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Early last year, amid mounting criticism that social media was spreading disinformation about covid-19, Facebook expanded an unprecedented campaign to police falsehoods by banning what it called “debunked claims” about the virus. Among them: The claim that covid was “man-made” and had leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is expected to address the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday during the second day of the annual General Assembly in New York. The high-profile venue — the UN’s most powerful body, where Russia is a permanent member — will offer him a platform to try to convince countries in the so-called Global South that Moscow bears responsibility for the

As it so often is, Lahaina’s Front Street was set on Saturday to be a scene celebrating the Hawaiian culture that is so deeply rooted on the storied strip of shoreline. Hundreds were expected to flood the historic street on Maui for the town’s annual , a commemoration of a renowned hula performer, the late Emma Farden Sharpe, whose ancestral home was where the corner of Front and Shaw streets

A federal report released Thursday found numerous instances where construction of the border wall during the Trump administration adversely impacted wildlife, the environment and Indigenous and other cultural sites on the Southwest border.

The report by the Government Accountability Office, “Southwest Border: Additional Actions Needed to Address Cultural and Natural Resource Impacts