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Zuckerberg once wanted to sanction Trump. Then Facebook wrote rules that accommodated him.

by Reebha Choudhary | Jun 29, 2020 | News, Top Middle, Uncategorized

Hours after President Trump’s incendiary post last month about sending the military to the Minnesota protests, Trump called Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. The post put the company in a difficult position, Zuckerberg told Trump, according to people familiar...

How the Trump Campaign Is Drawing Obama Out of Retirement

by Reebha Choudhary | Jun 28, 2020 | Bottom Middle, News, Top Right, Uncategorized

Just after Donald J. Trump was elected president, Barack Obama slumped in his chair in the Oval Office and addressed an aide standing near a conspicuously placed bowl of apples, emblem of a healthy-snacking policy soon to be swept aside, along with so much else. “I am...

Russian bounties to Taliban-linked militants resulted in deaths of U.S. troops, according to intelligence assessments

by Reebha Choudhary | Jun 28, 2020 | Bottom Left, News, Top Left

Russian bounties offered to Taliban-linked militants to kill coalition forces in Afghanistan are believed to have resulted in the deaths of several U.S. service members, according to intelligence gleaned from U.S. military interrogations of captured militants in...

‘There’s no discipline to his strategy’: Trump is undermining his own campaign

by editorkatya | Jun 26, 2020 | Bottom Left, News, Top Middle

‘There’s no discipline to his strategy’: Trump is undermining his own campaign Trump’s ban on foreign workers has angered Indian Americans, a group his campaign was seeking. It’s hardly the first time that’s happened. President Donald Trump went out of his...

Coronavirus: US hits record high in daily cases

by editorkatya | Jun 26, 2020 | Bottom Middle, News, Top Left, Uncategorized

Coronavirus: US hits record high in daily cases The United States recorded an all-time daily high of 40,000 coronavirus infections on Thursday, figures from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) show. A recent surge in infections and hospitalisations has prompted the states...

House Passes Sweeping Policing Bill Targeting Racial Bias and Use of Force

by Reebha Choudhary | Jun 26, 2020 | News, Top Right, Uncategorized

WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed an expansive policing overhaul bill aimed at combating racial discrimination and excessive use of force in law enforcement, as Democrats sought to respond to a nationwide outcry for racial justice and pushed through...