Fact Check: More Armed Citizens Equals Less Mass Shootings?
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‘Beast from the East’ and freakishly warm Arctic temperatures are no coincidence
University of Maine, Climate Change Institute Peter Inness, University of Reading During the past week, bitterly cold weather has engulfed the UK and most of…
Open internet advocates pressure US senators before midterms
As the clock ticks on the effort to restore net neutrality, advocates see hope in using the midterm elections in the US to hold elected…
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…
(Fact Check) Trump’s Misleading Gun Rhetoric
By Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson and Robert Farley – Factcheck.org In a bipartisan meeting with members of Congress, President Donald Trump made false and misleading claims about his predecessors’…
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…