Facebook Removes Over a Hundred Russia-Linked Accounts and Pages Targeting African Countries
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Facebook announced Wednesday that it had removed a trio of networks from its platforms promoting content targeting users in nine African countries. The company says the networks have links to Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the Russian oligarch indicted by U.S. prosecutors over interfering in the 2016 presidential election. The operation illustrates…
What If We Can’t Get Medicare For All?
Like most lefties, I would like the United States to adopt true universal health care. This has been my position for, oh, 30 or 40 years. However, I also accept the reality that this will never happen in one grand swoop. That’s why I was—and am—a big supporter of Obamacare, warts and all. So if…
Chart of the Day: GDP Growth Slows in Q3
GDP growth for the third quarter clocked in at an annual rate of 1.9 percent: A single quarter doesn’t mean much, but the average growth rate for the past 12 months is 2.0 percent. That’s not the worst thing in the world, but it’s definitely a slowdown. It’s no wonder that Donald Trump wants the…
Separated Families Were Allowed to Hug on the Riverbed of the Rio Grande—for 3 Minutes
Fernanda Echavarri Last week, Miriam Pallares boarded a bus in Oklahoma City with her six-year-old daughter and rode through the night to El Paso, Texas for a three-minute hug with family she hadn’t seen in years. The mother and daughter were among 2,500 people participating in a rare event in which US Customs and Border…
Missouri Has Been Tracking the Menstrual Cycles of Planned Parenthood Patients, Top Health Official Admits
Protesters rally in St. Louis for abortion rights and in opposition to the ban recently passed by the Missouri legislature in May.Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP Missouri’s top health official admitted that the state government has been tracking the menstrual cycles of Planned Parenthood patients as it weighs the fate of the state’s last remaining abortion…
The “Transcript” of Trump’s Ukraine Call Omits “Key Details,” Says White House Official
Welcome back, my friends… Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that the White House transcript of a July call between President Trump and Ukraine’s president omitted crucial words and phrases, and that his attempts to restore them failed, according to three…