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Then Trump’s advisers quickly jumped to his defense, dismissing his comments as “ironic” and insisting that the President had been joking. In an interview that aired Monday, given the opportunity to tell himself if he was serious, Trump covered it up and told CBN News that his comment was “half …

Ben & Jerry’s is stopping paid advertising on Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram about the company’s hate speech policies, the company announced in a tweet Tuesday. “Facebook, Inc. must take clear and unequivocal actions to prevent its platform from being used to spread and amplify racism and hatred,” the company …

European stocks fell on Wednesday as markets struggled to gain traction against a backdrop of rising US coronavirus cases. USA Tech stocks were a bright spot after a record session for the Nasdaq Composite. The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP Index, -1.39% It fell 1.2% to 362.99, after a 1.3% gain …

As of Tuesday, more than 120,000 Americans died from COVID-19, but President Donald Trump wants the “Fake New” media to report his response to the coronavirus in a more “positive” light. Trump refused to take the virus seriously in the first days of the outbreak, minimizing the threat for weeks. …

A new study, released this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research, used data on protests from more than 300 of the largest cities in the United States, and found no evidence that coronavirus cases grew in the weeks after the start of the protests. In fact, the researchers …