US President Donald Trump signs executive order designed to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies from liability for the content users post on their platforms
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Minneapolis ex-officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck is in custody and faces charges of third-degree murder and manslaughter
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US President Donald Trump's executive order isn't only about Twitter; it's also attempting to ensure that Facebook won't change their own approach in the lead-up to the election
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Maybe that police station shouldn’t have broken the law
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Virus sparks round-the-clock rush to fill US gold vaults
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US President Donald Trump has accused Twitter of "completely stifling free speech" after the social media company flagged some of his tweets with a fact-check warning
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How 1960s black protests moved elites, public opinion and voting
@owasow: For 15 years, I've been studying 1960s civil rights protests with particular attention to how nonviolent and violent actions by activists & police influence media, elites, public opinion & voters. I'm thrilled some of that work was published last week. 1/ https://t.co/zzvvPTcgoP
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Seventy-five things white people can do for racial justice
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President Donald Trump said he would end Hong Kong’s special relationship with the US and withdraw from the World Health Organization
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New analysis suggests that assumptions about the source of early cases in Washington state might have been wrong, but the resulting reaction may have prevented a more severe outbreak
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One of the first California counties to reopen is closing again - Lassen County, pop. 30,000, had no cases of COVID and reopened in early May. It now has four cases
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$100B plan submitted for massive remake and expansion of National Science Foundation
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How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
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SpaceX overcame never-before-seen parachute deploy and thruster problems during Crew Dragon development
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Protestors criticized for looting businesses without forming private equity firm first
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The design of the “Incalculable Loss” front page of The New York Times for Memorial Day, 2020
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US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage—but NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission
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New data indicates the Mississippi Delta is on borrowed time
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Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changing (1964)
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SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell on prospects for Starship launcher
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Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
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Weather scrubs SpaceX commercial crew launch, Demo-2
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If Trump kicks out Twitter, there's always Germany
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Boston Marathon canceled for the first time in its 124-year history
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"[R]iots do not develop out of thin air. [...] in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard." Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
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From homeless refugee to chess prodigy, nine-year-old dreams of becoming youngest Grandmaster
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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou loses key court battle as British Columbia judge rules extradition bid should proceed
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The Black American amputation epidemic
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Andrew Cuomo gave legal immunity to nursing home execs after big campaign donations. Critics say data proves New York's liability shield is linked to higher nursing home death rates.
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Inside the flour company supplying America’s sudden baking obsession
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US DOJ urges High Court to shield companies from slave labor suits citing 230 year old tort statute
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The cool history of ice cream (in America) | The Ice Cream Show Episode 9
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Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Adolf Hitler
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White woman who called police on a black man bird-watching in New York's Central Park has been fired
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Hertz files for bankruptcy in the US after rental-car demand vanishes
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Chinese foreign minister warns US against taking the countries ‘to the brink of a new Cold War’
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As the US regains the ability to launch astronauts with its own rockets, the future of Russia's already struggling civil space program is unclear
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Trump team killed rule designed to protect health workers from pandemic like COVID-19
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US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Coronavirus fatality rate could be as low as 0.26%
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New state-level model from Imperial College London suggests that epidemic is not under control in most American states, predicts major surge in cases and deaths over next two months
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Undercover at a Christian gay-to-straight conversion camp
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Henry Grimes, a jazz bassist. Disappeared in 1970 and was presumed dead. Was found by a social worker in 2002, destitute and with no bass. Eventually won a lifetime achievement award in 2016
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US critics of stay-at-home orders tied to fossil fuel funding
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John Krasinski's 'Some Good News' sells to ViacomCBS following massive bidding war
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The insane engineering of the A-10 Warthog
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Stephen Colbert interviews Joe Biden for fifty minutes
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Garlic shortage hits, a side effect of the coronavirus pandemic
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NASA and SpaceX have cleared the Demo-2 mission for May 27, will be the first launch of astronauts on an American rocket from American soil since 2011
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The birth of NASAs space program | The Saturn V story
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Interview with Elon Musk on his Twitter usage, selling off his possessions, and the historic upcoming launch
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