Facebook Settles Civil Rights Lawsuits Over Ad Discrimination
Carsten Rehder/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook has reached settlements in three civil rights cases and two complaints before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over ad discrimination on its platform. As part of the settlements, Facebook has promised to make significant changes to its ad tools to curb the…
After Medicare For All, What Comes Next?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For many years, Republican primaries have been dominated by contests over who can produce the most ridiculously wealth-friendly tax cut with little concern over cost. It appears that this year’s Democratic primary is starting to move in the same direction, with candidates competing over who…
Fox News Invites Paul Ryan Onto Its Board
Alex Edelman/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From CNN: Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is joining the board of the newly slimmed-down Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News. Ryan and three other board of directors were appointed on Tuesday….The Ryan appointment is the most noteworthy, given…
The Pentagon Finally Tells Us Which Projects Will Fund Trump’s Wall. How Did Your State Make Out?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Pentagon has finally told us which construction projects they plan to postpone in order to dig up money for Donald Trump’s wall: The projects on the list run the gamut, including a hangar for drones at Kunsan Air Base in South Korea and a…
Federal Authorities Raided Trump Fundraiser’s Office in Money Laundering Probe
Stefanie Keenan/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Federal authorities raided the office of Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy last summer, seeking records related to his dealings with foreign officials and Trump administration associates, according to a sealed search warrant obtained by ProPublica. Agents were…
The Supreme Court Won’t Hear the Case of an Inmate Sentenced to Death by Racist Juror
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Keith Tharpe, a black Georgia death row inmate, was sentenced to death in 1991 for the kidnapping and murder of his estranged wife’s sister-in-law Jaqueline Freeman. At trial, Barney Gattie, a white juror, sentenced Tharpe to death in part because he…