Articles filed under Washington Post
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Facebook attracts swift blowback from report on anti-conservative biasAug 21, 2019 1:00 am - Aspen, Colo. - Facebook is caught in a political tight spot once again after releasing a report aimed at assuaging conservative criticisms that its algorithms and polici...
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Sanders to Trump: 'I am a proud Jewish person' with 'no concerns about voting Democratic'Aug 21, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Sen. Bernie Sanders offered a retort Tuesday night to President Donald Trump's contention that Jewish people who vote for Democrats are showing "either a to...
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Trump chooses odd adversary in Denmark's strongly anti-immigration prime ministerAug 21, 2019 1:00 am - The preparations for President Trump's visit were underway. Denmark's national security agency was already working overtime. And the U.S. ambassador to Denmark even spot...
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Parkland students release far-reaching gun-control planAug 21, 2019 1:00 am - The student activists who crashed the political arena after the mass shooting last year at their high school in Parkland, Florida, are throwing their weight behind a new...
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Amazon's strategy to win over congressional critics: Tours of its giant warehousesAug 21, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - From the White House to the campaign trail for the democratic presidential nomination, politicians have found a popular punching bag in Amazon, accusing the...
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Nearly 130,000 sign petition urging Walmart CEO to end gun salesAug 21, 2019 1:00 am - Weeks after two Walmart stores became the scenes of deadly shootings, employees and customers continued to urge the retailer to overhaul its gun policies. On Tuesday, Wa...
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He applied for a job - and ended up on trial for a murder that took place 2 decades earlierAug 21, 2019 1:00 am - When Todd Barket applied for a job at a Florida nursing home, he likely didn't expect to end up on trial for first-degree murder. The 51-year-old was living in Tampa's s...
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Trump administration moves to hold migrant children and parents longerAug 21, 2019 1:00 am - The Trump administration is moving to formally terminate a federal court settlement restricting how long U.S. officials can detain migrant children with their parents an...
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Nine new lawsuits claim sexual abuse by Boy Scouts leadersAug 21, 2019 1:00 am - "That's when I left Scouting," David, now 61, said Tuesday during a news conference in New York. He declined to give his last name, and wore sunglasses and a hat to prot...
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Facebook unveils long-promised tool to limit what data it receives from third-party apps and websitesAug 20, 2019 1:00 am - Facebook on Tuesday unveiled its long-awaited feature allowing users to limit businesses, apps and other groups that collect data about them on the web and pass that inf...