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Oct 05 2021
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Facebook Explains What Caused One of Worst Global Outages in Company's History
Facebook issued a statement late Monday explaining what caused the outage across its platforms lasted nearly six hours.
“Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication,” the statement said. “This disruption to network traffic had a cascading
Townhall
Jul 22 2021
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Mississippi Asks US Supreme Court to Overturn Abortion Rights Landmark Roe v. Wade
The state of Mississippi on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court in a major case set to be argued in its next term to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling that recognized that women have a constitutional right to obtain an abortion.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, a Republican, said in papers filed with the court that the Roe v. Wade ruling and a subsequent 1992 decision that
Newsmax (News)
Dec 23 2020
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Donald Trump demands bigger stimulus checks in $900 billion COVID-19 relief package passed by Congress
In an unexpected video posted to Twitter on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump denounced a sweeping COVID-19 relief package he was expected to sign, calling it a "disgrace" and urging congressional leaders to make several changes to the bill including increasing direct payments for Americans.
"It's called the COVID relief bill, but it has almost nothing to do with COVID," he said in
USA TODAY
Nov 01 2021
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Amazon plans to launch its first internet satellites in late 2022
Amazon aims to launch its first Project Kuiper internet satellites in the fourth quarter of 2022, the company announced Monday.
The technology giant filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch and operate its first two prototype satellites, called KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2. Amazon said the satellites will launch with ABL Space on its RS1 rocket.
“We’ll
CNBC
Feb 16 2022
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Malcolm Kenyatta got donations from Halle Berry, Amy Schumer, and Flo from Progressive
State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta has long trailed the pack in raising money for his U.S. Senate campaign. But he’s got some star-studded donors.
The Philadelphia Democrat is far behind Lt. Gov John Fetterman and U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb in campaign cash despite a group of celebrity contributors backing his underdog bid, a closer look at recent financial filings shows.
The support from the
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Nov 27 2021
Analysis
‘You Don’t Cancel Me. I Cancel You.’
It’s been a long 48 hours for your boy,” Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, said in an address to his 2.7 million Twitter followers late on a Friday night earlier this month. Portnoy was filming a response to an article published by Business Insider the day before, in which three women described distressing sexual encounters with him. One of the women, who was 20 at the time, said
The New Yorker
Jan 11 2022
Fact Check
Fact Checking Claims About VAERS and COVID-19 Vaccine Data
After Twitter suspended Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account permanently “for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,” Rep. Chip Roy tweeted a chart with supposed COVID-19 vaccine data that Greene had previously tweeted. Roy’s tweet complained that Greene shared data from VAERS (the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event System) that shows the “potential
The Dispatch Fact Check
Aug 30 2021
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Biden administration launches new office focused on climate change and health
On Monday, the Biden administration announced the establishment of a new office within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that will specifically address climate change and its effects, focusing on how it affects public health.
The office will be called the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE). In a video announcement on Twitter, one critical goal of the
The Hill
Jan 19 2020
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National Archives apologizes for blurring picture of anti-Trump Women's March signs
The National Archives, which contains some of the country's founding documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, apologized for blurring parts of an image from the 2017 Women's March critical of President Donald Trump.
"We apologize, and will immediately start a thorough review of our exhibit policies and procedures so that this does not happen again," the
USA TODAY
Dec 19 2020
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Trump contradicts Pompeo in bid to downplay massive hack of U.S. government, Russia’s role
President Trump addressed the ongoing cyber hacks of the U.S. government for the first time on Saturday, seeking to turn blame away from Moscow in defiance of mounting evidence while downplaying how devastating the intrusions appear to be.
In a bizarre outburst on Twitter that Trump’s critics condemned for its alarming disconnect from the facts, the president contradicted his top
Washington Post