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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially said the company's social media platform was not a factor in the 2016 presidential election. Now his firm faces growing scrutiny after it revealed Russians bought $150,000 in electon-related Facebook ads in the two years beginning in June 2015.
Hundreds of fake Facebook accounts, probably run from Russia, spent about $100,000 on ads aimed at stirring up divisive issues such as gun control and race relations during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the social network said Wednesday. Although the number of ads is relatively small, the disclosure provides a more detailed peek into what investigators believe was a targeted effort by Russians to influence U.S. politics during the campaign, this time through social media.
TomA s Evangelista's status as undocumented immigrant thwarted his dream to join the military and made it hard for him to find a job. Now he's trying to help other Dreamers like him - immigrants without papers who arrived in this country as children - contend with similar and more pressing problems including homelessness.
This sign, posted outside Facebook headquarters in 2011, depicts the symbol with which users give their approval to each others' posts. Now Facebook has disclosed that a Russian company linked to a Kremlin intelligence operation bought sponsored ads targeting voters during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party has condemned a social media post by a mayoral candidate that listed her skin color among her qualifications. Kimberley Barnette is one of three candidates in next week's mayoral primary in Charlotte.
Congress is back in Washington, D.C., this week to tackle a to-do list so packed it unfurls all the way down to the Anacostia River. Lawmakers aren't only expected to focus on taxes, the budget, the debt ceiling and other such priorities.
Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website - Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. a A messy, public brawl over a Google critic's ouster from a Washington think tank has exposed a fissure in Democratic Party politics.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday called on Congress to combine a $7.9 billion disaster relief package for Harvey with an increase in the nation's borrowing limit, saying it was time to "put politics aside" so storm victims in Texas can get the help they need. "The president and I believe that it should be tied to the Harvey funding.
Will Bunch has worked at the Daily News for 20-plus years and is now senior writer. Since 2005, he's written the uber-opinionated, fair-but-dangerously unbalanced opinion blog "Attytood," covering a range of topics ; it's been named best blog in the state by the Associated Press Managing Editors and best blog in the city by Philadelphia Magazine.
Wells Fargo & Co on Aug. 31 raised the estimate of accounts opened without customers' knowledge by 1.4 million, bringing the total to about 3.5 million. The scandal over phony accounts came to light last September after the company announced a $185 million settlement with regulators to atone for the sales abuses.
A federal judge in Texas on Thursday struck down an Obama administration rule that would have extended mandatory overtime pay to more than 4 million U.S. workers, siding with business groups and 21... People march and chant slogans against President Donald Trump's proposed end of the DACA program that protects immigrant children from deportation at ... (more)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took to LinkedIn on Thursday to stand up for the DREAMers - undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children. With President Trump reportedly considering ending an Obama-era program that protected such immigrants from deportation, Nadella defended "smart immigration" policies, saying they can "help our economic growth and global competitiveness."
University of Hawaii: Sen. Inouye's congressional papers available to the public . "The congressional archival papers of the late Daniel K. Inouye, who served 53 years in Congress, 50 in the U.S. Senate, are now available to the public via the University of Hawai i at Manoa Library Congressional Papers Collection.
Since first moving into original programming in 2012, Netflix has gone from a fringe curiosity to a major player in film and TV, actually living up to the mantle of "disruptor" that so many tech companies try to claim. But even by that standard, the last few months have been a whirlwind, with Netflix making several of its biggest acquisitions yet: securing a deal with the juggernaut TV producer Shonda Rhimes , luring David Letterman out of retirement , buying Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee series, giving the green light to shows by the Coen brothers and Steven Soderbergh, and optioning an entire comic-book brand .
BioTime, Inc. , a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing products addressing degenerative diseases, today announced that it will be presenting one podium presentation and two abstracts at the Military Health System Research Symposium August 27-30, 2017 in Washington, D.C. BioTime has recently released data from its two lead programs in medical aesthetics and ophthalmology and is now exploring ways to address serious unmet needs for trauma and combat-related injuries.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., posted a Facebook photo of himself, holding a pair of eclipse glasses, and Mnuchin at the U.S. Bullion Repository In this Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, file photo, then Treasury Secretary-designate Stephen Mnuchin and his then-fiancee, Louise Linton, arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington, for the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump. Linton responded to a social media critic on Aug. 21, 2017, telling the mother of three that that she was "adorably out of touch."
Miller Springs Nature Center, which has been a destination in Bell County since October 1993, will close, volunteers announced Thursday. Citing declining membership and funding, the Miller Springs Alliance said it surrendered its lease -- which had been held for 24 years -- back to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has decided to shut down the 260 acres of federal publicly accessible recreation lands on the Leon River below Lake Belton.
Iowa Democrats apparently ran out of gas between Caucus Day and Election Day in 2016, but nine months later, that's changed. "We've had more enthusiasm since the election results than we had prior to Nov. 8," Linn County Democratic Party Chairman Bret Nilles told Fox News.
Being the leader of the free world comes with some influence, but no one gets a shortcut to money in Hollywood. If proof is necessary, an objection filed in Delaware bankruptcy court Tuesday by the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation should provide it.
Teenagers are going on Facebook less and less, so much so that an analysis group predicts a 3.4 percent drop in users ages 12 to 17 in comparison to 2016. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in June that it reached a new milestone of 2 billion active users per month, potentially showing that while users are up in general, the younger generation is not as keen to the tech company's services and capabilities.