Facebook has been vehemently condemned in a two-year report it commissioned into itself. The audit found a series of "serious setbacks" that led to failures on issues including hate speech, misinformation and bias. The 100-page report catalogues a "seesaw of progress and setbacks" on a wide variety of issues. Download the new Independent Premium app…
Two miles from the White House is a small gun. The .44-calibre derringer pistol is displayed in a museum beneath Ford’s Theatre in Washington. It was fired by John Wilkes Booth, a white supremacist and sympathiser of the slave-owning Confederacy, when he assassinated Abraham Lincoln five days after the end of the American civil war.…
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration acted within its authority when it expanded exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) requirement for employers to provide insurance coverage that includes contraception -- in a victory for Little Sisters of the Poor, the Catholic group that has been at the center of the national debate over the…
Tuesday, the president announced his support for opening the country's schools this fall.It seems like a pretty obvious position. But suddenly, it's not.Many people violently disagree with it for reasons that still are not clear, but definitely are not rational.In any case, here's part of what the president said Tuesday.TUCKER CARLSON: CAN THE LEFT REALLY…