Facebook will ‘turn down the temperature’ on heated political discussions in News Feed and groups, Zuckerberg says
“People don’t want politics and fighting to take over their experience on our services,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
Abraham Lincoln, out. George Washington, gone. San Francisco votes to rename 44 schools for namesakes’ ties to racism, slavery.
School board members have argued that the renaming is timely and important, given the country’s reckoning with a racist past.
Democrats slam Marjorie Taylor Greene over past Facebook comments, video with Parkland survivor
Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene should resign after some of her past remarks resurfaced.
Investing during cornavirus: Apps make it easy for beginners, here’s how I started
Behind complicated terms and a slew of numbers lies an opportunity for retirement funds or another stream of income. Is it time to become investor?
Shark numbers in ‘alarming’ worldwide decline as many species face extinction, study says
Shark populations in the world’s oceans have declined by an “alarming” 71% since 1970, according to a study published Wednesday in the British journal Nature.
Will travelers need a negative COVID-19 test to board flights within the US? The CDC says it’s under consideration
A COVID testing requirement went into effect Tuesday for all passengers boarding international flights to the U.S. Are domestic flights up next?
‘Equity by way of deliberate remembrance’: Emmett Till’s home gains landmark status in Chicago
Emmett Till’s Chicago home gained landmark status Wednesday, five months after thousands rallied in the capital on the anniversary of his murder.
QAnon still pushing conspiracies, lies about the election and former president Trump on Facebook and Twitter
QAnon faithful are still pushing conspiratorial lies about the election and former President Donald Trump even after Facebook and Twitter purges.
UC Berkeley removes the name on a school building over an anthropologist’s controversial past
The University of California, Berkeley has removed the name on its anthropology building, Kroeber Hall — named for prominent American anthropologist Alfred Kroeber — because of his controversial history with Native Americans.
New intelligence shows heightened threat against members of Congress in their home states
• Man pleads guilty in plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
• Two police officers died by suicide after responding to Capitol riot
This car maker says it topped 300 mph. But it’s not so easy to do it again
In October, a small US automaker called SSC North America claimed its 1,750-horsepower Tuatara supercar had gone more than 300 miles an hour, breaking official world speed records for a street legal passenger car.
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