Show captionA screen grab from a video feed shows California Senator Kamala Harris during the first night of the Democratic national convention. Photograph: Democratic National Convention Handout/EPAKamala HarrisThe removal of the items followed pressure from Twitter users who urged people to complain to the retail giantWed 19 Aug 2020 12.36 EDTAmazon has removed a clothing…
A pro-Trump ad was removed from Facebook after claims that it contained false information, Fox News has learned.America First Action PAC on Tuesday told Fox News that Facebook removed one of its ads, titled "On Hold," which was placed in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on July 24. The ad was flagged by Politifact on July 29, according to…
A case of mistaken identity has caused the owners of a Michigan bed and breakfast to remove a Norwegian flag from the front of the inn after dozens of people confused the flag with a Confederate flag, a report said. When Greg and Kjersten Offbecker moved into the historic mansion in St. Johns years ago…
Workers arrived under cover of darkness early Friday to remove a Christopher Columbus statue from Chicago’s Grant Park – a week after rioters clashed with city police as they attempted to tear the statue down.The statue was being removed partly to de-escalate tensions between protesters and police as unrest continues in the nation’s third-largest city,…
Twitter on Tuesday said it is taking sweeping action against the conspiracy theory QAnon, removing more than 7,000 accounts associated with the group and banning links related to QAnon on the platform. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption toggle caption Jeff Chiu/AP Twitter on Tuesday said it is taking sweeping action against the conspiracy theory QAnon, removing…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…