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Moderator Megyn Kelly waits for the start of the Republican presidential primary debate in Des Moines. (Chris Carlson/AP) Facebook announced Friday that humans would no longer write descriptions for its Trending topics list, handing over even more responsibility to the already-powerful algorithm. But just days after the policy change, Facebook’s algorithm chose a very bad, factually incorrect…
An explosion has destroyed half of a sports centre in Belgium, with reports at least one person has died, several have been injured and others are trapped in the rubble. The blast was reported shortly after midnight in Chalon in the southern municipality of Chimay, on the border with France. The town has a population…
Photo Anne Frank, left. At right, Rouwaida Hanoun, a Syrian 5-year-old who was wounded during an airstrike on Aleppo last week. Credit Left, Anne Frank Fonds — Basel, via Getty Images AMSTERDAM — On April 30, 1941, a Jewish man here in Amsterdam wrote a desperate letter to an American friend, pleading for help emigrating…
The death toll from a shallow magnitude-6.2 earthquake which struck central Italy early Wednesday morning rose to 247 amid frantic efforts to dig out residents still trapped in rubble. More than 4,300 rescuers worked through Wednesday night and into Thursday in the hilltop towns and villages that were devastated by the quake, Italy’s Civil Protection…
Days of rain swallowed thousands of roads and buildings in water throughout Louisiana. At least 11 people were killed and more than 10,000 displaced as the ‘unprecedented’ floodwaters rose. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) BATON ROUGE — Five days into this disaster, adrenaline is giving way to exhaustion and — for many of those who left their homes…
If you don’t live in or around Louisiana, you may not know that. And it’s not your fault. Cable news has mostly ignored it. Sure, there’s been coverage, but not as much you’d expect given the scale of the suffering. As Rod Dreher noted on his blog, a screenshot of CNN’s home page over the…
cxenseparse_start People gather in a smoky street following an officer-involved shooting Saturday. Aaron Mak A car burns after violence erupted during a standoff between police and an angry crowd near N. 44th St. and W. Auer Ave.(Photo: Calvin Mattheis / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) MILWAUKEE — A standoff between police and an angry crowd turned violent…
Police departments will be required to give the US justice department full details of deadly incidents involving their officers each quarter, under a new government system for counting killings by police that was influenced by the Guardian. Announcing a new program for documenting all “arrest-related deaths”, federal officials said they would actively work to confirm…
Loading the player reg… BRIAN STELTER: In terms of the money, this is Gabriel Sherman’s reporting in New York magazine. He’s been a leader on this story, wrote a book about Roger Ailes a number of years ago. A lot of what he’s reporting I think reporters have suspected for a while. I’ll give you an…
Few people in the news business have valued secrecy quite like Roger Ailes, the former C.E.O. of Fox News. Ailes’s very own corner office on the second floor of 21st Century Fox’s glass and steel headquarters, in Midtown Manhattan, featured a solid wood door that prevented anyone on the outside from peering in. Visitors had…