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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the company's annual developers conference in San Jose, Calif., May 1, 2018. Facebook is beginning to enforce a ban on white nationalist content. (Stephen Lam/Reuters)

NPR

With Facebook ban on white extremism, international norms apply to U.S.

Facebook was once praised for spreading free-speech values. But the world is pushing back with different values, which Facebook is importing to the U.S.

8 years ago

Radio Times

Politics & Policy

Stacey Abrams: Public introvert and ‘old-fashioned Democrat’

Former candidate for Georgia governor Stacey Abrams discussed the future of the Democratic party in appearance on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane.

8 years ago

In this April 26, 2018 file photo, Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo, File)

Politics & Policy

Cohen asks lawmakers to help keep him out of prison

Attorneys for Michael Cohen are asking members of Congress to help keep him out of prison.

8 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Biden Courage Awards Tuesday, March 26, 2019, in New York. (Frank Franklin II/AP Photo)

Politics & Policy

Biden to be ‘more respectful’ of personal space after allegations from several women

Joe Biden released a video saying he will be ‘more respectful’ of personal space following allegations from several women that he made them uncomfortable by touching.

8 years ago

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., passes a resolution to subpoena special counsel Robert Mueller's full report, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2019. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

Politics & Policy

House Judiciary panel approves subpoenas for Mueller report

The House Judiciary Committee approved subpoenas for special counsel Mueller's full Russia report as Dems pressure Justice to release the document without redactions.

8 years ago

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, meets with South Korea Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha at the State Department, in Washington, Friday, March 29, 2019. (Cliff Owen/AP Photo)

Politics & Policy

Secretary of state talks immigration, Venezuela at Army War College

At the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told military officers from the U.S. and its allies to be ready to face emerging threats.

8 years ago

In this March 26, 2019 photo, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., presides at a meeting directing the attorney general to transmit documents to the House of Representatives relating to the actions of former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House Judiciary Committee will ready subpoenas this week for special counsel Robert Mueller’s full Russia report. This, as the Justice Department appears likely to miss an April 2 deadline set by Democrats for the report’s release. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

Politics & Policy

Democrats to prepare subpoenas for full Mueller report

The chairmen of several House committees asked for the full, unredacted report last week after Attorney General William Barr released a four-page summary.

8 years ago

Worshippers exiting a mosque in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., are handed fliers encouraging participation in the 2010 census. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

NPR

Politics & Policy

For the first time, U.S. census to collect responses in Arabic among 13 languages

These new additions join English, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese in a total of 13 languages — more than doubling the number of options that were available.

8 years ago

This undated photo provided by the Columbia Police Department shows Samantha Josephson, a University of South Carolina student who was reported missing after last being seen Friday, March 29, 2019. The university on Saturday confirmed the death of the student. (Columbia Police Department via AP)

Courts & Law

Ride-share mistake led to death of New Jersey woman in S.C.

Safety advocates urged college students to match the vehicle color and model, the license tag number, and the photo of their ride-share drivers before getting in a vehicle.

8 years ago

An increasing body of research has documented the addictive nature of social media. (Westend61/Getty Images)

NPR

Community

In an increasingly polarized America, is it possible to be civil on social media?

Tyler and Larry have never met. But almost every day for the last few years, they get into a fight on Twitter.

8 years ago

A person crosses the street at a U.S Mexico border crossing in El Paso, Texas, Friday, March 29, 2019. (Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)

Politics & Policy

Number of asylum seekers sent back over border to grow

Border officials are aiming to more than quadruple the number of asylum seekers sent back over the southern border each day.

8 years ago

The Supreme Court ruled in what seem to be contradictory ways in two cases about access to spiritual advisers during executions. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

NPR

Courts & Law

Supreme Court sees 2 similar death penalty questions very differently

In one, a Muslim was put to death, and in the other, a Buddhist's execution was temporarily halted.

8 years ago

In this Feb. 15, 2018 file photo, Judith Enck, (center), former regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency addresses those gathered at a protest against President Trump's plan to expand offshore drilling for oil and gas in Albany, N.Y. A U.S. judge in Alaska says President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he reversed a ban on offshore drilling in vast parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean. (David Klepper/AP Photo, File)

Courts & Law

Judge restores Obama-era drilling ban in Arctic

Judge Sharon Gleason in a decision late Friday threw out Trump's executive order that overturned the bans that comprised a key part of Obama's environmental legacy.

8 years ago