Monthly Archives: November 2016

While both companies are taking a step in the right direction, the efforts won’t completely fix the problem of fake news stories bubbling up on the two major websites. “Facebook’s move doesn’t address the fake news that appears in users’ news feeds, the focus of criticism of the social network,” the Wall Street Journal reported […]

(CNN)Concerns are mounting about escalating violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State after a series of army raids on villages that have left dozens dead and hundreds arrested. At least 17 members of Myanmar’s security forces and 69 people described as “violent attackers” were killed in the latest uptick of violence in the state, home to the […]

My Nana is not one to joke around. Like many black women her age, Virginia Louise Evans is usually quite stern and, at times, blunt to the point of cruelty. At 69, she has earned the right to say whatever she pleases. But she was cheerful last Thursday evening, when I sat down with her […]

Theres no shortage of startup incubators and accelerators, but theres always room for improvement and iterations on an old operating model.Expa Labs, asix-month program for startups that spun out of Uber co-founder Garrett Camps Expa Studios, has a different take on the startup accelerator/incubator model. Last week, it wrapped up its first batch of startups. […]

The federal government on Friday revealed plans to shut the largest camp in North Dakota where protesters have gathered for months in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in a letter to a Native American tribe leading the opposition against the pipeline that it will close the area […]

(CNN)A new confrontation is brewing over the Dakota Access Pipeline. Protesters fighting pipeline construction must vacate property near the Cannonball River in North Dakota — the location of a large campsite for demonstrators — by December 5 or face arrest, the Army Corps of Engineers said Friday. Built on sacred land: ‘It’s going to be […]

Four police forces say they are now investigating allegations of historical child sex abuse within football. ‘No overnight stays’ Mr Smith told the Guardian that talks had been convened between senior officials at Crewe Alexandra, who included the then chairman Norman Rowlinson, who died in 2006. Despite the discussions, the paper says Bennell was allowed […]

Bennell, now 62, was arrested in Florida in 1992 for child abuse and has served three jail sentences for child sex offences, including one last year. ‘More and more victims’ Mr Bailey told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday: “I suspect that in the next few days and weeks that we will see a […]

Dakota access pipeline protest organizers say they will remain at Oceti Sakowin camp: We are wardens of this land Dakota Access oil pipeline protesters will not follow a contentious clashes between protesters who believe the pipeline could harm drinking water and Native American cultural sites and police. We are wardens of this land. This is […]

Dina Gold researched her familys Berlin past and uncovered a dark secret dating from the Nazi era When Dina Gold began searching for the Berlin property seized from her family by the Nazis in the 1930s, she had little idea she would unearth a dark secret how the SS paid millions in premiums to insure […]