Heartbreak: First victim of Florida school shooting named

Jaime's photo was among the dozens of pictures parents shared on Facebook, hoping someone from the school community would have information about their children. In this frame grab from video provided by WPLG-TV, law enforcement personnel arrest an unidentified man , following the shooting.

Facebook Is Experimenting With A ‘Downvote’ Button

Facebook is testing a new feature in which users can "downvote" certain comments made on posts, thus triaging the ones communally deemed most worthy of more public attention. The experiment, one of many for the social media company turned tech conglomerate, was spotted and publicized by multiple Twitter users, including tech writer Taylor Lorenz.

Democrats flip deep-red Missouri state House seat, signal problems for GOP

Democrat Mike Revis won the special election in Missouri on Tuesday, flipping a deep-red seat. Democrats flipped a Missouri House seat in Tuesday's special election in a district that President Trump won by 28 points in 2016, signaling problems for the GOP ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.

‘The Deep State’ Is the New Fake News

The Devin Nunes memo may have been a dud, but it did reveal one major issue: Politicians feel more than fine destroying trust in our institutions. For weeks, we have been sold the idea that a "memo" written by Republican staffers of the House Select Committee on Intelligence was a damning piece of evidence of political bias in the intelligence-gathering process.

Trump’s State of the Union will be answered by a cacophony of resistance voices

Democrats announced last week that Rep. Joe Kennedy III, the fresh-faced 37-year-old grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, would give their party's formal response to President Trump's first State of the Union address Tuesday night. But his speech, which will air on major networks such as CBS, ABC and NBC, will not be the only voice offering a Democratic response.

Leaked Trump Infrastructure Plan Ripped as Thinly-Veiled ‘Assault on the Environment’

"The administration's legislative outline for infrastructure sacrifices clean air, water, the expertise of career agency staff, and bedrock environmental laws," concluded Theresa Pierno, president of the National Parks Conservation Association. Environmentalists reacted with alarm on Friday to a leaked Trump administration infrastructure draft that proposes a drastic rollback of environmental regulations in an attempt to expedite the construction of water-threatening oil pipelines , roads, bridges-and, of course, "the wall."

This Thursday, July 27, 2017, photo shows an AT&T logo at a store in…

AT&T is calling on Congress for a national net neutrality law that would govern internet providers and tech companies alike, which the telecom giant says would end a fractious, years-long debate over the future of the web. In a series of full-page ads Wednesday in major newspapers such as The Washington Post and the New York Times, AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson proposed an "Internet Bill of Rights" that could help guarantee an open internet, one in which online content is not blocked or slowed down by telecom or cable companies, nor by internet companies such as Google or Facebook.

How to Curb Silicon Valley Power—Even With Weak Antitrust Laws

The concentration of wealth and influence among tech giants has been building for years-90 percent of new online-ad dollars went to either Google or Facebook in 2016; Amazon is by far the largest online retailer, the third-largest streaming media company, and largest cloud-computing provider. Silicon Valley titans coasted to the top of the economy with little government oversight on the backs of incredibly convenient products, a killer backstory, shrewd lobbying, and our personal data.