Signs of Facebook's much-anticipated war on fake news are bubbling up into the newsfeeds of some users. The fake news flag tests appear to have been around for over a week, though seem to be vanishing as quickly as they appear. That behavior is in line with the way Facebook regularly tests new product features through limited, live rollouts to small swaths of its massive user base.… Read More
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The White House said Thursday that it would review a request by Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to make public new information pointing to Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election, but it hasn't changed the administration's view that Donald Trump's victory was free of tampering.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will cut funding to public universities that become what he described as "sanctuary" campuses for immigrant students. The Republican provided no other details.
Abbott tweeted the vow Thursday in response to a story about Texas State University students urging school ...
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The United Nations declared on Thursday that the "stage is being set" for a repeat of the Rwandan genocide as ethnic cleansing is being carried out in certain areas of South Sudan.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - A former engineer for the Wyandotte County government has been charged with taking more than $17,000 in bribes.
U.S. Attorney Tom Beall says in a news release Thursday that 58-year-old Willie D. Jones was indicted by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Kansas.
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Two key things we learned during a Motorola press event in Chicago this week. 1. The company's bullish on modular phones and 2. Not so much with smartwatches. The Lenovo-owned smartphone maker's head of global product development Shakil Barkat told the audience that, "We don't see enough pull from the market at this point to put out a new product," when speaking… Read More 
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NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump may have to give up one property on Pennsylvania Avenue if he wants to move into another down the street.
One is the newly opened, glittering jewel in the president-elect's hotel empire. The other, of course, is the White House.
Whether he'll need to ...
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At launch, the Moto Z was compatible with three different modular backings (four if you count the shell projector): a Motorola pico projector, a speaker from JBL and an Incipio battery pack. Shortly after launch, the company brought a little camera brand legitimacy to the ecosystem with a Hasselblad back featuring 10x optical zoom. Not a huge number, sure, but it was certainly a more… Read More 
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A government advisory panel is recommending that the Homeland Security Department continue using private, for-profit jails to house immigrants facing deportation.
The panel, part of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, wrote in its first of 14 recommendations that ICE "will continue" to use private jails. The group ...
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For the past few years, "Come for the tool, stay for the network" has been in vogue as a theory of consumer startup product development. Chris Dixon's January 2015 post popularized the idea*, and it's frequently cited in industry discussions and by investors. Why does this idea have so much appeal? There are several reasons: It's much easier to build a good… Read More 
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Hundreds of patients at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Wisconsin may have been infected with HIV or other diseases as a result of prohibited practices by one of its providers.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Lawyers for journalist Katie Couric are urging a federal judge to dismiss a $12 million defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia gun rights activists over what they call a misleading documentary edit.
The Virginia Citizens Defense League filed a lawsuit in September over Couric's documentary "Under the ...
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - A Nevada education philanthropist is calling for Las Vegas-area schools and college campuses to declare themselves sanctuaries for undocumented students, staff and family members who might face deportation.
The Rogers Foundation board chairwoman Beverly Rogers said Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump's pledges to deport immigrants would ...
Cancerous tumors carry certain genetic markers called neoantigens and Facebook billionaire Sean Parker wants to use algorithms to find them. To do so, the Sean Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy will work with more than 30 public and private pharmaceutical, biotech, cancer research nonprofits and academic institutions through a partnership with the Cancer Research Institute to use… Read More 
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Multi-billion dollar tech giants with close access to President Obama's White House, including Google, are benefitting from a $500,000 taxpayer-funded subsidy that was funneled by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to a report released Monday by Sen. James Lankford (R., Okla.).
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Grab, the Uber rival in Southeast Asia, has scooped up a strategic investment that could help it expand its pools of drivers to battle rival services. Read More 
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Members of the Ohio Senate have unanimously voted to approve a bill that would make having sex with animals a crime in the state.
Senate Bill 195 passed 31-0 on Wednesday and now heads to the Ohio House of Representatives, which must consider the legislation within ...
Three members of the senior investing team at Genesis Partners, a major Israeli venture firm, are stepping out with a new, early-stage fund of their own called F2 Capital. For the unfamiliar, Genesis Partners' portfolio companies have been acquired by the likes of Apple, IBM, Microsoft and Sapiens over the past decade, and have gone public on the Nasdaq exchange in the U.S. as well.… Read More 
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NEW YORK (AP) - Financial cheaters and corrupt politicians beware: One of America's hardest-charging prosecutors isn't going anywhere.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's brief announcement that he has agreed to stay on in the Donald Trump administration signals in at least one way that the president-elect may be serious about ...