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An unusual correction now rides below the New York Times’s major story about Russian hacking in the November 8 election: “An earlier version of the main photograph with this article, of a filing cabinet and computer at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, should not have been published,” it says. That’s a significant admission from any publisher….
SYDNEY, Australia — On the other side of the world from you, we are living in two time zones. One regulated by the rise and fall of the sun, the other regulated by the American news cycle. In our early afternoon you go to bed, in our late evening you wake again and news breaks…
A new US government program to count killings by police, which draws on data collected by the Guardian, has recorded a sharply higher number of deaths than previous official efforts. Homicides by police were logged by the Department of Justice’s new system at more than twice the rate previously reported by the FBI, according to…
A white supremacist website called The Daily Stormer has posted a call to “TAKE ACTION” against Jewish people in Whitefish, providing personal contact information and urging a “troll storm” against them. The story claims the “vicious, evil race” has harmed the Whitefish business of Richard Spencer’s mother. It quotes a story from the British newspaper…
President-elect Donald TrumpDonald TrumpSpicer refuses to say if Trump will take action against Russian interference Philippine president: Trump has a mouth like mine Pennsylvania electors will have police protection at vote MORE held an off-the-record conversation with reporters on Sunday evening. While the topics of conversation were not reported, the meeting was confirmed in a…
Earlier this week, Facebook said that it would be partnering with fact-checking sites like Snopes to help weed out the fake news that has been plaguing the site in recent years. But it seems that Germany is not confident that self-regulation will be enough. The chairman of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, Thomas Oppermann, has suggested…
Kenzie Williams, an employee at the all-white tech startup Hack’d, was shocked to discover just how racist the country still was after the 2016 presidential election. “It’s amazing to me that people could be so ignorant,” Williams states, pouring herself coffee in the all-white office break room of the Oakland office. “I just thought we…
New Celebrity PSA Implores Members of the Electoral College to Reject Trump Byline Unit /33173478/Mediaite_Adsense_468x60 end post-heading There’s a new celebrity PSA out tonight featuring some big-name actors asking members of the electoral college to do the right thing and step in to vote their conscience (a.k.a. not Donald Trump). Martin Sheen, Richard Schiff, Debra…
Today’s Mudline December 18, 2016 Joe Biden on 2016 presidential campaign: “So much for the shining city on the hill.”….Harry Reid on the U.S.: “Entering a new Gilded Age.”….Bernie Sanders on Donald Trump: “A pathological liar.”….Tina Fey on Trump: “Can’t muster the dignity of a seventh-grader.”….S.V. Date on Trump: “‘The Apprentice, Secretary of State Edition’…
If you haven’t heard, Amazon just launched a promo for a storefront that sells meal kits and grocery basics with no checkout lines. It’s based in Seattle and currently open to Amazon employees, with the public launch set for early 2017. While Amazon hasn’t explained their “Just Walk Out” technology that powers the storefront, they do…