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Washington D.C., May 27, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Earlier this month, a report from Gizmodo dropped the equivalent of a social media bomb – several former Facebook employees said the company routinely suppressed conservative news in the social media giant's “trending news” section.These former Facebook news curators said they were sometimes instructed to insert stories into the “trending” section that had not earned enough attention to be a trending topic, or that they had the freedom to “blacklist” topics that they didn’t want to appear in the section, meaning that the section was not organically curated by the interests of other Facebook users, contrary to popular thought.And since the majority of news curators at Facebook are 20 and 30-something Ivy League graduates who skew left-of-center politically: “I believe it had a chilling effect on conservative news,” one former curator told Gizmodo.Although the for...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -- The IOC says 23 athletes have tested positive in reanalysis of their doping samples from the 2012 London Olympics....
BOSTON (AP) -- A shipwreck from the 1800s has been uncovered during construction in Boston's Seaport District....
DETROIT (AP) -- Eight automakers are recalling more than 12 million vehicles in the U.S. to replace Takata air bag inflators that can explode with too much force....
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- President Barack Obama may have faced the legacy of Hiroshima most directly with his embrace of a man who survived the devastating atomic blast....
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Barack Obama on Friday paid tribute to the "silent cry" of the 140,000 people killed by the world's first atomic bomb attack and sought to renew attention in his unfulfilled vision of a world without nuclear weapons, as he became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima....
Unsurprisingly, the Group of Seven rich economies of the world wrapped up its summit with a statement concerned with economic issues. Their priorities: the looming Brexit vote, economic growth, terrorism and refugee flows. Listen to Alexander MacDonald's report: The host of the summit, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, delivered the summit’s final statement and outlined three priorities: expanding the Pacific tariff free economic zone to the entire world, ensuring economic opportunity for women and the underprivileged and dealing in a united way to global health threats. This, Prime Minister Abe said, is the foundation of growth for the whole world.On economic issues, Abe says we should not be pessimistic about the state of the world economy, although G7 economies are sluggish and the conditions are right for another global financial crisis. G7 countries therefore committed to beefing up policies to stimulate growth. “We remain committed to ensuring tha...
Geneva, Switzerland, May 27, 2016 / 12:57 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican has voiced support for global health care goals and has said that Catholic institutions are committed to combating problems like communicable diseases.“The Holy See delegation welcomes the vital emphasis on the dignity of the human person and the strong focus on equity expressed in the pledge that ‘no one will be left behind’,” said Bishop Jean-Marie Mupendawatu.The bishop headed the Holy See’s delegation to the World Health Organization’s World Health Assembly, held in Geneva May 23-28.The assembly reviewed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which has 17 goals and 169 associated targets. The agenda was adopted by the U.N. Sustainable Development Summit.The agenda’s goals through the year 2030 include ending poverty and hunger while providing universal health care and education, gender equality, clean water and sanitation, energy access, economic growth and ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The Rio de Janeiro Olympics have been upstaged by the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. And it could get worse....
AMONA OUTPOST, West Bank (AP) -- The fate of 50 white caravans perched atop a West Bank hill in the Amona settler outpost is emerging as a key test for Benjamin Netanyahu's newly-expanded hard-line government....
