New York (CNN Business)Facebook(FB) on Thursday said it had taken action against ads run by President Trump's re-election campaign for breaching its policies on hate. The ads, which attacked what the…
Attorney General William Barr speaks in Washington, December 10, 2019.Al Drago | ReutersThe Department of Justice is taking aim at tech's liability shield with a new set of legislative proposals released on Wednesday.The proposed reforms are the latest action aiming to weaken legal protection established through Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 1990s-era law.…
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which yielded the first close-up photos of Pluto, has managed to snap photos of an "alien sky" more than 4.3 billion miles from Earth.The craft took images of nearby stars Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359, which appear to be in vastly different positions from the vantage point we see them on…
President Trump on Tuesday questioned the motives of the elderly protester who was shoved by Buffalo police officers last week and hospitalized after he hit his head in the resulting fall -- drawing severe backlash from both sides of the aisle.Officers Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski pleaded not guilty to second-degree assault after they were caught on…
New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio | Bryan Thomas/Getty Images NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio took a tougher tone Monday against NYPD officers accused of excessive force during protests that have swept the city, even as he said he was considering the possibility of a curfew after looting broke out in Manhattan. The…
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…