a fake news site registered in Veles, Macedonia. USA Daily News 24 is one of roughly [...]
Scientists edit human embryos to safely remove disease for the first time – here’s how they did it
Human eight cell embryo for IVF selection. K. Hardy, Wellcome Images , CC BY-SA Joyce Harper, UCL and Helen O’Neill, UCL Scientists in the US have released a paper [...]
Trump signs Russia sanctions bill
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump quietly signed legislation Wednesday that imposes new sanctions on Russia and limits his ability to remove them, according to two White [...]
Tillerson disagrees with Trump over Iran but relationship is ‘good’
Washington (dpa) – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday insisted that his relationship with Donald Trump was “good,” though he admitted he [...]
Senate approves Christopher Wray as new FBI director
WASHINGTON — The Senate easily confirmed Christopher Wray to lead the FBI on Tuesday, approving President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace fired Director James B. [...]
Lawsuit alleges Trump reviewed story about murdered DNC aide Seth Rich’s ties to WikiLeaks: Report
President Trump reviewed the now-debunked story concerning a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer’s connection to WikiLeaks before it was published, NPR [...]
Pharma Bill Would Save Billions: CBO
Allowing Americans to purchase lower-priced medicines from other countries would save the federal government alone more than $6 billion, according to a new analysis from the [...]
Trump: No Plans to Quit Use of Social Media
U.S. President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday that he plans to continue offering his thoughts with frequent posts on social media. “Only the Fake News Media and Trump [...]
US fails to account for billions spent in Afghanistan
A new quarterly report published by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) shows the US has failed to account for hundreds of billions of [...]
Trump’s Approval Rating Drops To Record Low Of 39 Percent In Poll
President Donald Trump has dropped to a new low in his approval rating, according to Rasmussen Reports Monday. The polling outfit said that he slumped to a low 39 percent [...]
Scaramucci OUT As Communications Director
WASHINGTON — Anthony Scaramucci, announced little more than a week ago as President Donald Trump’s White House communications director, was ousted Monday before he [...]
Obamacare vote isn’t the only sign of GOP resistance to Trump
WASHINGTON — In the year since Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, party leaders have been reluctant to challenge a man who has formed a tight bond [...]
The backstory behind the unions that bought a Chicago Sun-Times stake
Back in the 1930s, people like this pear peddler in New York City’s Lower East Side often got their news from labor-led media. AP Photo Brian Dolber, California State [...]
Putin announces 755 US diplomats must leave Russia
Moscow (dpa) – President Vladimir Putin announced on Sunday that 755 US diplomats must leave Russia, according to state news agency TASS, in retaliation for new [...]