Why the White House is now letting you message the president on Facebook

The White House's new Messenger bot will let citizens send notes to President Obama, possibly winding up among the 10 citizen letters he reads each night. U.S. President Barack Obama signs a letter back to 76-year-old Cuban letter writer Ileana Yarza as he sits at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House in this official White House handout photo taken in Washington March 14, 2016 and released by the White House on March 17, 2016.

Narendra Modi to beat Barack Obama to become worlda s most followed…

New Delhi, Aug 6: No doubt, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the most popular Indian political leader on social media. With 21.7 million followers on Twitter and 35.2 million on Facebook, Narendra Modi is the only Indian politician to have such a massive social media outreach.

Trump has Harvard Republicans seeing crimson

Harvard's tenderfoot GOP elite on Thursday declared the candidate "a threat to the survival of the Republic," while asking party leaders and fellow college conservatives to "join us in condemning and withholding their endorsement from this dangerous man." The decision to publicly reject the candidate came earlier this week, Harvard Republican Club President Declan Garvey told CNN.

Dante Ramos Partisans: Sharing wishful-thinking clickbait doesn’t help

But according to the new breed of clickbait headlines that proliferate on Facebook, an oration that's rousing enough, or a tweet that's snarky enough, can singlehandedly vaporize the Republican nominee. "Obama Just Annihilated Donald Trump with the Whole World Watching at DNC," the website PoliticusUSA declared during last week's Democratic National Convention.

Malaysia Airlines settles damages with MH17 victims

Ex-Marine sergeant-turned-lifestyle guru called for black people to 'fight back, through bloodshed' just days before ambushing and murdering three Baton Rouge cops on his 29th birthday Gunned down in cold blood: The cop who shared a poignant message about being a black police officer, the ex-Marine who had only been on patrol for 12 days and the deputy due to go on holiday 'Today's devastating assault is an assault on all of us': Hillary Clinton denounces Baton Rouge shooting as she pleads for Americans to 'stand together' Revealed: The YouTube ramblings of Baton Rouge cop shooter who wore gun holsters in videos, urged viewers to rise up against their oppressors and said he 'worked alone' 'The hatred has to stop': Louisiana Governor pleads for an end to anti-cop violence as three of his officers are murdered just 10 days after five were killed in Dallas Social media falls for fake ... (more)

Dallas suspect taunted police during 2 hours of negotiation comments

This undated photo posted on Facebook on April 30, 2016, shows Micah Johnson, who was a suspect in the sniper slayings of five law enforcement officers in Dallas Thursday night, July 7, 2016, during a protest over two recent fatal police shootings of black men. An Army veteran, Johnson tried to take refuge in a parking garage and exchanged gunfire with police, who later killed him with a robot-delivered bomb, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said.

The Latest: Several arrested in US for threats vs. police

Several people around the country have been arrested for making threats against law enforcement in the wake of shootings by police in Louisiana and Minnesota and the killings of five officers in Dallas. A suburban Chicago woman is accused of posting a threat on Facebook to shoot any police officer who pulls her over and asks her to get out of the car.

Michigan man can’t sue Pandora for divulging his tastes

A Michigan man can't sue Pandora for violating his privacy by publicly disclosing his musical preferences on social media because the service is free and the man was therefore not a Pandora customer under state law, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Peter Deacon sued Oakland-based Pandora Media in federal court in California in 2011, alleging the company violated Michigan's Video Rental Privacy Act when it divulged his musical preferences on its website and on Facebook.

Israel Calls Facebook A ‘Monster’ For Supposedly Fueling Palestinian Attacks

Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Facebook was responsible for a spate of Palestinian attacks on the country's citizens. "Facebook today sabotages, it should be known, sabotages the work of the Israeli police, because when the Israeli police approach them, and it is regarding a resident of Judea and Samaria, Facebook does not cooperate" with the West Bank, Erdan said in a television interview Saturday, Reuters reported .

Trump is low-tech

Donald Trump's vision of America is out of the 1950s - a world of decimated countries that left the United States with a plethora of low-skill, high-paying jobs. No wonder, then, that those who work in the industries of the 21st century find him an economic Neanderthal.

Italy recovers 2015 sunk migrant boat, hopes to ID victims

Some of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's neighbors are grumbling about a rock wall he's having built on his property on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Some of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's neighbors are grumbling about a rock wall he's having built on his property on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Kauai.