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Oct 14 2022
News
How TikTok ate the internet
On the night Shelby Renae first went viral on TikTok, she felt so giddy she could barely sleep. She’d spent the evening painting her nails, refreshing her phone between each finger — 20,000 views; 40,000 — and by the next morning, after her video crossed 3 million views, she decided it had changed her life.
She didn’t really understand why it had done so well. The 16-second clip of her
Washington Post
Jul 28 2022
News
After bidding war, JetBlue agrees to buy Spirit for $3.8B
JetBlue Airways has agreed to buy Spirit Airlines for $3.8 billion and create the nation’s fifth-largest airline if the deal can win approval from antitrust regulators.
The agreement Thursday capped a months-long bidding war and arrives one day after Spirit’s attempt to merge with fellow budget carrier Frontier Airlines fell apart.
Spirit CEO Ted Christie is being thrust into the
Associated Press
Mar 06 2018
News
'The world is watching': North Korea reportedly would consider abandoning nukes program
North Korea said it is willing to talk to the United States about abandoning its nuclear weapons program if its security can be guaranteed, South Korea's government said Tuesday.
USA TODAY
Mar 26 2021
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Chuck Schumer controls the future of the filibuster. Dems aren’t sure what he’ll do.
Senate Republicans are adamant that Chuck Schumer is maneuvering toward one endgame: Killing the filibuster.
But Schumer’s own Democratic colleagues aren’t as confident.
“I don’t think he personally wants to change the rules. But we’ve never had a conversation about this in caucus. And we need to have one,” said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), a skeptic on eliminating the filibuster
Politico
Jul 15 2022
Analysis
CBS, ABC, CNN sound the alarm on coronavirus BA.5, call for masking: ‘The worst variant is here’
The left-leaning media is sounding the alarm on the new COVID-19 variant labeled BA.5, asserting that it’s a "big deal" and calling for people to mask up and get boosted.
In recent remarks, White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci called for the virus to still be "taken seriously" and warned that Americans who want to put the pandemic in the past must realize it is not gone yet.
Fox News Digital
Jul 01 2022
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Documents reveal McKinsey's role increasing opioid sales until 2019
McKinsey & Company found opportunities to boost opioid manufacturers' sales amid the addiction crisis from 2004 to 2019, new documents published by the University of California at San Francisco and Johns Hopkins University show.
Why it matters: When one opioid fell out of favor with federal regulators, drugmakers created and marketed another, further stoking the crisis.
The
Axios
Mar 07 2023
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Spotify’s COVID-19 Hub Includes No Sources From the Right
You should be on the lookout for bias and misinformation in all media — even when you're browsing music or listening to podcasts.
In January 2022, Spotify created a hub for COVID-19 information in response to controversy around Joe Rogan’s podcast. AllSides found that Spotify’s COVID-19 information hub shows media bias by omitting sources on the right.
(Note that the
Clare Ashcraft
Jul 13 2022
News
As BA.5 spreads, the White House warns that Covid is not over.
President Biden’s coronavirus response team warned Americans on Tuesday that they must do more to protect themselves against Covid-19, as the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant known as BA.5 fuels a new wave of infections, re-infections and hospitalizations across the country.
But their new strategy to combat the threat sounded a lot like the old one, couched as advice that they
New York Times (News)