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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., flanked by Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, left, and Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus,  to discuss the 2020 Census and the concern for getting an accurate count in minority communities, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 5, 2020. The census determines how federal funding is allocated and affects the apportionment of Congressional seats.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Politics & Policy

Facebook drops Trump ads after Pelosi cites census confusion

Facebook said in a statement that it was enforcing its policies to prevent confusion over the 2020 census, which begins for most people next week.

6 years ago

Twitter says it's deploying new policies that the social network hopes keep pace with the state of influence operations and disinformation today. (Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Twitter vows that as disinformation tactics change, its policies will keep pace

Twitter's new policy attempts to flag and provide greater context for content that the platform believes to have been "significantly and deceptively altered or fabricated."

6 years ago

Community
Billy Penn

Barstool Sports’ new Pennsylvania investor says no more harassment. Will the bro brand follow suit?

Penn National will soon own 50% of the self-described “pop culture blog.”

6 years ago

Former model and restaurateur B. Smith arrives at the BET Honors red carpet in the Warner Theatre in Washington. B. Smith, became one of the first African-American models on the cover of Mademoiselle and later opened restaurants, revealed last year that she has Alzheimer's disease. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo, File)
Arts & Entertainment

Western Pa. native, B. Smith, model turned lifestyle guru, dead at 70

Model, restaurateur and lifestyle guru Barbara "B." Smith has died at her Long Island home, her family announced in a statement on social media.

6 years ago

Terry Gross, Marty Moss-Coane and Dave Davies all share a birthday (WHYY)
Community
Billy Penn

What is it about Valentine’s Day that makes great public radio hosts?

Fresh Air’s Terry Gross was born on Feb. 14 — and so were two of her most prominent colleagues.

6 years ago

Copies of the McClatchy Co. owned Miami Herald newspaper are shown Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 in Miami. (Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo)
Money

McClatchy files for bankruptcy protection

The publisher of the Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star and dozens of other newspapers across the country is filing for bankruptcy protection.

6 years ago

Actor Kirk Douglas, shown above at 39, was born Issur Danielovitch in New York to Russian-Jewish parents. He would later tell his own children that they didn't have his
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Kirk Douglas, Hollywood tough guy and ‘Spartacus’ superstar, dies at 103

Douglas was often cast as a troubled tough guy in films, most famously as a rebellious Roman slave named Spartacus. Offscreen, he was devoted to family and charity.

6 years ago

Radio host Rush Limbaugh says he's been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.
(Julie Smith/AP)
NPR
Community

Rush Limbaugh says he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer

He said the diagnosis was confirmed by two medical institutions on Jan. 20, after he became concerned earlier that month that something was wrong.

6 years ago

FILE - This Sept. 26, 2008 file photo shows debate moderator Jim Lehrer during the first U.S. Presidential Debate between presidential nominees Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss.  PBS announced that PBS NewsHour's Jim Lehrer died Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, at home. He was 85. (AP Photo/Chip Somodevilla, File)
Community

PBS NewsHour co-founder Jim Lehrer dies at 85

Jim Lehrer, co-host and later host of the nightly PBS "NewsHour" that for decades offered a thoughtful take on current events, has died, PBS said Thursday. He was 85.

6 years ago

Heshimu Jaramogi (Martin Regusters)
Community
Tne Philadelphia Tribune

Heshimu Jaramogi, leader of multimedia journalism in Philadelphia, has died

Longtime journalist Heshimu Jaramogi, considered a forefather of multi-media journalism in Philadelphia, died Tuesday after a brief battle with colon cancer.

6 years ago

TIKTOK / @EVANDAHGOAT AND @GABESCO
Community
Billy Penn

TikTok teens: How Philly highschoolers get millions of followers to watch their every move

It’s all about connecting with your audience, local softboys say.

6 years ago

This Jan. 17, 2017, file photo shows a Facebook logo being displayed in a start-up companies gathering at Paris' Station F in Paris. (Thibault Camus/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Facebook again declines to limit political ad targeting

And it still won't fact check them, as it's faced pressure to do.

6 years ago

Director Kathryn Bigelow poses backstage with the Oscar for best achievement in directing for
Arts & Entertainment

Pop culture in 2010s marked gains in diversity, inclusion

In the decade drawing to a close, the conversation about diversity and inclusion moved to the front burner of our popular culture as never before.

6 years ago

Patients line up for remote health consultation sessions on a remote island near Rangpur, Bangladesh. (Allison Joyce for NPR)
NPR
Community

The global stories of 2019 that you probably missed

Sure, everybody thinks it's great when a story is read by many hundreds of thousands of folks. That's definitely a success.

6 years ago

Thousands of new holiday songs have been released since 1994, but none have become standards in the way pop songs about Christmas routinely did in the '60s, '70s and '80s. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Why are there no new Christmas songs?

This year, Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" turns 25. Her single-item wish list seems to have been the punctuation mark on half a century.

6 years ago

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