A pandemic and the loss of Major League Baseball ownership have conspired to give us a measly regular season of 60 games by 2020. While less baseball is necessarily unwanted news, we can console ourselves with the chaos that often accompanies sample size. smaller in a sport like this In …
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Facebook bans dozens of “boogaloo” accounts amid criticism of how it handles hate speech
On Tuesday afternoon, Facebook announced that it had deleted more than 200 accounts linked to the violent and extremist anti-government “boogaloo” movement. This move comes after weeks of criticism of the company’s handling of hate speech on its platform. Still, banning boogaloo accounts doesn’t solve Facebook’s biggest hate speech problem. …
Read More »Rep. Kinzinger explains why the issue of Trump being informed of Russia’s reward is “irrelevant”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Illinois, told Fox News Radio on Tuesday that President Trump is unlikely to have been informed of intelligence that Russia secretly offered rewards to Taliban-linked militants for killing US troops. in Afghanistan due to the unverified nature of the information. “I don’t think the president has been …
Read More »Republican Senate Party begins drafting the next coronavirus proposal
Senate Republicans are quietly starting to write pieces of their next coronavirus relief package. Republicans are not expected to formally negotiate the fifth bill, or even make an official decision on whether they need another aid package, until they return from a two-week break on July 20. But Republican senators …
Read More »25 new cases of COVID-19 in Alaska; Free Public Trials to Begin Tuesday in Fairbanks | Alerts
Alaska health officials Monday reported 25 new cases of COVID-19: 21 state residents and four nonresidents. Two of the resident cases were confirmed in residents of Fairbanks North Star County, one from Fairbanks and one from the North Pole. The other 19 resident cases were found in residents of six …
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